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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-04-01
HERE'S ONE VIEW:

Merits and dement's of the pro-
posed trans-Arabian pipeline are
being warmly discussed in other
than oil circles. Here's the view ex-
pressed by the editorial writer of
the generally-calm Spokane, Spokes-
man-Review, which bears the head
ing. "Bribing Our Way Into Trou-
Bile"
The Petroleum Reserve corpora
ton, a government agency of which
Secretary of the Interior Ickes is
chairman, proposes to build Unit
ed States government financed l.
250-mile transarabian oil pipe line
at an estimated construction cost
of $50 100000
This project was first advanced
as a military necessity to supply oil
and gasoline for our invasion armies
in Europe. When it was demonstrate
ed that contention was pure hokum,
because the pipe line could not
possibly be completed in less than
year and a half, other arguments
were invented
Still trying to give it the persua-
sive appearance of an essential mil
itary undertaking, war and navy
department officials and the joint
chiefs of staff, it is reported, will
testify that delay of construction
might cost American private COM
panies their complete domination of
oil rights in the rich Saudi Arabian
fields, and unless the building of
the line is started as soon as posi-
BILE it win not be ready to deliver
oil when the postwar European
market is open.
This is an argument of bald eco
nomic imperialism. 1t would project
our government into the dangerous
game of competing for and main
tanning sphere of Influence in a
spot on the globe where old-world
powers have We'd with one another
for political and economic domino
ton for centuries.
Already our government is pay
ing tribute in lendlease goods and
cash to King Ibn Saud, monarch of
Saudi Arabia, in an effort to buy
his favor and consent to construc-
ton of the pipe line. In doing so
we are clashing with British imperi-
al interests, and bidding against
British brides. The willy king, awake
10 the golden opportunity, is play
ing one national wooer off against
the other, and even if our longer
purse succeeds in buying his sup
port, there is no assurance that he
viii stay bought
If we do win his assent with our
money, then we will have the prob
lem of protecting our investment
in a pipe line that runs 1850 miles
across a distant desert to an outlet
on the Mediterranean 1920 miles
east of Gibraltar That means oul
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-04-01
Guge Dome Crude
Going to C<xxao<a0

shot of l55 quarts and is being clean
ed for test.
Next likely producer In the field
is Northern Ordnance Morris B-1,
quarter of mile east of the com
pany's No. / Darr. which flowed 1853
barrels initially.
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Location.
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Building rig
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-04-01

navy viii have to keep open the
Mediterranean route whatever hap
pens in that war-breeding cockpit
of the old world and our armed
forces viii have to guard the line
across the Arabian sands.
If there is anything more imper-
ialistic for a nonimperialist nation
than this proposal, it is yet to be
revealed.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-04-01
Tuber Field Crude
Tucked to Refinery

LETHBRIDGE A ssuring at
least partial outlet for the 400
barrel daily potential of the Taber
field, now virtually shut in, crude
oil from the field is being trucked
to the Pacific Oil & Refining plant
here. The refinery, now shut down,
is expected to begin operating soon.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-04-01

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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
Less Gasoline For Civilians

There is strong probability that further cur
tallment OF gasoline allotments for civilian
use will have to be made shortly. As the
war advances steadily toward its climax and
more and more planes take the air more
md more tanks and trucks and jeeps 60 into
action, more ships sail the seas carrying sup
plies, larger fleets press the battle, the Pc
troleum reserves sink to lower levels. Con-
sumption of gasoline and lubricating oil daily
reaches new mark.
Production cannot meet the need unless
needless use Of motor vehicles is reduced
There is but one thing to do, in the circum-
stances, and that is to reduce civilian driv-
ing. Where a gallon has been used before,
civilians must get along on a cupful And
civilians should, in all reason be willing and
glad to comply with any limitation imposed
upon them in the interest of victory 1t is
fair to think that any vehicle owner would
consent to put his car or truck in the garage
for the duration, save only in cases where
the vehicle is prime medium for earning
a ivelihood-and even then to confine its
operation to actual legitimate business trips
No loyal American wants to place an obstacle
in the way of the armed forces, and if one
way to speed the wars conclusion is to stop
non-essential travel, everybody, if given plain
explanations of the need, will walk or ride
the bus.
We cannot but feel, however, that in the
light of past experience the agency which
will have jurisdiction over civilian gasoline
stribution-presurnabiy the Office of Price
Administration-will meet a reader response
and gain more hearty cooperation if it does
not again employ gestapo methods of en-
forcenlent. If it should do So it will but
stir antagonism a hundred-fold deeper than
accompanied its last attempt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
Ross Estimates $175,OO0,0O0
Needed To MOdernize Roads

