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Evening star., 1939-12-03
Bv G.. Adams HO,vard.

Many features of the reorganiza-
ton bill are meritorious. But the
plan to abolish the Department OF
Vehicles and Traffic by the transfer
OF a part of its present duties to the
Police Department and the remain
ing to a proposed department OF IL
censes certainly Is unjustiflable, and
thinking citizens of Washington
have been whole-hearted in their
disapproval.
Fortunately, the matter appears
to be a dead issue. Opposition has
proven too great, as demonstrated
at the hearings held last week. Civic
leaders overwhelmingly have regis
tered their dissatisfaction.
There Is no reason for adding in
creased duties upon the present
undermined, underpaid Police De-
partment. And, likewise, there is
no excuse in the setting up of new
bureau, the proposed department OF
licenses. Fundamentally 1t Is un-
sound and also uneconomic.
The two present branches OF the
District government should remain
as now existing, separate but CO.
operative. The traffic branch is to
engineer, legislate and promulgate
safety, while the police end IS fol-
protection and regulation enforce
ment.
Because of the widespread interest
in the matter it might be well to
review the history of the Traffic De-
partment, it's duties and specific rea-
sons why it should remain undis-
turbed. So, let's look at the record
brought out in the hearings.
The Traffic Department OF the
District of Columbia was created ir
July, 1881, by an act of Congress
approved February q, 1881. Before
recommending to Congress the
establishment Of the department, the
Commissioners had secured advice
from the best-knoWn authorities II
the country on traffic matters, in.
cluding DR.. Miller McClintock, heac
of the Erskine Bureau of Traffic Re.
search of Harvard University.
The department took over the du'
ties of the director of traffic's Office
which had been created by act o.
Congress on March 3, 1925. The
object of the act of 1881 was to con.
solidate into one department al
activities of the District government
relating to traffic and motor vehicle:
except that of enforcement, which
is the function of the Police Depart.
ment and the courts.
Evidently the object and inten
of Congress, in establishing the de-
partment, was to set up depart
Evening star., 1939-12-03

