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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
MAKE PLEA FOR
TO
GAS RATTONING

While preparations went forward for
gasoline rationing in the entire United
states on the basis of the metropoli-
tan rationing of the Atlantic coast,
powerful forces were at work this week
to have rationing applied according to
needs in various parts Of the country.
A. B. Cobb chairman of the Oil
Conservation Board, reports that the
National Conference Of Petroleum
Regulatory Authorities, giving a cross
section Of the nation, again urged the
administration to forego gasoline ra-
tioning in oil producing states, land
that where regulations may be made
affecting this rationing program that
they should be confined to the use of
such consumers as viii affect a saw
ing of rubber, and that other con-
sumers using gasoline be not ra-
toned"
The committee also pointed out that
outside of cities "are numerous es-
sential industries such as the pro-
duction of petroleum and other min
erals and maintenance of livestock
and agricultural industries whose
principal dependence is on gasoline
driven vehicles and that any ration
ing program should take into con-
the essential qualities Of
these. industries and proper provision
should be made so as not to induly
interfere with the essential activities
Of such industries"
Wright Gary, one of the advisors
Of the Baruch rubber control COM |
nittee, proposes gasoline rationing |
by local areas" in California, stating
that the desired $50 reduction in
driving recommended by the Baruch
group can be accomplished through /
1ther methods without endangering |
essential industry. Gary's opinions are
leld in high regard in the admin
Registration for gasoline rationing
will begin Nov. 9 in Montana and
elsewhere. In the tire conservation
,lan the following rules have been
aid down:
/. Periodic tire inspections as to re-
uirement for a renewal of rations, as
yell as any application for tires or re-
APPS.
2. Certification that the applicant
WINS no more than five tires for any
ehicle..
8. Revocation or reduction of ra-
ions for drivers who exceed the 35-
speed limit.
The registration beginning Nov. |
ill be for "a" coupon books, with
ne rationing plan to go into effect ]
ov. %.
Each applicant will be required to {
st the serial number of all tires he ,
Wns If he lists more than five tires /
u each car, he will denied an "A''
2ok until he shows he has disposed s
the excess tires.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Ickes Describes
Industry Plight
Before Committee

Testifying before the O'A1ahoney
senate committee on public lands and
surveys Oil Coordinator Tckes told Of
the severe financial burden on the
petroleum industry for war purposes,
especially on the refiners who have
been called upon to make less gasoline
and more heating and industrial oils.
"As you well know" he said, 'the
intensity of our wild eating effort
depends, after all, upon three major
elements. I refer first to the price of
oil. The second and third factors are
the availability of lands suitable for
exploration and the kind of tools we
possess with which to do the job"
"As to price, the industry has found
by experience that an increase in the
price of oil was an effective stimulant
of prospecting and a consequent in
crease in the number of new oil fields
This is understandable be-
cause higher prices naturally attracted
more venture capital into the oil BUSH
ness"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Skilled Labor
Must Be Kept
In Oil InfEEEstru

Charles F. Roeser, independent oil
operator, told the senate committee on
public lands that the administration
must safeguard skilled personnel IN
the oil industry If the nation Is TO
have petroleum for its war machines.
Following Is a summary of his testi-
mony:
Because the United Nations are be-
coming increasingly dependent on
the protected oil supply OF the
United States. the depletion Of our
reserves must be stopped and new
discoveries increased to win the
war and provide for a successful
peace.
2 Skilled labor In the oil industry
must be protected.
3 Oil field equipment must be care
fully guarded against raids from
other industries that are no more
essential to the war effort than oil.
4 Tax provisions for percentage de-
pletion charges and for the ex-
pensing of intangible development
costs must be retained
4 Exploratory work on, and develop
ment of, public lands should be en-
couraged by placing these operations
on at least as favorable basis as
operations on private lands.
S 1t will not be possible to hold our oil
supplies in fun readiness for war
demands unless new oil discoveries
are increased at least to the level
Of current production as soon as
possible.
7 The oil industry is now dissipating
its crude oil reserves-an fireplace
able asset-at prices below replace
ment cost.
} An increase in the price Of crude oil
is the only way to eliminate the
current serious threat to the ma
tons oil economy
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Goodyear Ready
To Produce NeIU
Tune "W0r Tire

