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o 0 o o 4 Tht Newi-Kviwoieburg, Publiihtd Daily Eictpt Sunday y h Nws-Review Company, Inc. EnUrtt trand rlati mtttar Mar 1. I?n h ' HI" Hibr, Urtgun. under rl tf Mrth t. U1X CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L. KNAPP Editor Mon09tr M.mbtr of Hit Associated Ptess, Orajon Ntwipopti Publish.il Association, lh Audit Buroau of Circulation. Kprunlr r rilol.l.lliA T CO. INT.. .dir.. In N.w fork. Cblnn. Kin marlieo. I... Am.lfl. Henllll, rrlLn4. HI. I.aoii tUBSCRIPTION IATK-In Oitfn Hr M.ll Pr ir. Ii "Is " " thr., monlli. It M Mr N... K..I.W 1" . " u ' ,1-' mil, I... lh,n .n. ..r. p.r monlh. II .on. Oiiulit. Or.ion-H, H.ll rr yt.r, II.UO; ill onlht. It ll! Urn. months. 12.71. WHERE WE By CHARLES V. STANTON Should UN forces in Korea Mop at the 38th parallel? That question is assuming much importance in the world situation. It will be the subject of increasing de bate. The favorable turn in military action indicates that it must be answered soon. The decision will have far reaching effects. We should, as we consider the issue, examine why the 38th parallel figures so prominently in the Korean situation. Japan had conquered Korea and had a large army on the peninsula on V-J day. As a matter of courtesy to Russia, which had entered the Pacific struggle only a few days before the Japanese capitulation. Russia was invited to accept the surrender of Japanese troops i n North Korea. The 38th parallel was fixed as the mark above which the Russians were to act. The invitation extended to Russia was purely a ges ture of courtesy. As proven by later events, it was an other of the several blunders made in accepting Russia as a friendly and cooperative ally. It was intended that as soon as the Koreans had es tablished a government of their own, all foreign troops would be withdrawn. Russia Decided To Stay But Russia decided to stay in Korea. She "occu pied" the northern half of the peninsula after the Jap anese surrender and set up a puppet state. Instead of protesting this action and enforcing our policy of a free Korea, our appeasement-minded State department set up a South Korean government and withdrew our military forces. Russia then goaded her North Korean puppets into an attack on the South Koreans. Thus the 38th parallel has no importance except as a line set up to mark the area where Russia was to ac cept the Japanese surrender. It has no place as a po litical subdivision in Korean government.' There was no international intent at any time to di vide the government of Korea. Division resulted entirely from Russia's defiant action in setting up arbitrary con trol over the northern section. It was generally under stood that Korean people would be left free to elect a government for their entire country. Undoubtedly the present situation could have been avoided had our Stale department adopted a stern attitude in enforcing the or iginal plan. Cannot Show Weakness Asiatic people have no tolerance for weakness. They recognize only power. Hither Russia or the UN more especially the United Stales will lose face as a result of the Korean struggle. Jf the Reds are chased out. Rus sia will suffer loss of prestige. If, on the other hand, we do not chase the Reds completely out of Korea, we will be accused of fear and weakness and will thereby lose confidence of Asiatics. If we fail to cross the 38th parallel we will, in ef fect, be tacitly recognizing the division of Korean govern ment arbitrarily imposed by Russia. Failure to bring all of Korea under one command automatically would open the door to continued division resulting in renewal of conflict at some later date. We exhibited weakness in Korea once. Ilecause we failed to be tough and strong, we lost face. We invited aggression. We will repeat our mistake if we stop at the 38th parallel now. We will have achieved nothing. We might as well sav: "Here is where we came in." If a Korean government is to be established, free and jr.dcneiulent. the people of that countrv must have the right to determine the form of that government and se lect their leaders in a representative election. It should be a government for all of Korea. The peninsula can not support two hostile governments. The Korean peo ple must have protection until their government is formed and functioning. If we are to be honest in our responsibilities to the Korean people, we must disregard the 38th parallel as a political boundary, provide protection for elections, then withdraw our forces as quickly as possible, but preserv ing on nearby Japan enough military strength to dis courage any new aggression. Before steam ower entered inlo Ihe picture, funis Straiten had the j brilliant idea of finding relief for ! Ihe farmers and stockmen nf the j Roseburg