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Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

either side of the track. hurled
heavy steel plates over the train
and onto a highway 100 yards dis
tant and demolished 10 cars. The
wreckage of the engine. one of the
largest freight types built, was blown
into the Clark Fork river.
The blast occurred just after the
train had left one tunnel and ap-
proximately three minutes before
it was due to head into another
Had the explosion occurred inside
either one of the tunnels many more
would have been killed or injured,
railway officials said
The 100 or more transients riding
the train were shaken off like flies
or banged and rolled around inside
box cars and REFERS. Many OF
them, although bruised and shaker,
aided in rescue work.
The dead
Engineman Ernest WeStin.
Fireman Elva Dunlap.
Brakeman Ernest Bedillion.
Raymond -, Is, Norfolk, Neb.,
a transient.
Christian Nissen, MiSsoula.
The railroad reported that more
than 100 transients were riding on
the train. Fifty men were riding
in one box car, an official said.
The right of way of the railroad
was torn up by the blast. Railroad
men said it would be "a hours before
service could be restored.
A worker in a powerhouse mile
away, one of the first to reach the
scene, said the engine exploded be-
fore leaving the rails and that steel
plates tore into box cars in the
center of the train.
Cause of the wreck was not i'm
mediately determined.
A members of wrecking crew
said the body of the Norfolk youth
had been cut in two.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

he fired the first shot in his nation
wide offensive on those battle fronts
where the philosophy of the New
Deal is being challenged in primary
contests.
Flanked by opposing Democratic
candidates for the senate-former
Governor George White and Senator
Robert j. Bulkley, an old Harvarc
classmate-Mr Roosevelt Specifical-
ly paid tribute to Bulkley for his
work in projecting administration
reforms, referring to him affection
ately as Bob.
The president, offering vigorous
verbal defense of his policies, haileo
his administrations. protective
status" as mutual insurance COM
panies that in effect were but a
return TO the healthy practices of
mutual Self-help of the early set
tiers of the northwest.
lllo SI)CCIll WctS III OOlllltCGlOli NIOii
the 150th anniversary celebration
of the settling of the northwest
territory.
Il am sure they (the American
people, know we will always have
a frontier-of social problems-anc
that we must always move in anC
! bring law and order to it. In tina
confidence I am pushing on. l an
sure you will push on with me-" hi
| said.
The presidential party left almos
Immediately for Covington, KY.
where the president is TO Speat
at 800 pm. at LatOnia race track
His speech was anXiously awaited
by KentuckianS who are witnessing
q heated campaign for the Senatori-
al nomination between Sen. Alber
w, Barkley, New Deal favOrite, anc
Governor A. B. Chandler.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Woman KiIled d as
Ship PIummets
To Earth

BILLINGS, Mont, July 8
(UP)-A woman was killed,
one man and one woman
were injured and seven other
persons escaped injury to-
day when a big Northwestern Air
lines plane crashed just after the
take-off here on an eastbound trip
Walter Bullock, the pilot of the
new Lockheed Zephyr had gained
only about 100 feet altitude when
the plane began losing speed ano
nosed down. 1t hit the earth about
1000 yeardS from the airport run
way and then careened crafty
alnog the rough terrain until it
crashed into a jack pine at the edge
of a 15-foot canyon.
Witnesses said that but for the
tree the plane would have plunged
into the rocky canyon and that the
casualty toll no doubt would have
been higher. When the plane hit
the tree it swung around and stop
ped. Both motors we're shaken loose
by the impact.
Il don't know how it happened"
Bullock said.
A. R. Mensing, division traffic
manager, also was puzzled by the
circumstances of the crash. He in
dicated the line would start an in
vestigation Immediately. A. l.. Me
meyer, bureau of air commerce in
spector who was on the plane, was
ordered by his Washington office
to start the governments inquiry.
Mrs. NJ S. Mackie of Evanston,
ILL.,, died an hour and a half after
the accident from a head injury
suffered when she was thrown clear
of the plane. Her husband suffered
dislocated shoulder and Mrs. w
j. Tindale, of Slocum, British Col
umbia, was bruised about the head
and shoulders.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

