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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
WHEAT LOAN RATE
Is ESTABLISHED
PROGRAM EXPECTED 10 PREVENT
GLUTTED MARKET AND PRICE
CRASH
Co. Operating Producers May Borrow
Between SO and 50 Cents Bushel on
Yield Stored Either on Farms or in
Government Warehouse.

Secretary OF Agriculture Henry
A. Wallace has established wheat
loans 20 cooperating producers at
rates averaging between So and SO
cents busheL Wallace set rates
for the leans to prevent 9 giutted
harvested the second largest wheat
crop In history and the Commodity
Credit Corp. made available S1e0s-
0O0s000 to finance the program
The loans, officials estimated, VII
enable farmers to store 100, 0O0,000
bushels of wheat on farms and In gov
eminent warehouses. permitting the
967 ,400-bushel wheat crop to reach
the market IN stages calculated to pre-
vent a break in prices.
Inc loan rate was announced after
Wallace warned wheat producing ma
tons of the world that the United
States is determined to get its fair
share of export markets and has ESQ.,
100000 bushels OF the staple available
for sale abroad.
Wheat growers who did not plant
more than los percent of their soil de-
plotting acreage allotment under the
1888 program viii be eligible for loans,
Wallace said.
The department will soon announce
q 1889 wheat acreage program. The al
lotment for next year was expected to
approximate the minimum Of $780,
600 acres established by congress IN an
amendment TO the new farm act. For
the 1888 crop, farmers planted $780,
600 acres.
The loan schedule announced estab-
hshed flat rates for storage on farms
and at country shipping points in states
where loans are not expected to be
large.
The loans, at percent interest. viii
be for seven months when the wheat
is stored on farms. Loans may be OBJ
tanned through Dec. 81, 1898.
Loans on wheat stored on farms will
be secured by chattel mortgages. Loans
on wheat stored In approved elevators
viii be secured by negotiable ware
house receipts.
Farmers who store wheat on farms
for the fun loan period will receive q
cents q bushel from the Commodity
Credit Corp. if they deliver their wheat
to the corporation after the loan ma
lures. This provision means, Wallace
said, that the corporation will pay the
farmers for storage unless wheat in
creases in price cents or more above
the loan rate by the time the farmers
sell.
The federal crop reporters have pre-
dicted yield Of 967, 1O2, 600 bushels,
only Al ,00O, 900 bushels short of the
record 1915, crop.
H r. Tolley, agricultural adjustment
said that storage of
wheat under government loans was not
the only method the administration ex-
poets to employ to combat the surplus
problem.
We've got to export lot of wheat.
he said.
The administrator said that con-
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
Montana 1910 Homesteader
Is Now q National Figure

book on administration policies, called
Wilson "one Of the great social invent
ors of the country"
Wilson, the Montana farmer, is pop
ular in washington and Is known as
IN. L." to everyone. He shuns publicity,
lives quietly in a Washington suburb
He and his family are frequently guests
in the WhitehouSe and at the presi-
dents home at Hyde Park.
Although M L. Wilson was born in
Iowa he thinks of Montana as his home
state and still owns his home in Boze-
man and the ranch he homesteaded in
Custer county nearly 30 years ago. The
details of farm work are his greatest
interest and it was he who devised the
best way to hitch 40 horses to the huge
combines for cutting and threshing
grain. His favorite hobby is collecting
Lincoln relics and books and his Lin
coin library is one of the most complete
private collections in the country.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

