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Eight days after entering the White House, President Hoover announced a sweeping new policy for oil conservation on the public domain. Aware of petroleum overproduction, he ordered his Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, virtually to suspend the U. S. Leasing Act of 1920. Secretary Wilbur promptly executed the new policy by: 1) refusing to make new government oil leases; 2) rejecting most of the 20,000 applications for Federal permits to prospect for oil on the public domain; 3) revoking inactive permits already issued; 4) declining to receive any new permit applications...
...Business. Winners of many of the Garvan Prizes which total $50,000, were announced. In the U. S. 288 high school pupils will receive $120 each for essays, six of the group will get scholar ships which will send them through col lege. Next year Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur will be chairman of the awards committee, succeeding Herbert Clark Hoover...
Last year in the meet in St. Louis, the natators broke a record in every event, but Saturday five of these marks were cracked anew and Ray Ruddy, of Columbia, and George Kojac, of Rutgers, set marks in the 440-yard freestyle and the 150 back-stroke respectively that now stand as the best ever. In Friday's events Bud Moles, Princeton's crack breaststroker, broke the mark for 200 yards in his event when he covered the distance in two minutes, 34 seconds. Also in the preliminaries on Friday, the Northwestern medley relay team clipped one fifth...
Four hundred and forty-yard free style--Won by Ray Ruddy (Columbia); second, Austin Clapp (Stanford); third, Garnett Ault (Michigan); fourth, Thomas Phillips (Rutgers). Time--4m. 55 3-5s. (new national intercollegiate and world record...
...hundred and twenty-yard free style Won by Albert Schwartz (Northwestern) second, Austin Clapp (Stanford); third, Ray Ruddy (Columbia); fourth, Garnett Alba (Michigan). Time--2m. 16 3-5s. (new national collegiate record...