Oil Board Seeks Conservation But Sees Little Interest
Bascom N. Timmons reports that President Coolidge’s oil board is pushing conservation via questionnaires to industry leaders but expects limited immediate impact. The mass of responses may include sound ideas and crank notions, with industry focus more on securing rights and consolidations than on conservation. Unofficial chatter links the Indiana Standard to a major Pan-American merger, the largest in history, with assets over 500 million dollars and potential further consolidations worldwide.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Oil Board
Iran
Oi! Board
Work
West
Standard of Indiana
Doheny
Pan-American Petroleum and Transportation Company
Central America
United States
Oil magnate fears and hopes amid a world oil shuffle
The piece argues a world oil battle grows again as Coporation unions form among Cosden Marland Skelly Sinclair Consolidated and California Petroleum with American interests at stake. It notes Japanese moves on Saghalien concessions and Sinclair's failed hopes, while presenting three views on large combine power and its impact on peace or war in the oil sector led by Robert W. Stewart and Stand ard of Indiana.
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Cosden, Marland, Skelly
Sinclair Consolidated Company
California Petroleum Company
Ultimate Corporation
Russia
Harry F. Sinclair
Sinclair
Robert W. Stewart
The
Standard of Indiana
Stewart
Stabbed by Panhandler During Funeral Attendance
Arthur Murphy of Butte, in Anaconda to attend his mother's funeral, was fatally stabbed after being refused 24 seats by a man he confronted on the street. Twenty minutes later Chris Milovich, a laborer, was taken into custody with his body and clothing bloodstained. More than 100,000 visitors registered at Lincoln's tomb in Springfield, TH, last year.
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Panhandler
Associated Press
Anaconda
Arthur Murphy
Butte
Chris Milovich
Lincoln
Springfield
Immigrant Emir from Kurdestan Deported to England
New York April 7 The heralded Emir Mohammed Saiderdechene, known as Prince Mohammed Said, was ordered deported from Ellis Island to England by a special immigration board. He sought to bolster Kurdish armies with American capital and oil interests but failed to gain entry. A Turks-Persian frontier unrest prompts Teheran to move troops, per Exchange Telegraph from Constantinople.
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Associated Press
New York
Hml
Kurdestan
Ike Paillp Nolan
Dward Everett Hale
Special Immigration Board of
Ellis Island
Prince Mohammed Saiderdechene
England
White Star Line
Mohammed Safa
Elis Island
Celtic
Southampton
Mir
Kuredestan
United States
London
Constantinople
Teheran
Governor Donahey in another escapade with son
Columbus Ohio April 7 Governor Donahey faced another auto escapade involving his 11 year old son Jial as reports spread about the disappearance of Lillian Vogel 15 of Zanesville Ohio. A telegram from Columbus claimed she had gone to Florida while Frances Keaton of Zanesville said Lillian eloped with a boy claiming to be Hal Donahey. The governor’s son said he was in Zanesville Sunday night and took two girls and a young man for a ride then brought them back and went home. Friends suggested she may have gone to Garr Ints to visit her father who lives near there.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Donahey
Jial Donahey
YoungDonahey
Lillian Vogel
Zanesville
Florida
Frances Keaton
Lillian
Hal Dona
Garr
Sligne
Nurmi to race in New York 1000 yard indoor event
A. P. dispatch says Paavo Nurmi will interrupt his western tour to appear in a 1000 yard indoor race in New York against Lloyd Hahn and Alan Helffrich. Belmont Park opens its 1925 spring season April 25 with steeplechase features. Metropolitan Jockey Club meet begins April 29 in Jamaica with 23 stake fixtures over 19 days. University of Chicago baseball may tour Japan if officials accept Waseda University’s invitation. Wallie Marks is the dual-sport link.
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Paavo Nurmi
New York
Nurmi
Detroit
East
Lloyd Hahn
Alan Helffrich
New York State
Belmont Park
United Hunts’ Association
Metropolitan Jockey Club
Jamaica
University of Chicago
Japan
Isao Obe
Waseda University
Ohe
Wallie Marks
Dog with tire biting habit put on probation in Burbank
In Burbank California on April 7 a tire biting dog named Scotch Col Tie was taken into custody after three motorists complained their tires were punctured. The owner pledged police to train the animal to keep its teeth off rubber.
