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Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12

II we do print them the maga-
zine is filled with junk.
Now like as not someone will
Say.
We swiped this from some other
magazine
WE'LL. WE DID.
A crew of WPA workmen were
employed near the White House at
Washington, d. C. and had erected
the customary rest room" as Is
required on WiPA jobs. The door
blew open and out flew a piece of
toilet paper which waited along in
the breeze, through the open win
dow OF the White House and into
the presidents study. The fore
man, in CONSERVATION, ordered one
of his men to rush into the room
and retrieve the paper. Soon the
man returned, somewhat dismayed.
ITO late" he said. 1.-THE presi-
dent had already signed Il"
Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12

The New Deal president had
passed away, the story goes, and
went up for his heavenly reward,
only to be told by st. Peter that
his name was not registered. So
he went down below where he gave
his name to st. Nick who immed-
lately arose in anger. II know
YOU" he shouted, you're the one
who sent all those PWA workers
down here and they let the fires so
ont"
The teacher was explaining to
the class the meaning OF the word
''recuperate." Nov, Tommy" she
said to a small boy. when your
father has worked hard all day, he
is tired and worn out, isn't he?"
Eyes, Ma'am."
"Then. when night comes. and his
work is over for the day, what does
he do?"
That's what mother wants to
know"
Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12

creation of similar regulations may
again be aimed at the Montana oil
industry unless this state is alert
to the formulation of the national
plan that is almost certain to grow
out of the Tulsa meeting.
1t is a notable fact that the Am
erican Petroleum Institute is stay
ing out of the situation and the
big companies are apparently not
participating. for the present
The report of this special COM
mittee will be submitted to the
membership of the Independent Pc
troleum Association of America at
a special meeting in December.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12

pushed it up to 80 miles an hour,
70 find that a third motorcycle cop
was coming. She saw a filling sta
tion beside the road so she sud
denly clapped on the brakes and
skidded to a stop beside the station,
leaped out of the car and into the
lavatory. When she came out there
stood three glowering speed cops
but she only smiled sweetIy and
announced, well, just made 1t. +"
$3.50 -
The confident young man stopped
in the apartment house hallway to
call through the telephone. Hello,
baby" he said. "This is Gideon"
There's so much noise on the
line, l can scarcely hear you" came
the voice of a gal on the other end
OF the line. who did you say it
was?"
Gideon, honey. G for gin. I for
Ice, D for drinking, e for excite
ment for ornery-eyed and N for
necking Got that, honey?"
We'll" answered the gal, mot
all of it-but come on up anyhow"
Being an editor is no picnic
If we print jokes, people say we
are silly:
If we don't they say we are too
serious.
If we clip things from other
magazines,
We are too lazy to write them
If we won't we are too fond of
our own stuff.
If we don't print contributions,
We don't appreciate true genius.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12

Lucy: WAS Harry cast down
after he spoke to your father?"
Nora: "Yes; three flights Of
stairs"
Particular Diner (after altering
his choice several times): Yes,
waiter, I'll have mutton chops and
chip potatoes. And make the chops
lean"
Fed-up Waiter: "Yes sir. Which
way, sir?"
A lady driver was speeding down
the highway at a rate in exess of
the speed limit when she discovered
that a speed cop was pursuing her.
She stepped on the throttle and
jumped to so miles an hour when
she saw a second speed cop had
Joined in the pursuit. She then
Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12

and when there were opportunities to buy
royalties as cheaply as they can be had
today. Let us examine the history of
that field:
We find that up to April 80. 1888, a
total of 11,434,653 barrels of oil has
been produced, selling for S15, 5,095, 1928.
The landowners share of that oil, worth
S1,8S6.891, was delivered to the royalty
owners, free of cost of production Dis
trfbution of over one and three-quarters
million dollars has proven conclusively
the possibilities of investment in roy
alties When we stop to consider that
on December 81, 1888, there were but
33 oil producing wells in the entire field
and they had produced less than 100000
barrels OF oil, we realize what this foun-
tain of wealth has poured out in the
last five years.
It is needless to point out that all this
wealth has come from only 3S1 wells,
scattered over a vast area, and that the
100000 acres of oil land within the
present confines of production are GER
tain to continue to pay handsome earn
ings to royalty owners for many years to
come
This week we issued a new publication
entitled REBIRTH OF OPPORTUNITY
that recounts a little more of this his
tory and something of the new oppor-
tunities offered.
This publication will be sent to any
who request it,
Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12
PERMIT ON BOWDOIN

