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Evening star., 1937-09-12


ion of Latin America will fol-
low with great interest the
annual assembly of the League
of Nations, which opens this week at
Geneva.
Probably in no other part of the
world was the creation of the League
of Nations received with such genuine
enthusiasm as in the American re-
publics of Latin origin. Latin Ameri-
can leaders had been clamoring ever
since their countries achieved inde-
pendence for some sort of an inter-
national organization which would
place relations among states upon the
same standards of morality which rule
those among individuals within a
civilized community. Bolivar, the
South American liberator, has often
been mentioned as the first modern
pioneer of the organization of peace.
and Tor over a century the Bolivarian
dream has been the highest goal of
Latin American political thought.
But even If it had not been so: even
II the idea of a society of nations had
been entirely alien to them. Latin
Americans could not have failed To
recognize the gains and guarantees
1T promised to countries of modest
military strength.
Staunch Supporters.
1t is because they did recognize those
advantages, and because they did see
IN the establishment of the Geneva
institution at least a partial. even
though imperfect, fulfilment of their
hopes, that the statesmen of Latin
America rushed their adherence ia
the League of Nations and have been
ever since, among its staunchest sup
porters. Moreover. there was an
other reason why they welcomed the
appearance of the League. 1t gave
their countries the first opportunity
10 SIT permanently side by side with
the great powers and to participate
II only as theoretical equals. in the
councils of the world Latin Ameri-
can statesmen occupied, and still do
important positions in the various
divisions of the League. The previous
annual assembly was presided over
by the Argentine minister of foreign
affairs.
The strength of these links wa,
shown conclusively. not long ago. b,
the zeal. the successful zeal, with which
they were defended at the latest Pan
American Conference in Buenos Aires
1t is not without significance that all
projects suspected of incompatibility
with League obligations we're defeated
at Buenos Aires.
The League of Nations stands. with
It's multifarious activities, as a trans
Atlantic bridge constituting a solid
political bond between Europe ano
Latin America; so solid, in fact. that
not even recent setbacks of the Ge-
neva organization have undermined
the structure. The alarmist reports
that the withdrawal of certain Central
American countries. which acted or
financial grounds, would be followed
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Japan Suffers Wave of Suicides.
With Average of 10000 Annually

TOXIC, Japan.-One cannot read
the newspapers long in Japan with
out realizing that suicides are one of
the popular institutions of this
country.
II is not simply that they are so
common, although 1854 Toxic sui
cides were reported by the metro
politan police last year. not includ-
ing those. estimated at several hun
dred. who threw themselves into the
crater of Mount Mihara The presi-
dent of japanese anti-suicide So
ciety estimated last year that suicides
in Japan average 10000 yearly. with
tendency to increase. Toxic figures
for 1886 as compared with 1894
those for 1885 are not at hand-in-
dicate a large increase.
II has been questioned whether the
rate here is as high, say. as in Ger
many. But in the Occident killing
ones self is a different matter In the
Western press it Is played down, here
a good suicide story may be the human
interest feature of the day. and. par
tlcularly in the case of love suicides
or patriotic suicides. may be played
UP as something thrilling or heroic
For example. this item appeared IN
the Miysko Shimbun recently:
AT about 3 O'Clock yesterday aft.
ernoon. Miss Tamiko Fujita, 81 year,
old, maid in the employ of Norit,
1tosaws. stevedore. Toxic, dranl
poison and died beside Mr. Assil Kudo
25, chauffeur of the same house, he
lover. who was asleep in the employees
quarters
The girl came up to Toxic from
lbsrah in the middle of Februar,
and was employed as 8 maid servant
Because she was ugly she received
cold reception from male employees o
the house Finally she obtained tn
love Of Mr.. Kupe. but killed hersel
when she found that he had no in
tention OF marrying her"
Another story tells of soldier VIII
commits a. double suicide with hi
sweetheart on shrine festival da
because he cannot marry her: an
other says youth commits suicid
because his short stature disoualifie
him FOR military service: another re
lates that chauffeur fell in love wit
1s-year-oid girl and attempt~
double suicide with her by iumpin
Evening star., 1937-09-12

into a canal, but that the girl was
saved.
"Hara kiri' is, of course. an insti-
tuition separate from other suicides;
the motive for this ceremonial dis
Enforcement by cutting the abdomen
usually is patriotic or feudal. The
custom holds from the code of the
Samurai Among the most popular
OF all Japanese heroes are the Al
ronin who in olden days committed
hara-klrl after aveneing their feudal
loro. However, modern japanese SOL
dlers sometimes prefer revolvers and
hara-kiri is not the only device to
which patriotic self-destructors now
have recourse.
Copyright. 1872
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Children in YugosIavia
Get Geographical Names