AKRON-The Goodyear Tire & Rub
Der Co. announced it was ready, sub
ject to government approval to start
quantity production of reclaimed rub
Der war tire" good for 10000 miles
If not driven above IS miles an hour.
Only four ounces of crude rubber
are used in the new tire, Goodyear
said. 1t is identical in appearance to
It's peacetime product, except for the
words war tire" stamped on the side
wall
The B. F. Goodrich Co. here made a
similar announcement this week.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Gibson AbSOLUed
of Bank Claims
Of Fraud Sales

Judge Lewis Schwellenbach dis
missed the suit of G. j. Johnson, ST.
Paul banker, to recover money paid
to E. j. Gibson & Co. of Spokane for
stocks johnson held were sold to him
fraudulently.
johnson, vice president of the
American National bank of st. Paul
for 20 years, is president of the Min
mount Mining Co. of Helena, which
foreclosed on the Montana CONSOLE
dated Co. in the same area.
The banker charged that Gibson,
when acting as Johnson's agent to
purchase stock in Consolidated, really
sold him stock already held by Glib
sons company, without Johnson's
knowledge. johnson asked an ac-
counting on that basis, contending he
had not known the origin of the stock
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Montana Copper
Mining Fortune
PnuS L0rQe Tax

HELENA r. Penwell. Mon
tana director of the department of in
ternal revenue, announced a check
for $4,20O,OO0 had been deposited with
his office along with 100000 in gov
eminent bonds by administrators of
the estate of the late Margaret P.
DAILY.
The amount was in payment of
estate taxes, to be held pending final
appraisal of the estate Mrs DAILY was
the widow of the late Marcus P. DAILY,
founder of the Anaconda Copper Co.
Penwen said the check was the
largest ever received in the history of
the Montana office.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
TIRES FOR ALL
PLAN GETS NOD
FROM HENDERSON

WASHINGTON-P Administra-
tor Leon Henderson announced the
governments plan TO provide tires to
keep every passenger car rolling for
essential mileage" throughout the
war.
The announcement-sett forth
strictest controls over mileage, speed,
rubber, gasoline, tire care and car
sharing-was the first official in
dication that the office of price adj
ministration construed the recent
Baruch committee report as calling for
tires for every driver.
Robert W. Horton, deputy director
Of OPA in charge of information, con-
firmed this Interpretation by saying:
THE Baruch committee, after q
long and careful study, said that
everybody could get tires. This Is our
plan, to try and get tires to every
body"
Henderson's plan would authorize
tire requirements in the form of re-
caps, used tires or new tires of var
ious grades. In every case, the re-
placement will be the minimum grade
of tire that viii serve for the mileage
granted in the gasoline ration book"
he stated
1.-THE governments undertaking to
keep tires on all passenger cars with
driving reduced to essential mileage"
his statement cautioned, 'sis a goal
which can be reached only If driving
is brought within the 5,O00-mile a
year average recommended by the
Baruch report, and if there is strict
to the 35-mile-an-hour
speed limit.
ANY failure to accomplish the
mileage limit or speed cut viii result
In stricter curtailments to prevent
excessive drain on the national rub
Der resources"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17

ordinator Of mines, there were 2,817
men employed in the lode gold min
ing in March at which time 1928
persons in Montana we're directly de-
pendent on gold mining for living
and 80 towns and villages with total
population of 6,667 were primarily de-
pendent upon gold mining.
Mining men throughout the west
were crying for relief, without sue
cess. Cripple Greek, Colo firms
threatened federal court injunction to
resist the WPB order.
Twenty-one western senators signed
a letter to the president protesting the
closing of gold mines, declaring that
The order would release only a few
miners for work in strategic metal
mines and would disrupt the economy
and morale of gold mining areas.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Airport RHnWGys
Left UncOnipLeted
BIZ Oil Greece"

KALISPEII-The freezing Of road
oil has stopped work on the F1athead
county airport which is finished ex-
cept for the blacktop on the runways.
The spreading machine is ready to
complete the job but it may have to be
moved out. The blind blanket order,
intended to get more fuel oil for the
Atlantic coast, thus trips up Uncle
Sam in his own red tape. It is under
stood that the blacktop can be put on
in zero weather but the winter is liable
to be over before the oil freezing can
be thawed out in washington.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
PHOTOGRAPHY OF
MONTANA MINES
IS COMPLETED

