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Slate Oil Officials, Fearing U. S. Control, Hit Ickes Statement It Is 'Interference' and 'Wholly Uncalled For/ Texan Declares By the Associated Press. TULSA, Okla., Aug. 19.—Words spouted where oil didn't today over the always hot question whether there shail be State or Federal con trol. As oil men, fagged out by the hubbub of crude oil price cuts, a six State shutdown and dwindling stocks, were looking to a week end of rest, Interior Secretary Ickes in Washington issued a statement which touched off new fireworks. Mr. Ickes said "should there de velop a lack of parity between total supply and consumptive demand the prohibition against interstate ship ment could be made inoperative dur ing the period of shortage.” The Connally "Hot Oil” Act pro hibits shipment in interstate or for eign commerce of petroleum and petroleum products produced in vio lation of State law. Jerry Sadler of the Texas Railroad Commission which regulates the oil Industry in that State, immediately flrrd a telegram at Mr. Ickes as serting- his "domination or inter ference in the present situation is completely, wholly and entirely un called for.” oince oiaie regulatory uiraies “have successfully met the attack of the Standard Oil Co, and its affiliates in their vicious attempt to rule or ruin the industry, it strikes me your statement is poorly timed and un called for,” Mr. Sadler added. “States Doing Very Well.” Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact Com mission. insisted the oil States are handling their problems well ''with out Federal control.” "It's just a case of using the power that is theirs without running to Washington for everything under the sun,” he said. At Cheyenne. Wyo.. Senator J. C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the fact finding temporary National Eco nomic Committee, expressed hope that a hearing opening September 1S in Washington would produce facts necessary for recommending congressional legislation to untangle the oil problem. "Any one can see by these recent events that the oil industry is in a deplorable condition," the Demo cratic Senator commented regarding , the recent shutdown. "Most of the business on which full employment depends is na tional business, and there has been no formula by which business can be adjusted to local conditions. Not Covered Adequately. “This is illustrated In the oil in dustry where large companies which carry on the industry seem to oc cupy a field which is not adequately covered by either State or national law. "The anti-trust laws, whether State or national, never have been effective in preventing price fixing and it has seemed to make no dif ference who happened to be enforc ing the law. "It is because of this condition that I sponsored the resolution which created the Monopoly Com mittee.” Mr. Ickes said the Iixerior De partment had no reports of Con nallv Act violations incident to the production shutdown. In the face of the crude oil stop page reserves were falling, how ever, especially at the small refin eries, and jobbers scrambled for gasoline to protect their territories. Michigan Joins Shutdown. Adding support to the shutdown. Michigan announced a temporary reduction in withdrawal limits, cut ting its yield nearly a fourth. Texas, the Nation’s largest oil producer, led the shutdown this week after Sinclair Prairie Oil Mar keting Co. had slashed its crude purchasing price by 20 cents a bar rel and other companies had fol lowed suit. Oklahoma. New Mex ico. Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana joined Texas quickly in turning off the spigots on two-tnirds of the Nation’s oil production. The Lion Oil Refining Co., after successfully resisting for one dav j efforts of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission to force $ shut down of its 52 producing wells in the Shuler field’s Jones sand near El Dorado, agreed voluntarily late today to suspend operations in the area until 6 pin. Monday. The surprise move interrupted a hearing by Chancellor W. A. Speer of the commission's petition for a cour! order to force the Lion Co. j to abide by the general shutdown decree that went into effect on ail ■ Arkansas controlled fields Thurs day. The Lion Co. yesterday obtained an injunstjon preventing State po lice from inforcing the shutdown. | Hospital Made Theater As Orphan Misses Trip By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., Aug. 19.