Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1931, Page 11

SINCLARR BLOCKS 51 OIL, MURRAY SAYS Governor Calls Producer “Fly in Ointment”—Gas Price Probe Threatened. By the Associated Press. : OKLAHOMA CITY, August 20.—Gov. W. H. Murray charge today that Harry ¥. Sinclair, petroleum ate, was blocking a return to dollar oil, and at the same time the State threatened on of Tecent retail gaso- line price increases. Paul Walker, chairman of the State Corporation @ommission, asserted high- er gasoline prices, announced by most | mmg-niel since crude prices started to | climb, are not justified. Walker threat- ened to start an inquiry to determine “4f eollusion and monopoly” have fig- | ured in the gasoline market. Sinclair Agreement Fails. Gov. Murray indicated that reopening of flush oil wells in Oklahoma was pre- vented by inability to reach an agree- ment with the Sinclair interests. “The Phillips and the Standard and s number of others have come in and ll‘l;ed to give $1 for ofl,” the Governor said. M\lm{ charged that Sinclair was “the real fly in the ointment, both in Oklahoma and Texas.” He said the oil man was “resting on his oars in Okla- for the present, but is operating with all his might in Texas.” He urged the people and the press of ‘Texas to “keep their eyes on Sinclatr,” who, he charged, was “attempting to prevent victory for the independent ofl man and the public.” Murray has made reopening of the Oklahoma wells, now shut down under martial law, conditional upon an agree- ment by all the larger oil companies to | pay 81 a barrel for crude. Regulation Order Drawn. The Texas Railroad Commission to- day was putting the finishing touches on an order by which it will attempt to regulate luction in the great East Texas field, closed under martial law. ‘The order is expected to go into effect Dext Tuesday. No inkling was given as to the total daily production which will be allowed in East Texas. Aamounts ranging 600,000 barrels a day. Before the shut- down the field was credited with 800,000 indicated barrels daily. . Sterling has not whether martial law will be lifted when the commission, acting under the new State conservation law, puts its pro-| ration order into effect. There were indications, however, that some of the troops will remain on duty to enforce the commission regulations. Standish to Pay §1. Meanwhilé, one oil company, the aunc]u. a_subsidiary of medPthn“ps Petroleum Corporation, prepared to pay $1 a barrel for oil from the Ritz-Can- ton pool in Kansas, which is partially shut down by action of the Public Serv- ice of that State. The Standish that starting 1t would take 1,000 WO to 1,500 barrels of All wells ifi the Ritz-Canton pool to- o0 U thelr potential oulput. Gomuvie: cen! e} output. sioner Thurman. Hill said ly be extended Monday and Voshell poois, depending cn whether purchasers raise the price to $1. U. S. LAND RETURN URGED Arizona and Utah Commissioners Make Recommendations. SALT LAKE CITY, August 20 (). — A recommendation that Utah and Arizona demand that the Federal Gov- emment return 5,000,000 acres cf non- forested national forest area was made foday in a report to Gov. M. Dern, by special commissioners of the two States. The report, signed by W. W. Seeg- miller of Utah and Thomas Maddock of Arizona, declares the live stock industry ©f Arizona north of the Colorado River is suffering under PFederal administra- tion of that section; that the range which once supported 15,000 cattle agd many thousand deer, now supports %o | cattle will Tially. that famine and pestilence reduce the deer herds mate- oll'a day at the 81| War Over Oil | | | ] | HARRY F. SINCLAIR. SULLIVANS IN DASH, CRASH AND CLASH | i | Speeder, Victim and Officer With Irish Name Meet—One Goes to Jail. | The Sullivans had s convention on| | Bladensburg rcad northeast Friday, | which ended when they decided to put {one of their number behind the bars. | A car proceeding along the road at a | dizzy pace crashed into another. The drivers got out and began to argue. | Shortly thereafter a judge arrived in {the “orm of a motor cycle policeman. | “What's your name?” he asked of the |man whose car had been struck as he| |jotted down notes. | “Sullivan,” the man replied, “Wil- {am Sullivan.” “And yours is what?” he asked the other. | “Thomas Sullivan,” he answered. William Sulliven noted the name of <the other and turned to the policeman. “Give me your name, will you, offi- cer.,” he requested. “Sullivan,” said the | policeman, “Edward Sullivan, twelfth | precinct.” The three then got down to serious business. The decision was obvious, for | William had been going too fast. He was locked up for reckless driving, Judge Schuldt decided the legal bat- ! tle of the Sullivans in Traffic Court to- | day by ordering William to pay $30, in lieu of which he was to go to jail for a month. More than 350 lost umbrellas are be- ing turned into the Londop lost prop- erty office every day. 1239 G Street ORDANS Qorner.