Show I I tI I Uncertainty of Oil I HE uncertainty of oil is is' is hitting home i in 1 revelations being made in the federal courts coutts particularly those around Dallas Tex where testimony te is revealing millions swindled b through word vord pictures picture i stock stack salesmen of f fabulously rich returns for to a few hundred or I thousand invested T T Too OC o often the public only learns of the p r earner who has fas I been made mad a t sucker and Sand swindled for earn earn- ings logs Adams in the Boston News Bureau makes an tn interesting revel revelation ti n showing Frank Van- Van career i in ju oil He became one of the most prominent bankers in the nation a few years ago ago He has flirted with oil for many years but apparently oil does not stick to Mr Adams calls calls' attention to a a. a million and anda a half purchase i made by Mr and nd his associates on a high hill bill ranging along th the Pacific coast near nea I Los Angeles He Hc believed it might contain oil but nothing has ever been done to prove it The mountain and the investment says Adams stand there in lonely grandeur overlooking the booming city of Los Angeles and six new oil fields that are today making the oil history of the world And again Mr was head of the American International corporation when it got its feet stuck in a Texas oil venture which looked good with the Standard Oil taking oil out all around arund it It was after this losing venture that California attracted him and as Adams states tates he lie le might perhaps have done b better to ro have shut his eyes and made his Los Angeles investment almost anywhere else than where he did This adventure of one of the most prominent prom prom- therit of oft 0 t the e 1 country country's b Winkers into int oil with all the facilities and information he lie had available available available avail able to make his investments successful only goes to show that oil has no particular favorites favorites favorites favo favo- rites a t to i w who iio it stings This oil activities can at tea least t be of bf some comfort to small fry who have from time to time ventured into the linet line t |