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Milford chronicle., 1938-04-01

George |. Jester and Bill Berry
say Our banquet will be like an old
fashioned reunion. Folks will be
/ there we haven't seen in a long
time. Good eats. topping of with an
excellent show What more can
one expect, Mr.. Odd Fellow?
cor
George Swain, the assistant de-
gree master. believes it will be to
his advantage to take in every de-
gree at Harrisburg on April Goth.
Better keep your eye on him, degree
team. that dude is looking for a new
drill or something.
CO
Say. members, what did you mean
year or so ago when you said
wait until Paul BurkhOlder moves
to Dover" Well, am still waiting.
expecting to see him break out. No.
not with the rash, but with a little
activity that he displayed in Union
No. =. a few years ago, that did so
much good. Come on. Paul. we're
roofing for you.
CO
Did the election suit you? II suit
cd us to T. Wardie will make a
good one.
News item: kirkwood Encamp-
ment elects new officers. A young
lady reading the above item in To-
cal paper was heard to remark:
Look, mother. who heads the Pa
triarchal branch of the Odd Fellows"
Mother replied go easy, daughter.
the milk man may hear you. And
have they got his number.
CCO
BE sure you attend our banquet /
at the Community Building Tuesday |
night That show is WOW.
CO
II begins to look like the down.
state Odd Fellows we're left to shift
for themselves as far as getting
transportation 10 Harrisburg is con-
eerned. o. X. folks, we're pretty
good formulating plans and making
our own arrangements.
0
II has been the boast Of one Of our
members that he could eat more pie
than any Odd Fellow i'm Delaware.
They tell me that Gus HOlsten lays
claim TO being the champion pie-eater
Of the world. Any wOuld-be cOmpeti-
tors who might lay claim 10 the dis
linction OF champion pie-eater" will
kindly contact Radio Ward of the
committee. who will ar
range public contest, as well as
appoint competent judges. such as
Neal wilkins. who considers himself
luite pie-eater and an expert in
hfu linz
Milford chronicle., 1938-04-01
GO

Willard Hall moving to Cam
bridge, Now. folks. that Just don't
sound right. Too bad. Isn't Milford
good enough for victor-Lynn. Why.
boy, that firm was born and raised
here. now going to high hat us. l
can't believe It.
Milford chronicle., 1938-04-01

Certainly that wasn't Virginia's
E"th hirthdav. Bic boy. you had bet
ter begin to look around little. that
glrl u ~ years younger than Paris,
and I can prove II.
Milford chronicle., 1938-04-01

MFR. and Mrs. Three Links Of Mill
ford and vicinity will attend the Odd
Fellows banquet on Tuesday night.
Milford chronicle., 1938-04-01

John LeCompte. degree master, got
sore at the ladies because they
would not let him ride in their bus
to Harrisburg. John says "Derned
IL | don't go anyhow and drive my
own car; I'll fool them"
Wen be seeing you, John.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15

San quentin, where q similar sit
uation existed. He was warder
of San Quentin for 111a years
In 1925 he retired as warden oi
San Quentin.
"I thought I had put prisons
behind me at that time" said
Johnston.
DRAFTED FOR JOB
IT went back to the bank and
trust business and remained in
that line seven years. However.
I was not entirely out Of it be-
cause during that time the gov
ernor considered my past ex-
periences useful and served as
chairman of his crime commits
sion and adviser on penology in
the governors cabinet. But I
was honestly surprised when I
was drafted for the Job on Al
7catraz, when the Federal Gov
ernment got dts idea for the seq
regation Of incorrigible pris-
oners."
The warden's home is on Alca
traz Island. His wife lives there
with him. So did his three daugh
ters until they were married. Dan
gerouS? Certainly. But Johnston
ShrugS his shoulders.
part Of the job. You can't
duck responsibility, can you? A
prison is twenty-four!hour job.
There is always work. You
never know when you might be
needed. A warden must live close
to his work. I am always avail
able to see prisoners with rea-
sonable requests"
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Hero of Blizzard
Serves Jail Term

