Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 3

« THIRD PARTY BIRTH IS HELD ECONOMIC Bigger Than La Follette or Any Other Personality in View of Politicians. SENATOR'S PLAN UNCERTAIN G. 0. P. Leaders See Menace Re- gardless of His Move. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Although Robert Marion La Fol- lette is personally still uncommitted to a third party movement, Repub- ican leaders have by no means ban- shed it from their calculations. It ced, their champion nightmare. It conjures up greater terror at this writing than the prospect, of a straight-out Democratic = § Until is made clear what ti. _éurgent progressives, led by La Follette, really intend to do, Calvin Coolidge's horizon will not entirely sat- isfactory to his political managers. Like Mr. Micawber, the G. O. P. is waiting for something to turn up. Doubt La Follette Will Desert. Even if the Wisconsin chieftain should himself decide not to lead a third party presidential campaign, Republicans would not immediately be convineed there would be no such campaign. Some of them think it in fact, extremely unlikely that Mr. La Follette, having hitherto always traded on his Republican regularity, will desert it this year by openiy comBating the o ation. But these same Republicans, nize La Follette’s devotion to regu- larity, point out that the third party proposition in 1924 does not “crystai- lize around personality.” "They say it is economic und political in origin hey see it springing from cau of unrest in the west. that are wholly detached from the ambitions of any one man. Nor does it depend for its ne and sinew, like the Roosevelt Moose upheaval of 1912, on tical scores to be wiped out. A ird party movement today must be scussed “in terms of low wheat farm depression, the Esch- erve act of other ills that rural be heir to. ¥ Transcended. anagers are convinced be relatively easy to of ‘trials and radically no mat- esidential candidate ho adopts them as a platform Is named La Follette, Norris, Kenyon, rah, —Shipstead. Frazier, Ladd. Wheeler or Norbeck. acknowledged in day that he presidential seem s tepublican n it will that assor ibulations nded western r whether a p sars the buzzi a round his h But the cyclonic Magnus will have to have the Con- ered to make a foreign- cligible to the White re he could seriously sspire Senator La Follette has steadfastly refused to lend any definite sanction to cumstantial reports of his readiness 0 run as a third candidate, pro- vided Cleveland ‘“nominates Coolidge on a Coolidge platform.” Wisconsin's idol is mot only in indifferent health, but he will be sixty-nine years old on e 14 next. His friends, moreover, e to live in co- ¥ American history as a man who put strongly progressive legisla- tion onto the statute books rather than # man who administered the laws as dent. May Achieve Ambitions. At the present moment La Follette 15 in a fair way to achieve such ambi- tions. His cohorts rule the roost in both at least when with the Democratic minority proved a few weeks ago that pa majorities mean nothing. when on the legisiative branches is to be anized.” He showed that it is within the power of this group to elect its own ' choice to important committee chairmanships, like of the Senate committee on inte In other words o _persuaded that “Fighting Bob SPECIAL NOTICES. 1 "WILL NOT BE PONSIBLE FOR ANY dehts Contracted b anvone other thy o CHARLES . MITCHELL, 905 Pa. ave. pw. WANTED TO BRING A VAN LOAD OF FOR- Diturs from New York, Philadelphia; Wilming- on. Del., and Richmond, Va.. to Was YEDGES, ALL KINDS oF Toses, evergreens, furnished Yawus put in firstclass Fich soil. F. A. HERR ne. Lincoin 9840 CE OF THE LANSTON MONOTYPE ine Compaos, Philadelphia, Aprl 7, 7o The annual fneetiog of the ‘stockiolders onotspe Machine Cempan Will be 1eld at the ENkxt Home, corner Brince and TRosal streets. Alexandria, Va., at 12 'elock moon on Thursday, the 1st' day of May, 1924. for the purpose of electing a board 7 direciors tn serre for the ensuing sear and fransacting such other business as may pro will be closed on April 21st at 4 o'clock pom.. and will be reopened on May 6th st 10 orlock am. By order of the board of di- THUR SELLMAN, Seermtary. TH ECTION OF THE_OFFI- cors am directirs of 1he Washingron Sio. Bes Cent Permanent Building Aesociation will be Jield at the office. 