FA5OiOuoly 1Iley IOIeCdSJ CndC Cne
turn has been made. Business
should now continue to pickup very
rapidly, at least until election day.
Everyone should be cheerful ana
happy over the events of the last
few days. Had the recession Of
1888 continued at the rate it was
travelling in recent months, the only
result could have been economic
chaos in the United States.
Business today is nearly five per
cent higher than a month ago. II
reached 28 per cent below normal
on the Babsonchart at the bottom
of the dip compared with minus 40
per cent at the extreme pit of the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

old depression. Today, 1t has re-
covered to 25 per cent uLder nor
NAL and is rising weekly. While we
have had several false starts In this
recession. I am convinced that this
one is the real turning point. The
other temporary pick-ups we're not
preceded or accompanied by the
traditional signs of an important
change in the business trend. THIS
current turn has come with most
familiar barometers forecasting bet
ter times ahead. Here are some
Of the most important Of these
indicators:
Continued on Page 81 Col. a.
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been unable to locate the woman
mentioned.
The gun, a 80 calibre automatic
Colt pistol, was found last night
on a vacant lot several blocks from
the postoffice. A check disclosed
it was sold by the Colt factory to
a San Francisco firm in 1917 Hurst
telegraphed San Francisco police
to try to trace its ownership there
Attempt to obtain additional infor-
nation about Gray from Frances
Bleakley, New Castle, Pa, girl, to
whom he had posed as a single
man, failed when she refused to
Continued on Page 3; Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
THE STORY OF KENNY,
LEMONADE AND MARBLES

Fred Riddle is thinking of mailing
his grocery store to the earth to
keep Kenny Stevens, 8, from as
suming full and legal ownership
one of these days.
The first move Kenny made was
to suggest a sort of stock company
arrangement in the lemonade busi-
ness Kenny peddleS lemonade
around the nei9hborhood in what
Riddle has every reason to believe
is a highly lucrative manner. He
peddles lemonade to Riddle, too.
but refuses to accept money in pay
ment. He demands lemons as a
neat way of skipping payment OF
the usual retail profit.
Last week Kenny suggested that
he and Riddle engage in friendly
game of marbles. Riddle took him,
although he has neglected to play
marbles for a matter of 80 years.
He beat Kenny. That discouraged
but did not daunt Kenny. He went
home and practiced marbles from
dawn til dark. He then demanded
a return engagement.
"You'd better bring an ambulance
and Stretcher with you because
that's the way you're going to leave
after / beat you again. Riddle
warned him.
So Kenny appeared for a grudge
game with a little wagon logged
out in an excellent imitation of the
genuine article. He even had
Charles Aaron, 8, as official ambu-
lance driver.
The deadly marble game was on
They played and played. At las,
Riddle won again. Then Kenny Sug-
geSted that Charles drop his ambu-
lance driver role for the moment
and make the third in a three
handed game. He did.
When the whole thing was over
Charles had all the marbles. Kenny
went home in the ambulance with
Charles at the wheel
Riddle watched them drive away.
He was puzzled. He recalled that
he had beaten Kenny. He next re-
called that Charles had beaten him
At last he realized that Charles
was Kenny'S second and official
representative.
After all, wasn't Kenny riding
home with the marbles at his feet?
So That's What
The 100 Imperial Valleyites who
attended the Seattle-San Diego
Digo baseball game at San Diego
Thursday night made SO much noise
on behalf of SEATED that San Diego
felt more or less like sending over
an eXpeditionary force to wipe out
the bolSterouS upstart community.
One San Diegan in the grandstand
listened to Jack Tackett howl un-
til he could stand it no longer He
turned, anger written all over his
phiz.
'Pipe down, you cantaloupe eat
Continued on Page 3 Col. -
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Employment Setup
Shift Sche eduIed

Russell Bailey, state Employment
service director in Imperial county,
will attend a conference of west
ern managers of the service in San
Francisco next week.
1t is planned to revamp the whole
California setup, he said, to con-
form with federal plans. District
headquarters will be dissolved and
each county work directly under the
state headquarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

Police Chemist Ray Pinker said
his tentative findings indicated a
woman had held the gun when it
was discharged, instantly killing
Gray as he sat in his automobile
in front of the Hollywood postof-
flee.
On the basis of Pinker's prelimin-
ary report, Detective Lloyd Hurst
expressed the opinion that the slay-
er was a woman, possibly the one
mentioned in an anonymously
written postcard.
Beware Gray was killed by =
-, the prostitute" the card stated,
1t was received by the police sew
eral days ago but so far they have
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Madman Downed
In Police Battle