—Electri cians and motion picture men turned ft "hospital room into a theater here today. It was all for Helen Berida. 12 year-old Detroit orphan girl. Helen was en route with other orphans to attend a Hollywood premiere when ahe was taken to the hospital for an appendectomy. She is going on to Hollywood when her strength returns, but, meanwhile, she won’t miss the pic ture. It will be shown at the hos pital Monday night, the same night as the Hollywood premiere, before a list of guests named by Helen. Irradiation Helps Preserve Sea Food By the Associated Press. A discovery that treatment W'ith Ultraviolet rays will help prevent sea food from spoiling was reported yesterday by the Bureau of Fisheries. Officials said experiments disclosed that a two-minute exposure to the rays destroyed four out of five bacteria in market fillets of haddock. Two commercial applications of irradiation are possible, they said. The rays may be used on fillets im mediately after production, to re duce incidental contamination, or when the sea food arrives at retail stores. The bureau is conducting further experiments on the commercial possibilities. V * MOUNT UPTON, N. Y.—MILK DUMPED IN STRIKE—Milk being dumped from a tank truck here— an instance in the six-day-old strike of upstate dairy farmers. Strikers’ blockade had reduced New York City’s supply today by 43 per cent. —A. P. Wirephoto. - *5*—----- -- Milk Pickets Tighten Blockade Around New York Plants Parley Called Monday By La Guardia as Supplies Dwindle BACKGROUND— Dairy farmer union is striking for increase in price of milk in New York. A boycott against metropolitan dealers has been in effect since Tuesday, one picket has been killed, milk dumped and many persons have been ar rested. State police are patrol ling milkshed. By the Associated Press. UTICA, N. Y„ Aug. 19—Led bv an ex-sailor, a farmers' union which three years ago had only eight mem bers throttled the milk supply of. 7.000.000 persons today with the lat est strike in New York's turbulent $2,000,000,000 dairy industry. Grim pickets tightened blockades around upstate plants, further cut ting the huge metropolitan market's dwindling supplies in their fight for higher prices New York's doughty Mayor Piorello La Guardia called a Monday conference between rival factions. Immediate acceptance to the con ference bid came from the ex-sailor, Archie Wright, 47-year-old chair man of the dairy farmers' union which called the milk strike in de manding a uniform base price in crease to $2.35 per hundredweight <47 quarts!. Dealers and leaders of riv^l farmer marketing factions also agreed to attend the New York City meeting. Mr. Wright's union, which now claims a membership of 15.000. started its boycott of metropolitan dealers Tuesday and w-ith each suc ceeding day made heavier inroads on deliveries. Today only 60 per cent of New York's normal daily intake of 4.400.000 quarts was delivered. All Available Men on Duty. Widespread violence, the death of one picket, arrests and wholesale milk dumping marked the first days of the strike until Gov. Lehman or dered all available State troopers to patrol the milkshed. Numerous arrests for minor dis turbances were reported today in the trouble zones, but Maj. John A. Warner, superintendent of State po lice, reported the situation "well under control." This week's strike is the latest move in a long series of disturbances in the huge dairy industry over the past decade bv which farmers have sought to raise prices and solve the complicated milk problem. Mr. Wright, a former Maritime Union representative, helped organ ize the Farmers Union thv*e years ago after he bought a farm near Ogdensburg. N. Y„ for his fathers, health. Militant from the start despite its small membership, the union has been opposed consistently by older farm groups such as the powerful Dairymen's League, which claims a membership of 37,000 and whose leaders oppose the present strike. C. I. O. Takes Hand. For the first time in New York’s dairy history, the C. I. O. has entered the situation. Officials have desks in Farmers Union headquarters. The C. I. O. offers financial and moral aid to the strikers, is directing or ganizers, and asks an estimated 700, 000 Congress of Industrial Organiza tions members in the State to boy cott dealers who failed to meet the farmers’ demands. Henry H. Rathbun, State vice president of the Dairymen’s League, in reply, asserts the Farmers Union is using “typical C. I. O. practices to scare farmers into keeping their milk at home.” Rathbun contends