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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., Aug. 10 (CDN) The sheik of Kuwait, whose bailiwick is about the size of a Texas cattle ranch, is going to start collecting more than a quarter of a million dollars a day, every day, from two nice oil companies. Bearded Sheik Abdulla Al Salim Al Subah, 56, and the husband of many wives, is now taking in about $45,000 a day from the Gulf Oil Corp. of the United States and the Anglo-Iranian 0il Co. of Britain. But they are going to start giving him more than five times that much because the potentates of the Middle East have decided that the oil companies’ are making too much money too fast. oo SHEIK ABDULLA’S little triangle of land on the Persian’ Gulf is about 60 miles long at the base and goes up to:;a point to include 1950 square miles. An estimated 100,000 dusty Arabs wander its arid wastelands raising sheep and horses and picking a. few dates for export. : The $100° million a year that the Sheik is going to get from Gulf and Anglo-Iranian will be deposited in hig personal checking account but the Sheik is described as \willing to share some of it with his “people. >

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<> SHEIK ABDULLA has a reputation for doing more than most sheiks for his people but not nearly as much as he might. He has built some schools and hospitals from his current oil income: Now he proposes to build even more and to put in some modern seawater evaporation plants. Kuwait is so dry that water is imported in tankers and cost almost as much as draft beer. THE LITTLE SHEIKDOM is just about the fourth largest oil producing country on earth

Kuwait Sheik Due For O0il Bonanza

after the United States, Venezuela and Russia now that Iran has been closed in while the argument proceeds over nationalization, Kuwait's production has been forced up to about 600,000 barrels a day to help furnish oil for Europe with Iran temporarily knocked out. «Oil wealth is new to little Kuwait, Production was discovered just before the last world war. Development was stopped until the war ended. . In the past six years, Kuwait has become one of the world's leaders and should realize better than $1 billion in the next 10 years. That is $1000 per citizen—not: counting all of the income that accrues from jobs around the oil camps and business opportunities resulting from

the petroleum trade. » > SHEIK ABDULLA got his job in January of 1950 when his cousin, Sheik Sir Ahmed Al Jabir Al-Subah, died. Cousin Abdulla was head of Kuwait's finance and customs service. He was regarded as a sharp Arab with the dollar so the tribesmen decided he was the best man to succeed his cousin and handle the money that was flowing in from the oil companies. Until petroleum was discovered the Sheik’s job was not considered worth much. It was an honor but not worth anything like the $100 million a year that oil now makes it. > DS DETAILS of the new oil agreement have not been finalized. Sheik Abdulla has let it be known that he wants a 50-50 split of the profits like King Ibn Saud of Saudi-Arabia gets, There are several ways of figuring the profits but the most likely is expected to give Sheik Abdulla the nine figure number which will make

him one of the potentially wealthiest men in the Middle East.

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Ed Sovola, Mr. Inside Indianapolis, is on vacation.

Africana By Robert €. Ruark

LITTLE BUAHA CAMP, Tanganyika. Aug. 10--A happy man am I this fine day, because I am out of the picture business. Some dusky

gentleman has removed from my ken all worries about f-stops, exposures, light meters, telephoto and

lenses, color film, movie related to the camera. He did this very simply.’ He stole into a temporary camp we pitched outside a place called Kondoa Arangi, and as we slept “he. pinched the -whole camera bag. He scored a Leica, a Rolliflex, an Ikoflex and a movie camera, and most of the raw film” forall. He also swiped a pair of the car boy's tennis shoes, too. I hope they pinch hisybig flat feet. « But the stuff is thsured, and

film everything

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thing" You can ‘hunt dr you can take pictures, but you can’t combine the two skills. Either calls for full concentration, and- each gets in the other's way, WE'VE- GOT some wonderful film, thanks largely to mama and the professional hunter, but we missed a lot we'd have scored on if there. hadn't been guns mixed up in the operation, There's too much excitement, for amateur photographers. when a cow rhino comes at you or a, lady lion pitches a charge in your lap Mama is still sore at me for complaining because she didn’t record the angry lioness’ charge on the day I knocked off Simba II. She was in easy -range with a telephoto on the Cinekodak but she never remembered to pull the trigger. And somehow, when those two rhinos nearly upset the hunting car. nobody remembered that the telephoto lens was plugged with tissue to kegp out the dust. .The opportunity for game shots is frequent, but you don’t get too much in the way of spectacular stuff if you are shooting a gun at the