Oil and gas prospecting permit has
been issued at the Great Falls Land
office to Maude K. Baumgartner
of 136 Grand Avenue, Billings,
Montana, for NEA NWA Section
20; Lots 2, 8 and Section 30;
NWA Section 80, Township 80
North Range 81 East, Bowdoin
district.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1938-11-12
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THE SUNBURST BADGER
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

his own. He got a job as a
bank messenger. He worked his
way up q little, into the accept
ance department.
He still isn't very sure what
an acceptance department is,
but he is positive that it was no
place for young bucko with
a lust for advancement and high
spirits. Personality is what gets
you ahead" is his credo. Per
sonality-and work." And to
prove it he works 10 hours a
day.
He quit the bank job to work
with an insurance company. 1t
lasted about six months. Then
an efficiency expert appeared.
He couldn't get Bolger to report
at $3.50 a. m. He could get him
to show up at $40 or 8:35-but
not $3.50.
IT went into the show business
because I couldn't get to work
at $780," he explains.
Il seems the insurance COM
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

pany staged an annual boat-trip
outing UP the New England
coast. To pass away the time,
Bolger did a female impersona-
ton to amuse his fellow pas
SengerS.
"I loved to show off" he ex-
plains simply. And after the
female impersonation - which
fell flat as a blotter-I did an
impersonation of Joe Frisco
dancing. I didn't even know
how to dance.
"I was still very young, very
bright-and very freSh!"
Then there was an interlude
with a peanut company. He did
delivering and selling and it
lasted about two months. It
seems he couldn't seem to get
to work at $3.50 a. m. About
this time things really got
tough.
st was kicked out of my
lodging house for being a non.
paying boarder. They kept my
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

studio caretaker. In return for
his meals and place to sleep.
Bolger became the institutions
janitor.
He learned a lot of ballet
work just standing around
watching his pupils perform"
he recalls. He practised every
minute he could spare.
II was all set to become a
ballet dancer, when I decided
ought to learn tap dancing,
too" he said.
The best instructor he could
find was a night watchman in
Horticultural Hall. The old chap
had been a vaudevillian in his
day, and Bolger learned from
him, during the night watch
mans rounds, the basis of all
tap dancing.
He gave me the whole basis
of my style" Bolger says sim
ply. His name is Salvatore
Cicarelli. He's still living. I
write him once a month. ANY.
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

Bolger corner. He sits in a cor
ner and wriggles. He becomes
suddenly shy. Outside the stu
dios he dons anonymity. Ger
tain phases of Hollywood splen-
dor abash him. He lives in a
comfortable Hollywood bunga-
low and dresses with startling
conservatism.
Brashness slips from him like
magic as he opens his front
door. His first question is al
ways: Whats for dinner?' The
answer is always: Wait and
see!" This has been going on
for years. When dinner is over
he goes over his golf clubs or
thumbs meditatively through his
musical library. Golf Is his
hobby and collecting the lives Of
composers. Principally Brahms.
He's a little shy about the COM
poSer-collecting business.
SITS IN THE CORNER
Food is not one of Mrs. Boil
gers problems. He eats what
ever is set before him. He has
few fancy tastes.
When he was a boy he wanted
the flashiest, fastest car obtain
able. He has gratified that am
bition with a 16-cylinder road
Ster, slightly smaller than a de-
Stroyer.
Chiefly he is interested just
now in exhibiting a brand-new
Ray Bolger.
He wants to show the public
that he can act as well as dance.
His part in "Rosalie" tickled
him to death.
Nothing much happened in
his boyhood. His mother taught
him manners. She did her best
to keep his braShnesS curbed. He
was going to Oliver Wendell
Holmes High School when she
died.
It put him pretty much on
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

trunk, with all my medals in it."
The medals were for selling
Liberty Bonds, during the bank
ing interlude. He sold a cool
million dollars worth.
Trunk and residence gone, he
had to find a job in a hurry.
rails, resulted in daylight leisure
mopping floors and polishing
rails. resulted in daylight leisure
periods.
In the daytime he began to
loaf outside a dancing school.
He began to pick up a few
steps.
The dancing school owner
used to leave the door open.
Bolger would tumble a few tap
routines to the music that
leaked out.
Across the street was ballet
school operated by Senia Rus
Sakoff. He noticed Bolger one
afternoon and called him in.
Five minutes later Bolger had
promoted himself to the role Of
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
DANCED IN ENGLAND

