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new oil sources in Brazil, Bolivia
and other countries.
Here and there the attitude is
gradually changing. Because of
the constant agitation of left-wine
Liberals. the big Oil companies
were pulling up stakes and leaving
Colombia year and a half ago.
AS a result of strong measures
against the extremists taken by
the present administration of
President Lauriano Gomez, some
of them now are returning.
Russio Has Been Supplier
In case of further Russian ag-
greSSion in Asia and the Near
East, not only oil but other min
erals and metals from the Amer
icas would have to be shared with
our European Allies, such as cop
per, tin. aluminium, lead, zinc and
tungsten. The uncovering of new
supplies is therefore important.
The iron ore situation is ex-
planned at length elsewhere on this
page. However. until very recent
months Russia has been the prin-
cipal supplier Of manganese to all
the Western countries. Manganese
is necessary for the manufacture
of steel. Industrial diamonds that
go into machine tools have come
principally from India and Africa.
Spain has had a virtual monopoly
on the production of mercury. But
in the past two years new sources
of these substances have been dis
covered. and large-scale produc-
tion of them has been begun
here in the Americas. The bauxite
mines of Dutch and British
Guiana supplied the bulk of the
aluminium that went into manu-
facture of our airplanes during the
last war, and these same mines are
still an important source Of that
product. Enormous new deposits
are now being exploited by United
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By Edword TomIinson

| Naturalization OF British oil
Interests in Iran, where the ma
tions of Western Europe have
been getting more than a third
of all their petroleum products,
may make it necessary for them
to lean more heavily on this heni-
sphere, and on Venezuela in par
tlcular, for their supplies. In fact
political uncertainties throughout
the Near and Far East serve to
emphasize the Importance of all
the vast mineral and metallurgicaI
resources of the American repub-
lies.
| During most of World War II,
Britain was largely dependent
upon the fields of Venezuela, and
the two refineries on the nearby
Caribbean islands of Aruba and
Curacao, for both her fuel oil and
gasoline. The British government
itself later admitted officially that
had it not been for this oil-rich
South American nation. most OF
"our air force would have re-
manned on the ground and the
Royal Navy could not have put
to sea"
Icopoeity Strained
Venezuela could not today sup
ply the bulk of British and Euro
pean needs, and the extra require
lrnents of this country, and have
much left for Brazil and other
South American nations. The
Venezuelan fields are now turning
'lout an average of LIS million bar
.lrels q day. or SGT million barrels
a year. Europe's imports from
Iran alone have been running al
|iabout 100 million barrels annually
Il Our own domestic oil prospect.
;lare not as rosy as many WoulG
IIhave us believe. Although we may
be a long way from exhausting oul
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la substantial way. meant that
somebody had to be prepared to
gamble and lose two or three or
-four or five million dollars. There
are not a lot of people who are
willing to do that.
1--WE got ourselves financed SO
THAT we were willing to do that
1t was known that it was going to
take an enormous investment to
Iget the ore out of there. That
meant there had to be great big
tonnage up there"
The Hanna Co. found the ton
mage. The drills which were taken
down, packed in flying boxcars.
flown to Labrador's interior and
lreassembled, have already proved
400 million tons of high-grade
Iopen-pit ore. Mr.. Humphrey was
not sure what portion of the
known ore-bearing territory had
lbeen proved, but he was sure that
lit was less than 10 per cent.
Mr.. Humphrey was testifying in
favor of the st. Lawrence Seaway
the navigation and power project
that would enable ocean steamers
with 26-foot draft, to go up and
down the river between Montreal
Iand Lake Ontario. The present
locks are only big enough fol
small steamers with 14-foot draft
He said that with the Seaway, his
company would ship about 10 mil
lion tons of ore to the steel plants
Ion the Great Lakes. Without the
ISeaway, the limit would be about
6 million tons.
Political Considerations
Although Labrador will only be
able to ship ore about sever
months Of the year. because ir
winter the ore freezes in the rail-
road cars, Labrador has one great
advantage over other parts of the
world--as an ore producer. That
advantage is political.
Undoubtedly the political sta
bility of Canada was an element
in the willingness of insurance
companies to take a $100 million
mortgage on the ore deposits.
In Venezuela, things are little
different. Foreign capital has been
encouraged. and the great oil COM
panies have experienced bonanza
there. Still, there is something
about country where military
junta can replace an elected gov
ernment overnight that must be
hard on the ulcers of an Ameri.
can industrialist investing $10C
million of his corporations funds
there.
