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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
BISHOP STUDENTS
 PRESENT PROGRAM
Thanksgiving Observed By Fifth Grade Pupils This
 Morning

Pupils of the fifth grade, rooms 10 and 12, enacted diversified Thanksgiving program this morn ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-23
lA Service stationa Repairing
Employment

WANTED-Ambitious man 25 to 45 years old with car to take over rural Watkins Business in Litch- field County. No cash bond neces- sary. Write P. A. Bishop, Box No. 367, Newark, N. J.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
Was Unable
to Work

Il had been troubled with asthma
and kidney trouble for many years, and
had tried many kinds of treatments
with no results My condition became
so bad was unable to work. / was told
OF the Wong Sun Company and their
Chinese Herb medicines, so started
taking them. AS a result, have re-
gained my health and am again able
TO work. can recommend their herbs
to anyone suffering from same trouble.
and also wish to say that my deal
ings with them have been very pleas
Ing, and I recommend them to others.
FRED BARTA,
Lavina, Montana.
Perhaps, you too, are not able to do
Justice to your work If so, write or
visit the Wong Sun Company.
Wong Sun Company
Billings, Mont. RHissOuIa. Mont
Sheridan, WyO. Great Falls Nxou4
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
BOOST MONTANA
DUDE RANCHES
EXCELLENCE OF STATE RANCHES
TOLD IN BROADCAST OVER
RADIO STATION WNYC

Residents Of New York and the
entire Atlantic seab0ard were ina
formed Of the excellence Of Nom
9aaaa azs&ze ranches and 0g ont
ssamding events In tine state By
naeaas Of q broadcast over che
gigantic radio station, WNKC, 90.
ooFszHug 30 Information receaved by
M0nkammnSs Inc, the state cham
ber of commerce.
E. ID. Anderson, representing Mon
tanans, Inc, In the United States
travel bureau, reported to the stats
chamber Of commerce, that Montans
is being favorably mentioned many
times ia both radio and press during
The present travel season.
1T Is my opinion" stated Anderson,
that because OF the exceptionally
close cooperation between AEontanans.
Inc. the United States travel bureau
and private travel agencies, Montana
mas become better known 60 eastern
people As one Of the outstanding rec
'ea8i0nal areas in the country"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
RAIN, IDEAL GROWING
WEATHER HELPS WHEAT

With insect damage on the decline
and cricket barriers being removed In
many districts, Montana's late matur-
ing grains improved on abundant
showers and cooler weather during the
last week, Federal Agricultural Stats
tician Jay G. Diamond reported.
Showers interrupted harvesting and
threshing operations with resultant
over-ripening of grain and breaking
down In some cases.
Excellent conditions for winter wheat
planting exist in all areas except the
Flathead, where more moisture is
needed.
BeetS progressed well as did corn.
Hay and alfalfa crops are large.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17

yust "a years after Cromwell
Daxens Basmaana'a Kdndbergh, wrote
aviation history BY being she farHE
EzAM 60 ny over Gne Mm@Iu range
Of the Rocky mountains. aE1e Mea-
ema kEwanis club IL WORKING on u
pimn 70 remove 8 pzaqme a4 che
state fairgrounds, placed there by
Helena citizens tn Dzxonss homer,
20 the airport where II maay serve
rs an inspiration 20 the Young
eagles Of to-day and where Il may
be more generally seen by the
public.
Aviation has moved so rapidly the
past decade that many no longer re-
/ member that l9-year-oId youth who
promised TO thrill the fans at the
Montana State fair In 1911 by plotting
an airplane from the fairgrounds to
BlossDurg and return. Never before
had birdman negotiated the conti-
mental divide and there were mnnv
who didn't think it could be done
but Dixon did. A purse of $4,000 was
put I'D BY Louis w. Eli OF the Great
Northern: Lewis Penwell. president Of
the State fair board; John Ringing.
the circus magnate, and the fair board
and on Sept. 30, 1911, Dixon, flying 4
rlckety homemade ship that no one
would even sit in on the ground today,
took off.
and ON that date was written one
OF the great, but little known chapters.
IN aviation history For Cromwell
Dixon bucking 3 stiff west wind that
sometimes pitched him from 20 TO 80
feet up or down, set his little plane
down IN Blossblrg about 40 minutes
after taking off from the fairgrounds. |
He refueled there, tinkered with his /
ship q few minutes, then returned to /
the fairgrounds TO meet one OF the
greatest ovations ever accorded by q
Montana crowd. He was introduced to
the mob by Governor Norris and
promptly became Montana's pet. The
aviation world was his.
Cromwell Dixon, however, belonged
% the public for but two days For on
Oct. 2, 1911, he fell from about 100 feet
n Spokane and died IS minutes later
If brain conclusion and hemorrhage.
The king of the birdmen had met the
end that even he himself must have
Known he would meet.
But the Helena public did not forget
lin then, and there was erected TO his
memory monument at the fairgrounds
,earing the following inscription:
Cromwell Dixon, who, on September
he thirteenth, nineteen hundred and
leven, A D., with marvellous skill and
arluBs accomplished the IITSL success
vi flight over the main range of the
socky mountains, flying from the
Eontana State fairgrounds to BloSsburg
nd return IN q heavier than air ma
hine, establishing a worlds record
fthout parallel In the history of avi-
ton. Fresh from his tT1umpzs here.
e met his death In the city of Spokane
n October the second, nineteen hum
red and eleven, by the fan of his
lachine. To his great achievement and
} his lovable and courageous charac-
r we pay grateful tribute"
For years, as aviation history
Iarched on, that monument has stood
the fairgrounds, forgotten now by
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17

