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The Washington times., 1938-08-08

Miss Clark screamed. Cheese
man pulled out q gun, according
to police, and warned her: Keep
quiet or you might get hurt"
At that moment Mrs. Yetman
ran into the room. 60 down.
stairs and get somebody" she
cried. Ann started for help and,
according to The police account.
Cheeseman Instantly pulled the
trigger. The bullet pierced Mrs.
Yetman's left n1east and emerged
from her left arm.
The Washington times., 1938-08-08

The Most Exciting Race in the
World. The Contestants Aren't Thor
Oughbred Horses or Speed Planes.
They're Hungry Rattlesnakes and They
Put on Their Unique Race Meet at
Carlsbad, New Mexico. Read About
This HP ir- Raising Sporting Event and
See Pictures Of the Athletic Reptiles in
Action in The American Weekly,
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
German Liner Burns
On Eve Of Her SaiIinq

HAMBURG. Germany. Aug. 8
G.N.S0.-Authorities today sought
to ascertain the origin of a fire
which virtually ruined the Ger
man liner Reliance as the vessel
was about to sail on a Scandi-
navian pleasure cruise with 400
passengers. It was fea~ed the YES
sci would prove a total loss.
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
THIRD TINE:
OF SCREEN
WILL WED ACTRESS
Humphrey BOgart
Bride-tO-Be Is
Mayo MethOt

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 8.-Dogs
and little children no longer cover
in terror when Humphrey Bogart,
most villainouS of screen Williams,
shows his face on the streets, be-
cause now he is wearing the dazed
and sweetly sentimental express
sion Of a prospective bridegroom.
On August 20, Bogart confided
to friends. he will marry Mayo
The Washington times., 1938-08-08
Roper Says Party
To Rule CONGRESS

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 Q.N.S).
A strong Democratic majority in
both Houses was predicted by Sec
retary of Commerce Daniel C.
Roper today upon his return from
q vacation in England.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
MUSICAL FILM ENDS TONIGHT
 AT COLISEUM
Varsity Show Stars Dick Powell, Two Lane Sis-
 ters, Fred Waring

Fifteen thousand dollars @ min ute is what Warner Brcs paid for the grand finale number of War; sity show" now showing at the Coliseum Theatre, with Dick Powell, the two Lane sisters, Rosemary and Priscilla, and Fred Warnings Penn sylvanians as stars.
 Busby Berkeley, premier dance director, promised Director Will liam Keighley a number that would top all others ever seen on the screen. And having confidence in "Buz,' and relying on his past per- formances as a criterion, studio of ficials okayed his budget of sl50.000 for this particular part of the pie ture. It runs seant ten minutes on the screen thus making the cost exactly $l5,00o per sixty seconds ! The entire cast participates in the finale. including, besides the Lane Sisters-PriScilla and Rose mary-Lee Dixon, Fred Waring, Roy Atwell, Walter Catlett, Scotty Bates, Ted Healy, Mabel Todd, Sterling Holloway, George MacFar- land, Johnny Scat" Davis, Foley McClintock, Buck and Bubbles, Ben Welden and Emma Dunn.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
SMART RIVIERA IS BACKGROUND
 OF COMEDY HIT
Beg, Borrow or Steal Ends at Capitol Theatre
 This Evening

A caravan of comeuJ with lavish backgrounds moves ac~oss the screen at the Capitol Theatre for the final showing tonight. It is called Beg, Borrow or Steal" and features Frank Morgan, Florence Rice and John Beal.
 Serving to give Morgan top-bill- ing for the first time under the Metro-G -Goldwyn-M Mayer banner, It is swell entertainment that ranks with "Libeled Lady and My Man Godfrey in humorous propensities.
 Beg, Borrow or Steal" is the story of an American tourist guide who promotes a chateau on the Riviera to carry out a bluff to his family in America. The idea is to use the place for his daughters wedding and he calls on his crook pals to pose as nobility. With one eye on the police, Morgan man. ages the plan all right up to a cer- tain point. But the daughter, being a chip off the old block, upsets things by marrying the wrong man.
 The picture is filled with laughs, furnished by a cast of experts. Morgan is excellent as usual in the featured role Miss Rice and Beal again display their flair for comedy that was evidenced in Double Wedding" Others in the cast are Reginald Denny, George Givot, E. K. Give, Cora Witherspoon, Her man Bing, Vladimir Sokoloff, Janet Beecher, Tom Rutherford and Har- Ian Briggs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
M AN
 KILL 5 HIMSELF,
 USES DYNAMITE
Victor Sorsen Blows Him. self to Pieces Two Days
 After 5lst Birthday
4'THEAT RE !
The Show Place of Juneau LAST TIMES TONIGHT
Fairbanks News-Miner)