VIENNA.-Kitchen Range phi,a-
delphia, Gentleman, Chicago and
Athens are now being used as first
names for children in Yugoslav Mace
donia, according to the American
Express travel service. Children there
are often named after places their
fathers have visited. Fathers. it also
seems, like to bestow the names Of
modern inventions ON their Offspring
ana are fond, too. of such titles as
minister. king and gentleman a.
names for their sons.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
illumination Planned
For Ruins of Pompeii

NAPLES.-Visits to Pompeii and its
ruins by night may soon be as popu-
lar as visits there in the daytime. Ex-
periments have just been made in
illuminating the historic excavations.
Powerful electric lights are used, so
that travellers will receive a vivid i'm
preston of the city by night. The
illumination is at present confined to
the zone of the Temple of Apollo. the
Forum, the houses of Romulus and
Remus and that of Triptolemus, but
authorities hope in the near future
to extend II and include other zones.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
England Keeps Promise
Made in 1928 to Scots

EDINBURGH.-A promise given by
Edward III in 1923 has just been made
good. Historic documents kept in
London for over 500 years have now
been returned to Scotland. Accord
ing to the terms of a treaty made by
Edward III. the documents we're to
have been returned in 1928 They in
clude the marriage contract between
Eric. King of Norway, and Margaret,
daughter Of Alexander III, King of
Scotland, and the charter of King
Edward I. dated 1889, restoring the
liberties of Scotland and the castles
of Roxburgh and Berwick to King
William OF Scotland. After they have
been properly arranged the documents
will be put on display.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Kitchen Fire Has Burned
l36 Years i'm London Inn

LONDON. - The Wagon and
Horses" Inn at Salter's Gate, near
Whitby, claims a record for keeping
kitchen fire alight. It's fire has
burned without interruption for the
last 136 years. The old inn was once
smugglers' retreat, and in the days
when the tax on salt was high fsher-
men secretly brought their catches
there to be salted.
Evening star., 1937-09-12

A process for the manufacture of
synthetic camphor has been developed
In the research laboratories of the
japanese department of finance, ac-
cordlng to reports from Toxic Japan
has world monopoly In natural
camphor
Evening star., 1937-09-12
Constitution

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-09-12
BY GASTON NERNAL.

lHE Statesmen and pubIic opln-
ion of Latin America will fol-
low with great interest the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
GASOLINE PLANT
YIELD DURING IS
TOTAL $4,000

Production OF Glacier Production
eempany'g absorption plant at Cut
&lank Aofaied 1.7ss.O00 gallons dur
ing 1895, according to figures Just
released by the U. s. Bureau of
Mines. The value of this was
$151, 900, yielding an average OF
81 cents per gallon. The plant
handled 6.3S2, 900 cubic feet of gas
from which the gasoline was extract
ed before the gas was delivered in
TO the 200-mile line to Helena,
Butte and Anaconda. The average
yield per thousand cubic fet OF gas
was .27 gallon, or slightly over one
quarter per thousand cubic feet. The
average value Of natural gasoline in
the United States in 1885 was 4.3
cents against 3.9 cents in 1884 and
the average yield in the United
States was 81 gallons per thousand
cubic feet of gas
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20

an average lufLlal pTOUuCLLOn on nUU
barrels. These wells are $500 feet
deep and cost an average of $780,
600 per well.
Shorty" Chandler, former super
intendent of Manning & Martin, drill
ling contractors in Cut Bank field,
has gone into rotary contracting for
himself in Canada. He is reported
to have lined UP drilling contracts
for II wells, several of which wells
are to be financed by British-Ameri-
can, one of the three principal buy
ers in Cut Bank field. British
American is one of the three princi-
pal buyers in Cut Bank field.
British American is taking the pro-
duction of the newly completed B..
& B. well, south of the TYR dis
covery well. While the b. & B. had
an initial OF 2,1O0 barrels, based on
a six-h0uK test, it is said to be good
for about 1900 barrels on 24-hOur
production. 1t Is larger than the
TYR which had an initial of 500
barrels. The TYR discovery we'll
was completed on June Is, 1885, and
it's peak month was July, yielding
26,640 barrels. December produc-
tion was 2O,925 barrels. 1t pro-
duced $176y35O worth of crude up
to January /.
1t is the record of the TYR on
which the boom Is based. II was
financed by the sale of royalties and
this well has paid back S1,763.50
on royalties which cost investors
$500. Such rate of profit has
excited Canadian buyers as never be-
fore A stock market boom has
followed. 1t is reported that one
stock formerly quoted at cents
has jumped to $500. Other sensa-
tional gains are reported as a result
OF the rush OF traders.
Two of the four wells completed
have not been as good as the TYR.
Sterling Pacific, a mile
Month, is good for only 125 barrels
per day, owing to mechanical diff
culties.
Foundation Royalties we'll, a mile
south of the discovery well, had an
initial of 1926 barrels but dropped
off A lost bailer was drilled up
and the well was put back on pro-
duction during the past week. Dur
ing December it produced 4,737 bar
CONTINUED on Page Fivel
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
ALBERTA OIL RUNS
ARE NOT As HIGH As
RECORD YEAR 1873 |

