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Evening star., 1940-02-14

It was nowhere to be seen. When
he pulled the chain he was so ex-
cited that he trembled. The trap
did not come up at once. He pulled
and pulled, and then suddenly up
it came all covered with mud. In 1t
was one little claw from Little Joe
Otter. Very carefully the Fur
Hunters Son set the trap again.
II he could have looked over in the
bulrushes and have seen Little Joe
Otter and Billy Mink and Jerry
Muskrat watching him and tickling
and laughing he would not have
been 20 sure that next time he
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Points for Purents
RY EDITH

BY EDITH THOMAS WALLACE,
We cripple younger child Uhen
,De giue the older one all the prac-
tice in taking of responsibility,
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Going to TroveI Now
After 81 Years on Rails
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PALESTINE, Tex.J. B. King,
who retired recently after So years
of railroading, is all set for some
travel.
I've always been too busy with
trains to enjoy travelling, but now
I hope to do little for myself" /"
says he.
To start things OF he and his
wife will visit the West Coast and
then make . swing through large
cities Of the East.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
would catch LITTLE .Joe Otter

would catch Little Joe Otter.
All around the Smiling Pool and
then up and down the Laughing
Brook the Fur Hunters Son tramped,
and each trap he found sprung and
buried In the mud. He had stopped
whistling by this time and there
was q puzzled frown on his freckled
face. What did 1t mean? Could
Farmer Browns Boy or some other
boy have found all his traps and
played q trick by springing all Of
them? The more he thought about
1t, the more puzzled he became. You
see, he did not know anything about
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Not This

Mother: Bob, you're the oldest so
I'm depending on you to tend to
things. Be sure the lights are out
before you go to bed and don't let
Bill stay up too late. Remember
now!"
Evening star., 1940-02-14

When we brought Muvver to the
winder t show her our valentine in
the snow with the fruit colorin' t
make it red, she dest screeched
murder" an tainted. I left Baby
explainin' t. everybody.
Evening star., 1940-02-14
Jolly Polly

jolly Polly
4 Little Chat on Etiquette.
BY JOS. ]. FRISCH.
v. G. SIT is not necessary for
a man to remove his hat in the
elevator of an Office building. In
Evening star., 1940-02-14
LETTER-OUT
STAR FLASHES
By Bruno

the word
the letter center
apparition.
o Yesterdays LETTER-OUT
letr-Out
CD FEAST-SATE (satsfy).
CD RAVEIIN-NAIVER hes piquant).
CA ACHATES-CHEATS (acts dishonetly).
60 CLlMPSE-SIMPLE undecorateD.
(S) PINCERS-PRINCE royal heir)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

 REFUSING
 TOLL PAY
Richardson Highway Baf- file Flares as Freight
 CTS Buy Boats

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 30.- Six Fairbanks trucking companies operating over the Richardson Highway between Valdez and Fair banks started a Blitzkrieg Monday night against Government tolls or the Richardson Highway.
 Tolls of $9 a ton are levied by the Department of Interior or freight hauled over the highway and collected it by charging for fer rying loaded trucks on a current ferry across the Panama River al Big Delta.
 Truckers now are transferring freight across the river with small boats and scows.
 The revolters state they are de- termined never to pay tolls again and are hauling large motor boats over the highway from Fairbanks to Big Delta to tow their scows.
 The Government ferry has been in operation by the Alaska Road Commission for years.
 Truckers claim the tolls levied on their loads are discriminatory and unfair.
 The issue has been the subject of several legal fights in the courts and the Territorial Legislature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

fore the Nazis went rampaging in Europe, he immediately set about reorganization. Some Army men wise in the ways of politics told him he was inviting the axe.
 But the General went ahead, quietly but firmly brushing the objecting politicians aside. Each passing month found him another notch higher in the esteem oi Congress and the civilian corpa working for national defense.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
SEATTLE IN
 THIRDL055
 LAST NIGHT
WiIkie, Sold 10 Pittsburgh, Is Driven from Mound
 in Third Inning
(By Associated Pess)

San Diee made it three in row last night over the pennant- bound Seattle Rainiers as they drove Aldon Wilkie to the showers in the third inning. Wilkie was on the mound for the first time since the announcement of his sale 50 Pittsburgh.
 Stanley blanked Los Angeles with five hits as Oakland won its first game of the series.
 Hollywood out-hit San Francisco but lost the ball game as Sad Sam Gibson was effective in pinches.
 Oscar Judd bested Ad Liske last night in a battle of southpaws as Sacramento defeated Portland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
GRADUATE OF v.M.I.


