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4 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Wed., Feb. 14. 1951 Shots Heard Round The World Capitalist's Death By Bullet Labeled Suicide Fulton Lsms Jr. Published Doily Eicapt Sunday by tht Newt-Review Company, Inc. EnUrcJ iitcontj Him mittrr May t, tl?o. at lh poul fflct Rofbat. Ortioa. under act ( Mnb St. I Ml 3 CHARLES V. STANTON EDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Monogtr Member of the Auociottd Prs, Oregon Nwipapr Publishers Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulations Btpreteaitd by WrtRT-HOLUMA V CO., INC., flicrt In Hfw Vark, Chtcfo. Kan PrtncUco. Lub Anjrtlita, Keattlc, l'trtlind, HI. Louis SUBSCRIPTION RATI- In Ortron Bv Mall Vr yur, IH.OO; lis mnnthi, 14 10; lhre oinntht IV 0. Br Nrwi-Krvlrw 'irrli I'rr vr, ll'i.mi (In d Tanoitl. leit than ad year, pr month, 11.00, OiHiltl Oregon Hill Tar yaaf, sa.00; alt month. 14151 ihrea month, 12.15. GOOD INSURANCE By CHARLES V. STANTON A national guardsman has a far better than average chance to survive military adion asserts Major General Thomas E. Rilca, adjutant general for the State of Oregon. Current recruiting drives by various branches of the armed services are using the survival argument to speed enlistments, says the general, who declares that the na tional guard has a decided edge in any such debate. General Rilea, we believe, has a strong argument one to be easily defended by the record. Oregon's gallant 41st division took part in some of the hardest fighting of the last war. It set a record never equalled by any army in world history when it maintained contact with the enemy for 75 days of continuous action and spent 85 continuous days in the combat area. No other troops in world history have been so long under sustained combat conditions. The 41st division was first in amphibious landings. It pioneered many new forms of fighting. It encountered the stiffest opposition. It received more decorations than any similar unit in the Pacific theater. Yet it had compara tively few casualties. The Roseburg company, for instance, wilh an enlisted strength of 126 men, lost only three men in action. Other companies had comparable records. War Correspondent Enthused We recall an "off-the-record" conversation with a press association correspondent during the early days of the U. S. come-back in the Pacific. He had accompanied the 41st di vision on some of its landings. He had previously watched action in the European theater. He was not permitted to write what he had seen, nor could he tell his experiences except to those sworn to secrecy. He told us how one out fit of nnother division had been torn to pieces in a landing, but how the 41st went into the same area, carefully hand ling its advance, wiping out every enemy position before moving forward, taking the objective without casualty. He was enthusiastic in his praise of teamwork and coordin ation. , Statistics show casualty rate in national guard units to be extremely low percentagewise. This condition i s achieved because men learn how to protect themselves are thoroughly trained both in defense and offense. Bullets Not Worst Killers Many people fail to realize that bullets from enemv weapons do not produce as many casualties as other causes. Inadequate training , in personal hygiene results in muth illness and many deaths.' Men are killed or wounded through lack of knowledge and familiarity with equipment. Carelessness costs as many lives as enemy action. Service in the national guard gives members knowledge of camp life, personal hygiene, use of weapons, exper ience with army vehicles and equipment. The men work to gether, learn coordination and teamwork' and gain theoret ical combat techniques in armory drills and periodic en campments. When eventually called into service, guards men usually get as much or more federal training as en listees or draftees, and thus have the advantage of all the additional training they have previously obtained, coupled with ability in looking after themselves and getting along with others. Combat records show that casualties are most numer ous during the first few days of action. Within a very short time men become veterans. After they learn meth ods of protection, combat procedure, defensive techniques, etc., their chances for survival increase with each day's knowledge. National guardsmen already are well advanced in the art of warfare before entering combat. Thus, though exposed to risk, they have learned how to survive. Membership in the Oregon national guard would seem to us to be mighty good insurance for the young man expecting military service. ?AicimiA!6 When I heard that the children of Oregon were to vote by mail for the songs they wished to hear on the