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Estes Issues Statement Reviewing _■
Alleged Unfair Practises Under Way
In East Texas; Probes to Be Made
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BIG CALIFORNIA
WATER PROJECT
IS GOING GOOD
LONDON GETS
BEST WELL IN
NEW OIL ZONE
Market Being Found
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AIKEN, S. C., April 10 (UP)—
A train bearing the body of Nich-
olas Longworth left here at 11 a.
m. today op its way to Clncinnat-
ti, Ohio, where it is scheduled to
arrive at 7 tomorrow.
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CHICAGO, Apr. 10, (UP)
—Anton J. Certnak, new may-
or of Chicago, today discharg-
ed 2,200 city employe*. He
expect* to discharge 800 more,
he said.
Bishop Boaz of Methodist Church
To Preach Here Sunday II O’Clock
Strangers Invited to Hear Sermon
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WELL ON OLD SITE CARLETON
SCHOOL HOUSE BLOWS IN WITH
HEAVY FLOW ON SMALL CHOKE
THE NEWS CARRIES COMPLETE UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICE, THE LATEST PICTURE NEWS OF THE DAY FROM KING FEATURE SYNDICAT
LEASE OF MOST POPULAR SERIAL STORIES AND FULL COVERAGE OF LOCAL AND OIL FIELD NEWS
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Moorefield Well at
Critical Depth Now
Arm of Little Girl
Broken When Hit by
Car in Joinerville
No. 1 Es S.
town of
Devonian Well la
Preparing Tanka to
> Store Production
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NOTKD GUATAMALAN DIES.
NEW ORLEANS, La., April 10, J
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Unemployed Ranks
Chicago Reinforced
By Mayor’s Action
SISTER OF LONGWORTH
TO BE TOLD OF PASSING
TUNIS, Africa, April 10 (UP)—
Countess de Chambrun, sister of
Nicholas Longworth, will be told
of her brother's death tonight by
a close friend.
Ward No. 1 Comes in
Northwest Exten-
sion Area
Texas oil basin.
Resentment at
Somebody read
that the newly posted pr
East Texas erude was 26c j
rel flat, and when it was r
the intimation had been mi
less this section accepted
tio the bottom of th* market
drop out and oil would go
per barrel in price, loud rui
Of a legislative inquiry were
ly heard.
Senator Pollard said he
visit the East Texas fk
week, emphasizing: “Wh
want to know is who ini
this reduced price?"
Then he added, "If East
is going to be punished ;
taining an injunction, the
going; to fly and I propose ti
legislature make an invert
for possible anti-trust. 1«4|
tions. I probably will have
of action when I return ft
If cn Ocr son Dniln A civs
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Over $25,000,000 Is I Necessity of a
Attract Desirable
Families Given
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Devonian Oil Co. No. 1 *1
Motley, which cored satu
sand Monday and indicates «
uoue production for Rusk a
from Joinerville north to Kil
has set 8858 feet of « 8-8 inct
ing. Storage tanka
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The East Texas .Refinery Co.
has been making daily shipmento
from theh- refinery on the Mis-
souri-Pacific line at Friar’s
Swlth, eight miles northwest of
Henderson since March 26th when
they began marketing their pro-
ducts from this plaht.
The refinery finds that a barrel
of Rusk county crude contains
thirty-seven per cent gasoline,
five per cent kerosene, twenty per
cent distillate and gas oil and
thirty-eight per cent fuel oil.
This topping plant is handling
about 6,000 barrels of crude dally,
but is not operating at full ca-
pacity, because of congested traf-
fic conditions on the Missouri Pa-
cific line.
Rusk county petroleum products
Development to Cost
$188,000,000; U. S.
Aid Is Sought
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THREE MEN IN BAD AFTER
6,000 DIAMONDS STOLEN
HOUSTON, April 10, (UP)—
A youth to be charged with the
theft of diamonds valued at *6,000
was arrested here today. The dia-
monds were recovered. They were
stolen from 1. Linn Hunter in Aus-
tin. Dave Schlesinger and Harry
Spencer of this city were charged
with receiving and concealing
stolen: property. The men attemp-
ted tolhave a local jeweler mount
the diamonds and be became sus-
Ward Oil Corp.
Thrash, located in the
London, was completed Wednes-
day as the biggest produce^ in the
northwest extension of the Joiner
Pool. The well has not yet been
entirely opened because of inade-
quate storage facilities, but when
one of the valves was partly op-
ened there was a calculated flow
at the rate of 21,500 barrels daily.
