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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-03

hero, is now mastering golf. That
may sound like a pipe dream, but
Aubrey is out on the links every
week doing just as well as a lot of
other folks, who are digging up
half the courses and breaking clubs
in their efforts to get under 100.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-03

starting at p. m, preceded by o
squad of singles that will go on at
o'clock. The Bankers League
numbers some expert performers
among its members and tonight
will be far from unattractive to spec
tators.
A crack doubles pair viii be seen
in action when Schweinhaut and
Maggie Wood get down to business
on alley No. at 10 D. m.
Cap Dixon probably win be
awarded prize for his high game
if it stands up to the end as high
game in the tournament. He WAS
by far the best performer among
the newspapermen, having set
Of 351.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-03

said that he was the most phenom
email patient he had ever had.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-03

Perhaps Rodrick can explain those
pitiful games of 70, SO and IS in
the city tournament. Nobody else
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
FAIRCHILD WELL AT
STRATTON RIDGE is
CENTER OF INTEREST
Believe Completion OF Good
Producer will Stimu-
late Drilling.

Houston. Tex. March 1..-Atten-
ton was turned last week to Stratton
Ridge in Brazoria county, whcre the
Fairchild Oil company's test is setting
liner TO test out at 1915 feet. This
hoe is an offset to the Freeport Sui
phur company test which proved the
location Of dome and an oil field,
but which was lost. Considerable oil
was bailed from the hole but water
was coming from above. The hole is
in fair condition and producer is
expected.
The Gulf Production company COM
pleted n 1O00-barrel well at 100 feet
ON the east side at Goose Creek and
IL is expected that a number of ether
wells will soon be drilling in this dis
trict. Ii had been known for a long
time that this shallow sand was there,
but no special effort had been made
20 develop it. The Sun company re-
Gently completed o00-barrel well in
the shallow sand. Little attention
was paid the shallow pay while holes
were going to the 4000-foot depth.
The daily average production at
West Columbia is down to less than
10000 barrels. against n production
of more than 10000 barrels last fall.
Few rigs are running Mt this field.
but there is still plenty OF proven
acreage yet to be drilled when the
oil is needed.
The Mecom Oil company completed
the best well at Hull. which had an
initial production of about 80 bar
rels at 1900 feet. This company some
three weeks ago completed we'll or
about the same production.
At Sour Lake, the Gulf Production
company's No. 80 Tarver Hardin is
flowing $50 barrels at 1900 feet.
Practically all of the companies are
working over old wells 10 restore pro-
duction in nearly all Of the fields.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
OIL COMPANIES TO
SPEND so MILLIONS
ON NEW PIPE LINES
Surrey Shows 5000 Miles
Are Planned East
of Rockies.

Tulsa. Okla. March 1..-Spirited
competition for crude oil, especially
crude Of high gasoline content, among
purchasing agencies and refiners the
country over is giving pipe line build
ing work an impetus such as has not
been given within recent years. Con-
structio:. of new trun'' lines. extension
of present systems, increasing carry
ing capacity of present lines and the
further extending of gathering lines is
included in the pipe line activity which
is not being confined TO the Mid-Con-
tinent field but extends into the Rocky
mountain region. The eastern territory
and I'M into Canada. More oil is
needed and the transportation end OF
the industry is being enlarged and ex-
tended 20 adequately care for the in
creased requirements.
A recent survey by the Oil Weekly
on pine line construction work going
on in the fields east of the Rockies
shows that close 10 5000 miles of pipe
is being strung and laid with pumping
stations and sufficient tankage being
built representing combined expendi-
ture estimated at more than SJ0,0O0,-
900.
Sinclair has under way the largest
pipe line construction program Of any
oil company at the present time. This
company has already begun work on
its Wyoming line which will link the
Rocky Mountain fields with the Great
Lakes to the north and the Gulf of
Mexico 10 the south with the compile
ton of the extension from Mexia,
Texas.
Prairie Oil and Gas is extending its
pipe line facilities in the Mid-Conti-
nent so as to handle more light oil.
The company now has a six-inch line
under construction in Northern Okla
homa. which will tap the Tonkawa
field in Kay aid Noble counties. This
line will extend from the Blackwell
STATEN to the Tonkawa field, a dis
lance of about seventeen miles. This
extension will connect with the Prai-
rie's Burbank-Caney system north of
Blackwell. The Tonkawa line will
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

