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Evening star., 1943-11-11
Man Killed in PLUNGE
From Hotels 18th Floor
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. ia H.
story plunge from a hotel window
was fatal to a man identified by
police as Benjamin r. Fry, 80.
In the room, Detective 1t. E. j
Bechtel reported, were a chauffer's s
license, papers indicating he was
from Cincinnati and this memo:
"wednesday, get haircut; Thurs
day, get interview: Friday, get wrist
watch band fixed"
His hair had been freshly trimmed
when his body was found last night
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Americans Lose 1855
In Two Months in Ita|y

American forces have suffered a
total of 1856 casualties in Italv in
two months of fighting up to No
vember 9. Secretary of War Stimson
reported TODAY.
These included 1895 killed, 4,764
wounded and 2,497 reported missing
In action.
British losses during the same pc
riod since the initial landing at Sa-
lerno September were somewhat
greater" Secretary Stimson said.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Britain Blocks Food
For Europe 'sChi|dren,
Senate Group Told
Quaker Relief Director
Cites Specific Instances
Of Products Withheld
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,

Public sentiment in England
favors feeding the children of
occupied Europe, but opposition
of the British government pre-
vents it, DR.. Howard E. Kershner
of the National Committee on
Food for the Small Democracies
told a Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee today.
DR.. Kershner, who was director of
relief in Europe for the Quakers
from 1899 to 1912, gave the subcom-
mittee two illustrations, while testi-
flying on the Gillette resolution.
which seeks to have the Senate 20
on record in support Of extending
to other occupied areas the food
program already being carried out
for Greece.
Cites Specific Cases.
He said that in November. 1941,
he bought $50 tons of powdered milk
in Switzerland, but because of oppo-
sition which he said apparently en-
anated from the British Embassy in
Washington, the United States
Treasury did not grant a license to
pay for it. He said the milk went
to Germany instead of to French
children.
On another occasion, he testified,
he arranged to buy 10 tons of beans
which had been in Marseilles since
before the war, belonging to an
American firm. Again. he charged
British opposition induced the
Treasury not to issue the necessary
license, and the children being fed
by the Quakers did not get the
beans.
Can it be that Britain did not
want America to continue to be the
sole recipient of gratitude for feed
ing the children of France?" DR..
Kershner continued. Can it be that
Britain, having once taken a de-
fensible position against child feed
ing, refuses to change her position
now that it has become indefensible,
because she fancies it might involve
a loss of face?
Unyielding Policy.
IF the democratic people of
Europe perish and the Germans
alone have the health to reconstruct
Europe after the war, the British
government will bear the RESPONSE
bility. Its unyielding policy of pre-
venting the saving of the children
of our friends and allies will be the
cause"
DR.. Kershner said a committee he
was connected with fed the children
on both sides in the Spanish civil
war successfully, with the aid ot
official grants from a number of out
side governments. He told Chair
man Thomas that Gen. Franco at
first gave an emphatic mo" to the
proposal. but later responded to the
argument that Spain could not be
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Hull Accorded Hero's Welcome
On Return Here From Moscow

aims Foreign Minister, Anthony
Eden, and Soviet Russia's Molotov,
drove with the President to the
White House, where he discussed
details that could be taken up only
in private.
He called at the White House
again at noon today, presumably for
another talk with Mr.. Roosevelt on
the Moscow conference.
Mr.. Hull came home-a gallant
American eagle" in the words of
Prime Minister Churchill and
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia
who has found plenty of fault with
che administration on other scores,
came right out with a declaration
that the Secretary should be
awarded the Congressional Medal Of
Honor for "his diplomatic success
nearly beyond measure"
The Secretary exploded the myth
that he wouldn't bear up we'll under
air travel. The transport crew said
(see HULL, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Nassau Judge Denies
Use Of Fake Evidence
|nDe harigny Trial
Instruets Jury to Give
Defendant Benefit Of
Any Reasonable Doubt
Ey the Associated Press.