The gas pressure is so great that
one of the tanks was buckled dur-
ing the test at Which time a cas-
ing pressure of 400 pounds was
registered, and it was necessary to
shut the ’ well in imtH a sirftable-j- •»
means of taking care of the pro-
duction can be provided.
Saturated oil sand was topped at
3753 feet and the well was com-
pleted at a total depth of 3797
feet. Casing was set at 3751 feet;
the elevation*.is.5§8„feet- The pro-
ducing horizon is at about the
same elevation, possibly seven
feet higher than that in the Vitek
No. 1 Eaton, a mile northwest of
London which is due to be the
next important completion in*this
vicinity and which is believed will
be another gusher of major pro-
portions.
A large attendance at the
‘tethodist church here Hun-
' day morning at 11 o’clock is
expected to greet Bishop H.
* A. Bom of Houston, who will
preach at that hour.
Rev. E. G. Cooke, pastor,
wired the News from Nacog-
doches thia morning to “print
Asked what he thoug
meeting would amount to
declared:
"As a matter of fact, th
ing amounts to exactly ;
. . . less than zero upde
ent circumstances."
But interested - onlookers—*c
perhaps holding royalty, leases
producing and contributors- to
fight for proration—likely’1
be present to gat a close;
the whole oil squabble.
Mooting In Longvii
A meeting similar to
in Henderson also will
in Longview tomorrow morr
10 o’clock.
R. D. Parker, chief of 1
and gas division of the comm
may be present at both me
but it is announced that it
likely that any of the c<
sioners will attend.
And fur will likely begin
in the oil fight ‘in Austir
week when Rep. E. H. D
of Henderson and Senator-I
G. Pollard of Tyler will be
ask pointed questions to sei
is happening to or in the
Texas oil basin.
Morefield-Kirkpatrick et al No.
1 Jesse Ector, one and a half miles
southwest of Pitner Junction, was
coring at a critical depth • late
Thursday according to Mr. Kirk-
patrick, of Dallas, one of the men
who are making the test.
Although hope has not yet been
completely abandoned for this
well, the current opinion is that
the Woodbine sand will not be en-
countered as the location is believ-
ed to be on the east edge of the
shore line. This well is four and
a quarter miles north, a little west
of ths Goodman-Lewis dry hole,
which is believed to define the
eastern limits of possible produc-
492 feet from the north line and
650 feet from the west line of a
100-acre tract in the southwestern
part of the Daniel Clark survey.
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LONGWORTH BODY TAKEN
. TO HOME IN CINCINNATI
“Hie Railroad Commission made What they thought
a nice political maneuver the other day when they invited
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ETEX REFINERY
HERE SHIPPING
ITS PRODUCTS
Saturday to Amount
To Nothing
AUSTIN. April 10, <UT)—A
tempts to enforce proratton. of <
production in the East Texas poc
under the conservation statute w
apparently abandoned today tn I
effort to regulate the field und
the common purchased pipe line a
of the 41st legislature. The ra
road commission has called nt
meetings of the oil operators
Longview and Henderson for Si
urday of this week for the purpoi
of enforcing the latter law.
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Henderson again will shar
center of the oil. fraternity’s
light tomorrow when'oil ope;
are called to meet at 8 in tl
temoon in the courthouse to
an advisory committee' to a
enforcement of the common
chaser act—which in a . mo
form will enable the comnj
to get proration of _a* mo<
form, despite the injunction i
earlier thia week by an 4
court*.
Little Men Out.
Carl Estes of Tyler,
anti-proration fight,
Rient this morning to
son News said he un
voting method which
sion will employ "mi)
sible for the owner c
small acreage to have
Vitek Combined Now
All Set to Open
Group No. 1
Vitek Combined Oil Group
1 George W. Eaton has cemented
3680 feet of 6 5-8 inch casing, and
storage tanks having a total ca-
pacity of 9,000 barrels are being
erected on the lease. The time
for drilling the plug has not yet
been definitely set but prepar-
ations are being made to bring this
latest extension “of the London dis-
trict in at an early date.
• The oil sand was topped at 3683
feet and the elevation is 461 feet.
