Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1950 — Page 29

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SA EDWARD THOMPSON, 2815 N. Chester Ave, standing with his head amorg the pipes, was the first to open up. Thompson stands 6 feet 5 inches. When he talks, you look up. BA G. E. Gualt, 335 8. Rybolt St., was another man having the good cruise. This is Gualt's second reserve cruise and he wants it known he has “never had it so good.” MML3 George Padgett, 2832 N. Temple Ave, and Ernest Edwards, 58568 Guilford Ave. were on the throttle, Both men saw action in the South Pacific during the war. Edwards served on submarines and Padgett on repair ships. CPO W, B. Swain, Boston, yelled in my ear that this group of reserves catches on fast. Best he has worked with. That's the kind of stuff you like to hear,

to be sure and put it in my dispatch that this| |

was the best engine room he has ever been in.

Up for Commendatory Mast

HOLD the phone. Lt. Cmdr, Joe 8. Floyd, Alberville, Ala., executive officer, just gave me the word that Lester C. Hartley, 1326 8. Lyndhurst Drive, | will be up for commendatory mast later in the! day. Hartley did his duty in the engine room about and beyond normal expectations. Attaboy, Lester, SN Dave Craig, 1701 Broadway, has a word. | “Had a good time, dad, didn't get seasick and! I'm ready for mom's cooking. Hello, Sue.”

about time for somé more log watching, You! know, New Orleans is going to be a welcome sight, Keep purring, you big, ol’, ‘nice engines.

Aloha, Aussies

"By Robert C. Ruark

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan, 21—I am a most morose bloke today, because I have just received baleful tidings from ‘home. To be- blunt, they wish me to come back and go to work. This ] consider unreasonable, if not downright fascistic, since I have only been off on this toot about three months, Sometimes I find it hard to understand my people, Just because I live in New York and have offices in New York and once signed a contract to write about New York, they want me to work in New York. Any fool knows that Honolulu or Sydney is much more stimulating at this season, and a great deal warmer, too.

But you can't argue too hard, because if you

argue they stop sending the money, and that.

means you cannot go to the horse track any longer, and they cut off your credit at the local pub, so I guess I will say adieu to the lovely, shark-filled waters of Australia, and hop on the next Pan Am.

Really Quite a Trip

AS A MATTER of fact, it is probably ‘time for a hasty return, at that. My New York masters just bought another papery and some of the talent from the absorbed sheet is now working on my journal. start knocking the new boys, after the fashion of all artists, . You must never be kind to new talent on papers, or the new talent may wind up in your space, This was really quite a trip. We covered 30,000 miles and ran across nothing of significance anywhere. It takes a great deal of journalistic endeavor to ramble around that much without treeing at least one trend, but I succeeded by dint of constant labor. In summary I would like to advise the Amerfcan alumni of the war in Australia that it is now safe to mention the continent in the home. Mamma traipsed along on this expedition and is

I must scurry home immediately and

finally convinced that we did nothing more sinister than play the horses during our stay here. At least she says so, due largely to the fact that no old constituents turned up with a bouquet of flowers. This could be explained by: (1) There were no old constituents and (2) Mamma's picture was in the paper daily, which would tend to make old constituents shy about popping round to call. It is just as well that Mamma is leaving now, too, becavae the Australian female is still tractable and unafflicted by militant feminism or boudoir politics. Man is master in the home, and there |

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lee.O-Rama Darlings . . . Left to right are Mary Maley, Patty Scott, Jacque LaDuke,” Pauline Now who do you suppose this Sue is? It's Lee and Bey Luthge, veterans of the annual Times charity show who will perform again Feb. 23.

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is Year's Ice-O-Rama ected to Be Best Yet

Production Numbers Called More Sensational

Than Intricate Routines Worked Out in Past By ART WRIGHT .

Early rehearsals and completion of registrations for skaters in The Times Ice-O-Rama give every indication that this year’s charity mycxets, Indianapolis Times, 214

will surpass all other Ice-O-Ramas.

When some 500 amateur skaters perform Feb. 23 in the Fairgrounds Coliseum, most of the headliners of past years will be back

in the spotlight.