falo, president of the American
Philatelic Society; Mr.. North, Mr..
Fellers and Mr.. Klein. Edward D..
Randall, chairman of the Arrange
mentS Committee, was toastmaster.
On Sunday morning the Philatelic
Writers breakfast provided opportu-
nifty for discussion of plans for the
centennial of the postage stamp next
May and other matters of interest
to stamp journalists. Elmer c..
Pratt, philatelic editor of the Cam
den Courier Post, was chairman, and
speakers included Justin L. Bacha-
rach, stamp editor of the New York
American; Robert B. Patton, Mer-
chantville, N. j.: DR.. Charles H.
Evans, president of the Souvenir
Issues Association, East Orange, N.
j.; Mrs. Eveleen w. Severn, presi-
dent of the Mekeel Publishing Co.,
Beverly, Mass: John A. Klemann
of New York, Mrs. Mary Garretron
Cooke, founder of the Women's
Stamp Club of LansdoWne, Pa;
Elliott Perry, Westfield, N. j.; Philip
H. Ward, jr., stamp editor of St.
Nicholas Magazine; Gordon Harmer
of London, Ezra D. Cole of Nyack,
N. Y; Julius Windner of Phila-
delphia. Mrs. Manning, Mr.. Fellers,
Mr.. Davenport, Mr.. Caldwell, Mr..
Lindquist, Mr. Warren and others.
Ralph A. Barry, philatelic editor
of the New York Herald Tribune, was
voted the honorary title of nation
al dean of philatelic writers" in sue
cession to the late John N. Luff
The designation is regarded as the
highest gift within the power of
the stamp Journalistic fraternity.
Albert Schwartz, 1725 Boardwalk,
Atlantic City, has the Congress
Book on sale. 1t contains all the
papers and, as usual, is priced at
cost of production.
Clarence w. Brazer, AIS Lexington
avenue, New York City, is the au-
thor of "a Historical Catalogue of
United States Essays and Proofs:
Trans Mississippi Series of 1898" re-
Gently published. The text runs to
48 pages and is illustrated with orig
inal sketches and half-tones.
Col. Fenton w. Wood of Okla
homa City has been elected presi-
dent of the Oklahoma Philatelic So
ciety. The 1910 convention and eX-
hibition of his organization, it has
been announced. will feature COM
memoration of the centenary of the
postage stamp.
Stamp meetings listed for the week
are as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Postage
Stamp Centenary Committee. mez-
canine, Hotel Mayfower, Connecticut
avenue at De Sales street NV.
David D. Caldwell, presiding.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth street NV. Pro-
gram, exhibition and bourse.
Tuesday evening at S:15-La Fay
cite Chapter No. 5, Royal Arch
Masons, fourth floor, Masonic Tenn
pie, New York avenue at Thirteenth
street NV. Gerard Ten Eyck Beck
man, speaker. Roland N. Benning-
hoven, chairman.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, north
room, main floor, Hotel Mayf1ower.
Perry w. Fuller, president, Baltimore
Philatelic Society, will discuss "Old
Times in Stamp Collecting" Harry
F. Dunkhorst, presiding.
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points GGnos zach Leroy in hs fnue samf mreh Dr j. D
Steinberg and j. D. Mothershed. seven
points each sams WrfnH4e yrEnl2 Beach ssSfn
points each, -open-pair contest. Virginia
Beach. and Louis Newman and j. D:
Mothershed. two, points each. same place;
and Or E B Connolly. four points each.
and Leroy Thurtell. two points. same; Tom
Haml,n Mrs HamIn wJsIne James ta,r H. hemon' nen'e
Mothershed o. j. B-otman and Louis
Newman. one point each same; mxed-pairii GnS psaIi
Kibler. two points each. and Dr. A. J.
steinbers and E. A. Perkins, one point
each same Beth R4dse ana sat
more: Louis Newman and J. D. Mother-
shed, five points each. same.
Among last weeks winners were
the following:
women-Miss Isabel Du B9is and nd..Ht Mss is 5
Doris Rockwell FIRST; Mrs June nle Hodfslns Rnas
and Miss Edythe Rose, third. ,,,.,.n,
and s C. Rowe f5st; Mrs: .Jond: J 1 WILSON VI =
H. wiley and Fred Munchmeyer third.
Dixie T. Wright Studio---Mrs. NJ. Llnder-
man and Mrs Dixie, T. Wright, first; Mrs:
Mrs. Mrs Hazel Loftin and MRS, E. r Shepard
third.
Washington Whist Club-Tom Flood and
Mrs. Virginia Athey. first: Louis Newmar
and Mrs. Rose Robins second; o. j. Brot-
man and Paul Kiber. third.
Roosevelt Hotel-North and South. Ed
gar L. Sheffield and II: King. first; Mrs. T.
NJ Boyle and Mrs NJ r. Reddy. second
Mrs. Meta Davis, and Dr., B. L Mailman, an
third. East and West Mr.. and Mrs. 10,
seph Granger. first: Mrs, Hazel Loftin and
Ben Kendrick second: Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Mrs. b. E Stephan studio-Tuesday
Parkman. first; Mrs D E. Stephan and
James Sourilas. second; Mrs T, D. Sheldon
and Mrs. Agnes Young third TUESDAY,
evening Mrs Freida Boyce and Miss Mabel
Tobn, FIRST: Mrs. Brewster and Pr Marks, Mal, :
and South, Mrs. A. P Stockvis and L. r.
Watson, first; s. g. Churchill and and 4; P: P:
Sourilas. third: East and West. ], A. Beue
and David Handel first; Miss Kathleen
McNutt and Clarence Edelson, tied with DR..
A. ]. Steinberg and Tom Hamlin Satur-
day, Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Gardner; first:
Mr. Rosenfeld and Mr.. Hurtz, second; Tom
Hamlin and Clarence Edelson. third.
Evening star., 1939-12-03