The Pecan Gap was found from
2711 to 3076 feet and the top of
the Austin at 3583 feet. ’’This loca-
tion is one mile northwest of Lon-
don and is 975 feet from the south
line and 400 feet from the west
line of a 95-acre tract in the Fran-
cisco Cordova survey. This is a
very important western extension
Of production in this section of the
Rusk county field.
Many U«e».
First it would create a great
frelsh water lake, acting as a flood
control project. It wouldl pro-
duce hydro-electric power. It
would release enough water in
the low period months to prevent
the encroachment of salt water
in the’ delta section. And it would
provide a new water supply for
the farm lands of the Southern
San Joaquin.
At this point enters an audac-
ious ,but practical scheme in wat-
er engineering. When this water
re“<*hers the delta—opposite the
place the San Joaquin river pours
into San Francisco bay—it woqld
be picked up by a series of boos-
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AUSTIN, April 10.—Total cap-
ital of new companies organitod
in Texas during the first quarter
of 1931 amounted to $25,696',0#0,
compared to $17,815,000 durf
the corresponding period of 1|
year, according to the Bureau]
Business Research of The Univ)
sity of Texas. This increase qt |4 ;
per pent in capitalization le- .J
corded in a gloup of companies
6 per cent fewer in number thin
in 1930. The total nurtiber of new
companies chartered during the
first quarter of 1931 was 68J,
compared to 660 during the firwt
quarter of 1930.
> “Petroleum activities were
sponsible for 111 of the new co^
porations formed during the fiqit
three months of this year,” the
Bureau’s report showed. "This fW-
ure exceeds all other types of Mm
organizations in ’ nUmlaer. ’ Rwd
estate and building unite number-
ed 53 compared to 43 during the
corresponding period of last year.
Banking and finance companies
totateti 6«;'jmore ttiatr-TtouWe this
number organized during the first
quarter of 1930.
“Charters granted during Mareh
accounted for much of the in-
crease, boft in capital and in num-
ber. The total capitalization of
Sew companies organized during
March amounted to $10,488,000,
the highest monthly figure, with
the exception of December, since
June, 1929. The 241 companies
chartered was the largest group
since January, 1930.
"Foreign permits granted dur-
i g the first quarter of the year
totaled 118, compared to 109 dur-
ing the corresponding period of
1030.”
ifito charges from many little
• tfentorn that a certain major
oil company was attempting
to paralyze rail movement of
oil out of the field to the det-
riment of Hmall operators by
securing considerably more
than their share of tank cars.”
"If the Railroad Commission is
just bound to probate something
why don’t they see to it that.theee
tank cars are probated so owners
of small wells may have an outlet
for their oil instead of one dr two
latge companies gathering more
than their share which tn turn will
result in putting the little fellow
on b's knees and forcing him to
take any kind of price he can get
in order to get rid of hie oil,” the
Secretary wired Chairman C. V.
Terrell.
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that
E. F. Crim Issues Challenge To Citizens Here
To Provide Housing To Meet Promising Demands
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GOOD RENTALS
GIVE RETURNS
FOR INVESTOR
Roberts Oil Corp. No. 1 Carle-
ton School Land came in at 8:30
Thursday morning as the best well
to date in the Turnertown section
of the Joiner Pool. After cleaning
itself, the well flowed at the rate
of 200 barrels per hour through a
3-8 inch choke at a pressure of
250 pounds. Later in the day the
well was flowing steadily at 253
barrels per hour. The gas pressure
was so great that the separator be-
ing used was unable to take care of
it and a column of oil was shoot-
ing from the gas escape vent.
The top of the sand was found
at 3671 feet and the well was com-
pleted at a total depth of 3706
feet. S^x and 5-8 inch casing was
cemented at 3665 feet. This new
producer is located in the M. J.
Pru'survey at the center of a 4-
acre lease between the piles Bros.
82.5-acre tract and the M. Kan-
gerga & Bro. 313 acre farm that is
being developed by the Humble
Oil and Refining Co. and is on the
north side of the Henderson-Tyler
highway.
HENDERSON YU
MEETCENTER
TEAM SUNDAY
Oilers Will Have Until
Tuesday to Get Up
Fund for Loop’
The Henderson Oilers will play
a semi-professional team of Cen-
ter here Sunday afternoon at .3
o’clock at the new baseball park
on the Tyler road.
Center is said to be bringing a
mighty strong team to take on
the potential entry in the East
Texas league, but as the Oilers
will be reinforced by a group of
players from tho Shreveport club
a fast game is expected.
