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Newspaper Page TextFOUR NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG. OREGON TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1948 1 Published Daily Except Sunday by the ' News-Review Company, Inc. CtrJ BB mm4 ) mttUr Mr T, ltt, tt U m fftr 4 ftkr(. Or an, nm4t c ! March , UTS CHAR L' 8 V. STANTON EDWIN U KKUAPP .Editor Manager Member 9k" the Associated Preti, Oregon Newspaper Publisher At sedation, the Audit Bureau of Circulations BspTCMBUe y WEST-BOIX1DAY CO, INC, fflM la Tr, CfclMS Saa fft Lm AagalM, ttls, 1MU1. Si. Loal SISICBIFTION BAfFft la OffmBr thraa Mata I. M. By City CarrUr a yr, ar , .M. Oitaie aatbt H.1 thrt MMlfcl M.lt. CONTROLS ON INFLATION By CHARLES Adjournment by Congfess after a mild retouching of ; inflationary control may leav many people genuinely : puzzled. Should Congress have taken drastic action to reduce the rising cost of living? Did it neglect public interest in : its low-cost housing legislation? Our own opinion is that Congresa woidld have been fool ish had it attempted long-range planning at this time. Cost-of-living legislation and housing relif uiust operate over ' a long period of time. Any program designed for sudden and drastic changes could easily upset our whole national economy. Adjustments must be made gradually and care fully. Congress may experience a decided cihange as a result of November elections. Control may pass from the Republi can to the Democratic party, or, on the (Other hand, the Republican majority may be greatly incrseiuted. Leading,' political observers expect Dewey to beat Truman for the presidency, which, with a Republican majority in Congress, would permit the Republicans to take full control. We might have a Republican president and a Democratic Congress or vice versa. There are too many possibilities to permit long- range planning. Any program adopted now undoubtedly would undergo alteration next year. Consequents, Congress, we believe, exercised sound judgment by refusing to be stampeded into an action which would only add to confusion at the next regular session. Friet Control Methods Offer Contrasts Two methods for controlling prices amd inflation are in sharp contrast One method is to place arbitrary controls on prices. This was the plan proposed by the President. But unless price control is accompanied by a wnge freeze, the result is to encourage black market oKratioms, reduce production, discourage investment capital and upset the balance between supply and demand. ' The other method is to curtail demand. This is accomp lished by limiting the amount of money available for specu lative spending. It is the alow process designed to accomplish its result by gradual readjustment. Inflation is caused through short supply and abnormal demand. When people have an abundance of cheap money, while production does not furnish enough commodities to ; keep prices low through competition, the law of supply and demand is thrown out of balance. By limiting the amount of money available for speculative purposes moderate con trol is placed on demand. This is the policy contained in leg islation enacted at the called session of Congress. Congress voted to tighten installment buying, a material ' contributor to inflation. It increased the percentage of de posits banks must hold in reserve, which limits money avail able for loans. Further restrictions were placed on business credit and interest rates were raised, thus discouraging loans for business speculation. The legislation enacted at the special session is not a fire extinguisher, but it is a damper to keep the fire from getting eut of control. ; Communist Investigations Embarrassing While acting to alow progreaa of inflation. Congress started a backfire against the political implications of the ' Tresidenfa recall. The Investigation into the communist 'r'Khten your children Into life . :. i ; . .v,. n..m,,.i.. , i i. 