Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-04
|OBJECTORS' TIME
GIVEN EXTENSION
Trade Commission Allows
Delay for Considering
Practice Revision.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Trade Commission has
formally acceded to the request of trade
practice conferences and will grant a
delay of 80 days from next September
20 in which to file objections in writ
ing to changes or notifications OF ex-
isting laws.
The request was forwarded to Chair
man Ferguson of the commission by
Abram Myers, chairman of the standing
committee Of approximately 100 indus
tries, which already have held trade
practice conferences, on the ground
That such delay would enable the Vari-
Gus industries to compare notes as to
the practicability Of rules now in force,
winch, IN turn, would enable the COM
mission to proceed on facts rather
than opinions.
Those industries which have held
trade practice conferences will meet in
Niagara Falls late in September in con-
junction with the annual convention of
the American Trade Association execu-
uves, where a concrete working sched-
ule will be arranged.
The Succinct purpose Of the various
trade conferences is to elevate compe-
tit1on among allied industries to the
highest point of ethics and efficiency.
In the main, trade practices consist of
two groups of rules-those that nave
been acted on by the courts and another
group yet to be so recognized.
In carrying out a recent executive
order of the President withdrawing oil
Shale lands from lease or other dis
posal, the Interior Department has is
sued the following order to land Offices:
BY executive order and subject to
valid existing rights, the deposits of oil
shale and lands containing such de-
posts owned by the United States were
temporarily withdrawn from lease or
other disposal and reserved for the
purpose of investigation, examination
and classification.
In order to identify for administra-
tive purposes the known areas affected
by the order. the Secretary has ap-
proved maps prepared by the Geological
survey designating the lands contain
ing oil shale Of recognized commercial
Importance IN Colorado, Wyoming and
Utah.
THE oil shale deposits and the lands
so designated, title to which is in the
United States, are by the order with
drawn from lease, entry, selection or
other forms of disposal, and you will
therefore reject all applications for such
mining claims or applications under
other public land laws which are based
on claims to the lands initiated prior
to the date of the withdrawal april
Is, 1890.
Lands not designated on the map
as oil shale, but which are, in fact, valu-
able for their oil shale deposits, are
also withdrawn by said order Affirm
alive proof of the non-oil shale char
acter Of lands not designated on the
maps as oil shale, other than the regular
non-mineral affidavit, will not be re-
CURED
However, If your records show any
land not designated to be In fact oil
shale IN character, you will reject any
application therefor. Any entry, filing
or selection allowed for lands which are
thereafter and prior to patent found to
be valuable for oil shale will be subject
to cancellation by appropriate proceed
ings."
The Federal Trade Commissions in
qutry into the financial structure OF
public utility companies will be deferred
until the middle Of September.
A spokesman for the commission said
today that operating companies of the
Electric Bond 81 Share Co. will be heard
at that time in addition to other groups,
including the North American Co, which
gained an extension some weeks ago.
Following the wave Of mergers and
consultations in other lines of Italian
industry, two of the largest shipbuild-
ing companies have now been brought
under one management by the Banca
Commercials and It's allied interests.
The two yards in question are the
Cantiere Navale Trientina di Monfal-
cone and the Stablimento Teenico Tries
tino, together with the subsidiary Cam
there Navale San Rocco.
The FIRST Of these plants, the Com
merce Department says, is at the head