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...said by the U. S. Geological Survey to contain 40 billion barrels of petroleum (value: $1 per barrel, minimum), loomed more and more clearly in the public prints last week as an interesting national possession, also as the focus of an alleged national scandal. Ralph S. Kelley, the Interior Department's field chief at Denver, last fortnight resigned his post, loudly protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur was not taking proper care of all the people's great property (TIME, Oct. 6). The Department of Justice asked him for his evidence. He replied last week that...
...Kelley's charges, as revealed by his World articles, was that the Department of the Interior, under heavy political pressure, had backed down on its interpretation of the mining laws so far as to validate worthless land claims of oil companies in Colorado. Under the old law a locator could secure full title to a 160-acre tract from the U. S. by paying $2.50 per acre, spending $100 per year on "development," proving substantially that he had discovered oil (or mineral) on his land. In 1920 Congress passed an act which substituted leasing for sale of public oil land...
...Work's Decree. In the Colorado shale fields, traces of oil appear on the surface of the ground. Were these enough, without drilling, to fulfill the law's "discovery" requirement? In 1924 the Interior Department ruled that surface traces were not sufficient, that their connection with underground oil supplies was not proved. Potent oil companies?Pure Oil, Union of California, Prairie, Continental, Midwest?massed their legal forces against this decision. Three years later with the aid of Colorado's Senators they induced Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work, a Coloradoan, to reverse the Department's position. By Dr. Work...
...follows: Friday, October 17, "Pluto and Eros" by Professor Anne S. Young of Mt. Holyoke College; Tuesday, October 21, "Measuring Starlight" by Professor E. S. King; Thursday, October 23, "Something about Comets" by Leon Campbell; Tuesday, October 28, "More About Nebulae" by Miss Adelaide Ames; Thursday, October 30, "The Interior of a Star" by Professor H. H. Plaskett. The last four speakers are connected with the observatory. The open nights are being held under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club...
...followers pointed out the details of the interior: ten enormous stained glass aisle windows softening the sight of his stone pulpit, reading stand and chancel screen; the 1,408 seats in the nave, some equipped with electrical earphone connections, and only 100 blocked by pillars from view of the pulpit; 'the two galleries at one end of the nave and the triforium galleries (seating 1,000) between the pillars and the clerestory windows, reached by four quiet elevators...