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4 Tha New-Review, Roteburg, Or Thurt., July 27, 1950 Cop Uses Psychology To Nob Two Bad Boys SPOKANE UP) Deleave V. M. Morgan found a quick tolution to a burglary with the help of the culpriu. Morgan wai taking the report of a burglary when he saw two In dian youngster! walking back and forth in tront of the store. The police car parked at the curb was taking up all their attention. Acting on a hunch, be confronted them with, "Now boys, you know youve done something wrong." The boys brothers aged seven and nine let loose a stream of tears and howled in unison, "We won't do it again." Morgan recovered the loot which included a can of snuff, two pipes, $2 and some candy. Down at juvenile headquarters they were in for punishment prob ably a severe lecture. FOR . a . SERVICE . , . EXPERIENCE... CO-OPERATION . . . Investic ' ; the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bonk. Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUN TY All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. PublUhed Daily Exctpt Sunday by tho Nowi-Rtvlaw Company, Inc. IiUrii lUsa lltr Mr 1. IKI. Ika fait attlca l ....... (a((klr(i ,,,, ..., mi at Mirck t, 1171 CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Manag.r Mombor tho Auoclatod Preii, Oregon Nowspapor Publiihori Allocation, tho Audit 6ur.au of Circulation! BraalaJ T WHT-HOLLIDAI CO, INO., IIIB la Haw fark, Ckl.afa, . roioliU. La. Ancalaa. l.allla. r.rll.a.. II. L.ala OBSCIIFTION (ATE-I Oraf.n-Bj Hall 1" Mr II all " aamha U.M. Br Cllr C.rrur far T..r HI" l Jaal, laai i ... ' f"', ... m.nlk ll.fi o.t.1.. Or.ia.-B, ai.U-Pai ,a.i I ... alt taalaa M.U. lara. ai.alaa tS.lt. HELP FIGHT FIRES In The Driver's Seat By Charles V. Stanton What would you do if you naw a forest fire just getting started? We well recall the first time we had to answer that question with action. Fishing in high country following an electrical storm, we discovered a "sleeper" fire starting to awaken. Lightning had set fire to a partly buried log. Sparks from the log had ignited nearby grass and litter. The fire was .mst getting a start. Had we waited to get to a telephone, the fire would have rached reproduction timber and raged into nearby virgin forest. : We had no tools or equipment with which to fight the blaze, but we did have a felt fishing hat. Dashing frantically back and forth between a nearby stream and the fire, carrying a hatful of water on each trip, we succeeded after a few minutes of hard work in stopping the spread of the fire on its outer perimeter and then stomped out the smoldering embers. We dampened the spark-throwing log, and scooped up loose sand and dirt to cover partially the exposed end. After resting long enough to get the tremble out of our knees and regain our breath, we hurried back to our -,1 J.nua (a tlla tiaaTOBf fWoct mnCTPI AtAt.l'nn. RHVCrH.1 I.. Ill H I III 111 U IV W UIO i I V. 1 1 ..... miles away. A fireman took the blaze while on the dead run, garnering up lire iigiumg tools. Prepared for action, he took off over rough roads at the highest speed his car would permit. Later, he looked us up at our camp with a word of thanks and reported that the smoldering log was just about ready to blaze again when he arrived on the scene. Fire Reporting Instructions Given Not many people ever have the experience of arriving at the scene of a fire in time to stop it by Hingle handed action. Usually the rapid spread of a blaze requires work by experienced fire fighters equipped with proper tools and machinery. The public CAN help most materially, how ever, by reporting fires promptly. Every minute gained in fighting a fire means that it can be controlled more easily. Urging public assistance, the Keep Oregon Green as sociation has issued a bulletin entitled "How To Report A Forest Fire." Here is the simple set of instructions every citizen is urged to follow: Go to tho ntorott t.lophon.. Toll tho oporator you with to report a forett firo. Sho will conntct you with tht noarttt - fira wardon or rang.r. ' v Toll tho tiro rardan tho approximato location of tha flra. Oiva i.Jrret- landmark!, crottroadt or Identifying aidt to htlp orient tho fira. Do not report tho flra if men already are fighting It. e ( Telephone operator! era urged to cooperate and tava tha tima of firo headquarters dilpatchera by advising tha ' citiien if tha fir already hot boon reported. We would like to add another suggestion : As you drive along highways, county or forest roads, observe locations of ranger and guard stations. They usually are' plainly marked. On two occasions we have spotted new forest fires