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Veterans Are On Both Sides Of Hoover Commission Fight By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, Gn-Wir vet ' erani are on both tide in the fight over the Hoover commission's recommendations. That commission suggested that all the government's big hospital programs including that of the veterans administration (VA be placed in a brand new, independent agency. This would take VA'S hospital away from that agency which was created to look out for veterans needs. ' Four big veterans organizations oppose the plan: the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Veterans of World War 11. and the Disabled American Veterans. For the idea are the U. S. Cham ber of Commerce, the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Citi zens Committee for the Hoover Report (made up of private citi zens), and the American Veter ans committee, which claims a membership of 25,000 veterans. But some members of the var ious veterans organizations fighting the plans are also members of the organization fighting for it. For instance, Herman W. Stein kraus. president of the U. S. Cham ber of Commerce, is a member of the American Legion, the Veteran of Foreign Wars, and the Disabled American Veterans. Steinkraui hai put out a 48-page booklet explaining the plan as he sees it and calling on veterans to support it. The American Legion has turned out yards of publicity opposing it And the American Veterans com mittee (AVC) has been busy grind-1 ing out publicity and speeches in . favor of the Hoover plpn (The AVC, with its 25.000 mem bers and a staff of about eight in its Washington headauarters, is a pee-wee compared with the Legion which claims 3.000.000 member and has a staff of around 100 here.) But there has been bitterness in this fight between veterans. Mich ael Straight, national chairman of AVC, has charged the Legion has clamped down on free discussion of the Hoover plan in its posts around the country. (The Legion denies this and says it welcomes full discussion.) And a month ago Straight char ged that "the Legions top brass is not really concerned in providing better services for the veterans. Its concern is for the members of the Legion machine who are en trenched in cushy veterans admin istration jobs." The Legion, of course, denies this, too. George N. Craig, national commander of the Legion, was re cently asked about that in a con- ressional committee hearing o y ep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Girl-Boy Walk Sequel To Gift In Surgery Case , ORANGE, J., April A crippled boy, and the crippled girl to whom he donated a leg bone a year ago, took a walk to gether yesterday. . Smiling Joe Lipani, 13, of Pas saic, and Carole Ann Wenzel, 9, of West New York, walked hand in hand down the corridors of the New Jersey orthopedic hospital. Joe wore hie artificial leg and Carole Ann wore an iron, ft was the first time she had walked in a year. A piece of bone from Joe's am putated leg is a patch in the little girl's spine. Her left leg was paralyzed three years ago by poliomyelitis. But no sooner had she learned to walk with a brace than a fall injured her spine, paralyzing both her legs. Fate brought her to the hosnital a year ago just as Joe came here for amputation of a left leg that had been crippled since birth. The leg was amputated just be low the knee, and three days later the bone from it was used to patch Carol Ann's injured spine. Joe returned to the hospital to day to watch the girl walk again. dm a am "tv - . 4 "TRA-VAIUI HAT0RIS LKLv r ; Jt? 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That committee, with branches in 42 states and financed by volun tary contributions from people, some of them big businessmen who want to see the Hoover recommend ations carried out, has banged away at the Legion's predictions and charges of what damage the Hoover plan would do to veterans. The head of the citizens' comm ittee research staff, Robert L. L. McCormirk, is a World War 11 veteran himself. The citizens' committee has painstakingly analyzed the state menu of the legion. The legion has painstakingly analyzed the statements of the committee. Both have issued b i ( mimeographed studies. All of this must add to the be wilderment of any veteran who gets bis hands on what the fighting groups have to say. U.S. Leads World In Waste, Says J ft CII kADCrT wll WWII By JANE EADS WASHINGTON Dr. Hugh Ham mond Bennett, internationally-famed conservationist, says the United States "undoubtedly holds the world's record for 'Waste." Chief of the department of agriculture's joil conservation service, he says we have a Howe erosion to ruin around 100,000,000 acres of for merly good cropland for any im mediate practical cultivation. We have followed this up with