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Evening star., 1941-10-14

Nobody here can foreSee how
the battle for Moscow will end.
All that is known is that the Rus
slams have suffered severe losses
in war material And it would
be months before Sizable ship
ments Of tanks, artillery and air.
planes could reach them from
Britain and the United States.
The shipments already at Arch
angel are a mere drop in the
bucket. Should Moscow be cap
tured or even encircled, COM
municationS with that Arctic port,
even if kept ice free, would be
impossible. Hence, on paper, it
is likely to be difficult for the
Societ forces to resist on their
present lines. But this war has
offered many unbelievable sur
prises and the present struggle
between the Germans and the
Russians might take turn which
would upset the calculations Of
the military experts. One of
these poSsibilities-but by no
means a probability-is that Nazi
losses may be so heavy that the
high command may not be able
to follow up the smashing blows
it has given the Russians during
the last u days.
Badly Need Gasoline.
In the meantime, it is obvious
that the German general staff is
counting on resuming operations
in the Middle East with the oil
fields as their objective. The
NaziS have had to consume vast
quantities of gasoline during the
present blitz on the eastern front.
While they still have reserves,
there is no question that they
must obtain fuel somewhere
where it exists in large guam
titles.
The nearest sources of oil are
in Iraq and the Caucasus. Ac-
cording to strategists, if Marshal
Budyenny has even a skeleton
force left from his much-bat-
tered divisions, the Germans may
have a difficult time breaking
through the barrier formed by
the Caucasus Mountains and the
Caspian Sea. Their road to the
rich oil fields leads necessarily
through Turkey and Syria.
Diplomatic activity at Ankara
has increased during the last
three weeks. Since the beginning
of the offensive against Moscow
there also has been increased
military activity in the Balkans.
Despite official denialS from Sofia
and Berlin, there is positive in
formation that the Bulgarian
Evening star., 1941-10-14

cratic leader assured me that
the majority of the people were
strongly opposed to American
participation in the war. An
other, on the other hand, asserted
that probably 10 per cent of the
people were strongly in favor of
the Presidents foreign policy.
Labor. generally speaking, he
said, is favorable to the PreSi-
dents foreign policy, as it is to
the President himsef. So are
some of the more radical ele-
Notwithstanding the Commu-
niSts, since Hitler has attacked
Russia. 1t has not gone unno-
ticed that the Communist party,
after placing full slate Of can
didates in the field, including a
candidate for Mayor, at the
eleventh hour withdrew the may
orally candidate and most of the
others.
And so the war undoubtedly is
having its effect upon the may
orally campaign in New York
city, and in some quarters the
result will be interpreted as
showing the attitude of the peo-
pie toward the war and toward
the foreign policy Of the admin
istration.
Evening star., 1941-10-14

the collection of not one, but two,
automobile taxes between now and
the 1912 congressional election.
The law fixes the tax at IS a
year, but it also provides that it
shall become effective February /,
1912. and shall be applied on basis
of the Federal Governments fiscal
year, beginning July l, rather than
the calendar year. Hence $500 will
be payable on February l, and then
when the new fiscal year begins
July l full So fee vii be collected
for the ensuing II months.
Ownership Check Difficult.
The Treasury has no presently
available force either to make these
collections or to police them. There
isn't even an easily procurable rec
ord of automobile ownership, syn
cronizing with the Federal need.
States have such records, of course,
but they vary widely as to collection
dates and automobile ownership
shifts rapidly. Federal revenue col
lection districts do not always ac-
cord with State lines.
These technical difficulties are
bad enough and, in addition, the
situation is chuck full Of political
implications. In the first place, this
tax was born of congressional log
rolling. The Treasury had proposed
doubling of the gasoline tax, COL
lected from refiners, and this was
strongly opposed by representatives
from the l-producing States.
Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee, who
halls from North Carolina, at the
same time was trying to escape
increase in tobacco taxes, which the
Treasury had recommended. These
oil and tobacco groups got together
in search for a substitute means Of
raising s16O000,000. They devised
the automobile use tax and, covertly
abetted by Republicans who were
not adverse to making the new taxes
as unpopular as possible, succeeded
in putting it over.
Saw Collection Trouble.
The Treasury at that time opposed
the automobile levy on the grounds,
first. that machinery for collection
would eat up large part of 1t and,
second, that license taxes in many
States already were so high as to
constitute a serious burden on the
poorer jalopy owners. Congress
tried TO meet the first of these OBJ
jections by authorizing sale of Fed
eral auto tax stickers through. the
post Office
The Treasury promptly rejected
the latter suggestion as unWorkable
and in consequence congressional
sponsors of the use tax are charging
that the administration is delib-
erately making the job of collection
as complicated as possible in order
to force repeal of the auto tax.
State officials, to say the least.
have not welcomed the new tax with
open arms. There is scarcely a
State in which automobile taxes
have not been a subject of bitter
political controversy. In Louisiana,
for example, the present officials
rode into power over the previously
dominant Huey Long machine on a
promise to reduce the auto license
Evening star., 1941-10-14
Women PIun Oyster Fete