NASSAU. Bahamas. Nov. IL
Chief Justice Sir Oscar Bedford
DAILY told a Bahamas Supreme
Court jury trying Alfred de Ma
rigny for the murder of Sir Harry
Oakes today that he is convinced
there has been no taking of evi-
dence In the sensational case.
Exhorting jurors to give the ac-
cused son-in-law the benefit of any
reasonable doubt, he asserted in
ringing tones:
Il say as presiding judge that to
my mind there is no evidence what
soever to justify allegations made
during the trial or to justify any
charge of fabricating or falsifying
evidence"
Defense Counsel Godfrey Higgs
suggested in his final argument yes
terday that the hngerprint on which
the prosecution bases its case against
De Marigny was not obtained from
a bed screen where Capt. James o.
Barker of the Miami police said he
found it..
Comedies Possible Mistake.
The defense has implied that Capt
Barker and Capt E. w. Melchen of
the Miami police arranged to get
the print from some object touched
by De Marigny during the investi-
CATION.
The bedscreen stood in the bed
room where Sir Harry was blud-
geoned and burned to death during
the early morning hours last July s
Capt. Barker may have made a
mistake" said the red-robed, white
wigged justice, but that is far
different from fabrication as the
defense charged"
In making his final charge to the
(See NAKTC Dooo Al
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Diamond of $50 Curuts
Found in West Africa

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Imperial
Institute announced last night that
a 530-carat diamond. which it de-
scribed as probably the eighth
largest ever found" had been un-
covered in Sierra Leone, British
colony and protectorate on the west
coast of Africa.
The weight is almost a quarter
pound.
Evening star., 1943-11-11

just peace E. land. this time, we
as a Nation must be prepared to
make that pledge stick"
His address was delivered in the
Arlington Amphitheater Immediate
ly after the laying of President
Roosevelt's wreath at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier.
President Roosevelt stood bare
headed as Rear Admiral Wilson
Brown, the Presidents naval aide.
placed the Presidents floral tribute
yellow chrysanthemums with green
ferns-at the Tomb's base. A de-
tachment of soldiers, sailors and
marines presented arms. For one
minute. at II am, there was COM
plete silence
The President had arrived at 1880
lSee APMISTICE nav pace AAl
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Legations Elevated
By U. 5. and Canada
Mccarthy and Atherton
Become Ambassadors
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Nov. 1.-THE Cana
dian legation in Washington and
the United States legation here
were raised today to the status of
embassies, with the ministers of the
two countries elevated to the rank
OF ambassadors.
Canada thus becomes the first of
the British Dominions to establish
an office of the highest diplomatic
status in a foreign country, while
the United States becomes the first
nation to establish an office OF
similar status in a British Dominion.
Leighton Mccarthy at Washing
ton steps up from the status of Ca
madam minister prenipotentiary and
envoy extraordinary to that OF
ambassador and Ray Atherton,
United States Minister to Ottawa,
makes the same jump in rank.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Officer and Cadet Die
In Army PIune Crash
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUMTER, S. c., Nov. 1.-THE
Shaw Field public relations office
announced today that an officer and
an aviation cadet were killed when
their training plane crashed yester-
day near here.
The victims were Second 1t. Otto
r. Misak, jr., 2l, Winfield, Kans.,
and Aviation Cadet Martin j. Muir
ply, 81. Edgewater, N. j.
Evening star., 1943-11-11