'n ffr of the water." sug '' being revemled that the New Deal was very friendly with ' Soviet Russia, even to the point of sharing some of our : deep military secrets. Of course, Russia at that time was I a military ally whereas she ia now potential enemy. But it ia aomewhat startling to find out that the New Deal administration employed in prominent places men and wo men working actively in behalf a foreign power bent on ' world domination by revolution. Republicans undoubtedly will make political hay from the refusal of the administra tion to permit Congress access to files on loyalty checks and FBI information. The New Deal catered to the "Tarlor l'inks" and had many radical-minded theorists in its "Brain Trust." Now it is indicated that many government workers in high places vere of deeper hue than "pink." The public undoubtedly will hear a great deal more about activities of Communist spies and Communist sympathizers. In fact, groundwork obviously is being laid for out of the major campaign issues. Lumber Workers In Klamath Area May Ask Pay Hike KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. to - i,!.umher and sawmill work ers In this area probably will open their contracts for negotia tion of a wage increase this fall. Hugh Haddock, business agent tor the Klamath Hasin mat net ioun ell. said yesterday. No particular amount of In crease has been specified. Representatives of the various locals In the district made the decision during a meeting here Sunday and the locals member ship Is expected to ratify Ihe move rapldlv. Haddock said most work con tracts the AFL has In the pine Industry here contain a WO-day clause allowing contract is in ne re-opened 60 days after employ ers are given onictai nonce. Present minimum wage in ine Ine Industry is J1.40 an hour for box factory work and $1,421 an I hour in sawmills and woods Mall rr Taav Ml, w MmMm S4.M, Pr 7r flaM rta I, Im lhaa Orafaa y MSV Tar pNf M.M, ta V. STANTON operations The Klamath Basin Council cover workers Klamath area. Ijikevlew, Rot' River Valley and Northern Call- lorma. 'DoonieTsaYerrs lUUIHCU JIUjCI 5 Story May Save 2 Others From Chair VFW Voltk' Auo 10 Hi Ai man facing the eleitiic chair has.'1'"! by the Ne'it News iVa ) signed an affidavit that mav I Shipbuilding ami Prydock Co.. cliar two others who would have " oiricully announced over hared his tale. In ihe death hcuse at Sing Sing prison. Andrew Sheridan, l. of Jersey City. N. J . Is await lii execution tor the slaying of Anthony Hint, a boss stevedore. Also elated to die for the Janu ary, l!M7. killing are John Dunn, and I'aniei ticntlle, -to. punn and (.entile had con tended throughout their trials that thev were not uresent at the killing Two appeals had been unsuccessful, Yesterday Sheridan signed an OUT OUR WAY & . THAT'S FROM ( DON'T MOU THINK f I NOU TEACH IN' I HE'S PLAYIM7 HE J HIM TO BALANCE HOLDS TH" PART V THINGS ON HIS I HE PONT LIKE S vr- S NOSE--NOW hz UP THERE WHILE ) i '$&t L HE PLAYS IN f V HE PICKS OUT i B lcJ Vhis food.' y Nth' dainties J , CT 1 i Mi X sz) f I J , . m i An L THE BUSINESS HEAP 2 . M BERLIN CRISIS PROTAGONISTS C.n. Lucius D. Clay, (left) U. S. military governor in Germany, and Marshal Vatiily Soko loviby, (right) tha Soviat military governor, are shown during a meeting of the Allied Control council in Berlin. Clay'i use of the U. S. Air Force to attempt to break the rigid blockade on supplies for the western allies' lone in Berlin imposed by Sokolovsky's forces is tha latest move in the continuing crisis. IAP Wirephoto) , I Learn Water Safety, a recent editorial In The NEWS-REVIEW concluded with a thought which EJ used years ago with success ! in teaching our boys to enjoy the 1 water and at the same time to be prepared for He dangers. I hope that editorial was widely read. "Don't become so alarmed about water dangeri that you gested tho Editor, "Instead en courage them to enjoy water 1 sports hut to know and ' avoid , danger. Their best protection is : to learn to swim at the earliest possible age to swim and to swim well . . ." When the boys were about four their daddy decided It was time they realiy learned to swim. Out Into the surf he would wade, the bova taking turns at riding him pickaback, chubby arms clutching him for dear life In a strangle hold around his neck, chubby legs reaching as far as possible under his arms. "Hang on now!" he would wain, "Here come a good one'" The wave would pile up and up. making a high green wall curving Inward, fringed on top with white. At the precise Instant J he would dive up through that ' EWorld's Biggest Fighting Ship To Cost $125 Million WASHINGTON. Aug. 10 -111 The higgest fighting ship in the world the Navy s Sl-WOiio.