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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-01-09
Suit to Quiet
H0rlo Titles

HARLOWTON-An action has been
started in district court here by L. L.
halberg, f. a SWAMI and A. A. POirier
against Edward A. Pettis, Florence
Pettis. the Hedges State bank, Henry
A. Martcn. trustee Merchant & Manu-
facturcrs Finance Co. Of Minnesota,
Matthias Fochs, Mrs. Matthias Fochs,
0tbo Zumwalt. W. J. Peterson, viii
liam IT, Calvert, and others to quiet
title 10 oil and gas lands.
The tract is in the Harlow oil dome
near the site Of the test well of the
Mid.Moutana Co., which soon will be
spuddcd in
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-01-09
The Roster Is Reopened

The Montana oil industry has been
and is a fortune-maker because it
is largely owned by Montana citizens
and Montana corporations. Up to this
time, most Of the production Of oil
has been by Independent operators
who make their homes in Montana.
Of the four branches Of the Mon
tana oil industry the largest returns
have been paid to the branch in
which we are engaged: to royalty
owners.
This we determined incident to
working up our annual calculations
this week. Owners of Montana oil
royalties have received up to Jan
l, 1943, the sum Of SIS, ITO, 1873. 90.
They received more than a million
dollars during the last IL months.
When we stop to consider that
there are some 1000 persons receiv-
ing these royalties we can under
stand why personal fortunes have
come to those fortunate to own lands
on which oil has been found or who
shared with some other landowner a
part of his oil rights, known as
royalties.
Cut Bank field in one decade has
paid its royalty owners $4,702, 1857
and has averaged better than half
million dollars year for the past
four years.
Kelvin field, twice as old as Cut
Bank, has paid its landowners and
their assigns S6,424,013 and is now
moving back toward a quarter of
million dollars year.
We are inclined to think of for
tune-making as something connected
with the past. We dream of the
good old days" back in 1925 when
the great gushers were flowing in
Kelvin Sunburst But the prosaic year
1912 just ended broke all the records
Of the "boom" days Of 1925. Royalty
owners received less than a million
dollars in 1926 ($949, 375.00) whereas
in 1943, royalty owners received
S1,011, 746.OO. Gas royalties are not
included in this figure which covers
oil only.
We think of the golden flood of
G&t OACcA-NAOubhuA 4AAbk SOAA4ucA'
cial field. Yet Cat Greek has paid
royalty owners less than $3,00O,-
0O0.0O-most of it in the first 1C
years Of production. Cut Bank has in
its first 10 years paid royalty own
ers $1,s36,657 more than the 20-yeal
total paid by Cat Greek.
The milhon-dollar reward Of roy
atty owners in the year ended is {
mer hint Of the future. II results
from an expanded Market per
manent market that will demand
eight million barrels of oil next yea
and eight million barrels of oil o.
more the following year-and create
amounts in years TO come.
The oil lands which viii furnisl
that oil are not the ones in expiring
Cat Creek, nor will present horizon
Of Kelvin field supply this oil; AM
TO keep up its pace, Cut Bank mus
be further extended, else develol
new horizons. But the probabilitie
are that supplies of oil will be foun
in lands now undeveloped.
In other words, the next millio
dollars win go to a new crop o
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-01-09

himself, painting and putting, opposite
an old gentleman.
"You must be very unfit, young
man. said the old gentleman. "When
I was young, I never had to pant
like that"
The young fellow looked indignant
Maybe not" he said between gasps.
"But I'll have you know I missed this
train at the last stationi"
The FIRST AMERICAN soldier to
kill Jap was Mike Murphy.
The FIRST AMERICAN bomber to
sink a Jap battleship was Colin Kelly.
The FIRST AMERICAN flyer to bag
Jap plane was Edward O'Hara
The FIRST AMERICAN coast guard
to detect German spy was John Gull
len.
The FIRST AMERICAN to be dec
Grated by the president for bravery
was Pat Powers
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-01-09

A bi-weekly British Army newspaper
with 8 circulation of more than a mil
lien is printed in eight languages.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-01-09

