Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • Page 4

fOTJE In On KRBO THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWI Sunday MonRng, October 8, In the original Avoca field, Iron Mountain and Humble No. 5 H. Haterius was drilling in after top ping lime at 3,243 feet and drilling at feet. Two miles southwest Of the Avoca townsite pbbV Eickok to Reynolds 'had spudded and cemented surface casing on a rotary wildcat, No. W.

Williams estate, 440 feet ou of the southeast corner of section 24-DDA survey. In shackelf ord county's Ivy field the west side was spread by the Al- gord Oil company No. 4 Swenson which, flowed 513 barrels of oil in six hours through a one-inch choke from lime at, feet which had been treated wit h750 gallons acid. The. same No.

6 fiwenidn, was coring for pty at 4tt feefc i Danciger Oil Refineriie No. 7 McCown had topped the lime at feet and- was drilling into saturation-at 3,156 tfeet. McKeever was flowing an estimated 125 barrels of oil hourly from Me at 3J85 to 3,197 feet. uagren Frailer al No. 3 W.

licEeever, moat northwesterly test for the field, was drilling in after topping lime at 3,158 and tak- ing.saturation at feet. No. 3 J- E. McCown had, drilled into lime at 3,167 and found oil lone at 3,170 feet. Best producer for the Guitar pool in the new Hope lime pay discovered this summer was completed v.on railroad commission potential gauge this week by the Guitar trust estate.

The well, Guitar No. 8 fee, flowed. 212 barrels of oil in 11 hours and 15 minutes for a daily potential rating of more than 450 barrels per day. It was also held down during the test on a 3-4-inch choke. No.

8 Guitar is a south offset to the Danciger Oil Refineries southwest corner lease in section 44-15-TP survey. It was deepened from the Cook sand pay zone at 2,004 feet to the lower pay at feet, and completed natural. Pressures were 200 pounds on the casing and 150 on the tubing. In the same pool, Brown Eagle Oil company No. 3 Guitar was completed for 207 barrels of oil daily after treatment with 500 gallons of acid at feet, total depth.

It had also been deepened from the sand zone at a depth of 2,006 feet. Panhandle Group To Boost McNutt PAMPA, Oct. tion of a Panhandle McNutt for President club, first regional group in Texas to boost the candidacy of the former Indiana governor, was completed here today with Reno Stinson of Pampa as president. Residents of Borger, Pampa, Amarillo, Perryton, Clarendon and Shamrock attended the organization meeting. Mayor W.

T. Boyles of Panhandle was named vice president and John Ketler of Pampa secretary-treasurer. On the executive board are Byron Singleton, Amarillo lawyer, Van Stewart, Perryton publisher, Thurman Adkins, Shamrock lawyer, Joseph Goldston of Clarendon and Emmett Elliott of Borger. Avoca Townsite Gets Best Well STAMFORD, Oct. 7--Algord Oil company today was credited with the largest producer ever completed in the Avoca townsite when its No.

1 Douthit Gillespie, on the Douthit gin lot at Avoca, made a record short-gauge flow giving it a potential rating of more than 7,000 barrels cly The'big well, flowing an estimated 75 barrels hour natural was given a small treatment with 500 gallons of acid at a total depth of 3,27,7 feet ta a flush flow which, turned into tanks, was gauged it 314 barrels of oil in one Hour and 12 minutes. The well is on the west side of the Avoca townsite poo and in section 21-HTC survey. It was one "of seven wells in th Avoca-Ivy territory of northeastern Jones and northwestern 1 ford county which were either on the lime or were being completec this weekend. Attention was turned to the wes of the Avoca townsite pool by the Consolidated Oil company No 1 R. L.

Hines, west extension, which was reported flowing: 75 barrels oil per hour following a 500-gallon treatment with acid. The well, in section 21-HTC survey, had drilled into the Palo Pinto lime to a total depth of 3,27" feet. had already skidded rig to the north for the same firm's No. 2 Cox-Hamilton estate in the same section, and that test had se surface pipe: New Stephens Thompson Sees No War Demand For U. S.

