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Commissioner of Education Department of the Interior, Washington...
...Navy Department against Oilman Edward L. Doheny to recover values and royalties on oil and gas sold by Mr. Doheny's companies from the Elk Hills, Calif., Naval oil reserves, which were improperly leased to the Doheny interests by onetime (1921- 23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Last week's final payments swelled the sum which the U. S. recovered from the Doheny companies, together with its oil lands, to a total of $24,237,341.05. The report of the receivership which has been managing Elk Hills since 1924 showed that operating costs had totaled only one-sixteenth...
...Secretary Hubert S. Work of the U. S. Department of the Interior asked the Association's mineral law section to urge the next Congress to legislate to conserve U. S. petroleum and gas resources, now being wasted through too much competition. Henry L. Doherty seconded Mr. Work, offering a brief for Federal adoption or promotion of the pool plan of conservation introduced last spring in the Seminole, Okla., field (TIME, May 23). James A. Veasey, counsel for the Carter Oil Co. at Tulsa, Okla., submitted that, though the industry is now overproduced and demoralized, it can right itself; Federal...
...District Court of New York. On the ground that Mr. Barnett was and is incompetent to handle his fortune, Judge Knox ruled that the gifts to Mr. Barnett's wife and to the Baptists were null & void, that his fortune must be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior for management. Said Judge Knox: "He [Mr. Barnett] is a harmless, kindly, mentally undeveloped man, who was extremely bored at the court proceedings and had no comprehension of their significance. . . . He has been the shuttlecock in a game of battledore in which the stakes were high...
Eighty thousand Indians, each clad in a red blanket and each with a tiny hat cocked low over his forehead, were reported "in revolt", last week, throughout the interior departments of Potosi, Cochabamba and Sucre...