The FIRST AMERICAN to get four
new tires from the ration board was
Nathan GOldstein.
Navy Bill had broken with his girl
friend. After ignoring several letters
requesting the return Of her photo
graph, one came threatening to com
plain to the captain. Deciding to squelch
her for all time, he borrowed all the
pictures Of girls available on the ship,
sending them to her in a large bundle
with the following note:
"Pick yours out; I've forgotten what
you look like"
The teacher wrote on the margin of
little Bettys report card, "GOod worker,
but talks too much"
Betty's father wrote on the opposite
margin before returning it, "Come up
some time and meet her mother"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
MUCH DISCUSSION
RELATIVE TO new
BILLS ON TAXES
CAPITOL HILL OBSERVERS
PRETTY CERTAIN SOME
THING WILL BE DONE SOON
ABOUT MEASURES
By JACK BENNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-As
the new Congress settles down to
work, the income tax pay-as-you-
go bandwagon is becmoing heavi-
ly freighted and Capitol Hill OBJ
servers are giving heavy odds that
something will be done about it be-
fore the first 1912 payment be
comes due March Is.
This would mean dropping en-
tirely the 1912 tax and collection
at the source of a certain percent
age of the income. at the end Of
the year, an adjustment would be
made equalizing the tax on all
earnings.
Don't get the idea that you will
pay any less to Uncle Sam. The
Treasury's collections will be just
as much in 1913 as if you were
paying on your 1912 tax, perhaps
more (since incomes are steadily
mounting). But it would equalize
the tax on a month-to-month
basis, spread it over the year, and
provide relief for the man whose
income suddenly collapses due to
inability to find work or loss of
job.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
Two columns of British Army
Arc Now ConVGTging On TripO|i
Streams OF Rommers Men
Pass Through TripOli
Proceeding On Toward
Tunisia
IBy Associated PreSsD

CAIRO. Jan. 2l.-Two columns
of the British Eighth Army. un-
der General Bernard Montsom-
cry. are eonversing today on
Tripch. one from the east and
the other from the southeast.
Neither force. according to in
formEtion received from the
front. is meeting with much op-
position. and this afternoon beth
columns are believed to be with
in sight OF the stricken city.
Allied airplsne pilots. IN re-
porting to staff officers. stated
that Rommers men are not stop
ping in Tripci, but streams Of
them have gone through the city
and are proceeding toward Tu-
nisia. These columns are nov
under a constant strafing by
British Planes.
General Montgomery is not ex-
pected 4 stay loI z at Trpol.
bit Twill continue On 4oway4 Tn
nisia 70 join the Allied forces IN
that French protectorate.
The roads east and west q
Tripoli are Uttered with AXIS
FaotoFized vea1l ssg Hz0ut~ - s,aeEs
lorries.
Rommel and his staff are nov
thought to have already arrived
either in TuT- II Bizerte.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
McGrath, Arraigned For Trial &. s
On Murder Charge, Acquitted
On Directed Verdict BY Court

the defendant, MIR. Riley request
ed the court to have the jury re-
tire while he presented and ar
gued a motion. After the jury had
retired, Mr.. Riley made his mo-
ton for a directed verdict of
Not guilty" and pointed out his
reasons, which he contended, con-
clusively proved McGrath was not
connected with the crime. The
jury was then recalled, and the
directed verdict was ordered by
Judge Gomez.
Most of the testimony in the
case was read to the jury, as those
witnesses were absent, some OF
them having enlisted in the coun-
try's armeds services, Witnesses
who testified were E. r. Lowe,
LARRY Holt, Charles E. Curry, Fred
die, Archer and Ray Miller, The
last named is special investigator
In the state attorneys office.
Massi was murdered in the fall
of 1910, and his body was thrown
into Gard Sound, near the Over
seas Highway bridge. McGrath
was arrested at Boston race
track, and an attempt was made
also to find one Henry Bell, alias
Buster" Bell, who, besides Nc.
Grath, was indicted by a Monroe
county grand jury. Bell has mo-
yet been apprehended.
The two years delay in Nc
Grath's trial was due to the state:
wishing to find Bell before pro
ceeding with the case. Meanwhile
McGrath was released from jan
under bond.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21

Yesterday afternoon, shortly at
ter 4 o'clock, in ordering a direct
ed verdict of mot guilty" in the
case against Edward McGrath,
charged with numbering Robert
Massi, Judge Arthur Gomez,
presiding in circuit court, said
that when the hypothesis set
forth in circumstances forms a
perfect link that eliminates all
doubt from the mind, circumstan-
tial evidence is then as strong as
direct evidence, but when doubt
continues to exist, then evidence
of that nature is of no avail in
meeting the requirements of the
law.
In the case against McGrath,
Judge Gomez pointed out, there
were many breaks in the circum7
stantial evidence. Any one of at
least four men could haven been
guilty of Staying Massi, and, in
view of that outstanding fact, the
court had only one recourse, and
that was to direct the jury to
bring in a verdict of mot guilty
Bart A. Riley and Thomas S
Caro- represented McGrath. After
the state had closed its case against
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
Bomb Found In Yard On n
Fleming ST. Being Examined

