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National Guard
Company B Has
New Commander
CAPT. WILBUR OSTERLOH
Salosman-Soldier
(Photo by Bud MuobI
Capt. Wilbur Osterloh, 329 South
Main St., wae appointed command
ing officer of Oregon National
Guard company B, 186th infantry,
on April 2. He replaces Capt.
Frank Norton, lately assigned to
the Roseburg battalion staff.
Company B encompasses the Tri
City area, which includes Myrtle
Creek, Canyonvilli and Riddle.
Capt. Osterloh, who is married
and has two boys, entered the army
as a private in February 1942,
and received bis commission
after completing the officers' train
ing course at Fort Benning, Ga.
Serving in the South Pacific dur
ing World War II, he saw action
on Bougainville and in the Philip
pines, where he was awarded the
bronze star for gallantry in action.
In addition, Capt. Osterloh wears
the Purple Heart for wounds re
ceived in battle and combat infan
tryman's badge.
The S2-year-old captain attended
Oregon State college and the Uni
versity of Oregon, where he was
graduated in 1942 with a bachelor
of science degree in business ad
ministration. Following four years
in the army, he received a master
of arts degree in retailing from
New York university.
He is employed as department
manager in the J. C. Penney store
)U Roseburg.
In the Day's News
y FRANK JENKINS
I sat yesterday in Eugene la
what we fancy moderns call a sem
inar. A seminar amounts to a class
where someone who knows more
than you lectures to you. When it
winds up, you go away with the
pleasantly uplifted feeling of know
ing more than you did before.
This one was conducted by Rus
sell Wiggins, managing editor of
the Washington Post, one of the
country's fairer and more objective
newspapers. By that, I mean
the Post tries to tell its read
ers what is going on in the
world and why, instead of telling
them ITS version of what is going
on and what it thinks they should
believe.
I've always sdmired the Post,
and, because of its accurate report
ing and its fair-minded opinions, it
carries a lot of weight among in
telligent people in Washington (yes,
people of that kind are there).
The seminar was sponsored by
the University of Oregon school of
Journalism. Gordon Sabine, dean of
the school, started it off like this:
"Well, gentlemen, shall we start
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Drunk, Unlicensed Driver
Draws Fine, Jail Stretch
Jack Henry Wells. 33, of Rt. S
Foseburg. was fined a total $285
Wednesday for drunk driving and
for having no automobile opera
tor's license, reports District Judge
A. J. Gerides.
Wells was also sentenced to
serve 30 days in the county jail,
but all but four days will he sus
pended, says Geddes. Wells was
arrested by a deputy sheriff.
To Aid Forest Appraisal
County Court Solicits
Bids For Aerial Survey
Of Timbered Acreages
The Dujrla county mutt is opening bids May 1 for
n aerial survey of 133.000 acres of timber lands, as an aid
to assessment if property values, reports Robert Kleiner,
head of the co'mty's invent appraisal department,
This is th socuirl vrar thft the county has engaged
in this program. List. vetr 400000 acres were surveyed
from the air at a ,-o-t of 1 17 cents per acre, (ft an approx
imate total cost of IS.oVh I
In addition, private timber com-1
panies, for their own purposes and !
in t cooperative program with the
county, mapped another 200,000
acres. I
mapped
In 1949. private companies
d an additional 75,000 acres 1
al-r
T...H cvuiuicuun ui uw wur U.I. .
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Summer, approximately 80 per-i
cent of the county timbered areas.
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will have been mapped, aaid Kli-1
ner. There is some overlapping of
Missing Womari Found
Dead In Swift Stream
SCIO Soarchers found
the body of me missing Mrs. Vic
tor Wilkine, St, in a swift moun
tain stream southeast of here
Thursday.
It was lust slightly moro than
a mile from nor homo in t h
Roaring rivor area, whore ahe
aot out Tuesday to pick ferns.