One of the finest works of its kind
ever issued in this state has been is
sued by the Montana bureau of mines
and geology in its Memoir 81, "Biblio-
graphy of the Geology and Mineral
Resources of Montana"
This book is a 35O-page highly
technical publication containing abb
Stracts of 1880 articles; a descrip-
ton of Montana geologic formations
and correlation tables; complete in
dexes, cross references and strait
graphic chart 1t was not intended to
include mining, milling and smelling
methods.
The photography is the first and
only complete work of its kind dealing
with the state of Montana; and like
its predecessors, memoir 20, Directory
of Montana Mining Properties" pub
lished in 1910; and the supplement- to
memor 20, published in 1912, was
compiled through the cooperation Of
the Montana bureau of mines and
geology, the Montana School of Mines,
the Mining Association of Montana
and the mineral resources survey
the latter being a WPA project. This
project furnished most Of the workers
that compiled memoir 81, and DR.. F.
M. Thomson, president of the School
of Mines, states in the foreword Of
the book:
1.-THE completion of such a task by
a corps of previously unframed WPA
workers with a minimum of skilled
supervision is a task the accomplish
ment of which at first sight appeared
impossible. It reflects great credit both
on the supervision by the small tech
nical staff and on the devotion Of the
men and women who did the work, !
none Of whom had had the slightest |
experience in anything of the kind"
Direct supervision of this project |
was furnished by Cecil r. Waldron, |
former supervisor; Roy H Earhart, |
present supervisor. and Carl j. Trauer-
man, secretary of the Min !
ing Association of Montana, acting |
in an advisory capacity DR.. Eugene
S. Perry and DR.. Laurence L. Sloss Of
the Montana bureau of mines and
geology checked the items and assisted /
with the stratigraphic chart
The photography viii be Of per-
manent value to those connected with 4
the mineral industry. A large demand
is expected for the limited supply now
available. Anyone desiring copy
should put in their order as quickly as
possible to the presidents office Of the
Montana School Of Mines, Butte.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
TO THE MONTANA GOLD MINER:

To The MUNIANA GUILD MIINEh.
All right Mr.. Gold miner, now is not the time
to cry.
You have known for long time about that
silver-zinc-lead ore up the gulch. You never
bothered else you didn't have time to take a
look at it.
you can open up.
If it looks at all promising, cut some samples
and have some assays run.
If it still stands up, get in touch with the Re-
construction Finance Corporation in Helena.
You can get an RFC loan without great deal
of trouble.
It's the thing to do today as copper, zinc and
lead are needed as never before in the war eff
fort Besides, it may grow into something
permanent and profitable after the war.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17

One gold dredge and smaller lode
and placer mines of the two and three
man size will keep running under
specific exemptions. The dredge is the
Schroeder-Perry dredge on the Mis-
souri, river near Helena which pro-
duces sapphires which are essential to
the war effort.
Lode mines which produced less
than 1900 tons of commercial oil and
placer mines which treated less than
1000 cubic yards of gravel in 1871 may
keep operating. All other gold mines
are given 60 days from Oct to put
mines in Standby" condition. Opera
lions of the American Smelling & Re-
filming Co. at East Helena and the
Washoe plant at Anaconda will be
greatly curtailed by the order. In
instances a shortage Of flux ores, used
in smelling non-ferrous metals, will
result and may call for the mining of
ores for flux.
According to Tom Caverly, CO.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
DENVER OIL MAN NAMED
REGIONAL VINO DIRECTOR

John r. (Dick) McCusker, prom
inent Denver oil man and civic leader
has been appointed regional director
of the war manpower commission. His
headquarters will be in Denver, and
his region will include Colorado,
Wyoming, Montana, Utah and Idaho.
At the same time, John E. Gross,
regional chief of the U. S. Employ
ment Service, was named deputy re-
eional VINO director, and Clifford
Noon was named assistant regional
VINO director
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
IckeS, Davies
and Eastman Will
Address the API