Alberta oil fields produced
124.979 Dbl. Of crude and naptha
during December. as compared with
1874 Dbl. in November. Turner
Valleys lime production jumped
from 121.428 from 11O,2O7 Dbl,
while other Turner Valley produc-
ton declined from $40 to $50 bbl.
Red Coulee produced 1247 bbl..
against 1874 in November Vain
wright heavy crude production in
creased from 1854 Dbl. to 1.444 Dbl.
Total Alberta crude and naptha
production In 1885 was 1.320.442
bbl.. compared to 1,263,75O Dbl. in
1885 and with the record high of
]. 455,195 Dbl. in 1881. The 1896
production is valued at $s,225, 900
and brings the total production OF
Alberta since 1914 to 1O,975.392
bbl., worth sal, 100000.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
Will
RESUME ROCKY
RIDGE PROGRAM

M. w. Cassidy, successful Kelvin
operator, is preparing to resume op-
erations In the Rocky Ridge pool
where he built a fortune for him
self and associates by pioneering
acidizatiOn in the now prolific area.
Cassidy and associates sold their
Rocky Ridge properties TO Super
Tor Petroleum company. controlled
by ThraH-Wlest & Co. interests OF
Minneapolis. for a reported consider
alton of $4,000. He then took
over the Carlson farm in Section
22-35-3W, during the past year,
drilled three wells and turned these
to Big West Refining Co. OF Kelvin.
Now he is going back into Section
12-35-8W, in the Rocky Ridge pool,
where he retained 24O acres He
has a program Of at least two wells
for the present year. both in NV Y
IL.
Drilling should go ahead In
Kelvin field Cassidy says, ito
build UP enough surplus pro-
duction to justify the entrance Of
another major refiner. Refinery
expansion will come only when there
Is assurance of ample crude'
Cassidy was taken with flu
pneumonia while in Butte and was
i'll for three weeks. He stopped in
Great Falls enroute back to Kelvin
where he win wait for drilling
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
WILDCAT IN
MOSSER area
HITS water

An additional test in Mosser area,
southwest of Billings, intended to
extend the producing area to an
other fold along the Fromberg
fault, failed during the past week
as the well on the Esteland farm
was abandoned 1t picked up water
in the Dakota sands where oil was
expected This is the second local
fold in the area of Mosser dome that
has failed to produce oil
Tarrant has started another wild
cat on what is known as Cotton
wood dome, shallow structure
southwest of two oil producers on
Mosser dome. The Cottonwood we'll
was spudded last week and will be
a completion during the next few
days, since the Dakota sands will
be reached at around $50 feet 1t
is much lower structurally than
Mosser dome but one we'll drilled
on the flank of Cottonwood several
years ago is said to have oil and
no water in the Dakota sand.
The two producing wells on Mos
ser dome have not been pumped
during the period when roads were
blocked by drifting now. The oil is
trucked to Billings when the roads
are passalble.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
MONTANA GAS
RATES LOWER
THAN AVERAGE

