1 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thur., July 21, 1949
U.S. Farm Support Prices
Blamed By Bevin For Part
Of Britain's Dollar Crisis
LONDON. Julv 20 For
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin
: blames a large part of Britain's
dollar crisis on high support
prices paid American farmers by
the unuec. stales government,
He told the House of Commons
such prices are as much part ol
a "welfare state" as socialized
Britain's free health service and
nationalization of industry.
Some Conservatives (Winston
Churchill's nartv) have denounc-
ed hieh taxation to finance social
benefits as largely responsible
for the current crisis. They have
declared that funds from the
"free enterprise" United States
should not be used to make up
deficits incurred by socialist
spending.
Bevin told opponents of t h e
Tjhor (Socialist) eovernment the
"welfare state" should not be
brought Into the argument be
cause it is developing every
where.
"The United States is as much
a welfare state as this country,
although in a different form," he
told the house In a debate over
Britain's loss of gold and dollar
exchange.
Many of Britain's, disappearing
dollars nave gone ior ine pro
ducts of American agriculture.
"One of our troubles In t h e
balance of payments is the fact
that the United States, in carry
ing oul its development as a wel
fare slate, has given basic prices
to Its agriculture," said Bevin.
The debate in Commons follow
ed a meeting of finance ministers
of the eight British common
wealths looking towards a com
mon solution of their1 dollar prob
lem. Sir Stafford Crlpps, British
economic boss will carry the
final proposals to Washington In
September.
There were Indications these
proposals would consist of cither
ne-.v American credits for the
sterling (pound) area, or raising
of the price the U. S. now pays
for gold ($35 an ounce). Most of
the world's gold is mined In the
British commonwealth.
The commonwealth nations
Britain, Australia, New Zealand,
India, South Africa, Pakistan,
Ceylon and Canada agreed to
cut their purchases- from the
dollar area by 25 per cent. They
agreed, however, that this would I
only be a temporary . expedient.
Canada herself is a member of
the dollar bloc not the sterling
but she gave her approval to
ine cuts.
Oregon Expansion Topic
Of Governor At Institute
CORVALLIS, July 21.-W Or
egon can expand industrially and
still preserve its cherished rec
reational resources, Governor
Douglas McKay said here Tues
day at the opening of the Insti
tute of Northwest Resources.
He told the 60 delegates attend
ing the institute that the impor
tant thing is to get the people to
understand their resources and
conservation not to lock them
up, but to put them to wise use.
McKay said he would have the
heads of Oregon state depart
ments meet at least quarterly In
conferences on Oregon's re
sources so that a unified program
may be followed.
Dr. W. L. Powers, soil scientist
In charge at the Oregon State
college experiment station, re
viewed soil resources of the re
gion. The Institute, which will con
tinue two weeks, may be made an
annual event If support and at
tendance Justifies it, Dr. J. Gran
ville Jensen, Institute coordina
tor, said.
Prison Inmate Assaults
Guard's Small Daughter
TACOMA, July 21.-UP)-A five
year-old daughter of a McNeil
island federal prison guard was
criminally assaulted by one of
ine prison inmates, acting war
den Donald Byington said Tuesday.
The assault was said to have
been committed on the beach
near the little girl's home on the
island last Friday.
Byington said a man was be
ing held in custody in connection
with the attack but refused fur
ther details.
The child was taken to the pris
on hospital for treatment.
Byington said that agents of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion had been summoned bv pris
on authorities to Investigate the
case.
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By J. R. Williams
Two-Sign Decision Settles Crapshooter Dispute
DECATUR, Tex., July 21. UP)
Eighter from Decatur, the coun
ty seat of Wise" was the point.
The mayor of Decatur made it
twice.
Cranshooters the world over
are advised the city council laaea
Syl Hardwick's idea to erect Just
one sign with this popular plea in
bold words.
One sign will be built on the
east side of town, the otner on
the west. Both will be on U.S.
highway 81, where all can see
them.
Hardwlck wanted just one new
sign to replace a signboard near
the railroad station.
But, as some dice players have
found when they intoned the in
cantation while trying for the
point of eight, the mayor ran into
luck.
The council enthusiastically de
cided to put its official slamp of
approval twice on the fame this
north Texas town has won among
crapshooiers the world over.
Since the old sign was put up,
many tourists have stopped by it
for pictures.
Filling station operations and
restaurant owners disagree that
this is undignified tomfoolery,
They say the fact that tourists
stop to see the sign means busi
ness.
University Of Oregon
Gets "Conscience" Check
EUGENE, July 21. W) The
University of Oregon received a
S10 check from a woman who
had been a student here 25 years
ago.