the states highway needs h
made it apparent that the sum
of at least SITS. $40, 900 is urgently
needed in an effort to modernize
our system" Ross said post war
building and repair probably
would be divided as follows:
Urban highways $4,000, 900; sec
ondary and feeder roads $54, 000-
600; rural primary federal system
rebuilding $4,000, 900; widen
ing $18, 100000, relocation and re-
building Sal, 1920 900; bridges to be
Widened and rebuilt $4,000, 900.
Ross, who with Chief Engineer
W. Vance Baise prepared a re-
port covering the states current
and prospective needs for use in
congressional action on pending
federal-aid road measures, d
that present Indications point to
state highway cash surplus of ap-
proximately $50 00o,0 900 at the end
of June, 1915.
OF this, he said $1o,OOO,0 900 prob
ably will be diverted TO- mainte-
nance and restoration. of shat part
OF the present system which can
not be benefited by an immed-
ate program of reconstruction.
however, the current surplus will
reach considerably higher proper
tons it the present trend of col
lectlons and expenditures is main
tained," he added.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
No Longer Friends

The Japanese and the Germans entered
upon joint war venture as friends. They
have remained allies, but the element of
friendship no longer exists between them. BY
and large, as individuals, Germans are gen.
orally understood to hate Japanese, as ndi-
viduals. And it is well established that since
the Nazi defeat at Stalingrad the Japanese
have had nothing but contempt for the Ger
man military.
Now Berlin is telling Tokyo pedigogically
and pedantically what to expect from the AL
lied forces that steadily close in upon them
and have taken many of their outposts
that Japan itself seems at last to be front
line Of defense. A German Transocean News
Agency broadcast, declaring that the Japa-
nese man-in-the- street has an aWareness that
his island may before long become target
for air assaults, recently proclaimed: This
feeling has been awakened among the entire
Japanese by the appearance of the United
States fleet off the Marianas" The radocast
added: Japan must be prepared at any time
to sight enemy bombers," but continued: 1T
is doubtful if the Americans in the near future
will undertake on the Japanese rnotherland
air raids which could only be nuisance
sweeps"
OF the Mariana attack, the broadcast cred
tied the Americans with opening japanese
eyes to what space devouring force there
is in modern warfare.
"One has realized that the American adj
vance in the Pacific is no isolated enterprise
in which after rapid thrusts the attackers
recoil to their soriginal POSITIONS it stated,
adding that 1T seems that the Japanese are
not willing to use their fleet in waters where
the Americans might have air supremacy
We have heard Or seen nothing that better
illustrates the wedge that has been driven
into the relationship that existed between
Tokyo and Berlin when the japanese attacked
Pearl Harbor and Hitler applauded from the
grandstand.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
BY BLOYS BRITT

RALEIGH, March r. R Act
ing Chairman Charles Ross of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, estimated today that
a fund of at least SITS, 900, 900 will
be needed to modernize Nor h
Cardinals roads system after the
war.
He estimated that with 1.-The
most optimistic view we are now
permitted to take of the military
situation" the state will be about
100000 behind in its normal
highway Improvement program
when the war ends.
1.-THE skinny maintenance now
inevitable and the enormous ad-
ditional strain upon our highways
by the heavy and concentrated
truck traffic incident to war is
taking its inevitable toll, and a
normal replacement program
would not be adequate for the
conditions we will face" he said.
The state for the last few wears
has been spending approximately
SD, 600, 600 a year in its construc-
ton program III order to replace
obsolete roads and meet the most
urgent needs of the Improvement
and extension Of the system, he
said.
Asserting that a recent study of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
The Irish Incident