Coroner Clonn Huston of Lotas
non said ho was unable to deter
mine at onco how ahe mot death
whether she was the victim of
heart attack, or alippod and
struck her head on rock In the
atream, or lost her footing in the
swift waters of Crabtroe crook
and drowned.
. Her fern-carrying pack-sack
was found M foot upstream.
U.N. Tanks Take
Heavy Toll But
Foe Keeps Coming
TOKYO UP) United Nations
tank patrols roamed the Korean
no-man's-land today on killer mis
sions. In the safety of distant hills, Red
forces regrouped and rearmed for
a new attempt to overwhelm A 1
lied lines.
U. N. planes reported Commu
nist trucks were rolling southward
by the hundreds. They've been
coming for days despite heavy
losses to round-the-clock air raid
ers. Combined attacks of planes and
tanks early Friday drove small
groups of Reds out of forward po
sitions. They surrendered badly
scorched.
Tank and infantry patrols
brought back 75 prisoners Thurs
day. They also accounted for most
of the day's toll of 1,740 Reds which
the Eighth army estimated were
killed or wounded.
Jet fighter-bombers chased one
railroad train into a tunnel near
the Red capital, Pyongyang. Then
they sealed it in by blasting shut
both ends of the tube.
Pilots reported their bag in
cluded five locomotives, 140 rail
road cars, 120 motor vehicles, two
tanks, nine gun positions, 1.200
buildings, 10 fuel dumps, 13 bridges
and four smoke generators. This is
a typical inventory, except for the
generators.
U. N. forces got new reinforce
ments with the arrival of high-spirited
Canadians at the southeastern
port of Ptisan. They were the van
guard of the Canadian 25th infan
try brigade. Brigadier John M.
Rockingham said they're "willing
and anxious to do the job."
Contempt Ruling
Hits Philip Bart
WASHINGTON (V) Philip
Bart, general manager of the
Daily Worker, Communist party
newspaper in New York, has been
convicted of contempt of Congress.
U. S. District Judge Burnita S.
Matthews, who heard the Bart case
without a jury, found the long-time
Communist organizer guilty on
eight counts of contempt The gov
ernment had dropped 24 other
counts in the indictment.
Contempt of Congress is punish
able by a fine of up to 11,000 and
by up to a year in jail.
Bart's attorney said the convic
tion will be appealed.
Bart appeared before a house un
American activities subcommittee
June 21, I960. One subcommittee
question he refused to snswer was:
"Were you born under the name
of Philip Bart " In not answering
that and five similar counts, he
said the questions were not perti
nent. But Judge Matthews ruled they
were pertinent.
Another Cut In Steel
For Autos Ordered
WASHINGTON (P) The gov
ernment today ordered another
five percent cut in the use of steel
for passenger autos and station
wagons. That reduces permitted
consumption to 75 percent of the
level in the first hslf of 19.r0.
On July 1, the National Produc
tion authority announced, a further
expected cut will reduce usage to
70 percent for passenger ears, sta
tion wagons and light trucks.
MILL WORKER DROWNS
DALLAS, Ore. Vernon
Moore. 18. met death in a lumber
mill pond Thursday, apparently
falling in unnoticed by other work
men. Coroner Paul Boll mm said he
apparently slipped, hit his head
and went under.
forest service lsnds, where private
cuttings are intermicfled in cer-
tain areas, said Klasjrer.
The area to be mapped this
"J""1" j ,nfr,.rof J,0'V
Z th.
county in the rrth Lmpqua drain-
kv area, mini ui me rema ninK
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Elkton. However, much of Jf on-
vate ""Pnr 7 bee
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Established 1173
Restrictions
Disclosed
Red Supply
Point Near
Russia Barred
General Has Oral Duel
With Senator McMahon
During Committee Quiz
WASHINGTON UP) Gen.
Douglas MacArthur was quoted
today as saying Washington never
would let him bomb one major
Communist supply point within Ko
rea but near the Russian border
A senator, asking that his name
no. be disclosed, said MacArthur
gave that testimony Thursday but
censors knocked it out of the tran
script of testimony made public.
