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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28

Many old seepage areas on the
Alaskan Arctic slope, revealed by
latest aerial surveys, should be ex-
plored Immediately for future oil
reserves in the opinion of Norman
Ebbley, Jr., mining engineer,
United States Bureau of Mines,
writing in Mining and Metallurgy.
The article tells of Bureau of Mines
surveys in Naval Petroleum Re
serve No A which includes all the
region of the Alaskan slope area as
far east as the Canadian border.
According to Ebbley the field
party sent into the area In the late
summer of 1913, spent some three
weeks, flew upward of 5000 miles,
and surveyed an area of about 325
miles along the northern coast and
inward about 100 miles, Six sep
arate localities containing evidences
of petroleum were examined, and
samples were collected from twelve
separate seepages in these areas"
he reports.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28
Cobb Wildcat
Meets Delay

Completion of A. B. Cobb's wild
cat on the ATeriwether structure, on
the Blackfeet Indian reservation,
was delayed this week by necessity
for making pump repairs at 1858
This test Is % miles straight west
of Cut Bank, In c NE NE Sc IL
33N-0W. Il got the top OF the Colo
RADIO at 1861, indicating top of the
Madison lime viii be tested at about
$500.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28
SEC Mine Financing Rules to Be
Butte Meeting Topic, Nov. lO-ll

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sam Ford has called conference of
Securities and Exchange Commission mining
securities underwriters the
48 to take place the Fnlen hotel Butte Nov IL
The conference which viii begin at the 10th will be
confined entirely to small mine financing
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28

u. S. petroleum interests plan to
spend more than $3.50, 0O0,0O on do
nestle and foreign refining facil-
tiles as soon as materials become
available.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28

Whereas after the old-fashioned
girl took two drinks and went out
like a light, the modern girl takes
two drinks and out goes the light.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28
PONDERA EXTENSION
NEARS COMPLETION

The Texas Company is about
ready TO drill in its No. E. D.
Price, possible western extension
TO the Pondera field in c NE Sc NE
l2-27-5W, with casing landed at POSI-.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-10-28

A real executive is man who
can hand back letter for third
typing to red-headed stenographer
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Former vichy Official
| Defends Petain in
|AIgiers treason Trial
By the Associated Press.


ALGIERS, Mar. 4.-Pierre Pucheu,
on trial for treason for his acts as
minister of the interior In the Vichy
government, declared today that
Marshal Petain now believes Ger
many will be defeated and that "the
policy Of collaboration is dead"
Fighting for his life before mil
itary court after indictment by the
French Committee OF National Lib
Grafton In its purge of collaboration
lists, Pucheu dramatically spoke in
his own defense at the opening
session, declaring the Vichy govern
ment had prevented the Germans
from totally occupying France,
smashing through Spain and &C.
cupying North Africa before the
Allied landings.
He said he had negotiated with
Gen. Henri Giraud and United
States Charge d'Affaires S. Pink
ney Tuck late in 1912 before the
Allied landings in North Africa.
He asserted that late in that year
he was convinced the Allies would
have to seize North Africa in order
to clean the Mediterranean and es-
tablish base for attack on Hit
ler's southern bastions.
Describing his relations with Mar
shal Petain from the middle of
194l to mid 1912, Pucheu defended
both the aged chief of State and
Admiral Darlan, the former vice
premier who was slain after having
aided the Allied landing in Africa,
but he attacked Pierre Laval, the
present Vichy chief of government.
Pucheu said he came to North
Africa to join a fighting unit at the
invitation Of Gen. Giraud. The gen.
eral, absent today after receiving
official word only yesterday of his
daughters death in Germany, is to
appear in court later as a defense
witness.
AS minister of the interior, Pu-
cheu maintained he hampered the
employment Of French industry
for German purposes and hampered
Marshal Petain's plan to send VOL
unteers to fight alongside the Ger
mans on the Russian front.
Pucheu accused the National Com
mittee OF putting Vichy on trial.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Raids
Continued From First Page :,
looked at all possible" he explained
on his return.


