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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16

have assembled an aII-Britaah col
umn, representing che peppiest Oi
contributions reeeaweds
They had been walking OUT
for nearly twenty years, and the
lady, who was no longer in the
first blush of youth, thought it was
time something should be done
about the wedding. One evening, as
they strolled along a country lane,
she said to her swain:
John don't you think it's about
time we got married."
John turned and looked at her
in astonishment.
"Married?" he said. Married?
Why, who'll have usG"
A bishop was more than a little
upset to receive on a Friday morn
ing this note from a certain vicar
in his diocese:
my Lord regret to inform
you of the death of my wife. Can
you possibly send me a substitute
for the week-end?"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
BELIEVE TT OR NOT

modern drillers ase able to seal OFF de-
pleted or water flooded sands with
bridging plugs" and continue on down
ward without running new casing. Like
wise cement experts are able to cement
OF water where water and oil come to-
gether, thereby allowing the oil to come
into the hole but holding back the water.
The list of BELIEVE 1T OR NOTS in
the on business ds growing so rapidly that
we have difficulty in believing anv nart
OF it. We could scarcely believe that
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16

acid might be introduced into a lime
formation and turn a well with mere
showing of oil into a gusher, but we have
seen it done, with our own eyes; so we
now believe that. We also had diff
Guilty in believing that a jell might be
introduced in the bottom of an oil WELL.
effectively sealing off bottom water while
pressure was applied above, to force acid
into an oil formation; that bacteria in
troduced in the jell will in a few days
eat away the jell, allowing the hole to
be cleaned out
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
BELIEVE TT OR NOT,

these scientific instruments survey a hole
to determine whether 1t is straight or
crooked and measures the distance and
records the direction that is ''off plumb.
furthermore modern drilling equipment
can drill a straight hole down for several
hundred or thousand feet and then
change the direction of the hole, in any
desired direction. Thus California opera
tors drill thousands of feet out under
the bay with rigs sitting on the shore.
Where gas wells have "gone wild" or
caught on fire, directional wells have
been drilled at safe distance and so
accurate was the directional drilling
that they were able to tap the wild well
and flood the gas sands, thus extinguish-
ing the fire.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
BELIEVE TT OR NOT,

the deep well in California drilled
through its present producing horizon
without knowing of its presence. When
it reached $4,000 feet it was dry
hole. But again science came into play.
An electrical EYE" was lowered into the
hole which carefully measured, through
magnetic attraction and repuision, the
formations, differentiating between sands
and shales and revealing at 1900 feet
a sand containing oil. So it was that an
S,000-barrel well was discovered" by
a means that seem as fantastic to the
initiated as does old fashioned witchcraft.
1t might seem problem to open up such
an oil horizon, but science again solves
that.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
BELIEVE IT OR Non.


ground and measure the elevation of
structural features, by means OF the
science of geOphysics. With geophysical
instruments, the time of travel of vibra-
tions can be measured to determine the
distance to various recognized horizons
such as massive limestone formations
miniature earthquake is set off by
firing explosives at shallow depth Some
distance away sensitive instruments re-
cord the vibrations of the earths surface
The time required for the vibrations
to reach the lime is less at point where
the lime is arched up than in places
where the lime is not folded or buckled
upward Delicate instruments measure
these time intervals with such accuracy
as to reveal a very gentle dip of the
strata.
Thus the geologist today does not have
to take for granted the closure" of a
structure. We doubt that many wildcat
wells will be drilled in the future with
out the guidance of a geophysical survey.
There is no longer any reason for a
prOspector to guess about the thigh"
of a structure nor whether a structure
is present. Thus one angle of the ''specu-
lation" of oil is removed.
The question is whether there is oil
in the structure. Not every structure
contains oil. So it is hazardous to drill
deep hole on a known structure.
Science recognized that fact and So
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16