The United States Steel Corp .'s
mountain of iron was found ir
1947 by F. H. Kihlstedt, Swede
who was an unhappy neutral un.
der Japanese rule in the Philip
pine Islands until VI day.
The modern iron ore prospectol
is a far cry from the gold pros.
pector of song and story. In the
first place. he is a corporation en-
ploye; his discoveries belong to his
employer. Mr.. Kihlstedt's fine
has been estimated to be worth 9
total Of $40 billion, presumably
when the mountain has beer
moved to the stockpiles of blast
furnaces in the United States.
Mr.. Kihlstedt's reward for his
efforts have not been revealed, but
he is reported to be a well-satis-
ilfied man. The adventure had one
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timore. most of it from the Spar
rows Point plant. although some
may be shipped to Bethlehem, Pa.
Even if the st. Lawrence Seaway
is completed. it is not expected
that Venezuelan ore will be car
ried the additional 1900 miles and
more to get it to the Bethlehem
and U. S. Steel plants on the
Great Lakes. Bethlehem viii con-
tinue to import ore from its
Chilean mines, and this also will
be unloaded at Baltimore.
Photographs of the Republic
Steel Corps mining in Liberia
show that comparatively ele-
mentary techniques still are being
used there. The ore deposit is in
the form of a cliff almost a mile
long, and from 80 to 100 feet high.
The face of the cliff has wealth.
cred and broken off through the
centuries, leaving a huge continu-
GUS pile of ore at its foot. The
pieces range in size from a marble
to box car.
Grovity System
Liberian laborers, with pneu-
matte drills. break off pieces of
ore, which fall down hill-where
other laborers pick them UP by
hand and put them in trucks.
To get the ore to Monrovia, the
capital and seaport of Liberia. a
43-mile railroad was built, the
first in the country. At the dock
IN Monrovia grab buckets lift the
ore from the railway cars and
drop 1t through the matches of the
ship.
Republic has ordered a fleet of
23.000-ton ore carriers built at
Clydebank, Scotland. The first
will be delivered in September.
The new ore discoveries are going
to be boon to the shipbuilding
industry. The M. A. Hanna Co.
intends to build a fleet of shin.
for its Labrador ore, and U. S.
Steel will need more ships when
IL starts to get ore out of Vene-
zuela.
While the discovery and devel-
opment Of such vast deposits in
Labrador. South America and
Africa have prevented a forced
change in our economy, from low
priced to very high-priced steel.
this shift in the source of supply
is bound to make changes in the
location OF the industry.
The United States Steel Coro.
is going ahead with the con.
struction of its plant at Norris
town. Pa, opposite Trenton-a
plant which will be supplied by
Venezuelan ore. A survey is
underway for a steel plant loca-
ton on the banks of the James
River. near Newport News, Va.
and the New England Council il
trying to get a steel plant built
near New London. Conn.
Whether this development will
turn out to be simply an addi-
tlon in the East to the Nations
steel-producing capacity, or the
start OF an actual shift in produc-
tion from the Great Lakes area
to the East. depends on whether
the st. Lawrence Seaway is built.
About Is per cent of steel produc-
ton Is west Of the line between
Pittsburgh and Buffalo, an area
That cannot get its proportionats
share Of the new discoveries with.
out opening the st. Lawrence.
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/ A little ceremony was held or
a Baltimore dock last month tt
mark the arrival of the Liberty
ship Simeon G. Reed with the
first load of iron ore from Liberia
The Liberian Ambassador, c. D
B. King, made a speech, as die
representatives of the State De.
partment. the Import Export
Bank, the Port of Baltimore anc
the Republic Steel Corp, which
has developed the Liberian mines
Unfortunately, the ship was de.
tanned at quarantine by the Pub.
Ilic Health authorities. It was moi
in sight during the speech-mak-
ing. And the ceremony was dam.
pened by heavy shower.
! But. before the week was over
the Simeon G. Reed was made
fast alongside the Baltimore &
IOhio's new SIS million ore dock
Big grab buckets were plummet-
ing through the matches and being
hoisted back with 5-ton bites. The
Ilumpy ore was screened onto the
longest. single-loop, rubber-belt
Iconveyor in the world and car
Iried to a hopper which dumped
lit into railway gondolas. And
soon diesel locomotives were hut.
ing and putting to get the precious
stuff over the humps of the Ap-
Ipalachians on its way TO Repub-
lies furnaces in Ohio.