While on the military front the United Ma
tons are chalking up victories hourly, on
the diplomatic front they are meeting re-
verses, as illustrated by the refusal Of the
Irish to eject diplomatic representatives of
Germany and Japan and the Juror in South
America created by Argentina and Bolivia
The note which Washington sent Dublin
stated bluntly and in very plain language
what was wanted: eve request that the
Irish government take appropriate steps for
the recall of German and Japanese repre-
sentatives in Ireland
The note further stated the United States
would be lacking in candor if we did not
state our hope that this action will take the
form OF severence of all diplomatic relations
between Ireland and Germany and Japan.
America probably backed by Great Brit
ain, told the Irish that because of impending
military actions, the Allies could not afford
to have Axis agents look out their hotel Win
dows and see what was transpiring, as is
the case now.
If this is so, why was it the United States
started landing supplies and men in northern
Ireland and building their invasion stockpile
Of materiel? London and Washington knew
enemy spies would take every opportunity to
watch the proceedings and tell Berlin and
Tokyo what they saw. Why, it may be ques-
toned, with Fires attitude understood well
in advance, were not American troops landed
in northern Scotland or Wales, which are
about as close?
The method the United States employed
with Ireland is much like that tried on Ar
gentna After much coaxing this South Amer
lean nation did break with the Axis, not
through conviction but expediency, and I'm
derWent a revolution as result.
The United States and Great Britain have
governments that have outlasted many others
as far as basic ideals are concerned, but
still have lot to learn about diplomacy.
What the United States wanted done was
right in principle but the dictatorial way we
went about getting it done was obviously
wrong
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
MARINES SEEKING
YOUNG RECRUITS

Major John NJ Greer, officer in
charge of Marine Corps recruiting
in North Carolina, with headquar.
tiers in Raleigh, has announced that
vacancies exist for 1T-year-old en-.
listments.
Major Greer said that youths
may apply for volunteer enlist
ment at the Marine Corps Recruit.
ing station, 80 Post Office build.
ing, Raleigh. They should furnish
a birth certificate and parents
consent for enlistment. Eligibility
will be determined by examina.
lions given in Raleigh.
After enlistment, volunteers will
being assigned to active duty. eli.
beng assigned. to active duty, e.
ther at Paris Island, S. c.. train.
ing, those qualified will be sent
to specialist schools, and others
will be assigned to other types Of
duty.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
Protest Unjustified

From the humanitarian viewpoint 1t is not
difficult to understand the objection of min
listers and others to the persistent bombing
of German cities and production centers
From the war viewpoint the directors haven't
leg to stand on.
Without the air assault on Germany and
German-held territory the Nazis would be
able to continue their production of supplies
and equipment to go on fighting indefinitely
and the victory on which the security of
the world depends be indefinitely postponed.
From a German clandestine radio station
it is learned that Hitler's air production has
suffered such heavy damage that it is no
longer capable of matching the Allied air
armadas upon whose successful raids ulti-
mate success largely depends. From this
clandestine source it has been possible to
prepare table showing the percentage of
destruction to the Nazi airplane industry. Per-
sons who have protested the continued bomb
ing of Germany would do well to study it
and ponder what the effect upon the forth
coming cross-channel invasion would be if
this destruction had not been achieved We
indebted to the Christian Science Monitor
for the compilation.
Messerchnitt Works: Percent
Erla Factory Leipzig Mochau ........ 100
Mag Brunswick .... ............... 100
Regensburg Observation-Disclosures. 100
Augsburg ........ ..................t 1O0
URN .................... ......ss.... ou
Mag, Leipzig .............. 81
Gotha Wagon Factory ................ so
Heinckel Factories:
Rostock- Marienehe NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 10
Junkers Factories:
LeipZig-Mockau INSTRUMENTATION. 100
AScherSleben .................. Heavy
HalbefStaQt ............... ........ 20
Focke- WuH Factories:
Ago, Oschersleben .................... Is
Arado .................. ............. III
Ban-Bearing Factories: (All in SchWeinfurt
except Daimler which is in Steyr)
Kugellager Fischer ................. 100
Fichtel and Sachs ...,............... lOO
Verenigte Kugellager E. ............ 100
Deutsche Stahl Observation-Disclosures. lOO
Steyr-D aimler-Puch A. G. ............ 90
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
CHURCH COURSE
TO BEGIN TODAY

