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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Start Tests
Two Zones.
Devils Basin

Whether someone missed bet by
not trying out deeper horizons in
the DEVILS Basin field in the early
days of the fields history, and
whether someone else missed bet
by not trying for shallow oil on
the crumpied southeast nose of the
structure, should be determined
very shortly.
Drilling on the crest and heading
for the Devonian, Bill Clark this
week made hole past 1000 feet with
rotary tools.
Drilling nine miles to the south
east, in an area where crumpling of
the beds is believed to have trapped
oil In shallow sands hitherto I'm
tested in this part of the field. the
Lucky Six Oil Company Is drilling
past 480 feet with cable tools, on
the Seifert ranch.
Backers of this venture expect to
pick up the first Cat Creek sand at
about 915 feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Cherry Ridge
Contract Let

Adding further to the increas-
Ing interest I'm the area south
of the Canadian border. be-
tween TexacO's Utopia struc-
ture and BowdDin dome, George
w. Harris this week announced
that contract had been let TO
Howell. & Cox for a cable tool
well TO be drilled ON the Cherry
Ridge structure. in Sc Sc @
35N-21E.
The well, Harris said, will be
spudded on or before Oct. /, start
ing in Bear Paw shale with the
Eagle sand expected at about 1900
and with the Kootenai sands ex-
pected at about $500.
The Harris location is only about
seven miles northwest of a well
drilled by the Ohio Oil Company
many years ago, to 4728 where It
ran out of hole. The Ohio well re-
portedly had very promising show
ings of both oil and gas.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14

with tubing and rods run to
the top of the sand. the wen
was pumped on the beam this
week and indications are IL win
make about rs barrels initiaKly.
No plans have been announced
for additional drilling in the area
and until this well has been thor
oughly tested 1t seems unlikely
more wells viii be started.
And until there Is additional
drilling, operators continue TO
agree, it viii be impossible TO
determine extent of the oil pool
that may have been opened by
this swell.
Meantime. most interesting activ-
ity in the oil area of the Cut Bank
field proper continues to center in
the area opened less than year
ago for lime production.
A completion in this area this
week was Carriers No. 2 Larmon,
with a flowing initial of "a barrels
through Y inch choke. Two miles
to the south, Carriers No 2 Brown,
after acidization, flowed "a barrels
the first is hours, with tests con-
tinuing.
Hopes that the lime pay area
would extend substantial distance
east of the northernmost Madison
lime wells was dimmed further this
week when Trigood- Bilstad No. /,
C. NV SW 3-36N-5W, was plugged
and abandoned at 3170, after get
ting only water in the top of the
lime. About mile northwest, Need
more Oil Company's No. / Tuna,
c SW NE 5-36N-5W, is drilling at
3079 after topping the lime at 306S;
No compilations were recorded
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14

Filings in the Great Falls land
office cover acreage in Ranges 6
and west. Townships IA and IS
south.
This is on the Montana Idaho
boundary, extending roughly from
Lima on the north to Monida on
the south. Monida is the crest of
the pass between Idaho and Mon
tana
Not a single conclusive test has
ever been drilled in the area, though
one well 25 miles north of the block
now being assembled went down
TO 2l20 before being abandoned as
a dry hole.
The north border of the lease
block. judged by the federal filings,
is about 40 miles south Of Dillon.
the county seat of Beaverhead
county.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Teigen Test
Making Hole
AT $50 Feet

Interesting wildcat of Bill Burks
and others on the Mcdonald Creek
anticline, mapped as a parallel fold
to Cat Creek, this week was re-
ported drilling past $50 feet, with
the prospect it viii be a completion
inside of the next 10 days.
Spotted IL miles northwest of
Winnett on the line between Fer
gus and Petroleum counties, 1t is
aiming for the sands that are pro-
ductive in Cat Creek, expecting
them at shallow depths.
A well drilled in this area sew
eral years ago by Gordon Campbell
reportedly had good oil showings.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
TEXACO DEEP
TEST STARTS

Certain to be one of the most
closely watched wells ever
drilled In Montana, the initial
deep test of the Texas Company
on the vast BowdOin dome is
reported spudding in this week.
1t win be the first well ever
drilled on this mammoth structure
to test even the top of the Madison
lime, though more than 200 gas
wells are now in production from
shallow sands on the dome.
The Texaco well is slated to test
not only the Madison, but also the
underlying Devonian and Ordo-
vician, and also possibly the Cam
brian.
Regardless of the results of the
initial well, 1t will serve as yard
stick of great value in future ex-
ploration over a vast area.
Northeastern Montana has had
but little drilling, and that so far
done has been to very shallow
depths, geologically, with the result
that little or nothing Is known con-
corning potentialities of horizons
productive elsewhere In the state
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14