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Nov. II
(R.-Philip R. Jordon. So, of Ram
sey, N. j., superintendent of the
Franklin Baker division of General
Foods at Hoboken, N. j.. for the
last 20 years, dropped dead in a
railroad station here yesterday
while waiting for train. Coroner
w. N. Putnam said he had suffered
heart attack.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Germans Report Reds
Gaining Steadily With
Far Superior Forces
Berlin Radio Pictures
Russian Front AbIuze
With Soviet Offensives
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. II. Russian
forces, slogging through the wet
SHOWS of the Western Ukraine
toward Poland and Rumania,
were pushing forward with far
superior forces" the German
communique said today.
Berlin broadcasts pictured the
whole Russian front, from the in
vested Crimea to the frozen fields
around Newell, ablaze with heavy
Soviet offensives.
A violent tank battle was reported
near the White Russian rail center
of Gomel, where Berlin said the
Russians attacked with numerous
rifle divisions, masses of tanks and
planes" in an attempt to break a
narrow sector of the front along the
Sozh River, tributary of the Dnieper
The Germans said they destroyed
217 tanks.
Reds Near Rail Center.
The fresh Russian gains presum-
ably carried the Ukrainian armies
closer than 40 miles from the raj
center of Zhitomir, as reported at
midnight by Moscow At that time
the Russians were AZ miles directly
west of Kiev and lunging swiftly
on a up-mile front.
The German communique acknow-
ledged the Russians had made "a
local dent" in fresh attack north
east of the Crimean port of Kerct
and told of attacks around Perekor
on the narrow land bridge tying the
Crimea to the mainland
Violent Russian attacks in force
also were reported by Berlin north
of the Dnieper Bend iron center
of Krivoi Rog, northwest of Cherni-
gov above Kiev, and northwest oil
Smolensk. BY German account
the Russians firmly held the initia
tive in all these engagements but
the Nazis insisted they had repelled
all the thrusts. The Germans said
they were counter attacking sue
cessfully southwest of Kiev.
Plagued by rain, snow and fog OF
the approaching Russian winter, anG
reeling under the blows Of the Rus
sian forces, the Nazis we're abandon
ing huge stores of food and war ma
terial in their flight. a Soviet COM
munique declared.
The bulletin said the Russians
tanning out on a 70-nile arc from
Kiev. had overrun more than GO
towns-two of them district centers-
and captured Komarovka, 40 miles
northeast Of Zhitomir and 48 miles
southeast of Korosten, another rail
center indispensable to German
north-south communications.
The Red Army thus was more tnan
Evening star., 1943-11-11
1t. Hutchin's S Wife
Kked Because He
Kept Deed Secret
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Nov. II.
Mrs. Charles H. Hutchins,
wife Of the commanding officer
Of the destroyer Borie, will have
some questions to ask the lieu
tenant the next time he's home
on leave.
1t. Hutchins telephoned his
wife Tuesday night and said
nothing about the gallant hand
to-hand combat with a Nazi
submarine.
THE nerve of that mani"
said Mrs. Hutchins.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Third Big SoIomons Battle
Is Reported by Axis
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Berlin radio, broadcasting q
Toxic dispatch, said today that a
third great aerial battle took place
off Bougainville" in the Solomons.
An embittered battle is being
waged between units of the Gap
anese) imperial navy and powerful
army formations of the enemy
said the broadcast.
It claimed that "the number OF
American sailors who lost their lives
off Bougainville has been estimated
at 10000 men at least"
Evening star., 1943-11-11
British Aid to u. S. Now
Has Passed Billion Mark
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Britain's lease-lend aid to the
United States, already past the
billion mark, is growing each month,
Sir John Anderson, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, declared in White
Continued on Page A-6, Column u
Evening star., 1943-11-11

(See ITALY, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1943-11-11

(See RELIEF, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1943-11-11

(See RUSSIA, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1943-11-11

(See FOOD, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Drops Dead in Station

(See OAKES, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1943-11-11

(See BISHOP, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1943-11-11

(See HULL, Page A.4.)
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
Miners Union TO
Meet i'm l944 in
City of PITTSBURGH

BUTTE international Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
chose Pittsburgh, Pa, as their 1914
meeting place at the 10th annual
convention here. Delegates to the
national c. l. o. meeting are Stew
art Myers, Batavia, N. Y; w. J.
Madill, Salt Lake City; Neil Weston,
Butte; Louis Tarrant, Bessermer,
Ala, and Eunice Dolan, Denver.
The convention side-stepped en-
dorsement of fourth term for
President Roosevelt Resolutions
asked broader jurisdiction for non
ferrous metals commission; equali-
zation of wages in western states;
reaffirmed no-strike pledge, and
voiced opposition to deportation of
Harry Bridges.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
Which In Css@<xser
EnemYHitler
Or NnpB Plernraexs2

