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14 The Newi-Review, Roieburg, Or. Fri., July 15, 1949 Tough Indonesian Question Drew Correspondents On Fatal Air Trip - By JAMES D. WHITE (AP Foreign News Analyst) The correspondents who died In that Bombay air crash had gone to Indonesia to get a story strangely mixed with despair and hope. This story has been dragging out its complicated course nearly four years in an area ol peculiar Importance to the human race. This importance stems from several things. Indonesia contains things people use a lot on, tin, rubber, quinine, etc. It also con tains the most congested ponula tion on earth (Java) in a section of the world that is intent, in varying degrees of passion, on at taining national freedom. The passion does not vary according to the actual readiness of the people concerned to govern them selves, and that is part of the despair. But there may be a peaceful way to make the change, and tnat is tne nope, Hope persists because, while Dotn sides seem to have made mistakes in Indonesia, they also nave inea not to, After driving the Portuguese out of Indonesia some 300 years ago the Dutch ruled the Indies with a firm but paternal hand, They could afford to. The Indies yielded sucn ncnes tnat there was a lot leit over to improve tne in dies themselves. Moreover the In doneslans were a cultured people who even sheathed the sword of Islam with their peaceable ways wnen tne Moslem laitn became the dominant religion. But even before World War II the Indonesians had begun to agi tate for freedom. The Japanese swept the Dutch out of Indonesia or into concen tration camps, much as a tidal wave once uprooted trees along the shore of Sunda Strait when the volcano Krakatoa blew Itself to bits. They promised the Indonesians everything, but didn't deliver. NEW LOCATIONI Dr. H. B. 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Each charged the other with violating every truce agreement set up. The United Nations stepped in and sent a commission to medi ate. But the past four years are strewn with agreements made, broken, and followed by fighting. Big Question Unsolved Twice the Dutch had taken "no- lice action" that by-passed U. N.- iponsored truces. The last time. last December, most nations con demned their action, without say ing what they would have done if they had been in, the same spot. Now, there's to be another try to iron things out, and if it works the new plan will start working oy next year. The correspondents on that Ill fated plane had been taken by the Dutch to look the situation over. One report says they had become convinced that the Indonesians are not ready for self-government and that chaos will follow. ' That's half the question. The other half is whether anyone else can govern them these days. DIES IN DUTCH PLANE CRASH Vincent Mahoney, editorial writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, wei one of 45 per sons killed, 13 of them Amen can newspaper and radio repre sentatives, when a Dutch air liner crashed near Bombay, In die. (AP Wirephoto.) Where the Cusicner Is MORE and BETTER SERVICE NOW under new ownership and management WEST COAST BUILDING SUPPLY CO. Mill and Mother Sti. Rill Neighbor! ROSEBURG Phone 362 Jay Clark fell ws sswm ' Douglas Fir Mill Stocks In June Reveal Decrease PORTLAND, Ore., July 14. Mill stocks at West Coast Douglas fir sawmills dropped about 80 million feet in June below May record postwar totals of 1.011.- 833,000 board feet, according to Harris E. Smith, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermens Asso ciation. Douglas fir lumber pro duction for the first six months of 1949 is 423 million feet below 1948 output and 189 million feet below 1947 cut, Smith said. Lumber shipments, orders and production have been almost iden- i tical for the first six months of ' the year. Smith saM. Douelas fir sawmills have taken 4,095,499,000 board feet of orders: have m-o- duced 4,080,247,000 board feet and s'.ipped 4,137,991,000 board feet through June 30. Mill stocks at the end of Jun stood at 932,277,000 board fet compared to the record postwt May totals of 1,011,833,000 boai feet, the lumber executive poll: ed out. During the June lumbi shipments outstripped both pre duction and orders. Shipment- for June averaged 174,889,000 board feet weekly as compared with 159,832,000 board feet aver age weekly production and aver age weekly orders of 155,832,000 ooara leet. I I Smith said lumber production for July would be affected some what by the vacation shutdown I of a number of sawmills. Son I mills gave their crews vacatio prior to July Fourth holidays n: aume are tuning vacation peri I following Independence Day. Young Democrats Vote To Back Recall Move PORTLAND, July 15. UP) -Executive board members of the Young Democrats of Multnomah county voted Thursday to support a recall move against Sheriff M. L. Elliott. The vote was 5 to 4. The campaign to oust the young Democratic county official from the office he took over in Janu ary will be organized tonight at a public meeting to he presided over by Admiral Thomas L. Gntch (retired). Elliott Issued a statement last night In which he again refused to resign, asked the state police for law enforcement assistance in the county in order to reduce the county uniform division as recommended by a county tax conservation committee; said deputies no longer could take out side employment after Sunday and again aired charges he had made against Stanley MacDon nld, Idontification bureau chief he had dismissed. Worst Flood Since 1931 Ravages Yangtze Valley NANKING. Julv 15. 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