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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff CorrespOndent

DA LAOA lAAAbENAOOAN
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Hollywood, March With a peasant 'kerchief tied over her red dish head, and with pleased smile of wonderment on her pretty face, Mireille Balin looks exactly like Hollywood's idea of an immigrant girl. Which she is.
 About three months ago, when she came here to try to earn her living in the Sweatshops of the cinema, Mile. Balin had most of her worldly possessions done up in 28 trunks. She was a lonely little figure, unaccompanied ex- cept by a staff of servants.
 After many wearying hours of searching for lodgings suitable to her means, she finally rented a 10-room cottage with an ordinary outdoor swimming pool.
 Then, because everybody in this far-flung film center has to have a car of some sort, Mile. Balin again dipped into her savings and bought an Hispano-Suiza no big ger than a ten-ton truck.
 She Seldom" Goes Out
 Although she says that she does not have moch monee-not so much, anyway, but that she has to work to get more-Mlle. Balin seems quite a lot better off than most other newcomers from Europe. Or maybe this one is spendthrift. Of course she earned a great many francs during her three years of picture making in France.
 The actress explained that she has been vereee buseee here, what with three hours of English study every day, and singing lesson, and makeup and screen tests, and seeing selected movies and report ing to Billy Grady, foreign talent supervisor.
 This was the first interview Metro had permitted. It had not, however, withheld her from social circulation. She said:
 "I nevaire go to partee or night clops only maybe two, tree times week."
 In Paris, after posing for a few advertisements in color, Mile. Ba. lin was sought out and hired by the noted French director, Pabst. Her first picture, she said, was Donkey Show" Donkey Show?' But yes - Donkey Show" She took my pencil and wrote it out Don Quixote."
 Likes What She Likes
 She became star soon after that. Made one appearance with Fernand Gravel. Her greatest suc- cess was "Pepe le Moko," which has been shown in some metropolitan centers of this country. Word has come to her, she says, that when her English has improved Louis B. Mayer intends putting her into a picture with Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable.
 T hope eet ees true" she said. "Thees Tracy ees by best actor, but also Paul Muni. They say I am not to speak of Paul Muni be- cause eet ees not for thees studio he works. But I like what like -no?" Yes.
 She has - or kad-tremendous vitality and vivacity. Ate four or five meals 8 day and was never still minute. Now her appetite has dwindled to three meals, and she has lost five pounds, and cannot sleep at night. "No pep" mourned Mile. Balin. Pep'-okay? like slang. In two weeks maybe I am dead"
 In films, she explained, she al- ways has been leetle vamp. She is not an actress dramatique. The makeup experts here have been conducting some alarming experi- ments with her. They poot my eyebrow up; they poot my eve
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
ISLAND NEEDS SOIL FOR FAIR

San Francisco, (UP)-Treasure Island, the artificial isle created in San Francisco bay for the 1889 Golden Gate International exposi- tion, has reached the point where it needs skin grating operation. It is in the market for 10000 cubic yards of top soil necessary for it's $2,000,000 landscaping program.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
Glamor Girls With An Accent!

EDITORS NOTE: This is the last of six stories on the foreign actresses imported by Holly wood, who place the accent on glamOr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
SAND SKIER

George Murphy. Metro Goldwyn- Mayer actor, has introduced the new sport of "skiing at the beach" on the wet sand behind a team of horses.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25
HERE is A REAL INTER-STATE WAR


