Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1931, Page 4

OLPREE EARNE MURRAY'S §1 GOAL Market for High - Gravity Crude Advances to 70 Cents Per Barrel. By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla, Juwewat 22—Mid- continent crude oil made 1.8 progress today over the trail toward a Si-a- barrel price, the demand of Gov. W. H. Murray of Oklahoma.' ‘With the cheapened liquid restored to & more precious state by a shutdown of Oklahoma and East Texas gushers, | the midcontinent market advanced to 70 cents & barrel for high-gravity oil as the larger purchasing companies fell into step with the price schedule | ted yesterday by the Texas Co., the | P:’s.uz of the “independents.” | Prices Up 30 Cents, | The new prices, beginning at 46| eents a barrel for below 20 gravity oil | and increasing 2 cents for each degree of gravity, with the top at 70 cents for | ofl of 40 gravity and above, represent | an increase of from 14 to 30 cents a | barrel, | Oil men said the higher rflm would | be & boon to scores of “stripper” wells, so-called because their average produc- tion has ebbed to only a few barrels daily. Oklahoma wells with a daily| output of 25 barrels or less were ex-| cluded from Gov, Murray's martial-law | shutdown under which flush fields were | stilled nearly three weeks ago. | It appeared the higher prices would | bring no loosening of the Oklahoma- | Bast Texas lid, which the oil industry’s | statisticiens say is keeping nearly | 1,000,000 barrels daily off the market, | Gov. Murray stood by his shutdown | order, declaring nothing less than ‘a | meral $1 price would open his State's | jush wells to production. Gov. Ross S. Sterling of Texas de- clared troops would keep the East Téxas area closed down until wasteful produc- tion and ‘an “insurrection” against the ‘l, State's conservation laws could be end- | ed. East Texas has been off production since last Monday. Magnolia Offer Low. 1In the price-posting procession today one major company, the Magndlia Petroleum Co., & subsidiary of the Standard Oll Co. of New York, failed to equal by 2 cents a barrel the offers of the other companies. The Magnelia | company’s new schedule carries a_top | price of 68 cents and includes Hast ‘The higher crude oil prices were not | reflected immediately in the midconti- | nent gasoline market, but oil men said | line prices probably would show stre! next week. u,umhsu!dmm-y.‘ eral refiners, pressed for crude llm have withdrawn spot quotations ent KANSAS CLOSES WELLS. ly. production. The development occurred when the Kansas Public Service Commission or- dered & 100 per cent shutdown of pro- duction in the Ritz-Canton pool in MecPherson County. The pool’s present output was estimated at around 20,000 barrels daily. Gov, Harry H. Woodring of Kansas and because of t! of opening up the field further” . - Kansas ‘voluntarily Man: have down wells. L o il scrmiiinins RUSSIAN BRAKE BLAMED FOR 80-WRECK DEATHS| American Students in Turkey Tell of Scene in Dalmatia When Fire Consumed Cars. train | Macia said that he “preferred to say and | though he fire, making a be seen for miles. The bodies, they said, were burned beyond recognition, and train service was delayed nearly a $34,385,156 LEFT BY SCHIFF IN 1920/ ¥ransfer Tax Appraisal Shows | Bulk of Property Went to Son, | Now Dead, and Daughter. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 22.—Jacob H Schiff, financier "and philanthropist. who died in’ 1920, left & met estate of $34,385,156, 1t was disclosed in a trans- | fer tax appralsal flled today. | The appraissl revealed the bulk of | s, tnat the church elements have the estate was Jeft to his son, Mortimer L. Schiff, who died last June 4, and to his daughter, Mrs. Felix Warburg, wife of the head of the international house of Huhn, Loeb & Co. Charitable bequests amounting to $1,350,000 are included in the estate, but these legacies rej only & small portion of the philantbropies of the banker who had quietly, and often snonymously, given millions to chari- ties all over the world. More than 100,000 American motor eycles are being ridden in Europe this Entered in THE SUNDAY Air Derby THREE WOMEN WHO WILL PARTICIPATE IN RACE. ORE than 40 pilots, including men and women, will compete for the $25,000 in prizes offered in the 24,000-mile sweepstakes handicap derby of the National Air Races at Cleveland. Among women entered are: Maude I. Tait (upper left), Spri left), Dantury, Comn, and Winifred Spooner ingfield, Mass.; Margery Doig (lower (right) of England. —aA. P. Photo, 'CATALAN CHURCH PROVISIONS INTERPRETED BY PRESIDENT Macia Declares for Li berty of Conscience and Separation of Church and State. Seen as Freedom Haven. ‘program. ; h.r;m':{'th Has. obtalned ént Prancisco Macia the first official int tion of uarantes of religious lClLIMl‘(‘ after € & blow at e R R religious 1 LY. ’ bl of e urence ihe new Catalan reedom for all ominations.) BY LAURENCE A. FERNSWORTH By Cable to The Star. P! ‘BARCELONA, August 22.