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Army Court's Penalty Holds On An Appeal Appellant May Apply To Lower Court First, Says Supreme Court Order WASHINGTON. May 10. .P The Supreme Court said in effect Monday that some lower court may have power to act in the case of an American civilian sentenced by an American military court in Tokyo. The high tribunal's position was announoed in a brief order deny ing Arthur Curtis Antrim Bush permission to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Su preme Court. The order said the permission was denied "without prejudice" to his right "to apply to any appro priate court that may have juris diction." A writ of habeas corpus is a plea for a hearing on whether the person involved is being unlaw fully held in custody. Bush is serving a year's sen tence imposed by a military court in Tokyo last December 16 on charges that he illegally sold whiskey and other goods to a Japanese. The sales were alleged to have been made while Bush was employed by the Army in To kyo. During the war Bush was a bombardier-navigator in the 20th Air Force. The Supreme Court previously has rejected similar requests filed by civilians convicted by American military tribunals. Monday, for the first time, the court added the suggestion that they try a lower court first. In other actions Monday the court: Denied a hearing to an em ployer who claimed a union used force and violence "under cover of the National Labor Act" in an attempt to drive him out of busi ness at Harrodsburg, Ky. Fred P. Weissman, a manufac-1 turer of women s coals, appealed from a National Labor Relations Board order to cease asserted un fair labor practices against the AFL International Ladies' Gar ment Workers. The ULRB said it found evidence of such conduct related only to plants Weissman operated previously in Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg, Ind. Set aside an immigration ser vice order which barred Miss j May Johnson, a fewetiisn woman, from the United States on the ground that she was "mentally de fective." The court's 6-to-3 de cision sent the case back to the District Court in New York with instructions to order a "proper hearing and medical examination before the appropriate public health authorities." Snowballs Caused Massacre Snowballs were the cause of the Boston Massacre. In 1770, British soldiers fired on a group that snowballed them on King street, Boston. King street is now State street. The population of Argentine has a larger percentage of peo ple of European descent than any other Latin American republic. NEW LOCATION! Dr. H. B. Scofield Palmer Chiropractor Rifle Range Road 4 10 mi. North of County Shops Office Hourt 10-19 and II Saturday, 10-12 A. M . 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Other speakers also opposed the program. ine committee is composed of a group of industrialists, business men, and other non-governmental groups who are interested in de velopment of the Columbia Basin. it is most regrettable, Welsh Arbitrarily Picking Day To Honor Mothers Offers Difficult Problem By i.AL BOYLE DETROIT. (P) There is a Mother's Day, and there are days that mothers remember. And they aren't at all necessarily the same days. This is why it is so hard to arbitrarily pick a day to honor mothers. Because the day that you most honored your mother wasn't necessarily a certain Sunday in May. The day she remembers you most for is the day she bote you. A son who has been success ful from the world's point of view would also like to think his mother remembered him from the day he did something that made him famous with the neigh bors. She does, of course. But that isn't necessarily the day he honored her most. It might much morp have been a day years before when, in re sponse to her teaching or her yearning, he made a decision that changed his life in a man ner that shaped it in the way she wanted him to go. I am not too sure how girl children feel about their moth ers. Nor am I sure about how mothers feel about girl children. I think that generally, however, girl children are much more loyal and softhearted toward mothers than mothers are to them. Once girl children have gone through parenthood themselves they are very likely to realize the problems of their own moth ers. And they are more likely to appreciate them. I think it is very normal for a son to be favored by his moth er yet himself to want most to impress his father. And it is equally normal for a daughter to be idolized by her father and yet to ache from her heart to win admiration from her some times jealous mother. The newer psychology says fathers are fondest of their daughters and mothers of their sons, and that sons turn most to their mothers for love and daughters to their fathers. But while this' may be essentially true, it is a onesided view of real family relationships. How Affection Differs A real son, loved as he is by his mother, turns inevitably to his father, the man he wants to equal or better. And the daugh ter, apple of her father's eye, similarly will break her heart to win her mother's love. Be- 'em at LAWSON'S NOW ROSEBURG, OREGON TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1949 told the group, "that at this most important and critical time, when we are confronted with the great est opportunity for development which we have yet seen in the Pacific Northwest, those who are interested in such development should be forced to devote a ma jor portion of their time to op posing such unnecessary and un democratic proposals as CVA. "CVA, if created today, would only retard the development in which we are so vitally inter ested." Les Colby, Missoula, Mont., de clared that "we in Montana are