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4 Th Newt-Review, Roieburg, Ore. Thurs., Dee. 22, 1949 published Diily Except Sunday f y the ' Newi-3evie Company, Inc. Eattrtd leoitnd oIrm mtti Hay 1, t lb pott fflo tt Hoi burg, Oracoiit nndar act of March 8, U18 CHARLES V. 8TANTON EDWIN U KNAPP Editor jijw Manager Member of the Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations tiimtaUd by WEST-HOLMD AT CO., INU. fftci-l In New Yerk, Chlcf. Has rapolao, Lea Angele. Seattl. Portland, SI. Loala. UBNUKIPTION BArKS In Oregon By Hatl Per Tear Sft.AO. lis mnnthi fl.SS, three tnentbt It.aO. By Clly Carrier Per year f 10.00 do advance), leit to an year, per month f 1.00 Onttlde Oregon By Mall Per year U 00 nit month 14 7 three oionlhi 12.1ft INVESTIGATE SANTA By CHARLES V. STANTON Many persons have been brought under the searching inquiry of congressional committees investigating commu nistic spying, organization and influence! Our ever-alert radio commentators have uncovered much sensational in formation to fuel the hunt for Reds and bare their activities. But for all their astuteness, radio commentators, with their generals, majors, captains and corporals volunteering as witnesses, have, we believe, overlooked one of the most ob vious of all characters for congressional inquiry as to his communistic connections. Must we be the first with sufficient courage to demand this investigation? Are our Red seekers so preoccupied they have overlooked the obvious? Is there malicious intent be hind failure to pursue the course so clearly indicated? If we must be the first to make this sensational expose, then, be it so. . i Why hasn't Congress investigated Santa Claus? Is he a Communist, and thus dangerous to the safety of our govern ment? Have our national leaders closed their eyes because Santa Claus is so influential guiding spirit in policy making? Has he been given the Ioy alty test? Are politicians afraid to do their duty because Santa Claus has such great popularity and prestige that they are afraid of reaction from voters? These questions demand answers. Santa Claus has long been an honored and revered char acter. He is beloved by children and adults alike. He is a giver of gifts, a distributor of happiness. His appeal is universal. He has for ages been a patron saint of children. But are these virtues a cover, a "front" if you please for communist leanings and activities? Let's consider, briefly, some of the evidence at hand. In the first place let's take his name Nicholas. Isn't that a common name in Russia? It seems we can even remember some Russian rulers by that name. That they have been replaced by people with much more common names "Joe", for instance doesn't lessen the implication. And haven't the Russians been raising "Old Nick" for years? Then, take the' asserted location of Santa's home. He is said to live at the North Pole. But did our Admiral Peary find him there? No mention of Santa Claus is found in the ' report from the intrepid explorer. Is it not significant that with all our Polar exploration the abode of Santa Claus has not been found in the area where he is represented to make his home? It is too, far-fetched to believe that the Russians, with their penchant for moving people and things, are har boring Santa Claus behind the Iron Curtain? t Now, let's consider Santa's method of locomotion. Santa Claus, we are told, travels in a sleigh, drawn by reindeer. He travels through the air at such incredible speed that he can cover the entire earth, during his anticipated nocturnal ' visitation, Jn one" 24-hour period. The Russians not only admit but allege that all major inventions had their origin in the brains of Russian men of science. Nothing has ever been invented, designed or made that some Russian didn't conceive it first and make it better, the Communists declare. Certainly our capitalistic American inventors haven't yet been able to develop a system for putting a sleigh, six rein deer and thousands of tons of gifts into the air, to travel at a speed greater than that of light, so quod erat demon strandum the invention must be Russian in origin. The Communists probably would admit it. Isn't is possible, there fore, that the Russians have an horrendous secret weapon, and that they are permitting Santa Claus to make use of the principle of this terrible device? Are we to continue ignoring the possiblity? ' And now to the clincher! What is the dominant communist color? Red, of course! And what color is Santa's habitual garb? Ahaski! Cost Of Eating Is Likely To Become