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when were the first wells drilled

When were the first wells drilled
for oil?
1t is historic fact that petroleum
was used on the walls of Babylon
and Nineveh about 1000 B. G. For
ages seepages of crude oil have
been drawn on and used by the peo-
pie of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India
and China, and for many centuries
they had dug wells, and pits were
used for collection of petroleum.
The modern method of drilling is
believed to have originated with
the Chinese several centuries ago,
and those wells yielded small guam
titles Of oil, gas and brine. Com
merce in oil is known to have ex-
listed in the Baku district of Rus
STA as early as the tenth century,
but the modern industry really be-
gan when the Drake well was drilled
near Titusville, Pa, in August,
1859.
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Questions and
Answers

Where is the oldest working coal
mine in the world?
Probably it is a mine in Man
churia, said to have been worked
1900 years ago.
Where and when were tho first
watches made?
Watch making began early In the
sixteenth Gentry, and Peter Hele, a
clock maker of Nuremburg, Ger
many, generally Is credited with the
invention.
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Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
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When Ghosts Rush In
THE country has steeled itself to
i the fact that some of our
Presidents arc . Ittls uncertain
Evening star., 1932-07-23
GUARDSMEN LEAVE
FOR CAMP R|TCH|E
Silver Spring, Kensington,
Laurel and HyattsviIIe Units
Depart for Training.

Wartime scenes were re-enacted In
four nearby Maryland towns today
when the National Guard companies at
Silver Spring, kensington, Laurel and
Hyattsville shouldered their equipment
bic friends and relatives farewell anc
then entrained for Camp Albert c
Rltchie. at Cascade. Md, where they
begin their tWo-week training course
this afternoon with other units of the
Maryland National Guard.
A special train left Laurel early this
morning. moved on to Hyattsville, Sill
yer Spring and Kensington and then
sped onward toward Camp Ritchie with
more than 200 GuardSmen from the
four communities in Prince Georges anG
Montgomery Counties.
1t was announced today that Col. D
John Markey, commander of the Ist In
fantry, with which the four nearby
companies are affiliated, has issued
invitations to the American Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars posts anG
ether service clubs in the two counties
TO attend Veterans day at Camp Ritchie
on July 81, when a parade and review
VIII be held in honor of Maryland men
who have served with the United States
in any of its wars.
Invitations have also been mailed
throughout the two counties for the
annual military ball, to be given by Col
Markey and other officers of the 1st
Infantry at the Monterey Club next
Saturday night.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
V|RG|N|AN FREED
IN GASOLINE CASE
Judge Holds Tank Was Part
of CARD. C. Man Fined
on Similar Charge.
Bv a staff Correspondent Of The Star

By staff Correspondent of The Star
ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT
HOUSE. Va, July 23.-The first case
by the State under the new law pro-
hibiting the importation for personal
use of more gasoline than is contained
in the regular tank of motor vehicle
was lost yesterday when County Judge
B. M Hedrick found M. Earl Spicer of
Winchester not guilty on a charge OF
having brought 10 gallons into the State
in an auxiliary tank on the truck he
was driving A similar charge against
Garret H. Lamont of Washington re-
suited in a conviction.
In the Spicer case it was charged
that he had purchased 10 gallons of
gasoline in Hyattsville, Md, and placed
it in the auxiliary tank. 1t was tes-
titled that the truck was returning from
Baltimore to Winchester with a load
of produce. The defense claimed that
the motor of the truck and was there
fore part of regular mechanism of
the truck. This view was upheld by
Judge Hedrick, who pointed to the fact
that the law holds that gasoline may
be brought into the State only in a
tank connected with the motor as an
integral part of the vehicle.
Lamont was fined S3425 on a charge
of importing so gallons of gasoline in
with the motor. The State appealed
from the acquittal in the first case and
the defendant appealed in the second
Evening star., 1932-07-23
14,OO0 TELEPHONES
WILL SHIFT To DIAL
OPERATION TONIGHT
Switch From Manual to Auto
matte Control to Be a
Matter of Seconds.
NO LOSS OF JOBS
ENTAILED IN CHANGE
Cleveland-Emerson System Is In
volved-0perators to Be Placed
in Other Duties.