1t was history's first movement
Iof ore from an Atlantic port across
the mountains, and the manage
Iment of the B. & o. could take
great satisfaction in it. Like all
mid Eastern railways, the B. &,
|O.'s big revenue has always come
from the movement of coal to sea-
board: Now there was every
prospect that the railroad would
have a profitable two-way haul
over the mountains, East-bound
coal and West-bound ore. The
Pennsylvania Railroad would share
in this movement, but the B. g. O
Igot ahead of its larger competitor
with the construction of the new
ore dock.
And the Nation could we'll take
satisfaction in it. For it meant
that the postwar ore rush, which
had prospectors drilling iron de-
posts in every continent, was pay.
ing off.
Better Than Taconites
The ore rush was caused By
the possibility that the day may
come when the big power shovels
in the Lake Superior district viii.
take their last bite Of high grade
open-pit ore. The steel industry
already has spent millions expert
menting on taconites. Taconites
are pellets of ore obtained from
rock. The process calls for grind
ing the rock finer than face pow.
der, picking out the iron with q
magnet and then cooking the
iron powder to make it back
into pellets.
If the steel industry had to be
fed on taconites, there would be
a change in our economy that
would make the current contro-
versy on the price of beef seem
frivolous. Our recent progress ir
the iron age has been based or
steel made from low cost, open.
pit ores. That is what made pos.
sible the $500 Model r, the 50 kee
of nails. multistoried buildings
the 10-cent can of soup, throw
away razor blades and bobby
pins.
The present danger is not that
the Lake Superior district, with
its great Mesabi range in Mime
sofa, actually will run dry. II
lies, rather. in the fact that this
regions ore-producing capacity
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over Its. Zwilling and Wells, OIL
ST. Cd.
bon Cruz-John Cruz over Cap
tam Payson-Lt. Gaine, SO, GA.
Coach Van-Peter Varela over
Robert Parrot Johnny Sellers, 60
6-1.
Its. Fineherg and Round over
Leo Carey-Frank Roberts rs, 7.
9, 81.
Penn Edgar-Ygnacio Carbonell
over Andy Alonzo-Earl Yates, SO,
ga.
Commanders Watson and Nc
Allister over Franklin Hernandez
Walter Walterson. 60, OIL.
SECOND ROUND
Ralph Hartenstine-Jac Sellers
over Don Cruz-John Cruz, Go, ell
James McNulty-Paul Esquinaldo
VS.. Penn Edgar-Ygnacio Carbonell
(to be played to-day.
Peter Varela- Coach Van over
Its. Fineberg and Round, 6-3. 6-3.
Commanders Watson and Meal
lister over Roberts Smith Harvey
Sellers, Is, 6-3, 81.
Watson and McAllister will meet
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ment, Peter Narela and Coach
Van overwhelmed the strong team
of Its Fineberg and Round at 6-3,
6-3 Varela and Van spurned the
caution of the Watson McAllister
and Smiths Sellers encounter and
attacked as a team from start to
finish. This iii spite of the fact
that their adversaries were doing
likewise with equal determination.
Both teams charged toward each
other and exchanged yolleys at
close range with bewildering rapi-
dity. The local pair fired their
aerial attack into the slightest
openings between their two oppon-
ents with an accuracy that soon
won the day
Complete tournament scores so
far read;
FIRST ROUND
Ralph Hartenstine-Jack Sellers
over Donnie Carbonell- Oscar Cruz,
so, go
James McNulty- Paul Esquinaldo
over Peter Knight Tony Dopp, 60,
ga.
Roberts Smith-Harvey Sellers
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The faithful parents and fans
that travelled to Vero Beach. Fri,
day night, witnessed the best de-
fensiye stand the "C0nchs" made
this season Five different times
the Indians were stopped short Of
marker,
John Cruz receives the credit for
stopping two of them personally.
He intercepted Ed BASES pass on
the one yard line the first time and
on the other, he came over from
his defensive halfback spot and
spun Jacky Metz to the ground on
the two. which was the Indians
last down.
Fumbles recovered by Peter
Knight, Ken Bazo and Art DiLalio
stopped the other scoring threats
for Vero Beach. The hard tackiing
Tommy West, Bookie Henriquez
Pinder and Knight caused the In
dams to muff the bali. Two Of the
miscues happened on the Key West
one yard line, and the other on
the 19.
An oddity on Vero's fumbling
was that if was the Erst time this
wear that they did SO. at least
that was what was told by the
press in Vero
The two opportunities Key West
had were halted. by the indians
stiffening their pass defense Both
of them happened on Vero's q
yard line.