Despondent, Victor Sorsen, expert powder man and a foreman for the U. S. Smelling Co, used stick of dynamite to end it all, two days after his 51st birthday anniversary.
 Apparently, he laid down and held the dynamite in his mouth or rested his head on the explosive after lighing the fuse. His head, shoulders, and left arm were blown off.
 Sorsen was foreman at the Dav- idson ditch camp on Dome creek. His birthday anniversary was Tues day, bui according to testimony taken at the inquest held last eve ming byt Commissioner WiIan1 N. Growden he came to town Wednes- day everIing to celebrate. Afterward, he and a friend, Mike Fakla, left Fairbanks at o'clock Thursday morningiin a company pickup truck for the camp.
 Goes Off Road
 Fifteen miles out, tne truck went off the road, HOO fleet below the Davidson ditch bridge, near the tunnel" ISorsen ani Hakla tried to get the machine back on the road,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
MRS, ROWE IS
 ENTERTAINED

Mrs. L. P. Dawes is entertaining with a bridge Luncheon this after noon at her home on East Street in honor of Mrs. R. Robinson Rowe. who is to leave soon for California
 Bouquets of garden flowers cen- ter each of the three individual tables and guests for the afternoon include Mrs Wellman Holbrook, Mrs. G. F. Alexander, Mrs. Trevor Davis, Mrs. Waino Hendrickson
 Mrs. Margaret Bowen, Mrs Claude Hirst, Mrs. John Keyser, Mrs. J. C.. B. Hawkes., Mrs. John Chappell, Mrs. E. Ehler, and Mrs. c. P. Jenne.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

back. Ditto Kay Francis. Rays making Curtain Call" now. That's a new title for the one Bette Davis walked out on-and rightly. It's good enough for Kay, though. Any thing to finish up her contract. Well, they have reyamped the yarn somewhat, and it may be better now.
 But Bette Davis, queen of the lot nowadays had to get off the lot to win that crown. After she came back from RKO and "Of Human Bondage she was a star-but in no time she was fighting her bosses in court. She lost, the studio won. She was a good sport. She came back and made hits = Marked Woman and "Jezebel" a m n 6 them. After "Jezebel' they gave her Comet over Broadway (now Cur tain Call') and Bette wouldn't take it. Took a walk, instead, and sus- pension. The studio got smart and all is peace again. Bette's making The Sisters
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

came upon what was left of the body, near the bank of an old prospect hole, at o'clock Friday afternoon.
 It appeared that Sorsen, in talk ing his own life, had attempted to blow himself into the water filled hole. His head and shoulders were gone, but his left arm was found 60 feet from the body. The right arm was still attached to the torso.
 Empty Bottle Found
 An empty whiskey bottle, the one from his cabin, was found $50 feet from the body.
 The authorities learne r@t Sor- sen occasionally had drinK.-s. Us, and afterward was Respondent. He had money enough, for sl55 was found on his person, and he had more coming from the company.
 His employment record at the Fairbanks office of the U. s. Smelt- ing Co.,, shows that he was born August 16. 1887, in Finland. From 1921 to 1926 he worked for the Fed .eral Mining and Smelling Co. in Idaho, and in 1926 he entered the employ of the F. E. Co., Fair banks branch of the U. $. Smelt- ing, Refining and Mining Go.
 No Relatives Listed
 The company records of Sorsen have no reference in them to rela- tives, for in place of relatives he had listed the names of two close friends, Gus Happa, who went Out side three years ago, and Matt Jarvi, of Fairbanks. Sorsen had worked 12 seasons for the company Last winter he prospected in the Hot Springs district.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
JEAN SIMPKINS
 ARRIVES TONIGHT

Miss Jean Simpkins, daughter of MT. and Mrs George M. Simpkins of this city, is a passenger on the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Louise due here this evening.
 Miss Simpkins has been taking a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