area whose markets were at times inaccessible, lie would float their products down the llmpqua on rafts, or (lalhoats, and having arrived at the mean, would sell the craft for whatever . the lumber would feteh. To prove Ihe feasibility of his idea "this bold navigator," says j Waiting's History of Ihe five south. ; ern Oregon counties, "made his experimental voyage in a small skiff, manned by two or three per sons, and for the sake of itnpies aivencss carried a flag anil a I in ; horn whose lootings resounded through the wooded hills and rockv canyons of the llmpqua." ( A bun ' dred years later some Hoy Scouts did the same thing in ramies. I presume they used bugles how ' ever rather than tin hnpns.) The 1 trip discouraged the Stcilton party. Then came the Swan, under steam, which aejually docked at iioseburg in f. Captain Halm ul.nin?) reported that vessels such as the Swan coisW navigate Ihe trip 4 even mouths out of the year, pro- i (ding Arcw hundred dollars were I oi-m wu ,iuiK ,111. - The Merchants k FarniWs NavkJ, galion company was incorporated Hith directors: J. C. Floed, T. R. o Ore-Frldoy, Fb. 23, 1951 CAME IN Sheridan. J. ('. Ilutchin sen, 1). C. McClnlan, and S. W. Crane. Asher Marks. Treas . .lames War Ion. Secty. The Knterprise was built under ('apt. Halm's direction SS.tHKi The FAM Co.. advertised freight rales from (larilinrr to Srnitslnirg, per ton: to Calapouia. Slo.;' lo Hoseliuig, $12.: lo landings above there, . It was eonfidently expected to reach t'anyonvillc: In February 1870 the Knterprise steamed up river from (iariliner, but returned to Scottshurg alter giving up at Sawyer's rapids. The winter proved lo he uncommonly dry; water was low. In March. IS71, Congress awarded J'.!J..r(Hl (ur work on the channel. Things, were slid loom ing from the elfect of seeing the Swan at Roseburg! "That .same month." savs Waiting's" History, "the IMainilcaler said: 'W are confident that belore Iwo years have elapsed Roseburg will have daily steam communication with the coast tur seven months in the year. Farmers, plant grain!' " "In the rainy season the news, papers argued in favor it steam beats on the rmpqua. In Miminei', with the diminished Hoods. . . rail roads weie their topic." And then me laiiroait came. . . and de mand tor river traffic ceased with it. ? Vtahnrtt X. Martin t',-f-J In The Day's News By FRANK (Continued from page Onei baclos, in 1751. (Barbados Is one of the island that wc group roughly as the West Indies down where the waters of the Caribbean Sea meet the waters of the Atlantic.) At what in these clays we'd call a cocktail party, Washington was asked what lie thought of the is land's rum. lie answered that it was of excellent quality but was extravagantly dear in price. The going price of Barbadus rum at that time was two shillings per gallon, and in 1751 two shillings were equivalent to 45 cents in U. S. com! At any rale, the incident proves to us that the Fattier of Our Coun try was a strong believer in getting his money's worth. Boy! How 1 wish his recent suc cessors in the city of Washington had gone along wilh him in that. By the way, how do you pro nounce 'Caribbean?" People who have been down there on a cruise usually come back call ing it Ca KKKH-ran. Saying it that way sounds like you've been places Closing Of Tax Loopholes Would Put $500 Million More In U.S. Treasury Ry PKTKR R. KDSOX NKA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (KKA) Closing of tax loopholes is only one of the very tough tax problems which Presi dent Truman has now tossed these loopholes be closed a year ago. Congress partially , closed a half dozen of them, but left the biggest wide open. Closing them would add an estimated $500 million to gov- eminent revenues from higher income corporations and I individuals. j Depletion allowances granted to that this is not just taxation for : the oil and mining muiis.i us, prei- j revenue only. It is taxation to con ; ordinal treatment on capital mil inflation and he wants it con gains, estate and gift tax exenip-1 pnued as long as there are in I lions are things that don't figure flalionary pressures. in the life o( llle ordinary cillen. i Hut when the $(0a-week guy jwiih a family is being asked lo pay more taxes, it is only fair for him lo know that nnhody in die higher brackets is bem? exempted I for special privilege. U Ihese loop holes are ever closed, this would i appear lo he the time to do ii. j Otherwise, President Truman's retpiesl lor a tuo-lH t.ix Hue is ! in llie nature of slick trick. It ! is also a I'onlession thai Ihe ail ministration Hself doesn't know how much more taxes will be asked jctmcnt for contempt of Con for event ually. 