the strike “has all the earmarks of a well-engineered scheme to wreck the Federal-State marketing program.” under which prices are fixed and milk marketed iri the milkshed. Federal and State officials have called hearings under the marketing order for August 24 and 25 to con sider a milk price raise to farmers because of adverse drought con ditions. Egypt has nearly doubled its ship ments of oranges and tangerines to other countries in the last year. First Army's Mimic War Mystery to Men in Ranks But They Are Getting Field Experience And Sleep on Bag of 'Donkey Food' By the Associated Press. PLATTSBURG, N. Y.. Aug. 19 — This peacetime mock war the 52.000 troops of the First Army are wag ing high in the Northern New York hills isn't exactly what Sherman de scribed. but has its points. The company commander, for in stance. who had a machine gun nest neatly hidden away to block an •enemy” advance, probably thought Sherman's famous remark an under statement, when a party of tour ists. moseying across no man's land, stopped for a look-see. Within 5 minutes the ‘‘enemy." quick to take a tip, blasted the spot with theoretical artillery fire, and an umpire advised the captain he'd better move his men out of there pronto. It's also a bit hard on the smart young lieutenant, who pushes his platoon through a couple of swamps to capture an opposing force, and then is informed it doesn’t count because his enthusiasm lias gummed up the whole problem. The lieutenant has to start all over again, and nine times out of ten. the outfit he "captured'' winds up by pushing him off the map. Just a Mystery to Men. For the man in the ranks, the whole thing is just a mystery which he doesn't even try to solve. For no reason that he can see. his outfit is marched off across the country, halted in the woods and apparently forgotten. Pvt. John Doe doesn't know it. but his company probably is being held in reserve for some unit "fight ing'' a mile or so away. Any way, it makes no difference to him, so he pulls a deck of cards from his pack and starts a game of rummy. Lacking the cards, he mav hunt through a newspaper to find out what this war's all about, or just lie down and go to sleep for an hour. The Army has acquired trespass rights to about 288.000 acres in this farm-dotted war zone, but a few neu tral areas remain. More than one commander, planning to move his men through a field of waving grain or corn making perfect cover for an advance, finds himself staring at a yellow sign reading "0111 of limits." Its all very perplexing. Face to Face With “Enemy.” One umpire, trying to straighten out a situation temporarily stale mated by a neutral zone, directed the opposing forces to move around tlie proscribed area to new positions. A few moments later the “enemies," who for safety's sake are under orders to approach no closer than 100 yards, stared into each other's eyes across a stone wall. The natives are taking the "war" in stride. It's not unusual to see a faim wife hanging out the family wash while a machine gun in her front yard is popping away with blank ammunition at an opposing force 1.200 yards away. Generally the woman doesn't even turn around to see what all the shooting's for. . The blank ammunition makes the war harmlessly realistic, but part of the 26th Division of the Massa chusetts National Guard got a real scare when some one found several empty boxes that had contained live ammunition lying in a supply truck. For an hour the umpires held up the battle while the ammunition issued to every man in the outfit was checked. Every one breathed a sigh of relief when it was all found to be blank. Field Camping Experienced. The men are really experiencing field camping. There are no board fioors to their tents, and while they have cots, they sleep on canvas or ^ ticks stuffed tvith “donkey food.” Enlisted men line up in front of field kitchens to get their rations; in mess kits, but the officers eat in comparative comfort off real plates at real tables. Ritziest outfit in the field is the old Park Avenue" 7th Regiment from New York City. Visitors to the offi cers' mess find linen tablecloths and vases of flowers on the tables. The "war" correspondents, of whom there are about 100. are quar tered with observers, staff officers and Reserves in a large encamp ment just south of permanent Plattsburg Barracks, where a war time R. O T. C. camp was estab lished. Some of these men earned com missions in this same camp 20-odd years ago. They feel like an “old