620 F st. 0w, Wednesdag 3 Polls open from 10 am. t0°5 ERMAYER, Secretars M ALKS, STEP porches RTHEAST CONCRET] SHRUBBERY, and planted and cared for. & SON, garden- T WORK 5. garage floors, Noi WEER icago. CO:_Main 2162, WANTED—3 VAN LOADS, PITTSRURGH Th Washington, May RED BALL TRANS APRIL 14, RED BALL TRAN: LOWELL. NEW YORK CITY I'HILADELPHIA. NEW YORK CITY. ROSTON. I'TTTSBURGH ECHENECTADY, ATLANTIC CITY. NEW YORK CIT! PHILADELPHIA ROSTON .. ... SAUNDERSTOW! i MAY 19th THE BIG 4 TRANSFER COMPANY. 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A woman's chief interest in her daughters is fo see that they marry better men than their father. He Was Stone Broke. “I'm building,”” the pensive sighed, “A castle in the air.” “And what is the corner stone?’ cried. She answered, “A solitaire.” —>Mildred Lynn. Fablegrams. 'Tis =aid that a woman is afraid of a mouse, a mouse is afraid of a man, and a man is afraid of woman. Moral: Three is a crowd. By Their Fruits. Family trees are fuany; time was when they were tended and pruned, all | doad timber being carefully cut out, but now bare limbs are a common ght on even some of our oldest and best family trees. Some of them produce a lot of peache: and the same branch may also bea | nuts. Many blossoms are found ne: tling in the leafy branches, and per- chance a few withered wallflowers are found tucked away in sundry nooks. Lemons are common on some of the | trees: prunes and quinces also abound Some of this fruit is easy picking, and some of it has to be pretty well shaken before it will fall. You will find many little love nests tucked away in the branches of the old family tree and also some pretty queer birds. But, everything considered, the family tree is a pretty good tree, and it is quite a calamity to fall out of it. Norma Talmadge. Pot Luck. By Newman Levy. Chloe’s form is lithe and slender, Daphne's eves a_deeper blue, Mabel's voice is soft and tender, Grace is brighter far than you. ed lorg, maiden he air-haired Millicent is some belle, Genevieve has lot of gold: You're, alas, a hopeless dumbell, Homely, petulant and old. Though vour charms cannot awake me, Yet, my dear, to you I'm true. You're the only girl who'd take me— That is why I married you. The pleasantest way to kiss a girl is without her consent but with her ap- proval. (Copyrigiit. 1921, Reproduction Forbidden.) will continue to prefer to shake his leonine head in and at the Senate rather than court the uncertain fate of a third-party presidential candi- dacy. Wisconsin will place his name in nomination at the republican na- tional convention and keep it there, ballot after ballot. It did so for nine ballots at Chicago. It will undoubt- edly prevent Cleveland from making Calvin Coolidge the convention's choice by unanimous acclamation, One prediction can safely be made—there is not likely to be any hissing on the shores of Lake Erie when the Badger pokesman rises in his place and savs: “Twenty-four votes for Robert M. La Follette” When that functionary announced that dio- tum nine times in succession at Chi- cago in 1920 there were nine suc- | cessive and rising tides of hissing. 1t will not be the business of the G. O. P. high command this summer to pile any unnecessary insults upon Wisconsin's favorite son. There's a reason which was not a tithe so po- tent four years ago. (Copyright, 1824.) SLAYER'S FIANCEE FREED FROM PRISON Gussie Humann, Who Committed Perjury to Save Suitor, Became Mother in Cell. | delegation’s By the Associated Press. ALBANY, N. Y., April 19.