and, having recalled that we had passed a guard station only a few miles back, turned around and carried word t to the firefighters in less time than it would have taken to find a .telephone, . Here in Douglas county it is not far between saw mills. If you havd seen no ranger or guard station, give word of a new fire at the first sawmill you reach. Logging and mill crews are cooperating in fire fighting. in The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from Page One) flallands TO PUSAN. From Kwan gju, l'usan is only 120 air miles distant. Pusan is the big port we are using to supply our whole Kor ean campaign. IP THE REDS SHOULD BOOM EASTWARD FROM KWANC..IU AND TAKE PUSAN, OUR WHOLE EFFORT IN KOREA WOULD BE ENCIRCLED AND TRAPPED. I think It probably won't get that bad. I certainly HOPE it won't get that bad. Hut the Communists have us heavily outnumbered, and the long history of war tells us that tho side with the most men and tho most weapons on the bat tlefield and Inimmediate reserve usually wins the battle. MEANWHILE In Washington "Members of Congress called to day on top military leaders for an appraisal of the nation's fighting readiness AND FOR AN AC COUNTING OF THE BILLIONS SPENT ON DEFENSE SINCE 1947. "Chairman Vinson of the House Armed services committee says in advance of the Inquiry his commit tee is launching that the big qurs tion the Pentagon planners will be asked is: "WHAT HAVE THE ARMED FORCES TO SHOW FOR THE BILLION DOLLARS THEY HAVE BEEN ALI.OTED IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS." I Congress, badly scared, along ' Reds Make Grandiose Gesture Against Allies BERLIN. (.V) -The Russian backed East German Communists have proclaimed a grandiose pro gi m for all Germany which in cluded the "liberation' of Allied occupied West Germany. The "liberation" theme was tak en up by the Red armys official new. i pcr here, Tacglichc Rund schau, Tne Rundschau said west Ger many must be purged of west ern iiiflu-nre to prevent its being used as a "base for western ag gression" and also to free the West Germans from the "yokd of capi. lalism.' But the Communists, though talk ' r. - , - - instructions as to location of JENKINS. .with the rest of us, Is in a mood I of righeous wrath. It is putting ! the bee on the military force. It wants to know what they have done with all the gun money that Con gress has given them. Well, we'd all like to know that. I But I think Congress ought to be asked to answer some questions. Here is one example: Why, with the menace of Rus sia hanging over us like a hlnck cloud over all these years, have you been dancing merrily down the primrose path that leads to where we are now? Why have you been voting us all happily rich without work when you ought lo have been getting us ready for war? Forty-eight billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, but after all a dollar is worth only half as much as it was at the cud of the war AND BEFORE THE BIG INFLA TION THAT CONGRESS A 11 FIT TED BY THE KIND OF LAWS IT HAS PASSED. I. will do us no good, of course, to get into a wrangle here at home over who got us into the mess we're in. WE'RE IN IT. We'll have to fight our way out of it. War is one thing you' cant boondoggle your way out of. And we have a war on our hands. What we need first of all Is to REALIZE that fact. ing big. said nothing about mill- 1 tary "liberation" to oust the west ern occupation armies. They apparently were driving for . new tnrms of political agitation to sabotage western occupation poli cies and revive Communism's bro- i ken-down fortunes in West Ger many, where the Reels have slump ed with each succeeding election. These schemes were haiched during the rerrnlly concluded an nual convention of the Russian rone's Socialist unity (Communist) parly here Among the foreign guests at this convention were numerous leaders I of the Cominform. ' s We Utile dreamed last Friday morning, when E. J. remarked he must get an electrician lo fix the pump, thnt said electrician would be a nephew from the Rio Grande valley! I ,was letting my housework "keep" while I tried to be of use and out over the cement block wall at the spring house. 