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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
TRIBUTE TO THE BISHOP

THE star-Neacs takes singular pleasure IN
adding it's voice to the many raised just
now in tribute to the Rt. Rev. THOMAS G.
DARsT, bishop of the East Carolina diocese
of the Episcopal church. No finer combina'
ton of spiritual advisor, scholar and efficient
director of the business of his church, we are
convinced, has ever served the diocese.
Dry statistics have been cited-and they
are convincing proof-to show the advance
of the Episcopal church under his guidance. He
was the author and the director of the Bish'
ops Crusade, a truly great spiritual move
ment that stirred the whole church. His good
works have multiplied because his Leadership
has elected the support of able men his splr
itual advice made better men.
The 57th annual meeting of the diocese
and the SIND annual session of the auxiliary
which opened here last night could have nc
finer inspiration than the twenty-five years
of service rendered by their bishop. Observ
ance of the anniversary of his conservation
may we'll serve as a reminder that faithful
service in a good cause, through the chang
ing decades, brings the real reward of a bet
ter world, a source of satisfaction beside
which secular praise counts for little.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Editorial Comments
From Other Angles
WHY CITIES GROW
Uinston.Salem Journal Sentinel


Tho Wilmington Star-News has entered its
local market for ideas on how to speed up the
growth and progress OF Wilmington, that love-
ly old town which slept for many a moon oy
the sea. It offers prizes for constructive sug-
g%estions. 1901.
It points to a little lakeside trading post
which became a city of more than three mil
lions while a CITY to it's south already estab-
lished in a populated area and large traoe con-
nections was acquiring a population of a mil
lion or less. Why did Chicago grow SO fast
and st. Louis lag behind? Geography doesn't
entirely answer the question. Civic enterprise
and initiative played a part.
But what Of Wilmington? 1t was an lmpor-
tant seaport before st. Louis was established
and before the little trading post was establish
ed by fur trappers on the shores or Lake
Michigan. .
Tt was a good-sized town before a small
settlement called Atlanta was begun IN the Mills
Of northern Georgia.
Geography is partly at fault. Nature made
the Cape Fear a little too shallow and sandy.
But nature and geography refuse to accept
all the blame.
What APPLIES to Wilmington applies with
similar force to other towns in the state and
the south. 1t takes ideas in action to build
cities. Not obstructive, contentious ideas, but
the constructive suggestion mounted on the
chassis of initiative and untiring energy, at
tached to the determination to take the as
sets possessed by a community, whether many
or few, and exploit and develop them to the
fullest.
Take the Florida cities. They didn't have any
thing much but weather and the beaches. Look
what they have made of these assets, despite
hot summers hurricanes and other handicapS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
RECOVERY

SHELBY, Jan. %. Up
Friends of Secretary of State
Thad Eure were laughing today
about his grouse that came to
life after being shot out of a
tree and kept on cold storage for
"a hours.
A friend gave the grouse to
Eure while he was here on a
recent visit. The secretary put
it on cold storage until his de-
parture the next day.
Then, when he and Attorney
Ernest Gardner of the state high
way department arrived at near
by Fallston for a visit and I'M
loaded their car, they found the
bird pecking away at the sack
that held it.
Placed in a coop, the bird ap-
parently completely recovered
and began eating.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24

escape all punishment. But his conviction
NAV be expected to discredit him in large
measure, not only with his American followers
but with the Kremlin, where failure has no
excuse.
And it is also possible that the laws tech
nicalities were so carefully observed during
his trial that no loophole will be found on
which to base an appeal, or in the event OF a
second trial, to establish his right to a re-
versal.
Hopefully, BRowDER is done.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Man bout
Manhattan
By George Tucker

