Vast underground oil pipe network mirrors railroad expansion
Chicago July 21 AP The transcontinental underground oil pipe system spans over 65 000 miles of trunk and gathering lines reaching coast to coast and midcontinent It represents about 518 500 000 in investment and could require two million tank cars plus 10 000 locomotives if moved to rails The system transports more than 400 000 000 barrels annually and feeds refineries and plants from Teapot Dome to Chicago and beyond with lines 8 to 12 inches in diameter three feet underground and pumps 30 to 50 miles apart.
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Chicago
United States
Central and Western
Whiting
Indiana
Atlantic Seaboard
Salt Creek
Wyoming
Elk Basin
Freeman
Teapot Dome
Kansas City
Prairie Pipe Line Company
Sinclair Company
Buckeye Company
Ational Transit Company
Clocks and Seats to Go for Efficiency at Interior
Washington July 21. Interior department workers waste time sitting clock watching and tripping over surplus furniture. Secretary Work orders action starting in the general office removing 250 chairs dismantling most clocks and turning two van loads of stools wardrobes and desks valued at 6264 to the general supply office.
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Washington
A. P
Interior Department
General Office
General Supply Office
Bryan Darrow Clash Over Bible Version At Scopes Trial
Dayton Tenn July 21 William Jennings Bryan faced Clarence Darrow in a dramatic open air session of the Scopes evolution trial with the jury absent. Darrow pressed Bryan on fundamentalist views while Bryan defended the literal Bible stating Eve was from Adams rib and Noahs flood covered all but the Ark. The session drew hundreds as indoor proceedings were suspended for the day.
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Dayton
Tenn
A. P
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Bryan
Rhea County Court Room
Darrow
United States
Adams
Jonah
German security note seen as vague and open to light
Paris July 21. French officials say the German security note signals a willingness to keep Western European security talks alive while avoiding clear commitments. They note the document replies vaguely to Briand points and require more light to judge Germany’s intentions, including whether it accepts League obligations absent broader disarmament or arms reduction to equalize military strength in Europe.
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Paris
A. P
Germany
M. Briand
League of Nations
Food supplies cut off for Americans in China
From Canton reports say the American gunboat at Wu Chow is cut off from food supplies, along with British residents. The British consul at Wuchow urges all British subjects to leave due to a strict boycott against them.
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China
Peking
A. P
Canton
Wuchow
Three Truck Crops Given An Approval Plans Formulated
Ouachita Development Committee submits a report proposing three truck crops for cooperative marketing in early 1926. Bell pepper Ruby King eggplant Black Beauty tomatoes Walter Pitchard Globe Gulf States. Two hundred acre minimum for crops plus cantaloupes to test. Meeting set for Saturday at 2 30 p m.
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Ouachita Agricultural Development Committee
Louisiana State University
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Agricultural Development Committee
H. C. Cole
Robert G. Harmon
W. J. Gill
E. R. Strahan
Walter Pitchards
Globe and Gulf States
Horticultural Department
Argentina Prepares for Visit by Prince of Wales
Argentina plans a mid August arrival for the Prince of Wales. The official program features a parade with 12 000 army and navy soldiers and a display by forty military airplanes in Buenos Aires.
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Buenos Aires
A. P
Argentina
Prince of Wales
Big Rush to Buy As France Opens Sale of Gold Coupon Loan
Paris reports on the first day’s subscriptions to the new four per cent gold coupon loan suggest near a billion francs in demand. Officials expect the total by September 5 to rival or exceed France’s strongest past issues.
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France
Paris
A. P
Duel to Death Ends in Californian Tragedy
Hatred drove John Truden and Henry Kirk to a self described duel at daybreak along a desert ditch near Imperial California. In a letter found on Truden both men recount the six year feud and the pistol exchange that killed Kirk instantly as Truden vowed to follow, aiming to die in time.
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Brawly
Calif
A. P
John Truden
Henry Kendig Kirk
Truden
Jacumba
Kirk
Aged Mrs Thaw Sues Grandson for 600000 Dollars
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw 83 sues her 26 year old grandson Lawrence Copley Thaw for 600000 dollars. She alleges she was weak in mind and body when she gave the money and that he induced the transfer by false claims of discrimination in his father Edward T Thaw's will. The suit was filed in federal court.
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New York
A. P
Mary Copley Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Lawrence Copley Thaw
Lawrence Thaw
Edward T. Thaw
Harry
Thaw
British steamship Egremont Castle aground on reef
The British steamship Egremont Castle lies aground on Pubbataha reef in the Sulu Sea suffering severe leakage. Salvage tugs are en route, but officials fear a total wreck. the sugar laden vessel is en route to New York.