grad" returning to a college cam pus. 45 Pci. of World's Supply Is Involved In 'Oil Holiday' 14 Per Cent of Yield Comes From Texas' 80,000 Wells The temporary shutdown of oil production in six States, if com plete,. would bottle up 45 per cent of the world's How of petroleum, ac cording to a bulletin of the National Geographic Society analyzing the economics of the situation. "For the six States—Texas. Okla homa. Louisiana. Kansas, New Mex ico and Arkansas—include four of the leading oil States of the Na tion, which in turn is by far the leading oil producer of the world.” the bulletin said. “United States wells last year poured forth six times as much petroleum as those of Sov iet Russia, which ranked second. Texas alone, with more than 80.000 wells, accounts for about 14 per cent of the world's annual yield. “The vast United States petroleum industry is barely 75 years old, but it now involves investments of some $15,000,000,000 , 750.000 employes and consumers, not the least of whom are the drivers of America's 31,000.000 motor vehicles (including trucks and tractors). “Pennsylvania gave the industry its start, when prospectors in the 1850s began bailing 'rock* oil’ from hand-dug wells instead of skimming it off surface seepages. For nearly three decades 98 per cent of the Na tion's oil came from Pennsylvania; now her percentage has dropped to 2, while Texas, with 39, and California, with 17, lead the oil parade. Twen ty-one States have producing oil wells. “The driver who pulls into a fill ing station and casually gives the ‘fill er up’ order, is tapping an in dustry that reaches from coast to coast, from mile-deep oil wells through refineries, pipe lines, chem ical laboratories, tank ships and cars, large central accounting offices, to the curbstone pump cf varicolored gasoline. “Any one who lights a kerosene lamp, buys an oil furnace, rides *n an airplane or a Diesel-powered pas senger train, oils a squeaking hinge, crosses an asphalt-surfaced street, unwraps paraffin paper from a sand wich. or uses anything imported on an oil-burning boat is taking ad vantage of the subterranean power pumped into circulation by the United States’ extensive petroleum industry. “In value of its varied and widely used products, petroleum ranks fourth among the industrial giants of the country (steel, automobiles, meat, petroleum). And it is the basis for the second-ranking in dustry.” . : ! 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The special service troops also suffered to an extent from the storm. The engineers were scheduled to leave at 2 p.m. yesterday. At 11 p.m. Friday night the rain started. The wind rose and another thunderstorm broke after midnight. The pup tents were flooded and swept down, and some soldiers found themselves actually floating away. No casualties were reported, and equipment was not believed to have been damaged me* t oi'iu 1 lv P valuation Difficult. Around 2:30 a.m. Col. John W. Oehmann, commander of the regi ment, ordered it to break camp and start for Washington. With the storm still lashing the countryside, the evacuation was difficult, and it took many hours for the trucks to carry all the soldiers back to Wash ington. They were arhving in the early hours of the morning. Virtually all had reached the armory by noon. They were begrimed in mud, with their equipment drenched, but cheerful and laughing over their experience. • “It was one of the worst storms in my experience," said Col. Oehmann. who served in Prance during the World War. "The wind blew down ! our pup tents. Most of our men worked all night salvaging their equipment and getting their trucks started." Maj. William T. Roy. command ing the special troops of the District National Guard and provost-marshal of the 29th Division, praised the morale of the Washington men. They took the violent storm in stride, he said, and laughed over their hardships. Mud Slows Return. Some of the batteries of the 260th Artillery Regiment, commanded by Col. Walter W. Burns, were late in arriving, owing to the difficulty of getting their trucks out in the heavy IXIUU. The 121st Engineers had remained at their sector of the widespread "battlefield" to keep the water sup ply open for the remaining troops. At the height of the maneuvers close to 30 000 National Guardsmen from the District. Virginia. Maryland and Pennsylvania and an attacking force of Regulars look part in the strategy to protect Washington. On returning to the armory, the District Guardsmen cleaned and turned in their tents, rifles and other equipment and then stood in line for pay—compensation for their 15 days in the field. The local troops included the 1st Battalion of the 104th Quartermaster Regiment, commanded by Maj. Fletcher Bernsdorf. This organiza tion helped operate the central motor pool for the 29th National Guard Division, including the move ment of troops and supplies. Admiral Fairfax Takes Command of Division by the Associated Pres,*. SAN PEDRO. Calif.. Aug. 19.