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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-04
Wildcats MoY Swing
Cut kField
To Southwest
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watched by Cut Bank operators is
that hint as to the trend of the
Cut Bank sand was given by its
showing up in A. B. Cobb's well
in NE NV 1-29-sW, about 10 miles
southwest of the Fulton well and
closer to the Rockies. This well,
now shut down at 1882 feet, got
substantial oil showings in the
sand, but had trouble shutting off
water.
Source Of Oil
Adding weight to the argument
that the source of the Cut Bank
oil was in the area in which the
Fulton and Hannah-Porter wells are
drilling, oil In the south end of the
Cut Bank field is of much lower
gravity than found by wells in the
north end of the field, 80 miles
away. 1t is reasoned that the oil,
of low gravity when it entered the
sand in the southern end of the
field, was filtered as it migrated
northward.
Whether the oil came into the
sand from breaks in the lime some
where in the vicinity of the Fulton
and Hannah-Porter wells may be
somewhat determined by the two.
BY some it is thought the struct-
ural condition found by Stebinger
may be reflected also in a structural
condition at the top of the Madison,
giving both wells a good chance
for production in that zone as well
as in the Cut Bank sand.
Completion of the two wells will
be of intense interest to the indus
try, and likewise to the Blackfeet
Indians, whose reservation takes
in all of the area west of the Cut
Bank field, to the Rocky mountains.
Fulton, who incidentally drilled
in the first producing oil well on
the reservation IL years ago, ex-
poets to top the Cut Bank sand at
$500 feet. 1t is expected at a
shallower depth in the Hannah
Porter well.
If the expectations of both oper-
ators are realized, as reflected in
conversations this week in the Mon
tana Oil Journal office, Montana
viii really have something to talk
about when these wells tap the
sand.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-04
NovY MoY Open Oil
Field crt p. Borrow

Plans to send oil experts to the
vast Point Barrow Naval oil re
serve within few weeks with the
object of starting Immediate de-
velopment were revealed by re
ports emanating from Washington.
Officials pointed out that the
Alaskan reserve embraces approx
mately $4,000 square miles This is
believed by some biologists and
petroleum engineers to comprise
one of the largest potential oil
fields in this hemisphere.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-04
NOT TOGETHER

NOT TOGETHER
Golfer: you must be the worst
caddie in the world"
Caddie: Hardly, sir-that would
be too much of coincidence"
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-04
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Large numbers of members royalty in the Cut
Bank field which has already paid them from three five
times the purchase price.
Many of them have slow decline in the returns
from these royalties and some judging from letters received
by take for granted that this decline viii proceed without
interruption through the years
These should remember many Cut Bank leases de-
veIOped with only well the forty and that virtually
forty in the field has ma than two wells ii.
1t is doubtful whether ANY well win drain than
eight Consequently, with relaxing Of PAW regua
tOns it win be surprising If the field is completely
drilled until pattern of four possibly five wells
to the forty has been drilled.
We would recommend selling Cut Bank royalties at
price based the production Of lease in the
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-31
YANKS CHARGING
TOWARD CASINO
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and the Germans apparently are
trying to contain the sea-borne for
ces while massing strength for a
major counteroffensive in the
Rome sector.
civilian Stoneman, represent
ing the combined American press
at the bridgehead said the Fifth
Army has lost its advantage tol.
lowing the surprise landing, and
the enemy has. had time to pour
in troops, collect his wits and pre-
pare for the defense of Rome and
the roads leading up from the
south The Germans have land
communications while the Allies
must depend on vulnerable sea
lanes, he said, indicating the pos
sibility "of a pretty extensive
stalemate.
C'Though we are within a short
days walk of Rome and can see
it's environs with the naked eye,
nobody must be too shocked II we
don't make the grade in a hurry,
he declared)
Somehow the Germans switched
the Rapido river from its nor
NAL bed at point three-and-a-haH
miles north of Casino, and Sent
it's waters surging over the roac
along it's eastern bank. U. S. for
ces were using the road to move
reinforcements and supplies to the
front. and a new problem present
ed to American engineers.
The Americans have been fight
ing without respite for nine days
Thrown back after first cross
ing of the Rapido, they returned
and now are confronted by diff
cult heights bristling with German
positions. which spew a wither
ing machine-gun and motar fire
The u. S. troops ran into thick
minefields and irrigation bitches
filled with explosive charges.