The Red Korean supply to.vn was
described as about 35 miles from
the Russian border.
Most of North Korea borders
on Manchuria, but in the extreme
northeast the boundary line meets
Russian territory.
This senator said MacArthur tea
tied also that Lt. Gen. George E.
Stratemeyer and Mai. Gen. Em
mett (Rosie) O'Donnell had in
sisted that the enemy distribution
point in that section within Korea
must be destroyed. The two men
are air officers.
This version was given newsmen
while MacArthur, for the second
day, related to investigating sen
ators in a closed door session his
differences with the Truman a d
ministration over Far Eastern pol
icy. Two senate committees armed
services and foreign relations are
iointly conducting an inquiry into
these differences and President
Truman's dismissal of MacArthur
from his Far Eastern commands.
Oral Duol With Senator
The censored transcript sent out
to newsmen disclosed the general
had a brisk question-and-answer
exchange with Senator McMahon
(D-Conn) a yigorous supporter of
the administration'a viewpoint in
the great dispute.
McMahon's questions ranged into
MacArthur's statement last fall
that he hoped to have his boys
"home by Christmas" and the gen
eral's tactics in splitting bis forces
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Russians Slay
Gl In Austria
VIENNA, Austria f.Tt A n
American military policeman was
slain early today by two Russian
soldiers firing automatic pistols.
V. S. authorities prepared a sharp
protest.
The American, Cpl. Paul Gres
ens, died on a Vienna street from
wounds i the stnmsch sfter the
two Russians cut loose with 20
shots outside a night club in the
central part of the city. The Rus
sians fled to the Soviet sector.
Gresens was s'ain he and his
companion, Cpl. Jack Morgan, were
on a patrol in tne international
sector of the city. They had chal
lenged the Russians outside the
Cafe Oriental on a poorly lit street.
The Russians, armed with ma
chine pistols, turned on the Ameri
cans and began firing. Gresens fell
from several wounds. Morgan took
rover behind a nearby church and
fired six shots in return.
The Russians escaped to the So
viet sector, eluding an American
patrol that was summoned by Mor
gan. Misting Boy Object
Of Nationwide Hunt
NOR WALK. Calif. (JP Po
lice all over the nation are look
ing for 10-year-old Charlea Hougn
ton, who bought candy m a store
near his home here 2? days ago.
walked out and hasn't been seen
since.
His picture we sent to too police
stations thrrughout the country
and his home aistrict has under
gone a house-to-house siigrch.
His distraught parent, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles A. Houghton, do not
believe their son was kidnaped.
"I don't make that kind of
money," said Houghton, a railroad
switchman.
The boy's mother said she has
no pians m ernim ro ner joo as i bases involve many touchy prob
ft tolanristnaa tuiilrhhisrrl nnartt.ioti ' r
until her ion i found
The Weather
Showers today and tomorrow
Hihost temp Jor any May
Lowest temp, tor any May
Highest toma. yesterday
Lowest temp, last 14 hours
PreciavJest 14 hours
frocipvrrom May 1 ...Q
Procip. from Sept. 1
Eicoss from Sept. 1
Sunset today, 1:17 a. m.
Sunrise tomorrow jl a. m
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ROSEIUR6,
On Bombing
By
StlcCTED Or. Mary T. Martin
Sloop (above), 77, of Cron
nore, N.C., known as the "grand
lady of the Blu Ridge," has been
selected as the "American
Mother of 1951." She practices
medicine with her country doe
tor husband. Their two children
also are doctors in the same
county. (AP Wirephoto)
Scouts Arriving
For Camporee
Boy Scouts will start pouring in
to Roseburg from all over the
Douglas district this afternoon to
open the Scout camporee at the
county fairgrounds.