the MaureiSsia's record of four days
and ten hours from sight 10 sight.
There is no doubt in the mind Of any
man who knows the Levi that the
old record can be smashed. The
$500 tons of oil she carries will serve
her for the round trip voyage il she
runs at moderate speed. but if her
vast bulk is jammed through at %
knots-or perhaps 25-she must be
refueled in England. There are only
three ports in the world into which
the Levi can enter commercially. In
the United States there are but two
drydocks into which she can be TAX
en- TO be scraped and painted. One
is at the navy yard at Norfolk and
the other at the navy yard at Bos-
ton.
No doubt she is so filthy under
meath that the barnacles can be taken
off with pick and shovel when she is
locked. In these same roads not long
ago 200 barrels of oysters were re-
moved from the underbody Of a ship
ping board vessel. But it will not
take Tonga month perhaps-for
that work to be done. If she leaves
for Boston on May l, which is posi-
Bile, she may make her nine-daS trial
run and be ready TO take her share
of the transatlantic passenger-carry-
ing trade by July l. Perhaps even by
June 10. That share will be a hefty
one, too, for what used 10 be the
kaiser'S suite may sell for $500. This
is not yet definite. but eight rooms
on the Lewis southern exposure, with
a sun porch and a special room for
the househOlder'S cats and dogs on
the weather deck. will cost not far
from that sum. This does not include
board. of course. The taker of the
kaiser's suite will live n la carte at
the Ritz restaurant.
Cost Has Been S9.OOO,0OO
So, there you are. The second big
gest ship in the world-there is but
six feet difference in favor of the
Majestic-easily the most luxurious,
the most comfortable, certainly the
safest ship in the world. is almost
ready for the seas again. Almost nine
million dollars have been spent ia
putting the Levi TO rights. She could
not be built today for SOS, 100000.
No other shipbuilders, anywhere in
the world, on the authority of hard
boiled old seamen who know their
business. could have done a better
job. They say none others could
have done as well. but that need not
be insisted on. And it could not
have been done at all il the 5000 men
at Newport News who worked on her
had not teamed together every wax
ing moment. Nor could that sort of
team work have been possible had it
not been for the masters ruling Of a
score of years ago:
There shall be no fighting here.
Every man who fights-or sees a
fight-will be fired"
Black and white, the 5000 work
men have pulled. elbow TO elbow.
And the finest ship the world has
ever known is almost ready for the
seas.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
FRIDAY THE. 18TH
WILL BE UNLUCKY
FOR TWO GUNNER
Sentenced to Be Hanged
Next Month on Birthday
of One of Them.
BY MARGARET DALE.

Copyright. by The San Antonio Light.
Chicago. ILL.,, March II. Friday
the thirteenth will spell "finals' il
the career Of William Cramcr ne'er
do well and gunman. 1t also will be
his thirtieth birthday.
He and his companion, Larry Hef-
fernan, in prison today await the
coming of that fatal date next
month. At that time they will be
hanged for the murder of Joe l.anus.
wealthy automobile dealer, found dead
last autumn in his luxurious sales
room in a West Side garage.
In the county Jail today the pair
who we're sentenced TO die yesterday
ut the same time a third accomplicc,
Otto Christensen was given life i'm
prisonment sentence, did not seem
particularly concerned because they
have less than a month TO live.
Il was born on the thirteenth OF
April said Cramer TO Heffernan.
We'll, you are TO get swell neck
tie for a birthday present" COM
mented the latter with grin.
The tip which resulted in the arrest
and conviction of the murderers of the
wealthy automobile man. crime
which it had been believed would go
down into criminal history unsolved,
came from Cramer's Tilted sweetheart
and she was the chief witness against
the trio.
Come to think of it. believe it
was the thirteenth when | had my
fight with my girl soliloquizcd
Crames.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
VICAR IS CHARTERED
Broadcasting Station Is Incorporated
With $4,000 Capital Stock.