An accompanying letter ex
plained her conscience was trou
bling her because she had taken
some silverware and a blanket
from the dormitory where, as a
student, she lived.
ECA Head Raps Foreign
Aid Bill Amendments
WASHINGTON, July 21. UP)
Paul Hoffman told senators Tues
day that three amendements to
the ioreign aid bin are serious
threats" to the European recov
ery program.
In a letter to Senator Vanden-
berg (R.-Mich.), with copies to
other senators, the Economic Co
operation administration object
ed to:
(1) An amendment requiring
ECA to buy surplus farm products
of the kinds and in the amounts
set forth in ECA's budget esti
mates. These funds would be
"frozen" if not used for farm
purposes,
(2) An amendment requiring
ECA to set aside $50,000,000 for
loans to Spain.
(3) An amendment cutting $74,
000,000 from ECA's authorized
spending in the last quarter of
fiscal 1949.
The amendments were put In
Gillnetters Quit
In Dispute Over
Salmon Prices
ASTORIA, Ore., July 20. UP)
men's Protective union Tuesday
ctlled Its 1200 gillnetters off the
river in a dispute over salmon
prices.
All commercial fishermen en
union. Catches have been poor.
ine acuon ionowed a vote in
which the union rejected packers'
offers bv an 8-1 marpin mtarv
Henry Neimela said.
iNiemaia saia delegates would
be called to a mpptina tn "mhii.
ize for economic action I
tr obtain fair conditi nns anri
prices for the 1949 season."
The fishermen worked part of
the RlrinP Rpann U-ith ni-irao ,,n
settled. They were to be deter-
iiiiui-u in laicr Ilt-'KUliailOnS.
ine aecision to quit fishing was
not PXnPPtpH tn haua am,
effect at once. The salmon run
nas Deen light, and only part of
the flppt has anna m,t ninKtl.,
Landings have been skimpy. The
annual summer run, nowever, IS
expected any day.
Savages Chop Each Other
For 'Good Luck' Remedy
LONDON, July 20 UP) Tribes
men of African Basutoland have
revived a jungle ritual of chop-
ninp each nthpr tin tn rnota "nn
luck" medicine.
An alarmed British government
Is sending Cambridge Professor
G. I. Jones there next week to
stL.dv thp nrnhlpm ITo ic nh;r
lecturer on native tribes and their
ancient customs at the univer
sity. A spokesman for the British
COmmOnWPalth rnlntinnc nffinn
which is in charge of this prim
itive area, said there had been
nearly 20 such slayings in the
past year.
Red Czech Press Fires New Charges At Church
(By the AuocUted Preis)
Prague's communist press Tues
day accused the Vatican and Cze
choslovakia's Roman Catholic
bishops of "organizing an illegal
ne'.work of communications" to
promote anti-government resist
ance in this country.
The charges were made In joint
editorial broadsides by Rude Pra
vo, official party organ, and
Mlada Fronta, newspaper of the
Communist Youth.
Rude Pravo called the Vatican
a "cruel enemy of Czechs and
Slovaks." It denounced archbish
op Joseph Beran of Prague and
his bishops as paid agents of the
Vatican in "plotting to disrupt the
nation.
The trade union daily, Prace,
mouthpiece of Communist Prem
ier Zapotocky, added that the
Vatican's order ; for excommuni
cation of militant communists
"will never be accepted by any
body in Czechoslovakia." The min
istry of justice has threatened to
prosecute such excommunica
tions as "treason."
The communist newspapers in
dicated they believed the "illegal
network" was the channel
through which bishops and
priests have been disseminating
pastoral letters and other church
resolutions which charged the
government with persecution.
They charged that such letters
were "illegal publications."
Harry Bridges Heads
International Union
PARIS, July 21. UP) The
communist newspaper L'Human
ite today announced the election
of Harry Bridges es president
of a new international union of
seamen and dockers.
Bridges heads the CIO Long,
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
union in the United States.
L'Humanite said Bridges was
chosen at a weekend meeting in
Marseille of leaders in the World
Federation of Trade Unions. The
unions of non-communist coun
tries have withdrawn from the
federation.
Registered Willamette Val
ley -red Romneyt from Im
ported rams. Choice selec
tions now available.
OAKMEAO FARM
Newberg, Oregon
Shirley Temple Suffers
Attack Of Appendicitis
HOLLYWOOD, July 21. UP)
Shirley Temple is resting com
fortably today after an attack of
appendicitis which sent her home
from her studio.
Her doctors said they do not
believe an operation will be nec
essary, although it was the sec
ond attack the 21-year-old actress
has had within five weeks.
She was stricken yesterday as
she reported for the final day's
work on her current picture.
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