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Secrets on
! Broadway travel faster than favor
ties at Hialeah. ! was sitting in the
| Beachcomber's bar having a bowl
of EGG Flower soup when a man
known to all Broadway as Dave
came by. Dave is the proprietor of
Dawes Blue Room, a famous Broad
wav eating place that failed several
months ago.
Outside of Lindy's and perhaps
one or two others, none of the late
hour restaurants was as famous or
enjoyed the patronage that was
Dawes. I never cared much for
the place, personally, because it was
always filled with lo%ud-talking ac-
tors. But if you wanted to see IA
nous people, Dawes was the place.
They say Dave never refused a
meal to anyone. They say actors
have dined ION the cuff" for months
on end against the day when their
ship or a new job would come in.
But Dave ran into reverSeS and
the Blue Moon folded. To many of
Broadway's best-known this vas a
minor tragedy in their lives. Famous
song hits had been written on the
table covers by Tin Pan alley chiefs
between cups of black coffee. At
least one famous star became ell
gagged over a plate of Canadian ba-
con and eggs at Dawes. Gangsters
went there, too. Dawes was
Broadway.
Now let's get back to the Beach
comber's. Dave and another man
came in. AS he passed 1 just hap
anything about it not a word;
don't mention it to anybody l
presume his companion solemnly
promised to carry that secret to the
grave; that is the usual way of
things. But in any case, Dave came
back a few minutes later and sat
down. He seemed a little excited.
. After a while I said, whats
worrying you, Dave?"
Dave flung around and leaned
over the table. I'm going to open
a new restaurant - a swell place
on send street-a new Blue Room.
But don't say anything about it.
Deals all set. I'll announce it in a
couple of weeks. Swell place. Just
right. Deals almost set"
Swell. Dave 1 said. Swell"
Nav, I won't say anything"
1t must have been an hour later
that I got up and got into a cab
and went back to my office. On the
drive across 50th street the cabby
told me all about Dawes new place
Gonna open sure in a couple Of
weeks" he said. Il got it from my
brother whose wife's brother is
one of the walters. 1 don't think he
wants it mentioned, though.
That was about II o'clock at night.
1 was supposed to do some work
that night, but it was a bad night for
work and I walked over to a radio
n tufned II on; a commentator who
talks about Broadway and horses and
such things came on the air. The
first thing he announced was Dawes
new Blue Room. He gave a glowing
account of Dawes career. He told
Of all the long midnight history Of
the old Blue Room. Then he an
nounced the new one, it's exact loca-
ton, and when it would open. He
even explained that Tommy Manvilie
(often a bridegroom but never fol
long) was Dawes secret angel-that
Manville was putting up the money.
So, Dawes going to have a new
restaurant. But don't say anything
about it. It's strictly off the record
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
BANDIT IS SLAIN
AFTER z HOLDUPS
Officer In Kansas Town
Drops Youth With Blast
From Pistol
NEA Service, Inc

LYONS, Kas., Jan. 23-CH1- An
unidentified man robbed banks at
Bushton and Clalin within 20 min
utes today and was slain by Fred
Adams, Clafin city marshal, as he
attempted to escape. The two CEN
trail Kansas towns are eight miles
apart.
The bandit, about 25 years old,
first held up the Bushton state
bank. He fled in a coupe with an
undetermined amount of money.
The man drove to Claf1ln, forced
several banks employees and CTS
toners into the vault and took ap'
proXimately $500.
The bank alarm was set off. Inc
city marshal fired three shots at
the fleeing man who dropped al the
curb before he could get into lis
car,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Burley Weed Prices
Improve In Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky, Jan. 2$-h
-Burley tobacco prices scared
yesterday in Kentucky.
All but seven of the Il state
marts reported hundredWelght aver
age prices improved over the las'
Fridays levels, when many mar
kets were forced to suspend au''
lions because of cold weather
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 2S,-"-
Virginia's dark-fired and tlue'cuIe-
tobacco prices maintained a stea4'
price level yesterday.
Meanwhile, DR.. John f. HutcI''
son of Blacksburg, director ol VA'
states agricultural extension Hl'4''
ion, cautioned Virginia's dark-lIs'
leaf growers they would have y
meet the British embargo on II"
ports of American tobacco WITH III.
creased production Of tood w.
themselves and their liNFsI.- M !,
Otherwise. he said, 1910 may -IA'
some growers ION relief"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Union Says Mill Paid
For Attack On CLIO.

GAFFNEY, S. c., Jan. 23.-P)-
Rehearing of a union complaint
against the Hamrick Cotton Mills
was transferred here today from
partanburg after an opening ses-
sion highlighted by a witness
charge that the mills engaged a
preacher to preach against the
Go" \.
The hearing was transferred here
on motion Of council for the mills
the Alma, the Limestone and
the Hamrick. The rehearing was
ordered by the National Labor Re
lations board on petition of the
Textile Workers Union of America,
CLIO affiliate, which charged some
of the witnesses at the first hear
ing perjured themselves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Tobacco Quota Appeal
Reuiews Now Under Wa,