The seeding Of crested wheat
grass on gOvernment-pu
land under cultivation Ii UNDER
way In Phillips county and Is
scheduled to start immediately in
Blaine and Valley counties. As o
result Of rains over Milk river
valley, conditions are favorable for
seeding.
Seeding of the land once plowed
brings TO an end a disastrous cycle in
the history of northern Montana. Short
lived as the cycle was-covering q
period of not more than 30 years--it
brought hardship. bankruptcy and pow
erty TO two classes OF people directly,
farmers and ranchers, and to half the
state OF Montana indirectly.
thirty years ago stockmen owned
or controlled range land sufficient to
sustain their cattle and sheep. The
country, ideal for livestock raising, had
no unemployment and no problem of
public welfare
With the opening of the land to
homesteading, land-hungry farmers
filed on every available acre In the
hope OF building fortunes In what they
believed was one of the greatest wheat
countries In the world. A few good
crops, many failures, the crowding of
stock on limited pastures and years of
drouth and insect pests brought the
country TO such q condition Is years
later that 1t would have been unrecOq-
nizable to the rancher Of 1908. Grass on
the range was short and scant. Land
once plowed and then abandoned by
disheartened farmers had not returned
TO grass but had become covered with
thick growths of weeds. Water holes |
Tried up and clouds Of dust stirred in
every wind.
The end of the cycle appeared when
he government in a program of con-
ervation purchased thousands of acres
u submarginaI land, removed the
armerS still attempting to live on the
Try land to more productive area and,
eeking to re-establish the areas as
Productive factors In the economic
lattern of northern Montana, placed
hem under a program of supervised
Ise, Obliterated traces of Is years Of
Insuccess1ul farming and planted them
0 grass again.
In Phillips, Valley and Blaine coun-
les, when the bureau Of agricultural
and the farm security ad-
Illustration have undertaken the task
4 readJusting the agricultural pattern
nd where ITO families, once residing
n dry land or undeveloped irrigated
arms, have been reSettled on pr0duc-
I've units, 100 men will be at work on
he obiiteration of abandoned dry land
arms and reseeding projects this
Month. Crested wheat grass, which is
lccessfuIIy grown in this area, will be
seded on $1,000 acres, bringing the
0tal seeded area in the three counties
D about $4,000.
-Four men work on each seeding
rev. One man operates a caterpillar
actor that pulls three drills. each
snded by one man. The seed is planted
the rate OF about three and one-half
ounds an acre.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17

those who ones sat in the grandgtand
and thrilled at Dixons courage. The
plaque bearing the inscription has
erOded and paint has been spAmshed
over 70 until today the inscription can
hardly be read. Nov. a1 last, It seems
something Is going 10 be done to pre-
serve It. The Helena Kiwanis club Is
going 20 try TO obtain permission 70
place 1t, with appropriate ceremony. at
the a1rp0rtan airport which, had It
not been for the skill and daring OF
those pioneers of the air like Cromwell
Dixon, might not be IN existence today.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
]. H. SHERBURNE.
PIONEER, DIES
BANKER AND MERCHANT WHO
FOLLOWED FRONTIER, PASSES
AT 81
Browning Resident, Born in Maine
Had Hand in Settlement of Mime
sofa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Mon
tana; Was Indian Trader, Trapper.