Crude AUSTIN, Oct. 7--(UP)--Col. Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the he testified before the temporary national economics committee, said EASTLAND, Oct. Testing was underway Saturday on W.

K. Gordon NO. 1-W. R. Ringo, section 81, block 2, TP survey, four miles northwest of Gordon in Palo Pinto county, which was conservatively estimated as making 2,500,000 cubic feet of gas at pressure in excess of 1,500 pounds was producing had not been announced although sand was report- ported feet- The well at indicated an increased demand for oil because of world war II.

"Until convoys are provided," Tlioiapson said, "there can be virtually no movement of oil tankers to wairing nations, for oil cargoes are prizes sought after." Thompson thought, too, that the combatants presently have substantial supplies for war purposes, while civilian uses have been curtailed. Pool Assured in Western Jones Commercial production apparently has been assured in a new northwestern Jones county pool discovery south of Hamlin, northwest of Anson. The test is the O. T. Kimbell 3,700 feet.

The gasser was one of several developments in oil activities of the section this week. Other reports inculded: STEPHENS COUNTY Location was made 12 miles southwest of Breckenridge for Wittmer, Knight and Ewing No. 2 Loving, section 11, OAL survey, (was Ralph R. Carroll --of Fort Worth) No. 2 G.

Herndon, a location northeast of a wildcat drilled on the, same farm last spring and tested in two different pay zone prospects. he railroad commission this week, Kimbell Bohner estimated production at 120 barrels per day, although an actual gauge has not been taken because of spudder pumping equipment sanding up. was gauged at 50,000 feet per day, under pressure of 100 wunds. The wildcat has been acid- zed in lime drilled at 2,882 to 2.899 feet, with a total depth of 2.900 feet in shale logged. A pumping unit was ordered this was reported here.

strike is located 330 feet out of "the northeast corner of the Herndon 70-acre lease in subdivision 3, Goliad county school ands survey No. 359: No. 1 Loving, discovery project in the southwestern section of tht county. George Fagg No. 1 Richardson, section 5, block 3, SPRR survey, was drilling at 2,100 feet.

Horwitz and Odom No. 2 B. S. Dance, J. Koehler survey, four miles west of Crystal Palls, was drilling at 2,800 feet.

T. G. Shaw No. 1 S. P.

Stroud, northwest quarter of the G. Newton survey was drilling at 1,700 feet in the northeast part of the county. A. G. Swanson No.

1 Veale-Frost, section 37, block 8, TP survey, was drilling below 3,700 feet, 10 miles southwest of Breckenridge. ERATH COUNTY T. G. Jackson No. 1 Taylor, near Desdemona, was wafting on pipe around 2,700 feet.

It is in the Pra- survey CALLAHAN COUNTY Operators were understood as having planned to finish M. M. Little and George Y. Bennett No. 1 W.

P. Ledbetter, M. Cherry survey, Scranton, on the pump for probably 40 barrels daily The mile western extension of the Cozart area was bottomed at 1,726 feet and had Texas Company Louisiana Posting NEW ORLEANS, Oct. first price increase in 30 days 'or low grade crude from south Louisiana fields was posted today by he Texas company. The company posted 86 cents for 20 gravity oil, with a two cent per legree increase up to 25 29.9 degrees.

Thirty-four degrees and above called for a $1.16 price. This increase, ranging from 1 to 2 cents a degree, will be followed by other purchasers of south Louisana crude throughout the week. Today's increase is retroactive to a. m. Oct.

2. North Extension to Bowles Pool Seen North extension for Bowles six miles east of Abilene on he "Taylor-Callahan county line, was indicated Saturday in the Robertson et al No. 1 Reeves. The outpost was reported to have xjpped gas section with a showing 01; and shut down ror running casing, to cement and complete. The test is north of the pool dis- overy well and in section 28-BAL urvey.

A southwest extension, the Spro- ex Oil company No. i Pittman, las been placed on the pump for a ailroad commission gauge. It is in section 29-BAL labbit Hunter Sitten by Prey RED LION, Oct. Quay Minnich has two wounds to low for this experience: While shooting a neighbor's rab- its from his garden, one audaci- us bunny ran up his leg, chewed hrough his pants, took two bites nd scampered away. Independents Threatened by Extinction, Refinery Witness Tells Monopoly Group WASHINGTON, Oct.