CLEVELAND, July 8. CUP) -
Police shot and killed an escaped
madman today after he had stabbed
and fatally wounded patrolman
with a knife.
Maniac was Matthew Bubich, 48
Officers blinded him with tear gas
and shot him three times. The
shooting occurred in the butcher
shop formerly owned by Bubich
after he had thrust an 11-inch
knife into the stomach of Patrol
man Robert Wehagen.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Filipino Sent Up
In Morals Case

Casamiro Inez, Filipino, will serve
a penitentiary term for Committne
morals offense against an eight
year-old Mexican girl.
At the close of a iSryless trial
Thursday Judge R. d. McPherrin
found the islander :,uilty Deputy
District Attorney r. I. French and
Defense Attoreny Don Bitter COM
pleted their cases in less than six
hours
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Court UphoIds
Produce Verdict

The fourth district court of ap-
peal upheld the Imperial county
superior court in finding Leo Ter
kanian guilty of violating the state
agriculture code.
The produce buyer was found
guilty of acting as a produce dealer
without the required state license,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Dance Hall Jury
In disagree eement

WINTERHAVEN July "a jury
summoned to hear Frank Miilers
trial on a charge of operating a
dance hall without license, dis
agreed late Thursday and was dis
missed by Judge T. E. White.
The defense contended the coun-
ty ordinance demanding an annua!
fee of 5000 was unconstitutional.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

pOIIOC'
The city returned to normal af-
ter the marines, British and French
soldiers and settlement police tool;
matters into hand. Settlement and
French concession forces had beer
mobilized on the largest scale since
the battle for Shanghai last fal..
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Property Division
Asked d byWife

Division of community property
valued in excess of $4,000 is asked
by Anne 1. Cannon in divorce
suit filed Friday against Ross M.
Cannon of Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
SRA Applications
On Increase Here

June this year brought six times
as many applications for relief to
the SRA office as was the case
last year, Robert Elliott, SRA dir
ector. said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Gray Death Gun
Aids Murder Hunt

HOLLYWOOD July (UP)---A theory that King D..
Gray, middcaged movie cameraman had been killed by
a Jealous injected sharply into the again
today when a preliminary examination of the death gun
indicated the presence of a Woman's fingerprnts
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Disaster Hits Railroad,
" *s
Air|iner in Same Day as y
Passenger Plane Crashes
Freight Engine ExpIodes in He'll Gate
Canyon Of Montana, Trees FIattened
For 300 Yards, IOCars Demolished

MISSOULA, Mont, July (UP)-A giant Northern
Pacifc freight train locomotive exploded He'll Gate
canyon 27 miles east of here early today killing five men
and njurng Is others in Montanas third train disaster
in three weeks The blast fattened trees for 300 wards on
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Elect Forward Looking Men to Run
Government, Roosevelt Urges in
First Cross-Country Speech
Opening Gun Fired in Defense of New Deals
Liberal Policies as Primary Elections
Draw Near in Many Crucial States

MARIETTA, o., July UP)-Under a blazing Ohio
sum- President Roosevelt today called upon the American
people elect forward looking representatives to
their government
A crowd estimated at 100000 hailed the chief executive
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
SumiSh Must Produce
Income Tax Records at
Grand Jury Graft Inquiry
Brewers Und er Fire; Lobbyist Tells How
$4,000 Fund Distributed to Campaign
Funds of Favored Candidates

SACRAMENTO, July 8 (UP)-Distrct Attorney Otis
D. Babcock today served Arthur Samsh, San Francisco
lobbyist with subpoena directing him produce his in
tax records personal working copies and other in
formation the session of the Sacramento county
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08
Business U pturn
Here Says Bobson
- BY ROGER BABSON =

OMAHA, Neb, July 8-Busness has finally hit bot
tom and bouncing back Conditions have improved sharp
y IN the last several weeks Sentiment has changed al
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

Donald Newbod Of Los Angeles is pictured he fell into
faint when jury exoneated him Of the death Of his
Newbod and his daughters husband Boyd Guney
engaged in fight when Guney who had been drinking
fell dead Testimony Of victims widow Dolores Gurney cleared
father She said the inquest her husband had started the
scuffe with Newbod and while she trying TO separate them
they fell TO the floor Then Gurney lips turned blue. The Jury
gave the cause Of death heart attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