looked at all possible" he explained
on his return.
Nah Fighters Sweep in.
The flyers reached their objective
and tensed for the bomb run through
heavy fax as the Luftwaffe's small
but dangerous fighter force swept in
to give battle.
Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitts
tipped out of the clouds in twos,
threes and fives and attacked head
on in a desperate effort to break up
the attack.
In scores of gun-turrets American
boys set loose the lethal riveting-
clatter Of their 50-caliber machine
guns. One German went down,
victim of Fortress gunner, and
another dropped in the fire of a
Mustang.
Through momentary breaks In
the clouds the flyers saw their
bombs 60 crashing into the build
ings of Berlin. blanketed in heavy
snow.
The weather was so thick, how
ever, that as the bombers turned
away from the target they became
separated from their escort and
few for more than two hours alone
Back-slapping jubilation pre-
vailed at the English bases as the
big planes returned. Many were
punctured time and again by fax,
but the losses were relatively light.
There was no disclosure as to how
many OF the IA missing bombers
were lost in the attack on Berlin.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Curb on Construction
Expected 10 Continue
Throughout War

War requirements for lumber are
so tremendous that it is unlikely
that restrictions on home building
and other construction can be re-
moved until after the defeat of
Japan, War Production Board off,
cials said yesterday.
While wartime controls over
manufacture of many civilian
goods will be partly removed fol-
lowing the defeat of Germany. the
military demand for lumber, ma ajor
material for housing, will continue
to be high right up until the
crushing of Japan, they said.
War needs for lumber will con-
sumo half Of the Nations expected
1914 production of $4,000, ,0O0, 900
board feet. Most of this material
is used for boxing and Grating
munitions. This use, officials said,
will be even greater when the
United Nations throw their full mil
itary might against Japan.
Pubic Works Must Wait.
WPB estimates the pentup de-
mand for housing at 7,40o 900 units
in the next six years.
A large portion of industrial and
factory building, public works and
roads will have to await final defeat
of the Axis. The $3.50, 900 900 high
way program President Roosevelt
recently outlined to Congress must
be deferred, it was said, until after
the war because of the lack of con-
struction machinery and manpower.
Most of the construction machin-
cry and road building equipment
that now is made is sent to the
battlefronts to aid in the re-estab-
lishment of transportation lines in
conquered territories. Officials pre-
dicted that much of this machinery
will not be returned to this country.
Lumber Most Critical Material.
Total requirements Of the Nation
for housing in the 1940s is placed
by WPB at 100000 units, of which
100000 units have been supplied
in the form of war housing. Sew
eral million additional units prob
ably will be built to supply war
needs. The remainder which the
public would like to build now will
have to wait.
Oficials said lumber, oddly
enough, is now the most critical
war material and that only some
4 900, ,000, 900 board feet will be avail
able annually in the remaining war
years for housing and private
building in general-types of con-
struction that consumed 22,000, ,000,-
600 feet in 1912.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
BadogIio Says Colombia
Has Recognized Regime
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NAPLES, March 4.-The Badoglio
government expressed cordial salts
faction today with an official notice
that the government of Colombia
had agreed to resume normal re.
lations" with liberated Italy.
A statement issued from Bado-
glio's headquarters recalled that the
Mexican government had decided to
abrogate all restrictive measures
against Italian inhabitants of Mex
leo taken under the former state
Of war.
Shortly after the Mexican initia-
tive, the statement said, Foreign
Minister Caracciolo Parraperez OF
Venezuela sent Badoglio a message
stating that this country was fol-
lowing with particular attention
and sympathy" the Italian govern
ment's action toward assuring Italy's
liberation.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
|CIub to Show Movies
|Of Skiing in California