 Puck" Marshall was born in Uniontown, Pa, 60 years ago. He was graduated from Virginia Mili- tary Institute with honors 2l years later A year after that he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the United States Army and his varied (but consistently successful military career was under way.
 The stories about him at VMI are as numerous as the anecdotes of that institution written into the recent play and movie, Brother Rat" In his rat" or freshman year, he was seriously injured by a bayonet during hazing incident But Marshall passed it off without a word of accusation against those responsible.
 Marshall was graduated without single demerit, senior captain of his class. fifth in scholastic stand ing and an all-southern football tackle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
Luther League Cruise Will Be Held Monday

Members of the Luther League and their friends will make an all-day cruise to Bear Creek on Monday on the Forester, according to announce ment made today by the committee in charge.
 All planning to make the trip are requested to meet at the City Float at o'clock Monday morning. Re- treatments are to be provided by the committee.
 Plans are being arranged by Miss Myrtle and Elmer Jurgens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
DEFENSE PLAN PRAISED

There is another story that while serving in the Philippines, when he was Second Lieutena.ait he drew up field orders that were later described by his General as the best plan for the defense of the islands that he had ever seen.
 Seven years ago this month, General Marshall was only col onel. It was during the World War that he first came to the atten- tion of General Pershing, whose aide he later became.
 When General Marshall took over the Army few months be-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
Grandpa Was Man
 Who Took His Time

DENVER, Aug. 30. = Forty five years ago John O. Yeiser of Oma- ha was a guest at a Denver hotel and walked away with the key in his pocket. Recently his grandson John o. 'Yeiser, III, registered at the hotel and returned the key.
 "Grandfather's been meaning to mail it back for a long time but never got around to it. said John.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
UuItimatum Issued
NONRESIDENT HUNTER
 IS FINED AT FAIRBANKS

Fred Heppe, nonresident, was fined SIS in the court of U. s. Con- missioner William N Growden in Fairbanks yesterday and forfeited a rifle on conviction of charge of hunting with an improper license He was arrested by Wildlife Agent Clarence Rhode.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
MAKES HASTE SLOWLY

The lean, wiry General, with Q bit of a squint in his left eye, has been an apostle of make haste slowly" in the defense program, but he never has relaxed his insistence on it's expansion.
 When the vast war games were held in the South last spring tthe largest such peacetime Taneuver up to that time), General Mar shall said: Tt was a successful experiment. It showed us our short- comings."
 That" said a friend, lis Gem eral Marshall. He'd rather know an army's weakness than its strength"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League

San Diego 5; Seattle l. Sacramento 5; Portland l. Los Angeles 0; Oakland 4. San Francisco 3; Hollywood 2.
 National League Philadelphia O; Pittsburgh 4. Boston 3; Chicago l. New York 0; St. Louis 5. Brooklyn 3; Cincinnati 9.
 American League Chicago 3; Boston 4. St. Louis 3, 5; New York 10, 6. Detroit B. 6; Washington ?, 0 Second game called at end O sixth inning on account of dark ness.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
Tigers in !. Two Wins
 Thursday
Greenberg Hits Two Home Drives-Cards Shufout
 6iants Yesterday
(By Associated Press)

The second place Detroit Tiger. have moved closer to the Cleveland Indians by virtue of a doublehead
 CT victory over the Washington Senators yesterday. Big Buck New som won his seventeenth victory of the season in the nightcap, linn
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
ATTENTION - CONTRACTORS AND WRECKING CONTRACTORS

Sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk up to 7:30 pm. Friday, August 30, for the demolishment of the Occidental Hotel. Bidders must figure on total demolishment and removal of refuse, so that lot will be entirely cleared Work to be finished within sixty days from date of acceptance of bid and signing of contract.
 H. J. TURNER,
 adv. City Clerk.
 Trv a r1accifiad ad tr The Empire
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
NEW 3RD GRADE TEACHER
 NOW ENROUTE FOR JUNEAU