Completion of PrevOi & Shay's
No. n Government, held up
once by fishing job, was set
further ahead when the rig
burned af 1885.
Three new locations were an
nounced in the field during the
week, one a well commenced by
Ray Sorrell on the outskirts of
Kelvin, on a government lease in
NV SW NE 35-35N-3W. This is in
a wide open area that has had but
little testing.
Other locations were by c. E.
Biggs and by the Claresholm Oil
co. Biggs is starting his No. 8 Gun
derson In c NE NE 24-35N-3W and
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Mon-0-co Test
Now Ar zoos

Mon-O-Co Oil Corp. Is reported
drilling with rotary tools past 1855
feet on the Harlo dome section of
the Shawrnut anticline In Golden
Valley county, in NV N ENW
19-7N-19E.
About 10 miles to the southwest,
on what Is mapped as a continue
ton of this same anticline r.. G.
Tarrant's No. ! N. P, NE NE Sc
1-6N-15E, Is standing at 400.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
RichfieId Wildcat
Drilling Ar 214S

Richfield Oil Company of Mon
tana this week reported hole made
past 2148 feet in its wildcat on the
Mission Creek structure near Liv-
ingston, In Sc Sc SW 20-2S-11E. It
had a gas showing at 2094, after
topping the Frontier at 2084.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Block Leased
Near Border

The Alberta government has
granted George Eisenschiml a
lease block of 23,26i acres just
north of the AIberfa-Montana
border, In the Del Bonita area,
according to the Calgary Oil
Bulletin. The acreage touches
the border and is north of
Ranges 10 and IL west, on the
Montana side of the line.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
BLOCK ASSEMBLED WEST OF PARK,
ALONG M0NTANA-IDAH0 BOUNDARY
| Oil Company.

Less than dozen wildcats have been drilled of the Rocky
mountains Montana but there indications the picture about
be changed.
In Beaverhead county, approximately rs miles of Yellow
national park large block is being assembled
identity been revealed with
tions major oil company is back of the venture.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Hurdin Area Test
Neurs 1000 Feet

Long delayed in starting, Hunt
Oil Company is wasting no time
in Its wildcat in the area near the
Hardin gas field In southern Mon
tana, in Sc Sc 24-1N134E. Drilling
with rotary tools, it was reported
making hole this week at past
1918 feet.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Gas Area Oil Well Shows For
Is Barrels On Initial Tests

Ending prolonged suspense Big West Oil Refining
Company No Poeock well that oil in the lower Cut Bank
sand what heretofore considered between the
KevSunbust and Cut Bank fields this week began production
O an oil OH at 2318
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
AUGUST OIL RUNS
757,709 BARRELS

August crude runs from Mon
tana fields totaIed 757,7O9 bar
rels, according 20 a compilation
by the Montana oil conservation
board.
Output of various fields was
&c Fr,flrxrress
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Nepstad, Montgomery and Fargher
Get Good Sunburst Sand Producer

Nepstad Montgomery and Fargher the best well of the week
in the KevinSunburst field completing their No Haugen in
SW Sc 235N3W producer with initial of Is barrels
daily from the Sunburst sand, topped 1903.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14

Lake Basin field and about six miles deep 4O50 feet
drilled north portion the antcne years
ago by the Barnsdal Oil Company
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Wildcat
District

: ich has hitherto confined its
ern part of the state in the
% It's large acreage holdings
Nmmencing a wildcat on
inty, in c SW NV 16-
yest of the oil area of the
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1946-09-14
Union Stakes
In South Mont

Union Oil Company of Calico !. 2
Montana operations largely to ~
vicinity of its refinery at Cut BaT
in that field, stepped out this wee
the Twin Buttes structure in StillHs
2N-10E Location is ahOlit - miles N
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07
Funeral Services
For E. w. Sims. Sc.
Conducted Sunday

E. Waldo Sims, 66 years old,
died Friday at the Jackson Coun-
ty hospital after an illness Of
about two months. A native of
Alabama, Mr.. Sims had lived for
many years in Fontainebleau and
Vancleave and for the past few
months had made his home in
P~ascagoula.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Sunday at 2 p. m, at Stokes
Chapel by the Rev. j. F. Camp
bell, pastor of the First Methodist
church of Pascagoula. Interment
was in Machpelah cemetery and
pail bearers were Frank McGrew,
II. L. Sproule, M. l.. Smith, thom-
as Packard, Houghton West and
Robert Shoemake.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07
Farm Income
Down In l945
A Cotton Slumps

