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Memorial To Harding
Will Be Unveiled By
Kiwanians In Canada
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 9. (/P)—
A unique memorial to the late Amer
ican President, Warren G. Harding,
will be unveiled at Vancouver, Sep
tember 17, to commemorate his visit
to Canadian soil in July, 1923.
The unveiling will take place after
the International meet of Kiwan
is clubs under whose auspices the
memorial is being erected. The move
ment for the memorial was inaugur
ated by the Kiwanis club of Vancou
ver, and the subscription list was
opened to the Kiwanis clubs in the
United States. The result was that
the objective, $35,000, was soon over
subscribed and the clubs in the Uni
ted States insisted that they be per
mitted to bear the entire expense. The
amount subscribed by the Canadian
clubs them was returned to them.
The memorial will mark an event
in history which offers no parallel—
that of a United States president mak
ing an address on Canadian soil dur
ing his term of office. President Hard
ing stopped at Vancouver for a few
hours on his way south after visiting
Alaska in 1923. In his address he
made an eloquent plea for continued
friendship between the English speak
ing people and particularly betwen Ca
nada and the United States.
The memorial will stand within a
few feet of the spot in Stanley Park
where President Harding delivered
his address. The design of the me
morial was submitted by Charles Ma
rega, an Italian sculptor now residing
in Vancouver, and was one of 80 sub
mitted to Kiwanis headquarters in Chi
cago. An invitation will be extended
to President Coolidge to officiate at
the unveiling.
America and Canada are represent
ed in the statue by female figures fac
ing each other and holding the shields
of their respective countries and the
olive branch, symbol of peace. Und
er the olive branches there will be
a bas relief tablet of the late Presi
dent, underneath which will be the
single word Harding.
At each end of the statue will be a
panel engraved with passages from
Mr. Harding’s speech. In front of the
statue there will be a pool, the water
for which will issue from the mouth
of a colossal lion’s head to be carved
of granite, and which will surmount
the entire work.
At the ends of the platform there
will be a semi-circle of seats to pro
vide accommodations for visitors, and
at the entrance of the platform will
be the forms of two eagles, symbolic
of the United States. Around the me
morial will be a wall which will be
overgrown with flowers and shrub
bery to give color to the granite work.
Mr. Lang, locator of some fine look
ing ground in the Nuka Bay district,
arrived in Seward this morning on
Capt. Pete Sather’s craft.
Capt. Chas. Emswiler will depart to
day with his boat for Nuka Bay. The
captain has a few passengers and a
load of freight to take to the district.
Fourteen acres of glass are contain
ed in the roof of London’s famous
crystal palace.
More Confidence In Oil
Is Manifested Oklahoma
FIRMER MARKETS ;HAVE STIMU
LATED ALL FIELD
ACTIVITIES.
Advance In Eastern Crude and Smack
over Heavy Oil Arouses Expecta
tion of a Rise In Mid-Conti
nent Prices.
TULSA, Ok., July 9. —Increase in
price of eastern crude oil recently lias
strengthened the belief among Mid
Continent oil men that the petroleum
industry is improving its fundamental
condition. Large increase in gasoline
consumption over that of a year ago
and preliminary figures indica*iug
that decreases occurred last month
in stocks of both gasoline and crude
oil have given new confidence to oil
men. Wholesale prices of gasoline
advances fractionally again this
week. There are growing indications
of increasing competition for the light
oils of the Mid-Continent field, and
j even the enormous outpouring of
I heavy oil in the Smackover field is
meeting with such large demand that
i prices have advanced, and in some in
stances premiums are paid over the
quoted price.
Natural Gasoline Scarce.
An actual scarcity of natural gaso
line is impending. The largest manu
i facturer in the world, Phillips Petro
leum Company, is known to be hav
ing difficulty in meeting demand of
its customers, and Chestnut & Smith
Corporation, one of the largest man
ufacturers and selling agents in this
territory, is combing the field for an
increased supply. Prices advanced
this week. Grades A, B and C are all
quoted at the same price—13^ cents
a gallon—these quotations having
jumped considerably ahead of new
navy prices, which are increasing
slowly. New navy gasoline is now
bringing 11% cents, and there are in
dications of jobbers coming in the
market on a much larger scale.
search tor uii pools.