DENVER, Feb. Is (I.N.S).
Officials of Jefferson county,
Just west Of Denver, revealed
today that Bryan Untiedt, 10,
hero of the eastern Colorado
blizzard of March, 1881, was
a prisoner in the county jail
at Golden.
Untiedt, who, as a boy Of
IL, was entertained by PreSi-
dent Hoover in the White
House for his herOism in saw
ing nine Of his IA school
mates from death when their
bus was marOOned in q bliz-
zard, was sent to Jail last
Thursday to serve out a $13
fine for driving an autOm0-
bile without an operators
license.
The strapping Six-fOOt farm
youth said that for the last
year he has been working in
q mine in the mountains
west Of Denver.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15

into December.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Mrs. Matthew
Dead in New York

NEW YORK, Feb. Is U.N.S0
Mrs. Harriet B. Mathieu, sister OF
the famous Diamond Jim" Brady
was dead here today.
In 1917 Mrs. Matthew and an
other brother, the late Daniel M
Brady, tried to break the will Of
Diamond Jim" who had left the
bulk of this fortune to two hos
pitals. The hospitals finally made
a settlement.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Tall Tale Is This
Tall HOuyhOck Tale

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. Is
dN.S0.-H. r. Thiedeman, oi
Burton, Wash. grew in his yarc
a hollyhock he hoped would end
all tall hollyhock stories.
It was rather spindling appear
ing plant, it topped 81 feet in
altitude, continuing to bloom vel
into December,
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Boy, 16, Seizes,
DiSarms Bandit

CHICAGO, Feb. is QN.S0.
Hearing a saloonkeeper cry that
he had been robbed, Sherman
16, ran after the man
and caught him about to enter q
taxicab. Without a struggle the
bandit surrendered his revolver
and allowed himself to be led back
and return the SO he had taken.
Locked up he said he was Otto
10th, SO, and hungry.
The Washington times., 1938-02-15

He simply drifted into penology.
He got into prison work because
he was a high-class business
executive. In simple terms, that
means he always had a head on
him.
That head today has shock OF
white hair, blue eyes behind steel
trimmed spectacles. The face IS
pink, cheerful, youthful. He re-
minds you more of a character
out of Charles Dickens than the
warden of the toughest prison
in America.
ALL BUSINESS MAN
When interviewed in the office
of the probation officer here,
his headquarters when he comes
ashore, he was dressed in blue
suit, white shirt with Starched
pointed rundown collar, a blue
tie with candy stripes and in his
breast pocket was a blue and white
handkerchief. The cut of him was
all business man.
"In 1911" he said, Hiram
johnson, then governor Of Cali
fornia, formed what was called
a board Of control, consisting
of three men entrusted with
supervising the business Of State
institutions.
1T was chairman of this board.
At that time I was also vice
president of bank and trust
company. Prison finances came
under our Jurisdiction, among
other things, and from my posi-
ton on the board I naturally
learned something about opera
ing prison.
There were some ructions at
Folsom. Trouble. You know.
Naturally, the board of control
was interested in the situation.
The governor asked me to go
out there and see what I could
do to untangle things. That
was how I became warden Of
Folsom. We got things quieted
down."
PRISON. A BEDLAM
H got things quieted down. A
bland, innocent statement. Be
hind that you must picture what
awaited this business man when
he came to Folsom. The prison
was a reeking bedlam, horror
house of Gagged semi-maniacs, vici-
GUS outlaws goaded to despair,
hatred and desperation by prison
conditions, men who howled and
shrieked and screamed filth and
obscenities, and made the iron
doors of their cells resound as they
battered them with their slop
buckets. That was Folsom's wei
come to their new warden.
But as he said, he got things
quieted down. He put in modern
prison reforms-sportS, sanitation,
recreation-gave the men more
normal lives.
From there he was drafted to
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Bv PAUL CALICO

SAN FRANCISCO Feb. Is (NS 1.-THE world plays queer
pranks on it's children the metamophoss OF San Fran
cisco LAWYER and business the ruler of Acaraz
non island on which are marooned who outcasts
even from prisons of the country of the sranges
The Washington times., 1938-02-15
Ruler of AlCatraZ
Like Character Out
Of Charles Dickens
Warden Johnston Drafted Into Prison WOrE
Because He Had Head on Him

YEditors Note-Ths is the concluding article OF two
on Warden James A. Johnston keeper of the "R0cE OF
DESPAIR" ALcGtrGz.)
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Two Electricians
 Struggle Ahead
MEN BATTLE AGAINST FURY
 OF RUTHLESS NATURE