onnosed to an authoritv which I would take away our autonomy." cause, finally, her basic problem in life is the same as her moth er's was to bend a strange crea ture, man, to her will. Motherhood is the strangest industry on earth. It Is based on responsibility that demands no reward. A father often loses himself in the world and its problems, or tries to. This is harder for a woman. Whether her children are present or absent, each day she thinks of them individually. And their problems are her chief problems. A man likes to flatter him self he makes his own mark in the world. A woman is smart er. She knows that a seed pod is more than any one plant. She realizes that her weanon for re nown is posterity- her children. Woman is the true phoenix. She is born and reborn, dies and lives, flames or fails as her offspring do. She Is the future's assembly line, and without her there would be no future. And she knows it. On Mother's Day we only formalize what woman is doing all the time lighting another candle to life. And each man hopes his own mother never re grets she didn't blow his out the hour it flared. Tennis Squads To Compete For Tourney Entry Coach Al Hoffman's R.H.S. tennis team will hold an inter squad tournament today and Tuesday to determine who will go to the district tournament in singles. The doubles tournament will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. Roy Van Horn and Dick Jacob son will probably battle It out for the singles position, with Norm Queen, Larry Henninger and Gordon Conley. dark horses. The doubles tourney will prob ably be a battle right up to the wire, with three strong teams competing. Ron Strickling and Boh Schin dler, first doubles team this year, have two victories and three losses under their belts and are favored, but the second combina tion of Gordon Conley and Norm Queen, undefeated so far this year will give them a tough battle as will Ray Van Horn and Dick Jacohson, with one win and one loss to their credit. All of the matches will be two out of three sets. MfilA THE IU UKUtK TUUK Next Winters Fuel O 16" Green Slab wood O Planer Ends ORDER YOUR WOOD NOW WHILE SUPPLIES ARE PLENTIFUL AND YOU CAN GET PROMPT DELIVERY. WE ALSO HAVE: Sawdust 4' Slabwood 16" Mill Endi 16" Dry Slobwood i 31. CANYONVILLE IS COUNTY TRACK CHAMP Ronald Bariley, right, receive, the coveted track trophy from Canyonville principal Omar Monger at the first annual All-Douglas County track meet, held at Finlay Field Saturday. Canyonville ran up 69 points at the first annual affair, beating out Glide, second place winner, and three other schools. Bartloy was high scorer at the meet with first in the I 10-low hurdles, discus and pole vault. He also ran a leg on the winning relay team. Ronald Krasky is Canyonville track coach. (Picture by Rod Newland) Too Many Republican Cooks Mean Very Little Republican Cooking By PETER EDSON , NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON. The Republican Party is having policy troubles some more. Last week's meeting of the Republican Na tional Organization Strategy Committee In Washington produced lots of harmony and a demand that somebody ought to raise $900, 000, but little else. This goose-egg performance tied the score with the GOP Congressional Policy Committee actions which have so far done nothing, too. The Republican Strategy Com mittee, which met in Washington at the call of National Chair man Hugh D. Scott Jr., was made un of half a dozen elements. Rep resentatives were there from the the Republican National Com mittee, the Republican House Committee, the Republican Sena torial Committee; the Republican Governors, the Republican State Central Committee ana rvaiionai and Stale Finance Committees. It was apparently a case of too many cooks to do any cooking. All that came out was a decision to do something later on. So anyone holding his breath to find out what the new and revitalized par tv now stands for, might as well relax. Policy decisions, it is now announced, are to be worked out at a series of regional confer ences. A session on the problems of industry and taxation, to be held in New England some time, was talked about hut not decided on. Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine is strong for this one. The idea of having a midwest farm policy conference did take hold. It will probably be held in Dps Moines in September. The idea is to see it something can't be worked out at I he grass roots level to help . the Republicans get back the farm vote. The idea of having one big Na tional Republican convention just before the 1952 congressional elec tions was apparently killed for good. This ties in with sentiment from one wing of the party leader ship, to the effect that the Repub licans already have a good enough platform. The reference Is to the platform adopted at Philadelphia last June. This piaiform has nev er been used, according to one somewhat rynical view, and they might as weil try to get some good out of It instead of starting from scratch to build a new one. Just Another Flop The stunned House Republi cans who came back to Washing Ion last January started right in A is TIME SECTION TWO i , , ,v $ to set up a new kind of policy committee. Great things were ex pected of it. So far it has held about three meetings and made one policy pronouncement. This was an unequivocal stand against excise taxes on transportation and luxury goods. The issue hasn't come up yet, but it s one ol Ke publican Minority Leader Joe Martin's pet projects. The Senate Republican Policv Committee under Robert A. Tail of Ohio has of late distinguished itself only by a couple of violent rows over public welfare legis lation and the whole Truman leg islative