Is it a bomb or is it a sweeping
compound h a adhered to two
electric light bulbs?
That is the question OF the To-
cal ONI, with offices in the Fed
eral Building in Key West, will
determine in examining a suppos-
ed bomb that was turned over to
them this morning by Fire Chief
Leroy Torres.
Chief Torres and Charles Gre
mata found the contraption beside
the garage in back of the house
at 410 Fleming street.
Occupants of the house said they
saw smoke issuing from box, in
which was the bomb" at 3
o'clock in the morning. Water was
poured into the box and the fire
put out. Later in the morning
Chief Torres was told about the
incident, and he took the box con-
tanning the bomb, to" the ON.
Mrs. Arthur Mulberg, whose
mother. Mrs. George Kantor, re-
Gently purchased the house at 4lO
Fleming. said this morning that
a sweeping compound, containing
grease, had been used in the gar
age, but added that she does not
know how the compound, stuck to
two electric light bulbs, came to
be in box outside the garage. She
does know, though, that a few days
ago two burned-out electric light
bulbs had been thrown away by
the occupants of the house.
Mrs. Mulberg's conclusion is
that the bulbs were thrown into
the compound, after it had been
swept up in the garage, and that
the compound, because of the
grease in it, had adhered to the
bulbs and had been set afire in
some way.
However, all that may be, Mrs.
Mulberg added, the occupants OF
the house, on several occasions,
have seen a man at night prowl-
ing in the back yard at 4l0, but
every attempt to catch him has
thus far failed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
RUSSIAN ATTACKS
NOW WIDESPREAD
THREE HUNDRED AND SIX.
TY NAILS KILLED:
500 CAPTURED

MOSCOW, Jan. 21.-The Rus
sian offensive, at practically
every point along the front of l.
200 miles, is now being waged on
an around-the-clock basis. In the
more important sectors, the
fighting during the night is now
nearly as widespread as it is in
the daytime.
Last night, the communicate
said, the Russians scored several
important gains. In one small
sector, in the central Don, 800
Germans were killed and 300 cap
tured and more than 1000 Hun
garian officers and men also
were taken prisoners.
The three Russian armies that
are headed toward Rostov, the
Germans key base in Russia, are
all reported to have made mot
able gains" in the last "a hours.
That was particularly true of
the Red force that is driving to-
ward Rostov from the southeast.
Three important villages in that
area are reported to have been
recaptured by the Russians, who
also came into possession of such
vast quantities of equipment and
supplies there has not yet been
time to classify them, the COM
munique concluded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
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RECEIVES LETTER
OF 1871 TAX LAW

County Clerk Ross Sawyer re-
ceived a letter this morning from
E. r. Bennett, chairman of the
legislative committee of the State
Association of County Clerks, in
reference to the 194l tax law, as
it pertains to delinquent property
and the issuing of tax deeds in the
sale of it by county commission
erS.
MFR. Sawyer is requested to offer
any suggestions he thinks may
strengthen the new law. Chairman
Bennett writes:
MAKE notationS of those Sec
tons you consider to be defective
and set out any suggestions of i'm
provements which will be bene-
fetal to tax accessorS, tax collec-
tors, clerks of circuit courts and
to the people of Florida in gen.
eral."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
SALIENT POINTS IN
JUDGES CHARGE TO
GRAND JURY HERE