idea of deep test" drilling. There is
one well in California producing from a
depth of more than IS 600 feet. There
is another well, the deepest in the world
producing in Louisiana at an even great
Ell depth. The California well was drill
ed to $4,000 feet Such drilling depth
is made possible by ROTARY DRILLING.
Science has done little for cable tool
drilling but has turned its attention to
rotary. We have been told here in Mon
Jana that rotary tools will never be able
to cut through the hard shells of the
formations in this North Rocky Mountain
region, owing to the compression at
tendant to the mountain folding. The
formations of other states are much
softer and easier to drill, they say.
However, we learn that rOtaries are
lglwns no difficulties in penetrhting
all the hard shells Of identical formations
in Turner Valley, north of the Montana
boundary in Alberta but in the same
geological conditions as found here in
Montana Furthermore, there is a well
now drilling on the west side of Turner
Valley which is 800 feet deep and av-
eraging 80 feet per day 1t expects pro-
duction AT NINETY FIVE HUNDRED
FEET.
Furthermore, we are told that rotary
will drill through gas horizons such as
our poison gas" of Kevin-Sunburst
without even noting its presence That
argues against the use of rotary in low
pressure areas, such as Montana, lest
the oil formations should be mudded off.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
BELIEVE TT OR NOT,

science has provided a gun perforator
which shoots holes in the casing at the
horizon revealed Ity the EYE" aIs oil
bearing and furthermore penetrates deep
ly into the producing formation, open
ing up flow channels so that oil can come
into the hole. Thus a well that is
"mudded off, and even cased off can be
penetrated and production established.
Electrical logging has revealed heretofore
unknown producing horizons in old wells
and with gun perforating, these sands
duce
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

More than 10000 toys and arti-
cles of clothing for underprivi-
legged youngsters are expected to
be collected on Monday when the
five Maryland theaters Of the Sid
ney Lust motion picture chain
hold their annual "toy matinees.
Starting at 4 p. m. each thea
ter will give a complete movie
show, to which the price Of ad-
mission is a toy or piece Of cloth
ing. The gifts, placed under huge
Christmas trees in the Hobbies Of
the showhouseS, are distributed
later to needy children.
LEGION AIDS
At the Cameo Theater, In Mt.
Rainier, the show will be given
with the cooperation Of the
Charles F. Huntemann Post,
American Legion, and the Prince
Georgian. Laurel and Hardy will
be seen In way Out West" to-
gether with Popeye and Our
Gang comedies.
Jane WitherS in Checkers, "
supplemented by comedies, will
feature the Marlboro Theater
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16
ONE TINY Tim
WAITS ON YOU
FOR HAPPINESS
See Old Scrooge Film
And Spread Cheer

What! Fire a mana family
man-on Christmas eve? Sure!
That made no difference to
Scrooge! Not until old Marley's
ghost began to work on him!
Then, you remember, the old boy
began to think thing or two!
And it all wound up by Bob
Eratchit getting his job back, and
poor, crippled little Tiny Tim i'm
mortally praying-"God Bless
Us Every One!
Well-of course you won't have
to go through with all that to get
YOUR Christmas spirit in work
ing order. Not you! For you'll
be able-just for the simple act Of
making ONE Tiny Tim happy this
ChriStmaS-to rage again and
warm again to the whole marvel
Gus story of Dickens "A Christmas
Carol" when you see it-as of
course you will-at the regular
II a. m. stGw at the Capitol The
alter this Saturday!
JUST ONE TOY
And-of course-we KNOW
you're going to see that, because
all you have to do is drop a toy
new or old-wrapped or un-
Wrapped-on the big pile that
Loew's has in the lobby, for dis
tribution through The Washing
ton Herald Times Good Cheer
Club on Christmas Eve! Then
you will be admitted to this mar
Vicious Christmas picture W h
Reginald Owen as Old Scrooge-
end genial and lovable Gene Lock
hart as Bob Cratchit!
But-juSt in case you CAN'T
60 to the theater-still we know
you'll wrap up the children's OLD
toys-and call a Premier Cab
Metropolitan 4141-so the driver
viii know YOU intend to do your
part to see that $4,000 poor chill
1dren will SMILE Sunday morning
and know that Santa DID come
70 their house! These cab drivers
have been busy all this month
making charity calls like that as
THEIR part in the Good Cheer
Club!
= FIREMEN FIX EN-
It doesn't really make any diff
ference if the toy is a little broken!
The firemen in the fire houses all
over the District have been busy
mending them-and the WPA
workers out at Ninth and G Street
N. e. have been helping the Dis
trict Playground department fix
them up. too. And SO have hun
dredS Of playground uSerS-the
Children-who can sew doll clothes,
and paint up old toy trains to
look like new!
:. Art Brown-over at WOL-haS
been colleaguing around with Santa
Claus, Coo-and HE knows where
the cheer is most needed-where
the little hearts are already sink,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16
JANE WITHERs SMILES