program in general. At the meeting of the National Organization Strategy Committee which was created by Chairman Scott after the Omaha National Commitlee meeting last January, somebody did produce a draft statement of principles for which the party should stand. No action was taken on It. The reception was so cool that nobody claimed authoriship. Specifically, the eight point program was against high laxes, moie power for the chief execu tive an! Communism. It was for a sound national pronomy, the highest living standard for all, an open foreign policy, national defense and peace. This set of principles could he written on a post card, all right. But what they meant or how they were to be achieved was spelled out no better than in a similar statement of Republican princi ples drawn up under the direc tion of Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck. In 1946. It was just another Republican disap pointment and a flop. 'vnii tuu-iin rsA i'll .23 h IS! I PULLED OUT THEPfc LAST SJUMMCft Don't verleaa' your eleclrls circuits. WfcoN yen build f modernise rvide ADIOUATI Wilt IN. EXPERT ELECTRIC MOTOR REPAIR FOR SALE ELECTRIC MOTORS, ALL SIZES 110-49 . f n v 1 ' V Atlantic Treaty Backed By Former War Secretary WASHINGTON, May 9-WB Former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today the case for the Atlantic Treaty Is simple: It would preserve peace because Russia would not dare to go to war against the combined strength of the pact nations. Patterson testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee. It is holding hearings on the question whether the Senate should ratify the treaty of mu tual aid against aggression, signed here April 4 by the United StfUes and 11 other nations. The treaty will not be binding on this country until It Is ap proved by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. Patterson told the committee that Russia's "guilt" In starting World War II in 1939 "was sec ond only to that of Hitler." This was an obvious reference to the Berlin-Moscow agreement which preceded the Nazi's march into Poland. Calling Russia "an ambitious and power-hungry dictatorship that has never had any scruples against launching a war," fatter son said the Soviets understand only force. What the pact does, Patterson added In a prepared statement, Is to bring together strength "far in excess of any that Moscow could musier." He listed thpse estimates of Western strength: (1) Manpower at least equal to Russia's. (2) steel-making capac ity 10 times greater. 131 petrole um production six times greater. 141 a lead In science, Invention and Industrial skill "that cannol he measured In tons or cubic feet." FLOORING, SIDING and FINISH PAGE LUMBER A FUEL 164 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 trtM thi mv ONI s -v-' S wit'. xi Europe To Be Dependent For Many Years On U. S. Capital, Report From United Nations WASHINGTON. Mav 10 fV The chairman of a House group studying appropriations for Euro pean recovery said Monday it would look Into a United Nations report saying that Europe will re main dependent on American capital for many years. The statement came from Rep. Gary (D.-Va.), head of an appro priations subcommittee which has been holding hearings for two weeks on the needs of the Econ omic Cooperation Administration. In sum, the U. N. report said that European industry has re covered remarkably since the war, but the economic outlook is poor in large part because of Europe's dollar shortage. It also said that the outlook has been hurt by an absence of fitting-together oi the various economic plans of the European nations. Failure To O. K. Atlantic Pact Will Encourage Russia, Ex-Justice Warns WASHINGTON, May 9. UP) Former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts said Friday that delay in approving the Atlantic Pact will encourage Russia "and damage our prestige throughout the world." Roberts gave his views In a statement prepared for the Sen ate Foreign Relations Commit tee, which is holding on ratifi cation of the 12-nation defense alliance. The committee pushed for ward with the treaty hearings despite the Four-Power, agree ment on lifting the Berlin Block ade. The general feeling is that while the German prospect is more hopeful, there Is yet . no real assurance of future peace with Russia. Roberts emphasized this view by saying: "The truth is that whenever the Democracies have been afraid to acknowledge the fundamental division between dictatorship and Democracy, the delay has per mitted the dictator to pick off the Democracies one by one, just as Hitler did." He added: "The North Atltantic Defense Pact is an essential emergency measure to prevent an attack by Soviet Russia." James W. 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N. re port continued, probably will have to "continue for many years to assist the outside world through investment loans, In much the same way as British-financed capital development to the rest of the world throughout the 19th century. "The most desirable course," it said, "would seem to be for the United States to schedule a ma jor program of capital invest ment abroad for specific develop ment projects staggered over a period of time." Three possible solutions to Eu rope's problem were suggested in the report: tl) a reduction of im ports from the U. S.; (2) a vast increase of exports to the U. S.; (3) a large-scale, long-range pro gram of American Investment in Europe. il the Senate does not ratify the treaty, now that it has been sign ed, "we will be ih a war within a year." Gerard said he has polled ex ambassadors and that 22 advised him they (avor the treaty. Charles P. 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