Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1922 — Page 11
NEW RECORD IN CALIFORNIA OIL OUTPUT IN 1921 Figures Show Total For Year Close to 111.000,000,000 Barrels. GREAT GAIN OYER 1920 SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.—During the j year just closed California established aj •pw record In the production of crude . etroleum. According to estimates prepared by R. E. Coliom. State oil and gas supervisor, California production for the year 1921 will be close to 114,000,000 barrels. This production exceeds 'hat of 1920 by over 8 000.000 barrels. It is the greatest quantity of oil yet produced in a single year in California. California’s production record for 1921 will exceed that of any other oil-producing State. In the face of the greatest production in the State’s history the oil business in California has remained fairly steady, although the local over-production, general industrial depression and a sym* pathetic adjustment to the slump in Eastern oil fields caused two drops in the price of crude, at the well, during the year. However, the oil business in California was not subjected to the violent fluctuations which affected the industry elsewhere in the United States. It is probable that the existing price of crude oil, at the well, will be increased in 1922. BIG MONTHLY OUTPUT FOIt STATE.
California entered the year 1921 with available stored oil reduced to a minimum and the oil business exerting itself to increase production to a pace in keeping with the indicated demands for 1920. However, there came a curtailment in demands for petroleum, and early in 1921 marketing companies started running part of the crude oil into storage. For the first eight months of 1921 production ■iveragcd 10.100000 barrels per month. M Early In 1921 the State oil and gas supervisor predicted a production of over 120,000,000 barrels for 1921. These figures were not met, however, because of the oil workers' strike in the San Joaquin Valley fields during part of the month of September and all of October, which retarded producing operatipjjs to the extent of leaving over 7,090.000 barrels of oil in the ground which, under normal activity, would have been produced and run into storage. The San Joaquin Valley oil fields produced 53 per cent of their normal output during the strike. The Elk Hills oil field, which early in 1921 was produuing as much oil 33 the combined production of Coalluga, Belridge and Lost Hills produced almost to full capacity, during the strike. OUTPUT 10.450,131 BARRELS IX MAY. The maximum monthly production for California in 1921 was reached during May. The production was 10,450.131 barrels. During May forty-two wells in 'he Elk Hills produced 1,794,136 barrels of oil, that is. less than one-half of one 1 per cent or tfie ol wells of California produced 17 per cent of its oil. In District N'o. 1, which includes, among others, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, the production was consid erably increased during the year by 'he discovery of several new fields and the unusual development of such fields as Huntington Reach. Shell Company of California contributed the Long Beach oil field bv bringing in a well on Signal Hill. Union Oil Company of California greatly extended the productive area at | "ta Fo springs. V AKES HIS WIFE ON APPROBATION After Six Weeks, Briton Sends Her Back. LONDON. Jan. 14.—The story of a man who sent his wife back to her mother, having marled her “on approbation,” was told at Tottenham recently. A woman asked the magistrate what he could do for her daughter. The daughter, she said, was roar- ■’ (1 six weeks ago and seemed quite >t)py with her husband. However, the tuan brought her back her mother and said she could have -r again. "She is not satisfactory," he said. “So 1 am returning her to the person from whom I obtained her.” “But you can’t do that,” said the mother "Oh, yes I can,” the husband answered. We were married at a register’s office, cui I understood I was taking her on approbation for six weeks.” Magistrate—Did you believe html The Woman—Well, it struck me as be. !!g a bit unusual. The magistrate promised that further quiries £hould be made. arrot Routs Burglar | NEW YORK. Jan. 14.—Burglars who ad forced a window in a residence near Columbia University were frightened say by the cries of*i parrot screaming Police 1 Police!” To Sell Soviet’s Flax MOSCOW, Jan. 14.—Moscow merchants ave formed an organization to take vor the government’s supply of flax and •irter it for the goods of foreign nans. The soviet government will be ■ld a commissoin of 15 per cent.