An oyster and baked ham dinner
will be given by the women of St.
Lukes Episcopal Church Guild in
the parish hall of the church at
Bladensburg, Md. from 4;30 to 7:30
pm. tomorrow. Mrs. John B. Alsop,
guild president, is in charge of
arrangements
Evening star., 1941-10-14

dollars OF de-
fense work
contracts are
held up.
The public has
been led to be-
lieve that strikes
are largely due
to controversies
b e t we en- e M
ployers and
employees, b u t
many are due
t 0 Qu a = T e l S
b e t W e e n the
lion S them
Evening star., 1941-10-14

tax, applicable
to some 32,000,-
900 A m eric a n
automobile own
ers.
Treasury off,
cialS are sweat
ing over the me-
chanics of its
collection, a n d
Republicans are
ii kin g their
chops over what
they believe will
be the political
reverberationS of
Evening star., 1941-10-14
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Turkey is next on the list Of
Maxi victims, reliable reports
from the Near East indicate.
The battle on the Russian
front-in the opinion of military
experts-cannot last more than
another two or three weeks. 1t
is expected a front will then be
established somewhere between
the present lines and the Volga,
and the Axis forces will spend
the winter in a Near East cam
paign.
Evening star., 1941-10-14

that this has
kept me buster
than a pick
pocket in a
b la C kout and
that I have been
on more trains
than SCOT.
This trip was
prompted by the
creation of o.
F. F.
o. F. F. was
created out Of
the Gov ern-
Evening star., 1941-10-14
OVER so?
Go>s4ApG1a?

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habits bring ON occasional bowel
Iaziness. These spells of constipa-
ton, with aggravating gas, may cause
restless nights. ADLERIKA can help
you face the future more cheerfully.
Its ingredients attract to the bowels
extra moisture which softens packed
wastes and assists in comfortable
bowel action. ADLERIKA helps to
leave your bowels refreshed and
clean. Next time constipation and
gas threaten your comfort, Try
ADIERfKk. Druesists hs1s Il.
Evening star., 1941-10-14

should any one worry about strikes?
If the President doesn't care to do
anything about it, nobody else need
care.
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Evening star., 1941-10-14

defense. I indorse the policy Of
the President in defending our
sovereignty and democracy and
the policy of the President and
of Congress in giving aid to those
countries which are resisting
NaZi aggression"
This certainly seems to be a
pretty clear statement of Mr..
ODwyer's position. Mayor La
Guardia is known as a 100 per
cent supporter of the Presidents
foreign policy. He has himself
done wide and fancy job of de-
nouncing the dictators. He has
been named by the President to
head the home defense effort of
the country.
Racial Groups a Factor.
New York, the melting pot out
Of which Americans emerge, is
nevertheless still made up Of a
number of racial and national
groups. Among these groups, the
largest is Jewish. 1t is estimated
that there are about 100000 jew
ish voters. There is the Irish
American group, the German
American group and the italian
American group, and many such
groups. 1t is upon the sympathies
Of these groups for and against
the warning nations abroad that
some of the political leaders
and some of the political prophets
are basing estimates of the
vote in the coming mayoralty
election.
In addition, there is the senti-
ment for and against American
participation in the war; those
who believe with the Presidents
policy and those who stand with
the American First Committee,
denouncing it.
1t is easy to see, therefore, how
difficult it may be to keep the
mayorality election free of the
war, despite the fact that Mr..
ODwyer has taken a position
that is apparently on all fours
with that of his opponent.
There are those who will seek
to read degrees of feeling and
partiality into the positions of
the two candidates. 1t is such
hair-sphtting that is expected to
influence many of the Jewish
Evening star., 1941-10-14
BY JAY G.. HAYDEN.

