NICE LITTLE NUGGET
A 600-pound nugget of native
copper will shortly be added tc
the national exhibit, Ottawa
Ont. The nugget was found at
Husky Creek in the Coronation
Gulf, Hudson Bay District, by
Major L. T. Burwash of the Yu
kon and Northwest Territories
branch of the Department of the
Interior, on August 4 of last year.
When he found the lump of
copper, Major Burwash carved
his initials on it and made ar
rangements to have it transport
ed by dog sled from Husky
Creek to Coronation Gulf station.
From there it will be taken by
rail and boat to Ottawa and
it will probably arrive there m
October.
LAWYER’S FEES
Samuel Untermeyer of New
York handling the legal work for
Mr. Fox of movie film fame is
said to have been paid a fee of
$1,000,000. In handling the fa
mous Utah Copper Company
merger, Untermeyer himself is
authority for the statement he
received $775,000 for his work.
John B. Stanchfield is reported
to have received $1,600,000 in the
Marshal Field case and $800,000
for defending Fritz Augustus
Heinze, the copper king, against
a charge of misapplication of
funds and a San Francisco law
yer is said to have come out $3,
000,000 ahead in a suit involving
potash land<=
EMPLOYMENT SURVEY BY
THE A. F. OF L.
Unemployment in the United
States at the end of February
was the worst in many years,
and according to some authori
ties, the worst since 1920-21.
The monthly survey of the
American Federation of Labor,
compiled from reports of trade
union workers, shows that 22 per
cent of all union workers were
out of jobs in February. This is
an increase of 2 per cent over
the preceding month, and is 4 per
cent higher than in any other
February since the reports be
gan.
It is conceded that the Feder
ation has been conservative in
making its estimates.
The situation is worst in the
building trades, where 43 per
cent of union workers—more
than two out of every five—are
out of work. The percentage was
38 in January.
Part of this worklessness is
seasonal, but the proportion out
of work in February, 1929, was
33 per cent, and in February,
1928, when the building depres
sion was regarded as severe, 39
per cent.
Thinks the Worst Over
The A. F. of L. Survey states
rather positively that the reces
sion has been checked, and that
unemployment reached its worst
in February. The steel mills are
taking on a good many more
men, and steel is generally con
sidered a barometer for other
industries.
* * * Of more interest is the
lowering of interest rates, which
always stimulates building, and
the program of construction
nearly ready to start by Federal
State and municipal govern
ments.
Distress of Unemployed
The distress caused by unem
ployment is terrific. The Federa
tion report says:
“There is no immediate reliel
for the unemployed except thrr
charity. Relief organizations are
literally swamped with appeals
Detroit has already given $500,
000 in relief. The Russell Sage
Foundation reports that 75 citie*
gave $3,476,900 in December te
aid 145,350 families,
“March usually brings some
improvement in employment, bu1
seasonal recovery is not fully un
' der way until April. Therefore
most of those out 6f work—wh<
have already been out for twc
months and often more—have
at least another month of un
employment before them.
“Owing to the industrial reces
sion this year, it is practicallj
certain that a large number wil
not get back to work even ir
April.”
The Federation recommended
emergency v.ork of oil kinds tc
help tide over the crisis. Senator
Brookhar, in roduced a bill in
the Senate to appropriate $50,
000,000 for the relief of unem
ployment, lire sum to be spent
by the Re 1 Cross and the Quar
termaster General of the Army
ORIGINAL RADIO SET OPER
ATED IN 1865
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How old is radio? The aver
age guess would probably place
its birth between 1905 and 1922.
And, according to C. Francis
Jenkins of Washington, D. C.,
famous television inventor, the
average guess would be “all
wrong.” .. ..
. Jenkins rays that credit for
rending the first actual radio
message should go to Dr. Mah
lon Loomis, a Washington den
tist of the Civil War period, who
built an oscillating circuit and
managed to send a message as
iar as 14 mixes. That was in 1865.
The set was connected to a
wire aerial supported by a kite.