One Of Most Bitter Disputes In '50 By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (P) The cost of living Is likely to become one of the most bitter disputes of the new year. It Is also likely to become even more an artificial thing, strictly manipulated. Since 1950 Is an election year, there seems little chance of the year seeing a big break, price wise, for the eating public. The anticipated declining farm Income will disturb both Congress mil the merchants In the farm belt. And whatever you may save at the grocery; chances are you'll be asked to make it up later at the tax collection office. Signs of the big fight ahead are plentiful today. Farmers and politicians are choosing up sides on government subsidy plans. Cotton growers have Just voted to accept government control over how much they can plant in re turn to? guarantees of how much they'll get for their crop. Wheat, corn, peanuts, rice and potatoes also have moved over Into the area where the government will say what Is planted, what price is paid. High Or Low? But the price of food should It be high to please the armor, or low to please the city folk? isn't the only digestive pain the government Is going to nave. There Is the matter of storing the "growing surpluses of farm products and of getting rid of, in our administration and a them later on. After the war the rest of the world was eager to got all it could of American food, but the world's appetite for midwest corn and southwest wheat grows steadily less, as production rises abroad. And since devaluation j! foreign currencies, the price tag on American food is higher in terms of other money. There Is also the politically painful matter of controlling tiic acreage which farmers will be permitted to plant. Not only does It bring up the matter of regi mentation of that traditionally rugged individualist, the farmer, but also It frequently sets neigh bor against neighbor, when one feels hurt more than the other. The current battle of the ion Texas cotton farmers against acreage allotments shows how difficult the matter can be. Large Harvest Washington has lust reported that tills vear's total harvest was second only to last year's record. The acreage harvested was the largest since 1033. reflecting the naiural tendency of farmers to plant as much as possible when Is f ill i yJM mm By VuUmett S. Martin I do wish we could have here In Oregon, in Southern Oregon, perhaps in Douglas county specifi cally, a calendar-book similar to the beautiful book of views, one for each week, collected into such a book by the New York State Junior Chamber of Commerce. The pictures which have appear ed in the News-Review would find a permanent way of dis play. Some of them are so worthy of wider distribution! (I vote right now that the picture of the little glcl mak lng Christmas cookies be given one of the December pages! If that Isn't an Oregon "scene" what is? Not landscape, but child hood-scape! The expression which Paul Jenkins captured with his carnera stays in my thought. Al though I have never seen Kathy Corkrum, I shall not soon forget that picture!) - There is, of course, a North west Calendar book which in cludes the Pacific coast states and Montana and Wyoming and Idaho. Lovely views, too! We gave a number of them for gifts last year to out of state relatives and friends who wrote enthusi State Commission Predicts Winter Unemployment Won't Reach February, 1 949 Peak SALEM uW Unemployment last February's peak of 93,000 jobless. This prediction came from the State Unemployment Compen sation commission Tuesday. The commission said there were 55,000 jobless In Oregon on December 1, but that layoffs now are much fewer than they were a year ago. prices are high and guaranteed. The coi n crop w;is 21 per cent above average this year. Corn, in time, Is turned Into moat, and into dairy and poultry products. There should be plenty of all for the eating public. But what will the price be? , 1 Well, Department of Agricul ture officials wore meeting Wed nesday to discuss on? phase of .1 the 1!);0 price summi ts tor eggs. Currently the government is sup porting them at 35 cents a dozen and Is said to have huge quan lilies stored away In caves. But the present !H) per cent of parity support legislation for epgs ex pires with tile old year. If the department decides to supiort prices at 75 per cent of parity, that would be around 30 cents a dozen for ungraded eggs. One Break Seen However, there mav be a break for the consumer and a head- ache for the producer early next year in one food