Of all the features of the new
SO 800 100000 tax law, the one that
seems loaded with the most politi-
cal dynamite is the SIS annual use
Evening star., 1941-10-14
Action Seen
to
Curb Strikes
Defense Program
Is Slowed Down
Despite Pleas
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Strikes are rapidly becoming
Americas No l problem. Interrupt
tons to the defense program con-
tinue, hundreds of millions of
Evening star., 1941-10-14

HE opinions OF the 0riters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented in The
Stars effort to gUe all sides of questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1941-10-14
.McLemore-
Lo! The Alphabet
Produces q New One
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

I make it a point to come to
Washington every time the Govern
ment creates q new agency.
1t is scarcely necessary to tell you
Evening star., 1941-10-14

hehfS McLemoIe. meslJ DOWl OF
alphabet soup a few days ago and
stands for Office of Facts and Fig
ures. o. F. F. came as a surprise
because it was believed that the
Government had exhausted all possi-
BILE combinations of letters with
which to name new agencies and
at the moment was dickering with
Chinese authorities for the use Of
some of the characters in the al
most lmitless alphabet Of their
country.
o. F F. will be headed by Archi-
bald MacLeish. the librarian Of
Congress, and all the people have
talked with agreed that he was a
happy choice. Mr.. MacLeish is a
poet and all poets are dreamerS,
and dreamers are needed by the
Government. There are entirely TOO
many sound, practical, hard-headed
businessmen in the Government
now. A businessman is likely to go
to pieces when confronted by the
astronomical sums Of money that
are tossed around here. But a
dreamer, no. He can look a S5O,O00,-
100000 tax bill in the eye and COM
pose a sonnet to it. Perhaps a
sonnet titled Owed to a Skylark,"
and with a first line that goes Hail
to thee. blithe billions, burden thou
never vert"
Evening star., 1941-10-14

o. F. F: came into being when it
was decided that the American pub
lie wasn't getting enough straight
from-the-shoulder facts, and that
an agency was needed to hand them
out. Only the severest friends and
meanest enemies of the administra-
ton will deny that such a bureau
has its good points.
Take the business of the Roose-
welt letter to Stain, for example.
Now no one has any right to see
the Presidents private correspond
ence to his friends, but at the same
time If the letters are going to be
made public certainly the American
citizens have a right to get the first
whack at their contents. But We
learned about the one to Stain from
Berlin, of all places.
Had there been an o. F. F. at the
time I feel sure 1t would have given
us the facts and not made us wait
until Herr Goebbels held the letter
before a strong light and made out
the contents.
Evening star., 1941-10-14

The same Is true OF that meeting
between the President and Mr..
Churchill in the Bay of Fundy or
wherever it was they met. American
newspapermen were kept in the dark
so long on that one that several Of
them wear miners caps around
Washington until this day. The
first real information on the historic
meeting came from England, where
censorship is supposedly so tight
that fellow can't even use his right
name in signing a check.
o. F. F. would have handled that
little situation, wouldn't you, o.
F. F.?
While I am on the subject of the
Office Of Facts and Figures would
like to suggest that Poet MacLeish
make place for a Washington cab
driver on his staff. The cab driver
may look a bit out of place at board
meetings, what with his cap open
collar and cigar butt, but he'll bring
more information to the meeting
than any one else.
The Washington cab driver is more
than fount of information as to
what's going on-he is a Niagara
Falls of fact. Cabs are very cheap
in Washington and everybody rides
them, from stenographerS to diplo-
mats who have more ribbons and
medals than a prize cat. Unlike
cabs in other cities, the driver and
the passengers are not separated by
pane of glass. There is some sort
of rule against partition, believe.
AS result the cabbies hear every
word spoken, and in Washington
everybody talks. Talk is as much a
part of this city as the Washington
Monument and the cherry trees.
Anything you want to know about
the Government the cab drivers can
tell you, and will, too, because, being
Washingtonians, they like to talk,
| too.
A cab driver told me only today
that Senator
But shucks, this isn't gossip
column.
To get back on to o. F. F. The
first thing it should do is to state
the facts and figures on how much
truth it has the power to tell. Can
it go whole hog, as the French so
nicely put it, or must 1t always keep
in mind that its pay checks come
from the Government?
Distributed BY MeNaught SYNDICATE. Incl
Evening star., 1941-10-14

There is certainly paradox here.
Nearly every week the administra-
ton proclaims to Britain and even
to Russia how much the American
democracy is seeking to aid them
in their ife-and-death struggle.
This week the President is asking
also for legislation to arm merchant
ships. One would think from such
requests that the administration
really wants an all-out effort on
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01