the United States with Montana participating Mon-
Montana campaign Down in Ernest
thompson candidate for governor running platform
antNew York He quotes Mayor LaGuarda saying
Texas in for manufacturing New York will go raising its
potatoes. Then he shouts:
I'VE have been suckers for hundred years shipping
raw materials and to New York for those people
get rich and then shipping the finished product
and paying the freight both they could become
richer"
when sucker decides quit being sucker
who have been Fleeing him get excited We coming
in Texas and New York doesn't like it."
LGuarda going to pillow and down with potatoes and
spinachw
Prosperity at the grass roots of the soil and
build upward he declared 81 firmly that the idea of
prosperity dripping down from New York Chicago
sOutely and positively wrong in theory"
TAXES APPROACH TOTAL VALUE OF CRUDE OIL
Total taxes imposed upon the petroleum industry the
sale of its products in 1887 represented levy nearly per
the American Petroleum Industries Committee Estimated
at $314865361 the petroleum tax bill fell short by
$2O00O0 of the total value of crude oil produced 1897
ported at just $5OO0OOOOO" by the u s. of
Mines ~ss4
produce the 900 barrels of crude oil re-
red last meet the demand for petroleum products
industry utilized oield facilities representing investment
of close to $6O0O 100000 Oil workers received
$2500O0O00 in and farmers landowners
of American industries given orders for equipment
supplies aggregating well S500OO00OO.
Governments income of 81 tax revenue
from crude oil and its products largely net Committee
points out since the petroleum Industry acted collector of
most of these taxes
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

''Why are you taking mat whistle
with you tonight -
II have . daae with football
- q -
Wife (cGlling downstairs. to hus-
band who has just returned home
at 3 ami: "John, is that your"
Husband: IT'D better be-"
Little bank roll ere we part
Let me hug you to my heart;
All the year I've chung to you
I've been faithful, you've been
true!
Little bank roll, in a day
You and I will start away,
To good vacation spot,
I'll come back, but You will not.
1t was a warm, sleepy afternoon
and the little grain OF wheat grew
more and more drowsy as she was
waited back and forth by a gentle,
soothing breeze, and she went fast
asleep, While she slept a harvester
came Along so when she woke up
she found herself in a great grain
cry. surprised, she cried out: my,
my have been REAPED."
When the fleet came in, there
were a lot of girls down at the
wharf to greet the Sailors but not
enough to go around so there were
still 20 sailors when there was but |
one girl left: a gaunt middle-aged
spinstress that all the other sailors
had passed by. There being no /
choice the 90 sailors agreed to
lake this one soy they rowed, her
over to an island and lined up in
orderly fashion to each get a kiss.
rhe first one in the line, a short,
'udgy sailor. was so well pleased
hat he ran around and stood at the
md of the line. Others saw him
md in turn reformed the line.
But the spinstress recognized the
'udgy sailor and she stood up with
reat dignity and said: what do
on think am, a harlot"? |
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

him and presently he repeated in
j louder veice, I don't believe 3
word in that book
Losing patience, the minister
turned and looked at his interrupt
er. my good man.. he said, would
you mind going to hell quietly?''
He: How much does it take to
make you dizzy?"
She Two dollars, and the name
is not Dizzy it's Daisy"
Cant the democrats of this town
get together?" inquired the political
exhorter in Kentucky.
Get together" answered the
man with adhesive tape on his ear;
''why, it takes II deputy sheriffs
to keep 'em apart!'s
Maybe If prosperity came back we
could get the girls1 finger nails
out of the red. 30 ms 7iias
= si0fssl-gHSsn
Mary had little carl9B1 nlsHrfo.
She learnedn ftdI drive quite wellC
But she ran into a telephone post s.
And broke il all to pieces. %
etSa~ 81 0ae
Asked why he. did not spend his
winters in California like Bill Nc
Knight and other plutocrats. Lon
Srumley replied that he didn't care
or California and its movie actors
md other citrus fruits
May have the afternoon off
o 20 shopping with my wife?"
No"
Thanks" /
She; why, Doctor, you tole me
o show you my tongue, but you
aven't even looked at it,"
Doctor: mo It was only to
eep you quiet while wrote out
he prescription.
You can't tell. Maybe a fish goes
ONE and lies about the size of
lie bait he stole.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25
SUE CONTINENTAL

SHit to recover $40, 900 in dam
ages in sddition to $15O,OOO. for oil
aflegedly lost through failure to drill
offsets has been filed in district
court in Great Falls by attorneys
representing the Hart-Albin Co. of
Billings against Continental Oil Co.
of Delaware.
The oil lands are the former Hog
an Oil Co. properties in Kevin-Sun-
burst which were taken over by the
Mutual Oil Co. and merged into
Continental. 1t Is alleged that Con-
tinental failed to drill 40 wells
which should have been drilled and
that much oil has been taken by
offset producers from the Hogan
properties.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25
LUND PRODUCER

