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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-21
oil CHARIOT" ARRIVES

TIL ERE in Montana where the oil bust
n ness has been going on" for nearly
Is years people are prone TO for
get what the oil industry does for the
people of the state. 1t is refreshing to
read current account regarding the
arrival of the oil industry in Western
Kansas, where people are appreciative
Of the miracles wrought by the arrival
OF the coil chariot"
In the February issue Of the I p A.
monthly is an account of the new West
ern Kansas oil business, written by
}. G. Denious, editor Of the Daily Globe
of Dodge city, Kansas, and member of
the Kansas senate The article in part,
follows
The oil chariot logged 500 100000
into western Kansas in 1887 and de-
posted il upon the dOOrstcps of
countless numbers of landowners.
How it feels 10 be on the re-
ceiving end of S2O,OOO.OOO in "A bad
year when harsh financial difficult
ties are arising from drought, de-
precision and RECOMMENDATION can be
described by the western Kansas
landowner with deep conviction and
lofty elOquence. The advent of the
oil industry into the western cOun-
ties of the Jayhawker state was
the people of western Kansas
The old story of the once profit
gate son who went to the distant
city and made good, and then re-
turned i'm time to save the old home
stead for his aged and destitute
parents, has its counterpart in this
story of the oil chariot Fastening
at top speed into distressed area
and scattering in its wake fabulous
fortune for the relief of those who
were feeling the eVer-tightening
pinch of hostile economic forces.
The oil millions which came to
western Kansas landowners that
year were in payment for oil leases,
bonuses and royalties. They were
sufficient to pay the taxes on all
the farm lands and farm improve
ments in the siXty-One western cOun-
ties, and leave about $500, 900 for
interest payments and for new tires
for the Model Us. The income from
oil i'm these counties would have re-
paid the annual expenditure for re-
lief in the entire state of Kansas.
and then there would have remained
something besides to provide the
modest fare of those forgotten souls
who were still trying to make their
own living without public aid. Had
the Federal government withheld all
cash benefits and bonuses to Kansas
farmers that year, tho loss would
have been less severe than the sur
render of the western Kansas oil
income.
In sharp contrast with public fl
nancing, the funds which the oil
industry paid to landowners added
nothing to the national debt. Neith-
or the landowners nor the Sec
rotary of the Treasury at Wash
ingtOn had to issue bonds nor sign
notes to get oil money for the farm
people. The next generation will not
have to pay il back. As current in
come, it has been collected and
spent A reasonable prosperity for
the oil industry would keep it COM
ing through the march of years
Receipts from the sale of natural
gas would make important additions
to these estimates for southwestern
Kansas has the largest known natur-
nj gas producing area in the world.
However, no income from natural
gas has been included in the fig
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-21

Social agreeab ility seems to rest
on two talking entertaining
" when there's nothing to say,
and laughing heartily when there's
nothing amusing.
Madam" he said, will you
please get off my foot?"
"Why don't you put your foot
where it belongs?" she replied
curtly.
Don't Tempt me, Madam. don't
tempt me he countered.
Reno, they say, now claims to
be an important factor in the dairy
industry That's where the cream
of the country goes to get sep
arated
The noblest kind of dog is a hot
dog. for it not only don't bite the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-21
KIRK WELL In
DRY CREEK NOW
AT 2O4O FEET

Drilling has progressed to depth
Of 2.O40 feet at the Valentine NJ.
Kirk we'll in Dry Creek field on
No / Robinson location. SW SWi4
NWh 2-7S-21E. 1t is one-third
mile northwest of the Ohio Oil
Co. Couders No which was com
pleted in 1888 with an initial of
1000 barrels per day at $500 feet.
Il is mile north Of the Chapman
No. l producer which had an ini-
tial Of $50 barrels through a Shafer
bean. when completed in 1880.
Manning & Martin rotary contrac-
tors, are drilling the Kirk well.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-21

at times. Aren't you afraid the eli
mate might disagree with your
wife?"
The man looked at him reProach-
fully 1T wouldn't dare
In days of old when nights were
cold,
It took two fleeces from the fold
To dress a lady fair.
But in these days of jazz and bob,
A little silk worm does the job
With time galore to spare.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-21
PROPOSES CONNALLY REPEAL