—Contradic- | taining 92,000 namies of persons de- | tory interpretations having been current | manding religious constitu the | Segura National Cortes, Col. Prancisco Macia, | later president of Catalonia, today gave this | Word here that the Pope had accorded | Pa| correspondent his own interpretaticn & of the proposed provisions. “T bellevé in complete liberty of ton- | | Catholie: me church opposition to his pro- generalitat binds itself to guarantee | to all citizens of Catalonia liberty of creed and conscience.” This clause was laced there at the personal insistence f President Macia, himself a devout By that act he killed off or- gram. Recently the Catholic Defense party resented Macia with a petition con- guarantees. as to the extent of liberty in religious | had an interview with Macia and as wnnhlpm(mmued in the Catslonian 8 project. now before result made a Teport to Cardinal | . Spain's exiled primate. The talked to the Pope and then sent special benediction “to the popular | Catalan movement in defense of true liglous liberty. While this does not mention Catalan science and religious practice,” he de- 2 d v aAn Gom- autonomy specifically, it is interpreted plete separation of power and reli glous authority. It is the right of every citizen to adhere to any religious | denomination he chocses or evolve a| creed of his own, if he likes, and every | system of religion should have the full- est liberty. Churches May Have Schools. . “I believe, moreover, that the educa- | tional system should belong to the state and be_uninfl by religious teach- | ings. This is exclusively the business of parents or church authorities, and religion has no place in any tem | supported by the state. I den’ Ci ean | by that, | passer \ , | by thet. of Sourse, that veliglous groups | B3 1010 1 street, and Charies McKay, | use in internal combustion engines, has | 4, 3605 Eight Both were taken to Casualty Hospital Belfast, Ireland. Tt is claimed that the in a private automobile and treated for lacerations and permitted to have their own schools under proper restrictions | or that parents should not be permitted | to send children to those schools if they | 80_choose.” Regarding the Ttight of religious | orders to remain in Spain, President | nothing.” It is understood glmc al- mfll{ regards the reli- Blous orders favorably, he has taken a meutral stand, largely at the insistence | of those members of his party who are hostile to the Jesuits, and the final de- cision will remain with the National| Cortes. A ‘paradaoxical feature of the situ- afion is that the benediction of the Pope is ered to have been given by implication to Catalonia’s autonomy program, which was ratified by the voters. Moreover Catalonia, which but a few weeks ago was the field of a political battle in -which ome of the | chief issues was clericallsm and the expulsion of religious orders—an lssue in which the church apparently was beaten badly—today promises to be- come Spain’s haven of religious liberty. This applies both to the Church of Rome and to other denominations. Struggle Compromised. This has been brought about by the 1o accept Catalonia’s new defini- Hon of religious liberty, while certain leaders of ident Macia's party, at his behest, have agreed to forget their hostility to religion. The new defini- | tioni of religious liberty accepted here— & definition which is revolutionary in Bpain, where the church under the /s been part of the have the right to exist without pref- erence or hindrance and without official | recognition on the part of the govern- | ment for any. A clause in the Catalan autonomy | project reads: “The government of the The terms of Morris Plan Leoans are simple and prac- tical—it is not necessary to have had an account at this Bank to borrow. Loans are - ed within a day or two after filing application— g MORRIS PLAN notes ere usuaily the Pope's expression of*satisfaction with the