RALEIGH, Jan. 23.-LR-G. T.
Scott Of Johnston county, chairman
of the state AAA committee, said
today that hearings on appeals
from 1910 flue-cured tobacco acre
age allotments would start late
next week in some border counties.
Requests for reviews have been
numerous in some counties, but
relatively few in other counties
Scott said.
Where growers fully understand
the serious tobacco situation" Scott
explained, 'the appeals are being
filed only on the basis of indisput-
able errors in establishing allot-
rpontS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Hertzog Renews Plea ,,
That War Be Ended

CAPETOWN, Union Of SOU.
Africa, jan. 23-LP-GeneraI j. b
Hertzog, former prime minister u"
day told parliament and its crow.
ed galleries that 1.-The time "]'
come when the wal against uH
many should be ended and pe"v.
restored" before the world pl'"7''
into great slaughter. .
Hertzog, who resigned as plI'" u.
minister last Sept. 6 when bea's" y. y,
his stand against a declaration y.
war, offered a resolution faTorIh'
peace to the first session OF pam.
ment since that In which NJ ~
linquished his office to General 0'"
Christian Smuts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Norfolk And Western
Reports Net Income

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ,3,-'I'
The Norfolk and Western it1b"o.
company reported today net ''-,' -
of $50, col, 237.78 for 1889, eQ.aI ="
$20.6S per common share.
This compares with net l0.oID.
in 1888 of 500, O13, 6S6.55, eq''a! "
$13.57 a share.
Net income for last DecemhcN OK
railway reported, IA $2,059'0''m
compared to $2,639,544,2S in Deee'D
Der. 1898.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Durham Man Charged
With Selling Quail

RALEIGH, Jan. 23-L9- Tho
department OF conservation and de-
veiopment reported today that
Charles Atkins, a Durham grocery.
man. ia been arrested on a cha ree
or selling quail n would be tried
in Durham recorders cour Fehru-
airy 2.
The department said w p NJ.
Lean special u%ndercover officer of
.ne game n inland fisheries divis-
lion, arrested Atkins
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24

10 per cent and on army aircraft to
II per cent.
3. The bureau also recovered
o than $4,000, 900 from % movie
people" whom the bureau thought
had a real intent to evade the pay
ment of income taxes"
4. w. S. Alexander, federal alco.
hol administrator, estimated that
brewers pay 81, 000, 900 daily to fed
eral and state governments and dis
tillers contribute 5000, 900, 900 an.
nually.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Coast Guard Denied
Funds For New Planes

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-R9-
The house appropriations commit
tee cut to $500, 900 today a coast
guard item for Is new airplanes
estimated to cos 50, 199, 900.
The coast guard requested eight
long range and seven intermediate
range planes be provided during
the 1941 fiscal year, the ships to
be assigned to twelve stations scat.
tered throughout the country
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
LIVESTOCK RATES

SALISBURY, Jan. 23.-R-
Farmers and county farm agents of
this section will hold a conference
on livestock freight rates with e
tension specialists from State col.
lege On Thursday, January 25.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24

Hitlerism and Staltnism are the same thing.
He who strikes Hitler must also strike Stain.
- J~eah-Louis, TiXier-Vignancour, member,
French chamber of deputies
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
TOP O. THE MORNING

Our Lord delights to forgive great sinners
"Whereas I sag unto thee, Her sins a1hich
are many are forgiuen.-Luke TAT.
w. Y. FULLERTON
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-24
Star-News Program

1. Shipyayds.
2. Increase OF Port Facilities.
5. Adequate Hospital Facilities.
i. Annexation OF Suburbs.
5. Development OF Fort CasweH as
Health Resort.
6. Promotion OF Canning Industry.
7. City Expansion Commission.
8. Junior College.
ACHIEVEMENTS WE HAVE
FAVORED
Stun Clearance.
Free bridge across the Cape Fear
riuer over High10oy 90.
Free ceuseuay to WrightsVi1e Beach.
Recreation CenterS.
Municipal Auditorium.
Preservation OF Old City and Thai
ian Hall.
Civic Centre.
Organized industrial services for Viii
mington.
Adequate school facilities for WI
mington and Nea1 Hanover county.
Traffic signals on streets OF Whining.
ton.
T%hirtytoot channel from Wilmington
to Southport bar.
Construction OF third lock and dam
5etween Wilmington and Fayetteville
on the upper Cane Fear river.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
THE FATE OF THE COLE BILL