anu I1O SklIS. JuSG oIL d4SL4t OdkIS'
ing.
DANCED IN ENGLAND
And now he appeared to have
hit his stride. His jobs became
more and more important. He
landed a contract on the big
time with the Keith Orpheum
circuit. His salary finally be-
came such that he could take
vacations.
He spent his first and last
vacation IN Notwithstanding in
a night club.
When he returned to New
York he began the long process
sion of apid-fire stage hits which
led him eventually to Hollywood.
There was The Merry World"
Night in Paris" George Whites
Scandals" Earl Carrolls "Vani.
ties" Heads Up" and Life Be-
gins at $40"
He never managed to play in
a Ziegfeld show. William An
thony Mcguire. then Ziegfeld'S
right-hand man, did his best to
sell Rolser to ziegfeld-without
success.
But month after he came to
Hollywood he bumped into Nc
Guire on the Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer lot-and MCGUIRE prompt.
ly wrote a part for him in The
Great ziegfeld"
MCGUIRE also saw to it that
Bolger got the part in "Rosalie." Z"
And he has written a special
part for him in THE Girl of
the Golden West" which will
feature jeanette Macdonald and
Nelson Eddy. It's coming to
Loew'S Palace soon.
He won't go to see his own
premiereS. He worries about
his pictures weeks before their
release and for months after
ward. He gets into and out Of
mischief-like the time he hid
eggs in Eleanor PoWell'S makeup
box.
He has been married for nine
"bounteously" happy years and
fervently declares a dozen times
a day that his wife Is the most
beautiful woman in the world.
IF you wanted to sum up
Ray Bolger," says Director w.
S. Van Dyke, "the best way
would be to say: American boy
makes good!' Then do Q tap
Step!"
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
BOLGERS LIFE STORY-HOW DANCER CLIMBED TO FAME IN II

thing he wants-I send him."
And then one day a talent
scout from the Bob OFT Musical
Comedy Repertoire Company,
visited the RusSakoff studio. Boil
gers peculiar, limber-legged
style, an individualism all his
own, was exactly what the scout
was looking for. And that's how
Ray Bolger started his theatrical
career. With the OFT Company
he did six shows a week. on a
tour of small Eastern towns. He
did straight acting, he danced,
he played character roles. Occa-
Sionally, he sang.
He made $37. a week for the
first year. The second year
they raised him to $50. And he
knew how to live on six dollars a
week. He saved $3.50 the first
year.
When his second year with
the stock company ended, he
walked brashly into a theater
in New York and demanded a
job. He wanted a legitimate
role.
BEGAN IN VAUDEVILLE
ut was the prestige of the
thing" he recounts. But I only
stuck it out three months. 1t was
like the bank. Too stolid. Too
slow. So I moved on back to
Boston"
In Boston he picked up a
young fellow named Ralph San
ford. Met him outside a dancing
school door, practicing steps on
the sidewalk. They Swapped
steps. They decided to form a
vaudeville team.
Around Boston they were
billed as Sanford and Bolger.
A Pair of Mites" They weren't,
he comedies wryly, very nifty.
But they thought they were.
So they moved to New York
again. And they couldn't get a
booking. There was a long
period Of futilely haunting
agencies and loafing outside the
Palace Theater.
He and Sanford finally man
aged to click with the Rialto
Theater. They got $125 a week
to divide between them. After
four weeks Sanford dropped
out-and Bolger carried on
alone, receiving the same $l25.
There was quite a spell Of
doing five shows a day and q
different show each week. Then
he got promoted to the Strand
The Washington times., 1938-01-22

HAD UPS AND DOWNS
The Bolger grin is in use prac-
tically "a hours a day. This
years model is the same he wore
nearly IS years ago.
He was playing in a Broad
way show, a few years back,
when one of the vice presidents
Of that bank visited him back
stage.
Here's a souvenir for you,"
the banker said. He held out a
formal-looking, printed card.
It was Bolger's personnel re-
cord from his bank messenger
days.
Raymond W. Bolger," it
read. Every bright; very
young; very fresh. Probably
will outgrow it,"
Hollywood appears to be full
of brash Bolger anecdotes to
prove that he hasn't overcome
it.
"He came up to me on the
first day of shooting on The
Great ziegfeld,' Robert z.
Leonard, Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
director, relates, And the first
thing I knew he was telling me
how to reduce" Leonard sur
veyed his comfortable bulk
fondly. IT told him I could eat
three Bolgers a day." he
laughed, land not gain
pound!"
W. S. Van Dyke, who directed
him in "RoSalie," offers the
anecdote of Bolger introducing
himself.
'Five minutes later" he says,
'I happened to hear a cracking
noise in my coat pocket. There
was Bolger, standing alongside
me, eating peanuts-and, fast as
he ate them, he puts the shells
in my pocket"
It's O different Bolger at Hol-
lywood parties, though. Every
house in the film colony has q
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
+ He Has Never Read His Movie Contract
But the Sum in the Pay Envelope
Tells Him He Has Arrived