Tonight at II o'clock $4,000 tele-
phones in the residential section will
be switched from manual to automatic
control with hardly break in service.
The change will be made in the
Cleveland-Emerson system, which oc-
cupies new building at Wisconsin
avenue and Warren street.
Although the actual change from the
old equipment to the new is but mat
ter of seconds. it involves preparations
that have been carried On for more
than year.
Dramatic Episode.
The placing Of new central Office
into service is filed with dramatic mo-
ments Tor telephone men. The pre-
ltminarieS include the erection of a new
building, installation of new equipment
and the placing of additional cable IA
clHtles. Final tests are made for weeks
and every known chance Of error
guarded against.
Then comes the final signal. A few
brief seconds and the old central Office
cables are cut-hundreds at a time
When this Is completed a second signal
Is flashed and the small blocking tools
which have kept the new Office discon-
nected from the old by blocking out the
line relays are swiftly removed.
Then 1t is all over. The operators
Number. please" is a thing of the
past to $4,000 people. The dial tele-
phone. one of the marvels of mans
ingenuity. has been brought to them
overnight.
No Loss Of Jobs.
Dial service was introduced in Wash
ington in May. 1880, in the District
Metropolitan National central offices
With the Cleveland Emerson installa-
tion completed nearly half the tele-
phones in Washington are on a dial
basis
The change from manual to dial
service. according to company officials,
does not involve any loss OF Jobs to
telephone employees. All unneeded op-
orators under the system will be placed
in other capacities. and an increased
force OF specially trained technicians
VIII be required to care for the new
equipment.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
AUTO BULLET HOLE
PUZZLES OFFICIALS
Driver Says He Was Fired on En-
tering Soldiers Home-Shot-
Riddled Car Gone.

Two conflicting reports of what is be-
lieved to have been the same shooting
incident-one that a passing automo-
being chased by police, the other that
the automobile figured in a gun battle
with another machine in another sec
tion of the city-were being inveSti-
gated today by second and tenth pre-
cinct police.
Nick Carrulli, 633 Hamilton street.
told tenth precinct police he was turn
ing into the Soldiers Home GROUNDS
from Michigan avenue about 130 am.
today when car with a smoke screen
in operation sped past and the occupant
fired a shot at him. The bullet i'm
bedded itself in the right side of Car
rulli's car near the rear, he said. The
machine from which it was fired. he
added, was being pursued by another
automobile.
A short time later. second precinct
police received report that a bullet
riddled car had been abandoned in the
HOO block of Eighth street following an
exchange of shots with the occupants
of another machine. Capt. Hugh Grove,
second precinct commander, sent a
policeman to the scene, but the supposed
bullet-riddled automobile had been re-
moved.
Officers who participated in the
liquor chase. in which the fugitive auto
mobile made its getaway after being
pursued about 10 miles, told Capt. Ira
Sheets, tenth precinct commander, they
did not fire at the car. They Joined
the chase, they said, after the machine
with the smokescreen had been followed
into the District by Maryland police.
The other officers likewise did not fire,
they said.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
THREE CITIES SEEK
LEGION CONVENTION
Richmond, Bristol and Radford to
Vie for Honor Of Being
Host to 1888 Meet,
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 23.-Spir
tied bidding for the 1888 State depart
ment convention of the Virginia Amer
lean Legion is presaged for the forth
coming 1882 meet here July 81 to Au-
gust 8.
Posts in Richmond. Bristol and Rad
ford have instructed their delegates to
press their invitations for the 1888 ses-
sion.
Richmond posts. the city Of Rich
mond and the Richmond Chamber of
Commerce have joined hands in their
effort, and Mayor J. Fulmer Bright, a
Legionnaire, plans to attend the 1882
convention here to extend Richmond s
invitation personally.
The Harvey Howe Carter Post of
Radford. with the support of local pro-
fessional and business men also has
laid plans to campaign for the 1888
convention there.
Radford Legionnaires also point out
that only once heretofore has South
western Virginia been given the oppor-
tunity to entertain the veterans.
The Bristol Chamber of Commerce
also has by formal action Endorsed
efforts of the James c. Brewer Post to
obtain the 1888 meet for Bristol.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
PREPARES TO HANDLE
AIR DERBY cnOWDS
Washington Hoover Airport Ar.
ranges Parking Space for
10000 Autos.