—The seven to fifteen years' prison sentence im- posed upon Gussie Humann in Queens county two years ago for perjury was commuted by Gov. Smith yesterday, to expire at once. she is twenty-two vears old. “This woman,” the governor sai a memorandum, “committed a serious crime, but taking into consideration the surrounding facts and circum- stances and especially the fact that she has a child born while she was confined in prison and the child is being taken care of by her father, 1 have reached the conclusion that no good purpose would be served by keeping her confined any longer. “The young woman, the records show, gave false testimony at the trial of Joseph Lebasci, charged with murder in Queens county. Lebasci was the father of her unborn child and her perjurefl testimony, given in an attempt to exonerate him and per- mit of her own marriage, constituted the offenss for which she was sent to prison. Lebasci is now serving a twenty-year sentence for murder in ‘the second degree.” m—— HELD IN RAID FATALITY. “Dry” Agent Faces Technical Charge of Homicide. By the Associated Presss NEW YORK, April 19.—Samuel Kup- ferman, a federal prohibition agent, today was held on technical charges of homicide and felonious assault, and twelve other men were under arrest charged with conspiracy to violate the Volstead act, as a result of the fatal shooting of Thomas Monteforte in a Brooklyn garage last night Michael Monteforte, a brother of the dead man, also shot by Kupfer- n. was in a hospital In'a critical cdndition, with a bullet wound in his back. - The shootings occurred when Kup- ferman arrested the Monteforte brothers after, it was alleged, the agent had purchased a quantily of liquor. According to Kupferman, Thomas Monteforte drew a gun and was going to shoot him, but Kupfer- man shot first ASCENSION TO ELECT. Members of the parish of the As- BYRON S. ADAMS, FRINTER. |cension, 13th street and Massachu- Buyers of Printing You receive 100% satisfaction at this million-dollar printing plant. The National Capital Press SRR On a Mattress 4 wl“t"‘:‘l';‘e‘ny ]nmlf‘—‘ in good condition—it will Bedell’s Factory Main 3821, 610 E St. NW. 12101212 D 8t. N.W. FACH 24 HOURS— pay you interest on the imvestmest every setts avenue northwest, will meet Monday at 8 p.m. to hold the annual parish election, Four vestrymen and a senfor and junior warden will be elected. In Ascension parish the women vote as well as the men. Only those who are registered communi- cants are entitled to a vote. DEAN TO PREACH. Rev. Dr. D. Butler Pratt, dean of the School of Religion of Howard Uni- versity, will preach at Cleveland Park Congregational Church tomorrow at 11 am! GLUYAS WILLIAMS CARTER, IN U. S., CALM AT ‘CURSE’ ON TOMB Explorer of Tut-ankh-Amen’s Rest- ing Place Hopes to Settle Dis- pute With Egypt. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 19.—Howard Carter, codiscoverer with Lord Car- narvon of Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, arrived on the Berengaria today. He hoped, he said, that the present litigation between himself and the Egyptian government might be set- tled so that he could resume work at_the tomb next fall. Young-looking, vigorous and eager to talk of excavations, mummies and Egyptian legend. Mr. Carter laughed at mention of the superstition that the curse of an ancient god descend- | ed upon explorers of ‘tombs and sarcophagi. Even the 700 natives who worked with him in the valley took the curse legend lightly, he said. He in- sisted, however, that he did not be- lieve 'in_ permanent despoilation of tombs and he advocated that when pending researches were completed the mummy of King Tut, as well as all other royal mummies now adorn- ing museums, be returned to their native resting places. TREASURY WORKERS GIVE TO RADIO FUND Check for $35 Sent Star by Divi- sion of Public Debt Accounts and Audit. A check for $35, contributed by the employes of the division of public debt accounts and audit of the Treas- ury Department, brought The Star's “Roxie” radio fund today to a total of $1,385.81. The Stars fund has been closed, because a sufficient amount has been raised to assure the installation and maintenance of radio apparatus in the Walter Reed, Mount Alto and Naval hospitals. The committee in charge of the “Roxie” radio fund, however, will continue to receive contributions for the fund which is being raised to install radio ap- paratus in other government hospi- tals in the eastern section of the country. Checks should be sent to James H. Baden, vice president of the Commercial National Bank and treas- urer of the “Roxie” radio fund. The Star's fund, as it stands today, follows: Previously acknowledged. ...