A course in Leadership Training
for the combined membership of
the Presbyterian churches of Will
mington will begin Sunday, March
u, at 7::30 p. m. at the First
Presbyterian church, it was an
nounced Saturday by DR.. William
Grove, who will be in charge of
the school.
DR.. Grove said that plans have
been completed for the conduct
of the courses and that it is ex-
pected that parents, Church school
workers, officers, auxiliary lead
ers and others will enroll.
Two subjects will be offered,
ore on the Christian Home, by
DR.. Hunter B. Blakesley, of Char.
lotte, president of Queens college.
The other course, the Gospel
According to John, will be taught
by DR.. Donald G. Miller, profes.
sor of English Bible at Union
Theological Seminary in Rich.
mond, Va.
DR.. Grove also said that these
courses should appeal to all per.
sons interested in Christian
growth. Members of other church.
es are cordially invited to attend
There will be two sessions each
night, Sunday through Tuesday
beginning at 7:30 and closing al
9:15 p. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
End AND ORANGE USO

Saturday 8 pm. - Movie, I'm,
mortal Sergeant" 7:30 p. M,
dancing class for beginners.
Sunday 9 a.m.-Java club, the
Rev. J. S. Crowley will be the
speaker, there will be special mu'
sic; 8 pm, voice recording; 5 p
M, select movie; 8 pm, music
appreciation.
5TH AND ORANGE USO
Saturday 4 p.m.-Afternoon cot
fee club; pm, Mrs. Charles
Block will entertain at the piano.
songs, music and group singing
1920 pm. Coffee hour followed by
informal dancing.
Sunday 9 am, to IL noon
Breakfast; pm, music hour;
pm, buffet supper; horse back
riding, sports and games through.
out the day.
3RD AND GRACE USO
Saturday p.m.-Social dance
lessons; 8 p. M, formal dance,
party and games.
Sunday $3.50 a.m.-Coffee and
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
Ledo Road, Burma Route,
Ne1u Life Line For China

and yellow Burma orchids, resist
axe and bulldozer. Malaria, dy-
sentery, and leeches took a high
tool of workers.
The road makes the best terms
with Nature the engineers could
get. 1t zigzags to make easy grades
on mile-high mountains, takes adj
vantage of old trails, shrinks from
two-lane width to a oneway jeep
track where it spi1als around pre-
cipices and ravines.
Building is credited to an inter.
national army of workers. Ameri'
can and Chinese engineering units
were aided by gangs of native
la borers-subjects of the Mahara.
jah of Nepal, "Darjeelings" from
upper Bengal, warlike Kachins,
and t1ibesmen from the Maya
Hills.
Modern machinery eased the diff.
ficulties multiplied the man power
on the job. Rock crushers, and
trucks and jeeps by the hundred
were brought Is 900 miles by sea,
rail, and road.
Chinese units cleared the way,
felled trees, opened up the jungle.
Americans blasted out rock and
earth. built temporary BRIDGES. got
traffic rolling before final grading,
surfacing, and drainage was COM
pleted. To build one mile of road
the engineers moved, on the aver
age, three-quarters of a million
tons of rock and earth, laid a thou
sand feet of culvert. Men were on
the job day and night, worked in
the darkness by the light of oil
flares.
Truck conveys are now using the
road, and getting supplies and
equipment to troops in the Hulk
awng Valley of northern Burma,
one of the Orient's finest hunting
grounds. Road is passable, quail
flies in no sense as boulevard.
Tribesmen on the job and in the
vicinity practice polyand1y, poly
gamy, and gerontocracy (rule by
old mem: raise dogs for food, rely
on spears for weapons. Head
hunters have been friendly to
| Americans,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12