Miss Thelma Akeridge, new third grade instructor for the Juneau Public School, is enroute here on the Baranof. She formerly taught at Boise, Idaho.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

which has opened "maneuvers' in a special military district.
 Advices from Bucharest are that German motorized columns and Nazi war planes are ready to attack at a moments notice if Rumania is "defiled.l'
 Uultimatum Issued
 It is said that an ultimatum has been issued by the Berlin-Rome axis promising German troops will pro- tect Rumanias borders.
 This is interpreted in some quar- ters as a decisive Axis move to halt any further Russian expansion in Southeast Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
American League
NOTICE

Juneau Lodge No TOO and Loyal Order of Moose invites all brother Moose, wives and Women of the Moose to attend the 29th Anniver- sary Celebration on Friday, g pm.
 at the IOO.F Hall. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

, ting the Senators to four hits, while Schoolboy Rowe's hitting, as we'll as pitching, took the first game. The second game was called at the md of the sixth frame because of darkness. "
 Hits Two Homers
 Hank Greenberg hit his 18th and 18th home runs of the season yesterday as the Tanks swept a doubleheader from the St. Louis Browns to narrow the gap from first place. The nightcap went Is innings before a squeeze bunt by Frank Crosetti, with the bases loaded and two out, brought home the winning run.
 Sox Defeat Sox
 The Boston Red Sox escaped a tumble by defeating the Chicago White Sox in the series final yeS- tedday. Relief pitcher Johnny Rig ney forced in the winning run with two out in the ninth.
 Reds Beat Dodgers
 The Cincinnati Reds hammered out a triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers yesterday which gave
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

no man who ever came out of the army college was more a profess sional soldier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any Al. aska newspaper
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

The St. Louis Cardinals piled up five duns in the first inning yesterday to shut out the Giants on Bill McGee's two-hit pitch ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30
5ovv|IIETMovE ON RUMANIA
 MEANS WAR
Nazi Forces to Defend Lit- file Nation If Attack
 Is Made

CContlnueo rom rage One)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-30

them an unshakable grip on tn National League lead.
 Cards Shutout Giants
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Ifs General George {. Marshall Speaking; Capitol Hill Listening

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
"ToUcHED" FOR A WEEKS PAY!

medang about the semanucs OF
has found tax from the old Latin word
meaning touch sharply The slang expression to
touch friend for loan until pay day comes from the same
The touched heavily and knew full well the
meaning Historians that the OF the de-
cline the Roman Empire the numerous and high taxes ana
softening of morale of those living the touches
States the touching crescendo Proml-
among modern touches the gasoline Although but
two old the gasoline yielding currently revenue
TO the state and governments of billion dol
annually Two of every three families in the United States
own automobiles they touched by gasoline taxes
erage $50 annually Since majority of the
owning families less than $50 week the
line touch equivalent whole weeks income for such fam
lies.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

Sandy bought two tickets to
rattle and won a $500 car.
His friends rushed up to his
house to congratulate him, but
found him looking miserable.
why, mon. what's the matter
wi yer"
Its that second ticket. Why
ever bought it l Gamma imagine"
Prosecuting Attorney: II will
now. your honor, read a list of the
previous convictions of the prison
err"
Prisoner: Your honor, may I be
allowed to cit DOWN."
II saw your mistress going to
a neighbours as I crossed the
street. Do you know when she will
be back?"
Eyes, ma'am, she said she would
be back as soon as you left.
hope everyone notices my new
hat
Then you had better lower your
skirt six inches.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
~ DINNA THINK 1T TWILL AMOUNT
TO MOOCH!"

