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8- 10 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 1949
BLACK GOLD BRINGS BITTERNESS
. Worc Baffe or 07 Likely to
Affect Consumer Price in U.S.
By SAM DAWSON
New York, Dec. 13 VP) The world battle for oil is likely to
center next year more over -who is going to sell it, the Americans,
the British or the Dutch, than over who is going to get it.
And this fight is likely to cause increased bitterness here at
home between the big and little oil companies, with the final
-price to the consumer very
much at stake.
Several indications of the
coming battle are included in
late news: The Trans-Arabian
oil line is being pushed toward
the Mediterranean; big U.S. oil
companies expect to import more
oil next year than last; a group
of small operators complain that
independent oil refineries here
are being destroyed by the oil
pricing policies; the price of
heavy fuel oil goes up in Chi
cago; some Pennsylvania crude
oil prices rise; and talk of an
oil loan to Mexico revives in
Washington.
During and immediately after
the war, the great battle was to
got control of world oil supplies.
American oil companies invest
ed huge sums in developing for
eign fields, refineries and pipe
lines. World demand seemed
increasing faster than supply.
then, almost overnight, sup
ply caught up with demand. Two
things happened at about the
same time: Oil from the near
East began to flow to the United
States, and production in some
United States fields was order
ed cut back to prevent a glut of
the crude oil market.
independent oil companies
sent up a howl against the flow
of foreign oil to our shores at
such a time. The big oil com
panies with foreign holdings into
which they had poured a lot of
money finally bowed to the
storm and said they were cutting
back their imports.
But recent testimony before
the subcommittee of the house
small business committee Indi
cated that imports of oil and re
fined products this year will
average 676,000 barrels a dav
and that the companies expect
to step that up during the first
half of 1950 to about 850,000
barrels a day. Their plans arc
based on an anticipated increase
in demand during the cold
months ahead. They expect to
use oil from their exclusively
acquired foreign fields to meet
part of that increase.
Moreover, the big oil compa
nies expect to use more and
more of their foreign oil to sup
ply world markets, and there
fore export less from their do
mestic wells.
But they may be reckoning
without the British. England has
announced an all-out drive to
sell oil from its foreign holdings
in tne dollar market, and
sharp battle for world's oil trade
may develop.
Winfermute in
Island Service
Clark Air Force Base, Philip
pines Lt. Col. Ira F. Winter-
mute, former Salem, Oregon,
resident, and son of Mr. and
Mrs. James C. Wintermute, for
merly of Salem and now of Red
wood City, Calif., recently ar
rived here for a tour of duty
with the Thirteenth Air Force.
The officer is assigned as op
eration and training officer of
the 18th fighter group. His wife,
the former Betty Hamilton, and
the couple's two children. Rand
and Sheryl, will join him here
later. They presently are resid
ing in Salem, Oregon, with her
parents.
. The colonel, a senior pilot, was
graduated from Randolph and
Kelly fields in October, 1938.
After graduation he was trans
ferred to Hickam Field, Hawaii,
with the 18th Bomb Group and
1941 joined the ferry com
mand. In 1942 he was awarded
'V SC. A1 'drv".Jt r'i"IM,.t
the -Distinguished Flying Cross
for action in the Aleutians.
Wintermute attended the com
mand and general staff school at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from
1943 to 1945. The following
tnree years he was senior air in
structor for air force units in
the state of Nevada with his
home base at Reno. He received
his orders for overseas duty in
October and on November 14
landed at Manila. Col. Winter
mute will return to the United
States in September, 1951', after
completing his two-year tour of
dutv. I
Billion Light Years Into Space
Still to Be Reached by 'Scope
Palomar, Calif.: Dec. 13 VP) New photographs made with the
200-inch telescope at Palomar observatory, the first since the
nuge mirror was re polished, indicate it is "a thoroughly success
ful instrument," says Dr. Ira S. Bowen. director of Palomar and
Wilson observatories.
will
The mirror's full range
not be achieved, however, he
said, until a correction lens has
been installed. "This lens will
give the Hale the same focal ra
tio as the 100-inch and we will
then be able to get accurate com
parable photographs," he said.