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JAPAN SEES LOSING SIDE OF ARMS SESSION Official Claims Islands Fail to Realize Desires at Conference. TOKIO, Jan. 14. —Tokio enters the new group of world powers, the four-power agreement, with her public leaders and her press hardly cordially accepting the new state of things. For two weeks after the acceptance of the agreement opinion in Tokio had been that Japan's delegates. placed in a peculiar stluation, secured the very best they could that is all. Whether or not the delegates returning to Tokio will be the oujects of open criticism by the people and the press is not known; certainly there will be criticism mixed with whatever praise | is given out. SAY JAPAN LOSES ON EVERY POINT. i “Japan has lost on practically every i point in the conference, if we take the accomplishments of the moment as the final benefit or loss that Japan is to receive. First, on the Yap question she ! has conceded certain things to the United States, concessions which she said would not be yielded under any circumstances. Secondly, sbe has abondoned the 70 per cent ratio and has yielded to what Japan said she would never yield, namely, the American plan for the disarmament procedure. Finally, the Aggio-Japanese alliance, which is regarded by many As the greatest weapon which Japan had for the carrying on of whatever program she had in the Orient, has been abandoned, and an agreement which few understand satisfactorily has been put in its place. And yet I say that Japan, In the final consideration, may be said to have advanced the cause of the Japanese empire by the proceedings of the Washington conference. “Coming into anew grouping, recognized as a power dedicated now to the maintenance of peace rather than the waging of militaristic plans, Japan has won a moral victory. She Is placed today in the light or a nation unrterstooa. anc which can take her place in rne economic fight which may follow and in ; all other world schemes reeling that her position is not the dofenslve, but rather that she will be looked upon rainy by other countries. This moral victory while rather dimmed as yet because or a laex of the proper understanding, will become increasingly plain each year, PRESS FAILS TO APPROVE FOUR-POWER AGREEMENT. Nowhere in the press may there be said to be a whole hearted approval of the four-power agreement. The Hocht. a newspaper Minded by Marquis Okuma who was comovftly considered a member of the Genro, of the “Silent Rulers of Japan,” under the heading “Might Ts Right,” thus describes the founding of the four-power agreement: “The conference has, after all, been a ■ stage where the United State has been able to play a piece of music entitled •Might Is Right,’ with Britain as her accompanist, No principle of justice has been recognized at all. The Japanese people can remember that before the conference opened there was much sympathy expressed for the Japanese surplus population. Today there seems to be no thught of this problem.” The Osaka Mainiehi, which is a really representative newspaper, says: “Considering that the scope of the entente is extremely limited, with but negative virtue In its direct bearing on the Internat'onal situation, we must ask the
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powers concerned that they take further steps la the maintenance of peace of the Pacific. With reference to the Mi gloJapanese alliance, which has been abrogated as a result of the creation of the new agreement, we confess that remembering Its great usefulness and efficacy In preserving Oriental peaee In the past, ve can not help but fee! a sense of loneliness in parting with it. NEW ENTENTE FAILS TO SATISFY. “IYe feel that we can say truly that the new entente does not come up to the satisfaction of the Japanese people, though we have no right to lay I be blame for It at any one's door. tthat we cun io is to look forward to the bringing Into being by Japan and America of a second and third entente which will be serviceable in really helping to bring about the true concord and harmonious relationships between the two peoples." The opposition parties in Tokio, notably tho Kokumin and the Keiiseikal. are making plans for somewhat extended i i tracks on the new entente when the Imi perial Diet gets into full swing. If I these attacks materialize there tnay be ! Interesting developments which will affect the reception to be given the Japi anese delegates when they return to Yoko- ! hama. Here’s Meanest Theif BRUSSELS, Jan. 14.—A thief who broke into the home of M. Henri Lareste bound and gagged all members of the family In their beds and then threw ull i the bedcovering down the stairs. Duke Protests T?nces GLASGOW, .Tan 14—The Duke of Montrose headed a delegation of Scottish - land-owners which went to London to request relief from the “crushing burden : if taxation’’ upon large estates. FEROCIOUS ANTS. NICE, Jan. 14. —Immense damage has ; been done to the flower Industry of the; Riviera by ferocious ants said to have j been introduced from the Argentine, fn addition to destroying plant life, these ants also bite aurl poison human beings. Government aid has been asked. MOTION PICTURES
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ODESSA A DEAD CITY. BUCHAREST, Russia, Jan. 14.-4 Travelers from Russia describe Odessa, once Russia's most flourishing seaport, under soviet rule ns "a dead city.” Factories are closed, the port is empty, streets are grass-grown and hundreds are starving weekly. MOTION PICTURES Another Corking Drama ! CYCLONE BLISS * A picture ihat breathes the atmosphere of the real West. A Pippin! CHAS. CHAPLIN in “The Pawnbroker” AH Next Week r Lu*o llou.* Os Thrill* Wm- Atm
Ask That Christmas Seals Be Returned Hundreds of post cards from the Marion County Tuberculosis Association’s
All Next If H All Next Week 1 feU 18 mB week You neve* Biggest Show in like it before Town Cad Laemmla Preserlfei HADDY i*ABPY m EnUR B war%llß[ B IN THE F!R3T SUPER- \ WESTERN EVER SCREENED L §ee * thousand horaemen ride like mad across the scorching sands Pj i \ the great Mojave Desert. fr j■ a** \ l fsee die terrific, blinding sandstorm—a thriller you'll neve? ; £>© battle against hundreds of outlaws—one efi **^ / §** \ the greatest spectacles ever screened. - fee the reckless, death-defying ride of Harry* - Carey’s Famous Flying Squadron, -a, S e a thousand and one thrills never filmed j, %_ bcioxe, The First and Greatest Super- ’J? * Western ever screened. " UNIVERSAL ROOT THOGNOY _ .. . 01 —* J\. r Sup. —reduction^ LARRY SEMON in “THE SAWMILL”
Christmas seal sale headquarters went into the malls today, urging Indianapolis citizens who have forgotten the Christmas seal to purchase their allotment of them or to return those that they received earlier in the year. Mary A. Meyers, executive secretary of the asso-
ciation, said today that many citizens apparently had overlooked their usual purchase of seals and that the local antituberculosis association is hopeful that many will respond immediately, since hundreds of dollars are needed for antituberculosis work immediately in Indianapolis and Marion County.
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The cards that went fordward today said that “not only is it important that ,we account for the seals, but that every seal should count in the 1922 fight against | tuberculosis in this community. Yon jean help materially by sending either a line for our information, the seals or money for them.”
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