-Big guns of the United States Navy boomed salutes. Flags were tnauip ulated ceremoniously. Plume-hatted, gold-braided officers stood about. In this setting Rear Admiral A. P. Fairfield assumed command today of Battleship Division 3 aboard the flagship Idaho in Los Angeles Harbor. He relieved Rear Admiral John D. Wainwright, who has been trans ferred to Washington as a member of the Navy's General Board. Division 3 includes the battleships Idaho. New Mexico and Maryland. Both Admirals Fairfield and Wainwright possess Navy Crosses awarded for distinguished service in I the World War. Varied Transportation Airplanes and reindeer are being used to transport the equipment and supplies to a group exploring cyanide deposits, believed to be the largest in the world, in the Kola Peninsula of Russia. OGUNQUIT, ME.—ONE FAMOUS ACTOR TO ANOTHER—Otis Skinner, dean of American actors, is shown as he dropped backstage at the summer playhouse here to congratulate his daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, on her performances before a “standing room only’’ revival of “Madame Sans Gene." —A. P. Photo. Guard Company Saves Ice Water By Neat Trick During the spectacular maneu vers at Manassas, Va., just ended Company A of the 104th Quarter master Regiment, District National Guard, kept ice water for its men in a Lister bag. It was available at all times. The trouble was, however, that' other passing outfits discovered this source of refreshment and began 1 tapping it regularly, which meant that if the practice kept on there wouldn't be enough water for the quartermaster company. First Lt. Henry B. Cockrell figured out something. He had the bag electrified, so that any one touching it would get a shock sufficient to dissuade him from trying to tap it. Bill lie showed his own men how to cut off the current. They could drink in peace. Outsiders quickly abandoned the attempt. Carroll County rair Will Open Today By the Associated Press. TANEYTOWN. Md„ Aug. 19.— ' The Carroll County Fair, featuring whippet and harness races, will opwi tomorrow for a six-day stand. The doc races, an innovation in this section, will begin Monday ; night. Horse-pulling contests and horse and cattle judging will take place Tuesday, children’s day. The annual horse and pony show will be held Wednesday. Thursday will be rural life day and Friday 4-H day. Carnival at Riverdale Extended for Week With "The Great Mystini" as an added free attraction, the River dale Firemen's Carnival will be con tinued through next Saturday, it was announced yesterday. The carnival is three blocks from the traffic light at Madison street on the Washington-Baltimore boule vard in Riverdale. Md. Mystini, at 8 and 11 pm. dally, will permit himself to be hand cuffed and shackled by police of ficers, tied in a bag and placed inside an air-tight burial . vault, only to escape from his bonds. Three Children Burned To Death in Shack By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO. Calif., Aug. 19.— Three children were trapped in their beds and burned to death today in a fire of mysterious origin that de stroyed a wood and tin shack on the outskirts of town. The victims were Rosie Lopez, 11; Raymond Lopez, 4, and Richard Lopez, 2. Their mother, Mrs. Jos ephine Lopez, 36, a cannery worker, and her other three children es caped. Two of them, Prank, 19, and Lalia, 9, were severely burned. Deputy SherifT A. S. Goodman re ported he could find nothing to ac count for the fire except possibly incendiarism. He said he was seek ing Stephen Lopez, estranged hus band of Mrs. Lopez, for questioning. 9 _ Duffer's Luck Attempting a golf shot to the green at HighclifTe. F,ngland, Lou Phillips drove his ball against a tree and it rebounded, struck him on the forehead, knocking him out, and j his opponent claimed the hole. - -- LIBERAL ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR PRESENT CAR ON A NEW Pontiac H. J. BROWN PONTIAC, Inc. Direct Factory Dealers _ Rosslyn. Va. 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