Gas Seen as Nations
Best Supply of Fuel
As Oil Disappears
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—Revo
lution in the methods of mavmfactur*
ing gas in America is almost a cer
tainty of the immediate future, was
the prediction made here today by
Harry C. Abell, ot' New York, presi
dent of the American Gas Associa
tion. in his opening remarks before
the midwinter meeting of the gas
company executives. This will come
about, the speaker declared, because
the industry will be called upon to
replace the nation’s failing supply of
oil with gaseous fuel for industrial
heating.
Mr. Abell bases his prediction on
President Coolidge’s recent action in
the creation of the Federal Oil Con
servation Board. He interprets this
to mean rapid, and probably drastic,
curtailment of the use of oil in in
dust rial heating processes where it
now furnishes perhaps 90 per cent ot
the fuel supply where gas could be
used.
“The estimated available and us
able supply of oil in the United States
is 9.000.000,000 barrels and the pres
ent rate of annual production 750,
000,000 barrels,” said Abell. “It is
apparent, therefore, that the supply
will only last 12 years. A strict
conservation program national in its
scope, seems to be the only solution
and such a program means that the
industrial plants of the nation will be
obliged to turn to manufactured gas
for their fuel requirements.
"This means that in ten years the
gas output will increase at least 100
per cent and probably a great deal
more, and 20,000,000 customers will
be connected to the mains of gas
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companies.
Mr. Abell warned his hearers of the J
tremendous task ahead in preparing
to satisfy this demand, to provide new
methods of generation and even to
build the requisite additional gas
manufacturing equipment. Another
problem that must be met and solved
he said, was such adjustment of rates
to the public that each customer shall
pay the costs he causes the company
and not force the industrial user to
pay not only his share but also the
losses incurred from those who pay
less than their share.
“Progress in the gas business in
the last two decades has been a rec
ord of peak after peak, with three
times as much gas consumed during
the last ten years as during the pre- j
ceding ten,” the speaker declared. A
striking fact is that while the house
hold use of gas increased 100 per
cent in the last ten years, the use of
gas in industry jumped 1,000 percent.
“We have got to make plans for an
industry three times its present size.
If gas service does not replace indus
trial use of oil this year, the change
will be made next year or the next
year after. It is inevitable. To be ;
able to take on this business we must J
obtain hundreds of millions of dol
lars of new capital; we must make
gas quicker, and make it in larger
quantities; we must have the full
cooperation of the regulatory bodies,
and we must adjust rates so that the
cost of service will be equitably pro
portioned among all classes of eus
timers.”
Teachers For Prison
Schools Be Drawn
From Many Convicts
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—A high
school with a complete tour year
course leading to a diploma and ac
credited to the state university will
be established in San Quentin state
penitentiary according to plans ap
proved by the State Prison Board and
Frank J. Smith, the new warden.
It is intended to maintain the school
standards and curriculum of out side
high schools. Modern school equip
ment will be installed. Manual train
ing and practical shop courses will
be included and a laboratory fitted
out for research in the scientific
classes.
The faculty is expected to be ob
tained from the ranks of the con
Aicts. A* recent check of San Quen
tin records indicated that 19 prison
ers had degrees in arts, sciences, law,
and medicine from the leading col
leges and universities in this coun
try and Europe.
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WORLD’S COSTLIEST BASEBALL BATTERY OWNED BY ATHLETICS
Taking a long, deep breath, Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy, of the
Phi.adelphia Athletics, has untied the strings on his buckskin poke and
paid the world’s record price for a battery of two players—$156,000 for
pitcher Lefty Groves and Catcher Gordon S. Cochrane. Connie paid the
Baltimore Orioles $106,000 for Lefty Groves who was the star pitcher for
the International League last season, winning 26 games and losing 6; and
$50,000 cash and five players for Cochrae, who was the star player in the
Portland Club of the Pacific Coast League. Lefty Groves, the pitching
ace is shown delivering a shoot. “Mickey” Cochrane, the prize backstop
is shown in the insert.
HUNTER BAGS FIVE MOUNTAIN
LIONS IN NEW MEXICO
SANTA FE, N. M.f Jan. SO—Five
mountain lions in one day is the rec
ord of Ed Steele, a predatory game
hunter in the employ of the United
States biological survey.