WASHINGTON = Rep. Coffee
(Wash.) has introduced bill to
repeal the Connally hot oil law.
saying:
The legislation has served only
the monopolistic oil interests and
should be repealed promptly by Con-
gress We should not wait even
another six months to permit the in
dependent producers, refiners and
marketers to suffer Hereunder.
The legislation may have been de-
signed to help these latter but from
the letters reaching my office it is
clear that it has placed an unbear-
able burden on them. It's benefits
have been purely in aid of the major
oil companies in their drive to mon
opolize the oil industry
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-21
!. p. A. \. COMMITTEE TO MEET

TULSA The refining and mar
keting committee OF Independent
Petroleum Assn. of America will
meet Jan 16 in Washington to
draw up plans for expediting Fed
eral Trade Commission approval Of
industry's code of fair competition,
study Of entire oil industry and ef-
fects Of refining and marketing
practices on the producing division,
and to require integrated oil com
panies to split up their annual
statements to cover separately prof
its and losses in their producing,
refining. marketing and transporta-
ton lhranches.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-01-21
LAWS NEED CLARIFCATION

TOPEKA-Kansas' PROBATION laws
need Qualification and strengthen
ing. Governor Rather told Kansas
legislature yesterday. Expansion of
Kansas refining industry to pro-
mote wider use Of products refined
in Kansas from Kansas crudes was
urged.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
Axis Partners
Making Tours
Along Borders
Russia Makes Reply 70
British Proposals TO
Join New Alliance
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS

German Chancellor Adolf Hitler
and italian Premier Benito Mus
solini are touring the frontier dis
tricts bordering France as the Pol
ish and French General Staff Off
GERS met in Paris for consultation.
Russia's reply to Great Britain's
counter proposals for Russian col
liberation on the British-French
front has been received by the Brit
ish Foreign Office and passed on
to the French Government. The
British Foreign Office spokesman
said he could not disclose the con-
tents of the Russian reply but it
is generally believed in diplomatic
circles that Moscow has not accepted
the British plan that Russia agree
to join Great Britain and France in
aiding Poland and Rumania if those
countries are attacked.
Premier Mussolini dedicated new
plant for vast Fiat works, makers
of Italian cars, tanks, airplanes,
motors and machine guns.
Chancellor Hitler and his staff
have started an inspection near
Aachen, on the Belgian frontier,
which has caused some Belgian
quarters to believe there is more
than coincidence that he and his
axis partner should make such trips
at the same time.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
CHANGES In
LABOR LAW
ARE DELAYED
Strong Farm Bloc 0pposi-
fion Develops : No
Vote Taken Today

WASHINGTON, May Is. = Adj
ministration lea ders, apparently
fearing defeat, suddenly changed
plans and refused to permit the
House to consider or vote today on
changes in the wage and hour law.
A strong farm bloc opposition
developed over the weekend and
when the House met today Chair
man Norton, of the Labor Com
mittee, announced on the floor she
will not ask consideration of
amendments to the wage and hour
law today.
Five farm organizations said late
Saturday that the amendments in
stead of exempting more agricul-
ture labor than the present law,
would place agriculture in a strait
jacket"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
Royal Ship
Sights Land
Early Today
British King and Queen on
Atlantic for Ten Days,
America Bound

NEW YORK, May 15.-The En-
press of Australia, liner carrying the
British King and Queen to Canada
anG the United States, came within
sigtt of land, at the south end of
Newfoundland at $50 o'clock this
morning and few minutes later
the French Islands, st. Pierre and
Miquelon, we're sighted on the tenth
day of the voyage from England
which has been heightened two days
by fog which held the ship at a
standstill in the iceberg regions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15

TROUBLE IS
THREATENED
Closure Of Port OF Portland
May Spread Accord
ing 10 Arbifer