department. Poultry In cold storage now tops 100 million pounds, com pared with 92 million pounds a year ago. Tills will neatly take care of the holiday demand, ami leave over plenty to be marketed k.ter in the winter. If the price breaks sharply, the government may be asked to help there, too. There Is also another final headache in all this "planning of how much to plant, and where to got the price. That Is the weather. Some point out that after sev eral years of very good growing weather In most areas of the country, we shouldn't be too sur prised If a bad year may not be overdue. It Still Guides astically about their pleasure in the views. The ones who had been here enjoyed 'remembering'; Xhe others wanted to visit them! I sent one to a New York State cousin, and back came this N. Y. book and have I enjoyed the many, many familiar scenes; they bring back so many mem ories! Mary said she hadn't thought to send one out of state until the receipt of the North west Calendar gave her the idea. They are very subtle adver tising. Chambers of commerce, please note! Let's have an ORE GON book! Speaking of pictures of chil dren: Oh, aren't they precious, twenty years or so later on! We took literally hundreds of our "twins." Now I am matching each picture that comes of our grandson with the same-age pic ture of his daddy, and the uncle whom he will not see here . . . I always tried to get story pic tures. There's one where one toddler is roaring lustily,' flat on his back on the grass, his pic ture book still held in both hands, while a triumphant brother stands over him with a "that'll teach you!" look. this winter probably won't reach The commission said that in most sections of the state, the number of employed Is about the same as a year ago. Most At Portland Of the 55,000 unemployed as of December 1. 22,900 were in the Portland area. ' Figures for other districts hav ing more than 1,000 out of work are: Salem 5,000, Eugene 4.650, Astoria 2.100, Coos Bay 2,020, Oregon City 1,950, Roseburg 1, 730, Klamath Falls 1,650, Med ford 1,400, Lebanon 1,200, Mc Minnvllle 1,200, Grants Pass 1, 150. Totals for other districts: Tole do, 950, Corvallis 780, La Grande 750, Pendleton 725, Ontario t!So ; Albany (i35. Baker 625; Rend, Kreewalor, Hood River and Tilla mook. ti(X) each: The Dalles 525, and Lakeviow 275. The commission gave the fol lowing summary of employment conditions by industries: Construction The number of employes has decreased 15 per cent since summer, and probably will drop another- 5 percent i'u the next month or two. Food Processing Drops Food Processing Peak employ ment of 2S.O0O last fall has been cut by more than 10.000, and will drop even more in the next four months. Textiles and Apparel Employ ment has been rising gradually, and a 5 percent increase Is ex pected this winter. Lumber and Logging In con trast to year ago. few mills and logging operations are hutting down. Employment It running about the tamo as In November, 1949, and is expect ed to drop only lightly In Jan uary and February. Manufacturing Little change is expected. Employment is in i T In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) lng place, his name was checked against a registration list. He was handed an unsealed envelope which he carried lnlo the secret voting booth. There he picked up his ballot, WHICH CARRIED ONLY THE FATHERLAND FRONT CANDIDATES, sealed it In the envelope and dropped it in a closed ballot box. "OPPOSITION COULD BE REGISTERED ONLY BY HAND ING IN AN EMPTY ENVELOPE, OR ENCLOSING AN ODD SCRAP OF PAPER ON WHICH NO NAMES COULD BE WRIT TEN." .I THAT helps to explain the splen did vote the communists got In Bulgaria. When there is only ONE TICKET in the field, and no write-ins are permitted, and failure to vote at all is regarded with great suspicion, the incum bents can roll up majorities that are extremely impressive. THIS is about the only possible comment: That is what happens when there Is only one party as in Bul garia, and in ALL of the coun tries run by the communists. It Is another evidence of what happens when too much power is placed In too few hands. I'D like to offer one modest sug gestion at this point: In this country, we aren't like ly to pass a law decreeing that the party In power shall be the" only party permitted to have candi dates on the ballot and that no write-ins shall be allowed. With our glorious tradition of freedom of the individual to choose the kind of government he prefers, that couldn't come about short of say half a dozen generations. But if the political