$1,350.81 Employes of the division of public debt accounts and audit, Treasury Department ‘Total $1,385.81 35.00 LEVIATHAN TRIP FAST. Refuses to Race With New Ma- chinery, But Beats Olympic. CHEROBOURG, France, April 18.— The giant American liner Leviathan, making her first voyage since her re- cent reconditioning, arrived last eve- ning. Those hoping for a race with the British liner Olympic were disap- pointed, as Capt. Hartley refused to risk damaging the Leviathan's ma- chinery by forcing the pace after the vessel had been so long out of com- mission; nevertheless the Leviathan “The h'o:‘“t'( forged ahead during o Olympic forge the first part of the trip, but gradual- Iy the American ship caught up and passed the Britisher, whereupon John McCormack and Mme. Georgette Lo Blane, the former Mme. Maeterlinck, celebrated by organizing a concert. 32 War Claims Awarded. Thirty-two awards aggregating $108,494 in favor of American claim- ants for losses suffered during the war with Germany were announced today by the mixed claims commis- sion. Twenty-one claims were dis- missed. The larger awards follow: Janie B. Parker, New York, individually and as administratrix of the estate of Cornelius B. Parker, $37,155; George L Breeden, Baltimore, $12.405; Mar- cella L. Pennea, Brookiyn, N. Y., $10.- 000; William E. Ramsdell, New York, $6,000; Thomas F. Ryan, Morton, N. Y., $4,000; Marjorie Constance Anna Blake, Boston, $4,000; Nathan F. Watts, Boston, $5,173; Thomas O. Stephens, Chicago, $3,000. Herrick Done With “Mercy.” ENID, Okla., April 19.—Manuel Her- rick, former congressman from ‘the eighth district of Oklahoma and can- didate for another term, who recent- 1y declared his expose of Washington politics and’ soclety “would rock the nation,” will open his campaign here today., He said that in his speeches he would have “no mercy on any ome. ““Mercy s a word I have entirely forgotten.” e It matters little what it is that you ‘want—whether a situation or a ser- vant—a want ad in The Star will reach 1the person who will fill your want. THE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR. GETTING BY THE —By GLUYAS WILLIAMS. GANG IN YOUR. NEW 3SUIT e CAPT. YATES STIRLING GOES TO NAVY YARD Former Commander of Battleship New Mexico Ordered Here to Relieve Capt. F. H. Brumby. Capt. Yates Stirling, United States Navy, commanding the battleship New" Mexico, has been ordered to this city for duty as captain of the Wash- ington navy vard and as assistant superintendent of the naval gun fac- tory. He is the son of Rear Admiral Stirling and was formerly stationed at the Navy Department. Capt. Stirling will relieve Capt. F. H. Brumby, who has been assigned to, command the New Mexico. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness, prob- ably becoming unsettled; not much change in temperature: moderate northwest backing to southwest and south winds. Maryland—Generally fair tonight: tomorrow increasing cloudiness, pos- sibly followed by light rain, except in southeast portion; mnot much change in temperature: diminishing north- west winds backing to southerly by tomorrow. Virginia—Fair tonight; warmer in extreme west portion: tomorrow in- creasing cloudiness, probably becom- ing unsettled in north portion, some- what warmer in south portion; dimin- ishing northwest winds backing to southwest and south tomorrow. West Virginia—Mostly cloudy to- night and tomorrow, probably light rain in north portion; slightly warm- er tonight, cooler in west portion to- morrow afternoon. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 pm. 48; 49; 12 midnight, 49; 4 a.m., 42 47: noon, 57. Barometer—4 p.m., 29.69; 12 midnight, 29.76; 8 am., 29.8 Highest temperature, t noon today; lowest temperature, 42, occurred at 6 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 53; lowest, 39, Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at 8 am.: Great Falls—Tem- perature, 40; condition, slightly muddy. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coast and geodetic survey.) Today—Low tide. 1 am. and high tide, am. and § 29 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 2:38 am. and 5 p.m.; high tide, 8:30 am. and 9 The Si Today—Sun sets, 6:49 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises, sets, 6:50. Moon rises, 7:06 p.m.; sets, 5:44 am. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Weather in Various Cltles. T Temperature. >3 83 rose, am.; sun am.; sun 385 Jwur Wwanog S3BULULLUSRBLLLIEES 28523 BESRRTRRRRBRS: I ioo (8 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperatare. Weather. 48 Clear # Part cloody Raining Part ciou Part cle Horta (Fa) Hamilton, San Juan, Porto Rico.. Ha 838288588 “The Crucifixion and Resurrection” is the subject of a lecture to be given by Viva M. January in the Unity audi- torfum, 1326 I street northwest, to- morrow at 8 p.m. “The Development of Divine Love” is the subject of lecture she will give Thursday at McClure Newspaper Syndicate TAKE WHOLE REPORT, MACDONALD URGES Says Objections by Allies Will Kill Good Will Behind Repa- rations View. By the Associated Press. YORK, England, April 19.—Prime Minister MacDonald, addressing a crowded labor meeting in the Theater Royal today, declared the Anglo-Rus- sian conference in London had started well and he believed it would succeed. The audience gave the premier a tremendous ovation when he appeared with his daughter Ishbel. Before the meeting a portion of the crowd sang “The Red Flag." Turning to the experts' report on reparations, the premier declared he would be glad to find the entire coun- try back of him in his view that the report ought to be taken as a_whole. There were things in it he did not like and things in it he'did like, but if he began to raise this detail and that detail France, Belgium and Ger- many would do the same and they would be exactly where they started. Even if they had an agreement, in those circumstances they would never get good will behind the agreement. “Here is vour chance” continued Mr. MacDonald. “Put it into operation all at once, all together. Then, when that is done, go on and finish the job and bring peace and security to the continent.” > APPROFRIA'I:ION BEATEN. House Defeats Move to Increase Geodetic Survey Fund. An unsuccessful attempt to have the House increase from $250,000 to $314,. 300 the appropriation for the activities on the Pacific coast of the coast and geodetic survey, was made yesterday. The amendment, proposed by Represent- ative Miller, Republican, Washington, was offered to the annual supply bill for the Department of Commerce. It was lost, 53 to 36. ADMITS TAKING POISON. Man in Emergency Hospital Blames Domestic Trouble. Clarence Vincent, thirty-five. 1364 Columbia road northwest, coliapsed in his home last night. He is said to have told his wife his illness was due to poison he had taken Dr. Walter F. McCarthy, member of the Emergency Hospital staff, took him 1o the hospital, where the latter said he had taken ‘three poison tab. lets because of trouble over his do- mestic affairs. His condition this morning was reported as being unde- termined. MAY SEEK SENATE SEAT. Dallinger Likely to Oppose Walsh in Massachusetts. Tentative announcement of his in- tention to be a candidate for_ the Senate was made yesterday by Rep- resentative Frederick W. Dallinger, Republican, of Masszchusetts, chair- man of the House committee on edu- cation, when he authorized the fol- lowing: “I said in all seriousness last December that T would have no posi- tive announcement to make until after the Republican convention in June. 1 adhere to that position. I merely add now that the wide and favorable response created through- out the commonwealth by even such an indefinite statement has given me confidence in the outcome and in- creased the probability of my making the run.” LEASE AUTHORSHIP CLAIMED BY DENBY Denies Collusion, Takes Full Re- sponsibility for 0il Reserve Policy. SAYS HE APPROACHED FALL Took First Step in Interest of Con- serving Supply. By the Associated Press. ADRIAN, Mich., April 19.