cap and ball Colt of 1850, a Manhattan
i five cylinder of 1859, a Chicago Pro-
4 tector" Of 1893 and a single bullet Der
/ niger of 1860. The Colt bears a striking
I resemblance to the guns the fax6
/ 'Iookouts" in frontier mining days KEEP
within easy reach, not to shoot anyone
! but to be used as bludgeon on the
unrllly: the gun was held IN the half
open palm Of the hand and was very
! effective as a peacemalzer. The ~Chi.
cago Protector" may have been the
great grandfather of the machine gun.
It Is cylindrical, carries five bullets and
is fired by squeezing the hand--some-
thing after the manner Of milking q
COW.
But firearms do not occupy the major
place In the exhibit. This belongs TO
the work of women-beautiful spreads
and coVerlets, the wool of which was
washed, shorn, spun, carded, dyed and
woven in the homes. One such is ex-
hibited by Miss Maye Carmen, q teach
er at the Webster school in Butte. It
was made in 1900.
Back in 1876 a year before the con-
stitution Of the United States was
adopted, only 10 years after the Dec
laration Of Independence was pro
claimed. q little girl, "Beccy" Curtis Of
Boxwood. Mass. sat before her sampler
frame as her 13-year-old fingers
stitched out a message, the concluding
lines of which are. Then let these
fingers whose unrivaled skill exalt the
needle, grace the noble quill" The work
of those little fingers stands the pass
age of the years even as the mountains,
although the sampler is more than 100
years old, it is as bright and fresh as
If it were made yesterday. 1t is an ex-
hibit of Charles w. Towne and is the
work of one Of his grandmothers.
Another beautiful exhibit Is that Of
Miss Ruth Sultzer-a collection Of
squares for a bedspread, worked in
1843 by several marvelously skilled
needlewomen of Baltimore, Charleston
and other cities.
Counting Days
A reminder to grandfathers Of their
counting days is a Rochester lamp q
round wick affair that threw as much
neat as a small oil stove. Tt is artistic
ally and substantially designed; with
the lamp removed it would serve as q
1ase that would grace almost any
home.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

The artistic urge finds expression
even In the penitentiary There Is an
exhibit entered By q convict at Deel
Lodge tribute to Home Sweet
Home" It took the designer seven
months to construct his offering.
A Salish 0ndian to you saddle
modelled after the pack saddle OF the
white man except that It was covered
with raWhide, homemade pack saddle
two ks" fastened TO pair Of side
boards spinning wheel that came
across the prairies with Mary Donovan
while Alder gulch was winning a repu-
tation heard round the world, a pair
of coach lamps such as may have
lighted Claude Duval and Dick Turpin
TO their prey on the British highways
a whip such as Abraham Lincoln may
have used on raiI-hauling OK teams,
wicker handmade baskets-the kind
that have been the means of keeping
many a amp-dwelling southern fam
lily in bread, fine white and black
woven rug, a product Of the hand looms
of 1848, add interesting touches Of
color to most pleasing exhibit.
Spinning wheel Works
Mary Donovan's spinning wheel still
works. It is said that the first autos
had whip stocks on the windshield. The
exhibit includes an fashioned quill
penholder, such as Goldsmith or
Dickens may have uSed-with steel
cap at the end to hold metal pens;
the metal pen had arrived, but the
writer's apparently could not wholly
resign the quill.
The mothers Of the west were not
discouraged by the absence Of toy
stores. They made their own toys.
Among those on exhibit is one stuffed
With goat hair, with china head, and
another in which every part of the doll
Is homemade. There are button shoes
worn by the ladies of 1880, white gloves
emitted with q hair pin, an ink bottle
converted into pillar Of mineral
specimens, snuff box with lid like
! clam, such as Henry Clay may have
lsed, hand-forged sleigh bells and COW
,ells, OK shoes-two-piece affairs with
,ach piece shaped like the bent blade
# a homemade razor, milk glass"
,utter dishes, tintype photographs and
n ancient door knocker. The exhibit |
S under the direction Of F. L. Stevens,
Vho has charge Of the Montana district.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

gideraki0n was being given, am0ng
others. to proposals 70 subSidize exports
OF the grain. but that no decision had
been reached.
Exports Of 1887 wheat totaIed about
IS 600 900 bushels Tolley said present
prospects for exports during the next
u months did not exceed 100, 000, 600
bushels.
a third step in the surplus removal
program, he explained, VIII be pro-
mitigation Of a program for q small
wheat crop next year. Growers may
be asked, he said TO plant only &c.
100000 acres, compared with rs, 500, goo
seeded for this years crop.
Farmers would have to abide by re-
duced acreage aIlotments in order to.
be eligible for wheat subsidy payments,
which may total about $3.50, 600, 600.
Whether the agriculture department
viii have q corn surplus problem VIII
be determined BY weather conditions
during the next few weeks. The crop
reporting board forecast a yield Of
z, 482, 1O2 600 bushels. Officials said
that II this estimate was borne out by
the August report, 1t might be neces-
sary to propose marketing quotas.
If approved by two-thirds of the
corn-belt farmers voting in a referen-
dunn, the quotas would require pro-
ducers to store certain percentage OF
their crop or pay stiff penalty taxes
If harvest figures bear out the
wheat forecast, the bread grain supply
for the next IL months would be about
/ ,167, 412, 600 bushels, including an esti-
mated surplus of 100000, 600 bushels
from last year. Thus surplus OF at
least 4l7,O00,000 bushels above normal
needs is indicated, compared with the
record of 378,00O,000 in 1882.
The indicated tobacco crop was con-
in excess of the amount es-
tablished IN marketing quotas APP
proved by farmer referenda this spring.
Growers selling in excess Of their
quotas would be subject to penalty
taxes. AS in the case of corn, however,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
STATE INSTITUTIONS
EARN $66.781 IN IUNE

