European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tuesday. March 31. 1953 shooting for the Moon "1 to i iI a i i i in tidelands Oil right by Bob con Siddle Washington ins struggle Between the states and the Federal government which by comparison makes the financial aspects of the civil War appear to be cig Aret Money t is drawing to a Climax. At stake conservatively is Oil valued at somewhere Between 60 and 100billion dollars. " -. California Texas and Louisi Ana presumed in the Happy Days of tugged sovereignly that they had every Rig lit to sell rights tothe Oil just off their shores and did so. Then along came a Man of High dudgeon an unswerving proponent of a powerful Federal government Harold Ickes. He claimed these watery oilfields in the name of the government the great companies and the states concerned wore trenches to the supreme the highest tribunal was Tost considering the matter Congress declared in a Bill that the states had a right to Theroh. Or Truman vetoed the Bui and the supreme court a bit later nodded in favor of Federal government control. Bill vetoed last year Congress prepare another Bill again or. Truman vetoed it. The House passed Stover the veto but the Senate took no action. And just before leaving the White House or nun a signed what appeared to be an executive order ear marking tidelands Oil As a Reserve for defense Pur order did not quite say that the new attorney general Herbert brow hell has since argued. Browne asserts tha tall it did was Transfer the fed eral government s interest i these of Fields from the Interior department to the Navy depart ment. Or. Eisenhower won heavy support when. He campaigned to return the tidelands. Oil to the states. True to his word his and years years ago today forty persons were killed.and60 injured when a Cairo Haifa train was blown up at Benyaminy South of Haifa. Ten years ago today the s 6 to e t army announce capture of Anastasov Sec a base of utmost importance to the Ger Man defense of novo Rossik on the Black sea. Ministration has now1 assure Congress through Secretary of Interior Douglas Mckay that twill see the matter through. He will sign a tidelands Bai he has promised. Forty seven of the states have United to push this matter. If one wonders Why the Inland states Are so concerned the probably answer is that Theydon t want to miss out on even any remotely potential there is a Clear Cut Law in the land that the states Are entitled to their tideland Oil it will follow according to proponents of states rights4hat Inland states will have the right to sell such Oil As May be found under Fieira lakes and Rivers. Hence the All but United is a word of varied meaning. It originally meant that part of the land or Silt visible at Low tide and covered at there Are interpretations romantic and foggy. For example Texas and Florida would have tidelands extending 10v into the water because when they entered the Union they Mil stantly especially in the ease of Texas insisted on certain right and properties undersold " other states with offshore Oil would have three mile tidelands the classic three mile limit originally measured by the Dis Tance Over which an Early 19thcentury Cannon could throw a Ball millions of Stoke the Eisenhower plan deprive the Federal Treasury of a huge future income from offshore Oil in letting the states enrich themselves with their near Shore Oil. The president would retain for the governmental Oil found on the Continental shelf beyond the aforesaid one seems to question that there is of Suh merged out it will not be a simple task. But if the govern ment needed it bad enough it would find a Way of squeezing it up from mid Ocean. Millions of dollars have Bee put. In the deep freeze awaiting positive action in the tidelands Oil Battle. No Man can estimate the extent or Cost of the lobby ing which put Congress in its Frame of mind about such treas ure. No Man can foretell the number of new millionaires who m i g it be created or the for tunes lost in vain quest of productive Sites in the impending water Black Eold Rush. Predgen note words id brackets i 1 Are not expressed in the German. Words i parentheses t help to explain the German but Are not necessary in English word in single quotation Marks Are word Tor word equivalents. Lege _. Pm die would Este Ich lege Ein Paar Wil Decken auf e Belt Lampe die tend of tulle Eine Lampe ledge Ain Pahr Voll de Csc dih Baldesi Lerner Das if t v a. A y. Neenan. Das bad Zimmer list Neenan. Sight Sich an Meyer Riehs Sich Das bade Trainer at Ich ledge am Pahr Voll Decken aus Bett Lampe dih unt so tulle Aine Lampe Dort inn dih Ecke. 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