The Arcade Theater In Hyatts
vile will present Jane Withers in
Keep Smiling" along with com
edies, under the auspices Of the
Holiday Exchange Committee, Wei
fare Board. Kiwanis Club and the
Independent.
Gene Autry in "Oh, Susannah"
will be shown at the Boro Theater
Bethesda, in cooperation with the
Volunteer Fire Department and
the Tribune. while the Holiday Elk
change Committee and the Sen
tinel are sponsoring the show at
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

ing because they know Mama and
Papa have nothing with which to
buy them PLAY things!
Well-that'S where the Good
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

skinnnt friend celebrates
Fred and by DIS
his arrival at his dreary
to the
headhe Marley dead these seven
the head
TWO-BELOW
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

Cheer club comes in! The NECES-
SARIES are being well taken care
of by personal and organized
charity. But the sweetest charity
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

a little child can have at Christ
mas is something Santa brought !!
Something to own-to PLAY with!
And-surely-S URELY-you're
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

It is the Ghost of Old Marley Cleo G.
CARROLL his former partner, dead these
seven years! Its chains are forged with
cash-boxeS, keys, ledgers. deeds and
heavy purses. It walls that it is doomed
to wandering forever, because while on
earth Jacob Marley knew no kindness
toward his fellowmen. It warns Scrooge
that he will be similarly doomed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

stead Of the monotonouS boom Of low
notes overshGdowmg the melody. you
get the full. true n1elodic romge thGt
Gives character to voice Gnd instrument
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

h the the Milo Theater, Rockville, fe@
le En- turing way Out West"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

not going to pass up a chance to
bring HAPPINES S-when it
doesn't COST you anything-are
you?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

Then, from the depths of the house
comes a clanking noiSe-a noise of drag
ging chains They rattle louder and
louder. Up the stairs. Along the hall.
To the very door of his room! And as
Scrooge, trembling, stares at the door.
a shadowy figure passes right through
the stout oak panelling, into the room
before his very eyes!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

Despite his horrific experience, Scrooge
CReginald OVEN enters the house,
mounts the stairs and unlocks the door
to his room. After careful survey
treasures him that everything is as it
should be. he shouts "Humbug!" But
something moving on the wall catches
his eye. A rusty old service bell, silent
for years. begins ringing ny itself!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16
10000 TOYS TO BE GIVEN NEEDY
IN MARYLAND TOY MATINEES

show IN Upper Marlboro. with the
aid Of the Lions Club and the En-
Quirer- Gazette.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-16

Reduced From Our Regular Higher Priced Stock
Fellows here's your chance spruce up time for the Chrso
holidays Your choice Of single double breasted suits with
sports beck por of pleuted front trousers herrngoones
pods and dogond Sizes is to d. Chest 80 to 49, Also sizes
ITO IT,
Overcoots all wool Heeces raglan bumocoon Fuller holt
beed styles with slosh pockets Sizes 6 to H. Chest 81 TO 49,
Buy suits suit and ovecodt bring friend oong ond
tdke ddvontoge Of the extra savings.
SHOPS
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

A large number of wide-awake
newspapers were announced as
winners today in The washington
Times weekly newstip contest.
Prizes were awarded for the fol-
lowing stories:
An exclusive tip on the arrest
of three persons in a Maryland
murder case: heroic rescue Of
eight persons in a burning motor
boat; holdup of messenger for
italian Embassy; shooting in the
1900 block B st. N. E.
Injury suffered by 12-year-old
boy who swallowed a thumb tack;
birth Of blue sheep at the Zoo:
a woman falling from a porch;
no payday at farm Security on
July IS because of transfer of per-
Gonnel to another jurisdiction.
Included among other awards
were the following: Automobile
accident at Fourteenth st. and
Pennsylvania Ave. N. W.; two safe
CrackingS in same building; crash
of train and truck at Rockville
grade crossing; collision of a mo-
torcyrle and bus on the Calvert
Street Bridge; street cave-in at
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
RIVERS DRAGGED
FOR BODIES OF
DROWNED GIRLS

