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PAGE FOURTEEN HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON MONDAY. AUGUST 215, 1052 Oil Companies Invited To Refute Cartel Charges WASHINGTON W) Five big American oil companies have an invitation to balance the olllcial record with their replies to gov ernment charges that they Joined In a virtual monopoly ol the West, em world's oil trade. Most of them already have en tered unofficial denials. The v Invitation for formal an swers came from Sen. John Spark man of Alabama, Democratic nom inee for vice president, in nil role as chairman of the Senate small business subcommittee. It resulted from release of edited portions of a critical and contro versial report on an International oil cartel, kept secret for more than a year alter Its completion by the Federal Trade Commission. The report charged that the five American oil companies Joined two huge foreign corporations in an arrangement designed to reap rich profits for themselves and collab orators from major oil production centers and markets of the non Communist world. President Truman, acting upon advice of top adminisi ration lead ers, had withheld the 3"s-page re- Men Fear Volcanoes Fissures Following Large Earthquake. By GRAHAM BERRY PASADENA, Calir. Ofi Two types of aftershocks from the big July 21 earthquake are still jolting Southern California. One Is In the ground. The other Is in men's minds. Every time a quake occurs any where, age-old fallacies born of fear and uncertainty are sure to arise. One notion Is that there can be "earthquake weather." Another Is that volcanoes are about to erupt in ouake areas. It is feared that great cracks in the earth will open and swallow homes ana people. And many persons believe that greater shocks are certain to lollow. Dr. Charles F. Richter, Californ ia Institute of Technology seismo logist, found such false ideas wide ly discussed in the stricken Bakers- lieid area. Also popular was tne idea that California is gradually sliding into the sea. Instead of pooh-poohing these no- port front the public for more than a year. It Is generally supposed this was in an eflorl to let British oil in terests and the Iranian govern eminent try to settle their long and continuing dispute over Uic rich Iranian oil fields. Apparently material dealing with this phase was deleted from the document and other matter was edited and toned down belore it was handed to news agencies over the week end. Listed as principals in the al leged global oil cartel are these American firms: Standard Oil of New Jersey. Standard Oil of Cali fornia, the Texas Co., Socony-Vac-uum and Oulf Oil. The foreign corporations named re Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., a British ompany, and Royal-Dutch Shell. wned by British and Dutch Inter sts. Standard Oil of New Jersey was Legionnaires Hear Dewey By JOSEPH Ml'RPHY ' NEW YORK HI President Tru man urged the American Legion Monday to help "put all the facts before the people'1 in the present political campaign. The presidential message was read by National Commander Don ald R. Wilson at the opening ses sion of the Legion's 34th annual convention in Madison Square Garden. - "In our country, the people have an opportunity to determine their own destiny by deciding the vital issues at the ballot box," the Pres ident said. "I ask the Legion to help Amer ica choose wisely by seeing that all the facts are put before the people in free and fair debate." Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, welcoming the Legion D raised it for its efforts in behalf of universal military training. Dewey told the delegates - ex pected to reach a total of 30,000 before the convention ends Thurs daythat the Legion should con tinue its drive to enact U.M.T. if the nation Is to keep strong. . " "If the United States had fol lowed the advice of the American Legion," Dewey said, "we' would not have been caught naked at Pearl Harbor." - The New York governor declared the Legion had fought subversive forces within the nation "when it was considered silly by many to recognize the threat Irom -within." With their families, the men who met in Army camps and on battle fields and battleships are expected to swell New York's population by 100,000 as they gather here for serious talks and to have a little lun." Electioneering for the 15,000-a-year post of National Commander was underway. The two leading candidates Lewis K. Gough, 44, of Pasadena, Calif., and Walter E. Alessandronl, 39, of Philadelphia addressed 50 delegates Sunday representing 25. 