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animal you are also trying to photograph. When you go into the bush after a wounded buff about the last thing you need is a camera to clutter up your shootin’ arm. If you are stalking a beast the grind of the movie camera is all too plainly audible to keen gears. And after .you've bagged the brute, most dead animals look just that—dead animals. I HAVE SEEN colorful natives until they have begun to pall, but they have been spoiled by the camera safari and the movie companies. A great many refuse to allow their pictures" to be taken unless the palm is heavily weighted with silver—thanks to the lavish baksheesh of Hollywood-in-a-hurry. I recall that a Wa-Ikoma

lion dance cost me in the neighborhood of 60

“bucks, because the salaries of local models have

recently, riz. The simple, unsophisticated savage takes one look at a camera and mutters: _~ ‘Oho, another sucker. Let's see if we can't gouge a better rate out of this one.” And then, when they do consent, they hit a wooden stance\that would discredit a Victorian family album. Evén our .own boys, normally co-operative in every respect, freeze and strike a stilted pose when we are snapping at random around the camp. NO MECHANICAL genius, I expect I will never master the intricacies of exposure meters, and the African light is so tricky it changes hugely in a matter of minutes. It is the best I can do to load one of the things without tearing off a .thumbnail. So it largely was with spurious grief that I acknowledged the news that some sneak fhad pilfered the Picha parcel. No more Piga Picha for this Bwana. The only exposure I worry about in future is my exposure to whatever fanged, clawed or horned beast seems intent on collecting my headskin for the kids to admire. Peace, it's wonderful, and I hope that black sportsman who scragged our gear becames a eamera fan, It'll serve the beggar right,

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By EDAN WRIGHT Pines Special Writer

QUANTICO, Va., Aug. 9

Beaver (CDN)—The phone rings. White Mink The chief of police is on the Ermine wire. There's been a fire in the wrapping room of a deLynx fense plant and the place ob-

viously has been broken into.

IY FABRICS — This is the first scene of a

ede, soft, fluffy dent G-men and I set our wits

to solve. Our instructors have

, Checks and worked carefully, plotting the and every one p crime and the characters, deoo signing the sets and planting the ‘clues. Now we—acting as G-men actually in the field must figure who “done it” and

RS—Taffy, Red, also capture him. : p The first scene takes place Navy, Wika, p in an. FBI field office in | “Rangeville, Va.” You won't . find Rangeville on the map. ; It’s a mythical city — so Licy a named because our classAYMENT bh rooms are just off the gun ; range. » CHARGE Our stage setting for the first scene is part of a classroom nthly Payments furnished with a desk, a phone and some chairs. The characA. ters are the 'special.agent in

charge of the field office and his assistant®-played by two student G-men. ? After the phone call comes in, we discuss whether it was handled properly. Did the recipient get all the. facts? It appears he did. The fire was discovered at 7 a. m. by the night watchman. He found a cardboard carton (used as a waste container) ablaze in the stockroom. He put out the fire before it spread and noticed the window was open and the screen was torn. He called the owner and the owner got in touch with the chief of police. We are satisfied also on another, point, The crime scene has been roped off by the chief of police so that clues are protected. We discuss whether the FBI ps has jurisdiction and decide it has,

The factory is a defense plant manufacturing small parts for bombsights and its protection comes under the sabotage sta- « tutes. - ; : » » » THE NEXT SCENE {is the office of the plant. One of the Instructors plays the owner, “Mr. Anderson.” One of the agents picked on the spot from .. our audience group, plays the interviewing G-man.

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We get little from Anderson. Business has been good and his financial standing sound. There appears to have been no reason for him to set fire the place.

The night watchman™is interviewed next. “Johnson, aged 70, is also played by the instructor and he gives the agent quite a time. ’ “How often do you ‘check your stations?” the agent asks. “Oh I get around about once every hour,” Johson drawls. “It depends on how fast I walk. Sometimes I walk fast. Sometimes I take it slow. According to‘how 1 feel “My back’'s been hurting me. Ever have your back hurt? It's misery bothers you when you're sitting, even when you're sleeping.”