Cassidy is furnishing the derrick
and tools and the Kalispell group
will drill the well.
Another we'll was started this
week in the Midway area. It is
General Oils,State No. :, in NV
NEA SEE 6-35-4W, This is over
a mile east of the new Lund-Dahlen
producer. The royalties from this
well will go to the state school
funds. The proverbial luck of state
lands in oil fields will be given its
first try in the West Kelvin area
with the drilling of this well.
West Kelvin Community-Fs No.
well, NEL NWA S-3f-4W, is
500 barrels of water per
day but has shown no aDpreciable
amount of oil, after having pumped
about 200 barrels following second
acidization. The owners hope to
be able to exhaust the water and
bring the oil back. This well had
a good showing of oil at the top
of the sand but drilled on into
water.
Spencer & Kincheloe-Cook No.
l. NV SWA SEA 26-S4-4W, have
rig up and are spudded
Grant-Anderson No 1, Sc NEA
NEA 26-35-4W is still waiting for
acidizatdon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

who's that awful lookfns femme
in blue over there by the orche@-
6ra?1
That's my aunt"
sch, don't mean her. / mean
that horrible one who looks as IL
Sc had on q fake face"
She's my sister"
boy, she sure can dance"
And that is a skyscraper," an
nouneed the guide.
'fOh yeah7 Well, let's see It
work." replied the wise guy.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25
SKAGCS TEST
(continued from Page Onei


The geological work was done by L.
N. Foss. Lewistown geologist, who
determined that the structure is
fully enclosed. There are good
chances for production at the top
OF the Madison lime, he reports,
and the spot is ideal for a Devon
ian test. The Madison lime should
be around 1900 feet thick at this
point, he believes.
Baughman & Singley have per-
sonally financed the test up to the
present time. They are now seek
ing a small amount of additional
capital to care for contingencies a.
rising from drilling into the first
oil horizon. They expect to accom-
plish this by the issuance of some
royalties.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

He was attending the funeral OF
Great Falls business man at the
Catholic cathedral. AS the priest be-
gan chanting the high mass. Eddie
leaned over to an oil man Sitting
next to him and said: "Sold l..
to American Tobacco company.
Reba: "Now before we start for
this ride, l want to tell you that
don't smoke, drink or flirt. /
visit no wayside inns and expect to
be home by ten o'clock"
Charlie: You're mistaken"
Reba: You mean that I do any
of those things?"
Charlie: "No. mean about start
ing for this ride"
Can you do the work?
Work. Why, I thought you want
ed a foreman.
A minister on a westbound train
was reading his Bible when a man
leaned over the back of his seat
and said: 81 don't believe a word
IN that book. The minister ignored
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