PORTLAND, Ore. May Is. The
five-day closure of the Port of
Portland is rated today as a coast
wise emergency as Wayne Morse,
West Coast waterfront arbiter OPP
ened hearing between the employ
ers and longshoremen. The trouble
started when the longshoremen re-
fused to load Luckenbach freight
er and the employers closed the
port to all unloading or dlscharg-
ing.
Morse has ruled that the closure
has jeopardized cOastwiSe relations
between the Waterfront Employers
Association and the CLIO Interna-
tional Longshoremen and Ware
housemen's Union.
Morse said the hearings will de-
termine whether the employers
have a right to close port by srs-
pending operations until the union
conforms to certain conditions de-
manded of the union by the em-
ployers"
The longshoremen have also gone
on record placing a definition of
hot cargo" upon any shipment
diverted from the closed port,
bringing into the open for the first
time the danger of a coastwise ship
ping tieup.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
RESIGNATION OF
pETAIN RUM0RED
French A m bassador 10
Spain DisiIIusioned
as 10 His Post

PARIS, May Is. = Diplomatic
quarters understand that Marshal
Petain will resign as French Am
bassador to Spain.
Relations between France and
Spain have been growing steadily
worse since the close of the Spanish
Civil War. Spaniards are angry be-
cause France has not yet returned
the gold and war materials taken
from the country by Spanish Re-
publicans.
France, on the other hand, wants
something done about the 100000
Spanish refugees who fled from their
mother country over the French
borders.
Marshal Petain, a World War
hero, accepted the Ambassadorship
to Spain on condition these prob
lens be settled He has been disil-
lusioned in his new post and has
often threatened to resign.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
FRANCO LOOKING
FOR HUGE LOAN
Wants 10 Borrow One Hun.
dred Million Dollars 10
Put Spain on Feet

MADRID, May 15-Generalissimo
Franco is said to have had agents in
Paris and Amsterdam trying hard to
get loan.
Franco wants to borrow 100000
600 to put Spain back on her feet.
Two Partisan banks didn't exactly
refuse the loans but they said it was
political matter which would re-
quire official sanction.
1t is also confirmed that Franco
will hold his big victory parade in
Madrid on May 10. A spectacular
aviation display was staged for
Franco yesterday by the air forces
in which German and italian units
took part. General Franco thanked
them for their help in organizing
his military aviation units which
were effective in the Civil War VIC
tory.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
FIVE YEARE- Old GIRL
GIVES BIRTH TO BABY
WEIGHING SIX POUNDS

LIMA, Peru, May 15.--Dr. Hippo
Ito Larrabure, Surgeon Director of
the Lima Maternity Hospital, said
nearly 6-pound boy baby has been
born to an Indian child mother, just
over 5-years old.
The doctor said it is one of the
strangest genealogical cases in the
world and the caesarian operation,
performed by two doctors, was wit
messed by 60 other doctors.
The baby was delivered easily and
is declared to be in perfect condi-
ton. The child-mother is also doing
well.
The child-mother still has her
first teeth, is not more than 3 feet
l inch tall, and features and men,
tality are perfectly childish.
DR.. Larrabure said examination
proved the child had been GRIMM
ally assaulted. She showed signs of
sexural maturity when only three
months old, the doctor added.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
FARLEY RESULTS
IN RENEWAL OF
T PAVING PROJECT

After a meeting of CLIO laborers
and CLIO carpenters with L. J. Dow
ell, paving contractor, yesterday, an
understanding" was reached and
work on the three and half days
stalemated project began again to-
day
No contracts were signed with
unions, such contracting being for
hidden under the mo discrimination"
clauses of PWA contracts, but Off
Gals said everything has been IRON
ed out satisfactorily and everyone is
satisfied there will be no discrimina-
ton of any sort"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
CANNERY FIRM
QUALITIES FOR
BUSINESS HERE

Qualifying to do business in AL
aska, the Intereoastal Packing Com
pany, q Washington corporation with
offices at Seattle, has filed articles
of Incorporation with the Territorial
Auditor here.
Nick Bez is President, William
Calvert, Vice President and II. L..
Scott, Secretary of the corporation
With Capital stock of only 5000,
the firm lists assets of $400, los AS,
including a 1924, 799 "a floating can
merry, and liabilities of $404. 721 SIS,
none Of which are secured.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
Two Groups Issue Ultima
tums Regarding Wages.
Working Conditions
MINIMUM SCALE IS
NOW BEING SOUGHT
One Side Has Made Last
0ffer-PIant Workers
Make Their Threat