Waters of the Potomac and Sew
ern rivers were dragged today by
police seeking to recover the bodies
of two girl victims of weekend
tragedies.
Harbor police we're combing the
area between Chain and Key
Bridges for the body of l7-year-old
Frances Vaughn, of 1918 Tenth ST.
N. w. Wading in the river half a
mile above Little Falls, she slipped
and was swept to her death in the
treacherouS currents.
An heroic attempt at rescue on
the part of Ernst Winters, of 1924
Kearny St. N. E., was baked when
the line he managed to secure
around Miss Vaughn broke, and
she went under for the last time.
Winters saw Miss Vaughn as she
struggled to keep her head above
the sWirling currents sweeping her
down stream, and put out in a
canoe to her rescue. He caught
her and fastened rope around
her. Then he began fighting his
way back to shore. Suddenly the
rope parted.
In a tragedy in the Severn River
yesterday, Miss Virginia Sven, 19,
of Baltimore, was drowned. Three
companions with whom she had
gone on fishing party managed
to escape from their blazing motor
boat, but were in a Baltimore hos
pital today suffering burns and
exhaustion.
Kenneth Keene, owner Of the
boat, was pouring gasoline into a
tank when there was an explosion
and the craft was swept by flames.
Walter Tydings, a cousin of
Senator Millard Tydings, and Mrs.
Helen Tydings, other members of
the party, leaped overheard. A
Coast Guard boat from the Naval
Academy rescued them.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
CLAIRE TREVOR
Hollywood Beauty and Clark Andrews
Plan HQUQii Honeymoon
CLAIRE TREVOR

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 18 QNS) S):-Weddng bells will
ring July 27 for Claire Trevor, pretty film star, and Clark
Andrews radio producer, it reported today Honolulu
honeymoon planned if Miss Trevor get vacation from
her studio
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

If I had a child-and it would
be immaterial whether it were a
son or daughter-I would want
the baby to have a sound body.
For sound body and healthy
mind are synonymous.
One reason I would wish this
so much is because I have seen so
many poor, deformed, under
nourished little bodies.
The second thing I would wish
for my daughter would be courage.
COURAGE TO FACE THE
TRUTH AND THE VICISSI-
TUDES OF LIFE.
I would never do anything to
rob my daughter of this right. For
O child is born fearless. If it be-
comes cowardly and cringing it is
usually the parents fault.
would never frighten my
child into telling lie. 1 would
build up her courage and her
SeIf-esteem as / would her body,
so that later, when I was not
there to guide her, she would
face life unafraid.
We cannot anticipate for our
children. We cannot-no matter
how much we might wish it
shoulder their burdens for them.
But We can give them courage. 1t
1S our duty to do so.
Another thing I would wish for
my daughter-Oh! So very much!
would be good social adjust
ment.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

There, Deputy City Attorney
Don Redwine will inquire about a
dramatic event on recent night
at a theater where the famous
dancer is appearing and decide
whether a complaint shall be is
sued charging her with battery
and malicious mischief.
Miss Rand is scheduled to be
asked:
Is it true that she bit the arm
of Hazel Drain, a Paramount The
ater patron? And did she tear off
the shirt of Ran Stanford, Miss
Drains companion?
Both claim Miss Rand did.
AS Redwine gets the story, Miss
Drain and Stanford took candid
camera pictures of Miss Rand's
cavortings. After her act, the
dancer hurried into the audience
and demanded the films.
The three repaired to a cloak
room and Miss Rand emerged with
the exposed f1lm-but not before
she bit Miss Drain and tore STAN
ford's shirt. according to their
version of what took place.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Unhappiness Lies
In MGLGdj jUstnlent