State College, Miss.-In 1945,
Tor the first time since the be-
ginning of World War II, cash
farm income accruing to MISS
iippi farmers failed to increase
over the preceding year. How
ever, the cash farm income ex-
ceeded three hundred million
dollars, an average of over a
thousand dollars for every one
of the States nearly 100000
farmers.
More exactly, the cash farm
income last year was 300 million
dollars, which is % percent less
than the 1914 peak of 39l mil
lion dollars. But in spite of this
precipitous drop, farmers of Mis-
sissippi received almost twice as
much cash income in 1945 as in
1899, the year hostilities broke
out in Europe.
The greater part of the decreas-
cd income in 1945 is due to cot
ton and unfavorable weather.
Cash Income from cotton and
cottonseed was IS million dol
lars, which amounts almost to
The whole farm income decline
of SO million dollars. An ex-
tremely rainy fall which hinder
ed, and in some instances pre-
vented cotton harvest, is given
as the cause of the cotton de-
cline.
Hogs were the only other farm
enterprise showing a decline in
farm income. Hog sales amount
ed to IL million dollars in 1945,
and 13 million dollars in the pre-
ceding year.
From 1914 to 1915, cash farm
income from crops other than
cotton increased 2 million dol
lars; from cattle. and calves, 2
million dollars; and from poul-
try products, ! million dollars.
Government payments W e r {
about so percent lower in l945
than in 1914.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07

Ter, Mrs. Irene and Miss Willie
Nell Carter.
Birthday cards are being mail
d this week to the Rev. @ c.
Roberts, Jr., former resident, who
S a Methodist Missionary in the
Belgium Congo. His address is:
Mrewa, Via Salisbury, Southern
)osedia, Africa.
Miss Myron Roberts, who has
been attending Perkinston Jun
or college, is home for the sum-
ner vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. c. Roberts.
Miss Maude Roberts spent last
week with her mother and sister,
Mrs. Corine and Miss Thelma
Roberts, and other relatives in
Gulfport.
Walter Powell Roberts, of the
y. S. Maritime Commission. spent
asst week with his mother and
brother, Mrs. Ruth M. and Mar,
shall B. Roberts.
The Rev. John l.. Carter of Can.
on will conduct the revival meet,
ing at the Methodist church here
beginning on Tuesday evening
He will be assisted by the pas
or, the Revv. w. j. Walters.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07
Ex-ArmY Chaplain
Revivdlist Al Wade
Baptist Church

A week-bng revival service
will begin at the Wade Baptist
church Sunday with dinner on the
grounds and three preaching SER
vices during the day. The ser
mons on Sunday and the remain
der of the week at 7:30 each night
will be delivered by the Rev.
Malcolm B. Rust, former army
chaplain and veteran of North AT
RIGA, the Middle East and Europe.
The topic of Sundays sermons
will be The Great Question,
.sThe Message of Jonah, and
THE Biggest Sinner in Wade.
The Rev. w. c. Wyatt, pastor
of the church, also announced va
cation Bible school for the chill
dren of the community will be
held each morning from $3.50
until 1880 throughout the week
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07
Mount Pleasant

The Rev. and Mrs. John Car
ter and son, John Carter III, o.
Canton, Miss, visited Mrs. IRENE
Carter and other relatives here
last week.
Visitors recently in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. N. NJ. Carter and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Clement were
the Rev. and Mrs. j. c. Clement
ef Many, La, and the Rev. ano
Mrs. Singleton of Cation Valley,
La.
T. j. Dickson III, of New Or
leans is spending several days
with his aunt and uncle, Miss Dol
lie and r. c. Roberts.
Mrs. r. j. Van Horn spent sew
eral days with her husband in
! New Orleans last week.
Mesdames M. L. and M. P. Da-
Wis and Katie Lou spent several
days in Hattiesburg last week.
Miss Carol Carter left Monday
for Hattiesburg where she will
enter training al a nurse.
Mrs. Ester Taylor visited her
sister, Mrs. Freda and Odessa
Rogers in Escatawpa last week.
Nurse Lonnie G.. Mcdonald is
spending this week with her
father, w. w. Groves, while her
sister, Miss Choyce Groves Wis
Is Mrs. McDonald's daughter,
Mrs. Donna j. McAllister in Pass
Christian.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Clark and
daughters of Pascagoula were
weekend visitors of Mrs. Clark's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Rob
erts.
Those attending the zone meet
ing of the Women's Society for
Christian Service in Lucedale
were Mesdames r. M. Ruble, and
Quincy Roberts and j. c. Harris.
They were guests in the after
noon of Mrs. Ford Ratliff, for
merly of Vancleave.
Seaman First Glass Robert
Johnson Ware, u. S. Navy, spent
Sunday with his parents and
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ro-
land Ware and Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Lyons.
Seaman First Class Roy Rob
erts, son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. c.
Roberts who. is now in the u. S.
Navy, enjoyed a short visit home
last week.
Mrs. Jack Fletcher and little
daughter, Forest Nell, of Pasca-
goula, were weekend guests of
Mrs. Fletcher's mother and sis
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07