The Hale mirror was designed
to see a billion light years into
space, twice the range of the
100-inch on Mount Wilson.
High spots over an area of
some 20 inches around the out
side edge of the mirror's surface
were removed by polishing last
summer. The mirror then was
given a new aluminum reflecting
coat and replaced in the tele
scope. Study of the resulting,
photographs prompted Bowen'sV
optimistic announcement, plus a
promise that "it is going to do
the work for which it was de
signed."
.About 10 billion glass contain
ers are used in the United States
in one year.
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Capone Foe Slain Frank
j. Christcnson, 45, former as
sistant Cook county state's at
torney who fought to break
the Capone syndicate, was shot
and killed from ambush as he
stepped from his car near his
home in Chicago's suburban
Circero. (Acme Telephoto)
Slaye
r's Secret
Not Revealed
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dec. 13
(U.PJ Police todav keDt the se
cret of a distraught father who
killed his three children as they
slept and then shot his wife and
himself to death.
Officers said that Carl Ama
rella, 34-year-old well-to-do in
terior decorator, left a long note
saying, "I'm sorry It had to end
this way."
The note was believed to re
veal Amarclla's reason for slay
ing his 33-year-old wife, Millie,
and his children, Sandra, 6; Lar
ry, 4, and Jane,-1. But police
would not quote all of the note
directly and apparently had
agreed not to disclose Amarel-
la's secret.
a newsman, However, over
heard two officers speak of
Amarella's "fear of disgrace."
And Amarella's lawyer said the
note asked him to keep news of
the (tragedy out of the news
papers as much as possible.
jNeignoors called police yes
terday when the Amarella child
ren did not come out to play as
usual.
Choke Demonstration
Brings Murder Charge
Iowa City, la., Dec. 13 U.R)
Robert Bednasek, 24, Cedar Rap
Ids, la., a University of Iowa
psychology student charged with
slaying a pretty co-ed, signed a
statement Monday which said he
was showing the girl "The prop
er place on the neck to choke a
person."
The statement was released by
County Attorney Jack C. White,
who filed a first degree murder
charge against the husky, hand
some student shortly after the
body of Margaret "Gee Gee"
Jackson, 20, Burlington, la., was
found in the "Empty Arms"
rooming house, a campus home
for men.
"The next thing I remember
was Margaret lying on the
floor," Bednasek said in the
statement. "She was not breath
ing." Earlier, Coroner George D.
Callahan said that Bednasek had
"admitted" he "must have"
strangled the girl. Callahan
quoted the youth as saying, "I
must have done it; I was the
only one there."
Leech Nominated for
Pulitzer Prize Award
Pittsburgh, Dec. 13 u.R) Ed
ward T. Leech, Pittsburgh Press
editor who died yesterday, had
been nominated for a Pulitzer
prize for his series of articles
on British socialism, entitled
"Utopia on the Rocks," it was
disclosed today.
Dr. Carl W. Ackcrman, dean
of the Columbia University
cnooi or journalism and chair
man of the prize award commit
tee, said in a telegram on the
editor s death:
"I am posting a tribute to Ed
ward Leech for the information
of our students today Last Fri
day I received a personal letter
from Bernard M. Baruch nomin
ating him for a Pulitzer prize.
"We honor and respect his
memory as a great crusading
editor."
Baruch is noted as the nation's
. elder statesman and adviser to
presidents.
Since the advent of wireless,
later radio and then television,
hardly a day goes by without
some new technical word coined
for the language.
-the Arabian American Oil
Co. announces that it has push
ed its big Trans-Arabian crude
oil pipeline a third of the way
from the Persian gulf to Siden
on the Mediterranean.
When this pipeline is comDlet-
ed it will cut tanker time ereatlv
between the near East oil fields
and the European markets.
Texas, which cut back crude
oil production sharply to pre
vent oversupply of the market
and consequent weakening of
the price structure, is allowins
a little more production for De
cember, perhaps counting on the
approaching cold weather to
perk up demand.
But the narrow margin he.
tween high crude oil prices and
the recently weakened prices for
some refined products is bring
ing a protest from the Con
sumers Co-operative association
in Kansas City.
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