Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1934, Page 28

OIL BUDGET St AT $4.561 663000 = Journal Estimates Industry Will Spend That Amount in 1935. fl.x By the Assoclated Press. TULSA, Okla., December 20.—Ex- penditures of the oil industry in the United States in 1935 for equipment, leaseholds, royalties, labor and taxes were estimated by the Oil and Gas Journal at $4,561,669,000, after a Na- tion-wide survey of new year budgets, The expenditures were distributed as follows: Purchases of material from other industries, $1,312,000,000; leases, bonuses and royalties, $201,- 845,000; pay roll, $2,043,000,000, and taxes to Federal, State and municipal governments, $1,004,824,000. An expected expenditure of $374,- 000,000 will go to railroads alone for transportation of crude oil, by-prod- ucts, supplies and equipment, an amount equal to 11 per cent of all ¥ail carlot business, the survey showed. ‘The Journal says: “While these vast expenditures make the petroleum industry the most potent factor in the national business recovery program and the biggest single customer of many other Yines of business with resultant main- | tenance of employment and pay rolls In other industries, stockholders of the petroleum industry benefit least of all.” Since September, 1933, the survey continues, the oil industry has added 300,000 persons to its pay rolls. TURKEY SETTLES DEBT ‘Will Pay Americans $1,300,000 on War Claims. ‘The State Department announced Yesterday the signature of an agree- ment under which the Turkish govern- ment will pay the United States $1,300,000 in settlement of all war- %ime claims by American citizens 8gainst that country. Pro rata payments will be made emong several hundred American claimants after their claims have been surveyed by the State Department. Kissless Woman, 80, Mother of 14, Dies; Movie Disgusted Her By the Assoclated Press. ATHENS, Tenn., December 20. —Mrs. Nancy Mary Ann Tram- mel West, who gained wide pub- licity last Summer when she said she was “80 years old and had never been kissed,” was buried Tuesday at Topton, N. C. Mrs. West, who witnessed her first motion picture show in July, expressed disgust at a love scene and recalled: “Cal and I were married nearly 60 years, but we never did kiss and carry on like that.” She was the mother of 14 chil- dren, including triplets and twins. Che Any one of the complete selection 6f modern gas ranges now on sale at greatly reduced prices would make more difference in Mother’s daily life than even she ranges in the past t cooking can be. SOCIETY (Continued From Sixth Page.) Miami Beach and Charlotte Harbor, The elementary department of the Sidwell Priends School will held its Christmas exercises this afternoon at 4 c'clock in the gymnasium at 3901 Wisconsin avenue. The pupils, under the direction of Mrs. Lucille V. Saug- stad, will present & cantata of Christ- mas Carols. The upper school will hold its Christmas exercises at noon on Fri- day in the Friends Meeting House, 1811 Eye street. Mr. Leon Pearson | will give readings, and the Choral Study Group, under the direction of Dr. Robert H. Harmon, will sing carols. Mr. and Mrs. George Bench of Amherst,. Tex., are spending the holi- days with Mrs. Bench's sister and brothers, Mrs. Lou E. Cunningham, 2224 Thirty-eighth street northwest; Mr. Auber Neal, 513 Fourth street southeast; Mr, Edward Neal, 1351 East Capitol street, and their families, National President of League of Pen Women Hostess. Mrs. Victoria Faber Stevenson, na- tional president, League of American Pen Women, entertained at her home, 3230 Nineteenth street, Tuesday eve- ning, December 18. Among the guests were the national officers and committee chairmen, League of American Pen Women; Dr. Frances Moon Butts, president District of | Columbia League of American Pen Women, and her officers and com- | mittee chairmen; Mrs, Daisy B. Cal- | houn, president Chevy Chase branch; Mrs. Eleanor Elliott Carroll, president Baltimore branch, and Mrs, Mary Johnston Avery, North Carolina branch. ‘The house was beautifully deco- | rated with lighted Christmas trees and evergreens. Christmas carols were sung and & number of original poems were read, after which the party adjourned to the dining room, where a buffet supper was served. president The second of a series of dances under the auspices of the Washing- ton Chapter of the Unitarian Lay- men'’s League will be given in Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Harvard streets | northwest, tomorrow night. The com- | mittee in charge of this dance con- sists of Mr. George Christian Edler and Mr. Howard Hosmer. Dr. William Mosely Brown of Clar- endon, Va., who will return tomorrow | from Charleston, S. C., will leave the next day with Mrs. Brown and the children for New York where they will spend the holidays with Mrs. Brown's mother, Mrs. Henry Graham, returning home January 2. Miss Nancy D. Sibley and her sister, Miss M. B. Sibley of East Brewster, Mass., and Chicago, have come to Washington from their home in New England, and reopened their apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel for the season. Mrs. Ronald Fairfax of Roanoke, Va, has come to Washington to spend some time and she has taken an apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel, where she will be in residence during her sojourn. Hulburt Jacoby, administrator of the N. R. A, | the guest of honor at a “farewell assistant deputy | was | re’s“hap . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1934 sell, Miss Irene Williams, Miss Yaeger Brown, Miss Helen Murphy, Miss HOLMES WILL LECTURE Esther Athey, Miss Margaret Fitz- gerald, Miss Emily Hopper, Mr. ON NETHERLAND INDIA Lawrence Hartnett, Mr. John 2 ', Mr. Virgil Bankson, Mr. TE Paoe Mr . Tawrencs’ Fifer Traveler to Destribe Life on Isles in Talk Tomorrow Night at and Mr. W. L. Yearsley. Constitution Hall. Chinese Like U, 8. Trucks. 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