all-request program on their School of the Air activity, I made a point of finding out what their ten favorite songs would be. May be you have heard; if not, here they are: First, way out in front of all the songs in this world which the children might have chosen was you probably guessed it that lovely ditty, The Thing. The di rector was a good sport. She kept her word, led off wilh The Thin ;, the oilier nine were: Oh, What! a Beautiful Morning, Four-leafed ' Clover, The itarbnr Lights, Tea I for Two, Tennessee Waltz, Dear 'Hearts 'and Hemic People, Bullous and Hows, The lialway Piper ! oh, oh! can't I count? j Well, I must have left out one, i and I can't think which one it was. j Anyway you have the general idea. ' . . . Children! Unpredictable, and such fun lo work with, even when' they are most difficult, if you know i what 1 mean. Wo remember the) difficulties, and laugh at them la- j tor, if we cant manage it at the! time. i A friend who would have been so lovely with children said to me j once: "I'm glad i m-ver n ut any j children. Now I can't suffer the agony of losing one." One of the most extraordinary things I ever heard said. Any mother who mift depend iiMn treasured memories is surely grateful for the precious years given ncr. j Sometimes you hear it said, "I wish we had had children. .."II can't understand why childless ! SAW' c couples cannot adopt a child who needs their love and care. "But you never know how an adopted child will turn out!" Another pe culiar idea. Does anyone know how any child is ';oinf! to turn out? Isn't it a matter of having faith, giving all we can in the wisest way we know and then leaving the rest to tlod? The roof may seem to bounce, the noise may he well-nigh unbear able when the gang congregates at your house, clothes are outgrown so dismayingly fast, every son of adult plan is knocked awry by somethin'! or other connected witii the children, and there's no such things asleeping after junior's eyes pop ooen. even so, chiltlren. Cod bless 'em. are our hope for the future, and our incentive to keep this world free for them. Portland Tot Confirmed User Of Tobacco PORTLAND (.VI -F.lizabeth Queliilio, Portland, is a confirmed tobacco user at the age of less than 4 years. Not only does she smoke cigars, cigarcls and a pipe, but chews tobacco as well. Her father. P. 7.. Queliilio. gro cery store operator, said his (laugh ter has apparently suffered no ill effects. He and the little girl's mother have tried to break her of the habit, but have had no suc cess, he said. She got the habit by raiding the tobacco counter at the store while no one was looking, Quetulio said. In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from page One) policy that can be as completely understood BY KVKKYBODY as the Monroe Doctrine was. I think something else is wrong wilh us. We haven't much confi dence in our leadership. Moisture is heavily involved in the news today. Up in northwest Washington and over the line in British Columbia there is far, far too much of it. Back in Columbia, Pa. (pop. 12,00(1) it's so scarce that people are ra tioned to a quart a day for drink ing purposes and persona! habits such as bathing and shaving are severely frowned on. The trouble in Pennsylvania is practically a dead ringer for what happened over in Paisley. Ice broke up in a stream and a jam formed. Polluted flood water flowed around the jam and got into Columbia's water works. They have water enough, but it isn't fit to use. - i From erudite Boston comes an other shivery suggestion. A chemist there says that m case of an A- bomb attack CANNED water will be the only safe( drink. He says he has invented a 'way to can water so it will keep for years and years and he adds that every city that wants to he on the safe side should can a lot of it and keep it in buried stockpiles. (The way po Continuous Use Weakens Punch Of Ani-Histamine Drugs, Physicians Declare NKW YORK AP Anti-histamine drugs lose some of their punch when you use them continuously, two physi cians reported. Resistance is built up by repeated use and they become a little less effective, Or. T. 1!. Dannenbcrg, of the Per manente foundation, Oakland, Calif., and Dr. S. M. Fein berg, of Northwestern university, told the American Acad emy ot Allergy. This resistance lasts about a week. If anti'liistamines are not taken for a time thev W'ill have llw,ir ,-i.,i-l ..rr.wtivr.'