Checking in will begin at 5 p.m.
and continue until 8 a.m. Satur
day morning. After an orientation
period in the morning, the scouts
will participate in knot-tying, com
munications and fire building con
tests, beginning at 1:30. Following
a 6:30 reveille Sunday morning, a
scheduled hour first aid contest
is on the docket. F'inal contests
in cooking and compass are
slated from 1 to S Sunday after
noon. Fun galore Is expected In the
cooking contest. The scout has to
mix up ingredients for hotcakes
and start cooking one. When it is
done on one side, he must run 50
feet, flip it over a five-foot high
string and return to the fire to
cook the other side. The judges
inspect the cske and, to prove
its delectability, the scout has to
eat it.
Two School Measures
Get Legislature's Nod
SALEM (.71 A bill to
quire school administrators
nave certificates from the State
Bord of Education was passed by
the Senate and sent to the gover
nor.
In order to get such certificates,
master's degrees are required.
Present admini-tratori vouH
be given until 1956 to qualify for
ine cenmcaies II tney don t now
have them.
The Senate completed legislative
action on a bill to permit tne voters
to recall directors of second and
third class school districts.
Under present law, only first
class district directors may be re
called. Green Light Ready
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Chinese Reds Will Draw Attack On Bases
If They Intensify Air Campaign In Korea
y TOM STONI
TOKYO UP) Allied airmen
will get the green light to bomb
Manchurian bases if the Chinese
Reds throw the weight of their air
force against United ' Nations
ground troops in Korea.
The' 14 U.N countries fighting in
Korea are reported in agreement
on the need to hit bark hard if
the Chinese fly out of Vieir Man
churian sanctuary in force.
Y . . .
What would be tlj extent of the
strikes?
That would depend on whether
U.N. instructions wave genersl or
specific.
(pneral InvtKJ tinnc jnioht limit
- 'JJ Vft attack to Red irelds. Spec-
- " uic orders could extend the attack
- ' to rail yards, communicstions cen
f f ters. wsr plants and roads. (
:i.frMlied airmen would strike first
nerhons St the olf-filri r
'now 'bcre are many of
- fhese in Manchuria and North
Korea. l
1 li, S fl blast thos in Korea'
OREGON FRIDAY, MAY 4, 19S1
Mac-Arthur
Proponents
Of New Road
Links Heard
Arguments For Shorter
Routes To North Umpqua
Given To County Court
A crowd that filled every seat
and overflowed into the aisles,
packed the circuit court room at
the courthouse Thursday night to
hear facts and opinions on the sug
gested Sutherlin - North Umpqua
and alternate routes to the Glide
area. The hearing was called by
the county court at the request of
the Sutherlin short route commit
tee. Although I scattered few ex
pressed a desire for two alternate
routes, an overwhelming majority
in attendance favored the a u g
gested road from a point 10 miles
east of Sutherlin to the Lone Rock
bridge.
Heading the Sutherlin delegation
was O. L. Torrey, who tendered a
petitition to the court containing
750 names in favor of the short
route. Torrey told the court that the
plans for a short route were con
ceived to give the Sutherlin oper
ators an equal chance with Rose
burg operators to tap the timber,
resources in the Umpqua forests,
lt wasn't conceived, however, with
only Sutherlin in mind but also for
the good of Oakland, Drain, Elk
ton and Reedsport, he said. He
said the road would benefit thou
sands ' of people while alternate
routes would help only a few.
Now Timber Source Needed
As bead of the Sutherlin short
route committee, Ed Burns e x
pressed the thought that the "fu
ture of this area depends on "such
a route." He said that Stitherlin's
main source of timber in the Call
pooia watershed is being rapidly
liquidated, meaning another
source must be made available. He
noted that in searching for a route
into the great Umpqua forest, the
committee "rediscovered" a low
pass just west of Copeland butte,
west of Mt. Scott, that followed al
most a straight line to the Lone
Rock bridge. He said this would
give Sutherlin access to private, O
and C and forest service timber.