Montana gas fields yielded 49,
$50. 100000 cubic feet OF gas OF
an average value of cents per
thousand during the year 1885, &C
corddng to statistics Just announced
by the U. S. Bureau OF Mines.
The average value OF this gas at
points OF consumption was 2S.1
cents per thousand.
Domestic consumers numbering
$4,000 used 1854, 100000 cubic
feet. paying an average OF Al cents
per thousand cubic feet
Field operations used up 1872
100000 cubic feet, valued at $780,
600.
Industrial plants used the bal
ance Of the gas 71,0OO, 900 going TO
refineries; 604. 100000 going to ell
ectric power plants and 7,161, 00O,-
600 Gu. IT. going to smelters and
other industrial plants. the total
value Of this Industrial gas consump-
ton being S1.21O,0OO
Montana exported 4.476, OOO, 900
CONTINUED from Page One,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
new OF BOOM IS RAMPANT IN CALGARY
MOOSE JAW
PLANT USES
kelvin CRUDE

Arbee Beardslee. Shelby Indepen-
dent operator. this week cut of
his connections with international
Refining Co, and began running his
oil for a new Moose Jaw, Sask.,
refinery which 1t is reported will
be in operation in March The new
refinery is a little Swimming plant.
with capacity Of from 400 TO 500
Dbl. per day.
Beardslee is erecting a standard
derrick on his lease in Section
9-35-2W and will start a drilling
campaign in the early spring, ex-
pecting to go down the line OF his
lease which is so acres of the
Swears farm, In S laNWH 9-35-2W.
This is an area that was revived by
the successful use OF acid.
Details OF the arrangement are
not known but 1t is understood that
Beardslee has a longtime contract
based on a price under the posted
price of international and Ohio Oil
Company.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
CUT BANK IS
HEAVY FACTOR
IN OIL MART

Montana's 1885 oil production
to'taled 5,850,893 barrels, according
to the official figures OF the Oil
Conservation Board of Montana, re-
leased this week. OF this total Cut
Bank oil field produced So percent
while Kevin-Sunburst produced a.
bout 80 per cent.
Cut Bank produced nearly as
much oil in 1886 as it produced
during the entire previous period OF
its commercial development.
The report shows that of the g.
S5O,893 barrels produced 1884. asa
barrels were refined in Monana; g.
21S,776 barrels were shipped to
Canada, accounting for 5,753y230-
Oil used for fuel, shipped 40 Wyom-
ing and elsewhere totaled 53,441
barrels, so the state market actual
ly used more oil than was produced,
drawing 10000 barrels out stor-
age. Total storage oil In the state
at the end of the year was report
ed at 1928, O12 barrels Of which
474,912 barrels are in Kelvin
437,898 barrels in Cut
Bank. 1890 in Cat Creek, 1928
in Pondera and 31,700 in all other
fields.
Montana refiners imported 1914
938 barrels of Wyoming crude in
to the state during the year
The daily average consumption Of
Montana refineries was 1885 bar
rels, totahng 1892 barrels for
the year, this being the total of
Montana produced and imported
crude run to stills. This compares
with a daily average production in
Montana of 16,029 barrels, indicat-
ing that were Montana refiners to
use all Montana crude, the supply
Is more than adequate.
The exports of oil averaged g.
S18 barrels per day and imports
averaged Also barrels per day.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
CUT BANK PLANT
is NEARLY READY

Visitors to the site of the North
west Refinery plant west of Cut
Bank report that the refinery is
rapidly taking form Two towers
aer up and all tanks are completed.
The plant has room for 100000 bar
rels of crude and $4,000 barrels
of products. a total storage of
as, 900 barrels. The new plant
was fully housed before the cold
weather struck and the workmen
have had no serious interruptions
as a result OF the frigid weather.
Superintendent T. ]. Landry ex-
poets TO have the plant in operation
about the first OF March. 1t will
have capacity OF $500 brrels per
day and will run the production
of Santa Rita OIL company Il will
produce a rectified high-octane gaso-
line, tractor fuel and fuel oil for
use OF the Great Northern railway.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
ROTARY DRILLERS
RESUME NEXT WEEK

CUT BANK-lAIanning & Martin,
an oil drilling company, announces
through the local manager, w. M
Davis, that plans of the company
are to start one or two rigs to drill
ling near here next week.
II these plans materiafize the
wells started will be the first OF
1926 wells which must be drilled
in the field this summer.
Mr.. Davis is the new manager for
Manning & Mantin in the Cut Bank
fild and arrived here from Lance
creek, Wyoming.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20

''This Association was formed in
August 1885 for the purpose Of
interesting the Federal Government
to finance a natural gas pipeline
from Wyoming and Montana 10
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Just re-
Gently, we have been assured that
funds are available for this pro-
ject. We are Of the opinion that
a tax on natural gas at this time
is a scheme to keep Western gas
from coming to Minnesota.
Under our proposed plan, we pay
sc per thousand cubic feet for the
natural gas Of 1850 BTU content
at the we'll. and bring It to the city
gates in Minnesota at not to exceed
24c per thousand cubic feet At
this price IT could be retailedl In
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20

