Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1933 — Page 7

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—Dietz on Science — OIL INDUSTRY FAIRLY RECENT IN DISCOVERY Today’s Giant Business Was Started Less Than 75 Years Ago. BY DAVID DIET/. ftertppt Howard Srlenre F.ditnr W;*h oil industry moic or less in the center of the stage as the NRA swings into action, with millions of motorists discussing the price of gasoline and the gasoline tax, and with many municipalities engaged in rate battles with natural gas companies, it difficult to believe tha* less than seventy-five years ago not a chop of <,il nor a whiff of gas were produced lor commercial purposes. In those days, a little petroleum was skimmed < fT springs where it oozed to the suif'ice and used for medicinal purposes. A few “gas springs were known But .hat was all. Attention is called to thep interesting farts by Profess- i Carey Croneis of the Walker Museum of the University of Chicago Croneis pains a picture of the beginnings of tiie oil industry in comparison with the situation today. The pioneer wells of the 1850‘s were drilled by hand Flabcrate machinery is used today. The early wells usually cost a couple of hundred dollars Today, it is commonplace to sink SIOO.O'fO into 'he drilling of a well and there are a few that cost $250,000. "Colonel" Edw.n I Drakes pioneer well in 1359 vielded twentyfive barrels of oil a day from a depth of seventy feet. Today, wells are in existence which go down a mile and three-quarters and have a potential capacity cf 200.000 barrels a day. Search More Exact At first, the search for oil was somewhat a haphazard affair Rome of tiie older prospectors. Cornels tells, went on the theory "that oil and gas. like gold, are where you find them.' "But through tlie* intelligence of man in general and of engineers and geologists in particular, and, I must confess, through sad experience as well, we have learned that they are invariably found in 'certain places.' " lie adds. Dr I C White, state geologist of West Virginia for many years, established by 1885 that the most likely of these “certain places" were localities in which the rocks were bowed upward into what geologists called anticlines. Once this principle was established, the number of wells drilled in vain began to decrease. Croneis says that many claims have been put forward as to who was the first to suggest the anticline theory, but that tiie lact remains that Dr. White established tiie theory firmly and made it common knowledge and therefore deserves the chief credit. Held Oil Troublesome Among thase who acted upon the theory prior to 1885 was Henry West,, a Canadian public land surveyor. who seems to have been aware of it as early as 1865. In a report on "Geology. Oil Fields and Minerals of Canada,” wiiich West drew up in 1865 he states that a certain map shows "each lot. concession, and oil-bear-ing anticlinal." Drake, according to Croneis. Is well known as a pioneer of the petroleum world but two others, he says, are not as well known as they should be. They are George H Bissell. and Samuel M Kier. Croneis quotes from a letter which appeared in the Meadvillc Republican for March. 1865. According to this letter. Kier first obtained oil as a troublesome and unwelcome byproduct from a salt well. Not knowing what to do with it. he sent it to a professor in Philadelphia who suggested that it be refined and used as an illuminating oil. He did this and in partnership with two others who invented lamps to use the oil. opened a store In Pittsburgh

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STATES RUSH BOOZE CONTROL PLANS Wets and Drys Map Attacks as Repeal Advances