Where there's will there's a
highway. The new Ledo road in
upper India and Burma is an ex-
ample in point.
Name of the road comes from
a town in Indias Assam Province,
terminus of short spur of the
railway from Chittagong northeast
to Sadiya, says the National Geo.
graphic Society.
Immediate purpose of the Ledc
road is to provide route for the
supply Of fore es campaigning
against the Japs in northern Bur
ma. Long-range purpose is to link
roads in China's Yunnan Province
with Burma routes, give China ad.
equate land connection with India
Construction was begun late in
1912, has been directed by U. S.
Army Engineers.
Beginning of the road at Ledo
is north of the Maya Hills district
Of Assam. Dipping, climbing. and
twisting, the road runs eastward
through the Patkai Range of north.
ern Burma, weaves into the region
Of the upper Chindwin River.
Engineers had choice of passes
through the Patkai ridge - the
Chaukan Pass, elevation 1880 feet,
leading to Fort Hertz (Putao),
Burma's northernmost post office,
and the more remote Diphuk Pass,
1920 feet, beyond the headwaters
of the Mali Hka tributary of the
Irrawaddy.
Fort Hertz is less than 100 air
miles from the Chinese border. less
than 200 miles from the Burma
Road at Paoshan in China.
Difficulties Of building the road
have been out of all proportion to
it's length-about lis miles in its
first section. Distinction is in the
triumph over adverse natural con-
ditions.
In the monsoon season so inches
of rain may fall in single month.
as much as inches in one day
Washouts were frequent, some
times cost quarter of mile OF
surface. Mud was seasonal tor.
ment. Hardwood jungles are thick
and tangled. wear bouquets OF pink
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-12
Women And The Red Cross

There are 100000 men in the armed
forces But there are 34,000,000 women IN
the war. Because, to great extent, this is
woman's war. 1t is the war Of every Wo-
man in An9erica who has someone she loves
far away whom she wants to bring home.
Everyone of them is waiting for someone
"a husband or a son, or brother, or a
to make the victory come before the plane
he's flying crashes. before the boat he's sail
ing goes down, before a shell catches him
crouching in some fox-hole.
Because of this they are taking mems places
in factories making shells, in ordnance
releasing men for active service, helping to
build the planes and the trucks and the ships
and all the implements and tools of battle
which they need.
Thousands Of them are working with the
Red Cross. Some are pad-most are volun-
teers. Women all over America are rolling
bandages, preparing surgical dressings, help
ing collect plasma for the wounded overseas.
Others by becoming nurses aides, are in
directly serving beside the men on the battle
fronts. BY relieving the pressure on nurses
here, they are releasing professional nurses
for service overseas.
Several thousand American women a e
working with the Red Cross overseas. In hos
pitfalls in Italy, in Africa, and in the south
Pacific, they are writing letters t Or the
wounded and the sick, bringing them books
and cigarettes and games. They are working
our soldiers little comfort, a little relax
alton and fun in atmospheres as much like
home as they can make them.
In this country, thousands Of volunteers in
the Red Cross Motor corps have gone through
exacting courses in driving and first aid.
the war effort by driving ambulances, shut
ting between camps, hospitals, and mobile
canteens, carrying supplies in disaster relief
cars.
The Red Cross Canteen corps is serving
thousands OF meals for troops in transit, for
workers. In five assembly plants, Red Cross
women volunteers are packing parcels for
prisoners Of war-milGons of packages a year
which are sent to the men in prison camps.
They are filling hundreds of comfort bags
for men here and overseas who in shipwrecks
and in battle have lost all their own belong
ings.
In the vast Red Cross Home service pro-
grams, thousands OF women, working through
the chapters, have established link between
the serviceman and his home. Field direc-
tors in New Guinea, China, England, Italy,
send in constant requests from worried SOL
diers overseas asking for information about
their families at home. To answer their ques-
tons, these Red Cross women volunteers trav-
Ell many miles by train, bus, or on foot to
get in touch with the families Of the men
concerned.
The task OF collecting funds to continue
this far-reaching work of service is going to
be up to the women too. The hours of work
they give aren't enough 1t is up to the
women of America, and in this case particu-
larly to the women of New Hanover county,
to make their contribution in money, as well
as services, that the great work Of the Red
Cross may go on without interruption or let
down in this war emergency. Remember, the
county goal is $4,000. Your gifts will be
needed.
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