does the fight against Cole bill should be
possibility of the of this bill appears
time letter received by the
Journal from Murray that
congress expect consideration the Cole bill during the
present would the ready conclusion that the
bill likely of passageunless Franklin D. Roosevelt is
president The fate of the Cole bill
will depend reapponmnt of Harold L. ckes secretary
interior There other presidential candidate who
would likely reappon him. AS it stands Mr. lcke about the
only person States who the Cole bill become
a law
Certain it few honest persons engaged in the oil
industry who the Cole bill enacted Only of all who
appeared hearings held Los Angeles favored OF
Chairman Cole himself apologzed for the bill before the
American Institute meeting Chicago The bill
written and for Mr. Ickes and those who
alegedy might capitalize afraid to have 1T
enacted into because they afraid Of Mr.. Ickes
highly improbable that would enact law
reguatngas paraehe of the country the farmers
were unanimously opposed has passed law
affecting the industry without interviewing the people
RACED the cattle industry and the wishes of the majority have
been respected the majority of the people in the oil
industry opposed the Cole BILL it does not possible that
congress would such bill down the hroas OF millions OF
voters engaged in the oil industry
Accordingly bill not passed at the present session
Of congress as Murray suggests and if Franklin D.
Roosevelt not president it would that the
Specialization of industry will be postponed indefinitely
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

There was a young lady from
Worcester
Who thought that someone hac
lsedorecester
She awoke with a scream
1t was only a dream
A tuft on the mattress had
gorcester
How about a sentence with the
word
FELONIES: John felonies head d"
POISON: Some poison is out
side to see you"
SYMPTOMS: Symptoms I do and
symptoms l don't"
PANTHER: Johnnie lost but
ton now his panther coming
down"
CHEMISE: 81 wonder does
chemise me when I'm gone"
STATUESQUE: What's states
que?"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
GASOLINE SALES
CALCULATIONS ARE
AGAIN ARRIVING

Owing to illness OF the Journals
Helena correspondent, the tabula-
ton of gsaoline sales has been de-
since September and the Journal is
now in receipt OF the October tabu-
lation. The November and Deem
Der tabulations are being compiled
and will be printed as soon as
they are received.
The October figures show that
Montana consumed 11,1S1,591 gall
Ions of gasoline. compared with
12,296,325 gallons in September
and 15,695,32S gallons in August.
Montana refineries manufactured
11.547,353 gallons and. exported
3,562,964 gallons. Imports amount
ed to 3,2O7,545 OF which 1O,343
was reshipped out of the state. The
ratio of Montana-made gasoline
used was greater than the average
for the year, with only 2S per cent
of imported gasoline used in the
state
Refinery output in August was
16,19S,770 gallons; in September
13,36s.S97 gallons.
Exports in August were $685.
9S3 gallons; in September, A.
726,51S gallons.
Imports in August were 4,925,-
LAG gallons; in September, 4,726,-
51S gallons.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
LOWER INSURANCE
RATES OBTAINABLE

A marked disparity in compensa-
tion-insurance rates for petroleum
workers classifications, despite simi-
Iarity in the amount of insurance
benefits, in IL states recently
studied, apparently indicates fail
ure in some of the states to take
full account of the industry's grow
ing safety record, H. N. Blakeslee,
director of the American Petroleum
Institutes Department of Accident
Prevention, declared recently.
"The rates published in a few of
the states might be found to be
higher than necessary" Blakeslee
said, land changes might be effec-
ted that would save oil companies
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

A girl shouldn't talk too much
cause a word from the eyes is
sufficient
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
THE AVERAGE YIELD

of producers, valuation holes,
dry holes-all wells drilled in
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

many thousands of dollars.
1.-THE recent reduction of rates in
Texas undoubtedly reflects the i'm
proving safety record of the in
dustry. The Board of Insurance
Commissioners there has authorized
major reductions in eight of the
nine petroleum classification. In
two classifications the decreased
cost is approximately IA per cent
less than formerly; in three CLASH
fications the rate has been cut IS
per cent; and in two, petroleum re-
filming and oil rig or derrick erect
ing, the reduction amounts to Is
per cent"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