If you could sit in Juvenile
Court day after day and seas
I do-the hundreds of maladjust-
ed children who come before me!
Maladjustment can lead to so
many things! NeurOSis, delin-
quency, or desperate unhappi-
ness.
In adult life, maladjusted per
sons take to drink or drugs. Their
marriages end in the divorce
courts. They make others un-
happy.
The time to cure mGIGdjuSt-
nlent is Dhen the person is a
child. So, to SGDe my daughter
from any such fate, / tDould see
that she 1UaS socially adjusted.
I would teach my daughter fleXi.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
PARLEYS TO END
DANGER OF RAIL
WALKOUT START
Union Heads Adamant
Against Wage Cut

CHICAGO, July 18 GN.SO.
Confronted with prospects of a
protracted deadlock, railway eX-
ecutives and labor chieftainS
started negotiations today on a
proposed $3.50, 100000 wage cut for
the nations 900, 900 union railroad
workers.
Little hope for immediate settle
ment was held, with both sides
firmly voicing determination to
stick by their demands.
Speaking for the vast army of
workers, union chieftains have
bluntly told the industry that it
must choose between nation
wide strike or withdrawal of its
proposed Is per cent wage slash.
Railway executives insist that
pay cuts must be made as the fl
nancial condition of the various
roads is so precarious that only
immediate remedial action can
stave off disaster.
A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, who conferred with Presi-
dent Roosevelt on the situation
two weeks ago. today flatly said
the unions would give no
ground"
There will be no wage cut"
Whitney declared. THE unions
are prepared to fight it out on
that line"
Whitney characterized today's
conference as the "best case labor
has ever had on the railroads"
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Cultural Depth
Also Necessary

I would want her to have well,
rounded education. Not only a
college degree, but an understand
ing and appreciation Of the cul'
tural things, such as music, dane
ing and painting.
/ would want her to possess
understanding and sympathy for
the other fellow. TheSe-and
tolerance.
would hope, as we walked side
by side-she in her glorious youth
that people would look at us and
say:
THERE GO A MOTHER
AND DAUGHTER. THEY SEEM
so DEVOTED"
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
London Thousands
Back Spain LoyaIs

LONDON, July 18 G.N.SO
Militant support for the Spanish
government, with no disorders to
be recorded on police blotters to-
day, was expressed by thousands
in Hyde Park on the eve of the
civil wars second anniversary.
Arms for Spain means arms
for peace" was their cry in a
march to the Spanish embassy.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Times Cash Goes to Many
AS ReWQrd for NelUS Tips

Fourteenth st. and Florida Ave.
N. W.; accident on Largo Rd. near
Upper Marlboro; drowning at
Qua1tico, Va; baby falling from
a second-story window; return of
Mary Catherin Wilson, who had
been missing for several days.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

bility. To take philosophically
life's sorrows as well as its joys.
And, if ever the occasion arose
to face poverty with as much
cheerfulness as the more affluent
life
1 would teach her to be re-
sOurcefuI within herself. To
learn to love good literature, to
get happiness out Of simple
things.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

By JUDGE FAY BENTLEY
r HAVE BEEN ASKED TO WRITE A RESUME OF
! WHAT I WOULD WISH FOR DAUGHTER OF
&uNE-IF HAD DAUGHTER.
Ihave doubt this request the result Of Mr. j. Edgar
Hoovers very deeply moving statement which recently
peared in The Washington Times-"IF HAD A SON"
In the first place would like Mr. Hoover feel nonplussed
and little frightened"
Because it's terrific responsibility being a parent.
I've many of them my court. Bewdered parents
baffled by their osprng groping-somemes bndly-for
solution of their problems.
had daughter would not many mothers do, take it
for granted that because had given birth to child knew
everything there to know.
Motherhood is requiring study and training
TO GOOD-AND SUCCESSFUL MOTHER-IS OF
THE MOST GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS IN LIFE.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Sally Rand to Face
Assault AccuSerS

LOS ANGELES July IS ON.S).-NTinus her fans.
the bubbes substitutes occasion, Sally Rand
make official appearance the city prosecutors office today