4 The Niwi-Review, Roseburg, Publiihtd Daily Except Sunday by tht Ntws-Rtvitw Company, Inc. Ur4 itee-ntf tlm mUtt Msy 1. ? si tk Pt ((! ft barf. Orf, lader ct l Mrch t. lii CHARLES V. STANTON .jri EOWIN L. KNAPP Editor Min.gtr Mtmbar of tho Attociatad Prtsi, Oragon Nawtpaptr Publlthtrt Association, tha Audit Buraau of Circulations RaariMBUJ hj HEftT-H OhLIDAT CO.. IM)., fMei ! Niw frk, Ctalcw Sta rraacltca. Lot Angilei, SiatUt, "rtlin. it. Uali UD8( BimON RATES In Orfo By HnJ Per rr MM ! malh H.M. Uri we)Mh It.ftt By City Carrier fr Tr IH.M lo a4anel, It it aaa raar, per mentb 11.0 OaU14 Oregon Bj Mall fir jw . aoalaa I4.U, lkr nantha 1MB. Case Against Big Corporations By BRUCE BIOSSAT ' The Justice department'! anti-trust division is said to be gunning now of the United States Steel corporation. It is predicted the govern 'ment will seek the company's break-up into smaller units. If this action comes off as forecast, it won't be based on claims of monopoly, U. S. Steel accounts for slightly less than one-third of the total U. S. steel output. Monopoly charges would have made much sense yean ago when the company did 60 percent of the Industry's ' business. Today the government has a new idea: that the old, crude ways of monopolizing trade have been supplanted by smoother, more subtle devices. Anti-trust officials contend that nowadays a leading company or a Big Three can re strain competition just as surely as any monopoly. The tame reasoning has been applied to the pending A. and P. case. The A. and P. docs less than 7 percent of the total business in lis field. Yet the government wants to split it into seven parts on the ground it is limiting trade. Having already won a criminal suit against A. and P., the Justice department is confident it will win the split-up suit. And presumably its hopes will be high if it opens fire on U. S. Steel. But should it fail in these at tacks, there's some indication it may urge that the anti-trust laws be made stronger. A call for new legislation un doubtedly would be followed by in tense congressional scrutiny of the whole issue. Yet why should an inquiry wait until such a moment? There's need for it now. The Justice department is ad mittedly practicing a new theory: we have only its own word that this notion fits the language and aims of existing laws, its attacks on bigness is actually or potential- ly "bad" for competition may real- Experienced Personnel, Adequate Equipment Will Be Ready For Duty In Present Oregon Fire Season SALEM, Oregon (Special) Over 1,000 men will moke up the pro tection personnel of the stale forestry department and Us cooperating protective associations during the present forest fire season, according to George Spaur, state forester. According to the forester, these ex perienced men will form the core of the organization set-up lo protect . approximately 13 million acres of timbcrlands coming under the state supervision. The men will be established in their field positions by the first of July and include office personnel, permanent employes, emer gency fire camp crews, wardens, smokechascrs, lookouts, headquarters crews and maintenance crews. Preparatory step in getting this large organization into shape for the season's work was made by a scries of training schools which was Initiated by an instructor's school held in the Salem office. At that time the various men were given instruction in the methods of conducting the schools in the field, how to instruct and what to instruct. Don Maus, forest training officer, handled the instruction and establishment of the fire schools for the forestry depart ment. Administration of the schools - was handled by the various forest protective districts throughout the state. In general, (he schools are divided into two units; one ad vanced class for the seasoned and experienced fire personnel and an other for the new men who are being given training in the basic requirements. Classroom work consists of in struction in the various phases of protection, including a brief state ment of the policy of the Mate forestry department, cooperative features of the work, motion pic lures and studies of fires and fire control. Field training is also given in map reading, the job of the look out, how to locate a fire, with an actual problem of using a com pass to locate a simulated fire, lire line construction, the use of the axe and similar work neces sary in carrying out the summer work. Ample Equipment Ready All the men in the various emer gency camps throughout the stale will go through a period of condi tioning which will include wood cutting, trail construction, tele phone work and work of a similar nature. The Saltm office of the state forestry department has gone on a 24-hour day and is ready to co operate in all critical situations in sending out men to aid in di recting the firo fighting or to send needed equipment. Spaur said that the well trained corps of elite fire fighters would be fully augmented by mechan ised equipment. Every effort will be given, stated the forester, to see that these men are provided the means of using all of the latest improvements and devices which will make fire fighting more suc cessful. Spaur pointed out that during the recent flare up of fires in late May and early June, 22 bulldoz ers, 50 power saws and dozens of tank trucks were used on one par ticular blaze. During the fire, many milej of fire breaks were constructed and more than 55,000 snags were felled by private and slate forestry crews. Twelve million ff.lllnn. nf nnrnn Juicewere frozen in 1!48-'49 com- fiiTi. 