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2 un » “HOW DID_YOU discover the fire?” The agent prompts. “It was mighty funny, looking back on it,” Johnson answers and continues to give the agent a bad time. “My shoelaces came untied and I always wear gloves. I got in another wing and noticed I'd left one of my gloves, “That's where the “shoelates came in. I bent to tie them. If that hadn't happened thi€ place would have been burned flat.” It takes a lot of prompting to get the complete story out of Johnson. And he gets testy. “I'm the hero of this fire,” he reminds the agent. “I'm not accusing you,” the agent says. “You're hinting right around it,” Johnson retorts, The agent -suggests that a man in his position would.do a lot of thinking-- maybe on suspects. Johnson ‘allows he's right. “But T don't do any thinking.” he finishes abruptly.

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He is dropped temporarily and we go on to the crime scene, The walls of our stage

have been painted to simulate the stockroom. There is a burned packing box ‘and an open window with a ripped screen—real props. Two -agents, ‘elected for th search, photograph the scene, measure the room and mark everything on a graph, In measuring: the room, the agent in charge is reminded by the ‘instructor that he must hold the measuring end of the tape. ‘ He's to testify in court and if he doesn’t see himself what the footage is, his evidence will be hearsay. Shi, :

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In hunting for clues agent finds blood spots on the floor and the window,

near. the packihg box. Outside, he finds a heelprint near the window. The clues are sealed in various, containers to be sent hypothetically- to the ‘lab in Washington for analysis. It is marked with the date, agents’ initials and subject matter. The agent who seals the blood scraping remarks about it being blood. The instructor says quickly: “It's reddish brown stains— you don’t know the substance. So don’t guess.” As a matter fact

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“blood” (for stage purposes) is |

finger-nail polish,

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four days. We get reports from

the lab that the bloodspots are

type O' (the most common type), that the hair is human but that's all and that the heelprint” is unidentifiable. . » LJ ALL THE SUSPECTS’ fingerprints—except ‘“Mellare's’”--are ruled out, and we trace down the cleaning fluid purchase to discover it was made the day before the fire— by “Mellare.” Also, he had told employees he was ‘going to .get even” with the owner. We get a Warrant for “Mellare’s’’ arrest. go to his home his wife— played

by an agent—tells us he has | just left for an out-of-town trip. |

Whereupon the instructor up the problem of his capture. We have caught up with him in a bus station. But in front of the “local window” is a woman with a . little girl.

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All right —“Mellare” will walk up to the “out-of-town” window but he ‘s a hot-tempered fellow with a police record. He has probably left town because he became suspicious and he might be carrying a gun. How are we going to take him without endangering innocent lives? There's a station master’s office near the ‘“out-of-town” window, We decide two agents will arrest him as he walks up to the window, quickly pin his arms. and ‘hustle him into the office for searching. And that's how we do it.

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A DAY WITH THE ARMY—Student nurses tour Atterbury General.

A LOOK AT THE GROUNDS — Lt. Audry M. Miller, who recruits nurses for the Fifth Army, took the girls for a look around the grounds at the Camp Atterbury Hospital. They were impressed with the splendid appearance of the camp. It was.quite a contrast to the rude garrison atmosphere they had expected. .

THERE'S RELAXATION, TOO—Night nurses recovered from a rough night on the ward with a daytime dip in the hospital pool. Here the girls meet Betty Gilo and Frances Long who already wear the bars of commissioned Army officers. The swimmers told the girls that there was plenty of fun to be had along with the work.