but the ground was too slippery, so Sorsen told Hakla to walk on in two miles farther to camp in order to be there in time to go to work at o'clock.
 The last Hakla saw of Sorsen, Sorsen was walking toward Fox However, he must have changed his mind later, for he did not go to Fox, and he was seen at the Dome creek camp at am, Thursday morning, the Commissioner report ed.
 Gets Liquor
 The men were then eating break fast at the camp, but Sorsen did not go in the messhouse. He walk ed to his cabin, got a bottle which had little whiskey in it, then went to the powder house 50 yards from his cabin.
 Proficient powder man, Sorsen personally was in charge of the powder house, so the exact amount of dynamite he took is undeter- mined.
 Walks Out
 Evidently, he went up the hill in the brush behind the powder house, then walked more than a mile down the ridge, to the point where the body was found-1 200 feet off the road, a mile and a half below the camp.
 A detonation was heard at the camp at 2 o'clock, and the men wondered, for no one was supposed to be out blasting that day.
 Search Begins
 When Sorsen did not show up for work that Thursday party of six company men started searching for him. Friday the com pany sent out 20 men who made a thorough search in the country around the camp. Moving fan-wise, and 30 feet apart, the searchers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

special nurses course at the Univer- sity of Washington since March, and will take over the duties of of flee nurse for Dr. Robert M. Coffey. upon her arrival in Juneau, during the absence of Mrs. Lance Hen irickson, who is leaving soon for 6 visit in Minneapolis
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
PICNIC

The Sunday School of the Resur- rection Lutheran Church will hold their picnic at the TreadWell Beach tomorrow.
 All members of the Sunday School are to meet at the church at 10 o. clock in the forenoon from where they will proceed to the picnic grounds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

Back to Marie Wilson: She ought to have a chance in something big ger. She ought to have a chance, even, to play a beautiful girl who isn't dumb. Maybe she could, may be she couldnt-but she's earned the right to try.
 Marie, for all her sometimes astounding repartee, is dumb like fox. She planned her movie cam paign with artistry. Had little money, spent it paying rent in ad- vance, buying clothes, flashy car. She knew you have to put up a front-and that's what she did.
 There were times, I reckon, when she wished she could trade in the car on a ham sandwich, but she stuck it out and persistence won her a screep test.
 Dumb thin Vat she is, she sat down and wrC.- Yer own script for that test. It was good script. M-G-M didn't like it but the War ner factory did. They signec her. They've taken up her option again.
 The dumb" stories on Marie are about exhausted. Haven't heard a good one in months. But the sland- erers of her mental powers have not let up, by any means. They're even purveying yarns about her Mamma now. Like this:
 Mamma goes into filling sta- tion where she owes S5.25. Gives the attendant $375. Give me $l.50 worth of gas and we'll be even, !" says Mamma.
 Now I ask you!
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
ey Allen in Anthony Ad-

Hervey Allen in Anthony Ad- verse"
 My friends tell me I'm silly for going to New Orleans this time of year. They think ought to wait till fall or winter because it's so hot down there"
 We'll, let's see how it is around here. The little agate lines on the front page of the newspapers say it is 92 today. And people here no longer breathe-they pant.
 So I guess I'll be going anyway. And if it isn't hot down there I'll be mighty disappointed. I like It hot. When summer comes I want it to be summer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

I want to stand in some ruined garden and smell the cape jessa- mines And scratch my name on a magnolia leaf and watch it turn back I want to eat ripe persimmons and cut myself pal metto fan I want to listen to a mocking bird again.
 I want to visit the site of that old underground jail where the Spanish fathers practiced the h. quisition, as described by Saxon so eloquently in Fabulous New Orleans" I want to visit that part of New Orleans where Jean LaF'itte held sway, as described by
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
uELLENTHALS ARE
 ARRIVING ON LOUISE

MT and Mrs. T. A. Hellenthal who have been south for several months. are arriving home tonight aboard the Princess Louise.
 Lode ana pIacer IUcauon notices for. sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
NE ORLEANS IS GOING TO SEE
 GEORGE TUCKER
Columnist Is Leaving New York for Visit Again
 to Canal Street
By GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Aug 23-Have to go now. I'm leaving for New Orleans in just few minutes, just as soon as these bags are packed I'm pretty excited It's been a long time since I walked down Canal Street Almost II years, and that's too long.
 For days now I've been thinking about crayfish, and the old French market, and the river And there are 50 things I want to do, and 50 people I want to see t. I want to see Marguerite Clark, and Roark Bradford, and Herman Deutsch, and Lyle Saxon. I want to stroll along the old street of the duelling academies, and look in on that prize-fighter's museum, and visit the Absinthe House, and look at those rooms where Lafcadio Hearn wrote so movingly of New Or leans
 I want to get on a Dauphin street car and ride to the end of the line . want to see the old Napoleon House, and tiptoe through the Ca thedral of St. Louis. And drink cof- fee in any of the 27,000 cafes and restaurants there, virginal coffee that looks like sacramental wine.
 I want to see the statue of Jack son -- not Andrew Jackson but Stonewall Jackson, the one where that priest came and said those words that sad Tuesday when the statue was unveiled. You want that story, don't you? You want to hear it? They say on that day an un- known priest shuffled out of the crowd and asked permission to say few words. And this is what he said:
 70 Lord, when Thou decreed that the Confectionery should fail, it first became necessary for Thee to re- move Thy servant, StoneWall Jack son.
 Those were words that Lincoln could have been proud of. I want to see that statue. I want to stand where that priest stood and say a Protestant prayer for his Catholic soul
 I want to go down to the docks at night and smell the fruit wharves, and listen to the song of the lone some bayous I want to feel Spanish moss, and see cypress knees, and eat pompono with Seymour Weiss at Antoine's I want to taste may haw jelly again I'd give a dol lar for one spoonful of mayhaw jelly right now - I want to eat muscadines and wild fox grapes and ride in handmade pirogue.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