Steele made his record kill in the
rocky recesses of the Black Range,
trailing the great cats through fresh
ly fallen snow and bringing them to
bay with hunting dogs. Two of the
dogs were injured badly in the en
counters.
Ranchers and hunters estimate that
each mountain lion slays on the av
erage $500 worth of livestock and
game each season, and Steele’s work
for the day, thus figured, means a
net saving of $2,500.
During the last six months of 124
the New Mexican federal survey has
accounted for more than three thous
and coyotes, 120 bobcats, 25 moun
tain lions, 17 wolves and seven stock
killing bears. These totals represent
a potential saving of $206,000 to stock
raisers and wild game in the state.
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Mar. 12
South from
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Feb. 15th
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Calling at all regular Southeastern and South
western Alaska ports in eluding Seldovia and
Kodiak.
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PROPOSAL IS DEAD
Washington Forgetting About Turret
Gun Elevation
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 31
Proposals in congress for elevation
of turret guns on American capital
ships were regarded by most of offi
cial Washington today as being prac
tically dead, in view of President
Coolidge’s relative stand against such
alterations.
Senate and house naval commit
tees have been withholding action on
the gun elevation proposals for some
time with indications that no attempt,
would be made to press them If ad
ministration opposition should be
made known. The president’s posi
tion based on the opinion that ele
vation of the guns would reverse the
policy effected by the Washington
arms limitation conference and bring
about a resumption of international
compelition in armaments, was made
unmistakably clear yesterday at the
White House.
The technical right of the United
States to elevate the guns and the
question of costs and work the op
eration would entail are looked upon
by the president as minor consider
ations in comparison with the ques
tion of reverting to armament com
petition.
Navy Will Receive
New Planes Next Year
CLEVELAND. Jan. 31—The finest
of materials and workmanship and all
the latest accessories are being used
by the Glenn L. Martin Company here
in the construction of 75 combination
torpedo, bombing and long distance
scouting planes for the Bureau of
Areonautics of the Navy Department.
Approximately 25,000 parts go into
the making of a plane. All except
the motor, instruments and propel
lors are made at the local plant. De
livery of the first plane is scheduled
for February, 1926, and the plant is
operating at full capacity to complete
its contracts.
The airplanes are know'n as the
"SC” type and are capable of earn
ing either a standard 1,750-pound tor
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pedo, or 2,000 pounds of bombs or
sufficient fuel for long distance scout
ing. As a scoutftig plane, 388 gab
Ions of fuel is carried, which is suffi
dent for 17 1-2 hours of continuous
flying at a cruising speed of 75 miles
an hour.
The three-purpose type plane in ad
dition to the combination of loads
carried, is fitted with both land and
water landing gear making it suit
able for action over land and sea. ,
It is designed to be catapulted from
i he turrets of battleships and to be
capable of taking off and landing upon
by the aid of arresting gear, the decks
c.f airplane carriers. To facilitate
me handling on board carriers the
wings may be folded, reducing the
wing spread to less than half its nor
mal spreal.
ENGLAND RESPONDS SLOWLY
TO PLEAS FOR CREMATION
LONDON, Feb. 2.—It is the task of
the Cremation Society to popularize
that form of burial in England, but
it is making slow progress. In the
past year there were only 1,986 cre
mations in Great Britain.
The argument the society advances
is that musty, dirty, crowded Britain
is no place for the final abode of the
body, and that the country could be
made beautiful by handsome mauso
leums instead of open spaces in the
cities being taken from the living for
the use of the dead.
PROFESSOR HONORED
BERLIN, Feb. 2.—Dr. Ernest Cush
ing Richardson, director of Princeton
University Library, has been desig
nated corresponding member of the
Prussian Academy of Sciences in its
philosophic-historical section.
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Southwestern Alaska Route Schedule
Scheduled Scheduled Scheduled Sail
Vessel— Lv. Seattle Ar. Seward from Seward
Alameda
Alaska
Yukon
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Yukon
January 31
February 7
February 14
February 21
Feb. 28th.
March 7
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
Mar. 7th.
March 14
February 7
February 14
February 21
February 28
Mar. 7th.
March 14
Steamers in the above schedule will make all regular ports of call
in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
Freighter Nabesna is scheduled to sail from Seattle Feb. 5, and
will call at Sewrard if sufficient business is offered.
J. H. FLICKINGER, Agent
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