266,00 g,llon, in U 1945-4 season. Or. Tuet., June 20, 19501 ly be unwarranted under present statute. An impartial study by i group of high-ranking lawyers and econ omists would be a help in getting the answer to the legality of this approach, long before the Supreme Court would have any chance to pass on it. If the theory docs go beyond the law, then new legislation would indeed be necessary to support the government's assault on bigness. And then it would be the turn of Congress to consider the wisdom of more powerful anti-trust weap ons. Mass production is acknow ledged as a great factor in our high living standards. Mass pro duction and large producing units have tended to go hand in hand. But the question is: can the bene fits of mass output be gained with out getting into super-companies like U. S. Steel, General Motors, General Electric? This is the real issue. The pub lic has a tremendous stake in it. The prices of most everything it buys will be affected by the deci sion whether to break up the na tion's mammoth industrial firms. - It's much too big a matter for a handful of Justice department lawyers to try to decide among themselves. The country's best minds ought to begin tackling it without delay. Hose Saves Man From Suffocating ELKHART, Ind., June 20. -B A 33-ycar-o!d father of six who undertook to dig a well on Fa ther's day spent two hours trap ped by a cavein with only a hose to breathe through. The well digger, H. Millon Ran dall, survived through quick action of a neighbor and was pulled out unharmed by Elkhart and Goshen firemen. Randall and the neighbor, Ver non .Sysinger, were digging (he well at Itandnll s suburban home. They were down 18 feet when a pipe broke, and Sysinger climbed out to sol a wrench. The sandy earth caved in, bury ing Randall completely except for nis leu nann. with it Kandall point ed lo his head. Yelling for help, Sysinger scooped the dirt away from his fare and got a eardeh hose to him. Randall breathed through the hose. His wife, Judy, called the fire department. They replaced Iheir hose with a regular fresh air line and began lo dig. The six chil dren, the eldest 11, stood nearby cryingf Firemen dug for almost two hours. Finally thev lowered a rope K U--.I-II I I 1 :. i.. iu iKiHMMii, mm iHiru ii unuer his arms. Slowly hcy drew him out. Japs Face Trial For Criticizing M'Arthur TOKYO, June 20. (. Four Japanese went on trial Monday before a United Slates provost court for distributing an open let ter to General MacArlhur criticiz ing the occupation. Adverse criticism of the occupa tion is forbidden by a MacArlhur directive and Japanese law. Japanese newspaper reports des cribe all four as members of the Communist parly The letter first was read at a leftist rally on June 3. It protested the trial of eight Japanese found guilty of assaulting five American soldiers in a Memorial Pay dem onstration. Sports Staff Quits Over Communist Directive BERLIN - (.Pi The entire sports staff of a Communist con trolled east Berlin newspaper three editors and a secretary have resigned in protest against what they termed "orders to wrile sports from the political view point." The newspaper is the National Zeitung, organ of the national Democratic party. This is a party P'rn with the announced "purpose I of enrolling former Nazis loimra unner t omniums! ails itw$kJ I'.' 11 POINT open f8j . , : " " ' j KISS OF DEATH A seemingly harmless little peck between twi starlings (inset) proved fatal to themselves and 200 others. Thi starlings were settled on two electric wires which sagged close to gether. When -two birds made contact in tht kiss, It caused a shor circuit on the wires, electrocuting the entire flock. . As a great freight truck with its trailer sped by us one afternoon on the highway, I thought of a paragraph in a delightful little book I had just finished reading: Yoncatla, tht Home tf tht Eagles, by Anne Applcgate Kruse, a dc scendent of the Applegates s o prominently identified with Ore gon history. (The book is most attractively printed by the Drain Enterprise Printing company and has a number of page-sized repro ductions of photographs by Gus Peret. li50). The author had been picturing vividly the early days in (he Yon calla area, and was telling about the grist mill east oi Yoncalla on what is now Halo creek. The mill did a thriving business from the very first. It not only supplied the needs of the settlers, which had been its builders' inten tion, but being located on the pack train rem I e from Srotftburg to the mines, it soon became an import ant trade center. "It has been said that somelimes one had to wait a week or more