After the game was over, the
Conehs ran back TO their bench
and proceeded TO lift coaches
Jones, Murray and Beckmsn on
their shoulders, and carried them
down the length of the field TO
the bus. They also hoisted
yours truly, but il took six of
the lads 10 do il.
Vero's team Wake off the field
very much disgusted with them
selves. They were supposed to win
by 30 points. but they found out
that Key West was not TO be sold
short, much to their surprise One
more break for the ConchS and II
would have been different story
In the offensive department,
John Grub scampered SIS wards
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Billy 0sterhoHdt and Bob Cooper
netted 40 apiece. John Curry got
five. Art DiIa--o anu Ken DalU
got three yards each. Bazo was
used in the halfback spot on one
series Of downs
On the ground, Vero racked up
325 yards while Key West could
only muster up 1876. Via the air
route, the ConchS Melted 1877 and
Vero, II
7 When Bob Cooper took John
Cruz pass over his shoulder on
the dead run, he out raced Gary
Phillips, the Indians safety man
for The score
The passing combination of Cruz
I and Cooper gained SO of the 1877
! yards Pineda and Butler passed
! for the rest with Ostef.ioudt. Baker
/ and Gonzalez on the receiving end
AS for the Indians backfield of
/ Ed Wall, Jacky Metz and Ed Bass.
this trio was something to watch.
These boys, even though they were
stopped many times. continued to
4 drive for that additional yardage.
l. When Metz scored on his IS yard
! run he was stopped by three diff
ferent men, but he kept driving
for the touchdown.
Many of the Vero Beach parti-
sans stated that hey West gave
the indians one of the best games
that had been seen at the Hibiscus
Bowl in many seasons. The coach
Of Vcro TEX" Warrington told
me later, that he was cad that the
game was over Another thing he
said was that the game was the
! cleanest he had seen this season.
This was quite compliment to
the locals.
James Baker was the only play
J er TO leave the game with an in
jury He turned his ankle in the
fourth quarter when he was fore
/ ing Wall out Of bounds. II is hoped
/ by all that the injury is not serious
and that he viii be able to finish
the season
The Bench has heard the rumor
that the High School Band is max
ing the trip 10 South Broward. 1niS
would be a great support for the
team. and ii would also be nice
if n few more people would go 10
the game
+ Some OF the locals who travelled
up state To the game are Mr. and
Mrs. ]. A. West, MIR. Roy Butler,
MIR. S. A. DeMerritt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nick Osterhoudt, Judge Hilary
Albury Deputy Sheriff Tom Dixon
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
pritchard and daughter Barbara,
Mrs. Il. Cooper, and daughter
Betty. and Mrs. NJ. Padron and
son. Mike The principal of the
High School MIR Schwietzer also
made the trip
To all the boys who played in
he game, as we'll as the coach
NJ staff, this Bench says, WELL
DONE.
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WatsonMeAster Defeat Smith Sellers In City Tennis Tournaer
NARELA, VAN
WIN OVER ROUND
AND FINEBERC
IN THRILLER

The second seeded team
of Commanders Watson
and McAllister fought off
the stern challenge of Rob-
erts Smith and Harvey Sell
lers l-6, 6-:3, 81 yesterday
at Bayview to enter the
semi-final round of the
1851 Doubles Champion
ships.
Peter Narela, Coach Van
and Jack Sellers, Ralph
Hartenstine duos also rea-
ched the selni-finals. The
last ,quarterfinai enconni-
er between James McNnlty
Paul Esquinaldo and Col.
Penn Ed@ar-Y enaciO Car
bonell will go on court to-
day.
Smith and Sellers played the
game of their lives in the first set
and overwhelmed Watson and
.McAllister in no time at all with
furnishing drives followed by a
torrent of kills at the net. The
Navy pair were slow in working
into their game but the second set
found them in full cry. McAllIster
executed a series of sharp angle
volleys and Watson steadied down
into errorless tennis from the back
court. Their opponents, on the
other hand, grew cautious and
failed completely to press the fore
court attack that had swept the
court for them in the opening
chapter
With the match deadlocked at
one set apiece, Sellers and Smith
again struck pay dirt, spanked by
Smiths booming cannonban de
livery that held firm throughout
the long battle. They forged to a
/ Az lead with McAllister'S delivery
up and it was here that the local
pair turned to caution again with
I fatal results.
They failed to get to the net be-
hind McAllister's soft second ser
vice and at 4-3, Sellers froze into
a tight bundle of tournament
nerves and doublefaulted his ser
vice away. From here on both
camps waged a logged backcourt
struggle with neither daring to
seek command at the barrier.