Ohio Oil company enjoyed the
thrill of a Kelvin well with an
initial Of 14O barrels per day dur
ing the past week as dts Lind No.
5 in the center of the oldest pro
ducing part of the field was put
on production.
The Lind No. is in SW corner
SEA NV 11-35-2W, and had
good showing of oil at the lime
contact at 1929. Treated with
hydrochloric acid it showed an ini-
tial OF 14O barrels.
OhiO-HOwling No. 9, SW SWA
NWA 1O-S5-2W, is rigging up and
No. Z, on the same farm, is a To-
cation, in NV NWA sWA Section
10.
Another attempt at acidization of
the High Gravity HOrner No. 1,
well on the west rim of Kelvin field,
is to be made during the coming
week, former acid shots having
failed to penetrate the lime. The
well had about 400 feet of oil in
the hole before acidization but the
formation is so hard that acid has
thus far. failed to penetrate any oil
bearing fractures in the lime
Cold weather kept the Kelvin field
pretty well closed down during the
past week although a Chinook wind
was blowing on Friday, indicating
warmer days at hand.
There were but five active rigs
in the entire field.
Huso BrOthers-EIlingsOn No. 3,
CSL SWH SWA 14-35-3W, is try
ing to shut off water in leaky
production string, but may have to
run 5-3/16th pipe inside the Z
inch. The hole stands at 1861
with a showing of oil in the top
of the lime.
Parent HOIbrOOk No. 1, center
SWA NEA 2-36-3W, west Of the |
town of Sunburst, is down 1873 |
feet and believed to be just above
the Sunburst sand. The log does
not correspond with other wells
in the district. 1t had normal req
beds which were missing in other
wells. and 1t is still checking struc-
turally higher than the wells wnlch
had showings of oil.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01
MARCH Is MONTH
OF ANNIVERSARIES
IN OIL INDUSTRY

The month of March is a month
of anniversaries in the Montana
oil industry, marking the start Of
commercial production in Cat Greer
and the discovery OF oil at Kelvin
by the Gordon Campbell well. Thus
this month marks the 21st anniver-
sary Of commercial production and
the goth anniversary of the Kelvin
field and likewise the Montana OIL
& Mining Journal marks its goth
anniversary. starting Volume 81
this month.
w. w. Gail of Billings has written
to the Journal suggesting that mas
much as the industry becomes "of
age" that a meeting of oil men
should be called, after the close Of
the legislature, to round up the
"old timers who started the indus
try on its way two decades ago.
He has submitted the plan to several
others and has received favorable
responses However, no plans have
been made, he said.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01
OF
SURFACE PIPE
NOT REQUIRED

The cementing OF surface pipe in
the main Kelvin field will no longer
be required on government leases,
following a conference called joint
ly by T. II. Hartman, state oil
oil and gas inspector. with H. ].
Duncan, district supervisor and w.
NJ. Peden. district engineer, of the
u. s. G. S.
New rules were this week pro-
mulgated by the u. s. G.. s., pro-
viding that casing to shut off sur
face water, usually at less than
100 feet, need not be cemented ex-
cept in the western end OF the
field and beyond the rimrock Of
Eagle sandstone where farm wells
might be contaminated we're sur
face water not cemented off.
The rules Of the state depart
ment have not required surface
pipe cementing but enforcement OF
a general rule on government OBJ
erations caused the circulation Of
a petition to Duncan, asking that
the unnecessary and useless ex-
Dense be eliminated from govern
ment as well as fee and state land
operations. There was no argu-
ment in the hearing called, the cor
tention OF operators being upheld
by both Hartman and Peden.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01
TWO BIG ONES
COMPLETED
SOUTH CUT BANK