p" DINNA THINK 1T TWILL AMOUNT
TO MOOCH!"
This was the expressed opinion of
James Young, Scotch chemist and devel-
oper of a process for manufacturing
kerosine from coal, when he saw crude
oil from the Titusville oil we'll drilled
by Colonel Drake.
1t was on August 81. 1859 that the
Drake we'll was completed on the bank
of Oil Creek near Titusville Pa. People
little realized the Importance of that well
and even scientists such as James Young
did not realize that they had in crude
oil something that would revolutionize
the ways of life in their nation and in
their world.
The greatest opportunities the world
affords are seldom appreciated by the
public until a small cOterie of visionary
people have grasped the principal gains.
Four years before Colonel Drake drilled
his historical we'll, Benjamin Sillman, Jr
professor of chemistry at Yale College,
announced the first serious study of the
possibilities, comm ercial and otherwise
of oil On April Is, 1855 Professor Sill
man filed his report with small group
of New Haven, Conn., business men,
and convinced them of the advisability
of proceeding with plans still in the dis
cussional stage to drill for oil on lands
they held in Pennsylvania. The Drake
well, completed four years later, was
evidence of their faith.
Prophetic was the professors report,
stating:
at appears to me that there is much
ground for encouragement in the be-
of that vOur GOu1nanv have in their
possession a raw material from which,
by simple and not expensive process
they may manufacture very valuable pro-
ducts. 1t is worthy of note that my ex-
periments prove that nearby the whole of
the raw product may be manufactured
without waste, and this solely by a we'll
directed process which is in practice one
of the most simple of all chemical pro-
cesses"
On the strength of the report, the
group began developments which
eliminated first in the completion of
the oil well at Titusville, Pa, then in
the revivification along American lines
of an industry which had been operating
since prehistoric times, and finally in
the daily use of petroleum in one form
or another by every person in the civil
lized world.
AudS vi WNAS bSAAS uocN " uCeS
for illumination and fabrication when
the Sillman report was filed. The more
widely employed vegetable, fish and ami
NAL oils were becoming insufficient for
the needs of increasingly mechanical
industries. Crude oil was being produc-
ed in many parts of the world, and it
had been for centuries Yet production
like utilization, was limited, and men
feared the supply likewise was made
quate.
The story OF the completion of the
Drake well now is widely known Co
lionel" E. L. Drake, former store clerk
and railroad conductor, possessed of an
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

A Kansas City oil man submits
this as the 'icorniest" joke OF the
year:
Do you know what the needle
said to the nudist?
The answer: $50 what"
The Johnsons have been mar
ried the best part OF a year"
Why, they were married only
10 days ago"
We'll 4"
How long have you been mar
ried, jim?
oh, for about two pouting spells
and a hysterical attack.
/ told her that each hour l spent
with her was like pearl to me.
And did that impress her?
No, she told me to quit stringing
her
AS two brokers passed the the
atre out stepped one of those raw
ishing, alluring Follies beauties.
Il feel like taking her out again.
whispered one.
Have you had her out?"
"No-ibut once before / felt like
it,
How is that young man with
whom you fell in love at first
sight?"
''Oh, he was a fraud. 1t was his
chiefs car that he was in.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

Other factors also we're helpful in
America. Here the interest in petroleum
geology and technology began to formu-
late petroleum. sciences Here compe-
tition began almost as soon as oil came
from the Drake well. Means and
methods had to he discovered to reduce
oil operating costs to levels which invited
the participation of small business. The
same factors brought prices to levels
which encouraged and inspired con-
sumption.
Possibly oil-minded people. for whom
perhaps Colonel Drake and Professor
Sillman cast the mold. comprised still
another important factor. Certainly
there were available then, as now. people
of the type necessary to the operations
of a petroleum ndustry-investors will
ing to take risks, business men capable
of profitable management, engineers able
to develop new methods and new equip
ment when the old proved inadequate.
and technologists keen to disclose the
scientific aspects of operations, and there
by point the way to continued progress.
AS against the long struggle of Col
onel Drake to drill 6012 feet oil wells
5000 feet deep are being sunk in 2
days or at the rate of 500 feet day. Ten
years ago the average, 3,000-foot well
required 80 days to drill. Improved
equipment, chiefly rotary drills, have
made this most important change in re-
cent years. However, the application of
these improved methods is yet to be felt
in the development of Montana oil fields.
The man who invests in Montana oil
has before him the greatest opportunities
the industry has Offered. 1t is no longer
Az It'll - x,,gI oHa md
speculation-but it is the 'foil business"
that offers opportunity. With the pres
ence of oil horizons below the present
producing formations well established,
it is certain that oil will be found in and
below the Madison lime. A property
worth $1,000 today may become worth
$4,000 or more the minute development
of these lower horizons begins. Science
has provided the drilling equipment to
quickly and cheaply reach these hori-
IONS; science has provided acidiZa ton to
duplicate the record of Turner Valley
field-which would have been far less
important without acid; science has
evolved new methods in oil fields Of 9th
err states which are in due course of
time to be applied in Montana. without
experimentation and without gamble.
Furthermore, we today find the crude
oil tanks of northern Montana practic-
ally empty and an apparent market
greater than the established daily aver
age production. We KNOW that north
Montana oil fields MUST produce more
oil to care for known requirements. We
know that new reserves MUST be es-
tablished to assure the amortization of
investments. 1t follows that the
man who owns an coil farm" in north
ern Montana is most fortunate.
Amy man who knows of this situation
and fails to avail himself of some Of
the opportunities it affords must certain
ly be a Robert Young, with the slogan
Il dinna think it will amount to
mooch.'
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