for his 'grist,' and as many as 5O0 mules would be gathered at one time for the loading. They not only carried auay flour and grain, but all the other surplus farm prod ucts, especially fruit and vege tables ..." The "fruit" Mrs. Kruse mentions in her history of Yoncalla was grown on trees for which "as early as 1851 settlers were traveling to the Willamette." And also, little (ruit trees set out so hopefully in 1851, bearing fruit In three years, w''lLK all Anybody Want A Job? By ViaJuuU S. UarUnt were threatened with extinction in "the tragic year of 1855 when a horde of grasshoppers descended upon the valley and stripped it of every green thing ..." Half of the livestock perished too. "Seven of a hundred apple trees planted in 1858 are still living and bearing fruit after ninety years!" The first apple trees came as tiny seedlings set in small boxes of earth, brought with tender care across the plains in a wagon. "About half the trees with which Henderson Luelling started were lost during the long, hard journey, but enough were saved to lay the foundation of the fruit industry in the northwest." ' Truly, I found Ytncalla, Home of tht Eaglts, by Anne Applegate Kruse, to be fascinating reading. The book itself is a noteworthy piece of work by a printer in the neighboring city of Drain. Exploding Fireworks Routs Plant Operator PORTLAND. June 20. (.P) A fireworks plant operator dashed madly out of hi small huilHins east of Portland Sundav. Sec- onds later, the plant exploded spec lacuiariy. Marion W. Hardesty, 42. explain ed he saw what was coming He aid he was working with elec trical wires when he saw a spark ! Sunday morning. But a few feet that tnurhed off urnri m.trhiaway the brakes failed, and the a novelty that contains powder. lie got u leei away netort drums of powder went off. destroying Ihe small building at a loss of $.S.ooo Hardesty explained Ihe powder produced a frightful explosion, hut did little damage. Nearby build ings were undamaged. Timber Carnival Dated At Albany ALBANY. Ore.. June 20 (Spec iall World championship titles fame, and $3,000 in cash and prizes will be at stake here in the sixth annual running of the thrilling and spectacular logging events that make up the core of the Timber carnival, July 2-3-4. Wirn interest of Pacific North west loggers at the highest level in the history of the show, entries are being received daily from Cal ifornia, Washington and Oregon logging camps, and men from the liaikie Bros. Logging Co.. Ltd.. Campbell River, B.C., have also signed up. the following schedule of awards has been anounced: World cham pionship speed climbing, first place, $225; second, $100; third, $50; fourth, $25. Fifth and sixth places in all events will be mer chandise awards, which this year include power saw and other log gers equipment and clothing. World championship topping, topping, $225, $100. $50. $25. World championship bucking, $225, $100, $50, $25. World championship log chopping, $125, $50, $30, $20. North west championship log rolling, $225, $100, $50, $25. Jousting, $15 cash prize each day. Rotating trophies that must be won three times in succession for permanent possession will con tinue to circulate as in the past, and smaller permanent trophies will be awarded also to first place winners. All prizes are awarded on the final day of the contests, July 4, by the Timber Carnival queen. Shriners Resourceful In Meeting Strike Handicap LOS ANGELES, June 20. -P) Shriners have their own ways of meeung i.os Angeles' transit strike. The 200.000 nobles convening here for the national shrine con vention this week have brought along: Two hundred forty-three horses, stabled in a huge tent city on a downtown circus ground. A dogsled, on wheels, from the Anchorage. Alaska shrine. And six( count 'em, six camels. Bellamy Seals, Zor Temple, Madi son, Wis., has the chores of look ing after the humped and hairy beasts brought here to highlight shrine activities. He watches them almost constantly. "You have to." says Seals. "If you don't, they'll spit on you. But I'm awfully fond of them anyway." Separate Peace Treaty With Japan Urged On U. S. LOS ANGELES, June 20. -. A separate peace treaty with ihe United States "Russia has no intention of signing one" was urged today by I'kio Ozaki. 92. Japanese elder statesman who has spent the past month in Washing ton. "Russia still holds 400.000 Japa nese prisoners." Ozaki said as he boarded a Pan American clipper for Honolulu and home. "It would be foolish to expect that she would ever sign a peace treaty." Ozaki. when mavor of Tokvo, presented Washington's famed cherry trees to the national capi tal. Youths 'Swipe' Poor Auto; Result: They're In Jail ! ,...., , I ANCOU F.R. Wash.. June 20 ! -T'0 youths were in jail i here '"d'Y because they didn't pick out a good enough car from me meet car lo. Police said Pete Mscichowski, 20. and a younger boy started to steal a car from the used car lot I c,r crashed into a cleaning shop and set off a burglar alarm. Officers arrived while the boys were Kill wondering what hap pened. Slschichowski was char ed with attempted auto