Smith did venture in as far as the
/ service line but was afraid to bore
in from there after the exchanges
were under way and the Navy pair
riddled him with balls around his
shoetips.
In by far the best exhibition Of
doubles play yet seen in the tourna
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Following
Through
BY
Pedro Aguilar

An adding machine was stand
ard equipment for scorekeepers
al Wicker's Stadium Sunday after
noon as Benny's Cafeteria COM
bined a numbers game with a
baseball tilt and came up with a
1873 win over the Naval Station
Cards.
The tray toters had the thing
beat in the first Stanza when no
less than six of the stalwarts
crossed the plate standing up. In
the fourth they made a repeat
performance 10 add two more to
their healthy.looking tally which
tsontinued On Page Sevenl
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SPORTS EDITOR
PANAMA. DAILY
ANNOUNCES
FOOTBALL GAME
BY Al PALMER

Although there has been M
announcement from Coach Jones
OF the Key West High School
Conehs. the Island city.s first
football team in nearly a quart.
er-centurY will play in Balboa,
Canal Zone The week of Decem.
Der 3. il was learned from Leo
}. E6erenz. Sports editor of the
Panama Star and Herald. pana-
ma City. Panama. in a letter 10
The Citizen received today.
News of the proposed trip will
come as surprise TO Key Vests
army Of football fans who had
hoped. al best. for post season
game against Lake Worth. which
defeated ihe Conchs in tae sea-
son opener.
During the past few weeks tie
High School football squad has
been operating in the shroud of
mystery as far as newspaper re-
leases are concerned. The only
comment available after the two
recent defeats was: I'VE lost.
that's ALL"
1t has not yet been learned
whether or not the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce has heen Off
cialiy notified of the planned
Panama trip. The JayCees did
much to sponsor the team and
work at all home games on the
car parking problem and other
details connected with the han
ding of the crowds.
A brief survey of fans made
early this morning revealed that
none of those questioned knew
about the Panama trip. Stock
answer to questions was: This
is the first I've heard of it,"
Parents of some of the players
remarked this morning that they
had heard vague rumors con-
corning a trip to Panama for a
series of football and basketball
games to be made by the team
early in December.
Sports editor Eberenz' letter
to The Citizen asks for advance
line-ups and stories OF the color
full Conchs to be used in the
Panama Star and Herald prior to
the game which, he wrote, as
you know will be played here in
December"
Irving Hall, father of the
Conchs' steamrolling quarter
back. Morton Hall. said he had
heard something about the
boys making trip TO Panama
but hadn't heard anything Of
fetal or final about the game
10 date.
Eberenz states that the Conchs
will face Cristobal High School
Tigers now in their third year,
He added that lack of competi-
ton limits the experience players
get in the Canal Zone and hopes
that teams from Florida will
help improve the ability of Pa.
nama's players ii l)E
Both Miami Balboa and MAN
jackson High have played ir
Panama. Eberenz' letter also re-
vealed that Panama's Cristoba
High School will play a return
game in Key West next year.
Word Of the proposed trip
was received in "off the rec
ord" statements in some sports
circles here. AS far as I
know said one. I'VE are wait
ing 10 see If transportation is
too costly. think the State
Athletic Commission has okaY-
ed the game. ! think the offer
was made 10 Coach Jones about
two weeks ago TO play Pana-
ma
Meanwhile, pending officia
notification, the tentative date O
the game is December 7. The
PLAYERS will probably leave Key
NETaet about the 3rd
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Up wirephoto

Coach Van and Peter varela al 5
pm. tomorrow in Bayview. Jack
Sellers and Ralph Hartenstine win
precede them on court against the
winner Of the McNulty- Esquinaldo
-Edgar-C arbonell match in the
second semi-final. Finals will take
place in Bayvfew this Thursday
evening at eight and loudspeaker
and seats will be ready for the
fans.
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Big Fishing Year
Citizen Staff Photo

REGINA. SaSk., P-Saskatch-
evans well-knoWn fishing spot at
Lac La Ronge had record num-
Der of fishermen this year. rs.
Inmates are that ABOUT 5000 visit
orS, mostly Americans, took more
than 100000 pounds of fish from
the lake, mainly lake trout pike
and pickerel
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OF the first-magnitude stars,
one Of the most distant is Deneh,
in the Cvgnus the swan galaxy
II il about $50 light years away.
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Among other qualifications,
women Marine recruits must be
at least Is and less than 81.