To handle the crowds expected at
Washington-H Hoover Airport to watch
the start of the Atlantic wing of the
National Handicap Air Derby August 81
and three days of flying events preced-
ing the take-off, the Washington Air
Derby Committee announced today that
parking areas are being prepared
for approximately 10000 automobiles.
Grandstends will be constructed on
both sides of the Administration Build
ing at the airport.
Tickets for the aeronautical events in
the first air meet to be held as civic
event in the Capital, are to go on sale
next week, it was announced by Ches-
ter Warrington, chairman Of the COM
mittee.
The administration building on the
old Hoover Field area will be used as a
first aid station during the meet, the
equipment including an ambulance and
crash truck" Military units from
Fort Myer will patrol Military road dur
ing the meet
Amelia Earhart Putnam and Cliff
ford Henderson, managing director of
the National Air Races at Cleveland,
were here yesterday to discuss plans
for the coming derby. Mrs. Putnam
also conferred with Senator Bingham CT
Connecticut, president of the National
Aeronautic Association, of which she is
vice president.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
Workers FurIoughed for Six
Months Would Be First in
Line for Positions.
COMMISSION TO TAKE
CLASSIFICATION WORK
Capitalization Is Aim in Consoli-
dation of Agencies Handling
Employees.

In an effort to provide employment
for Government workers who may be
furloughed under the economy act, for
six months or more, under the economy
act, the Civil Service Commission has
set Up a new Unemployment register,
under direction of Gov. Thomas E.
Campbell, president of the commission,
and chairman of the Council on Per-
sonnel Administration.
Employees cannot be placed on this
register unless they have been fur
loughed by department for at least
six months, Gov. Campbell explained,
but when such action is taken then
they will be in line for positions which
can be filed only by direction of the
President.
Under the economy act filling OF
vacancies is prohibited. except by
special appointment by the President.
on recommendation of the director OF
the Bureau of the Budget, or under
other specific requirements named in
the act.
Transfer Is Planned.
Workers who may be furloughed for
less than six months would go back on
their own rolls if the department found
NOlh lOA tiiSIAl' wv
planned
Meantime the Civil Service Commis-
sion is laying plans to take over the
duties of the Personnel Classification
Board on October 4, as authorized by
the economy act.
Details of this transfer have not all
been worked cut. it was learned, but
plans are being discussed and the gen.
eral problems of consolidating the work
of the Personnel Classification Board
with the commission are being carefully
studied.
Capitalization Is Aim.
Some personnel of the board may be
absorbed by the commission, it is under
Stood but probably not all of it. The
Personnel Classification Board consists
of the director of the Bureau of the
Budget, the chief of the Bureau of
Efficiency and the president of the Civil
Service Commission. and is actively ad-
ministered by director Of classif1ca-
ton.
Under the economy act all work Of
the board will be placed under the
commission as a further move looking
toward a GENERALIZATION Of organizations
handling personnel matters. This move
through the Presidents Council on
Personnel Administration, consisting Of
the cabinet officers and heads OF i'm
portant independent establishments,
with Gov. Campbell as chairman. Many
personnel matters clear through the
council now.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
FORT HOYLE FOOD TESTED.
Cause of Illness Of so C. M. T. c.
Members Sought.

Samples of food served at the Fort
Hoyle, Md, mess Tuesday evening,
which made i'll so members of the c.
NJ T. C. stationed there, were being
analyzed at the Walter Reed Medical
School today to determine the nature
of the poisoning.
While the wholesale illness has been
almost definitely attributed to ptomaine
poisoning. an official of the school said
peculiar thing about the epidemic
was that none of the victims became
i'll until Wednesday morning, many
hours after the food had been con-
sumed. Ptomaine, it was pointed out,
generally takes effect in much less time
Less than dozen of the youths who
were taken to the camp hospital We'd
nesday were still confined today, and
none of these is said to be seriously ill.,
Fort Hoyle is located near the Edge
wood Arsenal, at Edgewood, Md, about
20 miles northeast of Baltimore. There
are 448 members of the c. M. T. c. in
training there, most Of them from
Baltimore and Northern Maryland. The
camp instruction is confined to field
artillery work, the youths are receiving
training from officers of the Sixth
Field Artillery Regiment.
Officials of the camp said all Of the
stricken civilian soldiers dined in the
same mess hall. The food served to
them was the same variety which was
eaten by the rest of the camp. 1t was
not the type, 1t was said, which could
easily become tainted.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
DR, MARVIN DENIES
| SHAKE-UP AT c. ".
No Medical School Changes
Made Beyond Previous
Policy Announcement.