new attitude of the Qatalan autonomists. (Copyright. TWO HURT IN CRASH Driven by Durant Church Skids on Wet Pavement. Skidding on wet pavements at Massa- L8] ar chusetts avenue and D street northeast, last night, Church, 21, 2006 Columbia road, | | into an’ electric light pole, injuring two | ing a coal tar ofl product which is a | a car driven by Durant crashed ngers. They were Harvey H. Follin, teenth street northeast. contusions. The Public and Business Have a Mutual Interest in Advertising Advertising is an important factor in the business life of America. Tt is no less important to you, as a member of the public, than it is to advertisers t Advertising, properly and accurately prepared, serves as a source of information on merchandise and services, and enables you, as a member of the public, to satisfy your desires and needs with the least possibl Advertising is news—style news—value news—when, where and what to buy news. It tells the story of new appliances, new mate- rials, new conveniences and how to use them. of financial institutions and service organizations. suggestions. Because simply must tive force. advertising deceptive. TAX! GRAFT BARED. N COTHAM PROBE Drivers Forced to Bribe Police for Licenses, Wit- nesses Tell. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 22-—Charges that taxi drivers were compelled to pay 5 and $10 bribes to police inspectors of the Public Hack Bureau to keep their licenses were under investigation today by the Hofstadter Legislative Commit- | tee. ’ | The committee was told meters which | overcharged the passengers were ovel looked and cabs unfit for use were al lowed on the streets in return for the tribute. Vast Sum Dispensed. | Irving Cooper, one of the committee’s | lawyers, said he had received com- plaints that a vast sum had been dis- | ensed in the form of graft to police | ving jurisdiction over taxi stands. | Among the first questioned was Frank | Putnam, general manager of the Amal- | gamated Taxi Association, which has a | membership of 1,500. Its books showed | annual expenditures of $30,000, the | withdrawals ranging from $500 to $3,000. | The checks were made out to “cash” The committee will attempt o learn next week where this money went. Up-State Probe Planned. ! Tammany members of the Legislature | were reported to be preparing a bill | providing for an investigation into al- leged corruption in up-State Repub- lican sections. | Gov. Roosevelt has not yet indicated his attitude toward the inquiry. Po- | litical observers expect his decision will decide in a large measure the future re- lations between him and the New York City organization and thus have an ef- | fect on his strength as a possible presi- dential candidate. WALKER GIVEN DOGS. Admirers in Europe Present Mayor | With Canine Royalty. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, August 22 (P —If his visit to Czechoslovakia is | an indication of what is to follow, | Mayor James J. Walker is likely to re- | turn to New York with & kennel of | purebred dogs of various descriptions. | As the mayor left Prague today in a | | special car for Budapest one_ enthusi- astic Czech citizen presented him with s pedigreed wire-haired fox terrier. At | | Carlsbad he was given a rare specimen | of the Japanese Chin breed. { |~ A delegation of actors met the mayor at_the station here and presented him with a bronze plaque in_ appreciation of his interest in things theatrical. | In the morning, before a large crowd at the City Hall, he said “God must have loved Czechoslovakians because he | made so many of them.” ‘The mayor cited Mayor Anton Cer- mak of Chicago as typical of Americans born in Czechoslovakia. | CZARS’ DEBTS BARRED, SOVLET TELLS FRANCE| Answers Paris Suggestion in Re- gard to Proposed Trade Agree- | ment by Reiterating Policy. ‘They | By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, August 22.—The news- | r Izvestia today reiterated in an editorial the Soviet government policy | that debts contracted by the czarist | Tegime can have no bearing -on trade | ne(‘zfiluonl conducted by the sovteti state. Commenting on & suggestion by Le | Temps, the Paris newspaper, that cur- | Tent negotiations for a trade agree- | ment’ between Prance #nd Russia can- | not be concluded without settlement of | | vide favorable credit conditions. Cred- | | its on new orders, the editorial asserts, | | have nothing to do with the debts of | the Czars. Perfection of a new process for mak- | satisfactory substitute for gasoline for | been announced by the gas works at | cost will be much less than the present | | price of gasoline. : hemselves. e effort. D. C, AUGUST FUIMURA ACCOUNT SLUNP EPLANED Miss Von Reissner Tells of Luxuries Enjoyed at His Expense. By the Augociated Press. NEW YORK. August 22.