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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1918
Page
4
The Butte Carpenters union voted down a proposal to raise wages, arguing that a demand for higher pay could disrupt the building industry and hinder the war effort. A union statement warned of unrest and division, stressing support for the government and wartime unity. The meeting also removed a draft-age delegate from office after he failed to complete a questionnaire.
A congressional bill would grant the president power to license storage and manufacture of metals needed for the war. It would enable requisition of mineral output at fair prices and authorize operation on government account of idle properties.
In Montana lore Captain Joseph A. Slade faced hanging by the Vigilantes after liquor-fueled rampages. Bill Fairweather, discoverer of Alder Gulch, opposed the verdict and threatened to intervene. A council warned Fairweather. he was later hidden to avoid trouble.
The Montana Livestock Sanitary Board issues amendments to require strict precautions for hog movement. Rules cover immunization with anti hog cholera serum, serum virus treatments, health certificates, and special conditions for shipping, crating, and exhibitor affidavits to prevent hog cholera spread statewide.
Robert Vaughn a Montana pioneer born 1836 in Wales died at Great Falls last week. He first filed the northern Montana Sun River ranch in 1869 after joining a large wagon train to Virginia City. Vaughn later built two business blocks in Great Falls and wrote Then and Now or Forty Years in the Rockies.
A Butte newlywed of draft age tried to quote Deuteronomy that a man with a new wife is free from war for a year. The exemption board rejected the claim. Chairman James H. Rowe noted the Bible is not a source for draft exemptions. The claimant’s identity remains confidential.
World Chicago navigation opens this year in March the earliest in eight years. Rome Austrians on the Italian front reportedly lost seventy airplanes to eight British Royal Flying Corps. Washington meatless Tuesdays to end soon due to ample meat supplies. Meatless days to resume after August 1. London air ministry reports British airmen dropped 8843 bombs in February on enemy areas. Germans dropped 1796 on Allied territory. Altus Oklahoma O F Westbrook tarred and feathered ordered to leave town. Signs declare county must be 100 percent American. Washington the American army expected to have 11000 fighting airplanes in service by end of November. Highly developed single seated fighters built in France and England.
Washington reportedly supported a strong allied naval strike against German North Sea ports but naval authorities from the United States France and Britain caution that proceeding now would risk unacceptable personal crisis and danger.
A WO scientific grinder in one machine doubles the grinding of pigment for Gilt Edge House Paint, claiming to pass through a 122,500 openings per square inch. The ad touts a pure white lead zinc ochre mix ground in aged linseed oil for a smooth, spreadable finish.
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