Reports Of wholesale designations and
dismissals on the staff of George Wash
ington University Medical School were
denied today by DR.. Cloyd Heck Mar
vim, president of the university. He
said the only change in the policy of
the school has been the previously de-
clared program of expansion to lnclude
more emphasis on research work.
Three members of the faculty volun-
tarily resigned at the close of the term,
Dr. Marvin said, and the designations
of three others were requested.
The published report said 70 members
of the faculty would complete their
work this year because they objected to
a proposal to ask S2.000,000 OF the
Rockefeller Foundation this Fall for the
purpose of placing additional emphasis
on research work.
DR.. Marvin denied the school had
asked or expected to ask the foundation
for any money. The school, DR.. Mar
vim said, has appropriated S150,0OO OF
its own funds to add to the medical
laboratories and materials. He said 1t
will be the schools policy to strengthen
rather than curtail the regular teach
ing program through inclusion OF more
research work.
It was decided. DR.. Marvin explained.
to place every member of the staff on
salary or an honorarium basis and as
consequence some Of the annual ap-
pointments on an honorary basis were
not made this year.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
Hot Dog Price War
Spreads to Barber,
Ice Cream Trade
Quarter Haircuts and 25.
Cent Ice Cream Adver.
tised at Winchester.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WINCHESTER, Va, July 23.-Fol-
lowing the "hot-dog' price war, which
was warmly welcomed by many lunch
counter diners recently, other price wars
broke out this week, precipitated, it was
said, to encourage people to spend their
money. If they have any. Several bar
Der shops which had been charging
35 cents for haircuts with no extras
included dropped to quarter, and
neck shave included. Another shop
has gone one better, announcing To-
cent shaves, 20-cent haircuts and spe-
cial haircuts for children 10 cents.
Some Of the plate-glass-front shops,
however, still cling to the old prices.
in the hope of making living serving
an established clientele
Another price war broke out in the
ice cream business, which had become
sluggish. Numerous establishments have
sprung up, advertising homemade ice
cream at % and rs cents per quart.
Former prices had been 35 and so
cents per quart. Competition was re-
ported keener in the ice cream business
and the price war more spirited than
that among the BARRIERS. Some Of the
ice cream places were advertising curb
service and also selling double-deck
cones for cents.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
THREE COLORED MEN
DIE BY DROWNING
One Loses Life in Attempt to
Rescue Four Year
Old Son.

Three colored men were drowned here
within the past "a hours.
Linton Edmonds, %, lost his life in
Rock Creek yesterday afternoon when
he went to the rescue Of his 4-year old
son. who had become stranded on a
Sandbar while wading under the P
Street Bridge. and stepped into deep
water The fire rescue squad was sum-
moned but could not revive the man.
The body was removed to the morgue
The second colored man drowned was
Bradley Atwater. 35, of the 2300 block
of Virginia avenue. who fell from a
wharf into the river His body was re-
covered by the rescue squad.
The third drowning was that of an
unidentified man. who early today fell
off the Washington Gas Light Co.'S
pumping station wharf in the Rock
Greek and Potomac Parkway. The
body was removed to the morgue.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
.CAROLINIAN LOSES ARM
IN TRAIN ACCIDENT HERE
Falls From Door of Coach at Sew
enth Street and Maryland
Avenue Station.

Quincy White, 36. of Mount Vernon
Springs, N. c., had his left arm cut off
just above the wrist yesterday when he
fell from Southern Railway train as it
started to move away from the station
at Seventh street and Maryland avenue
southwest.
White, said to be owner of several
farms near Mount Vernoc Sa1ngs, was
taken to Emergency Hospital, where an
ton today was said to be good.
He told police he was standing In
the door of coach while the train was
stopped at the staten. He said he
lost his balance and fell when the train
started, his arm falling under the
wheels. White had been in Washington
several days on business, it was said.
Evening star., 1932-07-23
PLAN HOLDS
IT'S POPULARITY IN CONGRESS
More Than Dozen Members Adopt Plan in One Variation
or Another With Success.