7--(UP)-- Foui Pennsylvania oil companies charged before the national monopoly investigating committee today that ''monopolistic control" threatens the extinction of the nation's independent oil and gasoline refiners and marketers. The statement was presented by Charles Suhr, chairman of the board of Penzoil Oil Oil City, Pa. It was made in behalf of his concern, The Kendall Refining Bradford, The Quaker State Oil i Refining Oil City and The 1 Wolverine Empire Refining Oil City, i "A free and open market no er exists for gasoline and motor 1 lubricants," the statement asserted. enterprise im been stifled in this field. CONSUMER DENIED ''Present conditions are not in the public interest because the consumer is denied the right to purchasf: goods of his choice through normal channels of trade.

A continuation of the present monopolistic control of the natural outlet of gasoline and motor lubricants will result in the ultimate extinction of not only the Pennsylvania oil industry but also of the independent gasoline and oil refiers and marketers throughout the entire United States." The independent refining industry, the statement contended, "is worth presendng not only because the employment which it gives" but also in order tnat "this high quality lubricating oil may be available in years to come." Cathay 30 inches. Oil was of 35.9 gravity. EASTLAND COUNTY John Reeves No. 1 J. Y.

Parker, northwest part of the William Van Norman survey, eight miles southwest of Eastland, was clean- Ing out after a shot in the lime. The well had been drilled as far at 3,070 feet. Exact depth at which the shot was made was not reported. Lime was topped in the No. 1 Parker, showing gas and a little oil, at 3,010 feet.

Still shut down was T. S. Holden et al No. 1 J. P.

Nichols, two miles southwest of Eastland, H. 8. Hearn survey. Hickok No. 5 Grover Cleveland, seven miles north of Cisco, section 477, SPRR survey, was drilling at 400 feet.

Dobbs Oil corporation No. 1 B. Pierce, Hiram Walker survey, two and one-half miles southeast of Carbon, was drilling past 700 feet. Lone Star Gas company No. 1 F.

J. Kimmel, section 87, block 4, HTC survey, eight miles north of Cisco, was drilling at 1,250 feet. Hickok No. 1 Hazel, section 41, block 4, HTC survey, four miles east of Cisco, was plugging back after drilling past 4,100 feet. R.

R. Groce No. 1 J. M. Rush, section 130, HTC survey, 10 miles southwest of Cisco and four miles south of Dothan, also was shut down.

COMANCHE COUNTY Choate and Armstrong No. 1 Love Shults, lot 31, Lampasas County School lands, eight miles southeast of Rising Star, was drilling at 150 feet. After their No. 6 G. E.

and J. W. Smith gauged 36 barrels daily on railroad commission test, St. John, Choate et al started No. 7 G.

E. and W. Smith, seven miles southwest of Rising Star. No. 7 is 150 feet south of the north line and 150 feet west of the east line of the 20-acre lease, Lampasas county school lands, and is drilling at 350 feet.

No. 6 Smith flowed 36 barrels on a 24-hcur commission test from pay topped at 618 feet and drilled to total depth of 627 feet. Oil was of 38 gravity. Day, McDonald and Cawley No. 2 A.

K. Anderson, Lampasas county school lands, was plugged at total depth of 620 feet. A sand was logged from 582 to 592 feet. Gallagher and Lawson No. 1 Mrs.

Robertson, section 29, block 34, Lampasas county school lands, six and a half miles southeast of Rising Star, was drilling at 250 feet. Young Harpist to Play at Bible Class Virginia Sheridan, Hardin-Simmons university student from Houston and an accomplished young harpist, will play for the Victory Bible class, meeting at 9:45 this morning at the Queen theater, other special music will be vocal numbers by a trio composed by Rosalie Grimes, Dorothy Jean and Geraldine Shaw. Speaker will be Dr. Rupert N. Richardson, vice president of Hardin-Simmons university.