ability to get along with people and with
an instructive persistence, which brooked
no discouragement, borrowed both the
tools and the labor of the salt-well
drillers and drove through to success
with what the countryside called
brakes Folly"
Not dissimilar methods had been used
in drilling wells for oil by the Chinese,
the Burmese, and possibly by other
peoples hundreds of centuries before
Drake Yet brakes crude drilling tools
tapped something more than an oil pool.
They unleashed a compelling force which
coupled with American business genius
and drive, made a world oil-cOnscious
and inaugurated an amending exploration
of the continents for commodity which
has become the LIKELIHOOD of the machine
age.
Neither the future of America nor Of
petroleum could have been more than
a vision in brakes day. All the sciences,
and much of the knowledge of the nature
and possibilities of oil, subsequently have
been developed Certainly it was not
known that geological and geographical
factors had given America leadership in
the world of petroleum. These were
revealed only when American business
men SldSpeu opportunity anu Ildue lHtlI
country and their industry predominant.
1t was OVERPRODUCTION that
made the petroleum industry what
it is today. Colonel brakes well
flooded the medicinal oil market.
There wasn't enough rheumatism in
the world to use all of Colonel
brakes oil, so crude became so
for
evolved. A progression of events
actuated by OVER-SUPPLY has con-
tihued to broaden the uses of pet
rOleum.
Montana today has the most
stable crude oil market in the
United States not as a result Of a
SHORTAGE but as a result of TOO
MUCH OIL. Refinery capacity has
increased and markets have broad
ened to a point of stability, because
we had three times as much prOduc-
tiOn as consumption after loss of
the Canadian market. Montana will
become a greater oil state in the
future by virtue of that same rule.
American genius in business enterprise
stimulated the ancient petroleum indus
try once the commercial production of
oil was begun in 1859. Discovery and
development of the nations oil supply
were financed by private capital which
in this country always has been free to
invest in the industry The industry
grew rapidly after 1859 because for the
first time informed individual initiative
could be utilized. There were obvious
opportunities for growing trade in a
young country rapidly moving toward
complete INFLAMMATION of industrial OPP
erations. In other countries the same
developments were taking place, with the
single exception that government owner
ship, control or restrictive regulation of
oil sources tended to delay and to dis
courage petroleum operations.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

Two newly born babies lay side
by side in the hospital nursery. a
boy and a girl. Said the boy:
Hello, who are your"
I'm a baby girl. Who are you?"
I'm a baby boy"
How do you know you are a
boy?"
The boy pulled up his little dress
and said "Look-'blue bootees. -
Communist spellbinder Grating
Eyes, and therell come a day when
Well all ride around with chauf-
feurs."
To which a timid colored man
queried: And will chauffeurH have
chauffeurs too, Boss?"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24

whether they know it or not, an oil
trade journal states. In fact, this
one industry, the most important
enterprise in Texas, single-handed
has added more than 100000 to
the states population.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-08-24
A CASE EASY no WIN

industry should have defend itself far
as public concerned because is the only industry
constantly improved the quality of its products increased
efficiency retail merchandising and maintained
continually improved mpoy relations the matter OF wages and
time steadily reducing the cost Of its products
the public themselves should be pointed
by this industry day after day to the public 1t fact
everyone but few appreciate If the industry does not
poin will.