ask for the privilege of entertain
ing the bridge enthusiasts next year.
Richmond, which has become very
seriously bridge minded, is send
ing Maj. Clarence Wyatt, president
of the Richmond Bridge Associa-
ton, with an invitation to come to
the Virginia capital for the next
meet. 1t presents all the require
ments and has list Of players
whose skill rivals the best OF them,
as witness the fact that they cap
tured two of the major trophies IN
the recent Washington champion
ship tournament. If Richmond Is
successful it will be the second time
in its history that the national
organization has visited Southern
city for its tournament. Two years
ago Washington was honored.
Washington players did not cap
ture any of the major prizes in the
Norfolk championship tournament
last week, but in two of the matches
they finished among the leaders,
The tourney was Herbert Gerst
affair, enabling him to display his
talents in his home town. He won
the mixed pair match, with Mrs
Doyan Driver as his partner, and
the open pair event, playing with
Ralph Mongolius, also of Norfolk
Mrs. Irene Surguy and Gene Her.
man, both of Washington, were
runners-up in the mixed pair game,
and Col. E. B. Gray Of Washington,
with Mrs. Wesley M. Chapman OF
Norfolk, were third. In the team
of four match Mrs. Surguy, Mr.
Herman, DR.. E. B. Connolly and
James G. Stone, all Of Washington
were losers by one-half board to
the Baltimore foursome of Joseph
Grinsfelder, Irwin H. Fisher. Clag-
gett Bowie and Col. Robert Gill
Other Washington players did not
figure in the final results.
The handsome silver plaque won
by the entrants of the Agriculture
Bridge Club in the intermediate
event of the Washington Bridge
League tournament was presented
to the club by Paul E. Colder, Sec
retary Of the league, at the last
meeting at the Grafton Hotel. II
was received by o. r. Mathews
president, on behalf of the club.
The relative standing of the vari-
Gus teams of the Federal Bridge
League changed but little as a
result of the game at the Wardman
Park Hotel on Tuesday night. The
Rajahs, who have been leading since
the series began, suffered a slight
decline, but retained their position
at the head of the list. The Coast
Survey foursome wen II out of "a
boards. In section B the St. Aubins
won 1712 out of "a boards and in
section C the Tubbs- s-Astleford team
won 111a boards out of 20.
The percentages of the teams are
as follows:
Evening star., 1939-12-03
In Local Bridge Circles
Local Fans to Play in Pittsburgh Tourney
By Frank B. Lord.

During the coming week the attention Of the world
the half of country will be directed toward
Pittsburgh beginning tomorrow and continuing through next
Sunday American Contract Bridge League will hold Its 18th annual
compliment James H. Lemon
Washington retiring president szeable contingent of
Evening star., 1939-12-03

"Mr. x" whose stamps recently
were sold at auction by Philip H.
Ward, jr., now is disclosed as George
F. Tyler, Philadelphia banker.
Evening star., 1939-12-03

Illustrating wartime of improved arpos facilities this
stanbu Turkey to Newbold Noyes,
editor of The Star Flown via Belgrade, Rome Lisbon
and York. dispatches from Tom and Earle
Dammann American correspondents now rowing turbulent
Europe Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1939-12-03

Among last months additions to
the masters point list of the Ameri-
can Contract Bridge League are the
following Washingtonians, most of
them already having 10 or more
points to their credit:
James H. Lemon and John D. Mothers
points, open-pair game at Annapolis: Mrs.
Freida Boyce and Louis Newman, two
points each, mixed-pair game, Annapolis:
Lewis R. Watson. James H. Lemon and
Louis Newman nve points each Clifford
Cup challenge match. Washineton: W.
NJ Mcintyre, Leroy Thurtell. DR.. E.. B.
Conolly. Tom Hamlin and S. F. Gerber.
Evening star., 1939-04-14
the fact that her meat is sold In

CIlc 1dCt tndL Qer meat Is SOlo IN
huge amounts to England, where
it is freely consumed with no Ill
effects. The Argentines also observe
that their canned meat is allowed
to enter the United States, but not
their chilled beef, and ask whether
1t is the can that renders insani-
tary meat healthy.
The root Of this question lies in the
opposition of American cattlemen to
foreign competition, while manufac-
turers would be glad to have the
ban repealed, inasmuch as that would
result in increased exports to Argen-
tina. A formula for the solution of
this impasse is being advanced with
the insistence by responsible Argen-
tine newspapers, like La Prensa Of
Buenos Aires, and well-informed
Argentines conversant with trade
possibilities: let the United States
they say-open its doors to Argentine
chilled beef for only three months
each year, for only the Atlantic
States and in an amount not to ex-
ceed 3.5 per cent of American con-
sumption, and most of the current
unpleaSantness would disappear. But
this would necessitate the ratification
OF the Argentine-American sanitary
convention, hanging fire in the
Washington Senate, and that is a
thorny political question.
However, 1t is not the sale OF meat
Evening star., 1939-04-14
Visitor Here Loses $40,
JeweIry to Strangers

Under circumstances similar to
those Of the previous night when
two white men fiimflammed $46
from visiting Pennsylvania,
Anand M. Kelkar Of Ann Arbor,
Mich, lost $2o and his gold watch
chain last night.
Mr.. Kelkar told police . stranger
engaged him in conversation at the
bus terminal, Fourteenth street and
New York avenue, the same place
where John Pulli If Amber, Pa,
was approached the night before.
The stranger suggested. a walk,
said Mr.. Kelkar, and while strolling
along the two men encountered "by
chance" a third. They matched
pennies. Mr.. Kelkar lost. Mr.. Pulli
could have told him he would.
Evening star., 1939-04-14
Pan-American Day
Finds Hemisphere
Harmony Lacking
Argentina UnfriendIy,
Mexico and BoIiyio
Also Sore Spots
BY CARLOS ]. vIDELA.