son of Mrs. Ella Alexander of
Moss Point. Pvt. Alexander, who
is a graduate of the Moss Point
High school, has two brothers in
the service.
The second was James r. Hub
bard, son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. M.
Hubbard, Ri. /, Lucedale. A
graduate of the Moss Point High
school. Pvt. Hubbard has been
an active member of the Hurley
Methodist church. His reason for
enlisting was the educational adj
vantages that the army has to
offer.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07
Separation Center
At Comp Shelby
Will Be Closed

Closing of the separation cen
ter at Camp Shelby is scheduled
for the end of July according to
announcement received from the
Fourth Service Command Head
quarters at Atlanta.
Over 7,074,000 troops have been
discharged between We day and
April 80. The remaining 10 cen
tiers still in operation will reduce
the size of the Army to l.550,000
by July /.
During the past seven months,
according to the announcement,
the separation centers have dis
charged an average of nearly
1000 men every hour.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07
Two Jackson County
Men Enlist In Army
AT P~oscugoulu

T-Sgt. Lonnie A. Mallette in
charge of the army recruiting of
flee at Pascagoula has announc-
ed the enlistment of two Jackson
county men.
The first of these to enter the
army was Clyde l.. Alexander,
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07

More children are permanently
crippled by infantile paralysis
- - amy otner disease Or oy
accidents.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-06-07

A large. roomY. "Spick and
Span" all steel kitchen or
utility cabinet. Plenty of stor-
age sYace without filling up
the room.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
ALASKA COASTAL
 I5 KEPT HOPPING

Alaska Coastal Airlines was busy over the week end, making the following flights with these passen- gers: to Pack Creek: P Rich; from Jack Creek: M. Pierce; to Skagway: Ted Lawrence; from Skagway N. Reid, s. Reid, B. Reid, and Mrs. G. w. Hooker; to Haines, MT. and Mrs. R. Politis; to Ketchikan, w. J. Waters, Margaret Svertion, Vir- ginia Huston, H. Carter, E. Le- Vigne, J. Demmert, P Collins, Mrs. lP. Gilmore. Howard Banta, | Searle, G. Leach and F. Peterson, and from Ketchikan: A. c. Kuehl, Ben c. Miller, Mrs. R. Renshaw and Mrs. D. Ellis.
 To Wrangell: Tom. Sandborn; to Petersburg: P. Dinner, E. Gruen- ing and o. Grenier; from Peters burg. F. Baker I. Bucholz and Mrs M. Lee; to Tenakee: John Davis, Jr. and Pete Warner; from Sitka to Wrangell: E. Stohmeier and Wayne Wiegel; from sSitka to Petersburg; Dorothy Simde and to Pack Creek, U. Pearce and Dean Williams.
 To Tulsequah w. s. Bissett ! from Tulsequah: Tom Dyer and C. w. Davis; to Taku Lodge MT and Mrs. J. J. Meherin, Lorraine Holden, Alex Holden and Sandy Holden; from Lake Florence: Wylie Compton, L. D. Sturm, Wylie J Compton and L. A. Sturm; from Skagway: Myrtle Ferrel, w. A. Wynne and Ted Lawrence; to Sit ka Mike Roberts, J. Moore, Clyde Roberts, Roy Coy, MT. and Mrs. R Moore, N. Cropley, Robert Fisch- CT, James Peacock, Pat Moy and Ben Miller; and to Pelican: Mrs M. w. Soule, Mrs. R. Preston, Con- nie Maddox, c. Paddock, MT. and Mrs. G. Wahto, Karen Wahto and G. Wahto
 | To Hoonah: R. Morgan, M | Brown, K. St. Claire, Duncan John- son and O. Ragina; from Hoonah: {, Walter Jewell, Ginger Collier Eleanor Jackson, P. Joseph, J. Dal- , ton and G. Dalton; from Pelican. Mrs. F. sMosher, William S. Hart M Bosi and Howard Banta from Sitka. Vic Heino, Mike Roberts. B T. Thompson, Ernie Carter, Mrs Jean Carter, Jens Gyldneye and E
 Johnsone; from Sitka to Lake Hasselborg: Charles Conway, John
 Conway and J. J. Conway; from Excursion Inlet: Frank Metcalfe,
 gory, Ignacio T. Buccot and Ted A i Banjo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
MoIotov Does Wa!kout From
 Freedom Eeie
Soviet Diplomat Gets Huff. fy Over Seating Ar
 rdngement al Paris