-noil giant carrier- will he the tli st capital ship built for the atomic age. Ihe contract tor her construe- inn u i-Kinn No date has been set lor the keel laving of the giant new car rier In nglnia and her first taMe of salt water is expected ' affidavit saytng that he alone planned the ambush shooting of j Hint at his home, and that three I other men carried It out. Two of I the three he named are dead, and ; mental. If advanced Ideas built ' If he falls to do so he's Just an the third disappeared a year ago. i into the prototypes work out, the ' ,-. n.,.,,.,...! lr,n,i..mnn.P Punn and ('.entile, his affidavit Navy will gradually rebuild lis : " . ' .. , T- said. were Innocent of the Slav- Ing. G Eg Viahnett S. Martin , . . ... . ',, ; to me. terrifying) grwn wall, I and It would crash behind him ! with a thundering roar. There he would stand waist deep, a Joyful youngster shrieking happily on his hack. "That was a good one. Daddy!" Never once did one slide 1 off or lose his Joy in the perform-1 a nee. Of course they swam like fish ' with no fear whatever. There was ' "play," some of It pretty rough, I I thought, but the boys enjoyed seeing hnw long they could swim under the water, r to. There were talks with lifeguards, heroes to j small boys, talks that were re- membercd therefore. "If a riptide : ever takes you out. all you have to do is stay afloat until some one ran come out and bring you In." Because they knew no fear it was hard to keep them close in: Daddy had no rest on the beach when those heads were bobbing too far mil. 'The one time I ever took mv eyes off them," said Paddy the i day we discovered they had been rescued . . . "All we had to do I was wait for the lifeguard to , come and get us. they said calmly, "but oh boy, did he give us a raking over! We made him a lot of trouble." They were 8 then. to be almost four years away. Rut she is being planned for a new era in sea warfare -she may be used one day to launch j big planes loaik-d with atomic bombs, and she must he fast and well armed against enemy planes j perhaps dropping atom bombs on ; her. Her exact tonnage has not been set: cvtlmaies range frum j ciT'.ISK) to 80.000 tons. ; No conventional "Island" Willi Interrupt an armored flight deck more than one-fifth of a mile long and some l.U) feet wide. Navt- i n ........ ..Ill I h.. .il. .... I Kn.MHl "IIIK' IFMIII .Ml each slile. homing ladar anten nas and fttv control apparatus. Few details of the carrior have been announced, hut Ihe empha sis on atomic planning In Navy circles suggests that she will le air conditioned against tk-adly ladioat'tive air paiiicles. ine ,av s itvsnip postwar construction program, which clmles the unnamed flush deck carrier, is almost entlrelv exoeii. present fleet, putting in Ihe proven new features. By J. R. Williams In the Day's Hews (Contiiiued From Page Une) be all right with me if our boys should emerge from one of these bingei looking a little grim. T HE news Isn't all sweetness and light. The official Soviet news agency hinted the other night In Berlin that allied planes could be FORCED DOWN for flying over "unauthorized" areas. It added: "The Americans have provisions for forcing down planes which depart from prescribed routes over the U. S. occupation lone." That got a rise out of "an American Air Force official" (name not named) in Berlin. He conceded that "technically speaking" planes that violate flight regulations can be forced down. Then he cracked: "However, once this starts things are going to be pretty rough around here.' T AKIXG It all In all, you tee, this business that is going on in Berlin int exactly a late after noon tea party, with everybody relaxed and happy. REPTBLICAV REPRESENTA TIVE McDOWELL 'Pennsyl- vanial aswrta hat a "highly lm . , " meni inacK in i.ip I i r.i' (WARTIME SHIPMENTS OF ! ATOMIC BOMB MATERIAL TO RUSSIA. Another V. S. official, he adds, OK D TllE SHIPMENTS, He withheld both names, but said the two men will be asked for explanations soon in special PL'BLIC hearings. L1 ET8 be realistic ebout this stuff. McDowell Is a Republican. The