1 could hand things and save E. J. climbing in so much. I came back from the mailbox waving an envelope ad dressed to Chester Martin! "I guess Chet will be here any min ute," I said happily. "Good!" said E. J. and added with a grin, "He'll fix the pump They don't come any better than Warrens kids!" (And how pleased Chet was to grab a wrench, turn this or that, and presto that was it!) When the mail came, the pump was setting on the ground; still no water in our pipes. But by the time our dear lad's cheerful grin and soft Texan drawl greeted us, E. J. had managed to get the pump bark, alone, and there was water once more in the pipes. How good it seemed to visit. Three years since we had seen him. America Needs Quality For Victory; Quantity Is No Longer Sufficient BY BRUCE BIOSSAT American troops in Korea are not battle-hardened veterans. They're green soldiers struggling against great numerical odds with insuf ficient and ineffective weapons. These men were garrison troops in occupied Japan, not even thoroughly trained for combat. Despite these extreme handicaps, they are inflicting heavy losses on the enemy in an often valiant rear guard action. The hard truth Is, however, that the Korean war imposed such dis advantages upon them because the U.S. Army is almost totally lack ing in combat efectives fit for 1950 warfare. Taking assurances from comfortable prophecies that Russia couldn't fight a war until at least 1952, we at home shrugged off the task of building a real de fense. There's another unpleasant fact we must digest: even if we had equal numbers and equal equip ment, that would be no guarantee of victory. Writing in die Saturday Evening Post, Hanson Baldwin, New York Times military expert, declares we won World War II not because we had the best soldiers in the world but because, with our allies and our huge industrial output, we mounted the biggest military ma chine. Baldwin says: "Given equal armament and equal numbers, the enemy usually won. Our victories were fashioned out of overwhelming superiority in weight of metal ami in numbers.'' To be sure, he adds, we had some crack fighting units, some good leaders and some fine equip ment. On the sea ami in the air. we gained a few key triumphs over stronger enemy forces. But gen erally, says Baldwin, our land forces didn't measure up in basic fighting quality. "Captured enemy intelligence documents repeatedly mention the lark of aggressiveness of the Am erican infantry," he writes. "Our own train. ng program constantly Irird lo step up the battlefield ini- liative of our troops. Baldwin also sserts that our generalship, though usually good. 1 s,,, insurance commissioner, seldom merited the label "best." ; The governors action followed a And he runs through a long rata- recommendation from Ihe Ada logue of weapons to show we fre- countv grand jurv that Hubbard quentlv fell short of the enemy and ,e dismissed "to protect the people our allies in the quality of our1 of the slate and the insuring pub arms. Moreover, he insists We still - lie." lag in such vital categories as in its report, the grand jury tanks, tactical aircraft, artillery said in part rockets. anti-aircraP and self-pro- i "We conclude that the said de pclled guns, and new aircraft car-1 part mem of insurance is in a cha ners. i otic condition, and that the corn- But against all the deficiencies j missioner of said department is not of men and equipment. Baldwin 1 qualified to conduct the business balances these military virtues: I imposed upon him hv the laws of "Intelligence and Initiative were ' the ttatt of Idaho."' By Viaktutt S. Vm-tinl Friends were taking him with them on a six weeks' trip. After we met them it din't seem so extraordi nary that they had driven 1400 miles to "pick him up!" They would and think nothing of it! Chet is one of these people who is always lending a hand, always doing the little somethig extra that is so natural for him. The whole family is like that. So when the Brownlees from Illinois needed a special light in their big trailer they spend the winters in Allen,' Texas they ordered it from our brothers shop. Chet happened to draw the installation order that day. As the Brownlees told it: "He was such a pleasant chap. We got to talk about fishing. He said he'd bring us some fish, but we didn't think much about it. Then one night, here he came, with some dandy fish . . . Well, next thing we knew we were visiting out at their place ... We went fishing together. And when we planned this trip we thought we'd enjoy having him with us. So we went back down to Texas again and picked him up instead of going directly from Little York (Illinois) to California." Ameriran strong points ... In general education, mechanical ap titude, technical skills and factory outpput, we were greatly super ior. Too, he says, we had some of the best equipment in every field, generally where commercial use aided technical advances. And in construction, engineering and sup ply, "our services wrought minor miracles." These virtues suggest why our soldiers may not be the world's best. The qualities they do