The Ski Club of Washington will
hold its March meeting at BIS pm
Tuesday at the Ambassador Hotel
All persons interested in the sport
are invited TO a showing of motion
pictures of skiing in the Yosemite
Valley and Canada.
Reservations at a special "skier's
table" in the hotel dining room may
be made by calling Miss Elizabeth
Plimpton, Randolph 1910, tonight or
tomorrow evening.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Pilot in Act Of Bombing Bridge
Heard Here in Radio Broadcast
Holds Microphone
In Fighting OFF
japanese Planes

For the first time in radio history,
a recording of the words of a lone
bomber pilot as he dove 10000 feet
to destroy a Jap-held bridge on
Bougainville was broadcast yester-
day on Station WMAL.
Holding the controls with one
hand and the microphone with the
other, 1t. Joseph E. Butler of Ir-
winton, Ga, described his sighting
the 240-foot bridge and the anti
aircraft battery stationed at one
end of it. Two Navy planes already
had been lost trying to destroy the
bridge, he said.
One Washingtonian listened to the
Nationwide Blue Network broad
cast at the special request of the
Navy Department. She was Miss
Harriette Marlowe, 1925 Connecticut
avenue NV, an art student. who
met 1t. Butler here two years ago
when she was giving dancing lessons
at studio. He asked the depart
ment to notify her of the broadcast
time.
Thrilled to Hear Him.
''It was sweet of him." she said.
1--WE are simply very good friends.
I was thrilled to hear him.
"The Japs are beginning to fire."
1t. Butler said, as he dived 300 miles
an hour from 1000 feet to within
200 feet of the bridge. He saw the
bridge splintering behind him, he
said. His plane was so low the
debris was actually above his head,
1t. Butler said.
Then his voice stopped.
Are you all right?" called Staff
Sergt. James o. Hardin, Marine ra-
dio correspondent recording the
flight from a mobile radio station
1000 yards from the japanese lines.
More silence. Then the bursting
of anti-aircraft fire could be heard
plainly.
There are some Jap ships ahead"
1t. Butler shouted finally above the
roar of his engine.
Firing at me-" he added a second
later.
Own Guns Answer.
His own machine guns were heard
answering. Then he said hurriedly.
That's all, Sergt. Hardin. I have
got to get out of here"
Long radio silence from 1t. Butler
had led flight officials to fear for
his safety before he finally landed
at the field, the announcer said. 1t.
Buffers only post-bombing comment
was a complaint that holding the
in one hand and flying
his plane with the other had been a
little awkward"
The recording was released by the
Navy public relations office. 1t.
Butler is operations officer for Navy
and marine dive bombers and tor
pedo planes based on Bougainville.
He has flown more dive bombing
than any other pilot in the
South Pacific and holds the Dis
Flying Cross. Miss Mar
lowe said both she and the flyer
have hopes" he will get leave soon.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Federal Bar Association
States Luncheon April |

The Federal Bar Association will
hold luncheon April at the May
flower Hotel instead of the Gus
tomary annual banquet, Miss Mar
guerite Rawalt, president, an
nounced yesterday.
Mrs. Mabel D. Meeker will be gen.
eral chairman for the luncheon and
Robert H. Shields vice chairman
Subcommittee chairmen include
Jack w. Balm, audit and budget;
William N. Morell, advisory; Judge
George D. Nelson of Municipal
Court, broadcasting; Frederick B
Freeland, floor; Robert K. Freer
liaison; Allison Rupert, menu and
decorating; Blanche Margason, pub
licity; Mary Mclean, program and
seating and Waited Wyatt, speakers
and distinguished guests.
Evening star., 1944-03-05