mod erate to serious damage on a sec ond 100,000,000 acres, be adds. But what plagues him per sonally is that most of us have "gotten into the habit of burning or throwing away everything for which we find no immediate use." Many odd items of wood which so commonly find their way to the sciap heap can be used, he says. He showed how recently in a small display of his collection of wood products. Here such common and plentiful woods as sumac, box elder, willow and even the de tested mesquite of Texas had been used for distinctive pieces of furni ture and other articles. Dr. Bennett got interested In making things out of woods that are thrown away about three years ago. He got soma of bis boys to pick up the various kinds of woods and -send them in to him. Some with workshops made the pieces he now has. He hopes the idea will catch on, but he says "we are probably going to have to do a lot of educating in order to get anywhere with the development of any national habits of thrift" in the sense he means. OSC Chtmiir Rtctivttt National Society Award PHILADELPHIA IIP) An Ore gon State college chemist. Prof. George A. Richardson, was one of a group of scientists receiving awards at the 117th national meet ing of the American Chemical society. He received the 1950 Borden award in the chemistry of milk based on contributions to the knowledge of the physiochemical properties of milk and the first scientific explanation of the rennin coagulation of milk. The award is $1000 in cash and a gold medal. The awards were announced by the society's president. Dr. Ernest H. Volwiler, Chicago. Exclusive Spirolotof Roll-Over Washing Action clothes cleaner, (otter. New Convenient Fill end Rinse Faucet Eliminates SECTION TWO established 1173 ' t T f W V"- ."SMC ."A I f It ii .7 1 . I. BERLIN REDS CET READY FOR "MAYTIME"-Membera of Berlin's Frel Deutsche Jugend. Communist youth organization, work on a stadium slated to seat 70,000 persona for a giant May parade and demonstration in the Soviet sector of the German capital. Hundred! of. members of the Soviet youth group have been brought to Berlin to help get ready for the May demonstrations, during which Reda have threatened to "take over" Berlin's western sectors. , Astoria Obtains State Aide In Slide Problem . ASTORIA, April 1J. -OPt The advice of a state expert was awited here today on what, if anything, can be done to stop the Coxcomb hill slide that has wrecked or dam aged 21 homea. The exoert. Lewis Scott, highway department geologist, was ordered here by governor Douglas sicnay, after the city council appealed to him for help. The council expressed confidence in the city engineer and the local public works superintendent, but said residents were expressing doubt on the city's ability to han dle the situation. The hill began slipping in late January. Heavy winter rains drew the immediate blame, but the city engineer, G. T. McClean, said an earthquake a year ago may have started it all. . The hill moved seemingly with out warning. Overnight one house was twisted three feet from its fireplace chimney. Gradually others began buckling. Since, it has gathered momentum. Over the weekend, the hillside slipped 29 feet. In a 24-hour period ended yesterday it crept another nine feet. . Ten houses were yanked to safety, movers slipping big beams under their frames and towing Special Price ' On Limit.e' Quantity . Feed for Hogs PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 14 1. 2A. 1. Pk.ee 242 mm Washes mora filter hot. ROSEIURG, at them away. But some were caught. The Lawrence Jackson home is now 150 feet downhill from its original site. It left its foundation behind, but oddly is riding the slide like a wave. If it continues to hold together until it reaches the bottom of the hill, it can be saved, salvage men say. No end yet is in sight. In fact, the slide threatens to spread farther eastward. In the cliff north of Irv ing avenue, a crack 100 feet long has developed, more homes. threatening four FORD SALIS INCRIASI DETROIT The Ford Mot or Co. reported that its dealers sold 155,315 cars and trucks dur ing this year's first quarter. This compares with 237,468 ve hicles sold in the like period of 1949. For the First . av- j n f n fn, J U mJ U i Us te SO te e sellM evra highway tptmm. The rtt Mfe cenvertlMe, The nt ranfa-snoceavertlble. C..elt.ly e.w.etl..... ttyllns-with mm teSertat yew erSerl lUM te heeele ene rmrk. hat Ml l-Munr rami OREGON THURSDAY. APRIL vr--, 5 r -wis . 