NEW YORK, April IA (N.A.N.A)
-Pan-American Day, omcially cele.
brated on April IA by the govern
ments Of the 81 American republics
as an occasion for stressing the
bonds supposedly uniting the West
ern Hemisphere into one harmoni-
Gus whole, this year finds several
members OF the american family
Of nations" engaged in disputes and
the United States at the receiving
end Of kicks from Argentina, Bolivia
and Mexico. while a chorus in praise
Of the good neighbor policy" makes
itself heard everywhere.
A bird's-eye view of inter American
relations at this moment reveals the
following: a"
On the favorable side. an impor-
tant trade pact recently signed by
the United States and Brazil, in
volving $50,o00,000 loan to the
South American country, which may
result in bolstering Brazilian cur
rency and increasing commerce be-
tween the two signatories. This is
the most important and constructive
step since ths last Pan-American
Day.
Bolivia and Paraguay are now at
peace and have resumed diplomatic
relations after the interlude that
followed their bloody Chaco War,
where 100000 men died fighting in
the jungle. The United States had
an important part in bringing about
this peace, but it was played behind
the scenes, all the credit going to
South American mediatols, espe-
cially to Argentina.
A demonstration OF inter-Ameri-
can goodwill took place in connec-
ton with the recent disastrous
Chilean earthquake. which wiped
scores of towns off the map and
killed thousands, in the shape of
immediate and generous help to
the stricken country. And, gener-
ally, there has been a favorable
reappraisal OF American diplomacy
and policies toward the Nations to
the South.
appropriation Sore Spot.
On the unfavorable side the Mexi-
can appropriation of hundreds OF
millions Of dollars worth of Amer
lean oil, rail, land and industrial
properties is still as far from a
satisfactory solution as at the begin
ming, despite the efforts of Donald
F. Richberg, representing the oil
concerns affected; Ambassador Jo-
sephus Daniels and other mediators.
The Observation-Disclosures is a
more accurate word-of American
oil properties by the Bolivian gov
ernment, under pretexts that can
not easily be reconciled with normal
rules of international law and usage,
continues to be another sore spot
In inter- American relations.
Argentina, following the signing
Of the Hull-Aranha trade pact by
the United States and Brazil-the
latter a rival of Argentina in the
struggle for ''prestige"-has entered
into a barter agreement with Ger
many that will bite deeply into
American exports to the South
American country. and has taken
measures that mean, in effect, so
Evening star., 1939-04-14

itself that the Argentines say they
are after; 1t is the removal OF what
they consider q national stigma. A
gesture In this direction by WASH
ington, diplomatic circles hold, would
erase most Of the i'll will now pre-
vailing.
(copyrisht 1889. By the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc.)
Montana oil and mining journal., 1939-12-23

Peace Recipe: Frances widow
mailing letter to Mussolini on his
deathbed, telling him OF Hitler's
assassination while attending sta
Inns funeral.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1939-12-23

Here's an old favorite every coli
umn is allowed to run at least once
during each major conflict-thev
say one of the rich Hollywood pro-
ducers has offered to finance the
current war if they'll name 1t after
him.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1939-12-23
Old OIL FIELD
is Revived BY
TOWN DRILLING

The history of practically every
oil field in the United States is
that it goes from discovery to a
boom period and then it drops off
into practical oblivion only to be
suddenly revived at that time when
some individual decides to resume
drilling A recent example is the
Cement oil field which in its 23rd
year of existence has suddenly
"come back" with the completion
of a 5,475-bbl townsite producer.
right in the town of Cement The
field was first indicated by a gas
flow found at 1415 feet in 1916.
1t was slowly developed as an oil
pool, reaching its peak in 1880 and
was thereafter regarded as a has
been Then the city fathers re-
laxed the rule against town lot
drilling, allowing one we'll to be
drilled to a city block. The first
well so drilled made 2,246 bbl. at
a depth of 1878 feet. The best
of five wells so drilled made 5.475
bbl Ohio Oil Co. is one Of the
majors participating in the new
development.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1939-12-23