theft. The yminger boy was held for inves tigation. Wonders Of Science Big Aid In Rehabilitating Cripples By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AMoeUtfd PrM! Selene Reporter NEW YORK, i.i For the first time in my life I have seen a man in a wheel chair .who made me forget the chair. I forgot as I walked beside him, for two hours and nearly a mile, in the veterans administratis,! hospital, the Bronx. All that time he sat, and much of it he wheeled. But what hs said about the new medical ideas that are changing 'cripples into men able to work so fascinated me that I had the illusion of walking along side a bronzed, six-foot pioneer. This is six feet plus. He is bron zed. He is a pioneer. But five years ago he became a cripple, victim of a German bull during th Battle of the Bulge. His spine was hit and he was paralyzed from the waist down. Named By Truman He is Dr. Arthur S. Abramson, 38, chief of the physical medicine rehabilitation service at this hos pital and one of the two physi cians whom President Truman ap pointed on June S on a committee to review the Veterans Administra tion hospitalization program, with special attention to paraplegics and amputees. Dr. Abramson is a para plegic. At first he did not want to see me. He asked me to talk with Dr. Howard Rusk, New York, the other physician on the committee and its chairman. Dr. Rusk said: "Abramson is doing a terrific job. See him." Dr. Abramson took me on the rounds, through corridors, clinics, research rooms, and work rooms devoted to projects, ranging from sticking type to art. I saw para plegics, some flat and still help less, other up in chairs, learning good jobs. Once Dr. Abramson stopped his chair in a corridor to speak to a tall, handsome Negro GI, on crutches, but nearly straight as an arrow. Arthritis And Polio This man had arthritis in his up per body, and polio in his lower half. The arthritis was military, entitling him to hospital care. The polio was not so entitled, but the new treatments do equally well for both ailments. In fact for all kinds of cripple's. I saw arthritcs, apastics, multi ple sclerosis, amputees, a blind man and six other kinds of crip pling. There was one roomful all intently at work. These all were men whose despair a short time previously had made them mental cases. Wherever they were, what ever they were doing, no matter how flat they were, these men all smiled. About 1200 men receive about 30.000 treatments monthly. The par aplegics average about 50 of the 1200. Although the new idea stem med from the desperate plight of paraplegics, it will work for every one. What happened to Dr. Abram son outlines the story. After a year at re-learning how to care for himself, he went to one of the veterans medical chiefs and said: "I want work . . . what can I said: , "I want work , , . what can I do?" "Whatever you want." Hard To Chooso These three words are the key The brutal fact is that the cripple cannot choose just anything. He has to learn what he can want. Dr. Abramson had been a suc cessful orthopedic surgeon, a de votee of squash, tennis, golf and horseback riding. None of these pastimes would ever be possible again for him. He chose physical therapy and rehabilitation. Then this physician, who had once done five years work in -hospitals in qualifying for orthopedic surgery, went back to a hospital as a re sident to start over again. "We are dealing with philosophy about as much as medicine," he said, "as an example, some per sons with heart attacks become cardiac cripples. The trouble is not so much with their hearts, their minds are in bad shape. "Our cripples have a similar problem. They have to learn to accept themselves as they are, and I then to learn that they are capable of a lot more than they thought6 they could do. Zone of the philosophical pro blems is how to get at them. Their interest has to be stirred. We are not a nation of lotus eaters and we can't improve by laziness. The American characteristic is pro ductiveness. That is what we ap peal to. We teach them to care for themselves, and we teach them jobs." 4 New Note Issue To Be Offered By Government WASHINGTON. June ZO.-i.Vi The treasury announced it will open books Wednesday for sub scription to a new 13-month note issue it is offering in exchange for 12-month debt certificates ma turing July 1. The maturing i.ssue totals $5. 