The problem of finding new oil pools
to supply the enlarged demand is caus
ing oil men much concern. They are
beginning to buy leases and drill more
activiely than for three years. Block
ing of wildcat acreage is reported
from all parts of Oklahoma, including
principally the north part of the state,
where exceptional Welcox said dis
coveries have been made in the Gar
ber field and in the Thomas pool,
northwest of Tonkawa. Nearly all
the large companies are engaged in
this activity, some of which are
“checkerboarding” leases instead of
blocking. ,
Southwestern Oklahoma, "which has
been quiet since the Hewitt and Dun
can fields have settled down, is also
getting a play. Several new wells are
reported about to be drilled southeast
of the Brock field, in Love County,
where a southeast trend of the Brock
pool is indicated. Drilling activity is
expected to soon spread over western
Garvin County, Stephens County, and
north to Grady, a better market for
gas production in that territory is ex
pected, one of the large gas compa
nies being reported as figuring on an
extension of its pipe line up to Grady.
The outstanding wildcat strike of
the week was the finding of a 20-bar
rel per hour wildcat producer in sec
tion 5-28-lw, Kay County, by Herald
Oil Company. The well opens a new
field about four miles from production
closest production being in section 28
29-1 w.
Promising Well Turned to Water.
It was thought one evening recent
ly that the most important discovery
was to be the Guy Fisher wildcat
three miles norh of Cromwell, in the
southeast corner of the northeast oi
15-11-8, it having started off at an es
■ timated 100 to 125 barrels per houi
with the CromwTell sand just touched
at 3,529 feet, but it later went largely
• to water, nullifying its importance
The well is said to be the first one
of ten wildcats to be drilled by Fisher
who was formerly in the old well sup
ply business in the Okmulgee District
Eastern capital is said toybe behinc
the enterprise.
A Disappointing Gasser.
, Shaffer Oil and Refining Company’!
L wildcat near Ripley in Payne County
section 23-18-3E, which started off a
37 million feet of gas at 4,256 feet
promising to open a pool of conse
- quence, parted the 5-inch pipe, the ga
3 being allowed to escape full force be
I tween the five and 6-inch casing, am
the gas diminished to 20 million feet,
which would indicate that the sand
possibly does not have the potential
ity with which it was originally cred
ited. Shaffer has two thousand acres
under lease here.
Biggest Oklahoma Gas Well.
Large gassers have been lound in
Oklahoma, but none quite so large as
the Kingwood Oil Company’s No. 1
Brunner, in section 16-10-9, which drill
ed in recently. It gauged 142 million
cubic feet. It has been capably han
dled, and is in control despite its
magnitude.
Another Deep Smackover Sand.
It has been definitely proven that
the Blossom sand is productive in
the Smackover, Arkansas, field, this,
perhaps, leading the way for a deep
er drilling campaign beyond the pres
ent gusher horizon known as the
Graves sand. Phillips Petroleum
company’s No. S Giller, in section 10
16-15, made 40 million feet of gas at
2,666 feet, about 250 feet below the
top of the Graves sand.
There are six producing sands at
Smackover. First comes the Naca
toch, which generally has four pay
streaks and which was the first gush
er sand of the field; then comes the
Primm, which yields gassers of from
20 to 60 million feet; then come the
Meekin, Graves, Lawton and Blossom
horizons. A matter of industrial in
terest is that the oil found in the bot
tom of the Blossom sand is from 25
to 26 gravity—higher than the Graves
sand production.
Kansas Production Increasing.
Kansas daily production has increas
ed to more than 100,00 barrels daily
for the first time in several years,
the daily average output being esti
mated at 100,000 barrels, compared
with 95,695 barrels for the week pre
vious.