no further, we are almost certain to lose
although there are enough exceptions to
this rule to prove the rule. In like
manner, if we harken to the experience
of one man we are likely to get wrong
conclusion: either too optimistic or too
pessimistic, according to his success or
failure 1t takes the LAW OF AVER
AGES to determine the success of line
of investment.
The annual compilation of statistics
of the Montana oil industry at this time
of year, together with the fact that in
come tax time makes us take inventory
of what we have accomplished, gives
us opportunity to look at the law of
averages in the Montana oil industry.
Recently we saw an appraisal of some
Kevin-Sunburst properties and a recon-
mended drilling program and it occurred
to US that the per-well production would
have to be very large in order to re-
cover the indicated amount of oil. That
led us to investigate what the AVER
AGE we'll has produced in Kevin-Sun-
burst field. BY average" we mean all
wells drilled-oil wells, gas wells, dry
holes, lost holes and valuation holes.
To arrive at that we provided the number
of completed wells into the number of
dollars produced and arrived at the av-
erage production of each and every we'll
KEVIN-sUNBURsT
In the case of Kevin-Sunburst we
found that the field has produced $685.
SIS worth of oil for every hole drilled
That means that the producing wells
each had to yield much more than $685.
SIS worth of oil to offset the large
number of dry holes and non-comm ercial
wells, lost holes and valuation wells
which stopped short of a possible pro-
ducing horizon. The total number of
wells drilled in Kevin-Sunburst proper is
1874 scattered over an area greater than
all the other oil fields combined The
fact that it costs an average of around
to a substantial profit. The man who
drilled three dry holes and left the field
in disgust will give report no more re-
liable than the man who drilled three
wells, such as the first three Fulton
Byrne wells, which made a million dol
lars worth of oil in less than 1S months.
1t is by the law of averages fortunes
have been made in Kevin-Sunburst field.
PONDERA
we turned to Pondera field, to find
that 100 wells have been drilled including
only one dry hole, in the confines OF the
proven field. The 100 wells drilled
have produced $4O.999 each. AS it costs
an average of $4,000 per well to COM
plete producers in Pondera 1t is appar-
average yield.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
&C .. 5. Oh T.EAsE

An oil and gas lease has been
received by Receiver Tom CORDIALLY
from the Commissioner OF the Gen
erai land office, issued to William
NJ. slattery OF Newburg, North Da-
kota. for $50 acres in Sections 1,
2 and IL Township 80 North range
33 East.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

MORE FEDERAL GASOLINE TAX?
WASHINGTON-Ways and Means
Committee members are informally
discussing ACCESSIBILITY increasing
from I to 2 cents per gallon the
tax on gasoline manufacture.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
rNION MEN indicted

Indictment has been made Of IA
men connected with the Toledo Oil
Workers International Union. They
are charged with extortion in a
strike at the Gulf refinery there.
It is alleged that the CLIO union
compelled non-members to pay ini-
tial dues of $40 and pay half of
wages obtained during the strike.
SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO
THE sUNBURST BADGER
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

Helena Nobody can say any
thing bad about Mary"
Louise: That's so. Let's talk
about someone else.
e.
Here's to the girl that's pure
and chaste,
The purer she is, the less she
is chased.
A girl shouldn't talk too much
cause word from the eyes is
sufficient.
"A clerk in a shoe store, whose
head was almost bald, was trying
on a pair Of shoes for one of the
female species. She was paying
more attention to those around, her
than she was to her foot. When
she happened to look down she
espied the clerks bald head, and
thinking it was her knee, she
quickly grabbed her skirt and COW
cred it. Timely assistance on the
part of fellow clerks saved the
bald one from suffocation.
OUR JOKES AREN'T THAT OLD
We don't know just how to take
it but Chester Johnson of Kelvin
sends this one:
Visitor to Kelvin: my! What is
this awful smell?"
Local boy: ooh, that's nothing
it's just what's left Of one Of
last weeks jokes
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27

NIL is the blood of the earth flowing through for
{ /tmes field only to enrich the courageous. 1t
- sometimes REGARDS the n0n-tJtnkng business
Stacker, bit lifts the burden from the back of
business coward It's Plus marks of generally
go to those 1UJo combine degree of thought 0ath
action
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-01-27
CAT CREEK

The record of Cat Creek is outstand-
ing among oil fields of the United
States and the yield per well and the
yield per acre is too high to provide
a measuring stick for values. The 176
wells in Cat Creek proper, including
producers and dry holes, have yielded
$127538 per we'll Wells in Cat
Creek cost only $500 to the shallow
sands, making this the most profitable
field in Montana, where the operator
did not inherit too heavy a burden of
overriding royalty.