—Full re- sponsibility for the initiation of the policy which resulted in the leasing of the naval oil reserves was assumed here last night by Edwin Denby, around whom raged a storm of crit- fcism in the Senate before his retire- ment last month as Secretary of the Navy. “Had I not taken the action T did to protect the interests of the Navy in these reserves against the tremen- dous loss of drainage,” he declared in an address, “I would have been false to my trust and culpably negligent in the performance of my duty.” Replying to what ne sald had been an insinuation of collusion on his part in connection with the oil leases, Mr. Denby said he had never been talked to about the naval petroleum reserve situation before he entered the cabinet by the President-elect or by any of his cabinet or other ad- visers. Appointment A Surprise. “My appointment was somewhat unoxpected,” he said, “and was not announced until about February 25. Therefore there was no collusion as to any acts to be performed by me— aithough even that insinuation has | been made.” “Shortly after taking office it was represented to me that drainage of the reserves was proceeding rapidly and offset wells were necessary. Be lieving the Department of the Inte- rior was best qualified to handle for the Navy its enormously valuable re- serves, I turned to the Interior De- partment for advice. 1 then asked the Secretary of the Interior Depart- petroleum reserves. Secretary Fall did not ask me. I asked him. 1 wanted to stop the squandering of an invaluable resource. Together, then, the Secretary of the Interior and I presented the matter to the Presi- dent, and after he had given it care- ful study he decided to issus an ex- ecutive order. “Thereafter a searching investiga- | tion was made by the Department of the Interior into the whole problem, and in the meantime certain offset wells were drilled by the Department of the Interior with the knowledge and approval of the Secretary of the Navy, although he did not sign those individual contracts. “Later on—October 18, 1821—after discussion of .the subject with the council of the Secretary of the Navy, I gave Rear Admiral J. K. Robinson, engineer-in-chief of the Navy, charge of 'the oil reserves under the naval establishment” Denies Officers Removed. Here Mr. Denby reiterated at length and in detail his denial of the charge that he had caused to be transferred from Washington or to be retired certain officers of the Navy who opposed the leasing policy. “Upon the advice of Admiral S0 nand others,” he resumed, came convinced that steps must be taken to use the powers given to gress to accomplish what 1 earnestly belicved to be the intention and will of Congress—to save and protect the oil for the United States Navy. The matter was taken up between Secre- tary Fall and Admiral Robinson and others of the two departments, and carefully studied. Secretary = Fall then entered into negotiations with prospective contractors and the lease with the Mammoth Oil Company was the result Comsulted About Lease. “A lease was prepared with my full knowledge and in frequent con- sultation with me. Admiral Robinson acted as my agent, visited the De- partment of the Interior constantly and reported to me the progress of negotiations for the lease, the differ- ent features under discussion, and never acted without my approval Finally, when the lease was com- pleted, he brought it to me and we went over it together in detail. I also went over it with Secretary Fall On April 7, 1922, the lease was signed by Secretary Kall and the lessees. On April 12,1922, after further care- ful study it was signed by me, and it then became a binding valid con- tract. I directed immediate and com- plete publicity in this as in all other matters pertaining to the naval petroleum reserves. Tells of Second Lease. “On April 25, 1922, after careful consideration of bids submitted by the Standard Oil Company of Cal fornia, the Associated Oil Company and the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, thers _ was awarded to the Pan-American Petro- leum and Transport Company a con- FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS Service Charge Never 1124 Connecticut Ave. Bet. L & M Food unexcelled anywhere Combination Breakfast. 30c Special lelcN d'Hote Dinner WHEN YOU THINK £ Estimates made em request. tH‘QRRY ‘W. TAYLOR CO. 233 Tos Bt oW © O A Som BARGAINS!