Most of the participants were| the production numbers which

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| past three Times Ice-O-Ramas. Mary McClean, the show direc-|

t year's show and many of skaters say are even more senhave been in each of thé sational than the intricate num-| {bers of the past three years.

Costumes, too, will be more

are places like bars and certain sections of the| tor, has 8 worked out routines for elaborate. Costume material has

race course which remain strictly stag.

Spreading the Seeds

BUT MAMMA-+¢has been spreading the seeds of discontent via interviews and even mounted pul-

pit in her first journalistic effort for an Aussie |

magazine. You can already hear a faint, feminine muttering, a low rumble of discontent with lady's lot. I should hate to be even indirectly responsible for an upsurge of rampant feminism | here, so I shall remove Mamma hile the males still have the situation in hand. I should say here that I leave Australia once more as I left it formerly—flat broke. I backslid from Horse Players Anonymous on this visit, and

found the hides at Randwick no more charitable

than before. I dop't like to sound bitter, but get-| ting beat on five photo finishes in two days does remove some of the sunniness from the nature. Nor do eight seconds out of 13 shots improve the disposition if the disposition belongs to a nose- | better, which I am. Ah, well. They tell mé it has been abnormally

warm in New York. You may expect a change

in the weather, for Buster's back from the south-

ern seas, and is sure to be greeted by a howling blizzard." 80 long, Sydney. See you during World |

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Subsurface Fuss

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Now we've got 22,000 would-be oil, uranium; and gold millionaires sore at a partner they claim is a dope. Fellow by the name of Uncle Sam. Unless he gets his sticky fingers out of their business, they dbubt if they'll ever make a dime. For 10 years beginning in 1938 the unlucky thousands bought farms from Uncle, via the mortgage subsidiaries of the Agriculture Department, only to discover that he was hanging onto part of the mineral rights. These unfortunate farmers owned what was above their land, but not what was beneath it. Uncle kept most of that and anybody wanting to lease the good earth for, say, an oil well, had to deal with the farmer, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Interior and the Department of Justice. There were so many inspectors, accountants and lawyers snarled in so puch red tape, according to Rep. George H. Wilson of Oklahoma, that the oil drillers said the hell with it. They won't do business with a farmer in a partnership with Uncle. The same goes for gold miners and uranium prospectors.

Keeps the Rights Anyhow

RATHER THAN tangle with Uncle's incredible bookkeepers, they’d rather operate with the farmer next door who owns his land all the way through. That is not all, said Charles Schenck, a solidlooking and pink-faced farmer, who bought his 624 acres from Uncle near Vincennes, Ind. There Is nothing under the surface except dirt, according to Farmer Schencf, but the government retained three-quarters of the mineral rights, anyhow. It also reserved the right to bring in its machinery any old | time and drill for oil, dig for

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diamonds, or bore for iron. What this would do to his cornfield Mr. Schenck hates to contemplate. The trouble is the bankers already have contemplated it. They refused to lend him any money on land that the government might turn into a hole in the ground. But Uncle has gone ahead anyhow and leased its share of Mr. Schencik’s nonexistent minerals to some fellows unknown to him for 50 cents an acre a year the first year, nothing the second, and 25 cents thereafter. As a taxpayer the boekkeeping involved in this pains him sorely. He told the Senate Agriculture Committee that he’d glady pay Uncle a reasonable price for all rights to the minerals that aren't beneath his land. Just so he can sleep better at night.

There's a Happy Ending

IT. TURNED OUT that in 1946 Uncle changed his mind about mineral rights and started selling them to buyers along with the topsoil. That left the 22,000 farmers, who'd bought earlier, on the spot. Their neighbors could get mortgages; they couldn't. The fellow across the road could dig for zinc; they had to get a go-ahead from three departments in Washington and divvy the profits, if any. You can’t blame them for being bitter, oo occasionally such stories as this have a happy ending. The House of Representatives already has passed a law allowing the unhappy ones to buy their land all the way down to China. The Senate Committee’s attitude is favorable, the departments don’t seem to mind, and the odds are that the 22,000 soon will get rid of Uncle as a partner, Let us hope that they all strike oil. I hate to remind them that he still will be waiting for his share in the form of income taxes. He always wins in the end.

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Stumph, 5124 W. 15th St. Dan Hendricks, | v and John Yolio, 4961. W, i4th St.

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