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Manila
A. P
Egremont Castle
Pubbataha Reef
Sulu Sea
New York
Funeral Plans For Pancho Villa Spark Religion Clash
Disagreement between Filipino religious groups over Pancho Villa’s memorial services led to partial abandonment of Methodist plans and Catholic protests against religious interference. Villa’s body will arrive Saturday en route to Manila. Catholics say Villa professed Catholic faith and warn Methodists against holding services if the body is brought ashore.
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Honolulu
A. P
Pancho Villa
Manila
Cayetano Ligot
Philippines
French Army pours into Morocco amid Riffian resistance
Advices from French Morocco say French troops are still arriving with 130000 soldiers present on July 12 and expected 200000 by month end. Abd-El-Krim leads the Riffians in intensified fighting and France reports improved fortifications and barbed wire defenses. A Moroccan sharpshooter battalion at Ain Matouf, surrounded for days, was cited for a war cross and relieved after an airborne drop of the award.
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EL Araish
Spanish
Morocco
A. P
France
Abd-El-Krim
Fez
French Morocco
Ain Matouf
Highwaymen Kill Man Then Attack Widow in Arkansas
In Smackover Arkansas a trio of highwaymen shot and killed Bob Davis after leaving the home of widow Mrs. Willie Skinner near Snow Hill. One robber entered Mrs. Skinner’s house, pistol whipped her, and stabbed and shot Davis twice. The wounded widow and her children were found by a pursuing posse. The assailant, identified as Guy Turner known as Mudhog, 20, of Fordyce, was captured and jailed in Camden along with the other suspects.
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Smackover
Ark
Bob
N. C.) Davis
Willie Skinner
Snow Hill
Davis
Winnsboro Beats Prescott in Low Scoring Baseball Battle
Winnsboro defeated the fast Prescott club from Arkansas 2 to 1 in Winnsboro Louisiana. Mike Smith pitched for Winnsboro against Carlton of Prescott with Heath delivering the two base hit for the winning run in the fifth. Green and Smith contributed to Prescott’s early third inning tally while Wiggers and Bush scored for Winnsboro.
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News-Star
Winnsboro
Prescott
Ark
Mike Smith
Carlton
Wiggers
Smith
Green
Bush
Heath
Rowe Wallace Well Stile Fulfills Expectations at Urania
Urania No 2 in 1910 2E opened at eleven o clock flowing oil about 100 barrels without water or sand. Moody drills Zeigin Urania No 2 in 1910 21 and Zeigin Urania No 1 remains a gusher with storage sold. Cleve Love plans Tremont No 1 pull to use two 500 barrel tanks awaiting production.
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Urania
Rowe-Wallace
Urania Petroleum Company
Zeigin
al Urania
Urania Petroleum Co
Moody
Zeigin Urania No
Urania Petroeum
Mexico Regrets Shooting of American Vice-Consul
The Mexican foreign office expressed regret to the American embassy over the shooting of Harold G Bretherton American vice consul at Aguas Calientes on July 16 A stray bullet from two local congressmen firing at each other caused the wound Bretherton said the shooting was unintentional.
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Mexico City
A. P
Foreign Office
Harold G. Bretherton
Aguas Calientes
Mr. Bretherton
River Stage Readings and Variations by River System
River stage report lists Mississippi gages Memphis 10.2 rising 0.2, Vicksburg 14.1 falling 0.4, New Orleans 1.5 unchanged. Red River Shreveport 6.5 falling 0.5, Alexandria 2.6 rising 0.1. Ouachita Camden 3.4 rising 0.1, Monroe 13.3 unchanged. Ohio Cairo 16.6 falling 0.1.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Unchanged
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Ohio
Cairo
Tenn teacher Scopes found guilty in evolution trial
John T Scopes was convicted in Rhea county circuit court of teaching evolution in public schools. He was fined 100 dollars and filed notice of appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Bond was set at 500 dollars pending the appeal as Darrow and Bryan clashed over the trial's legal and philosophical issues.
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Dayton
Tenn
A. P
John Thomas Scopes
Rhea County
Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Clarence Darrow
Percmit
Supreme Court
Scopes
Sccpes
Circuit Court
Knoxeville
Roulston
Raulston
William Jennings Bryan
Darrow
Bryan
When Is Bootleg Car Not Bootleg
Prohibition agents recall a well known bootlegger’s automobile parked at prohibition headquarters yesterday. The driver, revealed by inquiry, is found to be using a confiscated car under court decisions permitting dry officers to employ seized machines.
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Washington
A. P
Prohibition
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Saint Remie
Los Angeles
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P. S. Kirk
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Helms
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