Then the Sutherlin delegation
called forth a battery of propo
nents representing varying inter
ests, not only in Sutherlin, but in
Oakland, Elkton and Reedsport.
Mayor John Edwards and Ted
Rohwer of Oakland expressed the
idea that because of high bonded
indebtedness and increasing school
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Smith River Project
Lacks Adequate Funds
PORTLAND (PI Army en
gineers reported there was not
enough money on hand to take
care of a project for which bids
were opened Thursday.
That was for improvement of
levees and replacement of tide
boxes in two are on the Smith
river, northwest of Reedsport. Only
one bid was submitted, 2,4M by
the Larson Constniction Co., As
toria. The government estimate for the
work was $51,463. Engineers said
only $39,000 was on hand, but it
had been hoped a bid would be un
Ider that amount.
For Bombing Manchuria
every few days. The Reds just as
doggedly put them back in shape.
Yaks Ouickly Boston
The pilots, presumsbly, are Chi
nese. Some are good. They've
shown improvement with practice.
But American flyers haven't let
them get to much air combat ex
perience. The Reds have used fighter
planes almost exclusively.
They put Russian made Yaks in
'tea air at firat. Those propellor
driven planea didn't last long
against faster and superior UN.
fighters, such as the F 51 Mus
tang. The Reds came up next with
Russian-type MIG-15 jets. fT
American Jets outfought M h
MIGS in round after round of aer
ial combat and still hold the upper
hand.
There are ell groiiaaled re
aayrts that th Reds he some
ombera.
Th.w wr.nM ost h 1 a n m.
. range plaurs to awrep below the
1 38th parallel and return to Man-
I churia in an all-out air assault.
And Jor a successful attack, the
k iuiw amis liMomoMmoooBwniiij. n ,,,,,
OFF FOR TAHITI Roland H. Barney standi on his 26-foot ketch
at Long Beach, Calif., just before shoving off on a one-man cruit
to Tahiti. The Tenmile, Ore., seaman estimates the 3,800 to
4,000-mile voyage will talc two
gency he has a small motor and 25
is a converted war surplus craft.
Second Annual
Quartets' Parade
Set In Roseburg
The second annual Parade of
Quartets will be held in Roseburg
May 12.
Sponsored by Roseburg chapter
of the Society for Preservation and
Encouragement of Barber onop
Quartet Singing in America, Inc.,
the parade will offer two male
choruses and 10 quartets.
The program will be presented
jp the Junior high school auditor
ium, starting at S p.m.
The newly organized Roseburg
SPEHSQSA chorus will be making
its debut. The veteran Medlord
chorus also will participate. Quar
tets are coming from Klamath
Falls, Medford, F:ugene, Crescent
City, Brookings, and Portland to
join with Kosehurg groups.
Included in the visiting organ
izations will be the "Lumber Lads"
from Eugene, current Pacific dis
trict champions.
The "Agony Four," winners at
the F'orest Grove contest, will not
be able to attend, due to the fact
that one member of the group will
be on tour with the Oregon State
college glee club.
Half of the proceeds will go to
the Knights of Pythias Girls Drum
corps to help finance their trip
to Portland to participate in the
Rose Festival parade.
Portland Will Ignore
New State Milk Law
PORTLAND UP) Portland
will enforce its milk inspection
standards despite a new law
passed by the legislature to per
mit ahipment of milk into the city
from any part of the atate.
City Commissioner Fred L. Pe
terson said that the law may ne
tested in court if Governor Mc
Kay fails to veto it, as asked by
city officials. i
Portlsnd milk standards, meet
ing those of the federal public
health service, are higher than
those specified by the State De
partment of Agriculture.
"The poeple of Portland will not
lightly sacrifice milk standards
which they achieved after a long,
bitter fight to combat diseaae and
infant mortality," Peterson aaid.
Red bombers would have to run
through a powerful screen of U.N.
fighter planes ami ground fire.
An all-out air ima-h to U. N.
ground forces should not cstch the
Allies unprepared.
Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer,
U. S. Far East air forces com
mander, has warned that audi an
attack is expectable.
TAIPEH, Formosa (,P The
China Union preaa said today 800
planes and 15,000 men of a Soviet-sponsored
international a I r
force are in Manchuria ready to
enter the Korean war.
It said the volunteer air fore Is
made up of Poles, Romanians,
Czechs, Lithuanians and other So
vieU satellite naftaMialitiea.
Anoi)er Nationalist report said
Soviet Russia haa decided to ex
pand its far eastern military area
to include the railroad network be
tween Dairen and Hteftin. This
proposed expansion would take in
such big Minchyt'en cities -a
Mukden and Changchun. ( )
Other report said that lr all
practical purpose (Monchuria is
under full Soviet military control.
104-51
months sailing time. For emer
gallons ot gasoline. In boat
Af Wirephoto I
Gen. MacArthur Offered
S5 Million For Memoirs
NSW YORK tm General
Douglas MacArthur, whet sal
ary and allowances come t $11,.
71 a year, ha boon offered J5,
000,000 for his memoirs.
The offer was disclosed by Mil.
Can. Courtney Whitney. MacAr
thur' personal aide.
Whitney, however, declined to
say who made the ottor. Nottnor
did ho say how the deposed
Far Eastern commander reacted
to th efftr.
Truman Thinks
He'll Be Okayed
WASHINGTON (P) Harry
Truman tight-lipped, watchfully
waiting aays he' sure the senate
hearinns will prove he was right
and Gen Douglas MacArthur was
wrong.
And he cam pretty close Thurs
day to aaying MacArthur told sen
ate investigators sometning inai
wasn't true.
MacArthur aaid. among many
other things, that the Central In
telligence agency thought there
was "very little chance" last No
vember of th Chinese' Commu
nists' entering the hmrean war.
(It waa in November that they
did enter the war.)
Asked about this, Mr. Truman
said (A) the CIA didn't make any
such report to him, and (2) Mac
Arthur didn't even allow the CIA
to operate in bis command until
recently.
The President said MacArthur
convinced him at their Wake is
land conference in October that
the Chinese Reds were not going
to strike. When they did strike, he
said, he was more sorry than sur
prised. But MacArthur, he said,
was very much surprised.
Ban On Certain Building
Without Okay Scheduled
WASHINGTON - (IP)- The gov
ernment prepared for probable is-
susnce toaay a Dan on building ot
large apartment, luxury resi
dences and large industrial plants
wttnoui aavanre approval.
Officials of the National Produc
tion authority aaid the order la de
signed to conserve further scarce
steel supplies. So far, only com
mercial construction stores, of
fice buildings and the like are
under the permit system. Most
recreational and amusement con
struction projects are barred.
Skeleton-Devil .Stunt
Arouses Woman's Ire
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (. An
indignant woman atalked into a
funeral home her and told a be
wildered clerk:
"That advertisement of yours
outside is in poor taste."
The clerk found a man dressed
in a blsck suit and wearing a skel
eton face atanding in front of the
building. Approaching him was a
man dressed like a devil.
It developed that the two were
advertising revival meeting and
the skeleton, having arrived first,
was simply waiting for th devil.
MALE SUPERIORITY
FORT ANN, N. Y. P A
reap takea the cake prise! Three
women Judges-swarded Howard
Vannier first prize in a chocolate
cake-baking contest tt a Grsnge
meeting. The second and third
prise went to women. 0
TWO-WAY QUIT
HYDRO, Vkla. Ml Sam W.
King, 82, decided to aell his 192S
model car and quit driving.
On his wsy to Weatherfordca)
make th gje, he was fatally in
jured In a two-car collision.
Session Sets
All-Time Mark
Of 116 Days
Millions Voted Higher
Schools, Three-Point Tax
Program Gets Approval
SALEM UP) The 1951 Ore
gon legislature adjourned at f:l(
p. m. Thursday after a tedioui US
day session.
