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Engaged. Ernest W. Marland, 53, lavish poloplaying oilman of Ponca City, Okla., owner of many prairie acres upon which he is now building a million-dollar manor house, commissioner of a statue, "The Pioneer Woman" (TIME, Jan. 2); to his adopted daughter, Miss Lydie Miller Koberts...
...that these women bore some resemblance to pioneers. Each one was a four-foot statue intended as a model for a 35-foot bronze statue to be called The Pioneer Woman and to be erected, at the expense of E. W. Marland, President of the Marland Oil Co., near Ponca City, Okla. They had been touring U. S. cities so that those who saw them might say which one they liked the best. Last week George Marland, son to E. W. Marland announced that one of the twelve women had been selected for this honor...
...cast a ballot for the one thought to be the best. The twelve frontiers-women will now tour the U. S., votes being taken everywhere on their value as art. The final winner will be reproduced on an heroic size scale and erected on the Cherokee Strip near Ponca City in Oklahoma at a cost...
...being made, particularly in the California fields, to store surplus crude oil, and by avoiding an abnormal increase in refining to prevent prices of gasoline and other products from break- ing to dangerous low levels. Some 30 Mid-Western refineries, including the Marland Refining Company's stills at Ponca City, Okla., are re- ported as closed during August. The principal exception to this general policy has been the Sinclair Co., which has recently opened its expanded refineries at Coffeyville, Kans...
...most valuable workers for the museum is Miss Alice C. Fletcher. She has been devoting herself to the study and improvement of the Indian race in America. Her long visits to the to the Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago, Sioux and Nez Perce Iddians have given Miss Fletcher a deep insight into the character of the Indian race, and have enabled her to obtain for the museum trophies and relics from the different tribes which before have probably never been seen by the eyes of any other race. Among these curiosities is the sacred pole of a tribe with the scalps...