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News of a sensational new method of getting oil spread through the Pennsylvania oilfields last week like the report of a great new gusher. On Thanksgiving Day a group of oilmen had gathered in Franklin, Pa. around an oil well whose like they had never seen before-a sizable hole in the ground that looked more like a coalmine shaft. Someone threw a switch, setting off 12,000 Ib. of explosives deep underground. There was a rumble, a burst of steam and gas from the hole, and then an amazing flood of hundreds of gallons of oil and water from...
Harrisburg, Pa...
...blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems to grow longer. Franklin Roosevelt likes people and loves an audience; Secretary "Pa" Watson still faces the problem of dragging away overtime visitors in the midst of Presidential anecdotes...
Died. J. William Ditter, 55, Republican National Congressional Committee Chairman since 1939, able party strategist. Pennsylvania Representative (the 17th District) since 1933; in the crash of a naval plane; near Columbia, Pa...
...ISABEL B. BEACHER Bethlehem, Pa...