estate of the Republican party should iall so low that NO REPUBLICAN COULD EVER HOPE TO BE ELECTED we would drift auto matically and more or less imper ceptibly Into the ONE-PARTY system that now prevails by law in the behind -the -iron -curtain countries of Europe and Asia. PERSONALLY, I'm going to go on being a Republican PART LY BECAUSE THE REPUBLI CAN PARTY IS THE PARTY OF OPPOSITION and without a par ty of opposition we could fall In time into all the evils that are inherent In one-party govern ment. SEX SLAYER CONVICTED FRESNO, Calif., Dec. 22. B Paul Monies Gutierrez, 25-year-old cotton picker, was convicted yesterday of first degree murder In the rape slaying of 17-months-old Josephine Yanez. The verdict of Superior Judge Arthur C. Shepard. who heard the case without a jury, was with out recommendation, making death penalty automatic. Judge Shepard also ruled that Gutieircz was sane. creasing In printing, publishing and machinery, and is falling in transportation equipment, paper and metals. Transportation. Communication and Utilities No upturn In em ployment is expected before March, but the 1949 gains will be held through the winter. Trade and Service Little change Is expected. Russia Getting Navy Ambitions, Admiral Notes . BOSTON, Dec. 21 UP) Ad miral Forrest P. Sherman, chief of U. S. Naval operations, said today there is "ample evidence" of a reawakening of Russian "maritime ambition." He added, pointedly, that America's superior force of air craft carriers must be maintain ed to keep open vital sea lanes. In a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Sherman said that Russia . has more cruisers in active servica than this country, nd that Soviet shipbuilding capacity reportedly is double its 1940 level. . "Although Russia is predomi nately a land power and air pow er, 'there is ample evidence of a reawakening of maritime ambi tion," declared the top-ranking U.S. Naval officer. "Since 1935, heavy surface ship construction has been in progress and within the past year, the number of cruisers and new destroyers in the Russian fleets has increas ed." Sherman said the modern crui sers built in Soviet shipyards are heavy ships of high speed arm ed with a standardized rapid fir ing high velocity 7.1 inch triple turret battery. He placed the total humbef of Soviet cruisers at 14. The United Stqtes now has 13 cruisers In ac tive service and 60 more in its "mothball" fleet. Of the laid-up U. S. vessels, 32 are light cruis ers. Sherman gave the Soviet fleet's known strength as three old bat tleships, 14 cruisers, 110 destroy er types, and about 270 submarin es. In addition, he said, It Includ es a force of motor, torpedo boats, submarine chasers, and inshore patrol craft In peacetime which exceeds the numerical strength of equivalent types in all other navies combined in cluding the United States. "Our outstanding superiority over the Russian fleet lies in our carrier force," . Sherman said. "The maintenance of our carrier force is essential to our ' unin terrupted use of vital sea com munications. It is also essential to naval support of the army and the air force. It is the core of the offensive power of the fleet. It is the most mobile tactical air force In existence." At present, the United States has 15 aircraft carriers in active service. In addition, it has 87 In "mothballs", Including 62 smail escort carriers. According to available information, Russia has no aircraft carriers. Holy Communion Celebration Set For Episcopalians The ' annual midnight " Celebra tion of the Holv Commuhion will be held in St. George's Episco pal church Christmas Eve, Satur day, beginning at 11 p.m. The change in time should be noted, the service beginning a half hour earlier than in former years. A Christmas sermon will be preached by the rector, the Rev. Alfred S. Tyson. Christmas mu sic will include "Gesu Bambino," by Pietro Yon, as the choir an them, as well as the familiar hymns and carols. On Sunday, Christmas day, there will not be the usual early celebration of the Holy Commu nion at 8 o'clock, nor will the church school meet There will be a choral communion at 11, at which the junior choir will join the adult choir In singing "Re joice and Be Merry." unnstmas parties will be held for the church school and for the choir- on the Wednesday follow ing Christmas. The church school party will be in the Parish hall from 2 to 4 in the afternoon, and will be under the direction of Mrs. Frank Webster, Mrs. S. L. Groshong, and Mrs. H. H. Tur ner. The choir party will also be In the Parish hall, beginning with a potluck supper for choir mem- oers ana tneir families at 6:30 p.m. 4 CHURCHES ON ONE SITE M ALINES, Belgium UP) Workmen clearing away the ru ins left by a wartime V-l bomb have unearthed the remains of four churches all built on the same site. The discovery was made in what is left of Saint Lambert church, Mulzen-lez-Ma-lines. The first church was built on piles and dates from the 8th Cen tury. The second seems to be of far-rtlinnrlan nrinEn awtt U . u....