Butter: Los Angeles, 27cl But
terfat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch
grade A, Csc; manufacturing milk.
29c, route gathered cream, 26c.
L. A. Hay: U. =. No. S13.50-it.
No. 2 Ieafy S12.50-13. No. 2 S12.OO.
Minneapolis flax July S1.79
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-08

y in historic MuSkingum park here as
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
HOLE TOUSE
0-ETHEL At
SPOKANE PLANT

The refinery being constructed
at Spokane will Turn out standard
gasoline at the rate OF from $4,000
to 100000 gallons per month, ac-
cording to B. V. Hole, who is con-
structing the plant. Hole and as
sociates recently took over the old
r. K Neil refinery north of Hill
ward, and near the proposed plant
Of Inland Refineries, and is now re-
conditioning it with plans of run
ming first crude about September 30
The gasoline to be produced will
be a standard grade of lead-treated
motor fuel which is between the
first grade and third structure gaso-
line 1t will be sold at the plant at
151s cents wholesale The plant
win also be able to sell fuel oil at
from one cent to a cent and half
under present Spokane market.
He will erect storage for half
million gallons of refined products
and will add a modern fractionating
tower to present stills and by the
expenditure of about $4,000 ex-
poets to have the plant in shape to
handle 500 barrels of oil daily
Hole has had nSuch experience in
handling Cut Bank crude in the Hole
Brothers refinery east of Cut Bank
which has been in successful opera
tion for several years.
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MAGNETOMETERS.

One who discussed the matter with
us pointed out that a crew with magnetic
meters once worked In the Sweetgrass
Arch. They were employed by Midwest
Refining company and the work was Largely
experimental. Since that time this type
of geophysics has made great advances
and a large number Of oil fields have
been discovered by drilling magnetic
highs, located with improved equip
ment, improved technique and improved
interpretation This is a process of de-
tdrmining structural conditions by
measurement OF magnetic intensity. The
great success of StandOlind in the Mid
continent has been largely due to its
success in finding oil fields ON magnetic
highs
We are informed that a magnetOmeter
crew worked the region north of ChOteau
Teton county, along the east face of the
Rocky Mountains recently. No definite I'M
formation is available.
Certain 1t is that Old-fashiOned meth
DDS of well location are at an end. No
prOspector will drill a wildcat well today
unless he has the guidance of modern
scientific instruments. Geology still has
an important part but geophysics have
become the right hand of geology.
There are scores of other factors in
the advancing science of the oil industry
which we might enumerate. One of
these is MISREPRESENTATION ratio
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
COMPLETION
is Due SOON IN
WEST kelvin

A crooked hole, developed just
above the pay sand, delayed COM
pletion this week of the General Oil
state No. well, NV NEA SEX
36-35-4W, which reached a depth
of 1895 feet but had to plug back
to 1875 feet to straighten it out.
Fas time had been made in drill
ing this well.
This is one of two active opera
tions in the West Kelvin district
Cassidy-Phoenix No. 1 CNL
NWH NWA 2S-S5-4W, is drilling
at PAS.
Lund-Dahlin No. l, c SEA NV 4
35-35-4W, continues TO pump IL
barrels per day. without acidiza-
ton.
West Kelvin Community-Fee No.
l NEA NWA 3-S4-4W, continues
to pump, making mostly water, but
the owners hope to overcome the
water and allow the oil to come
back in.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

the marriage ceremony.
Years Afterwards he mst the
bridegrooras and shaking him BY
the hand. Remarked
Well, John, if'@ Just ten yeara
ago this month that gave you
such an awful fright"
YES" said John gloomily, ''and
I've still got her!"
Mary had a little plane
And through the air did frisk
Wasn't she q silly
Her precious
One of the greatest bunch of
'jobbers' in the Kelvin oil fields is
the dozen or so big game hunters
of Shelby and Kelvin who go each
fall to Big river country for elk.
The rest of the year they figure out
practical jokes on one another.
The pay-off came last week when
the men gave a ''stork shower" for
Ross J. Smiley, one of the members
who is an expectant father. The
men brought the customary pres
ents plus a poker deck.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
RICE AIDS FARMERS