The postwar reconstruction plan
drawn up by the National Resour-
ces Planning Board, except Incl
dentallys is not a plan of recon
struction at all II is proposal TO
establish in this nation an authori-
tartan welfare state
The National Industrial Confer
ence Board has sought to clarity
the NRPB plan for average under
standing. II points out that "The
government has always carried on
economic activities. The important
fact about this economic activity by
government was that it was
not welded as a single economic
instrument in monopolistic control
of the market for goods and services
and the productive equipment of
the nation. 1t was managed and
directed under thousands of Cor
porations, each a free economic
amt not controlled by any overhead
power.
"The NRPB plan is in general a
RAOECoc4 AOA 81 CctAt AA(A Gd1AklN Tic
area of the economy directed by the
government and coordinating it
into one unified system under Fed
eral executive control"
Under the NRPB plan, political
administrators would control in
directly with an iron hand more
than 100000 business enterprises,
over five million farmers and farm
operators, together with the mil
lions of workers in those enter
prises. In short, they would control
the livelihood of every citizen. Once
they controlled that, they would
soon be forced to control his po-
litical convictions on the thread
bare excuse of protecting the gen
eral welfare.
The price of individual security
as envisioned in the NRPB plan
would be destruction of the repub-
lic-men, instead of laws, ruling by
decree.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
Says Abosund
Operation Isn't
Going So Well

The current issue of Nor West
Miner, published in Edmonton,
Alta, paints rather discouraging
picture of the McMurray tar and
sand development which has been
carried on since 1885 by May Ball,
widely known petroleum engineer.
The sands when refined are
worth SIS ton for glass manufac-
turing purposes. Why, therefore,
aside from their value in a raw con-
ditiOn for road surfacing, should
efforts be made to extract a barrel
of doubtful gasoline from over a
ton of sand. A barrel of crude oil
is worth SIPS" says the article.
At the end of 1912 there was
nothing to show for the hard work,
says the article The mill was un-
able to operate continuously; the
problem of mining has never been
worked out on a commercial basis;
the problem of removing a sulphur
content of to s per cent from the
oil has not been solved.
The government has taken title
to the Abasand Oils, Ltd, opera
ton without compensation to the
company and has appropriated
$4,000 to spend on improvements
on the plant.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
ShOiU IN Core
Of HdrIO Well
Is Favorable

A core of the gas sand found at
1883 in the Harlo test well near
Harlowton, in southern Montana,
has been subjected to acetone test
by Steve Dunap, petroleum engi-
neer for Mid-Montana Oil Co., at Los
Angeles and while the formation
was found 10 be too hard to be a
reservoir for any accumulation, it
is very favorable indication.
These hydrocarbons that are indi-
Gated in this core" he wrote, have
migrated from lower formation up
TO this superficial one" He says
that it was the acetone test that was
the causative factor in the discov-
cry of oil at Kettleman Hills.
This report was contained in a
letter received by Bob Amick, head
driller at the Harlo test, which is
now down 2505 feet, now believed
either in the lower Colorado or the
top of the Kootenai and nearing the
first probable producing horizons.
This we'll is intended to test the
top of the Madison lime, passing
through the newly developed EN-
bar horizon which contains oil at
Gage dome. The Embar had not for
merly been regarded as a probable
producing horizon.
No water of consequence has been
encountered and the we'll is other
wise favorable. A seventeen load of
drilling mud was trucked in this
week from Wyoming and the crew
now ready to drill on to compile
ion, after having finished refining
The breaks on the draw works and
overhauling the machinery of the
big rotary rig.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
Recalls Pioneer
Geologist OkuYed
Ponderu Oil Field

News of the start of the A. B.
Cobb Devonian test in Pondera oil
field brought a letter this week
from an old-time subscriber to the
Journal, George Hirshberg on
whose "Luckystrike ranch" the
well is being drilled.
Major G. G. Howard, as you per-
haps remember, geologized my
place in 1921" he writes, land ac-
cording to his report, was very
much in favor of drilling ON same.
My neighbors joined me in leasing
the place and | had several thou
sand acres under control at that
time but due to depressed condi-
tons / was unable to get anyone
interest to drill and / returned and
cancelled all these leases until in
1928 Ohio Oil Co. and Texas Pacific
leased part of my ranch on which
they drilled Is wells and every well
drilled was producer and have
produced ever since to date"
He is pleased that A. B. Cobb is
drilling the test, the contract pro-
viding for one well this fall and if
this one is producer, three more
wells are to be drilled on the lease
during 1914.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
BUY WAR BoNDsl
Answers Your Questions
on Prospecting

