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By JOHN A. THALE fa TX Times Foreign Correspondent EL SOMBRERO, Venesuela, April 11.—Dogens of ex-G. 1s afe pinning their post-war hopes on the possibility of a big oll strike in the new Venezuelan fields of Guarico, Roughly one-fourth of the “expatriate” technicians working on this biggest oil prospecting program in the western hemisphere are former

of “action” in the are just bare, brown limbs, tangled States after their war service im-|with parched, ropy vines. A few pelled most of them to take jobs green leaves or an’ occasional green down banana plant stand out like traffic Now they are hoping their gam- lights in the withered expanse of ble will pay off in the form of a rolling savannah and llanos country. Some permanent buildings are who worked as a civil engineer in|now being constructed. If the big the Louisiana fields before joining|strike pans out in Guarico, and El the tank corps, expressed the un-|Sombrero becomes a permanent spoken thought of many: camp, Creole will pour into it sev“We're all' praying. for a strike,”|eral million dollars to make it a he explained. “It'll mean one bigimodel, modern American commu- | thing for us—security.” nity in the midst of the bush, It Save on Taxes may even get a golf course then, | : But as of now the men have only | Meanwhile, they're earning more to go a couple of miles into the] money and paying less of it out injy. oy from the camp area to get ataxes than they would'in the states.|shot at deer, tapir, several species] A tool pusher here draws down|ol South American wildcat, boa | shout $500 8 month, With the tax | constrictors, or any one of a number break—and less things on which to of varieties of monkeys. spend his pay here—it means about| The camp pels aren t the usual $100 to $200 more a month than he |stray dogs and cats. They are a) would get in the United States. |baby tapir, baby deer, and a gray|

monkey, undetermined as to both| The expatriates represent only a Sgn amd WX,

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than 50 of them are foreigners. The| Obed T. Kilgore, attorney and | drillers, drivers, clerks and other life-long resident of Indianapolis, ds | employees are native Venezuelans. To the veteran American oflmen | who have prospected and drilled the | for state representative fields in out-of-the-way places like A graduate of Indiana 1.aw School Sumatra, Iran, Iraq, Romania, ,, jg3 Mr. Kilgore served as depaR a uty attorney general in 1941 and | Venezuelan brush country looks like | 1942 after which he entered the civilization. But it's tough coun-| army and saw service in Europe. He try, nevertheless. [returned to active practice of law Long Dry Season last January. _This is the last few weeks of the | He is a member of the First Presdry season. No rain to amount 10 pyterian church, Delta Tau Delta anything has fallen since last Sep- | fraternity, Indianapolis Bar associatember; none at all since Novem- tion, Lawyers’ association, Young ber. Everything looks dead. Trees| Democrats of Marion county, Amer- |

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'SAYS HEART ATTACK "CAUSE OF DEATH

A heart attack was responsible | for the death yesterday of Albert | Hunter, 74, whose body was found | lon the back porch of the—Home| / §ihotel, 412 E. Market st | Cause of death was recorded to- | day by Coroner R. B. Storms fol- | {lowing an autopsy. Police identified | Mr. Hunter, who lived at Julietta | infirmary, through fingerprints. | | Walter Byers, 35 resident of a! ‘hotel room from which, police said. | Hunter's body had been dragged. | {was held for questioning on a vagrancy charge under $2000 bond

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