Earnings Of state institutions ano
departments for June were S66, 781
Auditor John j. Holmes said.
The agricultural college earned $16,-
O04; department Of agriculture, 1881
training school, $l,156; industrial
prison, 81 266; school of mines, $1,349;
soldiers home, $1,000; tubercular sani-
tarium, 1851: university, S2,780; coll
lege Of agriculture extension services,
$6,170; girls vocation school, $1249;
deaf and blind school, $685. board Of
health, S2,499; Eastern Montana Nor
NAL school, s4,076; Northern Montana
college, 1888.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
CANADIAN BOY SCOUTS
ON WHEEL TRIP TO II. 6

Boy Scouts from troop 3, Swift Cur
rent, Sask., have q conviction that
the Dominion Yellowstone trail should
he completed at the earliest possible
date. This opinion was somewhat en-
phaticaIly stated after the boys ar
rived In Malta on q bicycle trip from
Swift Current.
There were nine Scouts, a troop
leader, truck driver, who carried the
food supplies and beds and provided
transportation over the tOugest spots,
and gcoutmaster.
The boys left Swift Current with
val Marie aS their scheduled destina-
zion. After reaching that point they
decided to make the excursion to the
United states. II was the first journey
on foreign soil for most OF the boys.
They encamped In Malta park Their
Journey from Val Marie, distance OF
about 80 miles, was made on the hot
test day Of the year.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

Army engineers have piled earth
fill onto Fort Peck dam until now
IL reaches an elevation approx
mateIy 200 feet above that of the
old river level Since construction
of the dam started In October, 1894,
more than sc, 1000 600 cubic yards Of
earth have been automatically
placed in the dam by the four
electrically operated, Suction-type
dredge units.
From selected borrow pits desirable
material and water, in the form OF q
soupy mass, the specific gravity Of
which averages about IL, is drawn up
by electrically operated, centrifugal
pumps. The mass is forced through
28-inch pipelines to the top of the dam
by booster pumps Of the same type as
those on the dredges. The mixture is
spilled on top but near the upstream
and downstream faces Of the DAM
where the coarse material settles out
The fine material is carried by the
water to the center of the dam where
water is pumped out of the core pool
by centrifugal pumps mounted on
floating barges, leaving on the dam
over 80 percent of the solids in the
original mass. The fine material, which
settles out of the water in the core
pool, forms an impervious core along
the center Of the dam.
The upstream face of the Fort Peck
dam is protected against wave action
by riprap boulderS weighing up to
10000 pounds each Riprap has been
placed on the lower portion Of the
reservoir side and is complete up to
1874 feet above the old river level.
At present, water almost 100 feet
deep is being held back by the huge
barrier. The reservoir has backed up
the Missouri river channel distance
of more than 10 miles, and is more
than half the size Of F1athead lake /
in northwestern Montana. The Fort
Peck reservoir now covers an area of /
more than 1O6 square miles.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
AN. --.prof.

NUXEhzAN--Prof. L. u. Conkling
head Of the civil engineering depart
rnent at Montana State college, has
Tee on highway conferences for the
wear. according To word received st the
college from q. s. Stetnksgrg. president
~ the educational division of fhn
American Road Builders association.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
FORT PECK DAM
200 FEET HIGH
EARTH FILL NOW THAT HIGH
ABOVE OLD MISSOURI
RIVER LEVEL

Material Pumped From Selected BOr-
row Pits in SOupy Mass and Deliv-
cred to Top by 2s-Inch Pipeline; Up
stream Face Riprapped With Rocks.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Traffic Budget:
.$34S,32O ASKED
BY VAN DUzER