Herb Rogers. the electrician, and Bob Gallun, assistant. went up the Erie trail the other day to fix a power line where the fuses would not stay ill.
 After struggling frantical]y for hours through drifts and slush, they managed to get to the trouble. The cross arm on a pole was burned off because the insulator was gone.
 They got back to camp that night, completely worn out.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Jim Murray Leaves

Jim Murray left last January for San Francisco. He went for medical treament.
 Murray has been in McCarty ard at his Dan Creek road house by the Nizina River for a long time. He owned The Golden, in McCar thy, for awhile. Then he sold that to Steve Pytel and gt t The Club. Mrs. Murray is still in Mccarthy, working ill The Club. -LM
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
"Vic" On Vacation

c. w. Vickery left for Seattle on March 19. Vic" left to sec his family and also for a short vacation He hopes to return about tbe first of May. Mr. Vickery was the first person to order & KENNEcoTT STAR got. ten out on the press.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Coyote Chases Hound

On March Il Chris Jenson saw Tam, Charlie Hooks sleek greyhound, come charging out Of the brush with a coyote be- hind him. When Chris came out of his house to watch the ex. citement, the coyote ran back into the woods. Tam the blood hound fed for Farley's hou e and wouldn't leave until Mrs. Ken Farley took him homo. He was as pale as 8 ghost.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
TVainm en Hero

The trainmen came up by plane the first part of the month from Cordova to ran the trair. They pulled up 40 cars from the McCarthy yards and then flew back to Cordova.
 Tho conductor vas George Scott; engineer, Tom Burchitt; fireman, Ava Larson; hostler, George L1rson; brakemen, Tlm Ekstrcm and Charles Hawkins.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
iiUnbeaten Terror!!

The tennis court was ol ed March $. The snow shoveling w ts done by Herb Rogers, Wer ner Henschel, Clarence Oneal, aud John Cone. Werner and Herb played three sets All were won by the unconquerable c.anpion, Herb Rogers.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Stacking Concentrates

Tbe yard gang is stacking concentrates in front of tue e| c rc shop. Jack Howard is supervising the work. The e is stacked there because the company does not have enough flat cars, and it also does not have to be hauled about The concentrates will be loaded back oh the flat cars as soon as pos. sibie.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Water Thawed Out

The kennecott water supply from National Ctee0, frozen in Febuary, has just been thawed out. Tho shop gang went mp and put in a new boiler, and f'cln below the yard G"lg thawel out the pipe by turning steam into it.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Foot Frozen

Emo Izison froze his foot and had to come up to the doctor on Feb. 27. Dr.. I. s. EgaD oper. ated on him the next morning. His farm is about four miles down the railroad track from McCarthy.-LM
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22

Foreman Sam Seager of the Erie mine is developing another stringer of high grade ore. The ore is located on the 9UO level. The work is expected to last un- til another round.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
KenneCott Gets
 Eggs Weekly
THEYLACK OLDTIME FLAVOR
 SOURDOUGHS COMPLAIN
By Our Poultry Editor

A few weeks ago Pilot Smith of the Cordova Air Service landed the biggest cargo of fresh eggs ever flown to McCarthy, thirty cases at one lick.
 Last year u e boys were will ing to bet that the eggs could make the trip under their own power. John Letendre says he likes them that way, and he has no use for an egg that won't stand up for itself. He says he once had a trained egg that would roll over at the word of command.
 He spent a long winter train ing the egg but while showing it off to some friends one day. he made it lOll over so many times it became scrambled. As it had been a pet he couldn't eat it himself, but, being short of grub, he gave it to his malemute dog. Later in the same evening he was thinking sadly of his lost pal and hanrnned to say the same words he used with the egg. The dog rolled over just the same as the egg had done.
 John felt better after that as, he says, he knew the egg had found @ good home.-Fond Paren
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22

Sig WoId, ex.taxi driver from McCarthy is back for 8 visit. Sig expects to go to Fairbanks and open a transfer service.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22

Kern. colt has two new em- ployes. They are Lester Phil lips and Tony Mille'. The men .p from Outside. Miller went up to Erie mine to work. Phil lips is working on the lower end of the tramS.
 Miller diun't stay very long for he left again on the plane in a week.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Alaska NofGS (By Wm. Humpheries, 4th,)