French troops on the right flank
of Americans north of Casino re.
captured three important heights
above the road to Terelle, repul
sed a German raid north of Mt
Grace. and captured 100 more pris
oners.
The British across the Gariglianc
| to the southwest seized another lO(
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HITLER DELIVERS
GLOOMY ADDRESS
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AGAINST bolshevism in their own
countries"
1.-THE attempt of our enemies to
bring about the collapse OF the
German people and the Reich by
high explosive and incendiary
bombs in the end will soliAify
their socialist unity and will create
that hard state which has been
slated by providence to shape Eu-
ropean history during the coming
centuries" he declared.
DNB, the German news agency,
said the speech was relayed from
Hitler's headquarters, "for the
first time.'
Notice of the speech was given
to the German people only five
hours in advance. Trained moni-
tors here who have heard Hitler S
voice frequently said it was calm
and firm.
Not once did he shout as he once
did, nor did he make his custom
airy threats of reprisa1s for the AL.
lied bomb destruction being visited
on Germany. The speech was de-
livered in a flat, even voice, as i
from script. It apparently was
made considerable distance
from German transnitters anc
piped to them.
Although generally gloomy ir
tone Hitler did not deprive his
people of hopes of victory but his
promises were based on mystica.
grounds instead of boasts of super.
ior arms.
Listeners here thought the alb.
sence of background in the
broadcast and lack of inspiration
in Hitler's voice indicated he was
speaking without an immediate
audience.
At the end of the broadcast there
was a rendition of Deutchsland Ub-
err Allies and the Horst Vessel
Song One of the German short.
wave stations which relayed the
address was interrupted constant
ly by unintelligible shouted re.
marks from a ghost" voice.
At the end Hitler uttered these
words to his suffering people:
However the storm may rage
and howl around our fortress, il
the end it will abate one day like
every thunderstorm and from thu
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prisoners, and advanced a mile
north of Suio, winning a spur of
Mt. Ruffiano northeast of Castel-
forte, and high ground on Mt. Tur-
Ito.
(The Germans in their Sunday
communique, broadcast by Der.
lin, said Mt. Juga, three miles
northeast of Castelforte and about
a mile above Mt. Tur1ito, had been
lost and then re-won in hand-to-
hand fighting.
assaulting the Gustav Line would
The natural goal of these troops
be to join withs the Allied forces
south of Rome. But so far their ad-
vances appear to average only one
mile of the 70 separating the two
Fifth Army groups.
This is perhaps the most serious
aspect of current operations in
Italy Hitler has ordered central
Italy held at all costs, and the Gus
tav Line is his outer bastion in
Italy.
While the invasion forces below
Rome still have mastery of the sit
uation, they have not yet, on the
basis of Allied announcements,
reached the Appian Way and the
railway paralleling it. These art
cries, however, have been brought
within artillery range.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-31
Once Mighty Bastion OF Rabaul
No Longer Serious Air Menace

In that little Thursday operation
which well may mark a turning
point in the air campaign against
Rabaul, the Liberators went over
at midday. There were enemy
planes aloft but they were dis
couraged by the Allied fighter
screen from making a single pass.
Since Solomons based planes on
last Dec. II took over from 1t.
Gen. George C. Kenney's New
Guinea based Fifth Air Force the
task of keeping Rbaaul on the de-
tense, some 600 enemy planes have
been wiped out. Shipping losses
also have been extensive.
Now RabauIs very means Of ex-
istence-supplies-are in for a
drubbing prior to execution of the
Allied promise to invest that vol
cano-ringed stronghold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-31
Secret Pathfinder Units Being
Used By Raj To Locate TARGETS

The succeeding steps in the evo-
luton of the Pathfinders hight ht
the logical development of the
RATS campaign aimed at the ut
ter destruction of Germany's war
making ability.
The raid on Essen March 5, 1913,
proved the Pathfinders could beat
the industrial haze in the Ruhr,
and then all western Germany was
at the mercy of the Raj bombers.
The d e tructi o n of Hamburg
brought the attacks within $50
miles of Berlin and the big fall
attacks against Kassel and Han
mover carried the campaign in
lande Then began the battle of Ber-
lin.