Prison, where he was serving mar.
cotics conviction, to the State foa
execution-Buchalter had remained
confident he never would be exc.
cuted. In fact, justa couple o1
hours before his execution was
stayed by the Governor 10 minute.
before execution time Thursday, he
still expressed confidence.
Today, however, there was hint
Of concern in his voice when he
repeatedly said things are still un-
certain"
Lived In Swank Apartment.
Buchalter, who began his live in
an East Side tenement rose form
petty criminal to a, protection boss
living in swank Central Park West
apartment.
He was born February II, 1897,
the son Of an immigrant father
The father died when Buchalter
was IA, his mother moved to the
West, and the boy was left with
an older sister.
He than began career in crime
which included, police have esti-
mated, more than 20 murders, many
OF them on order, and hijacking
terrorism and extortion.
His first arrest came at 18 when
he was convicted on stealing luggage
in Bridgeport, Conn. In 1889, he
was sentenced to IA years In prison
for conspiracy to operate million
dollar narcotics ring.
Formed ExtortiOn Combine.
In the years following his first
conviction he maintained a profit
able partnership with Jacob Cur
rah) Shapiro, who pleaded guilty a
year ago to extortion in the garment
industry and was sentenced to Il
years to life. The pair organized
the Protective Fur Dressers Asso-
citation and the Fur Dressers Fac
tory Corp. and went in for extor-
ton on grand scale.
Their stock in trade was beating
slugging, bombing, burning ano
murder, police charged. The COM
bination produced a reported S..
900, 900 to $10,000,000 a year.
When they were sentenced to two
years for violation of antitrust laws
Circuit Court Judge Martin T. Man.
ton, later convicted of accepting
bribeS, reversed the decision.
After the Federal Government
pinned the narcotics conviction or
Buchalter, District Attorney William
IO'Dwyer of Brooklyn obtained hi.
indictment after an investigation
Of one of the most shocking ano
cold-blooded rackets in the history
iof crime-the murder fora fee
combine, Murder, Inc, which the
State charged Buchalter bossed.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Liberotors Continue
POUNDING of Corojines

UNITED STATES FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR
March 4 QP.-Liberator heavy bomb
ers of the 7th Army Air Force con-
tinued the steady pounding OF
Ponape, japanese base in the East
ern Caroline Islands, with an eight
ton bombing raid March 2, Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz announced today
and also struck enemy shipping and
docks at Kusaie Island, southeast OF
Ponape
Ponape is 440 miles east of the
japanese stronghold of Truk.
Army Mitchell medium bombers
and Navy searchplanes on the same
date attacked two unnamed enemy
bases in the Marshall Islands, drop
ping II tons of explosives, Admiral
Evening star., 1944-03-05
President Jeopardizes
Soldier Vote in 1914,
|Bricker Declares
BY the Associated Press.

CHAPEL HILL, N. c., Mar. A.
Gov. John w. Bricker OF Ohio, can
didate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomNation, said here to-
night that "the President himself
has jeopardized the opportunity and
the privilege Of the soldier to vote
in the 1914 elections"
The States are ready, willing and
able to move forward Immediately
to carry into effect a practical pro-
gram Of soldier voting" he said.
In an address before the Carolina
Political Union, nonpartisan or
ganization at the University OF
North Carolina, he said that "too
often the judges OF the courts In
this administration have been ap-
pointed not because Of their out
standing legal ability or their quail
fications as judges but because OF
| their political philosophy and ad-
herence to New Deal principles. . =
Many OF our courts have taken as
their guide political standards rather
than following the chart and COM
pass of the Constitution and the
laws enacted by the Congress.
Asks Action on Limited Term.
Nowhere has the principle been
more vividly brought before our
people than in the attempt of the
President to jam through the Con-
gress his particular soldiers vote
bill"
Gov. Bricker proposed that "a
constitutional amendment be sub
mitted to the States at the earliest
possible date limiting the tenure
of the President to either one term
of six years or two terms of four
years EACH"
He referred, also, to "the cloak
of secrecy" which he said had been
wrapped about the operations of
Government.
Light of Publicity Urged.
LET the searching light of pub
licity be turned upon all the op-
erations of Government which
military necessity does not require
to be kept secret" he said, then
added:
'Mr. Jonathan Daniels. conf
Dental aide to the President, re-
fused. within the past week, to re-
veal information to a congressional
committee on purely domestic
matter. involving possible legisla-
ton affecting the Rural Electrical
ton Administration. It was evil
dent from Mr.. Daniels testimony
that he was acting under very def
mite orders from higher-ups. What
confidential information does the
White House want withheld from
the people regarding the operation
OF q New Deal bureau that has no
part whatsoever in the war edort?"
Gov. Bricker made similar ref
erence to the refusal of J. Edgar
Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation, to testify before
a House committee. Mr.. Hoover
was quoted as saying he was under
Justice Department order.
Evening star., 1944-03-05
Daniels
Continued From First Page }