 At Donelley Dome, Calvin Cripe got 25 coyotes, three red foxes and two cross foxes, one lynx and one wolverine. TWen- ty years ago there were no coy otes around Donelley Dome.~
 The Alaska Steamship Co., bought the Caracas and named it the Denali. Four hundred <. men are employed to fix the boat. They renamed the Doro' thy Alexander. Now 1t is the Columbia. >..~- L.. B Schwellenbach sees fish dispute of Japan and United States. $4OO,OOOis spent yearly for conservation. ..
 The John c. Spencer was shaken up we'll. They rescued the crew of the Swallow just in time.
 Sir Hubert Wilkins is looking for missing polar fliers.
 In Kodiak they are building many new buildings and houses.
 Seldovia is going to have lots of fish.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22

Because of bau weather and poor landing conditions, Pilot Kirkpatrick of the Cordova Air Service was he'd up in McCar- thy on the 25tn, z6th and 21'h of February. Pilot Smith was also held there a short while, but both Smith and Kirkpatrick finally got back to Co, dova.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Fitxgevalds Happy

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fitzgerald have a brand new taby in their house. Those who have SCI n tl.e new Mccarthy citizen claim that it will be difficult to talk very il, ,te]'igent'y with Bill on any other subject for some time.
The Kennecott star., 1938-03-22
Smasl10s Foot

Stewart Nuckels was in the hospital because he hit his foot with ;A pick while he was work ing on the section near McCar- thy.
 He didn't stay in the hospital long. Ill., is all well now. I'M
 Alfonso NilSolaus is a ire luent week end visiter to Kennecot' .. is timekeeper at the mine. He comes down on the tram.
Evening star., 1938-12-04

shat are endurance proved ~. equipped with
new. low. long eors. enomsllsd for everlasting
brii,iones. Everywhere. from eowecsehsr to
Lionel trod;tion and found only in Lionel Troins.
cArAloe SHOWS yov NOW 70 PAN Yova RAILROAD
Get q copy Of the new 1893 lionel Cosolos
ond see pictures Of these speed wixords in
fvii color. Reod oil obovt electric car loodino.
unloading. coupling and vneovpiine. How TO
pion and build your own railrood; whot YOU
Evening star., 1938-12-04
ONLY II0NEI CAN GIVE YOU AL THESE NEW OPERA11N


road operations. They ore lionel invsntionsi
own Fosyy moeas, SOME As LOW As $7.ssi
This yscs. lionel puts every thrill Of roilrood.
ING ot your hnoertips. But woit-in 1898 Lionel
oiso brings YOU the orsotest Asst Of sroins IN
oil trein hisiosy-hsoded by o whole round.
house Of new :ix-drivs.whe locomotives.
more completely detoiled than any engines
thot ever touched the rolls before. Bviit from
real roilvood biveprints os only Lionel knows
how 10 build them . powered BY motoss
Evening star., 1938-12-04

HOLLYWOOD even stopped TO make . movie
Of them newspapers everywhere have pvt
the story in headlines the toy world hollis
them as the orsotest thrill on whes's."
Yes. these omoxino new Lionel 1rons ore
thot oreot, the achievement Of 3 ysors OF
pionnino BY the worlds leading model moksr.
A mosssrstroks Of ingenious engineering
gives you coupling. vneovplino. !oodin9: IN
oil ot the touch Of tiny control button. No
other tvoins on sorth can perform oil these roll.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-14
ART DUBIE RECALLS
SCANDAL OF 1882

Art Dubie, candidate for Rail
road and Public Service Commits
sioner, is a machinist by trade, hav-
ing been a member of Butte Lodge
No. SO, since 1909 = 20 years.
Art Dubie it will be recalled con-
tested the election of 1882 for COM
missioner. The results of said con-
test has done more to purge fraduel-
and election that anything that ever
came up in the legislature. 1t took
the judiciary out of politics, and
gave the candidates with limited
means a fair chance to combat the
vote racketeers which we know do
exist, a condition that the fair mind
ed people of this community do not
and will not tolerate.
Mr.. Dubie realizes that there are
worthy candidates on both tickets
and unfortunately we are by law
compelled to vote for candidates
of one party only, so it is those vot-
ers who are going to vote the Re
publican ticket that he is at this
time going to recall to their atten-
ton that he, Art Dubie, is a candi-
date for Railroad and Public Ser
vice Commissioner and your vote
will be appreciated.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-14
HAZEL BOUR0UIN IS
LOYAL TO THE UNIONS