The plant of wet ind drr orr*nivatlnna in the event of national prohibition repeal arr related in the following article the last of throe written for The Time* BV HELEN WEI.SHIMER Nf A Sfrvlft Writer XTEW YORK, Aug. 10— If the ratification of the rppeal amendment by thirty-six states should doom national prohibition, the states again will become the battleground for the struggle between the wetand dry forces. Aireadv, in anticipation of a victory, some anti-prohibition organizations are at work on suggested plans of liquor control Prohibition organizations, however, refusing to concede the likelihood of an ultimate wet triumph, are not extending ’heir future plans beyond continuance of their fight against national repeal. For forty years." said an official of the Anti-Saloon league, "our ideal has been prohibition of the liquor traffic. We still believe that this is the best plan and we are not making any others. If repeal should win we will be interested in seeing what plans the repea lists have to offer “The national organization hasn’t laid out a program for such a contingency. but if repeal should win the state leagues naturally will be come very active on problems of local option. Many of the state laws now do. and others will later, provide for local option, and the league hopes to extend local prohibition as widely as possible." The Crusaders, comprising an anti-prohibition group numbering more than one and one-quarter million members, is assertive in the program which it intends to follow. This organization came into being "to eliminate prohibition and the evils that grew out of it," according to its own definition. e a a C CRUSADER members have been * pledged to the cause of temperance from the first, and not to the mere repeal of the prohibition amendment." George E Dickie, managing director of the group, explained We oppose the restoration of the saloon; we want the right of every territory desiring prohibition to be protected in that right: we want liquor control laws which will restrict to the minimum opportunities for profit in the liquor business. "In Ohio. Michigan. Pennsylvania. Texas. Missouri. Maryland. Illinois. lowa, New York and several other states, commanders of the organizaSEEK LIBERTY WRITS FOR HOLDUP SUSPECTS Petitions for Habeas Corpus Action Filed in Superior Court Two. Petitions for habeas corpus writs were filed Wednesday in superior court two seeking the release from .tail of Arthur Hathaway. 21. of 4128 Vandalia avenue, and Charles Sears, 37. of R R 1. Box 6, alleged robbery suspects. Sheriff Charles L. Sumner and Municipal Judge Dewey E. Myers were named defendants. The men charge that James Miller 62. of 150 West Twenty-ninth street, night watchman, failed to appear in municipal court when they were arraigned Wednesday. Police declare that Miller has identified the men as assailants in an attempted robbery. They say that he was ill and unable to attend the municipal court hearing. The hearing was continued by Judge Mvers ASK SLASH IN RATES Residents of Westwood. Near Newcastle. Demand Slash of Third. Asserting that prices of mnnv products only are 50 per cent of the 1929 level and that wages are far under boom times, twenty-six residents of Westwood, near Neewcastle, today sought a reduction in their electric rates. In a petition to the public .service commission, the residents demanded a one-third cut in the rate, pointing out that, despite other cost reductions. the light rate is the same as four years ago.

conditions and stressing the need of aC\\ ippointmont of commissions to work Mw ■ ' Ot f'-^'* nit the various phases of the prob- M ■ fir. Th‘*v are trving to co-ordinate |-;|p% >;J lie views of all interested groups ■ jPP* jMHyJT "’ J ' I p'V I ‘ne commercial and civic bodies. • * *i %%8F ■*•* gjfciy|tL--' If ind the bar and medical asssocia- \Wy ~v ylSjrW' M j ions ." t Foreseeing initial victory in \ t &|V Jroblem of liquor control laws soon l||f IfW j —y/ 10 intention of disbanding even ' * ii||f orm— that of combating organized t 1 :rime and racketeering. I— ■ . J aaa j ' i T~ TTC % yxT->- • * !

A wet day . . . and a dry parade. tion have been working toward control plans. "They have been helping to survey conditions and stressing the need of appointment of commissions to work out the various phases of the problem. They are trying to co-ordinate the view’s of all interested groups—the commercial and civic bodies, and the bar and medical associations. ' Foreseeing initial victory In early repeal, and knowing that the problem of liquor control laws soon will be settled, the Crusaders have no intention of disbanding even then. They consider that they still have an important mission to perform—that of combating organized crime and racketeering. a a a CRUSADER executives already have had several conferences with officials of the department of justice to this end. The intention of the former is to mold their organization into a power lor bringing pressure to bear on local authorities wherever gangdom seems to be getting a foothold In direct antithesis to the continuation program of the men's organization there is a prohabilGone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported to police as stolen b#:onß to James Larvin. 418 East Fifteenth street. Ford coupe. 43-1.13, from Twentieth and New Jersey streets. C H Bteinfort. 2732 North Illinois •tree 1 Ford coupe. 28-138. from St. Clair street and King avenue C H Jorgensen. 2920 North Pennsylvania street. Ford coupe, front in front of 294 ft North Pennsvlvania street James C. Carr. 1802 West Minnesota street. Ford coupe, from In front of 1802 West Minnesota street. J V Pinegar. 2302 Pierson street Chevrolet coupe, from Twenty-first arid Illinois streets. Lee Cole. 517 West Tenth street Marmon coupe, from side yard of his home. back home again Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to James A W’llliams. 2728 Manker street. Ford coach, found In front of 352 West Washington street Harold Dudley. 923 Pac a street. Hudson sedan, found at Tenth and West streets. Abe Fishman. 1938 Bellefontsine street Oakland coach, found at 2318 Manlove • venue, stripped Mrs Queen Shiner. 823 North Pershing avenue. Chrvsler sedan, found in rear of 744 Drake street, stripped of four tires Kuhn's M'at Market. 407 West Michigan street Ford roupe. found in rear of 3334 College avenue stripped of four tires. DENIES FRAUD CHARGE Terre Haute Man Pleads Not Guilty to Coerring Fruit Truckmen. /? u - nitt fl Prr** VINCENNES. Ind.. Aug. 10.— Lloyd Swickard. Terre Haute, was at liberty today under $2,000 bond after pleading not guilty to a charge of coercion of Knox county fruit truckmen. LEARN Evening Law School I ■■ ■ m OPENS BF.PT. lITII £ ffl IHI for 88th Year |l MM WW Three - year standard ■■■■ V V legal course leads to I.L. B. degree. Catalogue t'pnn Request. BENJAMIN HMtItISON LAW SCHOOL 1157 Consolidated Itldr. ittlr. 3887.

