Show 1 Round Merry I i State Department Urges Mexico Reopen Oil Land LandBy By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON Antonio Bermudez President Aleman's top oil adviser has ha informed informed in Irk formed the state department that he will publicly deny any news leaks regarding secret negotiations negotiation now in progress foran foran for foran an oil agreement between the United States and Mexico However it is nonetheless a fact that both the state department and private American oil interests Interests chiefly chiefly the Texas Company and Cities Service have been trying for tor some time to persuade the Mexican Mexican Mexican Mex Mex- ican government to reopen Mexican oil lands to American operators The state department contends that this would greatly benefit both countries since Mexico is sorely in need of American dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars for trading on world markets while we need all the additional oil Mexico can sell us So far tar the negotiations have been teen stymied by two factors One is the refusal of American oil companies to invest further capital in Mexico unless they are assured by Aleman of legal protection against future future future fu fu- ture confiscation Also President Aleman has feared that Mexican Communists would incite revolt if American oilmen renew operations in Mexico Instead Aleman wants a loan from the United States so his country can expand its oil production under Mexican management Christmas Junket All Junket All this explains why President Aleman has sent his own private airplane to Washington to carryback carryback carry carryback back Representative Bob Crosser Grosser of Ohio Crosser's daughter son-in-law son and two grandchildren on a Christmas vacation junket junket junket jun jun- ket to Mexico Mexico all all at Aleman's expense What the president of Mexico knows is that Congressman Crosser Grosser will be the new chairman of the house interstate and foreign foreign foreign for for- eign commerce committee which has a lot lotto lotto lotto to do with foreign purchases of oil and other imports His ideas on Mexican oil maybe may maybe maybe be important Besides Crosser Grosser and his relatives others included in the vacation vacation- flight to Mexico were Elton J. J Layton clerk of the interstate Interstate interstate inter Inter- state and foreign commerce committee committee- his wife and Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs John ohn Meyer Colonel Meyer is an air forces liaison officer on Capitol hill Mass Suicide in Shan Shanghai Shanghai Five hal Five Five thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand grim and desperate White Russians Russians- communism's first victims victims are are waiting with their backs to the wall for the Chinese Communists to sweep into Shanghai Pushed as far as they can go these tragic refugees who fled across Siberia in 1917 18 have chosen the only escape left mass left mass suicide Intercepted letters from Shanghais Shanghai's White Russians reveal that many are actually actually actually ac ac- carrying poison polson or planning to hurl themselves off buildings in lin case case the Communists Communists Communists Com Com- take over All too vividly they re remember remember remember re- re member what the press had said little about the about the fate of their White Russian cousins who were swallowed up by the Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese reds in Manchuria Hysterically the White Russians are trying trying try try- ing lag to leave China China- The international refugee refugee refugee refu refu- gee organization has helped evacuate those of Jewish ancestry to Palestine and a few others to South American countries But the U. U S. S consulate has slammed its doors in the faces of those who have besieged the United States for visas Copyright 1948 Bell Syndicate |