This complete. procticol. pocketsized guide
book gives many focts helpful to the pros
pector miner. and field engineer. Covers
equipment and methods. geologic and min
erologic dotu. identification Of important
minerals. and scores Of reloted fucts for
practical use.
Handbook for Prospectors Gnd
Operators Of Small Mines
BY M. w. Won Berne- See these dusu
70 WIZ Aid 10 Prospectors
o4o po9es' s4-OO Lows Pertaining to
Revised by Air,,o
Geology in Pros
Simply and concise Pecting
ly. this book pre- Ouicrops
sents everything the sompl;no ond A.
practical mon con ac1,in,7
tha nn.t ats,r,sn, Occurrence In
equiment. TO making 0ss
field tests. Procticul Markets and
uses OF geology and Prices
mineroloGY ere sx- treatment
ploined. Minerals Developing and
ore covered fully as Equippinq
10 their occurrence. Glossary Of Terms
and vulues. Used in Mining
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
MINERS RECEIVE AwARps

War Production Board honored
Butte miners by token awards for
work which WPB said was among
the finest achievements of the
home front" There are 1887 men
eligible for the official citations.
Awards were made to 27 representa-
tive miners and Craftsmen.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
Tell These F octs
To Congressman
From Your SiUte

The consistent weakening of the
oil producing capacity of the United
States in the face of the greatest
demand in history is indicated sta
tistically in an article in the October
issue of The Independent Monthly,
official publication of the indie
pendent Petroleum Association of
America
Every reader of the. Journal
should send to the congressman
from his state the facts set forth in
the article to show the necessity
an increase in the price of crude:
In 1914 there were 1876 oil wells
completed in the United States. In
1912, there were 1882 and in the
first six months of 1913 there were
only 4,315 In 1871, there was one
productive oil well drilled for each
73,O52 barrels of oil produced that
year, while in 1912 the ratio was
one productive oil well drilled to
each 134, 4S6 barrels produced and
in the first half of 1913, there were
164,390 barrels taken from the fields
of the nation for each producing
well drilled.
Except for minor, local adjust
ments, the price of crude oil has
been unchanged since government
price controls were established in
1871. The effect is being felt now.
Operating costs have increased and
the majority of oil producers have
been unable to carry on field devel-
opment and maintenance work of
the scope and character which the
ever-increasing demands of the war
called for. In 1941, The Independent
Monthly article points out, the
average cost of drilling and equip
ing an oil well was $20,837, and In
1913 it is $20,051.
The cost of labor has advanced
sharply, even though the producers
income has not. In the effort to
prevent oil industry manpower
from being enticed into other in
dustry, and to compensate for
higher living costs, the oil pro-
ducing industry has maintained its
traditional average of high. pay.
Using the year 1887 to represent
100 percent, the weekly wage aver
age for all industries stood at TIA
in June, 1913, while in the produc-
ton of crude petroleum the index
was 1913, having advanced from 1873
in 1887.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25
White House Still
Asking Questions
Re. Oil Situution

The White House has asked
dozen or more economists and oil
men-mostly those not connected
with an oil company that would
profit by a crude advance-to give
their personal opinions on crude
prices. the necessity for a general
advance and what it would accomp-
lish in way of increasing production
and finding new reserves.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25

Cracking catalysts sold for use in
making aviation gasoline have been re-
moved from price control by oPA.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25

Tin is necessary for planes, ships
and guns. Save tin cans.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25

Send contribution to the sunburst
Badger
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1943-09-25

BY next January the United
States will have built in two years
the equivalent of more than a third
of all the blue water merchant mar
inc tonnage in the world before the
war began.
Evening star., 1943-02-07

There are Women-eVen at this
stage Of the war game-Who
frankly admit that the headlines
are not only depressing twhen
they bother to read them but
boring They sit waiting ada
mantly for the return of the
good old days" when they could
drive so miles of an afternoon for
a round Of bridge. And rush
home at 40 miles an hour to open
a few cans for friend husbands s
supper. Equally guilty with these
incompetent women are those who
know surface facts, but don't
think things through. Do YOU
know the why's and Wherefores
Of ratlOnin2, or Go you Just know
which coupon Is worth how much
when? What are the present
rulings in the rubber situation,
and how VIII they affect you?
Where is Buna, and why should
we be concerned about holding
this little village in the Pacific?