SEATTLE, May l5.-Operators
and cannery workers in the Alaska
Canned Salmon Industry have
crossed ultimatums in duel over
wages and working conditions for
the 1899 season.
At meeting Sunday, members of
the Cannery Workers Local No. Z
rejected the latest proposals submit-
ted by the operators COMMITTEES
"as the most liberal we can possibly
recommend to the companies whom
we represent. 1t is the best and
final offer of this committee
The union demanded a guaranteed
minimum wage for the season Of
$3.50 in Southeastern Alaska and $500
in other areas adding unless the
industry makes a more determined
effort to settle the question of wages
before Wednesday. the negotiation
committee of the union has been
instructed to increase the demand
for guaranteed minimum for the
seasons work"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
LAKINA SAILS NORTH

SEATTLE, May 15.-Steamer La
kina sailed for the north Saturday
afternoon having aboard 5000 cases
of salmon cans and other general
cargo for False Pass and other Al
aska Peninsula points.
The sailing of the Lakina does
not mean that the American Can
strike is settled.
The cans were loaded at pier 40
after the vessel moved from the
American Can dock. where a wage
controversy affects loading.
Pickets are still preventing Toad
ing of cans at the American Can
dock where warehousemen are on
strike for an increase of pay from
62h cents an hour to IS cents.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
u. ). GOVERNMENT NOW
BRIBING WORLD T0BUY
BIG AMOUNT OF COTTON
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, May 15.-Stated
simply, the Government figures that
for $50 100000 it can bride the world
to buy 100000 bales of cotton in
1889 instead of perhaps only 1000
900. That is what the cotton sub
sidy plan amounts to.
This is a special emergency year
for cotton among all the emer-
gency years it has had in the past
decade. Cotton control legislation
effective as early as 1888 began
holding down the paintings. Each
year the Treasury had to pay farm
ers for keeping some of their acre
age out of cotton.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
JAPAN B0MBERS
TO Be CAREFUL
IN AIR RAIDS
Will. Exercise Caution and
Attempt Not TO lnjure
Undrmed

WASHINGTON, May 15.-Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull announces
that Japan has promised that her
aviators will exercise all caution
possible in China to avoid injuring
unarmed population.
The reply was made to Ambassa-
dor Crews recent note of protest
against aerial bombardments at
Chungking.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
STARVING MAN
BROUGHT HERE

Ole K. Johansen, elderly Swan
son Harbor resident, was flown to
Juneau and disqualification yester-
day by Shell Simmons in the AAT
Lockheed.
Natives found JohanSen aboard
his boat, irrational and nearly
starved
DR.. William p Blanton said Jo-
hansen had suffered nervous
breakdown and had been unable to
take care of himself. Heswill be in the
hospital for probably two weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
HYDABURG CANNERY
IS GRANTED ARTICLES
OF INCORPORATION

w. A. Prizes, j. r. Reynolds and C..
C. Hinde, all of Ketchikan, today
were granted articles of incorpora-
ton for the Hydaburg Cannery
Company. which is TO operate at
Ketchikan.
OF the $4,000 capital stock in the
company, Prizes owns all but 5000
worth. Limit of indebtedness was
set at $1.000,000.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
PRESIDENT
PLANS TRIP
TO PACIFIC
Will Visit San Francisco Ex-
position Announce
ment Is Made

WASHINGTON, May IS. A
White House statement said Presi-
dent Roosevelt will go to the Golden
Gate International Exposition in
June if it appears Congress will not
adjourn until late in July or early in
August. The statement was issued
by Stephen Early, private secretary
to the President.
Early also said that should indi-
cations be that Congress will quit
early in July, the President will
probably delay his transcontinental
tour until after adjournment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
AND
BRIDE FROM SOUTH
ON WAY TO KODIAK

With his bride from North Car
DINA. j. S. Culbertson, of the Blu
reau of Fisheries, was a passenger
aboard the Baranof yesterday on his
way to Kodiak where he will be
stationed for the summer.
Though she feels that she is going
a long way from home, Mrs. Gull
bertson is looking forward to the
summer in Kodiak. Mr.. Culbertson
was stationed at Kodiak last sum-
mer for the Fisheries and during the
winter has been in Washington, DC.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
BURGUNDER HAS
CONFESSED TO
Staying 7 NE N
P hoenix Newspaper
Claims Seattle Youth
Admits Double Killing