Petroleum COordinator Harold L.
Ickes, Deputy Coordinator Ralph K.
Davies, and Defense Transportation
Director Joseph B. Eastman win be
among the speakers at the 23rd an
nual meeting of the American Pc
troIeum Institute, to be held at the
Palmer House, Chicago, Nov. 9-12,
William r. Boyd, Jr., Institute presi-
dent announces This will be In all
respects a war convention of the
petroleum industry" Mr.. Boyd said.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
TANK TRICK RATES

WASHINGTON-T truck oper-
ators other than common carriers were
authorized by OPA to increase rates
above the highest levels of last March
provided the carriers customer says
he will not use the higher rate to
justify increased commodity prices or
to petition for a higher ceiling. The
new arrangement was approved by
OPA in amendment Is to supplement
tary regulation No. IA, now effective.
for depreciation of vehicle.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Anaconda Wire
PAYS Dividend

NEW YORK-The Anaconda Wire
a. Gable Co, declared a dividend Of IS
cents a share on the common stock,
payable oct. 1g TO stock holders Of
record Oct. Q. The previous payment
mma 81 cents q share last July.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Montana POWer
Pays Dividend on
Preferred Stock

MISSOULA - Announcement was
made at the monthly directors meet
ing Of the Montana Power Co., that
the regular quarterly dividend of $3.50
per share on outstanding preferred
stock, $6 series, has been declared,
payable Nov to stockholders of rec
ord at the close of business on Oct. 10.
Send in a Contribution to the Badger
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Will DEVELOP SODIUM

RYDER, N De. E. Freeden Of
Ryder, interested for years in develop
ment of natural resources in this area,
announces that equipment is enroute
to commence processing a deposit of
sodium sulphate near here.
I'VE recently completed a deal with
the United States g. Canadian Chem
ical Co. covering leases on three
sodium deposits in northwestern North
Dakota" Freeden said.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17
Gold Mines Close Down
And $500 Are JObIeSS

gold Thursday compliance
the order of the production board throwing about $500 out
capable into the mines
majority them able take jobs nonerrous metal
and viii doubtless seek other EMPLOYMENT
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-10-17

The Nazis have ordered Germans
who picked fruits and vegetables to
supplement their meagre diets to turn
this food in at collection depots.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
The War Today

LONDON-British b o m b s
heavily batter Rostock for the
second night In a row, con-
centrating on the Heinkel
plane plant and Neptune ship
yards. Thursday nights raid
on Rostock is called biggest
one-hour shellacking in avia-
ton history. page II
ATLANTIC AND CARIBBEAN
Submarines sink five United
Nations m er ch ant ships.
page ~
Observation-Disclosures planes
bomb Japanese airdrome at
Lac, New Guinea. page 81
B u r M A-Japanese invaders
plunge ahead, threatening
Chinese on Sittang front with
encirclem n {; Mandalay
bombed again. page 81
RUSSIA-Pravda says Nazis
have lost 100000 men,
$4,000 a week-since Russian
offensive began. page 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
Aussie Filters
Kill $4,000 laps

SAN FRANCISCO. April Is
(INS). - Annihilation of $1,000
japanese soldiers in a convoy
bound for Malaga was officially
to an Australian air force
today, the Melbourne radio said in
a broadcast recorded by the CHS
listening station in San Francisco.
IAN air force officer back
from Malaga and the East In
dies said today that his squadron
was officially credited with kill
ing $4,000 japanese In seven and
a half hours" the Melbourne an
nouncer said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25

cording to Lansing City Health
Director DR.. Frank S. Cross,
the local dental clinic has been
forced to close, leaving many
a needy child and aged suffer-
ing City Engineer Glenn
p. MANI explains the $4,000
appropriation in the budget
for the Olds Motor Works
Relief sewer Strain of
teaching defense courses at
night in addition to his reg
ular classes was blamed for
the suicide of Prof. Oren L.
Snow of Michigan State Col
lege.
FLINT-A three-county battle,
with Genesee in the middle,
looms over the issuance Of
dog licenses. Charges are that
Lapeer claims Genesee allows
an extra month, and Living
ston County claims Genesee's
low license fee is taking its
customers The Nurses
role on the battlefield as well
as the home front was out
lined in the opening session of
the Michigan State Nurses
Association convention here
yesterday Identification
cards are now available in
Flint for those who care to
drink, but may not be served
If they appear younger than II.
PONTIAC - Oakland County's
police post at keego Harbor
now has 10 uniformed men
and two detectives, Sgt. Clark
Ochs, in charge. announced
today. The new 125-foot radio
tower has been completed
Baldwin Avenue Civic Asso-
citation bylaws were adopted
last night and temporary Off
GERS were elected.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
'Pickups' Make a Haul
Prosecutors Posing as Policy House Employees
Arrest 10 Men on Gambling Charges