Glacier Production company re-
sumed work on its Williams No, 1.
we'll in SWA SEA 21-32-5w, and
made about $50 feet Of hole this
week. reporting 1850 feet on Friday.
Glacier PrOductiOn-seeba No. s,
NV u NWA 2-34-6W. is rigging up
GIacier-PrOductiOn-Abraham No. 1,
.SWA SEA 19-34-5W. is rigging up
II. G. Tarrant opened his 1887
drilling season by spudding a well
on the Kirst farm. No. / location, in
C NWA SWA 1S-34-5W. Rig has
been up for several months and It
was spudded in last Tuesday. This
is close to the Tarrant camp and not
far from the sensational Miller No.
3 gusher.
Hanion-Agent No. ., on allotted
tract 131. in lot s, Sec. 7-32-5W,
Big Bend pool, is moving rig as
they must have their second well
drilled by April. under terms OF the
Indtam lease.
DIR. Peter Potter OF Butte Is pre-
pairing to drill second well on Al
lotted tract 125. in Sec. 12-32-6W.
w. M. Davies, new manager for
Manning & Martin, has arrived in
Cut Bank and Is preparing to move
materials to start a program of 10
wells for which his company has
contracts. Some OF these are said
to be for Santa Rita, which VITA
have to develop some additional
crude dor its Northwest refinery
at Cut Bank, scheduled 10 start op-
GRAFTON in two weeks. Jack Quin-
Ian Is DOL pusher Tor rotary con-
aractors.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
ONE-CENT TAX
on NATURAL GAS,
HOUSE PROPOSAL

A large number Of Montana gas
producers. royalty owners and 9TH
er attended a committee meeting
of the state legislature at Helena
Tuesday to protest against a propos-
ed seyerence tax of one cent per
thousand cubic feet OF natural gas
production. The intent OF the bill is
said to be to tax gas which is now
exported out of the state. However,
the effect of the bin was to put
an unjust tax on owners of gas
lands. Where gas Is bringing cents
per thousand cubic feet, the land
owner would be deprived of one
third Of his income by a tax OF
/ cent per thousand-and some are
receiving as little as IA cents per
thousand-would be put out OF
business by a one-cent-per-th thousand
tax.
The house passed the measure
despite the protests.
A. w. Paterson, q 6weetgrass
Hills producer revealed that
in eight years Of operation his COM
pany has not yet paid a $500
against an original investment Of
$780, 900 and re-inVestment OF
100000 Of earnings.
Among the landowners who spoke
were A. L. Michaels, Jos. Fisher,
and Z. c. Clapper and o. I. De-
Schon spoke for Kelvin and Shelby
Several Others met with
members of the committee during
the noon hour, as the morning
hearing lasted only so minutes.
Harold Hoover appeared for Glacier
company, making
brief summary of the operators
situation under binding contracts
which make 1t impossible for the
operator TO pass along the tax.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
West Turner Valley Has
5000 Dbl. OF Production
And Nine Drilling Wells

Calgary in the hroes of another great oil boom and
this is perhaps the greatest of all since has basis of
crude oil production in west Turner Valley.
West Turner Valley, the flanks of the structure
which has produced $300OOO00 worth of napha and natural
the brand of winter weather which has shut down all Mon
tana drilling Turner Valley operators drilling eight
wells have four rigs up and eight additional bona fde oca
tons have been made, to be drilled in the spring.
Crude producers in the new pool number four with
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
Three Wells Resume
And Three Others Rig
Up In Cut Bank Field

Cut Bank field this slowly digging of the
drifts aided by continued chinook wind and active
operations appeared Two wells rigging up and
will be moving by week
For the first time in its history Cut Bank had
complete and the result of high snowbanks billiards. and 40
beowzero weather just the last of the hardest had
given up the attempt keep going the chinook wind arrived
Now all the roads being re-oped and travel fairly safe
the main highways.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-02-20
COZ TINENTAL PAYS
81 CENT PREMIUM
ON CAT CREEK OIL

WASHINGTON interior de-
partment announced today execution
Of a contract whereby Continental
OIL company will purchase govern
ment royalty oil from the Cat Greek
Montana oil field. for a Give-year
period beginning Feb. 1.
The contract calls for payment
of a premium of 81 cents a barrel
above the high field price.