The East Texas League movc^d a
step nearer final organization in
Longview last night when both j
Tyler an.I Henderson were given i
until Tuesday to raise the neces- 1
sary guarantee the league will de- 1
man to start the works. A sched- '
ule prepared by William Ruggles,
calling for starting April 30 and '
ending Labor day, was adopted. ]
A mass meeting was to be held ,
in Tyler today to work out plans ,
to get the city’s team lined up for ;
the league. (
Local fans were confident they 1
would be all set Tuesday to occupy '
their berth. r-- - i
keted in Texas, Louisiana, Miss-
issippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Illi-
nois, Indiana and as far north as
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi-
gan.
of
the First National Bank and Vice-
president of the Chamber of Com-
merce, has issued a challenge to
the |rasiness men of Henderson to
build rent houses to care for stran-
gers in the city who are eager to
become residents of the city.
' Mr. Crim recently has built two
rent houses, but—pointing out that
the move offers a good investment
—he now is planning to build four
more. Yet, this is not enough to
begin to supply the demand.
A letter, addressed on Cham-
ber of Commerce stationery to a
number of business men in the,
city, is of. special interest, and
follows in full:
“No one can successfully main-
tain that Henderson’s progress is
not being seriously retared by a "
shortage in houses and apartments.
How can we expect people who are
accustomed to excellent living con-
ditions in other cities, to come to K_.
Hiuukrson 4UM1.4»ing their_>hi^ y . X
ren and live cooped up in one or A ■
two rooms? '
"While it is true that we have,
opened up oUr homes to the j>il
fraternity still we are faced with
the fact that these people want
the privacy -and-comforts of-heme
life. A failure to secure such liv-
ing conditions will continue to
make temporary residents out of
those who. might be made perma-
nent citiens^-
"It is, therefore, a civic duty to j
build more rent houses immed-
diately. Even if such invest-
ments did not prove highly pro-
fitable, it would still be a civic
obligation to supply this need be-
cause the increase in population ,
would increase business for our j
merchants, would increase the ,
taxable property, and would make
for a prosperous community.
"But this type of investment
would,prove profitable. Hender- i
son, even before the discovery of
oil, was a city where rent houses '
paid the owners. If money could
be made then from rent houses, J
then certainly money can be made '
now when rents are higher and
building costs are lower. ,
"It is estimated that a duplex I
(two complete apartments of four ]
rooms each) can be constructed
for approximately $25b0.00. Each
of these apartments would bring . . -
approximately $40.00 per month, fro® tola refinery ar® being mar-
making a total annual rental from
both apartments of *960.00. Sure-
ly, this is a good investment. Such
rents would seem to justify not
only tho outlay of cash, where cash
is available, but the actual bor-
rowing of money to supply the
building funds.
"Henderson needs more houses.
We have no right to expect other
than Henderson people to supply
these houses. This is your job
an4. mine. I have recently built
two rent houses and in order to
meet the urgent deman^l I am now
having plans drawn for four ad-
ditional rent houses. What will
you do to help build Henderson?
"Very sincerely yours, —ui
"E. F. CRIM,
. t’Vlce-Presldent."
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L. P. Hammond Jr.
Instantly Killed in
Automobile Mishap
4—. pkjous.
WICHITA FALLS, Texas, April
10, (UP)--k/. Hammond, Jr.,
12, son of apfominent oil man
here, was instantly k l ed today
in, an autonyibi’ dent. He 1
v .3 riding with I Is father add <
I b.other.
Little Inez Reno, 8-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. H.
Reno of Joinerville, suffered a
broken arm early last night when
she was run over by a passing au-
tomobile on the main thorough-
medical treatment and while her
fare. The little victim was given
injuries were painful it was not
thought they would pr./ a serious.
The motorist who hit the little
girl stopped, but I k na ..j was not
learned."He was d«i.ing an oiit-
of-county N
M called an executive of the
m Pacific Railroad in Hous-
ed long distance and stated
le wns informed that one
large gompany which apparently
could get 4)1 toe tank cars it want-
ed was pending “under cover" buy-
ers into the field with instructions
to offer toe little operators who
hadn’t been able to secure enough
cars to move their oil, a price "so
low that they would be glad to
crawl into Austin and beg for pro-
The Missouri Pacific promised
to dispatch a special representa-
tive to toe field to assist in an in-
vestigation of these charges.
a rousing announcement” of
the Btebop’e visit and It is
specially desired to have as
many members of the congre-
gation present as possible.