Charter of the Alamo Radio Elcc-
tric Company of San Antonio, with
a capital stock of 10000. was filed
in Austin Saturday. Incorporators
we're given as ]. G. Rodriguez, G.. It.
Atchison and W. G. Egerton.
The Alamo Radio Electric Com
pany operates radio and electrical
goods shop on East Travis street.
1t is the owner of station VICAR.
which broadcasts programs on certain
nights each week.
The G.. A. Showers Furniture Com
pany of San Antonio Saturday filed
an amendment to its charter, increas-
ing its capital stock from 100000
TO 81 100000. The increase in CAPT.
tai stock was made TO permit expan-
sion, Showers officials said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
TO DRILL AT LULING
San Marcos Men to Commence Well
Soon on Polk Tract.

San Marcos. Tex. March tO.-The
Luling Oil and Gas Company has
erected derrick on the Polk tract.
about six miles north of Luling and
expects to begin drilling soon. accord
ing TO announcement by J.. II. Younger
secretary of the company. The loca-
ton for the now well is one mile
from the Smith well of Hitchcock.
Cooper and Feltner. which is said 10
have encountered showings of oil and
gas.
The organizers OF the Lulng Oil
and Gas Company are all Hays county
people with the exception of DR.. F. J..
Cummings. who lives in Seattle, Wash
Officers are: W. 4. Chesser. presi-
dent DIR. +. /. Cummings, vice presi-
dent; i. II. Younger, secretary-treas-
urer. ]. Il. Cox, r. w. Flint and
i. +. Hammett are trustees.
1t is reported that Paul J. Rogers.
W. II. Jennings and Herman +. Heep
of San Marcos have obtaiied 40 acres
in the w. III. Tabor tract from the
United North and South Oil Company
and Will begin well soon.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
POSTED PRICE
Of GULF COAST
OILS ADVANCED
Operators Now Getting
SITS for Best Grades
Of Crude. q
GRADING is CHANGED
AS Result Smackover Oil
Is Commanding High.
er Prices.

Houston. Tex. March 1s.-Although
there was an advance in the posted
Price of Gulf Coast crudes during the
week. and Il change in the method OF
grading Smackovcr. Ark, increasing
the price for some oil. there We're no
indications in the United States that
a general increase in crude prices was
impending. Rather, il appeared that
prices would continue at Il standstill
until later in the spring, when the
demand for refined products forced
strong competition for the lighter
grades of crude.
The increase in Gulf Coast crude
came Thursday morning. when the
Humble Pipe Line Company an
nounced 2J-cent boost for all grades
that the company buys. Other pur-
chasing concerns met the increase
later. This makes the better grade
OF Gulf Const crude Sis 4 barrel
against S1.2J this time last year. The
off grade of crude at Pierce Junction
and Blue Ridge is now quoted ut
81 80 a barrel.
The daily average production OF
Texas Gulf Coast cPuue WAS around
10000 barrels carly insJanuary and
has declined to about SI.15O bar
res the second wec's in March. The
continued decline in production
brought about the increase. but even
at this time with the production de
clining as it has been DONG. there is
no crying demand for crude that can
not be filled. The independent re
fincrs are having their wants cared
for at reasonable premiums.
Smactoyer Grade Higher.
The change in the grades at Smack
over means that the lower gravi,ics
take Il slightly higher price. All oil
- TO 23.9 gravity is now worth 81
against 30 cents last week. In this
fild. the oil of 70 gravity and better
is selling AZ $l.35 barrel. This bet
ter grade oil is coming FROM the light
oil district, where the big play is now
being staged.
In North Texas and Oklahoma there
is no mad scramble for crude OF the
lighter grades and the larger purcbas-
ing companies and the more important
independent refiners are able to buy
all the crude they need for the pres
ent. In North Texas last week some
crude was being offered at reduced
premiums for immediate delivery.
The refined market is showing no
Improvement, as had been expected.
Another blizzard in the North IL hav-
ing a bad effect and continued rains
prevent the sale of gasoline in large
quantities. The lube market is just
fair. with Indications that il will i'm
prove with better weather. Quotations
will hardly stiffen TO any degree un-
til this better business is in actual
sight.
Daily Output Gains.
The daily production of the United
States for the week ending March 10
was 1,SG6965 barrels against 1.SCI,-
COS barrels the preceding week. ac
cording TO the Oil Weekly. Califor-
MIA production is now 635 0G0 .barrels
day. an increase Of 5000 barrels
over the previous week. Production in
the mountain states also shows an in
cease of about 5000 barrels daily.
The demand for tankers in the
movement between California and
east coast ,lnts has broustt about
n boost in the tariff to 90 cents n
barrel for Grade and 81 for gasoline.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
OPEN NEW BANK
Peoples Investment Bank Operated
Similarly to Morris Plan.