James P. Stinson, class teacher, invited shut- ins to join in the class over station KRBC. By JOHN BREWER SAN ANGELO, Oct. of locations for wildcats in th northeastern corner of Yoakum county and in southeastern Coch ran county shared interest in Wes Texas this week with efforts bj Stanolind to develop the secon deep Permian lime producer in northern EC tor county and by'Mag nolia to open a new pool south the Magnolia-Sealy field in north ern Ward county. The Lehn Permian lime poo west of the Masterson field in northern pecos county registered its largest producer to date, the firs Ordovician well in the Big Lake field in more than five years was completed and a Palo Pinto lime test was spudded in Runnels county northeast of Ballinger by'Homer Price.

'Price No. 1 Noel Williams, Runnels county's latest wildcat, spud- ded early in the week, is 1,500 feet north and 730 feet west of the southeast corner of subdivision 26 of Domingo Diaz survey. It is 1 1-1 miles northeast of Price No. 2 J. Beddo, small producer from the Sarratt sand, and about the same distance south of the McMillan pool.

Price No. 2 Beddo is 607 feet east of No. 1 Beddo, which developed Runnels county's first Palo Pinto lime production from. 3,495 to 3,515 feet. Price No.

1 Williams will be drilled to this deeper zone. The wildcat in the northeast corner of Yoakum county was staked by The Sloan Zook of Bradford, Pa-, and Tom N. Sloan, Midland independent operator, on land of Mrs. J. E.

Fitzgerald of Brownfield, 330 feet out of'the southeast corner of section 22-D-John H. Gibson. It will be 2 1-2 miles south and slighti east of the Duggan pool in Cochran county and 4 1-2 miles northeast of Magnolia No. 1 Taylor' a Yoakum county dry hole. Spudding with rotary by Geo.

P. Livermore contractor is scheduled Oct. 11. ON HUMBLE ASSIGNMENT The Atlantic Refining Co. dug cellar and pits for No.

1 H. T- Cochran county wildcat, 580 feet out of the southwest corner of labor II, league 56, Oldham county school land, half mile west of the Hockley county line. Retaining l-16th royalty, Humble reportedly assigned eight labors to the Cascade Petroleum which turned seven to Atlantic for the test, which will be 2 1-4 miles northeast of Texaco No. 1 H. T.

Boyd, east extension to the Duggan pool in Cochran county. Humble No. 1 J. Westheimer, northwestern Cochran county wildcat, had drilled to 6,926 feet in lime, anthydrite and shale, and Gulf Swenson, southwestern Crosby county wildcat, had cored to 7,522 feet in lime. Atlantic started No.

1-B Thos. S- Riley, south offset to Ohio No. -1 K. I. Gibbs, new producer in the four-mile gap between the original Seminole field in Gaines county and its four-mile northwest extension.

The Ohio well flowed 972.92 barrels of oil on an official 24-hour, natural gauge at 5,268 feet. Atlantic's south offset will be 660 from the north, 1,980 feet from the west line of section 229-G-WTRR. Stanolind No. 1-A B. H.

Blak- eney, half mile west of the south end of the north Cowden field in Ector county, was swabbing to test deep Permian lime, that showed oil and some porosity from 5,1 i 3 to 5,160 feet, the total depth. It is in the southwest quarter of section 28-43-ln-TP. Gulf completed its 220th producer in the Goldsmith field in Ector county, its No. 220 Goldsmith daily potential of 1,057 barrels at 4,210 feet after being acidized. EXTENSION SOUGHT Seeking a farther 1 1-4-mile i on to the field.

Extended South First producer in several years to be completed in the Goldsboro pool of northwestern Coleman county was reported this week by the Abilene office of the railroad commission. The well, first completion of the North South Oil company which recently purchased holdings of the Republic National Bank of Dallas in the county, is the No. 1 J. P. McCord, a half-mile south exten- northeast extension to the Tubb deep Permian lime pool in western Crane county, Gulf staked No.

12 W. N. Waddell and others in the center of the southeast quarter of section 30-B26-psl. Gulf No. 5 McKnight, 1 1-2 miles northeast of the McKnight area north of the Tubb pool, drilled ahead 5,246 feet after shooting to straighten the hole.