Try The Empire classifieds for results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
DO SOMETHING ABOUT MARIE
 WILSON IS CRY
More Productions Wanted for Beautiful, Dumb
 Little Blonde
By ROBBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Aug 23.-This is call to all fans to rally round and make the Warmers do some thing about Marie Wilson.
 You know Marie. She's the beau- tiful, dumb little blonde. She's play ed that beautiful, dumb little blonde in movie bits Now she's played her again-and beautifully in Boy Meets Girl" Marie ought to go places fast like a rabbit now.
 But you can't tell The kid ate her heart out for months waiting to hear whether they'd trust her with Boy Meets Girl" They trust ed her finally-Joan Blondell wasn't available. And she worked like ten troupers to make 'em feel they hadn't been hexed into a decision. She delivered.
 But you can't tell-at the Warner factory. Marie might get a good follow-up to Boy Meets Girl" but she's just as likely to be thrown back to the B's.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

The Warmers traditionally have little luck developing feminine stars. They lured Ruth Chatterton away from Paramount when Ruth was tops, and when they finished with her Ruth was ready for a come
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23

crack troops trained by German mtarists and supplemented by large force of reserves There are more than 2,000, 900 men in the field and the manner in which they have stubbornly contested the Japanese advance indicates that their baptism of fire is forging them into powerful fighting machine,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
EcON0 M " 72 s'S ssses 'es
 FOR 1c
or u0IiouaI dver0ge eiecfric r0fey

O Others may ciaim econ omy Kelyfnator gives these actual, unbeatable ECONOMY FIGURES Moro for Your Money.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-23
COLD MAKING
 POWER2

Q K iyina16r'o greae POLAR POWER Sealed Unis sets new records So .owoperafing costs-yet gives nlt tho refrigeration youI ever need as much a1 you'd ges from z0sG ooa1d O ice q yeek
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
Webb Resigns From State
Oil Conservation Board
Promoted To Chicago Plant

O. NJ hanse OF Inena-
The LopOrt Chicago the second largest TEX
capacity @0OOO 20
baxre o
Of Webb
plans Immediately Jack
the
Webb rendered Webb
Of
served from the beginning
International Pipeline IN Ont Rank as Wen as e In
enjoyed the confidence
fields Of his having fequenty taken the Mds
rights the
involved believer proKa0n ana Wrote @
ing of he present year.
of Webbs
Of
the LAM as nearly
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16

&hour as sWabbing continued. Inc
fluid level was not lowered below
500 feet during the swabbing. 1t
appears that the well will pump
$50 barrels per day or better ind
TALLY. It is 40 gravity crude, con-
tanning no sulphur. It is probably
the best well ever completed in this
pool, operators say.
This we'll had saturated sand
from 1850 to 1866 feet, after
having set casing at 154s. Like
other Sunburst sand wells in this
pool, it shows no water. Ramona
oil Co, formerly known as Chab
oil company, is headed by Arthur
Hoeh of Conrad, successful POndera
operator. He recently bought out
all his former associates, excepting
two investors who are ranchers in
Dutton country whose outlook on
the recession" has been greatly
altered by the success Of this well.
Ramona OH company will proceed
with the drilling OF another well
this summer The company has
240 acres In Section e. The new
well IL in NV NEANWM 12-35-3W.
Meantime a diagonal offset. Bag
West-Engse No. 2, SD 6WNBWM
1-35-sW, failed 10 get much oil in
the sunburst sand and h now clean
ing out following q shot Of nitro
glycerin.
OahI-KimbalI No. 4, Sw SEN
SEA 1-35-3W, in the same pool,
failed to get Sunburst sand oil but
GcOntinued on Page Fivsl
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
WELLS
COMPLETING
IN CUT BANK

