Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1931, Page 5

for water works since March ‘i Prior to that date, $802,772,72: had been q:rmpxllud. Appropriations for rivers and harbors have ranged from the first in 1802 for $30,000 to that for the present fiscal | year. the largest in history. The 1931 | fund includes $82,500,000 for rivers and harbors and $39,400,000 for flood con- trol. The smallest amount provided for any year since 1802 was $448.71 in 1806. RIVERS, HARBOR COST NEARLY $2,000,000,000 More Than Half Appropriated by Government in Last 15 e By the Assoclated Press. With this year’s funds of $121,900,000 | .y promote Anglo-American friend- now being expended, river and harbor |ship 50 American schools have been improvements and flood control Works paired with similar schools in Britain since creation of the Government have | and the pupils are exchanging letters. cost_almost $2,000,000,000. photographs, magazines and any other More than half of this has been ap- | matter which will help to a better mu- propriated in the last 15 years. Figures |tual understanding. it is hoped even- compiled by Army enginecrs today | tually exchanges of teachers and pupils showed Congress has provided $1,004, ‘will be possibl 525,349 1915, Years. | NEZEmS //////,/‘/I//h““-‘ 1l | w\‘“"’" 7 p/ / ) - ¥ 12 new shades of gray 14 new Spring tans 25 rare pattern-designs tailored in double-woven 4 %40 worsteds and twists 25 with two trousers Here's a grand opportunity for 933 men to actually-see cash savings in- stead of only hearing talk about them. They don’t have to be clothing experts, either! After a little sightseeing around town, they'll easily recognize these $25 suits as being identical with the ones spoeting $40 price tags elsewhere. Which is perfectly natural «because we make the clothes we sell. There’s no thriftier way of doing business. Headlined, are 12 new grays, from conservative Oxford to light Granite’ tones; and 14 Spring shades of tan and brown, from subdued Bombay to soft creamy Tunis Tans. There are 25 expensive pattern-designs, copied from imported English weaves. We've tailored them in double-woven worsteds and twists that will “wear like iron”. You simply must see these suits to . Payment believe that they cost only $25 with Service costs nothing extral Just pay $10 when ou buf, the balance in ten weekly - poyments J [black plume spreads out above Giad || tensive oil field in the world. | them. Martin Cole, 18-year-old son of THE- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, .. G THURSDAY. APRIL 30, - 1931. . INITRO T0°BE SHOT | AT GUSHER FLAM Experts at Scene of Texas 0il Tragedy Preparing for Giant Gust. By the Associated Press. GLADEWATER, Tex., April 30.~Plans were lald today for blowing out a flam- !ing gusher which burned efght men fa- | tally Tuesday night. | M. M. and Harry Kinley, veteran ofl ! blaze fghters of Tulsa, Okla, decid-d | following an aerial inspection that the ‘work would require more than 100 | quarts of nitroglycerine mixture. Rains made heavy going for equip- 'ment trucks on the circuitous road to ,the_gusher. |~ The well claimed its elghth victim last i night when John Keys, oil worker from | Oklahoma City, died in a hospital at | Longview, Tex. Frank Flouck, 35, of | Woodfleld, Okla., was near death A | blood transfusjon was given keys a few | hours ‘before he died, nine workmen | offering their blood. | Five Bodies in Morgues. Five charred bodies lay in Longview | morgues. ‘Two oth:rs were cremated at | | the site of the derrick and had not been | recovered. ! Although Sinclair officials at Tyler in- | timated yesterday there was a possibil- ity the well was ignited by incendiarists, i that theory was scouted both by W. Tom | Cole, owner .of the lease and cye wit- | nesses of the explosion, and by Sheriff | Martin Hayes of Gregg Counly. | Cole said the well caught fire when | sparks flew from the collar of the drill stem as it came in contact with one | of ‘the clamps the men worked with in their efforts to harness the wzll, which had been flowing out of control for 30 hours prior to the explosion. Oil Companies Warned. The_suspicion as to possible incen- diary origin of the fire was based upon a Tecent letter sent by Texas Ranger Capt. Frank Hames to oil companies warning of a possible Communist plot to damage oil field properties. Oil men estimated that fully 1,500 barrels of oll hourly were spouting from | the well. dies in Longview morgues awaltin burial were those of George Albright. Carnegie City, Pa.; Roy Blankenship, | Tulsa, Okla.: ‘Bill Caslin, sr. and Bill | Caslin, jr., of Winona, Okla., and Virgil Woltz of Hunter, Okla. FIRE VISIBLE TEN MILES. Oll Well Sends Pall of Smoke over | Gladewater, Tex. BY ROBERT J. CASEY. oatch to The Star. EW, Tex., April 29.