000 Legionnaires in foreign and outlying departments- and posts. Two other candidates Seaborn Collins of. Las Cruces. N.M., and Arthur J. Connell, of- Middletown, Conn. also addressed the 50 dele gates. Lee Ward, of Paragould, Ark., Is a fifth candidate. Voting will be held Thursday. Salem Falls To San Diego HASTINGS, Neb. OB Salem, Ore., took its first setback of the sectional American Region base ball tournament here Sunday, bow; ing 7-1 to San Diego, Calif. - The Oregonians. who reached the sectional tourney after three straight wins over WaiDahu. Oabu, in the regtonals at Yakima. Wash., i last week, were new scoreless un til the ninth inning when they put together three hits for their only run. port. Denying any wronglul acts, it said. "The net effect of this report , . . can hardly be other than to undermine the Integrity of Americans whose Investments abroad are of great value not only to the economy of the nations where they are made, but also to the economy and security of our own country. Moreover, the company said it did not belong to any international oil cartel. A Standard Oil of California Army Pigeon Gets Confused WITH 1ST CORPS. Korea I An Army carrier pigeon returned recently to the 1st Corps signal battalion In a box. The pigeon, named Joe, was missing for 10 days after a train ing flight. Soldiers at a forward division, found hin sitting on the ground, lost and bewildered. Tney boxed him up and sent him back by truck. , tlons. Dr. Richter has inquired mto , the first to protest the cartel re- Arlnln Urn, .... .V-,- . - . beginnings, he hopes to uproot them, much as a psychiatrist woras. ... As for earthquake weather. Dr. Richter observes that "it is Pic tured as hot, humid and calm. This notion goes back to the ancient Greeks. They believed that earth quakes were caused by action of the wind, temporarily imprisoned in caverns under the earth. "Thus with the wind inside the earth, the earth's surface must be hot and calm; Greek writings on this 'theory'- have- been widely read." Actually, emphasized Dr. Richt er, weather has nothing to do with earthquakes except during the start of the rainy season in Cali fornia. At that time the end of summer the seismologist has noted a slight increase in the number of small earth shocks. This he attributes to the cold polar masses spreading southward, increasing, the atmosphere pressure against the earth. As lor volcanic action. It has nothing to do with earthquakes on the Pacific; Coast' of the United States, the scientist says. Quakes are caused by "mountain - building forces building up pressures in the earth to the point where the earth can stand no-more pressure and ruptures or fractures, invariably along fault planes.' These faults are scars from old ruptures. "Volcanic action can cause lo calised quakes in volcanic areas irom subterranean explosions and the sudden movements of molten rock." Dr. Richter said there Is truth in the idea that earthquakes are California's growing pains. The state is very young, geologically, he explains. As for the fantasy that the state is slldlnginto the sea. Dr. Richter smiled. This comes, be said, from geological reports that the Cali fornia coastal section, from San Francisco south, is moving north west in relation to the rest of the continent at the rate of four inches year. Many persons fear the' opening of great fissures In the earth dur ing tremors. Cracks do open, but a quake is more likely to close a crack than to open a new one, the scientist said. 'Total casualties from cracks opened by California earthquakes are one cow lost in a fissure during the San Francisco quake of 1906," he said. People shouldn't be afraid that greater shocks will follow the first big jolt. The pattern of most dis turbances is for the first shake to be followed by smaller and smaller oisiuroances. ' . Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich MS "You needn't snap my head ell! I was going to look up the correct number before I called I". . . 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"Wo are confident we can es tablish that our Middle East oper ations have been conducted in the best Interests of the country and strictly according to law," he said, adding Ihut Standard of California has kept the government lully ad vised of "all significant develop ments" in Its Middle East opera tions. A Gulf Oil spokesman said ot the report: "Insular as Oulf Is concerned It la not bused on fact. Oulf la not a parly to uny carle) arrangement, either international or otherwise." A spokesman for tha Texas Co. also denied that the company par ticipated In a cartel and aald he doubled the existence of any aucb international agreement. The FTC report, tracing a nun of corporations, subsidiaries. Inter locking directorates and agree ments, pictured the cartel as carv ing up I ha world's reserves, sup plies and markets for petroleum and fixing high prices. 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