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POVER DISTRET MAY FIHT WORK Verde River Group Considers | Court Fight on Irriga- ! tion Project. | v By the Aseociated Press. | The Ve power distric terday etary of | Interior further 1 of time | . on o ernment wtion works < that all tr the contiact of 1% between the Yy of the In and the frrd n district were subject to the pro of that contract el trict a right of way on eral land for the construction of sation works tion was be time. 4l of :l’ son of | tlure The 1 petitioned on Jan- | v ! + rehearing on the ground | ing the contract of 1920 | had exceeded his au-| v, a asking for offical ap- | val of amended plans for frrigation . A rehearing was granted with tinal decision retary an. o decision as it ive the Verde | iver, which the district asserts is cssential to serve settlers on its E The General Land Office will be di ected to promulgate the decision and | » carry it Into effect $1,000,000 TRIAL DATE SET| ¢ Actress’ Suit Against Mother to Be Heard March 21, 1827. LOS ANGEL! bruary 13 UP).— Date for trial of Mary Miles Minter's| $1,000,000 accounting suit against her | her, Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, has set for March 21, Miss Minter set forth in her suit she was under uge while starring everal motion picture companies and that her mother acted as rdlan, handling all her money. Shelby in her answer assserted she was entitled to the actress’ earn- ings prior to the time she became of fge, and that she had made an ae- counting of all the money recelved after that time. The original complaint was filed Junuary 182 Leaves 89 Descendants. Special Dispatch to The S MONROE., Wis., February 13.— frs. Kennison, who underwent before her . died &randchildren, great.grand 1 greatgreat.grandchildre ed on the same farm here 61 % — ———DROOP’S MUSIC HOUSE, 1300 G — Founded 57 ! what we have, | ’|n President’s New Car Although varing views of the future of the United Stutes with re ‘ gard to domestic production of petro-| leum were presented to the Presi| dent’s ofl board at public hearings | held during the - years, leaders | matte must that conservation begun immediately and corously, to ihe end that| erations of An Iy without s reduc future = not be en nd themsel shade, with its 1 to oll pro consequent tion were sented tu the which Is composed of Secre the Interior Work, chairman. Secre ary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and Secretary of Comi merce Hoover. | Mark L. Requi, ¢ ol men the bour “nited Nt ry one of the most | i the Unit <0 new he added necassity | he it #£.000,000.000 Varrels Prevention of Waste. Thomas A. O'Donnell of Los zeles, who is chalrman of the he of directors of the California Petr leum Corporation, said in n paper he | read that the board should deliver a| message to the American petroleum industry along these lines That_conservation and the preven. tion of waste of the petroleum sources of the country are of gre: national importance, and that eve possible effort within our present economic requirements should be | made to prevent waste aund to protect, s far as possible, the probable needs of the Nation in the future That the board request the Ameri- can Petroleum Institute, and the in- dustry as a whole, to create an organ- izatlon to conduct & nation-wide cam- paign to prevent waste, by co-opera- tive effort. Consumption and Production. America, according to Secretary Work, 18 proceeding with regard to its petroleum assets in much the same mannef as the man who earns $100 a month and spends $100 a month. “Our ofl flelds in 1925, the Interfor Secr tary said, “ylelded 750,000,000 barrels of crude petroleum and the consum| tion was 750,000,000 barrels. We pro- duced ten billlon gallons of gasoline and burned up nine billion gallons. This is a common ratio “How long, at this rate, can we, as a nation, maintain our equilibrium in | manufacture?” | Amos L. Beaty, president of the | Texas Co., told the board that present well-operation methods are amateur- | ish, while the hoard heard declarations by Henry L. Doherty, New York engl- neer, that producton in new ofl fields may be quadrupled by conservation, underground, of the gases which force | petroleum to the surface. | “It is rather shocking to think that | with all the brains and engineering | ability, with all the inventive genfus | for ch our country is renowned, | we should not be able to recover more than one-fourth of the ofl that reposes stratum underground,”” Mr. Beaty sald. “What we are actually engaged | in is a mere skimming operation. 1 confident that in the course | An- | A Winter’s Night Around the Cozy Fire With a VICTR The Perfecti 4 OLA —And a Selection of Good Records! —Could there be anything more delightiul to the lover of music? PF—Enjoy your radio to your heart’s content, but do not forget that the Victrola gives you the kind of music you want when you want it! — Your Victrola is only as old as the latest rcc_orzl. on of the New Victor Recordings Puts New Life Into Your Victrola ' No Matter When It Was Made! 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The opportunities here are enormous in extent, the reward for atu lous in amount tion on the same Standard's Policy W, Teagl dard Ofl Co told the meetin: ersey the ofl ind s about an orderly and L manner the true rvation | of vur petrolenm con servation which will give to the i without benetit compensatory of tu tional nomic Standardi fuels that when expect th in efficten first step, creases i us experi ence whereby we can e still fur- ther steps,” Mr. Kettering added He pointed out that ordinary fuels gradua creasing quantities to supply ¢ automobiles over plete change of ensine de | with their eff: »n the r | part of the vehicle in the | duced welghts, the influence of proved road conditions, traffic lations, etc., it might be to | reach a condition of doubling the miles | poss per gallon.” The board, with the transcripts of the hearings Lefore it, will now pro- | ceed to writing its report to the Presi- | dent. 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