Here, as I saw it, is what Berlin
is seeing:
One minute the sky was an emp
ty, starflecked, black bowl Then
bombers droned overhead. AS they
passed by small globe of light
burst below, dropping downward
at an almsot imperceptible rate
from parachute sling.
Abruptly it discharged a shower
of smaller but infinitely brighter
globes which slowly floated down
ward, turning the black windy
night into semi-daylight, highlight-
ing the landscape and transform
ing a formless shadow many feet
away into a recognizable person.
When the flares finally reached
the ground they were dragged
along by the cfutes like mysteri-
GUS fireballs, still casting their
eerie light.
Then, suddenly, a stretch OF
black, barren ground 500 yards
away sprang to life with a NINA
ture forest fire. A passing bomber
had dropped what is prosaically
called a ''ground marker in.
dicator for fairly clear nights.
Flames rose only few fee
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above the ground, but they spread
out steadily for several hundred
feet, seething like blast furnace
and obviously fed by such potent
chemicals that it would be impos-
slble to approach or extinguish
them with ordinary fire-fighting
methods. In addition, the Raj
plants bombs in the middle of the
fires to discourage interference.
Varying colors of flames are de-
signed to foil German limitations
planted to lure bombers to vacant
areas.
The plot of flames roared furi-
ously for 10 minutes. You could
imagine thousand pound bombs
crashing down toward scores of
such fires. Just as the fire began
to subside it started spreading at
one side until another section as
big as the first was burning with
equal intensity.
When ground markers are OBJ
scured by thick clouds the Raj
has an answer. Another plane
droned by and dropped a pair of
colored parachute flares - "sky
markers over the target. a
From the flares there suddenly
dropped in perfect synchrony a
pair of fireballs whose path down.
ward drew a virtual dotted line
toward the target. AS they burned
out another pair popped down.. It
happened again and again until as
the original flares drifted away
minutes later seventh pair of
balls dropped.
The re m r k a b e fireworks,
squeezed into so little spaae and
weight, doesn't prevent the Path
finders from carrying bombs as
well. Pathfinder men, on whose
flying skill the work depends as
much as on their scientific devices,
are laconic about it. They say,
1--WE just show the boys where to
drop their bombs, that's ALL"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-31
Monday, January 81, 1914
BY GLADWIN HILL

AT AN Raj PATHFINDER
HEADQUARTERS IN ENGLAND
Monday, Jan. 31.-lREOn a bleak
expanse of English moor, which
for a few kaleidoscope minutes
was Little Berlin" I got a
tabloid view of the awesome sights
which assail German eyes wher
the Raj hurls down its thousands
of tons of high explosive death
and destruction.
Even without bombs the specta.
Gle, shown lay observers for the
first time, is nightmare of burst.
ing fireballs, weirdly floating
flares, great sheets of light out
lining miles of terrain, and seeth
ing masses of signal fires set or
the ground, so fierce in intensity
and persistence you think, "this
is what the fires of hell must be
like"
This grim visual symphony is
the "secret weapon of the. RAF"s
remarkable Pathfinder Force =
trail-blazing bombers with special
by trained crews which mark the
target on which successive waves
OF bombers can drop their loads
even when they can't see the OBJ.
jective.
1t was the Pathfinders, it is now
divulged, which made possible the
shattering of the Ruhr in the face
of a perpetual industrial haze
below the regular Raj wings, i
helped to speed up Raj attacks
to the rate of nearly a hundred
tons of bombs minute, beat ma
jor weather obstacles and enabled
the Raj to make it's recent grea
attacks on Berlin and other cite!
through solid cloud.
American boys still in the RAJ
Although the existence of tn
are members of the elite Path
finder force.
Pathfinders became known severa
months ago when top Pathfinde
men appeared with additions
small gold eagles on their blouses
below the regular Raj wings,
now is disclosed that preliminar
methods were used as far back a
the 1,000-bomber raid on ,Cologn
on May 30, 1912. The Pathfinder
were organized as a distinct I'm:
on Aug. /, 1912.
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|GUFFEY ASSERTS
HE WAS REMOVED
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Senators because of his accusation
that they formed IAN unholy al
lance" with Republicans to de-
feat the administrations service
mems voting bill, said in a state
nent that he would not comment
presently on what he termed Bark
ley's action in removing him.
