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SECTION TWO Established 1873 ROSEBURG. ORECON THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1950 2M.50 t & vCV-, vj,V:VL ' 1. T-l. S III PRODUCE DISPLAYS they are colorful. George Kirkpatrick lovingly handles (he sweet pota toes in the produce rack at Safeway. If he lived in the Old South he'd probably have turkey and sweet potatoes for Christmas dinner. Living in Oregon, as he does, likely he'll have turkey and sweet potatoes. (By Paul Jenkins). Soviet Spending Billions To Boost Strength Of Navy LONDON UP Jane'8 fight ing ships the world's bible of naval intelligence said today Russia is building a navy "already far in excess of the normal re quirements of defense." The new edition of the yearbook said Russian navy estimates for the year 1950-51 are 15,100,000,000 rubles, equivalent to $3,850,000,000 compared with the I). S. naval ap propriation of $4,168,000,000 for the same period. The yearbook also noted that last February a Soviet navy ministry was created, independent of, the armed forces. Jane's said there are reports the DON'T LET EVERYBODY ZsAv WITH YOUR FORD ENGINE! Knowing where to look for trouble and how to correct H simply " and economically is mighty important. Our service experts have had special fac tory training in engine mainte nance. You can depend on their knowledge and advice. Drive in today for a quick analysis. SPECIAL TESTING EQUIPMENT HELPS TO DIAGNOSE TROUBLE LOCKWOOD MOTORS, Inc. Rose and Oak Phone 1865 i Soviets have launched two 35.000 j to 37,000-ton battleships with tow j ers for firing guided missiles and I are constructing a third one, j The yearbook said 350 to 370 nus.MHii ftuuiuai iiit-s are urut-veu already in service with 120 more in the works. It added that the Soviets have, or soon will have, 14 heavy cruisers ot the 9.500-ton Kirov type, plus two ex-German cruisers of the 15,200-ton Polrava class. "It is also believed," Jane'ssaid, "that the Russians are concen trating heavily on large destroyers or ocean-going torpedo boits ap proaching destroyer size in the Far East, 36 in the north and eight each in the Baltic and Black seas." "The capacity of Soviet ship building, now largely under the supervision of German specialists, bolstered by foreign labor, is re ported to be twice that of 10 years ago," it said. Rumors of the existence of the new battleships have been trickling out of Sweden and Finland for the past year. They are reported to be from 800 to 900 feet long, carrying six 16-inch guns mounted in triple turrets and two towers fur. guided missiles. French Forces Abandon Indochina Defense Post HANOI, Vietnam, Indochina (P) The French disclosed Wednes day the abandonment of- Dinhlap, the western anchor of 100-mile long defense line originally intended to guard Hanoi and the Red river delta against a Victminh invasion from the North. A French military spokesman said the Dinhlap garrison, made up of several companies of Foreign Legionnaires, withdrew from the town Tuesday without interfenence French army headquarters i n Saigon announced the troops pulled back to a fortified position about four miles southeast of Dinh lap. which lied on Colonial high way No. 4 near the border of Com munist China. Usually reliable sources in Saigon reported the action was taken in the face of strong enemy pressure. QuaaiM. S&vui CjaruLL&a THE GIFT EVERYONE ENJOYS t 1 L. ASIOKTIO CIIMM 1 L. NUT. C ) AND CHEWY. AND I LB. HOME fAIHIONID FAVCftITU ALL WITH CMMTMAI DECORATIONS. t.i. A LA. s mrq 241 rD Jackson inacit Defense Spending Program Gives Government Worry Over Likely Inflation Hike By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (API This is national thrift week. It is alia a week in which: 1. The government is shaping plans to spend $70 billion a year for defense, while worrying over how much of a kick that's going to add to inflation, thereby lowering the purchasing power of the dollar. 2. The Treasury reports that for the first full year since series E savings bonds went on sale in 1941, people are cashing in more old ones than they are buying new ones. 3. The Federal Reserve board chairman reports that "last year about one American family in three spent more than their income." 4. A number of discouraged Americans are asking: "The way things are going, is it worthwhile anymore to save?" Thomas B. McCabe, chairman of i the Federal Reserve board, says it is. "Everyone knows that inflation is a threat t) a savings program," loose. Henry H. Heimann, execu tive manager of the National As- snriatinn nf Credit Men. fpar the he concedes "but savings is a pow- ( ,h , d , efful an.ido te for inflation I we ,roK e savs.'..wih binions of doI. w inn lu csiairc iiic iiunui ui nuta tion, the answer is to save more not less. It is still smart to be thrifty. Money Trend Reversed There is a certain irony in the fact that savings bonds, bought un der patriotic urgings- in the last war, are hein; cashed in to the embarrassment of a Treasury pre paring for the threat of another war. So far this year the Treasury has had to redeem nearly $3.4 bil lion of series E bonds, or $178 mil lion more than it has sold in 1950. Next year $11 billion will be 10 years old and ready to be re deemed. There will be outstand ing $33.4 billion more that could be presented to the Treasury. Dr. Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana university, anc. chair man of the National Thrift com mittee, warns: "If these savings are to be spent in a market that is already short on the supply side, the bidding up of prices will as sume major proportions." Control Plans Ftartd The public has other billions in purchasing power it could turn lars accumulated in the hands of the consuming public, any controls or regulations limiting civilian pro duction and buying will merely defer inflation or cause a wild scramble for the limited supply of goods. Treasury Secretary Snyder plugs steadily for "voluntary individual savings." The Teasury is warming up a drive to induce people to buy more savings bonds and to hold onto their old ones probably b y ottering to continue paying inter est on bonds held after the redemp tion date. Voluntary savings include more than just beying government bonds, of course. Some people are putting their money into corporate securities; some into real estate; some into insurance sales this year were at a record high; some into the various forms of bank ac counts and savings institutions. ' There are plenty of Americans left, apparently, who still believe in thrift Americans who remember the old fable about the ant and the grasshopper when the wintry blasts sel in. Easter On March 25, 1951, Will Be Earliest Until 2008 CHICAGO (AP) If for no other reason, the year 1951 will be distinguished by at least one thing for sure: It's Easter on March 25 will be the earliest observance of the holiday in the second half of the 20th century. The world will have to wait un til the year .2008 to celebrate it earlier. That year it will be on March 23, according to computa tions at the Adlcr planetarium and Astronomical museum, Chicago. The last time it was on March 23 was in 1913. Although Easter has come to be associated with bunnies, colored eggs and spring fashions, it pri marily is a religious feast day. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ on, the third day after Calvary. As a religious feast it is governed by the ecclesiastical cal endar and is movable, unlike Christmas which always falls on Dec. 25. Easter can be as early as March 22 and as late as April 25, a varia tion of 35 days. The last time it was on March 22 was in 1818. It nrxt will be that early in 2285. It fell on April 25 in 1943; it wili not do so again until 2038. The method of fixing the time of Faster is complicated and dates back to 325 A. D. In that year the council of the Christian churches met at Nicaea (Nice) in Asia Minor. Besides setting forth the Nicene creed, a summary of the belief in the divinity of Christ, the councilors decided that Easter should be the fust Sunday after the Paschal full moon which oc curs upon, or next after, March 21, the vernal equinox. Travel underlay this decision. In early times Easier Wis a day of great celeuration in big cities and pilgrims journeyed on foot or in crude transports to take part. They needed moonlight to help them find their way at night, so the reckon ing of the Easier date was worked out for their convenience. If the Paschal full moon falls on a Sunday, Easter is observed the following Sunday. The Paschal full moon is the 14th day of a lunar month reckoned according to an ancient ecclestiastical computalinn and not the real, or astronomical full moon. The 20th century had an earlier Piaster twice before. In addition to March 23 in 1913. it fell on March 24 in 1940. It will be on March 23 again in 2O08 and March 24 in 2391. A Small mf.,-.. t. ... , -", "l" j-ijpe snow pow has recently appeared for use with a garden tractor. of our , : , K POKE FATHERS r j ? ft 1 ft I ' ,A TPT l'VnfTBiMMi .l) t Florida Racket Profits Revealed At Crime Probe CHICAGO - W- AU.S. senate crime investigating committee was told that after Fuller Warren was elected governor of Florida in Nov ember, 1948, the word was passed all over Florida that "the mob had gotten control" of state gambling. The testimony wa given by Leo Joseph Carroll of Miami, a former salesman for Interstate News Ser vice. In Tallahassee, Fla., Governor Warren declined comment on Car roll's testimony. Carroll said it was all "gossip and rumor" but that the attitude nf his employers - changed and "everything became mysterious." He said Interstate had been a friendly organization before." The investigation brought out that two former Capone gangsters, as partners in a gambling enter prise, took in ?278,i7 in 1949: They were identified at opening hearing as Tony Accardo and Jack Guzik, both fugitives from com mittee subpoenas. Their 1949 fed eral income tax return showed, in vestigators said, a net profit of $278,667 from the policy wheel or numbers racket. Committee investigators said the figure represented only a small fraction of their income as they also reap profits out of handbooks, slot machines, race wire services and other sources. flryffltii'a NalMl Commftftt, fat, Ntw York) CHRISTMAS POSTER This Is the colorful Christmas poster painted for the Army and the Air Force by artist Howard Chandler Christy. The original artwork was done in 1942, and was loaned to the services for their use at this time. The poster is being dis played by recruiting stations the country over. Chicago Racket On Policy Wheels . Told To Probers CHICAGO (.T) Operations of Chicago's biggest policy wheels, ! which each year take an estimated j $60,000,000 in bets ranging upward I from a dime, were told to the U.S. Senate Crime committee Tuesday. The huge income and big pro-1 fits, from the wheels mimoers ! racket were disclosed as com-1 miltee investigators questioned two of the so-called policy kings of the south side Negro district. Both men Edward P. Joros, 53, and Theodore Hoc were seized by state's attorney's police after their testimony. Slate's attorney John S. Boyle early today ordered the two locked up pending filing of gambling charges. He said he planned to present the case to the grand jury in January. Jones and Roe are partners in the Main-Idaho-Ohio wheel, one of the cily's biggest. There are six or seven wheels of comparable size and a dozen or so smaller ones, Hoe told the committee. He said his wheel takes in about . $24,000 on two drawings a day, a total of $8,760,000 a year. Jones said he is a one-fifth part- j ner in the wheel, "participating in the profits," His profits in U4H, he said, were $200,000. Other part ners are his mother, a brother. Roe and Cliff Davis. Jones, a for mer railroad porter who now oper ates an automobile agency in Mex ico t il y, told how he and his two brothers started a policy wheel some 20 years ago. Ho served 22 months in the federal prison at Terie Haute, Iud., on conviction in 1941 of evading $198,786 in taxes on his 1938 income. In earlier testimony at the com mittee's sessions, it was brought out that Edward McBride, a uni versity of Miami law student who owns a nationwide racing service, netted a profit ot more than $600, 000 last year. The committee was told that Mc Bride's profit was the share of the tross income of $2,353,000 of Con tinental Press. The testimony was by McBride's uncle, Thomas . F. 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