Both houses waded through
heavy calendars, passing soma Im
portant legislation in the last few
hours.
A bill to permit aale of liquor
to Indians was rushed through both
houses. It was asked by the gov
ernor's council on Indian affairs,
which requested that legislation
which discriminate against Indi
ans be wiped off the books.
The Senate completed legislative
action on a bill to require licens
ing of auction houses and second
hand stores. The purpose is to stop
sale of stolen goods.
A bill to require school teacn
ers to sign statements if they ever
have been Communists died in th
House because of failure to get a
two-thirds vote to put lt on the cal
endar. Higher Schools Cot Funds
A $7,430,000 state building pro
gram was approved by the Senate
unanimously and aent to Governor
McKay.
It includes S4.000.000 to complete
the $6,000,000 teaching hospital for
the University of Oregon medical
school.
The other items in the bill are:
$730,000 for an addition to t h
horn economic building at Ore
gon State college, $700,000 for an
addition to the business adminis
tration building at the University
of Oregon, and $2,000,000 for th
board of control to spend on Stat
Institution buildings.
Tax Program Adopted
The adopted three - piec main
tax program calls for referral to
th people of a state property tax
limit of o mills, which wa pasaed
Dy ootn nouses.
It also includes an interim com
mittee to study taxes, and th
House completed legislative action
on it today.
The third item, calling for us
ot all $32,000,000 of income tax
surpluses, was passed and sent to
the Senate. This bill would limit
any state property tax next year to
$3.00(000, if auch a tax is nec
essary to balance the budget.
The Senate voted 20 to 10 to ac
cept the house amendment to the
cigaret fair trade bill. This amend
ment provides that it shall become
law only if and when th J-cent
cigaret tax becomes effective. That
date would be October 1, unless
the tax is attacked by. referen
dum. House leaders rushed th amend
ment through when they heard re
ports that tobacco dealera planned
to launch a referendum attack on
the tax. Now, if they refer the tax
to the people, they will lose the
fair trade bill, which they badly
want.
The fair trade bill would boost
the price of cigaret in chain Itore
around 2 centa a package.
The House voted 33 to 23 to levy
a S percent tax on unincorporated
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Army's June Draft CaH
P.educed To 20,000 Men
WASHINGTON UP) The
army haa issued a draft call for
20,000 men in June.
This Is the smallest number In
any monthly call since the draft
was resumed last September. Since
that time, a total of SAO ,000 men
have been drafted or placed on
call for army duty.
The army got 80.000 men In eacn
of the first three months of this
year. Thereafter, the April draft
was halved to 40.000 and the May
quota was reduced from 50,000 to
40.000.
The army said the cutbacks were
msde because ot the greater num
ber of men volunteering for aerv
ice and lowcr-than-expected cas
ualties in Korea.
The navy, air force and marine
corps said they would not need
any draftees in June. These three
services have been depending en
tirely upon volunteer and the re
call of reservists. .
Casualties Said Heavy
In Israeli-Syrian Clash
ISRAELI - SYRIAN FRONTIER
Heavy fire blaied along
the Israeli Syrisn frontier today
in sharp battles, with heavy cas
ualties on both sides.
Israeli military spokesmen said
Svrian troops and regulara threw
two attacks on Israeli position
near Tel Kl Muteila on the north
shore of the Sea of Caliiee near
the River Jordan. Bofh the attacks,
almost two miles inside Isrsell
territory, were repulsed, th Is
raelis ssid.
FARM SAFETY WEEK
WASHINGTON (P) Presl
dent Truman has proclaimed th
week of Jejy 22 "National Farm
Safety Week." 0
Levity Fact Rant
By L F. Reliensteln
Lt. Gen. Ridqway. U.N. Com
mander In K or ect, reports pos
session of documentary proof
that North loream were the
acjCjreiiort in Vht current war.
This 'scoop' confirm long
standing suspicion held by the
American public
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