Director William A. Van Duzer
has submitted to the District
Commissioners estimates totaling
$34S,32O to operate the Depart
ment of Vehicles and Traffic for
the 1910 fiscal year.
Motorists were reminded they
will not have to get 1899 license
plates until March l. But before
next years tags can be obtained
automobiles must undergo a me
chanical inspection.
Van Duzer requested $4,000 to
cover expenses of the inspection
work during the year. Other
items in the traffic budget in,
cluded $149.62O for light signals,
$4,000 for salaries and similar
expenses and $4,000 for license
plates, which are manufactured
at the District Reformatory, Lor.
ton, Va. at a cost Of 11h cents
each.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
"NO S0Le":
CREENBELTV VOTE
BANS PEDDLERS

GREENBELT, Md, Aug. 26.
That peddlers and door-to-door can
vassers will be barred from Green
belt, Federal dream city" near
Berwyn, became a virtual GER
tainty today when a check-up of
early returns of poll of the res
idents showed sentiment over
whelmingly against them.
Several weeks ago, Greenbelt
authorities sent questionnaires to
all residents asking them to vote
whether or not they wanted ped
dlers and which ones they pre-
ferred to be permitted to canvass
in the town. Out Of 106 citi-
zens who voted, "a voted against
solicitors Of any kind in the town.
Only % voted in favor of them.
In the voting for the various
types Of statesmen. the result was
about the same. The only ven
dors who received a favorable vote
were ice cream. statesmen. They
are now holding a narrow margin
Of SO to So.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
81 N AR RI ACES
WERE ANNULLED,
CLERK REPORTS
Docket of Civil Cases
Runs Far Behind

Docket of civil cases in District
Court is running approximately 18
months behind, Col. Charles E.
Stewart, court clerk, reported to-
day to Chief Justice Alfred A.
Wheat.
Submitting his annual report on
the law and equity courts during
the fiscal year which ended last
June 80, Colonel Stewart reported
reduction of BAT in law cases.
The equity docket fell further be-
hind by 211 cases, however.
749 DIVORCES
During the year a total Of TAG
absolute divorces we're granted, 54
limited divorces, 81 marriage an
nulments and 33 maintenance
orders.
Colonel Stewart said a total Of
5,021 civil actions were filed in
the courts during the year. In
the law courts, he said, on June
80, 1887, the total number of cases
pending was 2,846 while on last
June 80 the total was 1899.
EQUITY CASES
In equity court there were 1888
cases pending June 30, 1887, but
on the past June 80, the total had
increased to 1904.
During the year the number Of
cases terminated either through
court action or Withdrawals Of
suits, was 5,649.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Seeing u. S. First:
3 VIRGINIA BOYS
HALTED ON TOUR

Three Richmond, Va, boys de.
cided to obey the Injunction, See
America F1rst" landed in the
Receiving Home here today.
The boys started their tour with
scant funds. They hitch-hiked tc
the Capital and, exhausted by the
first stage of the journey, went
to sleep on the Monumen.
Grounds.
Park police awakened the boys
and after hearing their story, took
them to the home and then mott,
fled their parents.
And Il looks as though the
grand tour is ended. The boys
gave their names as Thomas
White, 13; Charles Trainum, IA
and Roy Bennett, IS.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
ACTING DEAN
CIipper Victims Post
Filled Temporarily

DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, presi-
dent of George Washington Uni
versity, announced yesterday that
DR.. Walter A. Bloedorn, assistant
dean of the school of medicine and
medical director of the university
hospital, has consented to serve
as acting dean in place of Dean
Earl B. Mckinley, passenger on
the ill-fated Hawaii Clipper, miss
ing since July %.
The board of trustees, President
Marvin said, has appointed com
mittee who will assist the preSl-
dent In the selection Of a dean
for the school of medicine in the
event Of a permanent vacancy in
the office.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
BY KENNETH ELLIS

Tommy v has a club foot.
That is-he HAD a club foot.
But the city's most expert and ex-
pensive orthopedic surgeons went
to work on it, and now Tommy
at no cost to himself-can soon
run, and play all the games the
other boys play-and nobody can
call him "Limpy"!
The club foot is famous in lit
erature. 1t has been used to make
people hate its owner-to make
them shed bitter tears of SYM
pathy for him-to make them
scream with laughter-in short 1t
has been used as an emotional
stimulus.
DANGEROUS FEATURE
That's its dangerous feature.
It prevents many from adequate
occupation advance. They grow
too sensitive to use their talents
too sensitive to ask for jobs they
know their brains are fitted for.
That is why you find then
problem children" in school
problem" citizens after.
But orthopedic surgery requires
especially expert skill-it costs g
lot in hospitalization-for nearly
always these deformitieS cannot be
corrected in one-but need a Sc
ries of operations.
CARED FOR
But Washington children so af
flicted, who cannot pay for correc
ton of their orthopedic troubles
are cared for at Children's Hos
pital-and otherS-where they
have the advantage of the same
surgical and hospital treatment
that goes to the richest boy or girl
in town.
Tommy VS. parents learned
about the Central Admitting Blu
reau through a physician. They
took Tommy's case there. And that
is why he is happy now-and why,
after a while, he will be able to
run and play just like the other
boys-and why, pretty soon, no
body can call him "Limpy."
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Negro E|ks Keep
D. {. Men in Office

