The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1926, Page 3

ao eae ‘ Ne THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926: DRILLERS TO RQUIPMENT Reports on Work Accomplish | ed by Experts to Be Made at Institute Meeting Los Angeles, Cal., Faced with the necessity of deyelop- ing interchangeable parts, the sixth | American | national mesting of the Petroleum ‘institute meeting here Jan. 19-2), will receive reports on the work of 400 experts who have been laboring many months on standardization of equipment. These\experts, who are attempting) to solve what is said to be the most ,serious problem in oil well drilling, e members of the standardization division of the institute. They rep- resent manufacturers, oil compan- ies, well drillers and ‘others engag- in tht-oil industry. Threads on pipe made by one man- ufacturer are not always the same as those on pipe made by another manufacturer, although the articles | may be labeled with the same dimen- sion: Wi is tWe driller to do! when he tries to fit these lengths of pipe together? His. only answer eretofore has been to buy ail his pipe from one manufacturer. _A little article known as a wrist pin nut also illustrates the problem. Some manufecturers make this item with right hand threads; others with left hand, Brings Costly Results Numerous instances of this lack of standardization run through the in- dustry, The most gostly results are id to be in the use of misfit tub- ing, casing and pipe, which represent a fourth of drill! ne costs. for instance, is suspended s thousands of feet in a well and threads must bear an enormous weight. If they are not true they may not hold. When casin drops into the well it may ruin a hole on which thousands of dollars have been spent, The threads must be adjus' ed_to the thousandth of an inch. Pipe manufacturers are now spend- ing more than $76,000 on untform gauges (meeting the laid down by the petroleum institute. The bureau of standards of the Unit- ed States Department of Commerce is aiding in the work by testing the gauges. Will Reduce Driiling Costs Some of the standardization work has been completed; other phases of it will be finally adopted at the Los Angeles mecting. The tubular goods committee under the chairmanship of J. Edgar Pew of Dallas, president of the institute, has completed its re- port, and factured rding to the standards it has e; lished According to C. A. Young, who is 'y of the standardization di- ion, drilling- costs are to be re-| duced’ many thousands of dollars by this work. ONLY NINE MEN WERE BROUGHT (Continued from page one) 4 were on-hand to aid’ rescue crews as they are needed. Three more bodies have been brought to the cage shaft and are ready to be drawn out. Six were brought. out last night. Three oth- ers were uncovered and can _ be brought to the surface at any time. Other men are believed to be buried so deeply beneath debris that it will ‘s two or three days before their , bodies can be removed, Regular work in the Wilburton valley was closed down today and between 350 and 400 miners were here to give any possible aid. MINE OWNER DENIES CHARGE OF COMMISSIONER Wilburton, Okla. Jan. 14—@)— Fire again today ‘halted removal of bodies from the -Degnan-McConnell brought to the surface. An explosion yesterday entombed 101 miners, eight’ of whoth were taken out’ alive ‘yesterday. This morning another man, Cecil McKin- ney, emerged alive after groping his way about the mine for 23 hours. Little hopg is hetd that any of the 80 men in the workings are alive. McKinney had crawled over the body of hie father and recognized’ him, he said. Six Bodies Taken Out Today The first ody taken out today was that of B. A. Thomas, an engineer who had gone into the mine shortly hefore the blast to make a survey. i ‘There followed five others and as the bodies were hauled up each was identified by his fellow workers. Jim McConnell, owner of the mine, returned today /from Illinois where he had gone to attend the funeral of a friend. He at once issued a state- ment degying the declaration last night of Ed Boyle, state mine com- missioner, that the catastrophe was the result of havin inexperienced men in the mine, which is being op- erated on a non-union basis. Men Held Certificates “Every gas man in the mine held a certificate,” Mr. MeConnell de- clared, “and the thajority of the men who were at work had been there some time. It is not true to say that ~ the mine was being worked with men who did not know their business.” McKiiiney’s escape reduced © the number believed to be dead to 92. It became. known today that the |; company carried its own, insurance ‘on the minors. who were killed. The state industrial commission has adopted the policy of allowing a-flat compensation of $9,000 for loss of life in industriml accidents, and at \s this rate the deaths of 92 men would |) cost the company $828,000. Forty-five ‘coffins arrived toda; truck-from Fort Smith, Ark. T! pa undertakers worked to prepare the bodies for burial. Reports of Rural ’ Credits Office Not’ Faulkton,S. D., Jan. 14.