1 x,-0ss In otner words, the $71 billion i' obvious preparation for this budget which President Iranian rnk. nroder has been an intent requested in January is just a pre-1 m0S unnoticed spectator in linun.iry request. This is evitlcnt j Washington courtrooms, in Ihe m billion estimate for na-! )urlK the past four davs. two tional defense expenditures m Ihe officials of the Cnited Klectrical iicm year, puis a.m.. c ,ju oiiho.i Workers! I!. F. ) have been on trial aiithorwation In make contracts 0n contempt charges. The verdict for military spending in 1HM. These was ,0aved in the first, and Ihe are nice round numbers, as yet 'second has not yet been com tinsuppnrlcd by any breakdowns neted. on what it is intended lo buy with this tmuu-y. Mort Requesti Coming The l'ri'suiYi.t's tax message hints that requests for still more iletViiM' appropriations will be tnaiie lat ir on. As Ihesp supple tn cut a I rHin-;is pile tin. there will lie ftirrespoiulin! requests for sup plemenial tais. That's where the seeuiitt lull' will eo-ne m. Atul if nerevsary there will be a third , bite. While all this is called a "pay fts-we i;o" lax plan, it wouht per haps be more proper to eall it a J 1a as-wo-no payment plan. ! What's more, there is a hint in the 1'resulent's tax messaf that : he would like to have these hi ;h taxes continued for the duration of Ihe cm"i 'JCIU'V. "i)ill inv; Viond i War II laxes were not hiiih Mouiih. " the President told Con- Kress. "As result wc paid in inflat'nn lor our failure to lax enough. M I What that lermi t Imply is FishincWith tfee Right JENKINS and know your way around. But Webster's Intercollegiate Diction ary pronounced it CA-nb-BE-an. I've just learned through the me dium of a dispatch from Moscow that the editor of Pravda is a big shot in the communist party. That settles I'ravda's hash so far as I'm concerned. I want no truck with newspaper men who are also political poohbahs. A good news paper man's place in politics is on the outside looking in NEVER on the inside looking out. This dispatch from Tokyo In trigues me: "Ambassador William Sebald, General MacArthur'a political ad viser, left tonight for three weeks of conferences in Washington. "Sebald said his trip had no par ticular significance at this time." Hold your hats, men. When I government guv savs that, it usual ly means that BIG STUFF IS JN THE WIND. Simple, sincere question; Wouldn't it be WONDERFUL If we could believe everything our government tells us? to Congress. He asked that Browder To Act As Own Attorney In Contempt Case WASHINGTON (.V) Karl Bmvvdcr is boning up on the law. 'l'lvn ntip.limp 'n 1 Communist j us country is getting ready to serve as a defense attorney, lne ilefi'titlanf K.n-l Hrnwdr. under reporter caught the former Communist chieftain as he wa: leaving the courtroom. About all he had to say was that all con tempt of Congress cases are sim ilar. Hut he reiterated lie does not intend to use as his defense a con tention he declined to answer ques tions because he might inctnin a( himself., The constitution guar antees a man's right against self incrimination. Hrowder is indicted for refus ing to answer questions of a senate foreign relations subcommittee which investigated charges by Sen ator McCarthy iK Wis) that Com munisis had infiltrated the State department Hrowder contends the questions he duln I answer were not pertin- ent to thp innuirv. A date for Brow dor's trial has not been set. Con- tempi is punishable by one year in tad and a $1,000 line! Iiurinc preliminary proceedings ' before Judge James R. Kirkland Bait Unchanged Meat Prices, Higher Egg Costs Noted By Th. Associated Pre. Retail food prices presented mixed picture this week: Most price-ceiling levels in the majority of stores, eggs were up two to four cents a dozen and several fresh vegetables were lower as supplies increased. Meat trade sources reported that consumer resistance to high prices had slowed demand for the better cuts of meat. Retailers were clamoring for lower prices for their wholesalers, and holding their purchases to a minimum. As a consequence, said an Agri culture department marketing spe cialist in New York, wholesale prices for several culs, particu larly beef, veal and lamb hind quarters, eased somewhat below wholesale ceilings early (his week. ' He said this would give some retailers a chance to trim prices on a few meat culs this weeke.d and probably would show up in advertised "specials." Higher egg prices were attrib uted again to good demand as housewives turned away from costly meat. Some atihoritics say the supply situation points to even higher prices for eggs in coming weeks. Cold storage holdings in the na tion are sharply smaller than they were at this time last year. Vegetable, Ease Situation For the budget-minded shopper, the best food news this week was the abundance of fresh vegetables. Lettuce was selling at