Magnolia No. 21 Hardwicke-University, short north outpost to the Church-Fields pool in southeastern Crane county, showed no oil, gas or water in drilling to 3,546 feet in lime and was abandoned. It was in the southeast quarter of section 37-30-U. Magnolia No. 2-43 Sealy, bidding for production 1 3-4 miles south of the Magnolia-Sealy pool in northern Ward county and one mile south of a dry hole, had drilled to 2,714 feet in sandy lime.

It is 990 feet out of the southwest comer of section 43-F-GMMBA. FOREST PLUGS Showing only a icum of oil on 20 feet of water when bailed upon cleaning out following a 170-quart shot from 4,880 to 4,950 feet, plugged back depth, Forest Development Corp, No. 11. E. Scott, Reeves county wildcat 11 miles east of Salmorhea, was abandoned.

It struck water from feet in Delaware sand topped at 4,888 feet, 1,873 feet below sea level. No. 1 Scott was in the center of the southeast quarter of section 386-3- HGN. Flowing 202.63 barrels of oil in 24 hours at 1,684 feet after a 30-quart shot, W. E.

Keeney No. 2 Master- on-Lehn was completed as the argest well in the Lehn pool in northern Pecos county. (It Is in east quarter of section 71-10- HGN, a southeast offset to a lalf-mile northwest extension. Latest Ordovician test to spud in The Goldsboro pool, opened in 1929, was the most westerly Strawn sand producing area for West Central Texas until the Nolan county strike by Green Owens two weeks ago. North South Oil company- No.

1 J. P. McCord, in San Augustine survey No. 519, took a railroad commission potential of 30 barrels daily flowing from the, Strawn sand at feet, showing 3 per cent water. The test had been drilled to 3,979 feet but ran into salt water and was plugged back two feet.

Fred Pool, who recently moved to Abilene, is drilling contractor for the North South firm. Rotar rig was moved from the McCor lease back into the original par of the field to drill the No. 7 Nan D. Newton, which has been 704 feet from the south and 1,13 feet from the east line of the New lease in the San Augustine sur Charlie George Named District Oil Scout West Central Texas oil this week reelected C. D.

(Charlie) George to serve his third year as "kingfish," president of the district check meeting. Election for the 1940 term was by acclamation. George, Texas company scout, moved to Abilene from Cisco two years ago and succeeded P. G. (Pete) Booth as kingfish when Booth was moved to the Humble Oil Refining company land department in Wichita Falls.

J. G- Rowe, Humble, was renamed secretary-treasurer of the check, and Joe Clingan, Shell, was named chairman of the executive committee. Other members of the committee are G. A. Plummer, Lone Star Gas company, and W.

A. Phelpi, Sinclair-Prairie Oil company, both of Eastland. West Central Texas scouts, who cover 36 counties and make weekly reports on more than 100 wildcats and drilling operations, meet jjj Wednesday afternoon at the Hil- I Two newcomers have joined the check since last election. They are H. G.

Johnson, Phillips Petroleum company, who was transferred here recently from Shreveport, and G. C. Galigan, transferred here from Tulsa by Stanolind Oil com- pany. I Oilier check members are W. E.

Maloney, Gulf Oil corporation, Breckenridge; H- V. Scholl, Petroleum Producers, Abilene; Ed Mul- ier, Humble Pipe Line, Cisco; and Tod Eshleman, Abilene Elevation Abilene. Election of the 1940 officers was heid early this year in order to present their names to the National Association of Oil Scouts and Land Men, which will hold its annual convention soon. vey. The field is about two miles southwest of the town of Golds boro.

Childress Royalty east offset Anderson-Prichard and Monte Warner No. 1 Masterson, the dis- Big Lake Oil No. 17-C University, first deep producer since 1835 in the Big Lake field in Reagan county, first of West Texas' three Ordovician pools, was ompleted at 8,269 feet for a flow of ,175 barrels of 43J2 gravity oil and hree million cubic feet of gas It had been treated with gallons of acid. Dan Short and others' No. 1 J.