Completion of fine wells at Rainbow
Bend was the cause. Pipe line capa
city out of Rainbow Bend is taxed and
several wells are being held up from
drilling in. awaiting a decline in the
flush production.
Latest completions in this field
were the Waite Phillips-Marland-In
dependent No. 2, Nelson, in section 20
3-33, that made 1,100 barrels from 3,
230 feet and the same parties’ No. 8
Lucy Johnson, same section, that made
950 barrels from 3,200 3-4 feet.
The Oxford, Kas., field was brought
to attention also, by the finding of a
pumper by T. B. Slick of Tulsa, in his
No. Waite, southeast corner of the
northeast of the northwest of 19-32
3e. It found the Burbank sand at 3,
085 feet and filled 2,400 feet with oil
in nineteen hours at a total depth of
3,123 feet. After being swabbed down
it refilled in tw*o hours to 1,700 feet.
It is the first Burbank sand well in
the field.
JIMMY CRUZE SCORES AGAIN
Something that has never happen
ed in Los Angeles before in the his
tory of the motion picture industry
and probably will not soon again, re
cently occurred there. A motion pic
ture director had three first run pic
tures running in three first run hous
es at one time. Jimmy Cruze is the
director. And the pictures were “The
Covered Wagon”—at Grauman’s Hol
lywood, “Ruggles of Red Gap”, at
Grauman’s Metropolitan, and “Holly
wood,” at Loew’s State.
Which brings to mind a few re
marks that might be made upon Jas
Cruze, director. He is a young mar
who is turning out great pictures. He
is ringing the bell time and again
not only with the box office but vritli
critics. Yet he is the most business
like, the least verbose man you evei
met. He never talks about art. He
doesn’t take himself seriously. Gener
ally, his pictures can be cut in a fe'w
minutes, because he has shot so close
to what he needed that there is real
ly nothing to do but make a selectior
of the best “takes” of a~scene.
There is a tradition in Hollywood
that he once shot a picture that onlj
had to be trimmed 500 feet—this
when most directors who make bi|
features shoot hundreds of thousands
, of feet. Chaplin admits to 400,00(
■ feet of film shot to 7,300 feet of pic
. ture for nThe Woman of Paris.”
[ . Jimmy Cruze has just one gospel
Entertainment. He believes that th<
prime object of a motion picture is
> entertainment. He has no complexes
, no inhibitions, he is not trying t<
t change the world, or the industry.
, He’s making good, human, hones
- stories that he hopes are going t
3 give mama, and papa, and the kid
- a good evening of enjoyment, tha
1 will make them forget their cares an
T'i
ONE SHOW TONIGHT AT 8:00 O’CLOCK
A LUGHT GETTING PROGRAM
But Wonderful Acting- By:
THEO. ROBERTS! LOUISE DRESSER
HELEN JEROME EDDY
"To the Ladies”
A comedy drama that’s a wonder a s an enter
tainment.
Directed by James Cruze who also directed
“THE COVERED WAGON”
There isalso a two-reel comedy entitled:
The “LIBERTY ORCHESTRA” has been reor
ganized and it will play again every Thursday
night, giving fine selections this evening.
At the Liberty
IN
NO NOISE
And a PATHS NEWS
SPECIAL MUSIC TONIGHT
Attend the Liberty tonight.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
troubles. Maybe he’s right.
“To the Ladies,” Mr. Cruze’s latest
work for Paramount, featuring Ed
ward Horton, Theodore Roberts,
Helen Jerome Eddy and Louise Dres
ser, comes to the Liberty theater to
night. It’s a superb comedy drama.
SALE
on
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choice of two kinds of meat and one
kind of fish served from 11:30 to 1:30
for 50c. Starting Wednesday, July
8th, 1925. We invite the laboring men
especially.
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BRIDGE CLUB TO MEET
The Seward Bridge Club will meet
tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 1:43
o’clock at the residence of Mrs. Rich
ard McNally.
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