Three fraternal, civic and edu-
cational leaders of the city have
been reelected grand lodge Off
GERS of the national organization
Of negro Elks of the world now
holding their thirty-ninth annual
session in Baltimore, Md.
j. Finley Wilson was reelected
grand exalted ruler of the lodge;
w. C. Hueston, grand commission
er of education and Perry w. How
ard, grand legal adviser. Wilson
has now headed the lodge for over
a decade and was returned to
office without an opponent.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Clayton Nominated
@~x %~~ ~~x ~N%
Leader in Civic Organizations

BelieUing that the citizens of
Washington should haze a say
in the selection of a successor to
Commissioner George E. Allen,
The Washington Times is pre-
Senting a series of articles in
1Ohtch a score of civic leaders
haze been giUe7r the opportunity
of nominating their choice for
the neW Commissioner.
ORREN J. DAVY today nomi-
mated WILLIAM NICK. CLAYTON
to succeed Commissioner George
E. Allen.
Mr.. Davy is secretary Of the
Southeast Council of citizens Asso-
Citations, a delegate to the Fedora
tions of Citizens Associations and
has taken an active part in the
Community Chest.
Mr.. Clayton has long played a
leading part in the affairs of the
Capital, and was one of the organ
izers and first president of the
Federation Of Citizens Associa-
tionS.
An advocate Of suffrage for the
District, he is a member of the
executive committee of the Suf-
frage Association, and is also head
Of the Jackson Democratic Asso-
citation.
For more than IS years Mr.
Clayton has been q delegate from
The Washington times., 1938-08-26

A daily list gives new numbers
and recently changed numbers. A
cross-section directory does the
trick in case you only have the
street number. Simple, eh?
There are ITS Information"
operators employed by the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Telephone
Company. They answer calls com,
ing from coin boxes, residences
and places of business. AS there
are $4,000 of these daily the oper.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Three Men Seized
In Numbers Raid

Arrested by members Of the vice
squad yesterday. three men were
charged with possession Of mum.
bers slips and operating a lottery
They were Charles Gordon, As
14OO block of Girard st. N. W.;
Neal Samuel, 26, 1900 block Of R
st. N. W., and George D. Governor
a. 100 block of Florida Ave. N. w,
The Washington times., 1938-08-26

new contraption had won public
approval, the company, in order
to help the customer, printed a
directory. Each year, like Topsy,
lit just growed," until it reached
its present size.
And it's still growing. Today
there are 5000 listings of private
homes, businesses and professions,
The company receives nearly
1,O0O, 900 local calls daily, and sew
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
D. +. Student Given
Carnegie Award

William A. johnson, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward B. johnson, $40
Randolph st. N. W.. has been
awarded a renewal Of his fellow
ship at the Carnegie Institute Of
Technology, the schools commit
tee on Graduate Instruction an
nounced yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Woodside Citizens
Plan Fall MeetinQ

SILVER SPRING, Md, Aug. 26.
Paul M. Coughlan, Montgomery
County Commissioner and presi.
dent of the Woodside Citizens
Association, announced today that
the association will hold its first
fall meeting in the form of an old
fashioned garden party at his
home on First Avenue, Silver
Spring, Thursday September l.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
CLINIC CORRECTS
FEET
OF D. C. CHILDREN

This Is tie nth Of 4 series
of articles published in The
Washington Times reveGling the
ertent of child care in this city.
A complete surrey of the tGctl'
ties tOith Dhict Washington
fights child diseases, delinquency
and improper rearing is being
made.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Church 10 Give
Parade Prizes

St. Dominic's Carnival will
award prizes tonight to winners in
the church parade held August Is.
They will be presented by Alfred
]. Headley, jr.