Two wells are now completing IN
Cut Bank oil field, one of them hay-
ing 200 feet OF oil in the hole al
last reports. This well is Santa
Rfta.Rffchie No. 3, NE SW HSW u
5-35-5W, which was at 273S feet,
with good prospects for a Cut Bank
sand producer. 1t is northeast
Of Cut Bank town.
Glacier Production-Bonne No. 3,
c NWH sWA 4-32-5W, in the Big
Bend pool area, cemented 7-inch cas-
ing at 1929 and is drilling IN today.
1t is surrounded by producers on
four sides.
Glacier PrOductiOn-ThOnla Unit
No. 3, GEL NE SWA 14-35-5W,
is drilling at 2770.
Nadeau Brothers. Farmers Bank
No. 3. Sc sEANEH 17-33-5w,
ran into more trouble from the hard
shell ledge at around 1900, feet and
lost bailer at that point. The
hole bottoms at $500.
Texaco-Curran No. e G NWH
NEA 17-33-15W, is drilling at 2175.
is drilling at SIS.
Texaco- Hariwick No. B G NEH
NEA 17-3315W, is drilling at 2175.
WiiHxinson-AIIotted III No. 8, c
NWK sWA 31-33-5W, is drilling
at 1850.
Glacier PrOductsOn-stn&e 10 Nc. q
tcontlnoed on Page rIv~l
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
ERDT MAHH AID
MARION SANDS
Welded I'M l. A.

Word Of the marriage OF G. q
Erdtmann, U. S. G. S. engineer, and
Miss Marion Sands. formerly ste
nographer in the U. S. @. s. office
at Shelby. has been received by w.
M. Peden, district engineer in Great
Falls.
They were married at the Wee
Kirk among the Heather at Los
Angeles on July 8. They will make
their home for the present in Dem
yer, where Erdtmann is now sta
toned. but will probably make
their permanent home in Washing
ton.
Miss Sands passed civil service
examinations and secured a position
in Washington several years ago,
and because Of her experience in
the U. s. G. S. office at Shelby was
quickly promoted to an excellent
Dosition in the Washington office.
The marriage comes as a complete
surprise to friends Of both Miss
Sands and Erdtmann who was re-
garded as a confirmed bachelor.
made the survey of the
Sweetgrass Hills and other import
ant Montana geological work in adj
d1ti0n to damsite surveys more re-
Gently 10 northwestern Montana, and
r accordingly widely known ia this
state.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
TEST
AREAOF
SHARP DIPS

Announcement of the location of
1.-THE site of the test well to be drill
led on the north end Of the Deep
Greek anticllne, south and west Of
Dupuyer. was filed khis week with
1.-THE United States Geological Survey
BY the California company, Montana
subsidiary of the Standard Of Cali
f0rnia.
Location is 700 feet north OF the
south line and 100 feet west of the
east line of the sen SWA Sec. Is
27N-9W, which is approximately
center of the east line Of the forty
acres. This location is pretty
squarely in the center of q block OF
5,769 acres of government permits
which have been untitled under the
new leasing act
Drilling contract has been award
ed to Manning & Martin, rotary
contractors, OF Cut Bank. The well
Is to he drilled to the Devonian,
which should be reached at maxi
mum depth of 5000 feet.
Word that California company
planned a Devonian test in the
sharp dip area has started q con-
siderable amount of leasing in the
area, particularly south of the test
location. A well was drilled sew
eral years ago on this same fold
some IL miles south but it stopped
in the Madison lime at $780, A
few hundred feet would put this
well in the Devonian, unless an
condition is found below
the Madison lime. Tt was drilled
by Continental Development COM
pany with a spudder which proved
too light to drill through the hard
lime shells, so was abandoned at
$50 feet It had flow of
laptha bearing gas in lime break"
from 400 to 425. Should the Cali
'ornia company strike oil or naptha |
n it's we'll, 1t is probable that the
Continental Development well will
be completed to the Devonian.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-16
BIG We'll N ROCKY RIDCE POOL
Independent Association Meeting
Date Changed TO Saturday Evening

The meeting of the Independent Pet
rolerm Association of America, Montana di-
vision, is to be held in Shelby on Saturday
night July %, instead of Friday night, an
nounces w. NJ Fulton, Montana chairman.
The change was necessitated by conflic-
ting meeting in Great Falls on Friday, Mr..
Fulton stated.
The Shelby meeting is to be attended by
Russell B. Brown, counsel of the I. P. A. at
Washington, D c., who will be the principal
speaker, giving Montanans an insight into
the legislative problems of the Independent
producers. He will also discuss the opera