—Trage- n_of Fortune in the oil 'me to Gladewater, newest mic of the get-rich-quick one-time poverty flat. 10Wn to have been burned to death 11 eruption of a Vesuvius of blazing ol. d throughout the night a spear of flu uc rose nearly 1,000 feet into the sky to mark the spot where they died. | Special | LON |dy, th areas, } and mo: capitals Ten men & Today, against a slaty sky that promises rain the burning well still casts a red glow, an eerie aurora visible from points 10 miles away, and its water, 16 miles from here, storm’ cloud. Over the battered Toads morning witnessed the movement of the oil fleld | shock troops—the dynamite squads with roaring trucks bearing explosives to the scene of the fire. Texas rangers on duty in the Kilgore Field, southeast of | | Gladewater, were called to patrol the | highways and hold back thousands of automobiles while the nitro men pre- | pared to shoot the well in an effort to stop the havoc. Gusher Becomes Volcane, The Cole No. 1 well of the Sinclair | Co. was 3 gusher before it became a | voleano. Its history, even without last night's fatal denouement, was typical | of the haphazard romance that came to | this region last December with the | striking of pay sand in an area that within 90 days had become the most ex- | ike a dense | Sunday night the drills had gone | down through two strata of sand where oil might have been expected and the | engineers were convinced that they | were sinking a dry hole. Sunday morn- | ing at 3:30 the shaft suddenly spouted » geyser of oil that in three minutes | was reaching halfway to the top of the | derrick. ‘The night shift -prevented a | fire on that occasion by a quick rush to extinguish the fires under the boilers. For two days the well was out of control. | The black jet Tose almost to the tops of the pine trees in the forest surround- ing it. The hastily erected storage tanks were insufficient to cope with its output of 1,500 barrels an hour. dams were ‘erected across the creek which flowed near the foot of the derrick and the thick stream floated | on top of the sluggish water. : Makeshift embankments were thrown up to catch the flow over the low places in the woodlot and pasture of the farm where this and other derricks had sprouted. Little pools and lakes of oil covered the ground yesterday when the crew went back to put a cap on the | | drill stem. "The work was within a few | | minutes of completion when a spark, | the origin of which is unknown, | detonated the escaping gas. | | Leap Into Path of Fire, " Two men, Bill Harroun and Bob | Murdock, of Oklaboma City, were on | the top of the dertick when the blast | came. They juniped squarely into the | path of the blaze, their clothing afire before they struck the ground. In a second the impromptu reserve tanks alight and a wide river of fire was | flowing through the pine trees. i Smoke rolled through the pines ‘from the creek more than a mile to the| Kilgore road blotting out the footpaths | and trapping the members of the crew | who might have had a chance to escape. Across the derrick clearing came W. | McClassin, sr., of Winona, Okla., ! oll-soaked dungarees blazing on his | back. His son, W. H. McClassin, jr., blown from he derrick floor by the force | |of the explosion, came after him, a | wavering flame through the black smoke. | The father heard his veice .and | stopped. Other members of the stam- peded crew stumbled over him in their flight. They stopped to heIp the father beat out the flames on the son's back, | tore his own coat from his blistered | back and dragged the pair across | stumps, fallen logs and deep ruts made by machinery trucks in o instinctive | | drive through the smoke 1o the gates of | the corral. . { _Vvirgil Woltz, Roy Blankenship and | George Albright died a few feet from the spot where the blast had tossed Tom Cole, owner of the farm, heard the detonation and saw the blast. He rushed to an automobile and reached the road #head of the smoke. He drov to. Gladewater. the nearast tel | connection, and sent in calls for help to Longview and Tyler. Ambulances were started at once over the smashed high- ways. The fire went on. | (Copyrignt. 