--)—Rur- al credit reports to the state bere + tive accountant between April, 1918, and January, 1925, were never checked ‘against the books of the rural eredit board, J. E, in, assistant director of mallee and ppedonte testified to- iday in the Ewert embezzlement jah: The sxenuley Be Papi nt, Teegae ; gaid, acce| ie repo! rom the rural pee ears pies, nd. merely: heck ow ty erica! accuracy. anents resented by ‘i @ “which faral credit fu ads en “to see that they treasurer's: state STANDARDIZE ; -OUT ALIVE Jan, “14.—0)— | | specifications |, ipe is now being manu-| th mine near here after twelve had been | Lak j P. | tion ‘of The hus>and of Mrs. Anthony Raft where they had hem arrested on M meled by Rafti ii the-court ‘Marriage-Mates Capture Soul-Mates:.. corridor, ed by her husband. ti (left) and the wife of Abraham Ubrew (right) trailed their mates from New York to Philadelphia, Ubrow was pum- erred to jail to bail ann i Mr t charge! Ratti pre HUGHES TELLS WHY THE WATERWAYS PROJECT IS A NECESSITY AND WHAT Address at Sess al addr t last night's 27th annual Tri-State Farm Cong: “how meeting in Far- go, was delivered by Hugh J. Hilghes, tive Director Chas. Q ptm, was at on editor of Farm, Stock and Home, an agricultural azine, and before with the North tural eollege at Far told of progr bringing ocean i cted St. » which [have vo to one that opened f the world and t Lakes he front whieh the prod- move in open ion with the prod-| to the cor that the pc made seapor! uets of thi States Officially Represented. Lakes-St. Lawrence ion is an organ pvereign states, tretching | ‘unbroken from Missouri on the south | to North Dakota on the north, and from West Virginia to the coast. These themselves n tion by official aets, and the govern-| ing body of the made up of legally constituted commissions within each of these twenty-one states. Every dollar of money tha payers’ that hi fe to the end of securing the St. rence ship channel from the Great to the ocean. money Checked With Books | gy ihe Garcat déwater asse resent a population of nea: five million people seventy per cent of the a wealth of the nation, 44 per its manufactured wealth, ori about 44 per cent of its expo ceiving and distributing about 43 per cent of its imports and: possessing nearly forty-five per cen nt of the total wealth of the nation. The Time “That these forty-five m ple in the p Jatures and’ executives should com bine for one eommon purpose needs a word of &xplanation, and that ex. planation is this--The time has com in the economic history of the nation when this vas! d area must havé more dire: eaper connec~ of the world. re been Sion For one hundred year: moving forward and taking pos: of a continent, Ju tu the great tid across the Alle id down into wu ‘Valley poured across” the ew York and up? the Great nea march that has y in our own time at the of the I “In that brief inierval“of time we have added a continent to the werld. We have p! d under production the richest 1 Lhe found in the moved inland from th aid miles and more. cuts ng our trails before-us and building our reads be- hind. eof receive fo they | ied and apportioned by the states} tion swept | IS BEING DONE TO PUT IT THROUGH Bee ITED Sle When ae ion of Tri-State Farm, Congress Gives a/¢ Complete Story of the Great Lakes-St; Lawrence Waterways Propesaland Its‘ Benefits . i rmer Pays the Freight. “We are now engaged, throughout thi’ entire continent, in fucing jthe things the world uses and in con- the things the world produces. It is idle for us to believe th: 1 live by our exist without contact with the world, The basic pr ain, including that used for home consumption, is ket demand of Europ : that grain, deluding that mption, is the 1 r home cons controll- whatever xport and the same hold for whatever we import. } again thik’when a? ells bushel of transportation ¢ from his local’ ¢ wtotr in Lurop! old to the European mille the farmer goes to town buys his coffee, his automobile tin his his sisal, and the hundred and one other things that come to him | fi | Buffalo. { miles by rail; | cen i ness? Hniles, to New York, for about one ‘half. the money it coSts the Wiscon- | [sin man to ship, his peas by all-rait to New York, | tance, the Atlantic ocean is about as ¢ shouting that we are to pay seven- A Few Comparisons. “Compare these charges with ;our own from Duluth to Biffalo, a, thousand miles; 9. cents on export grain from New York, another 412; 2 cents for. lighterage | at New York; finally, for tne 3,000 | mile journey across the ocean, 8 —a total.of 32 cents per bushdl, as compared with the 22.4 cents per bushe} paid by the Argentine farmer ag delivery at the European te¥min- | al. ‘With wheat of cqual milling ‘value, which farmer has the advantage? Which farmer can longest afford to stay in the wheat production busi- “Or consider-this: The pea can- ners of Wisconsin find that the pea canners of the Pacific coast can ship their product down the Pacific, through tye Panama Canal, up the tlantic coast, distance of 7,000 00 miles away, The