The Peoples Investment Bank. All
Houston building. is selling stock and
San Antonio will soon have another
well established bank which is TO be
operated similarly TO the Morris Plan
banks. the prospectus states. 1t has a
capital stock of 100000. W. A. Har-
borth. James A. Harley. C. W. Titus.
j.. A. Chapa and c. G. Goebel are
the trustees.
This bank 'specializes in making
short-time loans TO non-propertied
people and give the borrower ten
months to repay the loan. according to
Mr.. Goebel. He says the stock of
the institution also offers an invest
ment Of the highest financial type.
Institutions of this kind are primary
factors in stabilizing the character,
moral and general conditions of labor
in the older industrial centers, NJ.
Goebel says.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

have a capacity of 10000 barrels daily
and will be welded. Up in Kansas
the Prairie also is building some ex-
tensions into new light oil pools.
Besides Sinclair, the Illinois Pipe
Line company and Midwest Refining
both are active in pipe line construc-
ton work in the Rocky Mountain sec
ton.
The SmGckover field in Arkansas
also is coming in for more play from
pipe line companies. who are connect
ing with the field for the purpose
purchasing crude.
Undoubtedly. as the race for light
oil gains more speed additional pipe
line ventures will be planned and I'M
dertaken. rs they now are being plan
ned by several companies not includ-
cd in this survey.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery, not a
graveyard, beautiful, well kept burial
park. Crockett 16SS.--(Ady.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
TO TEST SIGMUkD NO. 3
Arkansas Company in San Patricio
County in Favorable Formation.

The No. 3 Sigmund of the Arkansas
Live Oak Ridge Oil Company in San
IatrIcio county received good
showing of gas recently Mt $500 feet,
according to John Sigmund, presi.
dent of the company.
He also states that they are in rich
formations now and showings are
very favorable. This well is now pre-
pairing TO test out.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18
GREAT FArHsR.

Eddie-why's Willie so stuck UP
these days? He amt no better'n US.
Billie--I know; but his father said
that he didn't have TO study gees.
raphy until things got settled IN
Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
PLOWMAN HONORED

The Bankhead National Highway
association, desiring to honor the
memory of it's first president. ex
Congressma Thomas L. Plowman OF
Talladega, Ala, has created commit
tee of Is, with Mr.. Leon G. Jones OF
Talladega as chairman. who is also
treasurer of the Bankhead National
Highway association.
This committee is composed of one
member from each of the 10 states
through which the Bankhead National
highway traverses. with Col Benehan
Cameron, president, and J. A. Poun-
tree, director-general. as ex-officio
members.
This committee has been created by
the Bankhead National Highway as
ISOLATION with full power to locate
the place for the erection of the mon
ument on the Bankhead highway in
the city of Talladega, to select the
design and to solicit funds for the
same. The committee. with Mr.. Leon
G. Jones. has gone forward and 6e-
cided on the spot and also size of
the monument, the inscription and the
cost of the same. This monument is
to be carved out of Talladega marble
and is to be erected by contributions
from the 10 states through which the
Bankhead highway traverses. which
are: Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis
sippi Tennessee. Arkansas, Oklahoma.
Texas. New Mexico, Arizona and Cali.
fornia. Already a number of con-
tributions have been received from
the states named. At the last an
nual meeting of the association at
Greenville. S. c.. April 16 to 21, Chair
man Jones and his committee were au-
thorized to go forward in the prose-
cution of the work in the erection
of this monument. 1t Is expected that
every state will come up with its
quota and that this monument viii.
be completed. erected and unveiled
with ceremonies befitting the oc-
casion during the coming month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
MOTOR DIGEST
Auto Activities Throughout
the World