Holywood's No. Typical American Boy is slim, skppy
footed breeze from Boston by the of Ray Boger
He danced his way into top billing Broadway and on
the of his greatest triumph in "On Your Toes signed
a contract with oGoldwynM Mayer-wthout read
ing the first paragraph
He still doesn't know the terms of his contract.
II get the check-they get the Boger-they let play
let them play Live" he says airiy, and let ive!"
To illustrate his point he does emphatic tap and folds
his arms He orins
The Washington times., 1938-01-22
Banker Once Gave Him Rating as
Very Young, Very Bright, Very Fresh
But He's OutgroWn 1t

Theater. No more jokes, though,
and no skits. Just straight dane
ing.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
to Greet
Youthful Sultan
By EDWARD B. LoCKETT
International News Service

darkknned Arabic bachelor of 27 who has been knock
ing around the country for 10 days will officially "arrve
here and will receive exactly the honor
and ceremony that would greet the King of England
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Cat Trails Navy Nurse
To WOrk---With RedSOnSt

She looked just an ordinary
cat, with the proverbial nine lives.
But she must have been frantic
with worry--if cats can get that
way.
When Miss Eva Wolfe, nurse at
the Navy Departments dispensary,
started from her apartment, 2100
block C st. N. w., for her morn
ing stroll to the office today, the
cat fell in behind the nurse.
Along the pavements crowded
with officebound workers, through
auto-choked streets during the
morning rush period, the cat
stalked the young woman it had
adopted"
Miss Wolfe entered the Navy
Department Building, strobe down
the corridors to the dispensary on
the first floor. The cat kept right
at her heels
It wasn't until both entered
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
CASE
NOLLE PRESSED

Charges of assault with a dan,
gerous weapon against Mrs. Anne
v. Laing, middle-aged rooming
house proprietor, growing out of
the wounding of James A. NC
Namara, popular athletic coach
and prizefight manager, were nolle
pressed in Police Court today.
The nolle PROSE- action was
sanctioned by Judge John P. Nc
Mahon. Mrs. Laing, who had been
free on $1,000 bond, was thus ex-
onerated of culpability for the
shooting.
Mcnamara, who was shot dur
ing an alteration at the home
of Mrs. Laing. at .2417 Eighteenth
st. N. w. told police that he
would press charges against no
one. He was treated for a wound
in his knee at Emergency Hospital.
The shooting took place, police
related, after Mcnamara accom-
panied Miss Catherine Scanlon, a
waitress in a restaurant he op-
crates, to her home at Mrs. Laing' S
rooming house. Miss Scanlon had
also been held on $100 bond as a
material witness,
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
JAILED WOMEN
IN QUARANTINE

A protective quarantine" has
been thrown around the women'S
division of the District Jail fol
lowing discovery that a prisoner
who died Saturday may have been
suffering from spinal meningitis,
it was disclosed today.
Although Health Department
doctors have not completed their
diagnosis of the fatal case, prison
authorities ordered the quarantine
"afterll a couple Of other inmates
became indisposed."
Four matrons who had been al
lowed to return to their homes
were recalled to the Jail yesterday
and ordered to remain their until
definite word is received from the
Health Department. No women
prisoners will be freed even
though their sentences may ex-
pire until the quarantine is lifted.
There were 50 prisoners in the
women'S division when the quar-
antine Eas imposed yesterday
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
Bridges Request
Weighed by Group

U.N.sJ. The Senate Commerce
Committee went into executive ses-
sion today to vote on the request
Of Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO
maritime labor leader, that he
be allowed to answer testimony of
AFL leader that he Is a Com
munist and an "agitator."
A previous request was voted
down unanimously. The commit
tee said at that time it would wait
until the Department of Labor
finishes its investigation of
charges that Bridges is subject to
deportation. 1t has been alleged
he entered the United States lille
gafiy from Australia. his native
country
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
NEBRASKA SOCIETY

Annual election of officers will
feature tHe initial party of the
Nebraska State Society's 1898
season to be held Friday night in
the Shoreham Hotel.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
u. S. Praised
GOering LGuds Aid in
Aerial Research