which revealed q fault the presence of
which was known, but the exact dimen-
sions of which were heretofore unknown.
To a geologist, the presence of this fault
in a petrolferous area such as Pondera
oil field district means, excellent possi-
bilities. There is no other geological
feature of 80 great Importance in the
Sweetgrass Arch, so far as is KNOWN.
The success of the we'll north of Pend
roy will usher in a new epoch in pros
pecting in Montana. The next step, as
we see it. will likely be to determine
the subsurface thighs" OF present oil
fields such as POndera sBannatyne
and Kevin-S unburatss The, history. of
other fields tells us3& that the present
known thigh" of the Kelvin field, as an
example, may not coincide with the
high ON the deep lDeyonian or Ordo-
viciana formations. The high" OF the
lower formations may be ON the flanks
Of the structure as now mapped Since
/ fhe Oil we are now recovering from the
top of the Madison lime is doubtless
coming upward from lower formations, IT
is apparent that the person who can
determine the high of the source for
nations below will have an opportunity
to make a lot of money. That day is
coming, and it is our guess that it is
mot far off.
The next step will pc to attempt to
locate another Turner Valley" along
the east face of the Rocky Mountains.
There are some 500 miles of sharply fold
ed beds along the Rockies with geologi-
cal conditions similar to the great Tur-
aner Valley oil and gas field Does it
seem POSSIBLE let alone PROBABLE
that the only accumulation Of its kind
in this 500 miles 1t at Turner Valley?
We doubt it. The complexity of the
structural condition is such as to make
it a difficult matter to find more such
oil fields. Geophysics will help solve
that problem.
With the science of geophysics, Mon
ana is one more step closer toward dts
goal as one of the greatest oil producing
states in the nation. We have had no
really big production as yet That will
come with deep drilling Our shallow
oil fields have proven highly profitable
as compared with states where drilling
has been much more expensive. There
is every reason to believe that with the
coming Of deep sand production we will
have many fields of the Turner Valley
type.
1t is a wonderful opportunity to know
the situation as it exists in Montana
today. We look back at the early days
when great fortunes were made and we
would not trade places with those pion-
GERS whose hazards were so much
greater at a time when the value of cru6
was so highly probfematical. Today there
may be overproduction and local problems
but we know positively that every barrel
Of oil remaining in the ground is growing
more and more valuable as the expanded
use of the internal combustion motors
continues.
GROUND ROYALTY in
sheets are available
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25
We Wouldn't Trade Opportunities

tt HERE is no other industry in which
science has made greater progress
in recent years than the petroleum
industry and the person who does not
keep abreast of the rapid change is in
deed destined to be left behind Every
branch of the petroleum. industry today
has devices which seem nothing less than
MIRACLES in the light of two decades
ago.
We look back to the days when kero-
sene was the principal product of pet
roleum, when John D. Rockefeller and
others made the greatest fortunes in his
tory, and we regret that we did not own
oil lands at the time when it was dis
covered that the gasoline, which was for
merly the drug on the market. was the
most valuable part of the crude We
know how great fortunes were made.
The greatest winnings went to those who
saw the price of crude bill at 80 cents
a barrel and knew that this crude was
destined to be worth much more, Then,
as now, the fortunes went to the people
who could look into the future Certainly
it was the most risky business in the
world.
One of the greatest risks was in selec-
ting the sites for wells to be drilled for
oil. In the beginning the rule OF
'creekology" was invoked it being be-
lieved that oil would be found along
creek bottoms. That rule did not work
Then came the evolution of the anticlinal
theory, which was not formally accepted
by the United States Geological Survey
until about 1912. The anticlinal theory
gave the first dependable rule for search
ing out new pools of oil. But it had its
limitations in that it depended upon
the ability of the geolgist Ito see ex-
posures of familiar rocks.
Many devices were brought out. called
doodle bugs, which were intended to
look through thick mantels of glacial
moraine and other surface materials,
which covered exposures but none of them
were ever successful. There was nothing
scientific about them. At the same
time, scientists were at work on devices
to measure the density of the earth.
They had already found out how to de-
termine the depth of the ocean so science
followed these methods with view to
determining the depth to certain distinct
formations such as lime and granite.
Thus man was able, for the first time, to
see into the ground. This science is
called geophysics.
While this method of locating oil wells
is virtually unknown in Montana the
discovery of most of the new oil fields
in California, Texas and the Midconti-
nent in recent years has been due to the
wide use Of the Seismograph in locating
test wells.
Simplified, the procedure follow
- cd in seismics surveys is to fire a
Charge of dynamite below the sur
face of the earth, vibrations from
which are recorded on a very sensi-
tive instrument located some dis
This week we are issuing
Kevin-Sunburst field, with OIL
to those interested in investI
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