Republicans are out after Demo- crll,C ,oalp. The Democrat! ran the government during the war. and so they must take the blame for what Iemocratlc officials did then. STIIX This can't be laughed off: IF the -Russians, who were at that time our buddies, did sneak Into our kitchen and bribe or blackmail or blarney some of our nt0 tipping them off on ollr prP alom homb recipe to the extent of giving them some of the Ingredients, IT SHOULD HAVE BF.EN A WARNING TO OCR GOVERNMENT PEOPLE THAT THE RUSSIANS WEREN'T TO BE TRUSTED. IF It all happened as McDowell says fF two "highly Important" of ficials of our government did ship the Russians uranium and sam ples of "heavy water" IF they (as high officials) were so unbelievably dumb as not to have had their suspicions aroused hv ,n)a .,, effort to steal our '0re's Well, in that event, putting It mii.nv as It can be put. they ' ' ' were Just too dumb and trusting for any use. With this example of duplicity before them, they gave Russia Europe clear up to the Ell land threw In Manchuria) and thus let us in for the mess we're up to our ears In now. M have to prove his statements. But. so far. It looks like he's on the trail cf something hot. Local Employes Of S. P. Join In Safety Campaign , Southern Pacific employei here are participating this week In a special accident prevention cam paign along with the railroad! more than 60.000 other men and women in six western itate. according to J. E. Claik, local agent for the railroad. With the objectiv of further decreasing the ratio of casualties among its employei, which ratio so far this year is nearly 30 per cent less than during the tame 1947 period, the railroad designat ed this week at "Life Saver Week" for an Intensive system wide accident prevention pro gram, directed by Sifety Super intendent A. A. Lowe. Through the use of films, pic tures, posters, talks and practical' demonstrations, the company's supervising personnel is focus ing attention of employes on the importance of safe practices and the use of all forms of safety de vices in various phases of railroad work. Personal Income Rate of Americans Sets New Record WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 .P The Personal income of Ameri cans climbed to an annual rate of $211,900,000,000 In June, a record high, the Commerce De partment reported yesterdav. j The sharp increase centered I in factory pay checks, which : fattened because of "third-round" wage Increases in some of the major durable good industries. The gain resulted also from higher prices received by farm ers for livestock, and "from the absence of labor-management disputes," the Department said. The midyear rate of income compares with S07,200.00O,0O0 In May and with a previous all I time peak of S2O9.400.O00.0O0 reached In January of this year. I he Income total for 1947 was $19.1.200.000.000. The June increase, coupled with the cut In Income tax payments which began In May, boosted disposable income by more than i four per cent over the first quart er or the year, uisposable in come is the amount available to consumers for apendirig efter taxes are paid. Roseburg Dated On 'Radio Bus' Of Comndr. Scott The Greyhound "Radio Bus," featuring Commander A. VV. Scott and his "Romances of the Highway s." on Aug. 15 will "tour" scenic Oregon in and around Roseburg and Grants Pass. The hro; dcast over Mutual Broad casting System and KRNR will be featured Sunday at 10:15 to 10:30 a. m. Commander .Scott will also te'l the romantic story of Jede dlah Smith's adventurous Journey through this area 120 years ago. The noted radio travelogue commentator and writer of his torical work recently visited Roseburg and was taken on a trip up the North L'mpqua. He was supplied with considerable Information on which to base his broadcast and also for a forth coming book, "Romance of the Highways In Oregon." Additional publicity for many other western cities and areas will be provided by the "Old Timer" with his calendar of events, a regular feature. Events mentioned and described will in clude: in Oregon ttte Tillamook County Fair, Aug. 18 through 21, arid the Shakespearean Fes tival at Ashland, now in full swing and continuing through Aug Editorial Comment From The Oregon Press FEDERAL