One station was established on
Bear Den Mountain, Virginia, a
short distance from Washington,
and a duplicate was built on top
of Cactactins Spurs, 15 miles
away.
.. By means of a dot and dash
interruption of a buzzer spark
circuit messages could be sent
alternately from each station.
Dr. Loomis foiled to receive
much backing for his inevntion.
A bill was introduced in Con
gress in 1869 to incorporate the
Loomis Aerial Telegraph Com
pany, but nobody would take a
chance and buy the stock.
ONTARIO’S BOOZE BILL
Ontario’s booze bill for 1929
was $56,487,514.81, according to
Hon. W. H. Price, attorney gener
al, an increase of $8,534,396 over
1928
.. Of the total, spiritous liquors
accounted for $32,268,503.91; beer
about $20,000,000 and wine a lit
tle more than $4,000,000. All
sales being under federal con
trol.
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WHEN GASOLINE WAS A
WASTE PRODUCT
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The chief builder of the gas
industry of the United States
died last year at the age of 84
years. He was an Englishman
named C. G. Francklyn; and
when he organized the Municip
al Gas Light Company of New
York, he put engineers at work
on the new French invention of
water gas.
They found that some stuff
which the Standard Oil Company
was throwing into the ocean as
refuse was very good for gas
making, and Francklyn con
tracted for a supply for two
years, at 1 cent per gallon The
’'stuff was naphtha, the present
day gasoline.
Such a story seems to belong
to another age—yet one man’j
life spanned the gap betweer
that day and this. Francklyr
had built to order one of the firsl
—perhaps the first—gas-cooking
ranges; which again sounds like
a fairy tale.
Progress is moving so rapidlj
ithese days that inventions grov
| old while we are looking at them
■ and the novelties of one year ar<
1 commonplaces of the next.
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► WISE AND OTHERWISE
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! .Sweet mercy is nobility’s tru
; t badge.—Shakespear.
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,! Pincus hadn’t seen Ginsberi
) for five years, but deliberate!:
i passed him on the street, as us
ijiial. And rushed into his office
'and yelled to his stenographer:
! “Mollie, look in the files under
j ‘G’ and see why I am sore at
• ■ Ginsberg.”
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A TEMPTING PRICE
She (with magazine): “It says
I here that the chemical constitu
ents of a man are worth 98
cents.”
.. He: “And you women are great
bargain hunters.”.
(And there is so much shoddy
stuff on the market that woman
lias a hard time to realize 20
cents on the dollar).
Don’t forget Poppy Day!
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through: spectacles
Disgusted window cleaner:
‘ And after I got ’em all done,
she made me do ’em all over
again.”
. .“What did you say?”
“I told her next time to clean
it er bloomin’ spectacles afore she
looked at the windows.
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FATHER’S SINGING
1 Young Hopeful: “Why is fath
er singing mother?”
Fond Parent: ‘ ‘He’s singing
baby to sleep.”
Young Hopeful- “Gee, if I were
baby I’d pretend to be asleep.”
PRAYERS NEEDED?
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A physician was called to at
tend a woman who was very ill.
After she had lingered for sev
eral days, with little change in
her condition, the weekly church
paper came out with this item:
i “Sister-is very ill at her
home. Dr.-is attending her
Will all the brothers and sisters
of the church pray for her.”
FAMOUS INDIAN DEAD
Passed away in the Rockefel
ler Institute, on April 6, from
pneumonia, Chauncey Yellow
Robe. The services were held
from the Masonic Temple at j
Rapid City, Mr. Robe being a
member of that lodge.