He also withheld comment on a
letter by Byrd to District Commits
sioner Guy Mason accusing the
Pennsylvania of using his official
position to advance his various
demands upon the various agen-
cies of the government
It was disclosed last week that
District of Columbia officials re-
fused Guffey's request to give his
family physician a place on the
staff Of publicly-operated hos.
pital and Guffey threatened an
investigation of the health depart.
ment.
WALL liO Std oil
present regarding Senator Byrd
letter to Commissioner Mason OF
the action of Senator Barley in
removing me as chairman of the
democratic senatorial campaign
committee" Guffey said.
when the soldiers vote bill is
out Of the way I intend to issue q
full and complete statement con.
corning these matters about which
there has been so much confusion
and transformation"
In discussing plans to replace
Guffey on the Senatorial campaign
committee, Barley said previously
that the Pennsylvania is ineligi
BILE to continue the post because
there is senatorial campaign ir
his State this year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-31
AMERICAS FOOD
OUTLOOK. BRIGHT
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ditions of 1912 was noted. Reduc'
tons in. supplies reflect smaller
imports, reduced production ana
German seizures.
Japan - Considered in terms OF
the territory it dominates, the jap
anese empire is in "a tavoraole
food situation" A continuation OF
this situation is conditioned largely
,,non Japan's ability to transport
products from distant territories.
China - A reduction in produc-
tion due to war descriptions and
ruthless requisitioning OF food by
the Japanese have resulted IN
sshuneer and famine in many parts
of China
The world food situation in gen.
eral is characterized, Wickard
said, by a scarcity of animal-pro-
tein foods, particularly meat and
dairy products. This, he said, is IN
spite of the fact that 1943 produc-
ton in the Americas and in the
United Kingdom and the Domln-
ions was at record level.
Analysing this country's situa-
ton, the Secretary said it seems
probable that the level Of total
production we can expect in 1914,
with normal yields, will be close
to the maximum under wartime
conditions and that only minor
changes will develop for the re
mainder of the war period.
"Food requirements, however,
will continue to rise,' he said
Tentative estimates for 1914 and
1915 indicate large increases in the
requirements over 1943 supplies
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-31
SUBSIDY PROGRAM
IS BELIEVED SAFE
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Congress had not definitely auth
orized.
While Senator Aiken (R.-Vt.), an
opponent of the rollback. dis
claimed any knowledge of an
agreement he said BLENDERS esti-
mate Of the situation seemed logi.
cal.
I'VE people who are opposed to
subsidies have a clear majority
IN Congress, but it doesn't look
like we can get two-thirds," he
said. THAT has all the earmarks
OF a deadlock that can't be broker.
IF we can't override veto to
prevent rollbacks, then I have no
doubt that the administration will
continue to pay them. It certainly
won't get any affirmative authori-
ty from Congress for that action.
though, and it will have to bear
the full responsibility"
Aiken maintained that price roll
back subsidies are unpopular
except with the fourth term or
ganization.
The subsidy question probably
will come before the Senate later
IN the week in consideration of
bill by Senator Bankhead O.-Ala.)
to continue, the life of the CCC.
which otherwise would expire Feb.
II.
Unlike a House-approved bill
which would ban all subsidy pay
ments, the Bankhead measure
would outlaw rollbacks but would
permit support-price payments on
more than score of minor CROPS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-31
GREATEST BOMBER
IS COMING HOME,
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her achievements on her flak-punc-
tured body.
No other U. S. plane, according
to statistics here, can equal the
record of this SCARED veteran Of
10 months of battle overseas.
The Blue Streak was just anoth.
er B-24 Liberator with a green
and nervous crew when she was
assigned to action early in 1912.
Nobody could have guessed then
that she had more stamina than
Goliath and more luck than the
seventh son of a seventh son.
One hundred and ten white stars
glitter on her blue nose. They rep.
resent 10 bombing missions in
which the odds were as much as
two to one against the Blue Streak
surviving.
But the squat, bulging bomber
always got back regardless of the
odds. Her engines were shot out,
her wings were shredded, her flu
selage was turned into a sieve.