Neatly-typed letters apparently pave
the way to the congressional heart
much in the fashion OF toothsome cook
cry.
Comment OF this nature regarding the
more than IL members who have adopt
ed the Secretary-Wife combination fol-
lowed the announcement yesterday OF
the marriage Tuesday in New York of
Representative Samuel Dickstein, Demo-
crat, of New York, to his secretary, Miss
Essie Tevers.
From the Speaker Of the House on
down to some Of the latest recruits to
the roll call the secretary-wife combina-
tion has been winner.
Sometimes they make secretaries OF
their wives, sometimes they make wives
of their secretaries and sometimes they
marry their secretaries and keep them,
too.
Garner Heads List.
Speaker Garner and Floor Leader
Rainey stand at the head of long list
who are happy in having made secre-
taries of their wives.
That busy insurgent. Representative
La Guardia, Republican, of New York.
leads those who have made wives OF
their secretaries. Among others on
that list are Senator La Toilette, Re
publican, of Wisconsin; Representative
Huddleston, Democrat, of Alabama
Representative Boland, Democrat. OF
Pennsylvania. and Representative Muir
ply, Republican, of Ohio.
Representative Schafer, Republican,
of wisconsin, conspicuous as an anti
prohibitionist. has had the aid of the
same efficient secretary throughout his
Evening star., 1932-07-23
NATION IN CRISIS
| LAUDED BY ADAMS
Mountain Road Dedication
Crowd Told Achievements
From Modest Beginning.

The crisis the Nation is passing
through is 1.-The worlds grandest expert
ment," Secretary Adams said today in
an address delivered at the dedication
of the Cadillac Mountain read in Acadia
National Park in Maine at noon. He
told his audience that nowhere else
have we so perfect a composition Of
sea and forest and mountain, each ever
changing with the mood of nature" as
in Acadia National Park. Accom-
panied by Admiral William " Pratt,
chief OF Naval Operations, the cabinet
officer went to Maine to represent
President Hoover at the dedication cere-
monies
Three destroyers of the Scouting
Force, the U. S. S. cambridge. Tillman
and Goff, were at Bar Harbor, Me,
during the ceremonies.
Great Nations Start.
During the address Secretary Adams
said: In a couple of hundred years,
from the beginnings of few simple
stout hearted adventures, We have built
this Nation, now seething with problems
and gcing, Heaven knows where, at
fearful speed. We have built an in
dustrial machine SO perfect and so
intricate that it was the admiration and
wonder of the world. We are staggered
to find that this machine whirls itself
to destruction if it cannot be run near
full speed.
We have a political problem so vast,
country SO enormous, with interests
SO diverse and divergent, that our fine
form of government creaks and groars
under the strain. We have a social
problem too vast and intricate and
difficult for knowledge CT analysis At
least. We know that America has aban-
doned its old simple pleasures and
virtues and adopted in places race
for riches, mad desire for rapid-fre
pleasures and white lights, mixed with
sane and noble motives and people in
proportion no one can guess or state.
Gangsters and Children.
I'VE have gangsters and hard-living
girls, mixed together and Whirling
along toward results we can only hope
to be good. l do not despair. On the
contrary, this is the worlds grandest
experiment. I only want to ask: What
better thing can be offered to this
great country of ours than this op-
portunity to come back to its old moor
ings; to nature, to simple inspiring
pleasures, and good ways?
Here, people must think justly and
nobly before they plunge on to the end.
Il hold that you have preserved for
our people the best revelation Of the
meaning and lessons of nature; Gods
greatest gift to mankind"
Evening star., 1932-07-23
Tags Curtis Auto
Found Parked in
Restricted Zone
Policeman Gives Vice
President and Italian
Official Tickets

Vice President Curtis automobile was
tagged last night by Policeman c. E.
Hansboro of the Traffic Bureau for al
legged violation of traflc regulations
while parked in the 1900 block OF F
street At the same time the same
officers placed a ticket on the car OF
Count Guido RoncalI ii Montorio, first
secretary of the Italian embassy.
The Vice Presidents car was said by
Hansboro to have been parked in a
restricted zone. while the diplomat S
automobile was tagged allegedly for dis
obeying an official sign.
Asked about the matter at the Capt.
tol today, Mr.. Curtis said he told his
chauffeur to see the authorities about
it lust like any other man. The Vice
President said he knew little OF the
matter, but understood the car had
been parked where police in the past
have said it should be. The Vice Presi-
dent was attending a show at an F
street theater in company with Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward E. Gam.
It was stated at the Italian embassy
today that Count Guido Roncalli di
Montorio was not present when the car
was tagged. The car, it was pointed
cut. bears the license number which has
diplomatic immunity.