committee could not require either
the Secretary to the President or
an administrative assistant to the
President to testify as to matters
which necessarily involve a con-
versation with the President and
which might possibly adversely af-
feet the public interest.
However, I have conferred with
the President. He does not think
that in this particular matter my
testimony would adversely affect
the public interest. Therefore,
advise you that I am entirely will
ing to appear before the committee
and answer the questions propound-
ed to me on last Monday, or any
other questions with reference to
this particular matter.
No Roosevelt Secret.
IT do this because the President
advises me that there is no state
ment made by him about this mat
ter which he would not be willing
for me to repeat to the committee
In fact, the President stated to me
that if the committee wishes to
discuss the matter with him per-
sonally, he will be happy to see the
committee at any time"
Earlier Senator Smith had an
nounced after a 2-hour closed ses-
sion that the subcommittee would
recommend to the full committee
which Senator Smith also heads
that action be taken to bring Mr.
Daniels before the Senate ito show
cause why he should not be ad-
judged in contempt"
Senators Smith and Gillette,
Democrat of Iowa, attended yes
terday's meeting. Senator Smith
held proxies from two other men,
bers of the subcommittee, Senators
Aiken of Vermont and Shipstead OF
Minnesota, Republicans, The fifth
member, Senator Bilbo, Democrat OF
Mississippi, has not taken part IN
the proceedings.
Not a Contempt Case.
Senator Bilbo later told reporters
he believed answers to the questions
propounded to Mr.. Daniels last Tues
day would not have aided the COM
mittee or Congress in formulating
legislation, but would serve only to
satisfy an idle, political curiosity
on the part of the legal investigator
Carroll Beedy."
ct haven't studied the case and
wasn't there at the time of the ques-
tioning of Mr.. Daniels, but it ap-
pears to me without investigating
the law or the decisions of the courts
on the subject that this clearly was
not case of contempt" the Missis-
sippian said, adding:
Furthermore, what personal con-
versation took place between the
President and one of his confidential
aides is private matter"
Senator Smith viewed the Daniels
incident as test of the power o1
Congress, declaring that if Mr..
Daniels stand went unchallenged
almost any question could be re-
buffed by Government witness or
the ground that, the information
was not in the public interest.
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
also declined to answer questions
propounded by the subcommittee
but Senator Smith declined to say
whether action is planned in that
instance.
"One thing at a time" he re-
marked yesterday after the SUBJ
committee meeting.
Save your waste kitchen fats,
Evening star., 1944-03-05

He attacked the competency Of the
court as being an organ Of . SELF
appointed regime, adding:
When the people Of France,
through their elected delegates, de-
termine their government, will
submit my case to its courts"
The first Of the French purge
trials closed yesterday with the con-
viction Of 10 Vichy officers and
soldiers on charges of numbering
and torturing interned members Of
the French Foreign Legion. -Four
were sentenced to death, the others
to prison terms, two for life.
Evening star., 1944-03-05

Nimitz announced in a press re-
lease.
Although some anti-aircraft fire
was encountered, all of our planes
returned safely" the communique
said.