AS a prelude to the coming sale
Of leases on oil lands belonging to
the Blackfeet Indian tribe On south
Cut Bank oil field. we'll with an
initial OF 1S6 barrels was com
pleted this week in the south
eastern edge of the new territory
where many OF the tribal tracts
are located.
The we'll Is Mcdonald Henderson
Overeash-Tribal No. in the
northwest corner Of Section 1892
5W. Regarded as a marginal
we'll OF grave doubt, this well
bellies dry holes and small wells
farther north, formerly believed
to mark the south limits OF pro-
duction.
A good sand condition gave en-
couragement to the idea OF further
south extension TO the pool. The
Tribal well had Sunburst sand
from 2S46 to 1856, dry; upper
Cut Bank from 28O5 to 1886;
lower Cut Bank. the main pay,
from 1886 to 2851; Ellis from
2951 to 1858. The fluid level
was 100 feet and 1t swabbed 1S6
pipe was cemented at 2S05.
A northwest offset to the sensa-
tional Consolidated Gas-Frary well
in the new south extension to the
Big Bend pool had an initial of
1872 barrels In "a hours, while
the consolidated was rated at
around 500 barrels initially. The
Cobb well was drilled in with
rotary tools. 1t had Sunburst
from 1881 to 2745, dry, upper
Cut Bank from 2750 to 2S70 with
light saturation; lower Cut Bank,
saturated from 27S2 to 27SS, and
Ellis from PISS to 1882 Oil
rose 1000 feet.
Consolidated Gas-Tribal No. 1, /
c Lot (SW x seq 10-34-6W,
Is drilling at 1900.
Glacier Production cDougal No.
3, c NWA NWA 31-34-5W, is
drilling at 1880.
Glacier Production-Vanorm No.
is drilling at 450.
Santa Rita-Jacobson No. 2 G
NV 4 NWA 177-33-5W. is rebuild
ing burned rig as is Santa Rita
Jordan No. 3, c SEA NEA 1872
5W.
Tarrant- Wiley-Jones No. 4, Sc
NV a SWA 31-34-5W, is drilling
at 1865, after cementing 7Anch
casing.
Texaco- Willis No. /, sW SWA
NEA 19-32-5W, is drilling at 1925.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01

IT Dam AANAA NeAH 6NAAA&AAg He-
ieved TO be on the down grade"
at the close of the year 1910, as
production steadily declined and
new competitions were barely Off
setting decline OF older wells. Then
came the completion of the Texaco-
State No. 9 with a production OF
$50 barrels per day. an the closing
days OF the year. Thereafter this
company completed its State No.
with an initial OF 371 barrels; then
moved into the north end Of the
field 20 miles northwest ~ and
brought in 500 barrel well on the
Aronson farm.
Consolidated Gas-Frary then reg
lstered 569-barrel completion In
new territory south of the Big Bend
pool. Santa Rita Oil e. Gas COM
pany came along with a 27O bar
rel well, and a 245-barrel well.
also In the south area.
The average initial production of
10 wells completed in Cut Bank
field this year is 2O7 barrels, all
save three having initials above
100 barrels per day, with one dry
hole.
Cut Bank observers are fearful
serious over-productiOn situa-
alton will result IL the epidemic OF
large wells continues. The January
production was 366,O79 barrels
compared with 33O,413 barrels in
January Of 1910; 257 $50 in jan
uary, 1899; and 100000 in January
1888.
The Glacier Production Williams
No. 2 had Sunburst sand from 2S75
to 291O: upper Cut Bank from
2915 to 1926: lower Cut Bank
the main pay, from 1925 to 1898
and penetrated the Ellis from 1888
to 2942. The hole quickly filled
with oil. with a considerable head
OF gas. and began flowing before
the swab was run. II actually
swabbed and flowed 800 barrels in
the first "a hours. II Is south
south offset to The Texas eOmpany's
Section 16 lease. a half section of
state school land, and a north Off
set to Glacier Production company's
Evans farm. The west Offset is
on the G. Corrigeaux farm. Glacier
company is moving rig
onto this farm to drill Immediately
in the center of the north line of
NWA 21-33-5W. 1t is 440 feet
south of the north line and 1920
feet east OF the west line OF the
section.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-03-01
NORTH WILDCAT
MAKES 200 FEET
OF MOLE IN Week

With a record of nearly 1000
feet Of new hole made in a week s
time, the wildcat well of Reagan and
associates on the Blackfeet Indian
reservation north of the main Cut
Bank oil field, is expected to take
the spotlight during the next week
or ten days.
Drilling with rotary tools 1t will
shortly be coring the Kootenai
sands. The well, drilled by a group
of Cut Bank people, will probably
be carried to the top Of the Madi-
son lime should It miss production
in the Cut Bank sand series. It Is
being drilled on the Blackfeet
"nose,' a structural condition map
ped by the u. s. Geological survey
and by biologists of numerous de-
yeIopment companies.
This is one Of four active wild
cat wells in northern Montana.
The Dunkirk Adventure-McKech-
ME No. 1 well in NV SWA 6E x
2-31-1W, is down ITO feet.
Buscher-shannon-R Roberts No. 4,
C NEH 12-20N-1E, west OF
Great Falls, is shut down at $3.50
feet, in the lower Deyonian.
Coolidge a. COOIidge-NeIsOn No.
IA, @ SEX NEM 12-3S-1E, south
west OF Berthelote structure, is
drilling at 2163 feet, due to pick
up the Cut Bank horizon.