G. Davidson, scheduled wild- at in Tom Green county three miles south of San Angelo, pre- ared to run 8 1-4-inch casing at ,476 feet after topping the Cisco ime high at 2,414 feet, 510 feet bove sea level. Crude Stocks Gain in Week WASHINGTON, Oct. 7--(ffy-Th bureau of mines reported today petroleum at the close of the week ended Sept. 30 totaled 233,023,00 barrels, a net increase of 212,00 barrels compared with the previous week.

Stocks of domestic oil in creased 468,000 barrels for the weei and foreign crude decreased 256,000 barrels. week was 3,665,000 barrels or a decrease of 25,000 barrels compare with the previous week's level. Runs to stills averaged 3,560,000 barrels daily, compared with 3,570,000 barrels the preceding week. DaDy average imports were 76,000 barrels. Stocks of crude petroleum and change from previous" week (in thousands of barrels) included: Grade Sept.

30 Sept. 23 Grade Sept. 30 Ch. from Sept. 23 Arkansas Northern La.

Gulf Coast La. New Mexico 2,311 3,883 6,420 4,743 up 13 up up 103 up 630 NEW 6AINES HIGHWAY TO HELP Furniture Repair Business Opened H. V. Smith, formerly of Hicks Smith Furniture works, has opened a furniture repair works at 1152 So. Second known as the H.

V. Smith Son Furniture Works. Smith has been in Abilene in the Furniture Repair business for 19 years. His son, H. V.

is connected with the new SEAGRAVES, Oct. Engineers of the state highway department are in the field making preliminary survey for location of a new paved highway to be constructed east and west across north Gaines county. Bonds to finance the county's share of the construction cost, in the sum of $250,000, were approved at the polls a few weeks ago. The new paved thoroughfare will give Seagraves direct connection with Lamesa on the east and Denver City, Hobbs and other oil centers on the west. The former, located 14 miles due west from Seagraves, will benefit much from the improved traffic artery, due to the fact Seagraves is the nearest rail terminal and supplies much of the oil field materials going into development there.

62 BLOCKS PAVED Seagraves is taking considerable pride in fact that the community is building in a substantial and attractive manner. There is not a shack among the new business structures in main business district. Sixty two blocks of new paving within the city limits were-recently completed and opened to traffic. A new school building was completed a few weeks ago and is in use by the local educational system. The attractive brick structure being erected on South Gunnip avenue by the Southwestern Associated Telephone company is nearing completion and installation of switch boards and other equipment is to be started within the next few days.

The new phone company home is listed as one of the best in this area. The mechanical equipment will be new and of the latest manufacturers standard. is stringing two high tension transmission lines out of Seagraves. One of the power carriers, extending east 26 miles, is to connect with existing line from the central power plant at Abernathy. This line will cary 26.000 volts.

The other line is to reach out directly west for 18 miles, carrying electrical energy to Denver City and other oil communities in north -Gaines and south Yoakum counties. The company recently acquired franchise and properties of the electrical utilities in Denver City. Recently launched membership drive by the chamber of commerce is meeting with enthusiastic response, Ben P. White, president, said here today. The chamber was reorganized recently and W.

S. Cooper, for several years associated with chamber of commerce and newspaper work in West Texas, elected manager. Cooper came to Seagraves from Colorado City. A number of the major supply corporations have recently established branch houses in Seagraves. East Texas ......13,186 down West Texas ....14,608 up 588 Gulf Coast 16.577 down 105 Other Texas 21,486 up 14' Oklahoma 62,354 down 313 Politeness Pays, Usher Discovers NEW YORK, Oct.

J. Reilly, a theater usher who learned some months ago that politeness really pays, today founc out that Its cash value was about $365,000. Under the will of Mrs. Edna Morss Allin Elliot, who died Sept 23, 1938, Reilly was left the bulk of the estate. A transfer tax appraisa filed yesterday disclosed that this was approximately $507.000, which is subject to inheritance and other taxes of $142,500.