We have observed one interesting
fact:
There are from three to five sand
horizons in the Kootenai formation
which is from 500 to 1000 feet thick.
thickening to the west The sands
were laid down by the inland sea of
the beginning of the Cretaceous
period. The ancient uplift which we
call the Sweetgrass Arch today was
an island at that time and then, as
now, the top of the uplift was eroded
off each 3time a sand was laid down
over this area.
The upper sand of the Kootenai is
called Moulton sand as it was a new
sandstone when first discovered in
wells in the Cut Bank gas field The
next sand, for lack of identity, was
called Stewart sand but it is now
known to be the Sunburst sand.
Sometimes there are two layers or
benches of Sunburst sand, with a shale
layer between them. The United
States Geological survey quickly
abolished the local names and now
calls the Moulton and Stewart sands
Sunburst sand, designating the
Moulton as upper" and the Stewart
upper Sunburst" that the Lander
No. l found oil, coming in with an
initial of 1900 barrels per day. The
recently completed Rigney gasser had
no shale break between the upper
and lower sands and carried gas
from top to the bottom, although wells
north and east of its had relatively
little gas Three quarters of a mile
north is well that produces oil
from the ''lower Sunburst' sand To
make the problem more complex, the
north offset to that well had a sand
present but it was dry-or practically
dry.
Below the Sunburst sand is a shale
break and then the upper Cut Bank
sand and the lower Cut Bank sand.
Sometimes there is a shale break be-
tween these and more frequently the
two sands merge one into the other.
The lower sand is distinguished by a
black ebert in the sand and in the
high" Of the main field; this black
ebert horizon is the one that carries
most of the OIL
In the so-called 95O-ft. contour, the
producing contour of the
Cut Bank oil pool, the oil is found
in the BOTTOM of the Cut Bank sand.
AS drilling progresses DOWN
the oil occurs higher in
the Cut Bank sand until in some of
the lowest wells elevation based ON
the top of the Ellis shale) the oil
occurs at the very top Of the Cut
Bank sand.
Progressing still farther down struc-
Montana oil and mining journal., 1939-12-23
EIGHTY MILLION CUBIC FEET
OF GAS PER DAY!

EIGHTY MILLION CT BIC FEET
OF GAS PER DAY!
That is the rated initial production
of a well which blew in this week, in
North Cut Bank oil field
1t is sufficient volume to supply
Great Falls, Helena, Butte, Anaconda
and all of the intermediate towns and
cities with natural gas.
That is the largest gas well ever
completed in the State of Montana.
This well has greater significance
than a mere gas well. It portends
something more likely to happen on
the north slope of Cut Bank field
South and west of this well about
three miles is the Santa Rita Lander
No !, Montana s greatest oil well
which has in three years produced
$1,250OOO worth of oil and is still
flowing with little loss in pressure.
These two wells are producing from
a "stray' horizon called the Moulton
sand. This is not the normal pro-
ducing horizon of Cut Bank field,
but instead is a sandstone that is
usually absent in wells in the central
part of the field which have thus
far produced over 100000 barrels
of oil.
These two great wells are OH the
OUTER EDGE of the field If they
were in the center Of present pro-
duction they would have less signifi-
canoe but now we can see clearly
that there is a condition to the
NORTH that is unlike the present
developed area.
Years of experience has taught an
oil man to take seriously the UN-
USUAL III an oil field 1t sometimes
marks a fault. 1t sometimes marks
a lensing condition that may be the
equivalent of a new pool or a new
oil field
An 8OOOO,OOO-foot gas well is the
Nth degree of UNUSUAL in the State
of Montana. Whether it results from
faulting, from lensing or from some
other condition that cannot be deter
mined without further drilling re-
mains to be seen but it follows that
it WILL be determined.
We are not smart enough to solve
this enigma but we DO know that it
has a significance that points to more
careful study of the North Slope of
Cut Bank oil field. We have seen
the completion of the states largest
gas wells on the North Slope, each in
the Moulton sand. Included was one
making 100000 cubic feet and the
other made 100000 cubic feet per
day The importan. e of those wells
was not so apparent as they appeared
to be in localized pool but this
so, O0,O00-foot well is EIGHT MILES
away from the other two.