Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 30

SEVEN STATES ASK PAGT T0 CURS OIL Agreement With Producers or Local Laws to Cut Im- ports Proposed. By the Assoclated Press. TEXARKANA, Tex, March 10.—An agreement with major oil companies to limit production ‘and importation of crude petroleum was recommended to- day by representatives of Governors of seven States as the first step to be taken in restoring prosperity to the in- dustry. | Representatives of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, California, Arkansas and Wyoming, meeting here_yesterday on a call from Gow. William H. Murray of Oklahoma, made the recommenda- tion as one of a number which might alleviate low prices, waste and “great distress” among oil men. Ask State Imports Curb. They proposed that, if agreements between the States and producing com- nies failed to curtail imports, Legis- Jatures undertake o control imports within the States. At the same time they suggested that anti-trust laws not be applied. The meeting adjourned to convene again on the call of its chairman, Cicero Murray, cousin of Gov. Murray, and it was indicated the next confer- ence would be in California. 300,000 Wells Periled. One reason for the threatening break- | down of proration in some States was said to be exclusion of a fair price from the proration plan. Unless a fair price was obtained, the conference set forth, some 300,000 wells in the United States would be’ abandoned. Other recommendations _included: Continuation of the committee as a contact body between the States: mod- eling of all State conservation laws after those of Texas and Oklahoma; Federal sanction for a plan to elimi- nate evils of overproduction; proration of the new East Texas field, and dis- couragement of any increase in gaso- line taxes. ARMY ORDERS Col. C. H. Miller, Infantry, at the Army War College, this city, has been assigned to the 34th Infantry at Fort| Fustis, Va.; Col. Herbert G. Shaw,| Medical Corps, from Fort Slocum, N. Y., to Fort Sill, Okla.; Maj. Clyde A. Sel- leck, Militia Bureau, War Department, has been assigned to additional duty with the 16th Field Artillery at Fort Myer, Va.; Lieut. Col. A. D. Chaffin, In- fantry, from the Army War College to the Tank School at Fort George G. Meade, Md.; Lieut. Col. J. R. Brewer, Infantry, from the Army War College o Detroit, Mich.; Lieut. Col. R. McC. Bech, jr., Cavalry, from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to the Army War College; Maj. Lee | Sumner, from the War Department to | Topeka, for duty with the Kansas Na- | tional Guard; Maj. O. E. Beezley, Field - Artillery, from Raleigh, N. C., to Fort 8ill, Okla.; Maj. R. C. Ditto, Chemicalr Watfare Service, from Chicago to the War Department; Capt. G. F. Hobson, { Quartermaster Corps, from Philadelphia { to the Philippines; Capt. Ben-Hur Chas- | taine, Infantry, from the-Philippines to | Fort Benning, Ga.; Capt. G. J. B, Pish- | er, Chemical Warfare Service, from | Edgewood Arsenal, Md., to Fort Bliss, | Tex.; Capt. J. D. Hahn, Quartermaster Corps, from Austin, Tex., to Fort Sill, Okla.; Capt. C. E. Loucks, Chemical Warfare Service, from the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology to Edge- wood Arsenal, Md.; First Lieut. G. J. Kelley, Coast Artillery, from Fort Mon- roe, Va,, to the Philippines; Capt. R. G. | Breene, Air Corps, from Langley Field, | Va. to Parkwater, for duty with the' Washington National Guard; Capt. J. L. Autrey, Signal Corps, from the Philip- pines to Richmond, for duty with the Virginia National Guard, and Capt. -Rufus G. Vaughan, Quartermaster Corps, st San _Prancisco, and First Lieut. Stakely F. Hatchette, Medicsl Corps, this city, have been ordered to exami- nation for retirement. e Y The idca that it is unlucky to walk under a ladder was undoubtedly started and encouraged by early builders in self-defense. People passing under a ladder can easily bring it and the man upon its rungs crashing to the ground by simply knocking against it acci- dentally. e EXCURSIONS to the SOUTH From WASHINGTON March 14 & *27 *To Miam! only. i Round Trip First Class Tickets at Approximately ONE FARE. For Example: Miami $41.83 | Havana $66.25 St. Petershurg $37.12 April 3 and 4—Very Low R tes to Full Information City Ticket Office 714 14th St. N. W. Telephone National 0637 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY “Through the Heart of the South” Snowbound Stork On Way to Hospital Rescued by Soldiers By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 10.— The Army went to the rescue of a snowbound stork Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Huestin of Lake Forest were en route to a hospital in Highland Park when Huestin’s car was stalled in the snowdrifts, Huestin ran for help. As he did s0 he noticed an Army trac- tor. He appealed to the sol- diers. They hitched the tractor to his automoblle and pulled it to Fort Sheridan. 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Campbell announced, however, that she was going away with the boy where he could grow up among people who knew nothing of the* circumstances of his parenthood. Rouse, a 35-year-old traveling sales- man, drove from Northampton early in November of last year, and when his automobile was found burned by the roadside it was at first believed that he had died by accident. Investigation revealed an extremely complicated love life. Experts theorized in court that he had become convinced that death offered about the only solu- tion and had conceived th: plan of a double which would permit him to “die” legally at the expense of another’s life. . ‘The world’s greatest salt mines are near Cracow and have been worked for 600 years. Special Clearance Sale of THREE HINDUS HELD . IN STUDENT SLAYING Hunt for Murderers Takes on Ram- ifications of Sinister Orien- tal Mystery. By the Assoclated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif, March 10.— Three Hindus were held by Solano County authorities today as the hunt for the murderers of Sant Ram Pande, 31, University of California student, took | on ramifications of a sinister Oriental mystery. ‘The State bureau of criminal identi- fication, for which Pande gave up his| studies in order that he might wark on | the unsolved killings of 13 of his coun- trymen in California in the last five| years, allegedly had been under sur- vell}an’:e by Hindus in the Sacramento | Valley. Clarence 8. Morrill, head of the bu- | reau, sald State criminal records were being guarded by armed men because of | the surveillance by Hindu characte; | The manner in which Pande met death, Morrill said, recalled the activi- | ties of the Thuggees of Northern India, the strange cult which worshiped the * TELEPHONE DISTRICT WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH iO, 1931. black goddess Kall and practiced mur- der. 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