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FLORENCEWEATHERCotton Market3EZ3C3E:::FLORENCE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1921Notorious Teapot Dome Oil Leases Nullified‘IDEAL GIRL” DOESN’T CHARLESTON;WORKS HER WAY THROUGH UNIVERSITY |Did Y«| Ever Stop ToTHINK?B1 J. A. Z BIGLERST. LOUIS, Sept. 28 -OP)— The United Staten Olrruit court of appeals today reversed and re* manded the decision of the district court at Cheyenne, Wyo., upholding the Teapot Dome Oil lease obtained by Harry F. Sinclair and associations from the government while Albert B. Fall was secretary of tHe interior.The appellate court’s decision is sweeping in effect and instructs the lower court immediately to cancel fhe mammoth oil company's lease, and to enjvin it from far* their trespassing on government lands.The opinion was received from William S. Kenyon, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, presiding Judge of the appellate court.The decision declares the Sin1 clair lease to have been fraudulent. The lower court I* instructed to ask (he mammoth oil Company for an accounting of all oil and petroleum products taken from the government’s naval oil reserve during its tenure.The appellate court in its de-cision-a t6 .page document-reverse! Judge T. Blake Kennedy, who held in district court at Cheyenne : in June, 1926, that the government’s allegation of fraud had not been proved. He rejected the government's annulment suit and left the Mammoth Oil Company in possession of Teapot Dome.The opinion was concuned In by District Judge Arba S. Van Valkenburgh, of Kansas City, and District Judge ”W. A. Kent- of Duluth, who sat with Judge icny-on in hearing the appeal ' at St. Paul last May.fJHAT—Cara with Florida license plates are to be aeon passing through Florence‘in increasing numbers. This would indicate to some minds that the population is leaving that hard-hit area. It maybe that Floridians who have been away on their summer vacation are returning home to help in the rebuilding program now well under way In that not-easily-dis-eouraged “Land of Sunshine.Mies Alice M. Thompson.“Miss America as a title' has as America’s ideal girl. .She is a been appropriated by the bathing frerliman at Ohio Wesleyan Uni-bcauties, but the Sesqui believes vcrsily, is unbobbed, doesn’t Chnr-that the ideal American girl is of leston and has worked for her col-a different type. Miss Alice M. lege tuition. Incidentally she is a Thompson ts the Seaqui'g .choice I charming sort of person.Y. DRIVE SCHEDULED CLOSE TODIf; $11,000 SECUREDDivision A. Commander ,T. H. Aiken—Cept*. Xernlall, $1-10; Hickman, *20! Sallcnuer. |8R; Miller, $12fi; Regs dale, *15. Totnl lor division, *291.Division B, Commander W. A. Cole —-Csipla. Horsey, $97; .Me Cut eh eon. *42; Alexander, $27; , Oof/, *17;. Wolls, $50; Harrison. $42; Corley, *91; Williams, *fi. Total for division, *271..Executive committee ..........$1,210Total for Mondiy ................1.972Previously reported ............9.202*£IHAT—Another nuisance to night traffic is the driver of the one-light car. There area great many of these Violators in Florence at the prelent writing. You can federally miss him by about thi**; inches if you see his exact position by the double headlights, but with only one it might mean the hospital.pocTbrt law Hf Da Mi SCRATCH OUT WHOT I owesi reckV n\e b.n Him kin be Friends noWA„ . va-tak
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Florence Morning News Review
Florence, South Carolina, US
Wed, Sep 29, 1926
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