Few men in the oil industry are
as frequently called upon and there
are not many who respond more
frequently to those calls than w. E.
Rice of Great Falls. according to
intimate friends. AS a recent ex-
ample a group of Conrad people
called upon him to assist them in
acidizing a well which they had
drilled to the Madison lime but
were unable to complete. The well
is known as the Kirk-KellOg No. 1,
north of Pondera oil field. With
no other interest than to help them
out. Rice agreed to furnish a crew
if the well owners would furnish the
acid. Unfortunately, it was found
that the tubing was either collapsed
or plugged up as it was impossible
to get acid into the hole, so the at
tempt at acidization failed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23

NV OTHING in the 10 years we have
been in the royalty business has
stirred up more interest and COM
ment than our article last week. on
Believe It or nOts" of the oil industry.
Instead of interesting only royalty menu
bers we heard from a number of opera
tors who are likewise interested in the
forward movement of the oil industry.
We have been called upon TO run
series of articles dealing with the various
phases which were merely suggested
under the caption Believe 1t or not
last week. This we cannot do, but we
will issue new publications on the SUBJ
jects which we have not heretofore COW
cred, il there is sufficient demand for
them.
Chief interest. we find, Is in geOphysi-
cal prospecting. We are Informed that
the accuracy and resultant value of the
seismOgraph has been established at Pend
roy where a well now drilling has defin-
itely established the presence of a fault
which could not be accurately located
without geOphysical instruments, and the
well Furthermore established the accuracy
of seismOgraph readings i'm rejecting the
structural 'high
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
WASH YOUR NAME Gu1CH

Robert Modifying, postmaster OF
Deer Lodge, Montana, and associ-
ates are reported to have moved
the 1 4 yard dragline, a X yard
dragline, and 1,0O0-yard daily
capacity dredge to Your Name
Gulch about seven miles west of
Helmville, Montana. The equip
ment was purchased from the FL
dorado Gold Placer Mines Company
which formerly operated in Wash
ington Gulch near Deer Lodge.
About 10 men are employed in this
new operation.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
ELECTRONIC METHOD

DIR. f. Fl. Thurston of Boise, Idaho,
has described this method as follows:
1.-THE mOdus operandi of the electronic
method is analogous TO the operation of
an ordinary radio set. just as a radio
station is dialed or tuned in, so do oil,
gas, minerals. etc. have specific tuning
characteristics. This tuning character
istic must be determined by a study of
standard specimens of the objective. In
this way it is possible to differeniate
paraffine and asphalt base oils. The
tuning standard of minerals is determine
ed by a study of CP specimens of the
various metals and minerals. Many pulp
specimens, representative of different
value Of the various minerals, form the
basic assay, these pulp specimens are
used as standard, and the electrOnic
(radio) frequency is determined by
cOrreIative study. The interpretations of
values in the ground is in terms of
average gross tonnage"
To us 1t sounds something like the
despised doodle bug but we win not
refuse to believe anything that science
may bring forth in this age of marvels
and miracles. Little less miraculous is
the already established science of geo.
physics, by which we can 'see'' into the
ground and determine structure.
Even more amazing than the conserve
ton achievements of the discoveries and
producers of petroleum are the contri-
buttons TO conservation made and being
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
BUILD NEW ROAD

CONTINUED from Pase Onel
roads through timber of any kind
to reach a drilling location. As
the legends have It, Paul Bunyon
logged off an the vast plains on
which Montana's oil fields are
found.
The California we'll will be the
first serious effort of recent years
to find another Turner valley"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
QUIT WATER WELL

Daniels Petroleum wildcat well
near the town of Hardin, in sen
SEA 13-1S-33E, is to be abandoned
at total depth of 4,195 feet, in the
lime. 1t had a show of oil at that
depth but otherwise had water in
every sand. There were some IL
flows of water and the well was
cased to 1885 feet with S-inch cas-
water came from S4OO and S415
feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-07-23
KEEPING UP WITH SCIENCE

made by the refining branch of the
industry The development of the crock
ing process enables the manufacturer to
supply twice the amount of gasoline from
the same amount of crude oil which
would have been necessary a number of
wears ago and, as unbelievable as it may
seem, the fact is that, but for this re-
filming technique, IL would have taken
more than one billion barrels of addi-
tional petroleum to have satisfied the
cOuntry's 1897 demand for products.
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DOWN 10000
lcoatinued from Page Onel

In sufficient quantities to justify a
test. One and possibly two large
flows OF gas were encountered
above the Madison nme but the
great depth makes 1t doubtful
whether they are commercial at this
time.