Robe was born on the Rose- :
bud reservation in the Dakotas 1
and was considered an authority 1
on Indian problems and tradi- ’
tions. During the visit of Presi- !
dent Coolidge to the Black Hills :
in 1927, Robe presided at the 1
ceremonies that made Coolidge
a member of the Sioux tribe. The •
tribal regalia was presented to
Mr. Coolidge by Rosebud Robe,
daughter of Yellow Robe. ,
FISHING POOR ON COLUMBIA
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During the past week, gillnet
ting was reported as being pooron
the Columbia River. The fish
ermen were averaging about 100
pounds to the boat while the
| high boats ran about 500 pounds,
I lower than the opening day of
I the 1929 season.
i Operations on the Columbia
I are beginning to be recognized
las having a bearing on the op
| orations in Alaska—that when
j tne run of salmon on the Co
lumbia is heavy, it is correspond
ingly heavy and light in Alaska,
as the run cn the Columbia. The
present run on the Stikine has
> not been one that will make idle
rich out of the fishermen of Pe
tersburg or Wrangell. Most of
them, under present conditions
; will be fortunate if they make
■ enough to pay for replacement
of gear.
r GOVERNMENT UNTANGLING
OIL DEAL SCANDALS
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Another step in the govern
ment’s long fight to untangle the
Teapot Dome oil scandals was
taken last week with passage by
» the House of the Senate Resolu
tion to authorize settlement of
the Government suit against the
; Sinclair Crude Petroleum Pur
fj chasing Company, for $2,906,484j
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Where Sound I A X TWF i Sound And Actio11
Sounds Best I A A I Aiwa vs In Sten
Always In Step
COLISEUM
—
Saturday Night ONLY!
RIN-TIN-TIN Famous Dog Star In
“Land of The Silver Fox” Vitaphone
JULIA SANDERSON & FRANK CRUMIT
In “WORLDS OF MUSIC" Vitaphone
WHITING & BURT In’ SONG SAYINGS” Vitaphone
Pathe Review
Pathe News
SATURDAY IS CANDY NIGHT
Coming SUNDAY
CLARA BOW THE “IT” GIRL
" ‘DANGEROUS CURVES’
The Original Inventor of “IT” In Her Second
ALL-TALKING PARAMOUNT PRODUCTION
A Mack Sennett Comedy
“GIRL CRAZr
FLO LEWIS Vitaphone
Brown & LaVelle Vita.
PATHE NEWS
MACK SENNETT
TALKIN6 COMEDy
The claim was originally filed J
tgainst Mammoth Oil Company
,o recover the value of oil taken
jy that firm from the Wyoming
eserve under lease from the
government, hut Mammoth was
ound insolvent and the suit was
;i*ansferred +o Sinclair.
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The amount of settlement re- t
presents value of the oil involved ^
vith 7 per ^ent interest, minus ^
a credit of $170,000 for seventeen i
ail storage tanks constructed by ^
Sinclair on the Wyoming Re- {
serve. I <
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SECRETARY HURLEY OPPOSES
INDEPENDENCE
Secretary of War Hurley, in a j
letter to Chairman Bingham, of
the Senate Territories Commit
tee declared himself in opposi
tion to immediate independence
of the Philippine Islands. He i
stated that it was his belief that j
“granting complete independ-1
ence at this time is disastrous, I
alike to the ultimate interest of
both the Filipino and American
people.”
.. A people under the American
flag without its advantages of
citizenship; owned and controll
ed by the American Government,
independence will be thing of re
mote future until the sugar in- ’
terests find a way of governing
and controlling those islands. In i
the meantime Filipino race dif- j
ferences continue to be stirred
up in Washington and California
where the hiring class bring in
this labor in cheaper competi
tion to American. As usual, it'
is the laboring classes that are 1
being exploited both ends to the:
middle and one class against the
other—while the plunderbund
waxes greasy and fat from that
exploitation.
LLITERACY AND UNEMPLOY
MENT
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Dr. Wintnrop Talbot, chair
man of adult education of the
Jew York Society of Experi
mental Study of Education de
:lared illiteracy and lack of edu
ction to be the fundamental
>asis of unemployment in an age
vhich requires intelligent handi
ng of machinery. He declared
urther that mlthough there
vere many able-bodied, intelli
gent men out of work at pre
lent, a large percentage of un
employed men were unskilled la
)orers who had been displaced
)y machinery.
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A mother’s love, in a degree,
sanctifies the most worthless off
spring.—Horace Ballou. .,,i
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