RAP Corvallis Gazette-Times It Is a good slin when such an J influential magazine with so I ide a circulation an the Satur ' day Evening Post sees nt to call ! the puhllc attention to the crazy I tttaml i n it strii'AA that has hau rsj o. Ing on for the past 16 years by the federal government. Savs the Post : - "It has become commonplace with post Roosevelt politicians that every American has a 'right' to good housing, or a 'right' to in- exnensive medical care or m 'right' to standards of living rep- i e-w-iiiru uj a saiaiy ui s.,ooo u year, or a 'right' to the good things of life at prjees he can afford to pay. "This idea of a 'right' to ma terial things would have mysti fied tieople even as long as 30 years ago. Our own American pioneers sacrificed heroically for the right not to have King's men quartered in their houses or for the right to be represented In the assessment of taxes laid up on them: In Jamestown Planta tion. Captain John Smith Is com monly supposed to have limited the right to eat to those who are willing to work. It is not recalled that this dictum caused anv sue-1 ! clal surprise or that Smith was j denounced as a 'reactionary'. I "Even more bewildering to a pioneer would have been the cur- i rently prevailing notion on how to realize his 'rights'. To assure I the right of every American fam- : lly to decent food, we proceed to close down the packing Indus try by a s'rike. The right to a decent home Is Implemented thru a mass of featherbedding by lab or and chiseling by certain con tractors and suppliers which make It all but hopless for any body to build a house. Eut when we talk about correcting this, we do nothing to eliminate stand bys on building Jobs or the boy cotts of material manufacturers who have not paid tribute to the right people. Instead, we expect to remedy the trouble by political action. That Is. by spending bil lions of tax ddllars to freeze Into the system the very rackets which have been causing the trouble. "People 300 years ago would have been mystified by a genera tion which expects to enforce the "right' to a high standard of living by closing down the na tions coal mines, railroads, pack ing houses and automobile plants. Captain John Smith's bustling workers and the settlers Backing Up Your New Home . . . with an Individualized, economical home loan that's tailored to your needs Is the speciality of RALPH L. RUS SELL. Come in this week and talk over your home financ ing problems. No red tape or high-hat deal ings here! RALPH L. RUSSELL Leant and Insurance 112 W. Cass Phone 013 Loan Representative Equtable Savings A Loan Assn. STAUNCH as Douglas County's' Douglas Fir . Douglas County State Bank M mbr-Fde?rat DPmu liuuranca Corp. FOR SALE . . . Highway frontage Approximately three acres. Small house, electricity, automatic water system. Garden land. Family orchard. Total Price $5350 Cash RAY A. NORTON REAL ESTATE BROKER Myrtle Creek (I Til INIUIANCI e - 'Iff; 40 YEARS OF SERVICE Forty years ago this month, this Company was or ganized. Under the cumbersome Abstract of Title, method of evidencing land titles then in use. it took weeks to close a real estate transaction. Keeping pace with modern business, we pioneered Title In surance in the Northwest and made fast, reliable title service available to all the people of the atate. The name of Title and Trust Company has al ways stood for fast service. Bound underwriting practices and financial responsibility. We are proud of our record and shall strive to maintain It. corn t v THW I Trest MMaif . 12$ t W. Feaia toe. . Hrtmi i. tntea '" aatf ..t. SfKMn ttki w kMi t Sari CM Sata u'jTchI ' -'"" j "" " U"" ' ' CAMTM, SUIMUI AN iisiivii ovil It.aaa.eM In equally 'reactionary' New Eng land would not have understood how people could have more things by producing fewer. A symposium In any plant would uncover a lot of Captain John Smith's understanding that you can't eat your cake while picket ing the bakery and that It Is you. not your Congressmen, who Improves the standards of living." -to Tune in KRNR ' 8-8:30 P.M. A box of candy FREE! e To all who : Phone in a subscription to The Salvation Army Building Fund All subscriptions announced as received. Phone 4 1490 an Your Dial Phone 305 TIUIII e KCIOWI