A Candidate ?—

Godfrey Strums A Political Tune

By RICHARD KLEINER Times Special Writer NEW YORK — An Arthur Godfrey devotee has long expected the unexpected to turn up on his shows, But you could have knocked them all over with a wet teabag when he began to talk about some pretty touchy political subjects. The comedian-turned-commen-tator is now on his summer vacation. But the radio-TV industry is looking forward to hig return on Sept. 24 they're very anxious fo see if: ONE: Godfrey's advocacy of things like - strong price conOr

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TWO: Godfreyc is made to stick to non-political subjects by CBS, through the use of a pre-approved script. THREE: Godfrey. has: any" political ambitions. » » ” THE CONSENSUS - among Godfrey's friends is that the whole thing is pretty much overThey say he's just a man who feels strongly about things, and talks about them, : ,

It may be the Navy one day, or airplanes, or bobby-soxers, or price controls. They say you just “can’t tell what he's liable to talk about, and it's been that

way for years, even in his pre- :

network Washington days. So his intimates weren't particularly surprised about this latest furor. It all began when his old friend, Bernard Baruch invited Godfrey to go along on a trip to Europe and talk to Fisenhower, John J. McCloy and other people. Godfrey jumped at the chance, because he's sincerely interested in world affairs. It

cost him money to be away .

from a week’s radio activities; CBS didn’t pay him, yet he had to pay his sizable staff their weekly salaries. j 2 x = ON HIS return, July 16, Godfrey got on his “Talent Scouts” show and began urging his listeners fo write their Congrese-

men, He wanted them to pres-

sure their representatives to back up Eisenhower with some

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TRYING THE CHOW — Say, no mess kits here. Betty and Shirley (at left) tried Army food and found it fine. Everyone at the table was busy talking to a good-looking young doctor across from them. The camera missed the doctor. The Indianapolis student nurses have a year to go:

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action. Then he backed into the price control problem. “You've got to do that (write) tomorrow,” Godfrey said. “That's the only way we can do it. That goes for price controls, too, by golly, or we'll lose the war here before we even fire a

shot.” He expanded on those remarks on his daytimé ‘shows

and got a flood of mail. At CBS they say it was about 9-to-1 in his favor, but there were plenty of very critical letters, Some of being a proAdministration propagandist. . “ = » “ALL YOU have to do,” Godfrey answered one morning, “is know me a little bit and know

that I have been at odds with a great many things that this Administration and our President have been doing for years, I'm thinking only of one thing—the country that I'm going to leave my kids.” : Nevertheless, criticism continued. Some of it must have come from influential places,

because CBS hastily arranged a

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forum-type program. Godfrey moderated a three-way discus-

sion on price controls. He introduced the show by saying that Eisenhower and Baruch

had urged him to go back and be “a Billy Sunday’ and preach preparedness and (from Baruch only) price controls " » ” °A NATIONAL columnist that talent

hinted. after broadcast that were looking Godfrey over as a possible political candidate. Godfrey's friends say this is nonacnse, “Godfrey's only political ambition is to vote,” said one. “He's a lot like Baruch — he doesn't campaign for any one person or issue. He's independent. Actually, there's ‘no real crystalization to his political thinking—I don’t know if

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erat.” His friends point out that he’s gotten serious before. Once he bawled out a television-studio

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MEETING THE 'OLD MAN'—The three student nurses, (left to right) Betty Taylor, Shirley Stanley and Patricia Everroad, started their tour by meeting the commanding officer, Col. Howard W. Doan. The three

think they might join the Army Nurse Corps when they complete their nurse's tmaining.

CHECKING A PATIENT—Lt. Wyllye Wood, in charge of an orthopedic ward, took Betty on her rounds. Here she met Pvt. Ralph Bevill, who was wounded in Korea and now is a patient at Atterbury. On her tour of the wards Betty saw the motto of the Army nurses’in action.

was interviewing a scientist. He's often expressed admiration for Eisenhower, and for the job he's doing. » on » “IT'S HARD to predict what he'll do next,” they say. “He doesn’t work from a script, just libs, If he feels strongly about something, he'll just come

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out and say it The only way to muzzle him would be to make him use a script, and have it OK'd before the show. But there doesn't seem to be much likelihood of that happening. As for any future CBS plans for forum programs, like the one on controls, that's still in the talking stage. That one program. was well-liked, but there's some doubt in the deeprug, offices whether interest in such intellectual subjects could be sustained. Nevertheless, radio executives are anxious for his return,

There seems to be the feeling

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A STOP AT THE CLUB—After a visit in surgery where the girls learned that : Gl appendix is exactly like a civilian appendix, they dropped in at the club. Lt. Lorraine LaRonde, by jukebox, wears the Army nurses’ dress white uniform. At right, Lt. Antoniette Milo wears an OD service outfit, both quite chic.