J. Fl. Sherburne, 81, pioneer
Browning banker and merchant
who followed the frontier from
Minnesota to the Rocky mountains,
died at his home In that city re-
Gently. His body was shipped TO
Glendale, Calf, for burial
Survivors include two sons, j. L. and
F. p Sherburne Of Browning, and
three daughters, Mrs. Agnes Rowell
Flint Of Browning, Mrs. G. e. Frisbee
Of Cut Bank, and Mrs. Vern e. Robin
son Of South Pasadena, Calf
Years Of wagon freighting and In
dian trading were behind MIR. Sher-
burne.
Born Dec. 10, 1850, in Maine, he
started his westward trek as q boy.
He followed the railroad construction
camp as the first tracks were laid into
the Minnesota wilds, then moved into
a still newer Indian territory to con-
tract for the delivery of supplies from
Wichita, Kan. the western terminal Of
rail communication, to Fort sill, Okla,
200 miles away His route followed the
famous Chisholm trail, over which
cattlemen drove herds from as far
south as the Mexican border up
through Texas into Oklahoma and
farther north.
On these freighting trips he made
friends with the Indians and for years
hauled supplies which he traded with
the redmen for buffalo hides. The
hides he freighted back to st. Louis
and sold
Sherburne established a trading post
among the Ponca Indians of Oklahoma,
and gained the good viii Of many
other tribes, including the often war
ike Nez Perez, while they were con-
fined In that territory as prisoners of
var after their surrender to United I
States troops in Montana.
He witnessed the Oklahoma land
-Ilsh from the Kansas state line and
;aw thousands flood the territory and
ettle it virtually in a day. With Okla
IONA being turned from a wilderness
nto an agricultural country, he found
title to hold his interest.
Sherburne's next jump was to the
till young Montana territory. In this
tate he settled among the Blackfeet
indians and became member Of their
ribe by adoption. He maintained an
ctive interest in business and COM
lunity affairs even at an advanced
ge.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
DARBY OBSERVES
5OTH BIRTHDAY
COLORFUL PAGEANT HARKTNG
BACK HALF CENTURY MARKS
CELEBRATION
Old Timers who Lived ia Bitter Root
When Town Was Mere HuddIe Of
SawmiH Buildings, are Honored at
Gathering Of 5000 Persons.

A pageant Of Che 18th century
was enacted In the celebration Of
Darby3s 50th anniversary as q
Ritter Root valley settlement at
the recent Labor day observance
there. The event drew a crowd Of
more than 5000 people from neigh
boring western Montana towns.
Honor WAS paid those who piO-
neered when Darby was q huddle
Of sawmilI buildings In the SOS.
There were several of these old
timers, men and women who had come
In by covered wagon from the railroads
end, or all the way from their homes
back east"
Oldest In point Of residence were
John Wadden, now 80 and still work
ing his farm; Mr.. and Mrs. @. w.
Solleder, likewise still living on their
first homestead Of 1884; Evellin Matte
son, 81, and oldest Of the gathering,
who was among the first to file on a
timber claim; Mrs. Mary Solleder,
whose late husband, August Solleder,
built most Of the present Darby resi-
dences; Mrs. Stella Tanner Fowler,
whose mother was among first corners:
members Of the Tanner and Waldo
families; Mrs. Mary Kerlee. whose
1888; P. s. Siria, John Schofield, Alex |
Chaffin and Mrs. Judith Summers, /
whose parents trekked into the Bitter !
Root IN the eos; George Miles, first /
GtOrekeeper; George Waldo and mem
bers Of the Mckinney families that
settled In the '80's.
The Darby settlers were joined by
such other valley old timers as Mrs.
Newton T1llman who came as q mem
Der of the Whaley families in the late
eos; Fl. F. Babbitt Of Victor, M L
Chaffin Of Corvallis, Mrs Granville
Stuart, whose husband was ambassador
70 South American countries after he
had spent his early life In Montana
gold fields and the states cattle
ranges.
The old timers rode in stagecoach,
blackboard, covered wagon or buggy, the :
ancient vehicles keeping up CALAMITY
with Goth century horses.
A notable figure In the parade was t
Mrs. Martha Newell of Missoula who {
went as bride to the Kansas border
when the Cimmaron country Of Okla
homa was a scene Of adventurous 7
settlement, and from that picturesque 2
background came to eastern Montana
nall century ago where she lived {
until recent years. S
DR.. George F. Simmons, president t
Of the Montana State university gave I
the address of the day.
A sports program featured log :
saving contests In which Perry Smith Il
of Darby and John Maxi Of Victor :.
were winners with a record Of one =
minute and 16 seconds for a big pine.
Ranger George Case and Abe Williams :.
figured at the head of a mule pack =
ng contest. Other sports were added :,
n which children, fat men and plump Il
aides took part. Fl
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
COVER MENT LAND
is SOWN TO GRASS
WORK rs STARTED ON DRY LAND
REGION EN NORTHERN
MONTANA