601,025.000. Both it and the new note offer bear 1" percent in terest. The largest business firm in this country in the early 18O0s was the American Fur Company, founded by John Jacob Astor. Always Treat a Rumor Like a Check, Be Sure It's Genuine Before You Endorse It T-y ., 1? -iiiis fioE! Jlie Cliapel tlie oJ?J Roseburg Ook and Kant Strett Funerols MacArthur Urges U. S. Assistance To Formosa (Br the Associated Presil General Douelas MacArthur was reported today to have urged prompt American materiel assis tance to Formosa in high level military talks in Tokyo. The commander of United States forces in the far east un folded his plans to defense Secre tary Louis Johnson and General Omar N. Bradley. The military leaders were said to have discussed the possibility of an early separate peace treaty with Japan and the need for re taining American bases there. MacArthur reportedly descnoed the defense position in the Communist-threatened orient as seri ous but not hopeless. Formosa s tall to tne imnese Communists would be a serious threat to the U. S. pacific's de fense line which runs from .he Aleutians through Japan and Oki nawa to the Philippines. It could be outflanked if the Reds were to sweep over all southeast Asia. Plane Wreckage Found In Alaskan Region FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 20 (,P The wreckage of a light plane wh.ch uisappeared last Nov 3 has been found 40 miles from nere. Ladd field authorities said the "lane was sighted Friday. A para rescue team dropped to the scene and cleared a space for a helicop ter to land. Whether the wrecked craft con tained the body of Lt. Alexander N. Murphy of Kansas City, Mo., the nilnt. was nnt known. The crash scene is in a heavilv wooded area 15 miles southeast of nearby Eielson field. INSANE ESCAPEE CAUGHT GRESHAM, June 20. UP) A dangerous inmate who escaped from the state hospital for the insane Wednesday was recaptured here Sunday without incident. City policeman Joseph Finiey came across Vernon Pollock, 38, in a railroad box car. Pollock still wore his hospital clothes. He of fered no resistance, and said he had been picking strawberries since his flight from Salem. He was turned over to state police. STRIKE SETTLED PORTLAND, June 20. (P) AFL laborers went back to work at six Portland sand and gravel firms Monday, ending a ten-day strike. They accepted a two-year run tract with employers, winning a wage increase of 10 cents hourly this year, 5 cents additional in 1951. That will boost minimums to $1.65 and $1.70 this year. PROWLER IN THE NIGHT ROCK ISLAND, III. (PI Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lcrch heard a prowler in the house. They looked, found nobody. Then, in the still of the night, came the soft sounds of feet stealing down the interior stairs. They searched again, but in vain. An hour later there was a noise and a dim figure at the back door. Police were called. The cap tured the marauder. It was a rac coon. The radio amateur must have a general knowledge of radio prin ciples to pass an examination for a federal license. -INSURANCE-AUTO LIFE AUTO FIRi. State Farm Mutual Insurance O. L. "-it S. C. Compbell P. O. Box 489 Phone 288 Ufi W. Cass. Over Dnuelas County Bank MOWER REPAIRS Case Minneapolis-Moline John Deere McCormick Deering Dain Adriance And Many Others Cutter Repairs for Most Mowers HAY TOOLS Tractor Mowers, Hay Forks, Pulleys, Hoists, Hay Carriers, Track, Cable & Rope BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 98 Located W. Washington St. and S. P. R. R. Tracks Funeral Home Rostburg. Oregon Tel. 600 Ambulance Service LETTERS to the Editor 'Disaster Editorial Draws Appreciation ROSEBURG Your editorial of June 15, "Near Disaster, aptly covered a situation which was ex plosive in nature. We of the Doug las Forest Protective association wish to thank you for your excel lent editorial, which brought to the attention of the public the extreme seriousness of the situation we have just experienced. Only through the excellent co operation received from logging op erators, milt men, n-itmi, me News-Review, supply-houses, as well as many other solid citizens in the area, were we able to cope with the fires we had. Conditions were very hazardous, due primar ily to climatic conditions catching us with our guard down at a time normally not dangerous. Those of us close to the situation will seldom be more thankful for a rain than we were for the fire-quencher, we had last week. Since the recent outbreak, we have built our organization to near ly 60 percent of full summer com plement. We now have our strate gic lookouts manned and have men at all our fire suppression camps. Maintenance work is going ahead as rapidly as possible on trails, telephone lines and protection roads. We hope that the early outbreak is not a preview of events to fol low. However, if it is, we will be preapred to do our best. Douglas t' county is undergoing a vast trans- ' formation in that the fire hazard is increasing by multiples each year. This increase must be countered by increased vigilance by all per sons concerned if we are to pre vent "Disaster." FRED L. SOUTHWICK District Fire Warden Roseburg, Ore. Bicyclist, 65, Charged With Drunken Driving I WILMINGTON, O., June 20. (tT) The bicycle he was passing zigged when it should have jag ged, so he drove his car into a ditch, a Georgia motorist told the highway patrol yesterday. As a result, Kenneth Bosire, 65-year-old cyclist of nearby Blan Chester, is in city jail here facing a charge of drunken driving on a bicycle. NOMINATION IN SENATE A postmaster nomination for Clinton E. Atherton of Canyonville, replacing M. L. Elliott, resigned, has been sent to the Senate by President Truman, the Associated Press reported today. News-Review classified ads bring results. Phone 100. 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