Mrs. Elliot's will disclosed that this request was due to Reilly's courtesy whenever she visited the Roxy theater. Mrs. Rosalie Spatcher Kniskern, a ballet dancer at the Roxy, was repaid for her kindness to the aged woman with a bequest of $53,000. ticipated due to slragetic location of the city--well defined oil pools on three sides of town.

building by Jan. 1. Dirt was broken Thursday for a modern brick, tile and stucco building to house four modernly appointed apartments, two business compartments on the ground floor and an office suite. The building is being built by Mrs. Florence Anthony.

Two additional modern tourist camps are to be added to the city's fast growing investment roster Joe Schneider, recently of Monahans, is building an 80-cabin camp on North highway. J. A. Mullins Thursday acquired property in the same part of town as site for a modern tourist camp. NEW POWER LINES The Texas-New Mexico Utilities Insurance.

Irony In Girl's Death CHICAGO, Oct. Neville, 9, was roller skating near her home last night with two playmates. As thsy nsjLrsil SL bandits drove up to the curb and parked behind an automobile in which insurance agent Jack Lomas was waiting while his partner, Frank Maneely, made a collection. One of the bandits forced Lomas into the rear of his automobile. Maneely returned, saw the bandits and ran.

The bandit with Lomas started firing. Frantic, the little girls started to flee but were hampered by their skates. A bullet killed Jacqueline. The bandits escaped. A month ago her widowed mother, Mrs.

Celilia Neville, took out an insurance policy on Jacqueline's life. The agents: Maneely and Lomas. Estonia became a nation in Idl7 at the outbreak of the Russian revolution when she declared her independence of Russia. Master Killed, Dog's Devotion Wins New Owner HOUSTON, Oct. 7-- (UP)--Teddy, a loyal white terrier, has a new master today as his reward for devotion.

His former master was Harris county traffic fatality No. 77. Fred Smith, 48, unemployed watch repairman of Oklahoma City, was struck by an automobile last night on a highway. When an ambulance came, Teddy refused to budge from his master's cot and went along to the hospital. Waiting at the operating room' door, Teddy would not be quiet, until allowed inside.

A nurse tied him to a leg of the operating table while surgeons worked. Hopelessly injured. Smith asked police Officer Clyde Folkes to take care of Teddy. A short time later, Smith died. Folkes was going to call the S.P.C.A.

to come and get Teddy, but another won by the dog's devotion, adopted Nolan Discovery to Drill Plug Todc-y Having cemented 3 1-2 inch casing at feet in the Nolan county wildcat discovery three miles southwest of Trent, owners of the Grew Owens et al No- 1 S. C. Tipton planned to drill the well in today The test, indicating Strawn sand production of 400 to 500 barrels daily from feet, is located in section 43-19-TP Eddy County Pool Indicated By FRANK GARDNER MIDLAND, Oct. of a new pool in Eddy county northwest of the Grayburg-Jackson pool were offered this week by a rank wildcat, B. H.

Nolen No. 1-X lies, to highlight Southeast New Mexico developments. New drilling in the area again was on the upgrade, Lea County leading with 13 starts and Eddy receiving eight. Nolen No. l-X Hes, in the southeast corner of section 17-16s-29e, encountered oil sand" from 1,803 to 1,819 feet, the present total depth, and filled 600 feet with oil in 12 hours.

Later," after it was bailed four hours, it still had 600 feet of oil in the hole. At latest reports, operator had shut the well down preparatory to setting of casing and testing further. No. 1-X lies is six miles northeast of the Red Lakes gas area, the same, distance north of the Leonard gas area, and several miles farther northwest of the Gray- burg-Jacksbn pool. LOCO HILLS AREA Bulk of Eddy's new locations went to the county's most active area, the Loco Hills pool, six tests being staked.

C. M. Pope, Jr. No. 1 State was spotted 330 feet from the south, 990 from the west ilne of section lO-28s-2St.

Lease comprises the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 2. Brewer Drilling company, contractor, already has spudded and is drilling below 320 feet in red rock. Cash J- Kleiner et al No. 2 Watson Smith Is a new location 330 feet from the south, 1,650 from the west line of section 4-18s-29e. R.