PARIS, Aug. 26.-Official cere- monies marking the second anni- versary of the liberation of Paris were marred yesterday by the ab- rupt departure of Soviet Foreign Minister " M Molotov and Ukran- ian Foreign Minister Dmitri Manu- ilsky, in an apparent huff over the seating arrangement.
 The two who left the grandstand even before President Georges Bi- dault had begun his address, were seated in the second row under an alphabetical arrangement which placed the United States (listed as "Amerique'D, Britain, China and France in the front row of benches.
 Bidaults address. calling on the nations of the world to forget par tisan pre-occupations and strive for the peace for which the war was fought, climaXed nationwide observance of the anniversary.
 In Paris the weekend was devot- ed to series of gay celebrations and processions through festooned streets. A serious note was main- tained, however, by the wreaths piled before wall plaques through out the city marking spots where unknown Frenchmen fell in the fight to free Paris from the Ger man occupation
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
JOHNSON HITS
 SHIPMENTS OF GULL PRODUCE
Alaska Railroad Manager Also Airs Pi|fering
 Troubles in Talk

SEATTLE. Aug. 26.-Spoilage in perishable produce reaching Alaska cities is causing protests from mer- chants and consumers, Col. John P. Johnson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, said here.
 Col. Johnson, enroute to Wash ington for conferences with Feder- al officials, conferred here with steamship officials to try to deter mine the cause of such losses.
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 The consumers up there are of a strong opinion that shippers in Seattle are sending the culls to Alaska and reserving first class produce for local trade" Johnson said. They fell that because of the distance the fresh vegetables fruit and other perishable foods must travel, that they should re- ceive the better merchandise.'
 Another cause for concern, John son said, is the amount of pilfer ing which takes place in shipments of merchandise to Alaska, and which cost the railroad total of $60,000 last year"
 Johnson said that last year his railroad handed 2,449 claims fol stolen goods, and that the pilfering occurred before the merchandise reached the railroad. He said cartons would be rifled and then sealed up again, so that the loss was not discernable until the pack age was opened.
 These offerings occur not only aboard ship, but also on the docks he said, and those who do 1t are clever. If we can determine loss before it sofnes to us, then it is the responsibility of the steamship company but so much of tEe time we can't"
 None of this thievery takes place on the railroad, since the cars are locked and special agents ride the trains.
 Johnson will go to Washington in the interest of obtaining new equipment for the railroad, He described the roads present equip ment as antique" re said TO per cent of the equipment is 40 years old, and was relegated to the Alas ka Railroad from the Panama Canal and from United States lines as they received modern equipment
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-26
BRITISH TROOPS
 SEEK FROG MET" l"
 IN SINKING TRY
Residents of Palestine Fishing Village Are
 Rounded Up Today

SEDOT YAM, Palestine, Aug. 26 Two hundred residents of this tiny Jewish fishing village were rounded up by British troops and Palestine police this morning in a move said by officers to be di- rected at finding the frog men who almost succeeded in sinking the immigrant transport Empire Rival in Haifa Harbor last week
 The village was surrounded by a brigade unit before dawn and the villagers were herded into barbed wire enclosures for questioning by police while Army crews searched homes and buildings Mine detec- tor equipment and dogs formerly used for mine detection in Ger many were used in the search.
 Brig. R. H. Bramer, Commander of the Second Brigade, who was in charge of the operation, said the village was cut off before dawn and we believe lthe rald) was a complete surprise to the villagers
 He said the village, only five miles from Haifa, was one of the bases for persons who blasted the ship, and added: We know the village has harbored illegal forces. ,