“FORD ECO By CHARLES MARILLO, . M. HALL “Teka yo years, FLORENCE, Ala., After five years of de Henry Ford is still t Messiah of the Muscle trict and eyes: turn him in the hope that h be interested in compé shuge hydr-electeic ple by the government, June 25.—For J. A. Whittenburg cattleman, in a modest way. Pils wned a stretch of land in the ' Panhandle, big enough to pasture a sizeable herd of cattle, but worth lit'tle for the simple reason that all the land in the Panhandle wasn’t so That has been the o velopment of the series the Muscle Shoals dis John H. Bankhead, Thomas E. Kilby, forn who are candidates fo | terribly valuable. | Whittenburg raised cattle with _ varying success, prospering mildly in | good years and skimping slightly in bad ones. And then they found oil in the . Panhandle. Further, they found oil on—or unWhittenburg’s barren acres. The cattle were shooed off to the raised where they had advocated grazed. plant ’ Pipe lines crossed the rolling prairies, Quarters were hurriedly built Behind - for $40,000,000. enjoyed has - for his of unconscious almost ently » - wealth. : Because his health is not perfect, he has his son, George, handle the George Whittenbrug, who | business, has Kas a wife and 13 children, moved from the ranch to a very ' modest home in Amarillo. They lived in a hotel for a while, but one child caught the whooping cough of and another fell down a flight stairs; so they got a home of their own. Mrs. Whittenburg says they may take a trip to Florida or California, but that they will buy a ranch the ancient J. A. Whittenburg and rough. driver. necessity, Tex is, fortune of a good that sometimes the flow In marked contrast to this sudden affluence is the story of W. H. sends the can back up tosses it 10 15 feet Holmes. Holmes is. the pioneer op‘erator of the whole Panhandle field. Such cans to the required depth and explodes it by dropping a weight on it—or by use of atime fuse. This is easy ex- or Tex must of gas again and in the air. catch in the air, for if they hit the ground to which pipe they visit and been One remarkable feature of the field more than once, here is the ‘‘shooting’” of wells to - {nerease production. By exploding a His most exciting declared the film czar. parts of Texas at once. day But was Tex when charge of nitroglycerin inside a well two cans came back up at once. He caught the first, slipped and fell, and production can be jumped from 50 ‘parrels a day to several thousand, just had time to set it down carefully before reaching up and grabbing the _-» other. Most-of Tex cheerful, = this shooting Thornton. is done Thornton sunny own. but by is. a he flirts Probably’ never before in the his- than tory of the oil business has there been a field that gave such benefits to the small operator and small com- many pany. - quarts of nitroglycerine about in tin with death oftener, perhaps, any other man in America. To begin with, he carries The territory is simpiy _ cans, loaded into his flivver. A jar of just 28 pounds will explode thes: vast ner. for the major companies They only buy enough tect themselves charges, S ane: a the Petes Soyer ics. are pretty ins in to The Record. in case of too to corto pro- new dis- an progress of Arabian Nights their future ‘The pictures but is literally boundless,”’ . development of strictly reli- gious pictures for the churches is imminent, ~ “*We are also engaged in extensive experimentation classroom schools and pictures with the will soon have for thousands consequent of contri- bution to pedagogy.”’ Hays said he had signed an extension of 10 years on his contract as was selected t¢ an ly and unconstitutional cording to allegations m tor King of Utah in now pending before th has story president Producers ica; - Inc. and of the Motion Distributors Ju oa by the United States eign relations commit King has been fight out the present for withdrawal military forces cupied Haiti occupation capital, ‘“‘The guns cal usurpation ~ it republic? That question assu importance’ with dusky-hued presiden ington on official visi Borno inspection of the screen always catches them—at least, he always has so far. He will never miss one sto Will H. Hays sounded his. usual optimistic note on the future of the motion picture industry on his arrival today on his semi-annual first well, after having spent $48,000. Real money, however, seems to be heading his way at last. consistently, bringing a HAYS HAS USUAL VIEW OF MOVIES would get that 28-pound jar and Tex would visit several widely separated him is many despite his he clings in his dodged o manufacturer of $40,000,000. cept he is only now f cause hopes and cial ruin. American - business of raising cattle. Her sud_ denly acquired wealth pleases her chiefly for one reason—her children gan be given good educations. riches almost the WASHINGTON, In shooting a well he simply sends a can of nitroglycerin down the shaft ut to Special somewhere in Texas and resume the _ and of Ameri Utahs appar- and years the herence But all of this has changed the man nota bit. He is still a familiar figure on the streets of Panhandle towns, smoking the same old pipe he ' sale Alabama pany.’’ Worth $40,000,000 | And now Whittenburg has between | $40,000,000 and $60,000,000, clear. His land, which five months ago _ was just a cattle range could not be now the to’ the pany, and Kilby retorts and you were attorney to | house workers. ‘bought That, of the b sociated power compan Alabama Power compa Both candidates favo in their debates they. s red in the face accusin of not always having d¢ head accused Kilby of derricks gaunt Fifty stockyards. _ | were States senate. ing opposition Picture]. of Amer- sessio1 of the which July s 28, followed yee in the black republic. however, that the dist ‘‘purely of an internal in nowise affecting the erty of Americans or eigners.”’ He asserts that Hai ‘‘fachieved their politic COMMIS. DISA Geneva, nent June advisory 25.— commiss league of nations’ cou tary, naval and aerisz