lance away AS the speed and in
tensity of the shock, as recorded
vary proportionately with distance
and density of the formation, and
the first three being known, the
latter factor may be calculated
large number of these shots with
in given area enables engineers 10
plot general structural trends with
reasonable accuracy.
Heretofore the geologist measured the
degree of dip of the strata to the east to
the north, to the west and to the south.
respectively, on the four sides of he
structure. If one of these sides was OBJ
scured by overburden Of gravel and soil.
the geolOgist was compelled many times
to guess at the closure. AS a result it
was seldom that a geologist was able to
get the high" spot of a structure with
his first well.
With, the seismograph, the engineers do
not guess. The early attempts at geo.
physical prospecting were not 100 per
cent accurate but by experience the degree
OF error has been reduced so materially
that major companies will not drill a
wildcat well until the location has been
checked by a geophysical crew. While
the presence of a structure does not in
sure the presence of oil, the ratio of
failures has grown smaller and smaller
as wells are drilled in territory known
to be petroliferous.
The seismograph has just arrived in
Montana. The new sciences have been
slow In reaching this state. and it may
be just as well that they shall have been
definitely proven in other states before
introduction to Montana This is the
case with the seismograph. We doubt
very much that wildcat wells will be
drilled in Montana in the future without
seismograph guidance. 1t costs so little
to check a known structure, that the
average operator cannot afford to gamble
missing the high" Where the presence
of oil in the area is determined by wells
drilled nearby, the high" that has geo.
physical approval is quite likely to trap
some oil
The first spot where geophysics is be-
ing applied in the Sweetgrass Arch is at
Pendroy structure where Golf State Oil
company and Zodiac Oil Company are
drilling north of Pendroy. This is not
far from Pondera oil field. It is in a
spot where several wells drilled have
had oil but not in commercial quantities.
The geophysical survey shows that There
IS a structure present that would serve
as an ideal trap for oil. If there is
enough hydrostatic pressure in the region
to hold the oil up in the trap, it would
seem that the necessary factors ara pre-
sent to make an oil field.
Wells drilled heretofore were located
by the less exact methods of geology,
the rules of which showed that there was
structure In the regioR. The biologists
We're moving closer and closer to the
fold, but they might easily have missed
it entirely had It not been for geophysics
publication on a PROVEl
producing well. Formal SEA
mt in this type of royalty.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

This week issuing publication PROVEN GROUND
field with
to those interested in investment in this type royalty
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-06-25

Maybe If prosperity came back we
could get the girls1 finger nails
out of the red. 30 1ns igs
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-01-20
Floyd &16o..&,
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
sFiend in the Night
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter

ELLO, EVERYBODY:
It would be bad enough for to have adven-
ture like this one m going to tell But for
-well-t must have been at least ten times worse.
Geraldine German, r. NJ Brooklyn
sent the story the
rbe ordeal relates
don't know whether Geraldine
Both OF them did pretty good Of
So guess I'll have to hang medal both Of them
To begin with Geraldine d .
In 1892 when graduated
to work In local santarum
this sanitarium,
ture caught with the shock le
Drug Addict Broke In.
There three other
sanitarm but they another building hapast
eleven and Geraldine sitting writing
quietdeahy quiet
loud metallic ticking suddenly
Of her chair broken
+.
Geraldine down the hall investigate stopped
the sight hng figure climbing through the broken window She
almost sheer the moonlight filtered
through the shattered she recognized the Karlo
sian drug addict whom the sanaru had discharged
only few weeks before.
II stood rooted Geraldine,
thing encountered steel cast cutter with
knielike edge teeth Karons
Open medicine KILL he Erowed shaking the thing
ut
Geraldine knew what he wanted medicine
Dope He insane with the craving But instead opening
the she turned and down the hail. she could beat that
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-01-20
Still Coughing?

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold, or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with Circumcision.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take q chance
with any remedy less potent than
Circumcision, which goes right to
the seat Of the trouble and aids ma
tWe to Soothe and heal the infiamed
mucous membranes and to loosen
ana expel the germ-laden phlegm.
:. Even Il other remedies have failed.
don't be discouraged, try Creomul.
don. Your druggist Is authorized to
refund your money II you are not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene.
nfs obtained from the very first
cottle. Circumcision Is one word-not
TWO and It has no hyphen In it.
ASK Tor It plainly, see that the name
on the bottle Is Creomulsion, and
yum get the genuine product and
sne relief you want. (Adv.) -.