Australian wool grower, 12,900 miles away, closer to the Boston wool market than our growers in Wyoming are, 2,000 miles away. And if we use freight dollars as the measure of dis- wide as the state of New York-— about as wide as the state of Minne- sota. Ten to One Ratio. “You can put it down general rulé that a dollar of freight money will carry you ten miles or more on deep water for every mile that it will carry you by freight car over the land. “I think I) may say in all candor that. throughout the entire area of the associated sta! among all busi- ness men who have given thought to the matter, there is one common voice of opinion; The Great Lakes-S Lawrence ship channel is a necessity, not for this region alone, but for the well- being of the entire nation, “I do not mii ize the actual work to be done. It is a big job. . The In- ternational Joint Commission figdres the cost at a quarter billion of dol- Jars. This is a lot of money, but it is only one-fourth the amount the railroads say is needed annually to care for rail replacement and new equipment of tracks and terminals. A quarter billion dollars is only sixty per cent of the cost of the Panama uarter billion dollars is ‘hth as much money as f the United States spent for candy, cosmetics and chewing gum | in 1925. 'We could, if need. be, ' Day | for every cent of the ship channel cost by direct levy, in spot-cash, and | at the end of the year we wouldn’t know, as a people, or as Sadividusts | either, that we had spent the money. Nations, to Share Cost. “But nobody expects it will be paid for in that The Inter tional J ion has suggt ed that cach nation share in the costs according to its benefits recei and up jumps Congressman S. Wal- lace Dempsey, of New York wildly teen-eighteenths of the eost. The congressman apparently forgets that while the joint American and Canad- | ian tonnage movement on the Great that proportion, only that the ship channel with when tht allo- s comes up, if indeed it in that form. The New congressman, who ran for of- fice on the platform that, as ch: man of the Rivers and F mittee in congr he would ‘put t! St. Lawrence ship channel to sleep dangerous omty because people who do not know the facts—people who do not know Congressman S. Wallace vill be ree ‘ation of co out of the commercetof the world~he pays the world’s market price at sea- \Poard, plus the freight and other \charges accruing from scaboard to }his own home town, and ‘let me say to you that the aggregate of these charges, going and eOtning, expressed n dollars and cents, is only partially ndicated by the export and import business jhe at flows from and to this mii TiS oedcy tai redevatand fully the |freight handicap under which the | northwest is working, let me comgare | with you the vast difference between {hauling goods by fteight car, under possible conditions, and haul- goods by water/from deep sea deep harbor, in the rgo carrie: “Our great southern competitor on the wheat markets of the world is {Argentina The farmer in the Ar- gentine ships his wheat an average of 40 miles to Rosario, at an average j cost of ents a bushel. Frony Ri |ario he ships it 7,432 miles to Liver- pool at a further cost of 12.9 cents, Dempsey—-may mistake his sound and | fury sense and knowledge. “What portion of,the costs this na- tion may be called upon to pay may safely be left to the two governments jointly and fairly to determjne. It can safely be said that the bill will be small as compared to the benefi And perhaps I might point out th: in connection with the improvement GOITRE CAUSED Loss of Voice, Nervousness, Head- | ‘aches and Choking. Relieved by External ‘Home. Treatment. Mrs. L, E. Brabson, R. R. No. 4, Lincoln, Nebr., says: vo days b fore using Sorbol Quadruple, I los my voice twice in one day, 24 hours after using Sorbol Quadruple, those choking spells disappeared. I was a nervous wreck. My doctor says the goitre is gone.” Sorbol Quadruple is as pleasant to use as a toilet water. 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Washington, Jan. 14 —d>— Discontinuance of publicity of income tax returns was approved today by the senate fina committce in accepting this pi vision in the house tax bill. Chicago, Jan, 14 : platform declariz” for libera the in fifty years the ship channel Mitchell-LeRoy fight, round by round, at Grand Pacific Billiard Parlor tonight. No information ition given over over phone. —_ | Last Minute | News Bulletins | Hazciton, Pa, Jan. 14.—A)— The striking anthracite _ miners will continue their fight for a fair living standard and an carn- ing ere ae keeping with such a stat John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, declared today in ad- dressing a crowd of ilde miners, CAPITOL THEATRE LAST. TIME TONIGHT Weshington, Jan. 14.—U)— ation of the nacional Another investization on. the “THE ANCIENT MARINER” by. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “As idle as a painted ship upon a painted sea.” Fox Imperial Comedy “High Jinx” Coming! 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