Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-13
Pipe LINE PROJECT
!. PLANS ARE PUSHED
S15,OO0,000 Gasoline Con-
veyor Will Touch Four
Midwest States.
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 13.-Railroad ex-
ecltives are watching the plans for the
construction of the largest gasoline pipe
line ever built. 1t will cost $l5,000,OOC
and will run 1000 miles from Berger
Tex, through Oklahoma and Kansas tc
Wichita. then to Kansas City and then
to st. Louis 1t will be financed and
controlled by the Phillips Petroleum Co
The railroads are interested because
last year they hauled nearly 100000
cars of gasoline. The country consumed
r. 3s2. 000, 900 barrels of gasoline during
the year.
Now the freight bill on 1000, 900 cars
of gasoline amounts to quite a sum. It
Is one of the major producing revenues
for railroads. While it is not so large
in volume as the automobile business, 1t
. is growing every year.
With the rapid development in ma
tural gas pipe lines, from the mid
continent field to the larger cities of the
Middle West centering about Chicago,
st. Louis. Kansas City, this new gaso-
line pipe line may cause railroad execu-
some of them are operating buses and
elves to work out new policy. Already
airplanes. VIII the pipe line field be
next?
Many believe it will.
The British cabinet changes result
from the increase in the growing num-
Der of unemployed. With l,739, 500
British subjects on the dole" 1t has
reached record proportions. There are
457s,295 more dole" collectors living
of the government now than there we're
-one year ago-the greatest number in
eight years.
The Right Hon. J. H Thomas, lord
~privy seal, has sanctioned capital de-
velopment schemes involving $500, o00,
900 expenditure to employ $50 900 men
during the year, but he admits that
such government action is not q per-
manent solution for unemployment.
The increased taxation, resulting from
the doleS and other heavy weighing eX
0penseS of the government, is the reason
attributed by many for the business de-
preston which is ruling England with
a firmer grip today than it has in 10
years.
There does not seem to be any i'm
mediate prospect for the Bank of Eng
land to reduce the discount rate. 1t
stands today at per cent, while many
business leaders still hope for az per
cent rate.
Cheap money will eventually have its
effect 1t is far better for England to
have a per cent discount rate, which
will last year, than az or even a
per cent rate for only few months.
Paul Moldenhauer, German minister
of finance, faced with a visible deficit
of 100000 for the current fiscal
year, attributed the deficit to the drop
in taxes, custom duties and domestic
imports and the rise of the unemploy-
rnent dole"
The finance minister is not hopeful
for the new budget, because the growing
army of 100000 unemployed is receiv-
ing more and more from the tax dollar.
The dificult thing about it is that
there seems to be no prospect OF let
up in the dole. When labor Leaders
talked to the Federal Minister OF Labor
Stegewald, they argued that the i'm
preston was founded in the tariff poll
cies which increased the cost Of living,
in false measures Of naturalization and
ruthless suppression Of foreign credit to
promote building and other enterprises,
which was expected to automatically
absorb most of the unemployed.
But the minister of labor declared
that it would cost 81 SOC, 600, 900 to pro-
vide work for 2000, 900 men and that
no government could raise that amount
of money. He saw no prospects OF WORK
measures being passed by the ReichStag
to give work to more than 150, 900 men.
So there you are!
Radium, worth nearly 100000 an
ounce. is found only associated with
another rare element-uranium. Yet
the ratio of radium to uranium is al
ways about l to 100000.
The purest uranium materials are in
the Belgian Kongo depositLalmost
pure-yet it takes 200 tons of this high
grade ore to produce one ounce Of
radium.
That's why it's so expensive.
Since the Kongo ore was discovered q
few years ago, no other mines have been
found profitable enough to continue to
extract the radium.
The peculiar thing about it is that
radium constantly changes into other
substances. 1t can exist only as a
product of the atomic disintegration Of
the rare element uranium, says the
United States Department of Com
merce.
Hence, people who are advised to buy
stock in American radium mines, there
fore, better watch their step. This most
elusive metal Is extremely difficult to
mine.
OF course. it Is true that nearly any
mountain of rock does contain radium
but the cost of getting 1t out is gen.
srally far more than the value of the
radium recovered.
In dull times people smoke more than
they do in prosperous times.
This seems to be the gist Of a report
ISSUED by B. D. Hill, chief Of the to-
bacco division of the Department OF
Commerce. who reports q steady up
climb of cigarette production
During the first four months of 1890
the cigarette production Ut amounted
to $4,000, 000,0 00) was over a billion
ahead Of the corresponding period OF
last year-about per cent more
Foreign cigarette trade has fallen of
rather badly-almost so per cent
China, where American cigarettes are
the favorite, shows big drop in de-
mand.
Cigar production continues to drop
For the first quarter Of 1880 the pro.
duction fell of 7 per cent under thu
same period of 1929, the drop being
greatest in the higher priced cigars.
Copyright, 1890. by North American News
paper Allance.)