—From Miss ary Von Relssner, the show girl who companied Hisashi Fujimura, Jap- anese importer, on the trip to Halifax from which he failed to return, Federal officials obtained tonight an explanation of some of the items which took more than $335,000 from his checking ac- | count in less then six months. They did not reveal the detals, but sald Miss Von Reissner had given them “leads which may help us to check up on_this matter.” Prom March 1, about the time Miss Von Relssner told authorities she met the importer, until August 8. when they left on the Belgenland, Pederal ac- countants found that Fujimura's per- sonal checking account shrank from $54000 to $2.65, although during the period he made deposits of $335,590. ssistant United States attorneys who examined the books said a $100 deposit was made after Pujimura left on the Halifax cruise. They had not determined who made the deposit. Enjoyed Every Luxury. woman in " Rives who is.to be qu 1931—PART ONE. Drew Importer’s Picture ARTIST TESTIFIES IN DISAPPEARANCE CASE. BORROW $9.000.000 Richmond Office Reports Huge drawing of Hisashi Fujimura (left) was made by Jan Ribas (right) employed by the steamship lne to make sketches of the. pas— e . On_being uestioned, the artist said that! he had sketched ura just before dinner on the Thursday night prior to his dis- ppearance. Ribas also said he had heard the importer r " - h':zm u‘en for ‘;l‘:;lnn( with other men.” sketched Kashira imura, 7-year-old daughter of the. "y estioned. A ".'m. In those six months, Miss Von Relssner gave the Federal authorities who questioned her to understand that she enjoyed every luxury. The importer gave her establishments both in the city and out of town, expensive jewelry, furs and at least one automobile. On the six-dfly cruise to Halifax dur- ing which she traveled ostensibly -as governess for Fujimura’s 7-y old daughter, Miss Von Reissner said he carried little cash, but had a number of travelers’ checks. The authorities who questioned her for eight hours today attempted to check up on numerous leads obtained yesterday in an investigation of thel||| Belgenland and its crew. They learned that the men with whom Miss Von Reissner was seen in a Halifax depart- ment store was Joseph Keden, the vessel's pianist, who accompanied her to the store and back to the ship be- cause she told him she needed some one | | to show her the way. Keden will be questioned since mem- bers of the Belgenland crew have given 7“ testimony which indicated Pujimura might have been jealous of another|| ||| man’s attentions to his companion. Two Women Subpoenaed. Miss Von Relssner and _another woman, whose identity Lumbard re- fused to disclose, have been subpoenaed to appear Moncay morning before the || Federal grand jury. While efforts are being made to find three card sharps who joined the ship at Halifax, city detectives doubted they ||| were concerned in the case. The district attorney intends to in- vestigate & rumor that Simon Feinstein, | one of Miss Von Reissner’s attorneys, ||| was threatened with violence unless he withdrew from the case. Accountants on Monday will begin a study of Fujimura's business accounts with various banks. Miss Von Reissner is going to the|, hospital, her attorney announced. The ||ii nature of her illness was not revealed. Dock Towed 13,500 Miles. On the longest towing voyage on rec- ord, a floating dock of 17,000 tons lifting capacity is on its way from the bulders in Wallsend, England, to Wellington, New Zealand. The tow of 13,500 miles | || will last seven months. Two powertul ||| are employed and the crew is on the dock during the voyage. Bow Bells Ring From Record. For the first time in five years the tones of the famous Bow Bells were heard when a phonograph record of the |/ tugs living chimes was played in Cheapside, Eng- | || ||| land. The reproduction was on the ||| porch of the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow to call attention to the need of $75,000 to repair the edifice, Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 14c per day and 5¢ Sunday. 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