Acres Originally PEowed for Wheat and
Later abandoned by Discouraged
Farmers and Repurchased by U. s. Is
Being Seeded 20 Range for Livestock.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17

Some Isl. 1000 years ago. Harbicht an
amateur aTchHClOgist, said he believed
the fireplace may date back to the
earliest kzaOwn residents Oh tine North
American continent Scientists Of the
American Museum Of Natural History
III N@w YORK, be said. plan To invegti-
cate ksge fgnd, made SIX feet below the
slradassnxfaed alluvlai silt and gravel Of
an 0AM river bed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
OFFTCERs ARE EI,ECTED

Betty Bleichner of Butte was elected
president of the Helena Students
Catholic Action conference at meet
ing of the diocesan advisory council
in Butte Other officers selected in
cluded Clair KrebSbach of Helena, vice
president; Kathleen Healow Of Mis-
soula, corresponding secretary, and
Michael O'Connell of Butte, recording
secretary.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17
PLAN TO MOVE
AVIATION PLAQUE
MEMORIAL 10 CROMWELL DIXON
MAY BE PLACED al HELENA
AIRPORT

Monument Erected sc State FAIR
grounds ia 1871 Commenorased First
Piazae Flight Over Main Range OF
Rocky Mountains.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17

1t is reported that U. S. highway No
1, in the vicinity of New York city
has more traffic per mile than any
other road in the world
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-17

"A Japanese legend has It that music
was devised by the gods to lure the
sim goddess from cave where she
had retired
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

longing the State Department to
make public the truth about
the Munich peace" Apparently
he thought it would show Brit
ish and French hands less clean
than has been represented, for
his program was:
Further isolation from Eng
land and France, coupled with
an active Government publicity
campaign to show people the
United States is better off than
the dictator nations; also to
show how horrible the last war
was. Primary plank in his plat
form was a declaration for the
caSh-and-carry system in event
of European war. He would
make Europeans come for stores
in their own ships and pay cash
on the dock.
While the advocates of this
course have been keeping their
remarks off the record, they
will have a formidable phalanx
at the coming session of Con-
greSS.
NOTE-The economist was
IN Leon Henderson, secretary
of the Anti-Monopoly Commit
tee.
MOST completely vacant Gov
w ernment bureau is the elab-
orately equipped radio broad
casting division Of the Interior
Department. Secretary Ickes in
stalled all the best devices when
he finished the building, but
has not been able to find any
thing to do with it. Negotiations
are under way to have the Blu
reau of Education broadcast
some culture.
T Attest New Deal row to
IL break out is in SEC. It
has the whole commission seeth-
ing.
Apparently one official in the
public utility division has an
inferiority complex and another
has a persecution complex, or at
any rate this is the way COM
missioners explain it.
Commission is either going to
hire a Freudian expert to un.
ravel both completes or hire
successors to both complica-
tors.
limited STATES Government
" is lending experts to Latin
American governments as the
first step in the new good neigh
Dor development. State, Ag-
riculture and Labor are assign
ing men to the Dominican Re
public, Haiti, and will send
some to Brazil and Nicaragua
in answer to requests. Their
salaries will be paid by this
Government under an obscure
law enacted last session.
A UsTERE Senate is going to
"A bend sufficiently to permit
movies to be taken Of it in &C
ton next session. Movie Direc-
tor Frank Capra fixed it with
Col. Edwin Halsey, Senate Sec
retary. recently.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
ELECTION FUND
IN PENNA. MAY
SET new MARK
Charge New Dealers
Pad WPA Rolls
BY THEODORE HUNTLEY