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 15.-The
Daily Republic, in copyrighted
story, said Robert NJ Burgunder, Jr.,
22-year-old former collegian and
Seattle youth, has confessed to the
Sayings of Jack Peterson and Ellis
Kourty automobile statesmen whose
trussed bodies were found in the
desert. ID miles southwest of here.
Burgunder was arrested in Ten
nessee and returned here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
EIopersNow
Bound North

SEATTLE, May 15.-Mr and Mrs.
Henry Mesta sailed last night aboard
the Aleutian for Ketchikan where
they will make their future home.
Their marriage followed a ten
year romance eliminating in a we'd
ding in Albuquerque, NJ NJ, after
an airplane elopement from Pitts
burgh, Pa.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15

NEW YORK, May 15.-The New
York Times, in a dispatch from
Washington, says it has been in
formed that President Roosevelt Is
prepared to issue another appeal
for peace, at an opportune moment,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
MAIL GOES OUT
ON NORTH COAST

Postmaster Albert Vile announced
this afternoon that the next mail for
the south will go aboard the steamer
North Coast due from the westward
at noon on Wednesday. Mail must
however be in the post office by
mid forenoon to insure dispatch.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
PHYSICIAN FLIES

DR.. Otto George, Office of Indian
Affairs physician at Bethel. flew to
Anchorage yesterday for medical at
tention, according to word received
by DR.. ]. F. Worley, Medical Director
for Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ANOTHER APPEAL FOR PEACE

or if new critical situation de-
velops IN Europe.
The hope persists, the dispatch
further states, that if Hitler or Mus
solini find their present course too
dangerous as result of counter
movement, they may turn to eco
nomic negotiations.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
ENTERS HIS PLEA

PHOENIX, Ariz., May 15.-Robert
Burgender Jr. entered plea OF
innocent to the charges of murder
ing two auto statesmen whom County
Attorney Hairless said he has al
ready confessed killing.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
NO @HOTr CARGO

SEATTLE, May 15.-Matt Nee
han, District Council Secretary, said
the Seattle longshoremen will work
diverted freight from Portland be-
cause the union does not believe
in spreading the lockout as the
Portland situation is lockout and
not a strike.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
Alaskan Given
Chance, Coast
Guard School

WASHINGTON, May Is. Rear
Admiral Waesche, Commandant of
the Coast Guard, announces that
Robert Mcdonald, of Cordova, is
eligible to compete on June IA for
appointment as cadet to the Coast
Guard Academy at New London.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
DOWELL COMES IN

Contractor L. j. Dowell, handling
Juneau's paving work this summer,
has arrived in town from Seattle.
He is stopping at the Gastineau
Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
FOR WRANGELL

DR.. George A. Dale, Associate
Supervisor of Elementary Education
for the Office of Indian Affairs, left
ON the Yukon today for Wrangell
where he will attend commence
ment exercises at Wrangen Institute.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-15
1897 DELUGE HURT

Once before, in 1884, the country
had a fresh crop of cotton coming
on while it had on hand surplus
about the size of the present one.
Under the control program it man
aged in two years to work off half
the surplus and was very slowly
working off the balance when the
overwhelming 1897 crop hit.
But the situation now is differ
ent. In 1884 we had a good share
of the world market. Now we
don't. Foreign growers in Brazil,
India, and Egypt, taking advan-
tage of the loan machinery which
kept U. S. prices from falling, have
garnered huge slice of the foreign
market we once had.
Here is what is expected from
the subsidy plan now virtually
agreed upon:
1t will affect first the oncoming
1889 crop. Without the subsidy it
is estimated we would sell abroad
only 100000 bales of the esti-
mated 0O0-bale crop. With the
subsidy the Department of Agricul-
ture expects about 100000 bales
will be exported.
That will leave 100000 bales
for domestic consumption. That is
not enough. About 100000 is the
domestic need. So the extra 1000
900 bales for domestic need will
come out of the Governments hoard
of 100000 bales. For that the
domestic mills will have to pay about
nine cents pound. That is above
the present price but the mills seem
willing to pay it. What they want
is a steady price, not low one.