'vvi 5Xh Included in this year's -retail deliveries were 282,020 cars and 73.295 trucks. The total, the com pany reported, was the highest for a first quarter since Ford's rec ord year of 1924. WINDOWS Complete with frame, balance and weatherstrip. Ready to set in wo fitting required. Sao our display. Home Builders Lumber Co. Hiuhway 99 N. at Cardan Valley Phona 1322-J OF7WOPNCHKf M7H 7HESrTyjMO COmtTOFA SEDAN.' Time I Yes, everything you ever sn automobile comes true Nash Rambler Convertible lowest price! te It's the world's smartest custom convertible super-safe snd rsttle-proof. It's a revelation in handling ease and safety built with double rigid Airnyta Construction. See allthret 1950 Nash Airflytes greatest motor car values. 13, 1950 400 'Coneealed' Communists In U. S., Budenz Says . MIDLAND, Mich., April 1J.-P) Ex-Communist Louis Budenz, who may have an answer to the Sen. McCarthy-Owen Lattimore dis pute, sava that he could name 400 "concealed" Communists in the United Statea. ' "But I won't do it," he declared here Tuesday, " I can't afford libel suits." The former managing editor of the Communist Daily Worker was in Midland for a lecture. While here, he was notified of a subpoena to appear before a Senate sub committee investigating McCar thy's charge that Lattimore is a Soviet agent. Budenz, named as McCarthy's "mystery witness," would offer no comment on the dispute. But he did say that he had never met, talked with, or given documents to McCarthy. "In justice to the investigating committee," he said, "1 cannot say anything further." McCarthy haa indicated that he hopes Budenz's aworn testimony will ahow the committee that Lat timore is a Communist. Testimony given before such a group cannot be used aa a basis for libel charges. Budenz, now a professor of eco nomics at Fordham university in New York, told a press confer ence that the whole policy of the Communist party in the United States is to place its adherents in positions of importance; "One Alger Hiss in the State de partment, he declared, "is worth several hundred thousand other Americans." He quoted EarU Browder, former Communist chief, aa saying that the party is "very small!, but big in its influence." The 400 "concealed Commu nists," he said, are in various or- DRESSMAKING ALTERATIONS Zoe Newman 92S Cobb tt Phone 3S7-R Something Absolutely NEW! The New NASH RAMBLED CONVERTIBLE LANDAU! dreamed about In today in the new Landau! All at - America'l COOPER MOTOR Oak and Pina Streets, Roseburg 87-50 ganiiations that control public opin ion-ana policy, oucn persons, ne said, are given exemptions from Communist party membership. Budens, who renounced Commu nism in 1948 and reioined the Cath olic church, added that anyone who namea too many of these "Iront members at once, "gets the repu tation of being wild. GUIRRILLAS MOPPED UP SEOUL. AnrU 12 The de fense ministry said today 304 Communist-trained guerrillas from North Korea have been wiped out and another band the same size surrounded. The army lost It dead and 22 wounded in the mop-up, the minis try said. acres off Good living CJkL. vXrrxTV PUNT AND CULTIVATI UP TO AT A TIMl WITH Roar Engine Power Hera it the farm idea of tha year. Replace crops cut by acreage allotments with multiplt-rou) beans, vegetables, fruita, berriee, melons, row-cultivated field aoeda or legumea. With the rear-engine Model G Tractor and rront-mounted tools, you can plant and cultivate many of thee High-pay crops up to 6 rows of a time. You can vary wheel apacingfrom 38 to 64 inches, adjust tools for any row width, and chang tools in five minutes. Tha Model Q gives you ttraifbUibtad vision and a special creeper gear of 34 m.pJu for cultivaU ing inch-high seedlings in close rows. Tha thrifty Model Q is an ideal helper for planting and cultivating regular field crops. But mtUfipIe-roc crops i prove to Da your acres of gold Step In and talk It aver with us. Farm and industrial Equipment Co. Hiway 99 North Phona 1SS9 And Ihtptkt InthJtl Marly tlOO wort of eavfemeef arW custom extras Mre radio, WeottW ye CondktoMd Ak Svsimh me many ttWrt at a extra cosit CO. Eleanor Roosevelt In Traffic Crash HYDE PARK, N. Y., April U. (At Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt, driving to Hyde Park to ob serve the fifth anniversary of her husband's death Wednesday, was shaken laat .night in a three-car accident. - Mrs. Roosevelt waa being driven home from a session at the United Nations at Lake Success, where she is i U.S. delegate. She was riding in the front seat of her sedan with her chauffeur, Russell W. Linaka. "We saw car coming toward us swerve out of Its path," she aaid later. Linaka shouted a w a r a i f , "brace yourself . . . we'ra going to be hit" and Mrs. Roosevelt jammed her feet against the floor boards. The oncoming machine struck another car immediately ahead el the sedan, and then aideawiped the rear of the Roosevelt auto. The driver of the oncoming car, George B. Greavea, 28, of Salt Point, N.Y., was given a sum mons for reckless driving. in 1950. ( nLus-ciiflir.-iTs V Utlt AND tUVICf y Iters 's Met of Itmtmm hi All Nasi Oaes fader 120 W. Oak Phona 1218
