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ROSEBURG. ORECON THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1950
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Kelly, general manager, who said
be gets $400 a week for his services
and also got more than $100,000 in a
share of the 1949 profits.
The Continental maintains a wire
service, furnishing racing informa
tion to racing publishers and vari
ous distributors.
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