said TO have handed over the days
r eipts to the investigations,
thinking them new pickup men.
The investigators directly re-
sponsible for the arrests are
Henry Lukas, Oscar Pruitt and
Joseph Zanglin.
The investigators first seized
Harold Clark, 30, of Walled Lake,
the alleged pickup man. Pruitt
and Lukas then took his car and
visited shops where they believed
he picked up bets each day, When
they were questioned by the al
legged writer's they said Clark had
been jailed and they we're replac-
ing him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
Continued on Next Pa

Arrested by prosecutors inves-
tigators who seized an alleged pol
icy house pickup man, took his car
and then toured his route posing
as policy employees. 10 men were
to be taken to court today charged
with violations of the state gam
bling laws.
With the exception Of the al
legged pickup man, the men ar
rested are employees or proprietors
of four barber shops, two drug
stores and a grocery.
According to the prosecutors
Investigators the shop owners or
clerks wrote policy bets for the
policy house, and each is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
David Whitney Dies
7s-Year-Old Yoehtsman and Realty Company
Head Dies Following Heart Attack

David c. Whitney, a member of
one of Detroit's Oldest families and
the son Of David Whitney Jr.,
after whom the David Whitney
Building was named. was dead
today at the age of IS.
Mr.. Whitney died late last night
at Harper Hospital after a short
illness following a heart attack.
President Of the Whitney Realty
Company, Mr.. Whitney lived at
237 Lake Shore road. Crosse
Pointe Farms. Nv
When he was younger. Mr.. Whit
iney was an enthusiastic YACHT
ID
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25

man and in 1880 ne and Mrl
Whitney made a four month";
cruise Of more than 1000 miles on
their yacht. Sumar, In which thsy
visited England, Norway, swsdsn
and Spain. ~ v
Mr.. Whitney was a member q
the New York Yacht Club. the
Country Club of Detroit. the D.
troit Athletic Club. the Detroi<
Boat Club. the Detroit Club. ths
Detroit Museum Of Art Founderr
Society. the Detroit Symphony
Society. the Crosse Points O.
and the Old Club.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
Carl WeidemQn Captures Bandit in Hom'
ROStOCk
Shattered
BY Raj
BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS
United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, April 25.-British
heavy bombing planes plastered
Rostock, German war factory CEN
ter and Baltic port. for the second
straight night, early today again
on the vast Heinkel Air
craft Works.
The raid was made in excellent
bombing weather and it was be-
lieved that it might prove as
heavy as that of the night before,
when big areas of Rostock were
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
State News HishIishts

SAGINAW-Local NYA camp
and training center will be
turned into a girls camp, it
was learned today, because
enough youths are not avail
able to fill it e. A suspected
tire thiefs bond of $1,000 was
cut to SO, although his part
ner testified against him.
BAY CITY-Aloysius Louis Ro-
gals4xi,' 3S, a defense worker,
is held for examination on
charges Of impersonating a
federal officer.
LANSING-Failure of Ingham
County to provide $500. ac-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
Fuchs 10 Pitch
Against Browns
BY LEO MACDoNELL


Charley Fuchs will pitch for the
Tigers against the Browns in the
first Of a three-game series start
ing at Briggs Stadium today.
Bob Harris, ex-Tiger, will pitch
for the Browns.
1t will be the st. Louis teams
first appearance of the season in
Detroit.
The two teams split four games
in st. Louis recently. ~
Fuchs shut out the Browns with
a four-hit game in one of the ST.
Louis games.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
Filters Poised

WASHINGTON, April . (lNSJ.
Diplomatic quarters here believe
an American air force will join the
Raj this summer In launching
against Germany one Of the great
lest serial offensives the world has
ever seen. .setT 7T'-'
The American air. force Is ex-
|pected to operate as a separate
unit in the British Isles. but may
be under the unified command of a
British air marshal.