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Associated Press
Burbank
Cal
Janes Russell
Lengthy Senate Orations Set Historic Timelines
A survey of long speaking blocks in the U S Senate notes records by Labolette of Wisconsin and several others from 1801 to 1919. Senators Copeland Falkner Carter Jones Smoot Burton Allen and others delivered multi hour addresses on issues from rivers and harbors to tariff and ship purchases.
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Washington
Associated Press
Dawes
Witathen
Senate
Copeland
New York
Labolette
Wisconsin
Falkner
West Virginia
Allen
Nebraska
Carter
Montana
Jones
Cossack Costumes Brighten Blanche Sweet Campaign Reel
A description notes Blanche Sweet in a Russian inspired outfit featuring black broadcloth, leopard skin collar and border, and a circular skirt. She also sports a novel imported leopard skin purse. The text oddly asserts presidential immunity from arrest except impeachment.
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Blanche Sweet
Miss Sweet
Case of Baby Stillman Argued in Albany Court
In Albany the court of appeals heard arguments over Baby Guy Stillman's parentage. James A. Stillman contends against the referee ruling that Guy is the legitimate son of James and Anne A. Stillman, while the guardian cites confidentiality of a physician patient matter and the dispute over alleged confessions. Decision not expected until May.
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Associated Press
Albany
N.Y
Court of Appeals
Guy Stillman
James A. Stillman
New York
Anne A. Stillman
Daniel J. Gleason
Gleason
Gary
James A
Irs
Stillman
Frederick d’ Beauvais
Nathan LE. Miller
Miller
Poughkeepsie
Guardian
Baby Guy
Renign
McNary outlines national reclamation program plans
Washington April 7 Sen McNary Oregon chairman of the irrigation and reclamation committee today made public a broad national reclamation program to be urged in the next Congress It envisions flood control hydro power dams drainage and irrigation projects across the country with a revolving fund of 350 to 500 million dollars and bond financing by reclamation districts to repay government advances The plan covers swamp land drainage arid region irrigation Great Lakes stump removal New England soil restoration Mississippi flood control and Colorado river projects In another result Ace Hindkins Nebraska lightweight defeated Joe Benjamin in a ten round roll fight in Vernon California over Benny Leonard’s discarded title bout prospects.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Ator McNary
Oregon
Senator McNary
Intermountain
Pacific Coast
Cxt
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
New England
Colorado
Secretary of the Interior
McNary
Territorial Sea Boundary Pacts and Jurisdiction Debate
The Geneva commission considers territorial waters codification as part of international law. American Institute draft conventions outline a finite outer boundary following coastlines with bays treated specially and a shared sovereignty approach. Provisions cover bottom and subsoil ownership, definite baselines, and jurisdiction extending beyond seas for safety and customs, plus flag nation crime rules for merchant ships aboard.
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Associated Press
Washington
Geneva Commission of International Jurists
American International Law Institute
Rio de Janeiro
Geneva
Alhamaba in Peru Faces Water Damage Risk
The Alhamaba site near the Santa Ana canal is endangered as water seeps in through a newly found fissure. Authorities report the fissure endangers the structure and may require urgent action to prevent damage.
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Alhamaba
Peru
Sy Associated Press
Granaia
Spain
Santa Ana Canal
Navy official argues against separate aviation branch
Oakland April 7 The United States Navy should not create a separate aviation department combining army and navy air services, said Vice Admiral Josiah McKean addressing senior officers amid preparations for maneuvers to Hawaii. He praised aviation's role but urged maintaining a unified fleet.
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Oakland
Calif
Associated Press
United States
Josiah 5
McKean
Oakland Chamber of Commerce
San Francisco Bay
Hawaiian Islands
Army
Navy
Congress
Stport
AIRMEN TO BE GUIDED IN FOG BY ELECTRICITY
London will soon use an electric current to guide pilots through fog to a landing area at the airdome. A subterranean two cable system creates a magnetic field detected by aircraft instruments, letting pilots locate the landing stage even in total darkness or fog.
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London
Associated Press
England
Philip Sassoon
Air
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