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ity that the now extremely active Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform may be disbanded, if the eighteenth amendment ceases to exist. The 1.500,000 members of this group signed a pledge whereby, they promised to stand for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the return of the liquor control pow'er to the slates • Repeal of the amendment and the resultant return of state rights would take care of its pledge. Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll. first vicechairman of the Women’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform, says; "We have stood for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the return of the control of liquor to the states. Plans for further liquor control, in case the prohibition amendment is repealed, will belong to the respective states. It isn’t a function of th* national organization to tell individual states what they shall do.’ a a a A SURVEY of the liquor laws of thirty-four states, made recently by Mrs. John S. Sheppard, New York chairman of the W O. N. P. R„ reveals what she describes as

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The wets clamor for repeal.

“encouraging indications of anew attitude toward liquor and liquor regulations." These laws display “three primary gains.” according to her review : First—Determination, by taxing beer and wine, to make available to the state revenue which, during the thirteen years of prohibition, has been available only to the bootleggers. Second Due consideration for the rights and needs of the citizens of each state is granted. Last the sale of 3.2 beer and wine is being carried on under conditions which, while not in all cases ideal, nevertheless <she asserts) will do much to remedy evils which anti-prohibitionists lament under the eighteenth amendment. Tiie Women's Christian Temperance Union, which has advocated an educational program, from the very first which would guide youth away trom alcoholism, will continue its instruction policy if the amendment for which it, fought so many years is repealed. Like the Anti-Saloon League it offers no compromise. It is directly opposed to the sale and consumption of hard liquor.

THOUSANDS OF WOMEN WILL AID NRA DRIVE Mass Meeting Called For Friday to Enlist All Under Blue Eagle. (Continued From Page One! Ear! Lowe of the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. Each ‘‘lieutenant-colonel'' will select a "major ” who will command a third of the district. The majors" will appoint ten "captains." who will select volunteer workers. The total force will comprise 1.318 workers, it is estimated. Procession Plans Drafted The parade on Aug. 21 tentatively plans a march down Meridian street to the Circle, where speeches by Governor Paul V. McNutt and Senator Frederick Van Nuys will be heard. The committee in charge of arrangements plans to have President Roosevelt broadcast an address from the summer White House at Hyde Park. N. Y. General Hugh S. Johnson. national recovery administrator will be asked to visit the city and speak. An airplane flight to cities throughout the state, inviting them to participate in the parade, will be made by Herbert O. Fisher of the Chamber of Commerce. He will carry formal invitations from Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan to the mayors. Named for Conference Maurice Tucker of South Bend will represent the Motor Truck Association of Indiana. Regulated Motor Carriers of Indiana, and the Indiana Motor Traffic Association at a code conference in Washington, Aug. 23. Members of the Apartment Owners’ and Operators’ Association, meeting at the Washington Wednesday, expressed willingness to join the NRA movement and adoption of a local code of ethics was discussed. Francis Wells. Indiana recovery' director. addressed the group.

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MAN, 105. SAYS WINE IS LONGEVITY SECRET Disregards Doctor’s Orders And Enjoys Good Health. Fy t nilfil I’rnt SYRACUSE, Sicily, Aug. 10.— Giovanni Mascali. aged 105. is reputed the oldest man in the island of Sicily. He lives in a small village when interviewed on the occasion near here and told the local press, of his 105th birthday, that he attributes his longevity and good health to drinking plenty of wine "About eighty years ago. I fell ill." Giovanni told the reporters, "and the doctor warned me that if I wanted to enjoy good health I would have to give up wine "Keep it out of the house he told me So I have. I keep it in a shed just outsidp the front door, and when I want a drink I go and have it outside. The doctor, poor fellow, who was an abstainer, died a long time ago. I propose to go on drinking wine until I die." The ancient surgical operation of cutting a hole in the skull to remove pressure, or "let out the evil,” still is practiced in Algeria.

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OPERATION IS FATAL' Mrs. Harley Ham. 20, of Vincennes. died early today in her room at the Eastgate hotel, as the result ; of an illegal operation, according to Dr E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, Mrs Ham registered at the hotel Monday and had been attended by a local physician several times before she was found dead by Byram Fletcher, night clerk, officers were told.

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