The following points were
stressed in Judge Arthur Gomez's
charge to the grand jury yester-
day:
You may make presentmentS
or indictments based on facts
which are within your personal
knowledge, or upon facts proper
ly made known to you by others.
Grand jurors are required to
take an oath of secrecy and it is
well settled that the proceedings
before a grand jury must be kept
strictly secret and that no infor-
nation must be given out pending
their deliberation concerning the
matters brought before them. A
grand juror who violates his
oath of secrecy and oath taken in
qualifying as a grand juror, is in
contempt of this Court, and SUBJ
ject to a severe fine or imprison-
ment or both fine and imprison-
ment.
While you are organized by
this Court as grand jury you are
not under the directions of the
Court or the State Attorney. You
are in an institution within your
self. This Court stands ready to
advise you publicly, while the
State Attorney is available to you
for counsel and advice in matters
of law, and he is at your service
in the matter of procuring wit
neSses for your examination and
the drafting of presentments, in
dictments and reports pursuant to
your wishes, and as an aid to you
in discharging your duties.
Il am advised that several Of
lenses involving capital punish
ment have been committed in the
county since the discharge of the
last grand jury of this Court and
County.
These you viii investigate. The
State Attorney 5mfornis me that
| his witnesses ARE all here, and he
is familiar with their testimony
and can present it to you in very
short time"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
NEGRO CHARGED
WITH MURDER
PLEADS GUILTY
JOHNNY BOSWELL. SLAYER
OF WILLIE GLENN. WILL BE
SENTENCED at SESSION OF
COURT TOMORROW

Assistant State Attorney j..
Lancelot Lester represented the
state before the grand jury in its
examination of witnesses in the
case against Johnny Boswell,
negro, who stabbed Willie Glenn,
Jr., another negro, in a boarding
house on Pauline street a few
weeks ago.
The jury returned true bill of
murder in the first degree, and
Boswell, when arraigned before
Judge Arthur Gomez this morn
ing, pleaded guilty to that charge.
Judge Gomez deferred imposing
sentence until tomorrow'S session
of the court, after witnesses to
the murder have been questioned.
Court will convene at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning and the ques-
tioning will begin shortly there
after.
The grand jury found mo true
bill" against Douglas Kimball,
negro, who was arrested on the
receipt of information here from
Miami that a man, with whom he
had fought, had died in that city,
evidently as a result of wounds
he received in the fight.
Testimony before the grand jury
showed that the fight occurred on
the night of July IA, that a lamp
Kimball had thrown at the other
negro had been thrown first by
him at Kimball, who picked up
the lamp and threw it back. The
lamp inflicted a scalp wound,
which was not considered serious
on the negro's head. He left for
Miami the next day and died there
on August 2.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
City Decides To Place All
Available TIUCksln Service
At Once To Collect Garbage
wMAw<agIlw ~ -. - 50 So
YOUTHFUL VETERAN OF
WARFARE LACKED UP
AGE TO FIGHT JAPS
(By Associated Press)

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 81.
"A l6-Year-old veteran of the
warfare in the Southwest Pa
cific. landed here today. He,
is Earl Griffen, who lacked
up his ages when he wasrl4.
so that he could enlist in the 8
United States Marines.
He was among the first Ma
rines to fight against the IJaps.
Not till few weeks ago did
the Navy learn his true age.
and orders then were issued
to send him back home.
Earl had many a clash with
the Japs. and was looked up
on as a man" of courage and
initiative. He said. upon his
arrival here. that his most
fervent wish is that he were
old enough to get back into
the fighting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
Raj BOMBERS FLY
ACROSS CHANNEL
SoUADRoNS HEADED IN DI.
RECTIoN OF DIEpPE
IN FRANCE

I LONDON, Jan. 2l.-Squadron
after squadron of Raj bombers
and fighters flew across the Eng
lish Channe, today in the direc-
ton of Dieppe in France. The Air
Ministry did not announce what
military detectives would be al
tackled, though it was thought they
would be somewhere in France.
Meantime, debris is still being
cleared away at the site of the
elementary grade school that was
struck yesterday by a German
bomb. Thus far the bodies of AZ
children and teachers have been
recovered, and % other people in
other parts of England were killed
during the raid The number OF
wounded was placed at SO.
Throughout England today is IN
insistent demand that the govern
ment start an investigation e.
learn why the sirens were not
sounded until the raid had bee IN
Somebody, several newspspe
said in effect today, is to blame
for not detecting the on-coming
bombers in time to give the alarm
so that the people of London and
its vicinity would have time to
enter AFRAID shelters.
Near the schoolhouse that was
bombed, groups of children, il was
charged, had attempted 10 enter
shelters and had found them
locked. While the children were
running about, trying to find
some place of protection. a Ger.
man plane swooped down and
machine-gunned them.
Protests were made also in the
House OF Commons today for the
apparent carelesSness of afraid
wardens. Several speakers de-
manded that the government re-
sort to stringent measures against
everybody who is found TO be al
fault for the delay in warning
the populace against the raiders.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
NOTICE