the lowest price in months in most places as supplies poured in. This salad staple W'as headlined this week on the agriculture department's list of plentiful foods for thrifty buy ing, along with apples. rite only major vegetables in somewhat short supply, and hence higher this week, were bunch beets, cucumbers and eggplant. Delegates to the national can ners association convention in Chi cago predicted higher prices for canned fruit and vegetables. The National Peach council esti mated at its convention in St. Louis that the 1951 peach crop would total around 57.315.001) bushels larger than last year but 11.000.000 bushels below the five year pro duction average. They blamed the hard winter weather. Refugee Official Nabbed In Smuggling Attempt ! FRANK Fl'RT, Germany .T! 'An attempt to smuggle $40,000 worth of gold inlo Germany in meat cans has led to the arrest of an American official of the In ternational Refugee organization. V. S. District Attornev James F. Phelps of Houston, Tex., told I an American court that I'. S. agents arrestrd 1RO administra ! tive officer Arthur Gershon when he picked up several cans marked "Kosher meat" at the l". S. army i postoffice in Bremen. Phelps said the cans contained to pounds of gold wilh a black ; market value of $40,000. SOLVED AFTER 0 YEARS CAN BY. Ore. (.Pi Adam H. I Kni:ht has received a letter of ' apology and a $10 bill from a Port : land man who confessed that it was he who shot and killed one of Knight's geese 40 years ano. J The old-time culprit signed his t name to the letter, too. Knight, Can by postmaster for many years and a former county commis sioner, said he wouldn't reveal the man's name, but he knows him well. "1 always wondered who shot that goose,'' he said. 1 some lime aco, Browder said he wanted to act as his own attor ney. The judse told him he could. ! Later, however, Judse K i r It land told Hrowder he would ap point an ab'e attorney to represent him. if he lacked funds to employ one himself. Browder slill said he i wanted to be hn own attorney. Fulton Bv FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON The latest and silliest excuse offered by the State- department for not using Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Formosa to attack the Chinese Communist main land is that Formosa would be left undefended. As far as I can determine at the Pentagon or from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in To kyo, no responsible military leader has proposed that all of Chiang's 500,000 troops be loaded on land ing craft for a massive attack on the Communists. State department military "experts," however, have assumed, for purposes of blocking an attack by Chiang, that this is what Gen. MacArthur meant when he asked for a diversionary raid from Formosa. , Chiang Kai-shek has hundreds of airplanes sitting on Formosa. He has his own fleet units, plus the U. S. Seventh fleet. An amphibi-. ous landing in force with luo, 000 men would not leave For mosa undefended, despite military geniuses on Secretary of Stale Dean Acheson's staff. With the Seventh fleet in For mosa waters, with one-third of Chiang's aircraft remaining on the island, and 400,000 troops in defen sive positions the Chinese Com munists would have a rough time mounting an amphibious attack on Formosa. The State department can get confirmation of this at the Penta gon. Department officials might also take a look at Gen. MacAr thur's Tokyo cables to Washington, to get the views of a military leader up front where the shooting takes place. An attack on the Communist mainland by Chiang would be di versionary a blow to distract the Hells, determine the strength of Nationalist guerrilla forces, plus their needs in the way of equip ment. I.ong ago the Communists moved their combat divisions from the coast opposite Formosa to the battlefields of Korea. Backing up Formosa, on Oki nawa and on other island bases, are hundreds of U. S. fighters and bombers. They have a mission, along with the Seventh fleet, of pre venting a Chinese Communist as. sault on Formosa. The a s signment was handed to the air force and the fleet by the United Nations in June, 1950. It is still in effect. It is a strong deterrent to a Communist attack on the' State department's "undefended For mosa. White House revenge: President Truman's sense of re venge is now partially satisfied. Ever since southern Democrats started balking at Fair Deal measures in Congress, Mr. Tru man has held up the appointment of postmasters in the South. I n fact, since 1948 he has bowed to hardly a single southern senator's demands for these traditional pa tronage appointments. On February 15, however, Mr. Truman sent Congress the names of 168 men and women for post masterships, most of which were for Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia, The Presitlent's avidity for get ting even with recalcitrant south ern congressmen has not been completely dispelled, however. And the outstanding proof of this is II. B. Harris, of Berryville, Va. Harris has been acting postmaster of Berryville since 1948. Mr. Tru man's chief congressional critic is Senator Harry Flood Byrd, Demo cratic senator from the stale of Virginia, the town of Berryville. Twenty-six postmasters were nominated for the state of Vir ginia. Some were cleared politi cally in the various congressional offices less than four months ago. But Harris, standing by for the ap pointment for two years, was passed by again. U.S. War Casualties In Korea Near 50,000 WASHINGTON (PI An nounced V. S. combat casualties in Korea have risen to 49,132, an increase of 1.097 in a week. The total, representing casual ties reported lo the next of kin through Feb. 16, included 7.408 killed in action. 32-230 wounded, and 9.494 missing in action. The cumulative wounded total included HSa who later died of tneir wounds. The overall figure for mis sing included 8Ti known dead, mak ing a total of 8.346 combat deaths. The missing tally also included 955 men who have since returned lo American military control and 111) known prisoners of war. leav ing 8,344 currently listed as mis sing. Cor Shortage Forces Cut In General Mills Output BUFFALO, N. Y. t.D Gen eral Mills, Inc.. has halved pro duction at the world's largest flour null and said the acute boxcar shortage made the action neces sary. The firm's Washburn-Crosby plant here had been operating at its full capacity, 3.700.000 pounds daily. A company spokesman said half the 1.000 employes would hae to be laid off within 2i hours un less the situation improved quickly Other mills said they were appre hensive about production curtail ments. I NEW STATE SCHOOL AIDES itAl.f.M t.t'i iwo new ele mentary school supervisors hava been appointed by State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction Rex Putnam. They are Irene Hallhere. who has been consultant and curncu - lum coordinator for three vears at Bcllev ue, Wa-fe.) and Dora I ron- tcr. who has been consultant in education of visually handicapped children for the State department. Lewis Jr. .vmrcVoffl Southern Democrat! are not hoodwinked by the President's Hid den loosening of the post master patronage strings. They In terpret his move as a bid to the southern senators to be good to a number of individuals whose ap pointments he has submitted to the Senate that are hanging lira. A large number of postmaster nominations are still on the Presi dent's White House desk. If the southern members of Congress per form well in a "be kind to Tru man appointees" week, more post masters may be tossed in the pa tronage hopper. If not, there will be a long wait ahead again. For Mr. Harris, only the political defeat of Senator Byrd will release him from White House bondage. Berryville, Va., is not too far for Mr. Truman to go to gel his re; venge. FOR . . . SERVICE ... EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION ... Investigate the services offered by your "Home swned. Home-operoted" bank Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNIY. All facilities available for your individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. WOOD FOR SALE 16" Core Wood $8.00 per load Split Log Ends not to exceed li" 8.00 per load Unsplit Log End 4.00 per load Extra charge for any load more than six miles from the plant. The Martin Brothers Box Co. Oakland, Oregon S. W. "Bill" Miller Says; ps pos rsfls ipf$s vvny rcw"" Ferguson 3-foim rvn-v'" . rMmU(on Plow, you don't depend on rrnr., uniform furrow wall.. K.ch of th Plow U a unit with " mmwm their advantage. LEE MORTENSEN, Inc. I.T. BUONE 1484-J J 200 SOUTH PIN6 AND IXBCUSOM STSTEM j i ( ; , ; i ! Portland Halts Issue Of Tavern Licenses PORTLAND ) Portland will not issue tavern or night club licenses not even renewals for the ftxt month. That was the edict from Mayor Dorothy Lee and City Commis sioner J. E. Bennett and Ormond R. Bean, the latest development in Bennetts' campaign to reduce Ihe number of liquor outlets in the city. The three agreed to accept no applications for licenses in the next 30 days. They expect to ratily their decision in a council session today. The 30-day period is intended to give them time to review the night club and tavern situation in Portland. Bennett, maintaining there are too many now, tried to blame the situation on the Stale Liquor commission last week. The commission struck back with the assertion the responsibility for li censes rested on the city council. Phone 2211 and 2212 I II vY hoi Ml bt 1 I ieliotrad by I 1 1:1 S p.m., phone I ! I 100 between 1 and 7 p.m. f I 1 w rrnr.ncnN PLOWS hii I o o