BERLIN, March 2 G.N.S.)
American cooperation interna-
tional aeronautic research stood
praised today by Marshal Hermann
Goering, Reich air minister.
He also announced that Ger.
many has established six aero
nautic academies to promote a
final solution of aviation prob
lens, including conquest of the
stratosphere."
Goering, in his speech to the
Academy of Aviation Research,
was in less truculent mood than
when he earlier said "we are burn
ing with zeal to prove that the
German air force is invincible."
The Washington times., 1938-03-02

PuCClng dlpIOmaC1c parlanCe Ii
the language of the streets, he
gets the works!
SOVE-EIGN RULER
The young visitor is Sayyid Said
Bin Taimur Bin Faisal, sultan OF
Muscat and Oman, fifteenth di
rect descendant in his family
dynasty, and perhaps more
ruler than any other sovereign
of this day and time. He lives
by the shimmering Gulf of Oman,
in the Arabian Sea.
At home, this youthful king
rules in white robe, brown cloak,
gold braid and turban, from the
cool recess of a white stone pal
ace rich in the high color Of the
Orient but boasting also a private
drawing loom the equal in mod
ernity of any in the United States.
TRAVELS INCOGNITO
His boat brought him to Amer
ica on February 10, but diplomati-
cally he isn't even here yet. It
seems that if you know the COM
bination you can turn this king
business on and off like a water
spigot. The sultan is travelling
incognito with the royal fol de
rol turned off-until tomorrow.
Then, he will step on his magic
carpet and "arrive."
And what a greeting!
Here is the array that will be
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
BYRNES INJURED
BY AUTO HERE

Representative William T.
Byrnes CD, New York, was re.
cuperating today from injuries to
the left knee suffered in a traffic
mishap last night while he was
enroute TO address a rally of the
New York Democratic Club.
He was felled by a backing auto
as he stepped from between two
cars in the 1900 block Rhode
island Ave. N. w. He continued
to the meeting, But collapsed while
delivering the address. Taken to
Emergency Hospital, he was
treated for contusions. His condi,
tion was reported not serious.
An inquest into the death of
Robert A., Dulin, 80. 1900 block
M Street Northeast, killed Monday
in a traffic tragedy, was scheduled
for today in the District Morgue.
He was struck by truck at Fiji
teenth and H Streets Northeast.
Victim of a hit-run motorist,
Evelyn R. williams, 19-year-old
nurse at the Home for Incurables,
Of the 3700 block Upton Street
Northwest, was knocked down yes.
terday at Fourth Street and
Florida Avenue Northwest. She
suffered a sprained back and
bruised chest.
Five-year-old Earl Suthard, Of
Bradbury Heights, Md, suffered
minor injuries when struck by q
car in the 4700 block Bowen Road
Southeast. George w. Childress,
"a, Of Bethesda, Md, was bruised
when hit by a motorcycle
The Washington times., 1938-03-02

the dispensary that it was dis
covered the nurse and the cat had
an unseen companion on the long
walk. 1t was the stork. !,
Bedded down and attended by
the entire staff, the cat gave
birth to one kitten two hours
after arrival at the dispensary.
The medical attendants were ex.
pecting additional blessed events
during the day. -.
The Washington times., 1938-03-02
court CLEARED
FOR COOK TRIAL
i'm SIMMS CASE
Girl Testifies Against
HyattsviIIe Youth

After the court room had been
cleared Of more than a score Of
her teen-age schoolmates, 15-year-
old Lois Mimms, Hyattsville High
School student and choir singer,
took the witness stand in Hyatts-
vile police court today to testify
against 18-year-old Clay Cook, who
is accused of a statutory offense.
Showing no signs Of nervous
ness, the attractive young girl
told Judge George B. Merrick the
alleged offense was committed at
Cooks home February II, four
days before she fled from Hyatts-
vile with him.
MET HIM AT HOME
She met Cook, a fellow student,
at the high school, Lois said, and
they skipped their classes to go
to his home that afternoon. No
mention was made of her flight
from home which led her parents
to fear she had been kidnapped.
Mrs. o. L. Simms, only other
witness called at the hearing,
merely testified that her daughter
was under age when the alleged
offense was committed.
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Cook pleaded not guilty and
was ordered held under $1,000
bond for action of the Grand Jury
He was taken into custody after
Federal agents found the two hid
ing in the woods near Purcell
vile, Va.
Before the hearing started,
groups of giggling school boys
and girls flocked into the court
room. States Attorney Alan Bowie
told Judge Merrick he did not
think the testimony should be
heard by young girls and asked
that the courtroom be cleared.
Judge Merrick ordered police to
clear the court of all persons un-
der 81,