More than 100000 motor vehicle
licenses were issued in Great Britain
last year.
Farmers in Sweden are operat-
ing no fewer than 1,770 motor trac-
tors, representing a total value of
s4,000,000
Pennsylvania now has 500, 500 pas
senger automobiles. The total num-
Der of licenses issued last year was
764,797.
In Spain, motorcycles are used by
the army, telegraph and police serv-
ices, as well as by wealthy young
men for sport purposes.
1t is estimated that the automobile
industry in 1922 consumed so per
cent of the United States consump-
ton of gasoline, or 1852, 504,177 gal
Ions.
Health authorities of one region in
Austria are trying to have the use of
automobiles on Sunday prohibited on
the ground that the dust affects chill
dren's lungs.
Motor vehicles stolen in the United
States last year were valued at $780,,
100000. The number exceeds all the
d
Turkey and Germany.
Archie Rife of Sacramento, Cal,
recently set what was said to be
worlds record for endurance motor
cycle riding when he completed II
hours of riding. He was finally
stopped by the police.
In the last Is years the United
States has sepent between $4,000
100000 and 100000 100000 for pas
senger automobiles and trucks More
than $4,000 100000 has been expended
for improved roads.
Speeders in Akron, O., are fined 81
speed limit, their machines being
timed by the arresting afficers. When
arrested within a school district, the
speeder's fine is doubled.
More than $4,000, 600 will be spent
this year on making new highways
or improving old ones in eight of the
central states, Illinois. Indiana, Kan
sas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri.
Oklahoma and Texas.
Automobiles in Switzerland are for
hidden to travel at a greater speed
than between Is and 10 miles an hour
on Sundays, and motorists are pun
ished if they should pass another car
going in the same direction on this
day.
For the last 20 years, motor We
hicle license plates in Massachusetts
have been blue and white. Next sea-
son the plates will be a red back
ground with white letters and figures,
and each year thereafter the color
combination will be changed.
One of the latest motor stunts was
recently accomplished by Alfred
Hatos, 56. of Metuchen. N. J., when
he was towed all the way from New
York city to Philadelphia. Pa. by
means of a tow rope held in his teeth.
Hatos was seated in the motorcycle
sidecar, and the towing party in an
automobile.
Manufacturers and users of traffic
signals, federal and state govern
mental departments, and associations
interested in the prevention of traf-
fic accidents, arc now at work on the
drafting of a national code on the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
PARTIES GOING To
SHRINE MEETING
ON JUNE THIRD
Requested To Get In Touch
With Birmingham Auto
Club

The Birmingham Automobile club
has been earnestly requested by the
American Automobile association 10
be advised of any parties from Biz
mingham to Washington to attend
the Shrine convention on June 3.
The American Automobile associa-
ton promises all automobilista Won
derful time, desiring to meet them
en- route and have prepared suitable
entertainment and refreshments as
we'll as special maps covering routes
over the city. showing the principal
points of interest, which will be dis
tributed to visiting motorists, they
expecting to make this meeting the
greatest convention ever held in the
national capital.
Members may call upon the local
club for detailed inform alton, where
account is being kept of parties go
Ing as well as time and date Of their
departure.
The club recommends that none of
it's members should make this trip
without being thoroughly insured and
takes this opportunity to say that
considerable premium money can be
saved it's members, which is being
daily evidenced by the fact that the
establishment of this feature in con-
nection with the club has far eX-
ceeded its expectations.
The great number of tourists which
ere now passing through Birmingham
is well known by the Automobile club.
as it is besought daily by 80 to 10
callers desiring maps and road in
formation, all of which is being kept
Up with very closely and in detail
by its road information department..
Many requests are now being made
upon the club by its members for
touring information all the way from
California to Maine. upon which sub
ject it is strictly up-to- date, having
local road information from point ia
point practically all over the United
States, and is the subject of mucn
admiration by the prospective tourists
due to the fact that the club has
this information available and strict
ly up-to the minute,
From the regular influx of inter
ested parties in reference to road in
formation and insurance tho clur
looks forward to the necessity of in
creasing its office force.
The Birmingham Auto club mem
bers will be some dressed up when
they receive their new A. A. A. en-
blems, which will be seen on the
streets within the next few days
This will naturally eliminate the car
owner who is at present parading
the old emblem on his radiator as a
member of the Birmingham Auto
mobile club but is not.