|3%, What a Grand Piano A Mark of Refinement! Musical Appreciat A Thing of Beauty! MASON & HAMLIN CHICKERING EMERSON MARSHALL &, WENDELL CABLE & SONS LAFFARQUE ion! PROBE EXONERATES BUCKLEY AND WMBC Radio Commission Examiner Finds Charges * Not Substantiated. By the Associated Press. Jerry Buckley, slain Detroit radio an- nouncer, and broadcasting Station WMBC, were exonerated of charges of wrong-doing in connection with the station’s operation in a report filed yes- terday with the Federal Radio Commis- sion by Ellis A. Yost, chief examiner. Yost recommended that the station be granted renewal of its license and be permitted to move its transmitter and make certain changes in its equipment. “Shake-Down” Charged. The examiner said in his report that Buckley had been alleged to have been | associated with vice activities in De- | troit, had been charged with using the | facilities of WMBC to “shake down' gamblers and with misapplying funds | giga, raised by the station in carrying on its welfare work. ‘The station was chugd with opera- tion in & manner inconsistent with pub- lic interest, and with permitting its | facilities to be used to solicit funds,| which were obtained by false repre- | sentation. . Yost found the charges ule | substantiated. | He said, however, that the owners| were derelict in not having kept a com- | plete record of receipts and disburse- ments of all moneys donated to its re- | lief fund. Relief Fund Irregular. In his conclusions the examiner said that while the handling of the relief fund was frregular and the evidence was not conclusive as to its final disposi- tion that he could not say that any part of it had been misapplied or em- ded. e commission must pass upon the | case and decide whether the license is to be renewed. KILLED BY ROBBERS Farmer Says Wife Was Shot as She Attacked With Hatchet. | BUTLER, Mo., August 20 () —Earl Steel, a farmer living near Butler, re- ported to officers that his wife, Iris, 32, was shot to death last midnight as sh sought to protect him from the blows of two robbers who had forced their way into the Steel home. Mrs. Steel was shot twice in the fore- head with a revolver. Her husband said she attacked one of the robbers with a hatchet while the man was kicking Steel who had been knocked down. Steel said the men escaped with about $6. 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Positions Reversed in War Days When Premier Was Reviled as Traitor. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 20.—Arthur Hen- | derson, who today replaced Ramsay | MacDonald as leader of the embittered | & ranks of British labor, is known af- fectionately to working men and women from Lands End to John O'Groats as “Uncle Arthur.” To the world of international gjplo- | macy he was until five days ago, When the ‘British cabinet crisis brought his Tesignation as foreign secretary, an | astute negotiator for world peace and rmament, - | Born a Scotchman, Mr. Henderson | has lived In England sfpce childhood, | when he was apprenticed as an iron | have flamed during the last few days, Red-faced and stout, he is like the | but not from them. traditional John Bull or the good-| The new leader of the Labor party natured Mr. Pickwick. His genius is | began his political career 49 years ago as an organizer, but in nearly 50 years | With a speech from the back of a truck- devoted to the British working classes | ing wagon in Newcastle. He spoke so he never faced a task calling for a dis- | Well-that a local journalist wrote a play of the talents of leadership such | special report of his remarks—an ex- as the one he assumed today in direct- ceptionai compliment in those days ing Labor’'s opposition to the national when Henderson was a nonentity. government's economy program. Joined Asquith Government. Positions Reversed, | He was the first Laborite to join the Fate has played strange tricks with | Asquith government and continued in the careers of Mr. MacDonald and Mz, " Henderson. During the World War it | °°¢ cabinet post or another until forced to chooss between the Labor and Lib- was Henderson who went into the na- | tional government; now it s MacDon- | eral parties. 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