She flew 1,05S combat hours -
equal to six weeks and two days
in the air. She dropped 297 tons of
bombs. She never lost a man.
Nothing could really hurt her."
said hardboiled master sergeant
R. E. Weizenegger, 23-year-old
crew chief from Eau Claire, Wis.
"She's had 10 engines, two new
wings, one rudder and any amount
of patching. She's still a grand old
lady," he added.
Under her own power as usual.
the Blue Streak will return to the
states. It's the idea of 28-year-old
Col. Kenneth K. Compton, St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, that the folks at home
should have a chance to see the
most distinguished plane of his
famous 376th Bombardment group,
1.-The Liberandos."
The Liberandos have executed
more than 200 missions. The Blue
Streak participated in more thar
81 per cent of them.
Eighteen swastikas and five fas
ces painted on the bomber symbol
lie % enemy aircraft definitely de
stroyed by her machineguns. He1
bombs have accounted for one de
stroyer, one merchat vessel, ane
one tanker on shipping sweeps.
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COMPROMISE SEEN
IN VOTING FIGHT
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bring the week-old debate to the
voting stage tomorrow, hoping to
pass the measure before the House
acts on the armed forces voting
question.
Senator Bridges (R.-N.H.( sug-
gested printing the names of pres
Dental and vice presidential can
didates on any Federal absentee
ballot that goes to the fighting
fronts. The administration bill pro-
vides blank spaces on the ballot
so the user can vote either by
name or party.
From personal standpoint I'd
have no objection to putting on
the Names" said Senator Lucas
Cd ILL co-author of the bill, but
if we listed Democrats and Re-
publicans we'd have to list all the
other parties and the ballot would
get too long. If we excluded the
others it would be unfair to the
minorities.'
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MARSHALLS RAIDED
BY LAND BOMBERS
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Saturday operations. the Navy
said.
The text of the simultaneous
Washington-Pearl H arbor an.
nouncement tonight:
During the night of January %
and 20 (West Longitude Date) Lib.
orators and Mitohells of the Sew.
enth Army Air Force and search
Liberators and Mariners of Fleet
Arriving Two carried out opera.
tons against Wolfe, Kwajalein,
Jaluit and Maloelap atolls.
Army heavy bombers dropped
more than q tons on Wolfe, a
total of II tons on Roi and Kwa.
jalein islands and three tons on
Jaluit.
mo fighter or anti-aircraft op.
position was encountered.
ga Navy Mariner patrol plane
bombed Taroa during the night
without opposition.
IA flight of Navy search planes
over Taroa in the afternoon Of
January % was attacked by nearly
a dozen fighters of which at least
two were shot down andthree 9th.
ers damaged. We suffered no loss.
es.
Army medium bombers attack
ing Taroa the same afternoon
bombed airdromes and canton
ment structures, d a m 6 e d Il
planes on the ground and set fire
to a small craft. Six fighters at
tackled our planes and one fighter
was damaged. Our losses were
light
The failure to mention the tasl
force operation in tonight's com
munique was not unforeseen sine
frequently substantial interval
elapse between the bare announce
ment of task force raid or land
ing operation and subsequent re
ports giving later and more de
tailed information.
| ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QARTERS, New Guinea, Mon
day, Jan. 31.-tR-Army and Nav.
attack planes and fighters hit ia
pans understandable bastion o
Rabaul on New Britain for tn
seventh successive day Friday
the 18th time this month-an'
wiped out at least 40 Japanes
planes.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
munique today listed 20 enem.
planes shot down out of the =
which rose to intercept the attack
ers, and u more as "probables.
In addition, 20 parked enemy air
craft were demolished.
This brought to 149 the nunbel
of Japanese planes destroyed to1
certain in just one week.
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mite and that the turning of atten-
ton to supply dumps meant the
Nipponese were being bled white
strategcially.
This is equally true of Rabaul,
a position whose fall probably
would topple great segment OF
Japans island wall and open the
war for moves toward Truk and
the Philippines.
Rabaul once was so far from
Allied plane bases that it had to
be attacked under cover of dark
ness by long range bombers, op-
Grating without fighter escorts.
Today fighter planes take off
from, Torokina Field on Bougain-
vile and circle Rabaul's network
of fields for a half an hour at a
time in daylight, haunting TIE enc
my to come up and fight.