Hazel Grant Bourquin, a candi-
date for the office of County Auditor
is a Democrat and a member of a
pioneer Butte family. She is the
daughter of the late James Grant, a
former Butte miner. She was born
and reared in Butte and received her
education in the Butte schools.
Mrs. Bourquin has an enviable re-
cord as County Auditor for the man
ner in which she has conducted the
duties of the office, and has been
highly commended by the State Elk
aminer who makes a yearly check OF
all claims and accounts that pass
through the auditors office. At the
present time all claims against the
county for relief are paid through
this office and they average approx
mately $4,000 per month.
Mrs. Bourquin is 100 per cent for
organized labor and is a former
member of the Butte Clerks Union.
She is a widow, the sole support
of her mother and two children, both
children being Of grammar school
ages.
She extends her sincere thanks for
the loyal support given her in the
past and promises, if elected to give
the same efficient and courteous ser
vice.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-14
Recognize Mu|hoIIand
rs Leading Legislator

The labor organizations of Silver
Bow County, which represent almost
the entire working element of the
community, the farmers and the
working people of the rest of the
state recognize in M. J.. Mulholland
one of the most consistent and loyal
representatives that the state has
ever produced. His record in the
last several sessions has been n of
undertaking fidelity to the people.
In all of this Mr.. Mulholland has
been fair to the business and pro-
f%essional people, and has had the
interests of the taxpayer at heart.
Some of the measures in which he
took an active interest included:
Teachers retirement pension; the
firemen's eight-hour legislation and
pension plan; the polieemen's eight
hour law; the social security mea-
sures; and especially the recent
amendment to the constitution
making eight hours the maximum
work day. He was also instrumental
in passing the law which gives to
the city of Butte one-half of the
license money collected from car
owners. This license money has beer
used in oiling and making permanent
the thoroughfares of the city Of
Butte. The clerks are indebted tc
Mr.. Mulholland for the introduction
of their eight-hour law, which was
successfully passed. During the
operation of the FERA, Nh. Mulhol
land went alone to the administratol
at that time and secured the neees
sary supplies to take care of the PEG
pie who had gone to Helena to pleaC
for more adequate relief commodi
ties. Mr.. Mulholland seeks the offic'
of state senator from Silver Bow
County.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-14
DROPS
CASE AGAINST SIX
HARLAN DEFENDANTS
BY Federated Press

LONDON, Ky.-(FP)-Labor's
battle of the century entered a new
phase here as the government
wound up its case against Harlan
County coal mine operators, coal
companies and former deputy sher-
ifs and the defense prepared to an
swer charges of conspiracy to violate
the Wagner act.
Just before the defense opened its
case, Federal Judge H. Church Ford
dismissed charges against six of the
defendants, leaving 16 coal corpora
tons, Is mine executives and % for
mer police officers still on trial. The
government admitted that it had
failed to prove its case against the
six dismissed.
The defense indicated that il
would drag the case for weeks while
it presented some 500 witnesses.
Montana labor news., 1938-07-14
BLEWETT HAS LONG
and ACTIVE RECORD
IN LABOR CIRCLES

Mr.. Clarence Blewett, who is run
ming for sheriff on the Republican
ticket, was first initiated into the
organized labor movement in 1905
when he helped to organize the
Paper Carriers Union. He served
as vice president Of that organiza-
ton, being then fifteen years Of age.
He later joined the old Mill and
Smeltermen's Union which met in
the hall where the First National
Bank is now located. At that time
he was working as a machinist's
helper for the Red Metal Mining
Company. BleWett started to work
for the Butte Electric Railway Com
pany at Christmas time 1906 and
served as president, secretary, and
delegate to state and national con-
ventions for the street car men. He
served as a member Of the board of
trustees Of the Street Car Mems
Hospital Association and helped or
ganize the Street Car Mems Credit
Bank. In 1926 the unions put him
in charge of an attempted reorgani-
cation of the Miners Union. He act
ed as secretary of the Miners Union
Cooperative Association and is presi-
dent of Silver Bow County unit OF
Labor's Non-Partisan League and
secretary of the conventions of the
Montana State Federation of Labor
MI. Blewett is also editor Of the
Montana Labor News and the Jour
nal for the State Federation o.
Labor.