&iui uuiii aim iiiuai nave I hppn prprtprt Ahnllt tha miri.Uo f I the 11th century. The third shows Gothic characteristics with an ex tension dating fi-om 1772. The fourth was the former Saint-Lambert church. Several tombs containing skel etons were also unearthed. NOTED INVENTOR DIES BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec.' 21. (tf) Gcrritt Van Daam, 56, a prom inent inventor, died Wednesday after an illness of six months. A native of Amsterdam, Hol land, Van Daam came to the Unit ed States early in the century and was placed in charge of engineer ing projects at the Panama canal. van Daam was credited with In venting the device used by the Allies in World War One which synchronized with an airplane propeller and discharged bullets through the revolving blades. He was the sole patent holder on a de-icing process for machine guns fired at high altitudes. He developed other de-Icing equip ment for airplanes. In all, he held more than 100 patents. GLAMOR FOR DOG TAGS LAS VEGAS Next year'. dDg tags in Las Vegas will be In the shape of fire hydrants, for males, and hearts, for females. Dog Catcher Bill Burke savs he hopes, by "glamorizing" the lic enses, to triple this year i sale of 1300 tags. America, Allies Agree On WASHINGTON iP Secre tary of State Acheson announces that "substantially complete" agreement has been reached on the types of arms the United States will send to its European allies. He reviewed at a news confer ence the status of the program for $1,000,000,000 of American military aid to nations joined Two Suits For Money Filed In Circuit Court Veterans Sales Outlet has filed suit in circuit court demanding judgment for $937 and costs from Tom and Charles UHKey, doing business as Gllkey's Trading Pos. The plaintiff alleges the amount is the unpaid balance on mercnanciise purcnasea Dy uie Trading Post. Mlnnette M. Bells has filed suit demanding judgment against Percy M. Varney for $800, plu.i interest and costs, for alleged non-payment on a loan. ON DESERTION GROUNDS HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 22. UP) Clark Gable's fourth wife, the former Sylvia Hawkes. was di vorced In London June 15, 1948, by Lord Stanley of Alderley on grounds of desertion. sne aia not oDtain tne aivorce herself, as stated in a previous Associated Press dispatch. GRANT'S 112 N. Stephens Success BWii ll . A New Year's led oiu tio Start your preparations now to do your 1950 business with us. Compbte banking services available, including safe deposit boxes and night depositories. ';' ' . ; f DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE BANK A Home Owned, Home Operated Institution Member, Federal Deposit Insurance ., "fvV'r. Coloration.. . to Gift and 337 N. Jackson ill SHUT OUT WINTER WEATHER... ... by arming your home against comfort-robbing cold with our dependable WINTERIZA TION MATERIALS. Our top-quality Storm Sash, Johns-Manville Insulation, Cool, Fuel Oil will keep your rooms coxy and snug no matter how low the mercury dives. Stop by and chat with our friendly Advisors this week! BUDGET TERMS ARRANGED Fair Prices, Always All Your Building Materials In One Stop 407X40AKGW128 LJLrL Uniform Types Of Arms with this country' In the North Atlantic pact. In summary, these were the main points: 1. There Is a fairly complete understanding as to the kinds of weapons wanted and to be sent. 2. Some differences still re main as to the wording of the agreements which will govern the uses of those weapons. Negotia tions are continuing on this. 3. He expects the North Atlan tic council to meet early in Janu ary to approve a statement of the defense strategy of the Atlantic area. Under the arms aid legislation, the program cannot begin until agreements covering the use" of the weapons have been completed and the statement of grand strat egy approved. d PHONE 100 ; .... between .6 15 and 7 p. m. if you have not received your News Review. Ask for Harold Mobley WE HAVE JOBS AVAILABLE For Trained Workers If you have the training, we have the job. 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