Should Pennsylvania return to
its Republican moorings next
week, it will not be through neg
lect of any big New Deal or little
New Deal effort to prevent it.
From big New Deal headquar-
ters in Washington and little New
Deal headquarters in Harrisburg
the wherewithal to swing the cleo
ton is being pushed out in q vol
une never before approached.
Boies PenroSe in his palmieSt
days, Bill Ware in his vaingloriouS
but vain attempt to rule the State
never dreamed of days like these
in Pennsylvania politics. The
1925 primary in Pennsylvania de-
veloped into a national scandal
and cost Ware a seat in the Senate
because some three or four million
dollars was spent to nominate
Ware or his opponent, Senator
George Wharton Pepper, and
their running mates.
BAIT FOR VOTES
Now, IL years later, these
amounts fade into inSignificance
as compared with the volume of
public and private funds cast on
the waters as bait for votes.
Traveller in the State report
the roads so clogged with State
highway and WPA workers that
traffic is slowed in the interest Of
safety.
In Fayette county, a soft-coal
district where the coke industry
centered in the days of Carnegie
and Frick, 81 per cent of the
population is reported on relief.
In Pittsburgh and Allegheny
county records show approximate
ly $4,000 WPA and other public
aid workers ON some public pay
roll, and in the industrial areas
Of % counties of Western PennSyl-
vania, where the Democrats are
trying to pile up a big enough
vote to save the State, knowing
the eastern end will be carried by
the Republicans, it is estimated
that there are 275,000 workers on
the WPA rolls.
And that is only start. The
topheavy WPA and State pay rolls
at their prediction peak are no
more significant as bid for votes
than the latest press release from
Washington headquarters Of the
WPA.
It is a remarkable document. It
lists 521 non-Federal projects ap-
proved by President Roosevelt a |
few days ago, involving Federal
allotments amounting to $41,047,-
600. made up of $2,068, 900 in loans
and $38,979,3O0 in grants.
LISTS FIGURES
When that is done, here is what
you get:
Forty-two per cent of the total
grants for the entire United States,
amounting in round figures to ST.
600, 900 out of $39, ,00O, 900, goes to
the four States of Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Michigan and Minnesota.
where there are red-hot political
fights and the Republicans in each
case are given a Slight edge.
Twenty and five-tenthS per cent
of the total for the United States
goes to Pennsylvania alone, in
grants aggregating $7,986,263.
And of this total, $4,9O2,3 ,348
goes into Allegheny county pitts
burgh). and $5,43O,O81 into the
Pittsburgh industrial district,
which the Democrats must carry
to win. This means that the
Pittsburgh district gets IA per
cent and Allegheny county IL per
cent Of the amount allotted to
the entire country.
In the case of Pennsylvania,
that figures out at the rate Of
about 50 for every voter in the
State, and for Pittsburgh about
$40 a voter.
ADVERTTSENENT
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
F.. Id. R. Off to Enlist i'm New York Polls

The Executive was making a
daylight railroad run to Hyde
Park this afternoon, and he
planned to remain at the Dutchess
county estate until after Tues
days elections.
Friday night ne will go on the
air with an appeal to the voters
Of his native State to support the
Lehman ticket-and, incidentally,
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

Mr.. Roosevelt and the New Deal
high command are doing every
thing they can to save the popu-
lous States that will have such g
commanding voice in selection of
the Democratic presidential nomi-
nee in 1910.
There have been persistent le-
ports the Executive might under
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
BY GEORGE DURNO

0N.SO In q final effort to
keep New York State safe for the
Democrats this year-and, more
important, 1940-President RooSe-
velt turned back to his Hudson
River family home today to throw
all Of his weight and prestige be
hind the ticket headed by Gov.
Herbert b. lehman.
The Washington times., 1938-11-02
News Behind the News
Rn p0,I1 M01IOH1
By PQuL WQLLOn

(word All Rights
O. n Strictly Prohibied)
ODDS against labor peace 10 to l in most expert
" books Too many sacrifices of position would be required
of both Sides The Fanny Perkins consultations
dered mostly talk have failed develop real basis for
The Washington times., 1938-11-02

'take a flying invasion Of Pennsyl-
vanta and Michigan over the
weekend in laSt-minute effort to
help Governor Earle defeat in
cumbent Republican Senator
James j. Davis In the Senate race
and aid Governor Murphy in re-
tanning his job against the threat
of former Republican Governor
Fitzgerald.