1931, by North American News- paper Allinaze.) | Airport Pool Authorized. A permit foi@onstruction of & rmédern concrete swimming pool and bath house at Washington-Hoover Airport was is- |sued today at the Arlington County Court House to Keith Kiggins of Alr- port Swimming Pool, Inc., the organi- zation which will construct and, operate lme pool. 5 1 % Application for incorporation “of the company has been filed at Richmond and issuance of incorporation papers 8 cxpected Monday. DR. FARNUM IS SPEAKER Address Features Luncheon of Op- timist Club. An address by Rev. Dr. George W. Farnum, pastor of Cleveland Park Congregational Church, featured a luncheon of the Optimist Club in the Hamilton Hotel yesterday. Announcement” was made at the meeting that members of . the club would be “escorts” of members of the Boys' Club at a dinner in the latter club building next Wednesday night at 6:30 o'clock. Each Optimist attend- ing the dinner is to have a boy as his_guest. Medals and trophles won by the boys during the indoor athletic season are to be presented at the dinner. LIBRA>HYV BIDS RECEIVED Boyle-Robertson, Inc., Low With Figure of $118,700. ‘Boyle-Robertson, Inc., today submitted | the low bid for the job of building the new Northeast branch library, Seventh street and Maryland avenue northeast. They offered to do the job for $118,700. Eighteen bids in all were reccived, ranging as high as $137.400. The amount available for the job is $145,- 775.03. The Norwich . DAUGHTERS OF 1812 LEAVE WASHINGTON | Few Members Remain in City' After Thirty-Ninth Coun- cil Ends. | { With the final sessions concluded yes- | sociate council of the National Soclety. United States Daughters of 1812, have left the city for their homes. A few of the delegates remained for a day or so to visit placss of interest and see friends here, ‘The society reiterated its general poli- cies in adopting resolutions at the final session late yesterday. Among the reso- | lutions was ‘one urging the members to | continue their fight against Communism | or any forces seeking to undermine this | Government. 3 Resolutions of thanks to the various officers, department and <ommittee heads, for their work in connsction with | the sesslons here, also were adopted. The resolutions were presented by MTrs. terday in the Willard Hotel the majority | | of the delegates to the thirty-ninth as- | year. The board meeting follows the general session to enable the mnewly elected officers to join in discussing the business policies of the society and how | its busfness is transacted. O BT 7 Y SYLVAN THEATER GIVEN Colored Effects and Spotlights Are | Placed in Synchrony by Pri- vate Telephone Arrangement. The Sylvan Theater, south of the | Washington Monument, is now equipped | with up-to-date lighting effects. Fol- | lowing the tryout last night of the new- ly installed lighting system, officials of the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks said today that it was highly satisfactory. For some months workmen have been installing the lighting system. | | There now is a permanent stage lighs- |ing installation, controlled by pricate | telephone service, so that the eiectri- cians may synchronize in thetr illumi- nating effects. Colored lights and spot- lights can be brought into play at the orrect dramatic moment and there | are lights for the band, wing lights and Henry James Carr. chairman of the Resolutions Committée. A board meeting of the soclety was held in the hotel last night to conside I plans for the soclety during the next A fine mohair three-piece su ite in arich burgundy color. Was $279. Now * ]. 63 = The Roland . . . A beautiful three- illumination for the audience. A con- | crete box holds the footlights and pro- | tects them from the weather, | | Power is secured from the nearby Bu- 'reau of Engraving and Printing. P. J. NEE CO. ce suite in mo- hair or tapestry, that is certainly one of made. One Hundred and Sixty-One Living Room Suites A fine mohair suite of three pieces in the 4ype. English club Was $395. Now $263.25 A beautiful kidne; green haped two- piece suite in mo- hair. Was $335. Now $223.25 Two pieces in a gold brocatelle in a fine Louis XVI style. Was $245. Now $]163 The Chippen group in brocatelle. Was $485. .25 the most comfortable suites Its usual price is $294. MODERN LIGHT SYSTEM% ‘ > * : * x 'Till May Build Now Open 7:30 to 10 P.M. 8th at 15th & H Sts. N.E. Sa i a gt sty d i * * x, and Save! Our Prices Were Never Lower on Lumber. . .Plumbing . . . Millwork . . .Doors & Sash Get Our Estimate! g b4 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-I5™6& H Sts. N.E. DOWNTOWN-6™4&C Sts. S.W. BRIGHTWOOD-5925Gs Ave.N.W. The Bancroft . . . 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Now $]199 & A mohair three- piece bed daven- port suite which was marked origin- ally $189. Now 8126 And 145 Others