| 1006 to 1014 3rd St. N.E. Just North of K St. N.E. Easy Monthly Payments Open Evenings and Sunday Large Lots to Paved Alley Room for Garage * Hot-Water Heat Sleeping Porches, Large Take H St. Cars to Third St. and Walk North H.R.HOWENSTEIN Electric Lights Front Lawns G INCORPORATED ¢ 1311 H STREET NORTHWEST ment if he could not take over the| administrative control of the naval| the Secretary of the Navy by Con-| tract providing for the construction and filling with fuel oil at Pearl Har- bor, Hawall, tankage of 1,500,000 bar- rels capa “This was supplemented by the con. tract and lease of December 11, 1822, between the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company and the Sec- retary of the Interior and the Secre- tary of the Navy. “Please bear in mind that in Naval Reserve No. 2, Callfornia, prior to March 4, 1921, the Democratic acmin- istration, with the approval of Secre- tary Daniels, had leased fifty-eight producing wells in various parts of the reserve. More than this, with the written approval of Secretary Daniels, dated August 21, 1920, and subsequently approved by Secretary Payne'and President Wilson, the Bos- ton-Pacific Oil Company was per- mitted to put down five new wells on Reserve No. 2, at a royalty of 25 per cent. Royalties Paid in Casia, “All of these royalties were taken in cash and paid into the Treasury and aided in no way in affording or con- serving a supply of fuel oil for the Navy. Meanwhile, the hundreds of oil wells upon private lands within and adjoining the reserve were drain- ing the oil from under the govern- ment's lands, the total number of these wells, as stated by the bureau of mines, March 4, 1921, being 785. “Adjacent to the Teapot reserve in Wyoming were a large number of wells in the Salt Creek field, and that they were draining Teapot is shown by the fact that after Sinclair began drilling in the Teapot reserve the production from the adjoining lands idn Salt Creek fell off 1,000 barrels per ay. “Under the policy of the succeeding administration, wherever it was found necessary to drill the reserves to pre- vent drainage from private lands the royalties were taken in oil instead of in cash and exchanged for fuel oil in tanks, where it could be conserved and held for the use of the United States Navy. Therefore the policy of this administration is one of conser- vation, with the additional advantage that the oil is in such location and form that it can be made immediately available to our ships in case of emer- gency. “The highest rovalty secured by the Wilson administration under any laws was 25 per cent, while the royalties secured by the succeeding administra- tion ranged from maximums of 25 to 77 per cent, most of them being from 35 to 55 per cent.” ENTIRELY 14th OQur new English no one attempts to dupl Take any l4th Street car you out. WORKHOUSE PLANS BEFORE PENAL BODY: Commission Considers Project to Replace Present Buildings at Occoquan, BRICK STRUCTURES ASKED Total Cost of New Program Nof ‘The penal commission for the Dis- trict is meeting at the District build- ing this afternoon to approve archi- tectural plans for the complete re- building of the workhouse at Occoquan. Va. At present all structures at the workhouss are frame. The plan is to replace them with permanent brick bulldings as rapidly as funds are made available by Congress. The existing plant accommodates 450 prisoners. When the reconstruc- tion program is completed there will be facilities for 1,000. The complets project contemplates twenty separate. structures. The commission is meeting today to pass on the general design and loca- tion of the prcposed buildings, as worked out by Capt. John E. Wood, assistant engineer commissioner, and Municipal Architect Albert L. Harris been estimated, since it is intended to do the work on small annual appro- priations, manufacturing the brick at Occoquan and using the prison labor There is approximately $20,000 in the current appropriation act to begin one of the buildings as soon as the plans are approved. The commission is composed of Jus- tice Wendell P. Stafford of the D trict Supreme Court, John Joy Edson of the board of charities and Com- missioner Rudolph. 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