Strangers in the city also
are extended a cordial invita-
tion to coihe out to hear this
noted Methodist dtergymaa.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 10,
(UP)—A statewide program of,
water development, costing $188,-
000,000 and greater in magnitude
than the famous Boulder Canyon
dam, may emerge from the pres-
ent session of the California state
legislature.
Ten years of expert research in
which more than a milliod1 dol-
lark has been spent, culminated in
the definite plan now before the
law-makers.
Recently a state water commis-
sion went to Washington, D. C.,
to lay before California’s engineer-
president the scheme for a co-
ordinated plan of development.
They found President Hoover thor-
oughly in sympathy, and members
of Congress willing to learn more
about it..' .
Committee Inspection.
As a result, members of the in-
terior .department sub-committee
on appropriations, headed by Con-
gressman Frank Murphy of Ohio,
„_wjll visit California this summer
'to malte hr'inspection of the pro-'
jefts for which federal aid is
sought.
The main water problem in Cal-
ifornia is a shortage during the
■ summer and fall in many sections,
and all year in others. On the
oth6r hand, flood conditions arid a
water surplus apparently exist in
certain parts of the state. So the
problem is to rogi^late the avail-
able supply and distribute it.
The Southern San Joaquin Val-
ley offers the best illustration of
the problem .confronted by the
. water engineers. Here is one of
the most fertile and productive
regions of the state, slowly go-
ing back to desert conditions be-
cause of falling water tables.
Rich Land* Endangered.
Rich orange, olive, dairy and
cotton lands -in south Fresno, Ma-
dera, eastern Kings, north Kern
and all of Tulare counties, that
have been producing crops on land
values of approximately $4,000 to
$6,000 an acre, face utter anni-
hilation. According to county
leaders, assessed values in the sin-
gle county of Tulare have decreas-
ed $1,000,000 within the last few
years, and that if nothing is done
to remedy the situation, further
losses of from $3,000,000 to $5,-
000,000 will result.
At the delta of Sacramento riv-
er the summer fliw of water has
dropped so low that the salty brine
from the ocean has worked up the
channels into the fertile farm
land. Much of this country is en-
dangered unless a ffresh water sup-
ply is found.
So the plan evolved out of the
10-year study is as follows:
; At a point above • Redding,
known as Kennett, a large stor-
age dam is to be erected, costing
$84,000,000. This dam would pay
. for itself out of electric power
developed, and would fill many
purposes.
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Objects to “Joker” in Method of Voting for Estes States M<
Committee and Insinuates Ugly Scheme
Under Way to Fofce Proration Pressing
Price Down; Special Agents to Be Here
TYLER, TEXAS, April 10 (Special)—Members of the
East Texas Lease, Royalty and Producers Associatioh which
numbers several hundred will be advised not to attend meetings
which the Railroad Commission called Thursday night to con-
vene in Longview and Henderson Saturday unless the commis-
sion agrees to change the method of electing the committees
for the various districts, Carl L- Estes, secretary of the associa-
tion, stated here today.
' “As a matter of fact the meetings have no particular sig-
nificance under the present circumstances as I see it, but if they
did, what would be the use of the ‘little fellow’ and lease and
royalty owners attending if the voting for committee selection
is done on a big acreage basis in the pools as I am reliably in-
formed it will be,” the secretary said.
“I can see no point in a man who has a well on a small
tract attending if he is to be allowed qo voice in the selection
of the committee and the poor devil who owns royalty is in the
position which early American colonists found themselves when
they had bad taxation forced upoq them without representa-
tion, so if the commission does not pull the voting ‘joker’ out
of the meetings the small operators, lease and royalty owners
haven’t a look in. "-i y • ’
_ _ NICE political gesture
made Miat they thought was
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anything-ahctuL. iiUfeu.assite* 1!
7TT---- The extent to which tobse attend ltyA°r7“
ing would be enabled to partici-
pate arid no reference whatever
was made to the voting method
‘joker’, and now we want them to
come right oat and tell us how
that voting is to he dona and whe-
ther the lease and royalty owner is
entitled to a vete.”
Estes communicated with
attorney general James V.
Allred during the day and re-
quested that an investigator
from that department of state
be sent into the field to look
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