W. Fair No. 2 Brainard permit is 1,650 from the north, 2,310 from east line of setcion 10-18s- 29e. Bodson, contractor, was preparing? to spud. Machine was being moved to Hadlock Randall No.

1 Shelby permit, 960 feet from the south, 330 from the west line of section 10-18s-29e." Lease is the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter. McClure Smith No. 1 State was staked in the center of the northwest of the northeast of section 20-19s-29e. It will be drilled to 500 feet below the artesian sand unless oil, gas or water are encountered at a lesser depth. Leo R.

Manning staked No. 1 McClay permit 330 feet from the north, 1,650 from the east line of section 21-18s-30e. American Girl Sends King $1 To Aid Children LONDON, Oct. 7--(UP)--Ruth Treblow of Philadelphia, has sent $1.00 to King George to be used for children who were evacuated from London, it was disclosed today. The dollar was used to buy clothing for a five-year-old girl whose mother recently died and whose father is jobless.

"Please accept the enclosed dol- ar note from my savings which can use for the children who lad to be evacuated from London," Ruth wrote to the king. "Since I am 12 years old I am much interested in these children. It is very kind of you to send them away before any real danger occurs. When I go back to chool next week I am going to save roni my weekly lunch allowance until I get enough money to send you to help the children in England. I will also ask my friends do the same." Minister of Kealth Walter Eliot eplied in behalf of the king: "You may be sure that whatever 'ou and your friends are able to pare for our poorer children will le gratefully received." Average Daily Production Off HOUSTON, Oct.

7--(UP)--A drop in the daily production of crude oil in the United States this week was reported today by The Oil Weekly. Affected by a third field shutdown order in crude production declined to a daily total of barrels, the trade magazine said. National output was 159,500 barrels daily below the U. S. bureau pf mines estimate of domestic market demand for October.

Production in Texas was barrels daily, down 242,400: California, 602,850, down 6,950 Louisiana, 255,800, up Oklahoma, 402,325, up Illinois, 349,150, up 4,950, and Kansas, 144,075, down ft 13.150.. Daily-production summary: Oct. 7 Sept. 30 Texas 1,254,400 California 602,850 Oklahoma 402,325 Louisiana 255,800 Illinois 349.150 Kansas 144,075 New Mexico 99,100 Eastern 102,650 Mountain 86,050 Michigan 68,250 Arkansas 66,150 United States ..3,430,80 1,496.800 609,800 387,705 344.2TJO 157,225 101,250 98,300 84,150 3,662,005 Tufs Casket Buried CAIRO sarcophagus of ing Tutankhamen and the jewelry and furniture found in his tomb arly in the century have been bur- ed again--this time in bombproof helters. Philatelists Meef.Oct.

14-15 Dr. John A. Roberson, of the Texas Philatelic association and of. the Abilene Philatelic club, I has been named commander of the Texas Phalanx, an associate of 'the Pioneer Philatelic Phalanx, nation- al organization of stamp joliectors. Membership the Phalanx is.

restricted to stamp collectors who devoted 20 or more years to their hobby. Dr. Roberson also was presented a lite membership in the Pioneer Philatelic Phalanx which now has more than 2,000 members. The Texas Philatelic association meets in Dallas in called session this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 14 and 15.

As president, Dr. Roberson will be one of the principal speakers at the Sunday afternoon session beginning at 4 o'clock at the Texas fair park auditorium. Other speakers will be Dr. J. L.

Whitman, Fort Worth, immediate past president of the Texas association, and W. H. Perry, Big Spring. Dr. Roberson will discuss "Value of Philatelic Organization," Dr.

Whitman will speak "The Present Day Development of Stamp Collecting," and Perry, sales and ex- atelic association, will speak on activities of the organization. The state meeting will be in connection with the annual convention of the fourth district of the state association. Abilene Philatelists To Meet Thursday West Texas Stamp Collectors club of Abilene will meet Thursday night of this week instead of Friday night, as originally announced, Dr. John A. Roberson, president, stated yesterday.

Several Abilenians plan to attend the called meeting of the state association in Dallas Saturday and Sunday. Included will be Fleming James, Dr. E. T. Whiting, Ralph Bradley and A.

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