have are those exalted and developed by a peace-loving people. Ours is not a military civilization dedicat ed to the soldier, as was the case in Germany and Japan. If war came to our soil, if our freedom were directly threatened, there's little doubt how we would fight. What we must realize is that wilh Russia grasping for power everywhere, American soil is in deed menaced by every Soviet breach of the peace. For today we are the real enemy the only en emy wilh strength. Against colossal Russia, numbers and material substance would not necessarily be on our side. To he ready for such an adversary, we must have both quality and quanti ty in men and arms. The higher virtues of a peace-loving people are not enough in this crisis. Idaho Insurance Head Dismissed By Governor RnisK anrim- r Rnim rfi.mii i.n... 11..1.1.....1 .1 Camp Fire Girls Have Jolly Week At Tyee Outing Camp Fire Girls' youngest, the Bluebirds, descended into Camp Tyee Sunday, 77 strong, for their week of outdoor living. The cabins were filled to the brim with the eight to nine-year-olds who have six days of varied activities to keep litem occupied. The Camp Fire Girls, who com-i pleted their session of camping i Sunday, report an excellent time, j The theme for their session was ! Sky Gypsies and at the "takeoft." I Monday morning the early-morn-: risera were greeted with a nature hike. Later they signed for I classes and at the evening fire ! each cabin participated in the pro-1 gram with a skit. Backwards day, entitled "stunt flying," followed Tuesdy when the group was awakened by taps. Dur ing the day a representative from the forest ranger camp told about fire prevention and answered mail questions. Amphibious dy was Wednesday when the campers decended on the river with bars of soap. A carnival turned the camp into an I air of festivity that night and campers said, "for once money grew on trees." Entrance to the ' buoths was gained with myrtle leaves. Thursday the campers were all ! "on the beam" with short and over-! night flights (hikes). Those who! participated in the short flights en- i joyed a treasure hunt and sleep out on the playground area. Friday morning the overnighters i returned to camp with one cas ually. Caroline Jackson, daughter j of Mr. and Mrs. Elton Jackson, who had 22 bee slings. A "crash landing" on an Indian reservation brought all the campers out to a Red Wing banquet that night. All were gowned in impromptu In dian costumes and counselors pre sented an Indian pow-wow between banquet courses. Later a folk dance and night swim closed the day's schedule. Sky Gypsies came In for a "hap py landing" Saturday with the council fire at Council rock. Hon ors were awarded in the various crafts. Sunday morning opened wilh a vesper service followed by dinner and arrival of parents to bring Iheip girls home. Horse Races Are Dated At Yoncalla Sunday, July 30 A 3.10-yard straight away track for horse racing has been pre pared at the Yoncalla rodeo grounds for the opening race July 1 30, at 2 p.m. for quarter horses and saddle stock. The preliminary classification last Sunday drew a promising num ber of horses, and more are ex I pected to register during the week. I Persons wishing to enter either a ! quarter horse or a saddle horse. ! should contact Jug Vest at the j Congustn cale. Yoncalla. or Bob J Crawford. Crawford real estate, I Rice Hill, so their names will ap ; pear among the registrants. I Failure to enter the preliminary classification held Sunday, July 2.1, or to register 1 his week will not disqualify, but it will speed things along lo register early. Registra tions will also be received from 10 to 12 o'clock the morning of July .10 at the rodeo grounds, but 12 noon of that day is the deadline. No entry fee will be charged for this first race. All money re ceived for gate admission, above actual expenses incurred by the Lions club for this dav'i race. will be divided among the winners in the various classifications. ESTATE IN PROBATE County Judge D. N. Busenhark has issued an order appointing Dor is Mary Harwell administratrix of John Harris Harwell estate. The deceased died intestate April , 1950. Appraisers W. A. Thom as. Jack Cherry, and Albert Pel lard were also' appointed bv the l oroer. 9:30 A.M. JUST RIGHT FOR YOUR .. PLAYTIME OR FOR PICNICS This is your opportunity to get "Play Togs" at greatly reduced prices .We still have a big selection of sizes and styles. But come early to get your choice. Women's Short Slacks REDUCED 1 88 Size 10 to 16 Knee length, 7-oz. faded blue denim. Talon side fastener. One. button waist band. 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