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Show v I I : Navy Now "The United States Fleet"! meeting annually for three month for drills, maneuvers and gunnery exercises. exer-cises. This winter the newly organized fleet will meet In Panama buy for that purpose. Admiral 11. I Jones, U. S. N., now commanding t!e Atlantic fleet, ' becomes commander In chief of the United States fleet l:i peace and war, whether the units of the lleets are In Juncture or apart j The pHrtlculnr advantages of the new organization are described by the-unvy the-unvy followsi It facilitate:- pausing ' from peace to war conditions, saving time at .-the beginning of war, when time Is vital. It allows the various units to be trained In pence for war duties by officers who are to commnnd. It places the whole fleet under the command of the odker who Is to com- . nuind In time of war and gives him nn! the officers In command of the , major units opportunity to gain news- ' sary experience bi command nnd In making plans to carry out their assigned as-signed tasks. It creates au organized fichting force which hna only to be expanded In emergency to be ready for j nny campaign. XX7ASHINGTON. The Navy de-partment de-partment has announced a gen-eral gen-eral order, approved by President ' Harding, putting Into effect a plan for organization of the navy under one commander In chief. The fleet Is or-! or-! panlzed under the title "The United States Fleet," and Is divided Into four sections, the battle fleet, the scouting fleet, the control force and the fleet base force. At present, when the fleets meet for Joint maneuvers, It has been necessary to designate the commander In chief of the Atlantic fleet as the officer to us-nume us-nume command. The present policy culls for the various units of the lleets Oil Results Under New Leasing Law QUBSTANTIAL beginning of the ar-tlve ar-tlve development of vast mineral wealth, heretofore locked up In the public domain of the various wester?, states, but now liberated under the general leasing law, was recorded by !r. II. Foster Bain, director of the bureau bu-reau of mines, in his annual report 5 submitted to the secretary of the Interior. In-terior. Oil Is the foremost product of these lands so fur, but Doctor Bain said that when coal resources of the East start to give out, the government-owned conl fields In the western states would be of prime Importance. In the fiscal year ended last June there were produced from government lands other than Indian lands IS.2WV SG2 barrels of oil, of which the fe.leral government received as royalty 8,C1C,-S."2 8,C1C,-S."2 bnrrelH, worth $4,7C8,39T, not Including In-cluding bonuses. In addition, at the end of the year j t $14,000 a month was being received t by the government from natural gas lenses on public lands In Wyoming. In the Rocky mountain field alone, there were on government land 3.10 oil wells, of which 207 were In the Salt Creek (Wyo.) field. A hundred other wells were being drilled. Under the terms of the development there had been Issued 292 oil nnd gas leases In four states and 7.727 prospecting pros-pecting permits, on each of which ! drilling Is required, la IS states and Alaska. The largest number of producing wells belonging to the government Is in the Salt Creek Held, where the g v- eminent holds title to nearly all the , land. Such nn Immense amount of crude petroleum was produced that the ; capacity of the wells was far greater than the pipe lhe facilities to transport trans-port it In Montana, also, development proceeded pro-ceeded rapidly and at the end of the fiscal year there were S7 producing wells In the Cat Creek field and nine drilling on government land In the newly discovered and promising Sunburst-Kevin field. These developments are exclusive to nctlvlty In naval petroleum reserves. Final adjudication was reached In outstanding out-standing