This is an appeal to truck
owners of the City of Key West
to rent or lease trucks to the City
for the purpose of relieving the
deplorable garbage situation ex-
listing at the present time. Those
who are willing to lease or rent
their trucks will please commune
cate Immediately with Chairman
of Sanitation Department. John
Carbonell, Jr., at Strand Theater.
JOE JOHNSON,
jan21-lt City Clerk.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
L3I1TD0T III.
Na1 Forces Have Driven
Wedge Into French Lines

est gains sde In Tunisia by them
since the Allied invasi0z-
The tanks were divided into
four eoIE-nns. and all Of them
attacked at the same time. Al
every point ire ranks Of ths
Frsnchmen were broken and
they fell back in disorder
Elsewhere in Tunisia there hss
not bean any ground fighting IA
the last "a hours. Allied planes.
day and night. continued 70 b0nb
the enemy Lines in Bizsrts ard
Tunis. and acme Of the squad
rons have attacked Marshal
HcrnznsFs forces that are fleeing
toward Tunisia from Tripoi
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
Council Has Tentatively
Agreed To Make Pur-
chase OF Trucks; To
Meet Friday Night

The City Council met in spe-
cial session last night for the pur-
pose of devising ways and means
for the operation of the scaven.
ger service. While no definite
arrangements were made. il was
tentatively agreed to purchase
the necessary trucks and equip
ment for carrying on the work.
Jesus Caraballo. the former
operator of the service. made an
offer TO resume operations. pro-
viding that the city give him
some protection in making COL
lections for the service rendered.
1t was shown that the city could
not give any individual contrae-
tor the protection as required
inasmuch as that is simply a mat
ter between the users of the
service and the contractor. The
offer of Mr.. Caraballo was voted
down. -. ~ 49,.
After quite a lengthy discus
sion of the matter during the
session which lasted until mid
night. 1t was tentatively agreed
that the city purchase the neces-
ssrY trucks. but final action was
deferred Until, Friday night when
another meeting will be called
to complete the procedure for
operations. This action was TAX
en- due to the fact that the coun-
Gil desired to obtain further in
formation relative 10 the type OF
body and other Equipment that
goes with the trucks. which are
TO be fully equipped for handling
Continued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
BOYS LOCKED IN ICE BOX

VALENTINE, Neb., Jan. 10
returning from a skating Darty,
Billy Ward and Calvin Cart :, IL,
locked themselves accidentally IN
a five-foot ice box which they
found on a scrap pile VI le their
worried parents searched for them,
the boys worked hard to gain
their freedom, which they did, by
pryirag off the ice box door with
their Skates.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
SOUTH AFRICA AIDS
STUDENT SOLDIERS
nv Associated Press

PRETORIA, Jan. 21.-South-
African stuGents from the army
going into University can obtain
government grants of $223.50
yearly and loans of $66T.50 year
ly repayable over Is years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
Perfect Attendants
!. has .g12d Fail On Last Lap
assaclarea Pres.l

OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. I'll
The Kiwanis club president called
for q members to step forward
to be honored for one full year
of perfect attendance.
Four failed to respond. They
were absent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
CHANGE HOURS AT
REVENUE OFFICE

Howard Wilson. lorsl Revenue
collector Of the United States
government. informed The Clii-
zen today that his office VIII be
oper m the future from today On
from 3 O'Clock in the morning IN
I'll 5 in the afternoon, daily, in
Guiding Saturday.
The noon hour closing has been
dispensed with due 20 the rush Of
business, and these new office
hours VIII remain IN effect until
March Is.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
FOUR FALSE AFRAID ALARMS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS four today when
alarms Long strings of Raj fighters the ground other
squadrons Immediately any
headed
all-clear sounded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
FLYNN COMMITTEE REcEssEs

WASHNGToNThe senate committee that is taking testimony
determine the fitness unfness of Edward Flynn minister
Augtrala today recessed until
afterwad Several witnesses including Mayor La Guar New
York. subpoenaed to testify a the hearing
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
LATE BULLETINS
10 AXIS SHIPS SUNK
tBy Associated Pressl

misunderstanding to information received from Allied head
North Africa ID Axis ships the Medi
during days
way supplies
as Raj planes attacked and sank the ships.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-01-21
TO REDUCE TELEPHONE RATES

WASHINGToN-As result OF hearings
country
the hearings that the income
larger than during any other time many years.