.nnuu u-hnn I started again. ! Such resistance happens wilh other drugs, and had been sus pected for the anti histamines. Drs. Daiincnberg and Keinbcrg dcnuinslraU'U it by objective tests One method was injectint: small I amounts oi Histamine under ttiei skin. The injeclions caiiot'd hives the sie depending upon t h c amount of histamine injected. Then the volunteers started tak ing nnti histamine, three times a day. Within to weeks and drugs were not so effective in counter acting the hives. The test was what happened to the size of the hives. Switching to another type of anti histamine did not help. The resist ance was to aim histamine. The fuiUing may apply to people I who take unti-histnmine regularly lo counteract an allergv, as a hay fever viclin seeking protection in the hay fever season. So far as these tests go. it doesn't apply lo any one taking antihistamine oc casionally. Oxygen Holdt Dangtr There cad' be danger in giving ! unharmed, oxygen to some people wilh severe ! He was Capt. Billv Means Oik bronchial asthma, said Drs. Irving ; land. Calif., who was riving a P-5t W. Schiller, William Franklin and Mustang from Moses Lake Wash Francis C. Lowell, of Boston uni-, to Ilayward, Calif., when it caught versity medical school, and Dr. ; fire. Henry D. Beale, of the Umvcirfiyl He dove through clouds, saw an of Pennsylvania ! emergency airfield on the rcser- The extra gcn, or too much ation, and ground-looped to a of it loo fast, may send them into j landing. The plane was badlv dam- coma, delirium, nervous upsets, or might even cause death, they said. The patients' trouble is that they cannot breathe out normally to get rid of carbon Uiox4 The gas builds tip and depressfrthe breath- JENKINS litical thinking has been running in recent years, i suppose somebody will now propose that the federal government should do all this for' us.) Another horrible thought: If the government starts building canned water stockpiles, do you reckon the price of water will go kiting skyward? ' Snow is a form of water, and snow gets into the news today in connection with the Shah of Persia's wedding his second, by the way. A soft and gentle mantle of it fell all over Iran, which is the modern name for what used to be Persia. Snow is white and white is the symbol of purity and good luck in Persia and so, the dispatches tell us, the "handsome young Shah waited happily in his palace to wed the lovely daughter of a Persian tribal leader." (Snow is not only white. It melts down into water, and in dry Persia water comes mighty handy.) Anyway, the news reflects in creasingly from day to day the ex treme importance of water in the modern world. It hasn't been long since we paid practically no atten tion whatever to it unless the creek got out of its banks and caused us trouble. Now we worry about wa ter day and night, in one way and another. Do you reckon the time will come when AIR will get scarce? ing center in (he brain. When this happens, other centers, the chemo receptors in the neck and chet, take over and demand oxygen, they keep the person breathing. (living oxygen builds up the oxy gen supply in the blood. But then the chemo-rcceptors, satisfied for oxygen, may quit their work. The amount of carbon dioxme in the blood builds up even more, with a still greater narcotic ctfect on the patient and a bodily change tcward acidosis. These changes can be harmful even though the patient looks pink and well. Such patients should be watched carefully and checked by blootf tests, and be given oxygen at- a much slower rate than normally, the physician said. They stressed that the number of asthmatics likely to be affected this way is smail. Pilot Escapes Uninjured In Fiery Bomber Dive KAI.AM ATH FALLS - (.V) An air force plane burst aflame 14.000 feet above the Chiloquin Indian reservation Saturday, but the pilot managed In iunn rimvn t An,u aged, but Means walked scathed. Ol'he Rio de la Plata estuary formed by the and Uruguay IQers. is the Parana Cities Of Oregon Ask Bigger Share Of Liquor Funds SALEM City officials told a ways and means legislative subcommittee they must have more slate liquor funds because to enforce liquor laws. the cities don't have enough money Morris Milbank, Grants Pass mayor and president of the League of Oregon Cities, supported the bill to give the cities about $850, 000 a year, or 10 percent of state liquor revenues. This would be 10 times as much money as the cities now get from liquor revenues. Milbank said that before prohi bition, cities got a lot of money by licensing saloons and other liquor outlets, But now practically all of this revenue goes to the state. Hc.said Grants Pass officers spend one-third of their time to handling liquor violations. Mayor Robert Thompson, Klam ath Falls, said his city might have to build a new jail because of the big increase in liquor law vio lations. The senate highway committee held a hearing on a bill to make logging truck trailers be equipped wilh mud flaps. Logging industry officials said they wouldn't oppose the bill, and they estimated i t would cost 550 to equip each trailer Each holiday costs the state $123,000. Rep. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., Portland, (old a ways and means letrislative subcommittee. He saiu that would be the cost of making Columbua day a holiday again. The Senate already has voted to make it a holiday, like it was before 194!). The estimated cost is based on the payroll fo rstate employes tor one day. v Army Man Held For PayroSI Theft CLEVELAND (.) FBI ag ents took First Lt. Donald W. Spencer of Somerset, O., into.court here on a charge of running away from his army base with $12,000 in stolen cash. Spencer, who is 33, married, and the father of two chiltlren, was to appear before a U. S. commis sioner for arraignment. When police caught him on the outskirts of Mansfield, O., he ad mitted at once he stole the pay roll money at Fort Eustis, Va., Ray .1. Abbaticchio Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI's Cleve land office, said. As a pay officer, Spencer was entrusted with the cash to give soldiers at Fort Eustis their sal aries on Jan. 31. Instead, he fled with the money, the FBI reported, and by the time he was arrested claimed he had only f2,560 left. The rest, he was quoted as say ing, was spent on, such high living as rounds of champagne for strang ers in various bars, heavy bets on the horses and tours ot gambling casinos in the south. CAMP ELIGIBILITY Former Camp Fire Girls who do not have regular groups may be come eligible to go to camp if they bring their Camp Fire mem berships up to date, according to Mrs, Morris Bowker, president of the Camp Fire board. Bringing eligibility up to date may be done by paying dues of $1 at Uie Camp Fire office in Miller's store. 1 1 iiii mui nwnwianmyisi TNi-Rvlw 7 hat aot 1 I 4lirtd by f 4:15 p m.. pHom E"' 100 br. :1S IK M: ? U . lis-, ' 1 WASHINGTON Chiang Kai-Shek has had a wily crew of Chinese counter-intelligence agents on his pay roll for a number of years? now whose principal assign ment was keeping track of state department officials and other Americans who traveled to China to hold hands with Communists there. Senator Pat McCarran, Nevada Democrat, who is setting up a staff designed once and for all to wring out the Reds on the federal payroll, might be able to borrow some of Chiang's files. The State depart ment probably would again cut off military aid lo Chiang if Mc Carron did get access to the files, but it might be worth it in the long run. - For Instance, one document in a strong box on Formosa, where Chiang is holed in with a 400,000 man army, is particularly inter esting in the light of a lot of tes timony by certain State department officials regarding their activities in China. John Stewart Service, one of the State department diplomats a r rested by the FBI in the Amerasia case, but later released; Philip Jaffe convicted of possessing top Secret State department files, and a number of others who figured in the Tydings whitewash investiga tion of Reds in the government re ceived considerable attention from Chiang's footpads. A copy of the document is al ready in senatorial hands. It makes interesting reading. For instance, it relates how an intelligence agent in a U. S. embassy in China kept peddling secrets to the Communists for transmittal to Vassili M. Zube lin, chief secretary of the Soviet embassy in Washington. Other details in the report, which lists the license number of a u t o mobiles used by Americans on in land trips to China to confer with the Communists, disclose the activ ities of Communist women and their American boy friends. The report, translated from Chi nese into English several days ago by experts in the Library of Con gress, gives particular attention to one feminine operative. This Mali Hari wandered from bar to bed all over China, concen trating on Americans who looked like soft touches for the Commu nists. Some were not so hard to persuade. This wo iimn Is the present wife of a Chinese Communist who was in the U.S. not long ago as a mem ber of the nine-man Communist cease-fire delegation from Peiping lo the United Nations. Mamma stayed home. She was busy. The local Chinese intelligence agents on Chiang's payroll describe her in words of Oriental understate ment thus: "Using her title as a newspaper correspondent, along with others, she frequently ran about among the personnel of the various embassies in China, the American news office, and the correspondents of various nations in order to ferret out infor mation, even sacrificing without compunction womanly qualities i n order to accomplish the mission. A particular objective of hers was -." Until such time as the document is made part of an of ficial record the names will not be printed here.' One or two State department of ficials at the Tydings fiasco a d mited knowing the woman, one even admitted being, on