contests on such oil lands, leases were grunted and drilling arranged. Wanted: New Basic Judicial Organization training was one of the several suggestions sug-gestions advanced by Mr. Imughcrty. The recently enacted legislation providing pro-viding additional Judges should help the situntlon, he said, but probably will not entirely remedy It. ! "Tim failure of local self government In parts of the country," the report said, "results In the Insistence of the citizens In those communities that the federal government perform that function In Which the local government govern-ment lius failed, and frequently la mutters where there is concurrent Jurisdiction between the state and fed-c fed-c ml government It Is difficult to establish estab-lish n policy ns to the extent to which the federal government should take Jurisdiction. 'This N peculiarly true of offenses iirlshi' under the federal reserve act. the narcotic act, tlie Volstead act and the posinl frauds act. There bus been an effort on the part' of the division during tills fiscal year to have the United State attorneys and the state prosecuting attorneys meet from time In time for tie purpose of co-opera tbm. Evidence ( the benefits of these meetings Is overwhelming." A NEW hns!c Judicial organization to meet the nug'nontcd work which has resulted from "the ever-in-crca liig complexity of government." was Hiiee.4eil by Attorney (idieri! I'aui'l erty In bis nmiual report on the fpei at Ions of the Department of Justice. Jus-tice. Noting that (ii 1,722 criminal cases were begun In the lust fl.u-al year, the report ileclnrcd the point was being , Approached "where a revamping of tin-rtvN'hinery tin-rtvN'hinery used In this work Is lnel-litbie." lnel-litbie." Adoption of some method by which the government could retain attorneys who l.nve special knowledge of government govern-ment mutters In uddltbui to legal Mellon Seen as Dr. Jeky! and Mr. Hyde V-' ( A l r- TWO impressions of Secretary of the Treiisnry Mellon were given in speeches in the l ouse the other day. Ilepresel tallve l'ic;ir (Itep.. Wis.), re-i:evc( re-i:evc( his attacks upon Mi'. Mellon, describing de-scribing his annual report as "a confession con-fession of the most sbaiiicfitl conditions condi-tions ever disclosed In the tioiisury t!nltt;r rvachinery." Itepres' ntalivo Fr (H"p-. Ohloi, r. i T tiy elected (o the senate, asserted tlpif Si-cretary M-'M-m's ndm'tii-itrathut cf t'ic Trei.snry depurf i:icMt has proved "the i:i"tt brllilatit since the dajs oi" Ab'j.uiider Hateiltnn." J.'eprcM-iitCve Fr'itr d:r:inded an Invest!,:;. tb n of churg-s msd' by him In a sciics (if letters to ti e .secretary. lie repealed charges t h: t upwards of '''2.O0 I.I K l.i Kill ill ( HI po! ;;t'.i!) iiCeil-im'!;ili.l iiCeil-im'!;ili.l Mindnses ure I'scuping pi aal-tle;; aal-tle;; atil indl i'bml surlavj, t!:at an oil (Mi,iiin.v controlled by I'.vcrctar.v Aleibui stinted "ti e wild ucdon cutt! y. mce." Cult tho tux tidfihit.strat'oil of the in'eitia! rccnue office is under the cotiti-ni 'if :i stitall group of men who:--.-I.etiities lt.ve beeeme a p':!,!!c r::u- ib.i, Ihat tl.e Aluminum t'ompauy of Ati.crici., tiic Standard SI eel romp sity tir-d other cm -orations have been fa- vorcd. Ilepre.-ent.-tlve Fes rr vieucd the i I a otrri -a of g'ivein!'ic:;fil lit.nuclns un- : d.'"r Sccre'iivy Mi I ion. lie said: J "F'lderMr. .Melh.n's liirect'.cn tbi'J r.'itin'i I as I nbiiiccd Itn bn.i'.u t, re- , laced lis pi.lilic (i-.'bl by over S'.li",1,- 1 1 02. iC", tin:; l n o. 1 Us bnun, thawed out 1 its I'rej-f-n credits, rcitus.-d its (t :- -ft s f'r bulttstry, made l.iml.h:;: ens'er. hey. .' ered rate i.i' inicre l and redl (founts, ! riied iiisini:.-:s, biU.is'ied iim i,i;,lo .'- j i;ii-nt. and I imp .'!tt the government , 'Ti-dd back to j.a.t'. 'Mi!.; achievement i't ciniile; t;i( record for nn cpiul )-. ii.ra.uui e ia the history of bnatice," |