Evening star., 1933-08-22
OIL FACTIONS ASK
% n. R. A. PLACES
Applications for Committee
Membership to Be Act
ed on Soon.

BY the Associated Press.
Warning factions Of the oil industry
have filed 46 nominations with the Ma
tional Recovery Administration for
membership on the committee which
will govern the industry under the
petroleum code signed Saturday.
The committee will be composed Of
IS members, II drawn from the petro-
leum industry and three from the N. r..
A., and President Roosevelt is expected
this week to announce the membership
Of the group.
Recommendation of preferential nomi-
neeS from the industry was UNDERSTOOD
in authoritive sources to be up to Sec
retary Ickes, whose Interior Depart
ment will be the driveshaft OF the Fed
eral unit President Roosevelt will desig-
nate to work with the committee.
Causes Speculation.
In some oil circles it was felt this
might mean half Of the IL would be
nominated from the faction that de-
manded rigid Federal price fixing, a
position toward which Ickes leaned.
Industrial Administrator Hugh s. john
son, on the other hand, opposed price
regulation.
Nineteen nominees for the committee
were submitted to johnson yesterday by
the Emergency National Committee of
81, organized under auspices of the
American Petroleum Institute, the
group leading the fight for price fixing.
They were:
Axtell Byles. president of the Amer
lean Petroleum Institute; K R. Kings
bury, president of the Standard Of
California; E. B. Reeser, Barnsdall Oil
Corporation: H. F.. Sinclair, chairman,
Consolidated Oil Corporation; Writ
Franklin, president, Independent Pc
troleum Association; r. T. Zook, PENN
sylvania Grade Crude Oil Association;
B. L. Majewski. Deep Rock Oil Cor
poration; Charles F. Roeser, Fort
Worth. Tex; Howard Bennette, West
ern Petroleum Refiners' Association;
w. T. Holiday, Standard of Ohio: w.
D. Hudson, Tennessee Oil Mems Asso-
citation; Frank Phillips, Phillips Petro-
leum Co.; Henry M Dawes, Pure Oil
Co.; A. L. Derby, Derby Oil Co.; w. j.
Reid, Hancock Oil Co; L. P. st. Clair,
Union Oil of California: Paul Blazer,
Ashland Refining Co.; T. H. Barton,
Lion Oil & Refining Co.; E. v. Weber,
Ohio Petroleum Marketers' Association.
Anti-Price Fixing Group.
Fifteen nominations were made by the
anti-price fixing group, including the
following:
c. B. Ames, chairman, Texas Co.; c.
E. Arnott, president, Socony- Vacuum
Corporation; o. D. Donnell, president,
Ohio Oil Co.; J. F. Drake, president,
Gulf OIL Co.; w. S. Parish, chairman,
Standard of New Jersey; ]. France,
president, Midcontinent Oil Corpora
ton; w. M. Irish, president, Atlantic
Refining Co.; A. Jacobson, president,
Amerada Petroleum Corporation; D. j.
Moran, president, Continental Oil Co.;
j. Howard Pew, president, Sun Oil Co. j:
E. G. Seubert, president, Standard of
Indiana; E. L. Shea, president, Tide
Water Oil Co.; W. G. skelly, president,
Skelly Oil; w. E. Smith, president,
Standard of Kentucky, and R. Wander
woude, president, Shell Union Oil.
Twelve nominees were submitted by
the independent factions under Jack
Blalock of Marshall, Tex, the only
group that refused to accept the code.
They follow: John B. Elliott of Los
Angeles, adviser to johnson; j. r. Par
ten, Shreveport, La; William Keck, Los
Angeles; Blalock; F. W. Burford, Dali
las; Joe Danger, Fort Worth, Tex;
Joe Mahoney, Ell Dorado, Ark; T. L.
Wynne. Athens, Tex; H. H. Chaplin,
Enid, Okla; Frank c. Hart, New York;
Sterling Mutz, Lincoln, Nebr, and w.
A. Williams Fort Worth,