friendlier terms with her husband. The Nationalist Chinese intelli gence report, one of several dozen in and around Washington, doesn't Drain Doctor Testifies At San Francisco Trial SAN FRANCISCO fP) Two Oregon witnesses testified here in the trial of O. O. Barker, timber land broker charged with mail fraud. Helen Egan, Portland, said she paid $1,015 for two pieces of land in Humboldt and Mendocino coun ties and later discovered that Baker had never owned either piece. She said she came to Cali fornia to get her money back and Barker threatened to sue her for "defamation of character." Dr. C. A. McNeely, a physician from Drain, Ore., testified he paid Barker $900 for some property, but never got a deed. E Reverend Harold L Voile, minister and author from Nampa, Idaho. We are pleased to invite you to hear this inspiring speaker at our church, each evening at 7:30 o'clock, from February 15th ' through February 25th. Everybody Welcome. CHURCH of )he NAZARENE o 0 Llfrg ,uTB i TrTTft W ilSiTMl overlook Owen Lattimore. This Bal timore sage got a daily workout from Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for his part in the China blunder. He is slated for another go-around before the McCarran subcommit ee principally about two of his ac quaintances in China, Chiao Mu and Kung Peng, two characters who never got near a Chinese laun dry but who know all about the Moscow part in the betrayal of China. Lattimore was in on the ground floor of the sellout, but it is hard to locate any large cries of alarms he ever uttered about the danger of Communists seizing power i n China. He was the late President Roosevelt's political adviser o n China, in 1941, but didn't stay long in China. Chiang Kai-shek couldn't stand him, and told Roosevelt so. As a reward, Lattimore was made head of the Pacific Office of War Information. In 1944 he traveled to China with Henry Wallace. While there he was busy visiting his old pals. The Chinese intelligence re port goes into details about th visits, but I shall go into that an other day. The State department and 1 1 s China "experts" have spent many a day kicking Chiang Kai-s h e k around. It wouldn't be surprising if Chiang stepped up now for a littlej revenge. The sweetest way to gei u is to dump some of his secret file data about our government officials who wandered around China play ing coy with the Communists. Sen ator McCarran has a big basket handy. FOR . . . SERVICE... ' . EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION . . . Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-operated" bank Money lett on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNTY. Ali facilities available tor your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The Sun Life Of Canada is pleased to announce that co-incident with the appointment of DON FORBES as , District Supervisor, New and enlarged quarters have been acquired in the Douglas County Stat Bank Building. Telephone 1737. DON FORBES A. M. Weaver, C.L.U. Br. Mgr. Portland 4, Ore. S HERE! 400 Rev. Forrest Hill, Pastor SAN MARINO, Calif. (JPi Lester O. Patee, 65, wealthy re tired auto dealer, whose wire in contesting the $13,900,000 estate of Tommy Lee, was found shot to death Tuesday in his bathroom. Police Chief Glenn F. McClung called it suicide. Patee had put the barrel of a .38 caliber revolver in his mouth and pulled the trigger, McClung said. He blamed ill health from a growing arthritic condition. Until his retirement 15 years ago, Patee for 30 years had the Pasa dena agency for Don Lee motors. Mrs. Patee and Mrs. Lee were sis ters. Thomas S. Lee, 45, heir of Don Lee, who founded the auto and radio fortune, plunged to his death 13 months ago from a Los An geles building Since then both the auto agency and radio network i have been sold the former for $1,600,000; the latter for $12,300,000. Beneficiary under a 13-word will is an uncle of Tommy Lee, R. D. Merrill, Seattle, Wash., lumber man. Mrs. Patee's contest asserted that the will had been altered in another person's handwriting, and that he had intended to make Merrill only the executor not the beneficiary. LAMB PRICE AT RECORD CHICAGO UP) Lambs soared to new recortl price heights Monday and hogs touched a new five-month peak in an active trade. Wooled lambs jumped to $39.00 a hundred pounds, and fall-shorn kinds reached $36.00. Both topped last week's previous record highs. Loadlots of butcher weight hogs topped at $24.00. ALARM AIDS CHIEF WATCH HILL, R. I. UP) Surprised residents of this com munity saw Fire Chief Edwin Bar ber drive up to a pole, leap out of his automobile and yank the. fire alarm box. As the apparatus rolled up, chief Barber directed the men in ex tinguishing a brisk blaze under the hood of his car. HAROLD VOLK East Doualas O V o 0 o 3