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4 Tin Newi-Review, Rouburg, ubldhad Doily Ixeapr Sunday by the Newt-Raview Company, Inc. Sata'a HUH laia aialtar Mar I. Itte at laa fail alllia al aaaaaarg. Oris, aatar Ml ( March t. U11 CHARIU V. STANTON IOWIN L KNAP Hilar Meaaaar , Mamaer at tha AmclaU' Praia, Oraeaa NwiMM' f aUUhera Auacietian, Ik Audit turaaa at Clfcwlatiaaa InnuiM kT f IST-BOI.I.IDA CO, INC.. tfrlMl la Naj Tar. Cakaia. " a. rraaelae.. ' . farUaaa. SI. Uala VBSCairTION BATFa la Oiar.a Br Mill Par taar. tia.tai ill maalai. IS.il' laraa mania,. IM6. Br Nawa-Batlaw (arrtar Par Taar, I1S.M (la !), I... tfcaa ana Taar, aar raaala.fl U Oultld Oraon Bjr IdaU Far Yaar. III.M. all aiaaMi. a.ati laraa aiaalka. II DANGEROUS DROP By Charles V. Stanton A logging crew near Roseburg knocked off work for its lunch hour last Tuesday. Humidity stood at 45 percent. When the men picked up their tools and started back to the iob humidity was 25 percent. That ended work for the day. Whenever humidity hits 30 percent, work in the woods must stop Because of fire danger. This incident shows just how quickly the fire danger can develop. Humidity dropped 20 percentage points in less than one hour. A forest breathes out moisture. This process is called transpiration. When humidity is high the rate of transpira tion is low. As the air becomes drier it acta as a sponge to pick up moisture from the forest. A growing forest area has a deep ground layer of hu mus. This humus cover, composed of decaying twigs, leaves, needles and other vegetable matter, normally is moist. But, because of its porosity, it transpires moisture rapidly. With in a comparatively few minutes it changes from a zone of comparative fire safety to one of extreme hazard. Too few people realize the danger existing in this layer of humus. If a fire starts in the dry ground cover it will spread very rapidly. Or, if normal moisture is present, the fire may smolder for days until a period of low humidity is experienced, whereupon the blaze begins to spread. "Sleeper Fires" Are Dreaded These delayed action fires are quite common after elec tric storms. Lightning will hit an old snag. ' Blazing frag ments will fall into the ground litter, or the bolt may set fire to a partially buried log. Because humidity usually is high during a storm, the fire will smolder. In this stage it is known as a "sleeper." It sends up no smoke, so remains unde tected until it breaks loose, possibly fanned by a stiff breeze. Men charged with forest protection live in dread of these "sleeper" fires which may cause great damage before being brought under control. But a "sleeper" fire does not necessarily originate from lightning. A cigaret or match, before all fire is extinguished, . may be carelessly tossed into forest litter. Perhaps the smoker thinks there is no danger, because the forest floor seems moist. Extremely hot weather makes us conscious of fire dan ger. But on cooler days we are apt to be careless. A lighted cigaret or match tossed into the forest cover is just as potent as a bolt of lightning, insofar as fire is concerned. It may start a fire that will smolder for days. Then may come a sudden drop in humidity, such as occurred Tuesday, and we have a forest fire. These Are Caution Days These are days when everyone should use the extreme caution in the woods. Motorists traveling in forest areas Bhould keep all cigaret butts and matches in ash trays. Never should they be thrown out of a car, even though the smoker may think all fire has been extinguished. Persons moving on foot should never travel while smoking. They should stop for their smoke, then carefully grind out cigaret butts or pipe duffel on a rock or solid ground. Campers should be careful to dig through the humus layer and well into mineral soil be fore building a campfire. The humus layer should be scraped back several feet away from the fire. No campfire should ever be left unattended. To be extinguished, a fire should be thoroughly soaked with water and then "puddled." In "pud dling" a fire, after soaking, stir it with a stick until every ember has been drenched with water, making certain that no spark remains. By far the great majority of forest fires are man-caused. We cannot expect to prevent forest fires set by electric storms or originating from other natural causes. It would be too much to expect that we will ever completely eliminate man-caused fires. It is possible, however, to reduce their numbers if each of us will be just a little more careful. For miles on the Willamette highway recently we followed a bright blue trailer in which a horst was having a most unhappy time. It was a nice trailer: the owner probably thought the horse was quite all right; but we wished the owner could have been in our car a while. The pretly norse wis flung from side to side of the trai ler as It rounded the ninny curves. The high front of the trailer kept the horse from seeing ahead ro i! kept thrusting its neck this way and that in what seemed a desper ate and vain attempt to SEE where it was going. For many, many miles wo followed, and we were not creeping along! It soemed to me a bit like 'lie way one felt In the old days be fore there were two windshield wipers; the passenger beside the driver had a horrid feeling of go ing into a wall because in a storm or fog there was no visibility on that side of the car. Then, too, I have always thought lhat hor.es dislike a feeling of insecurity, al though I can believe, in time, ene might become used to a trailer. But WHY couldn't a horse-'ra.lcr have a little window, plastic for safety, so the animal would feel he had visibility? The wonder of the Incident I have described was that the horse didn't pet bruised, or even break a leg! It was simply flung from side to side and (with curves as frequent and the speed of ihe car ahead what it was) the whole thing w?s a traffic hazard! But Ort Thur., July 10, 1952 ENDING BASKET my concern at the time was for the horse! Just as popular thought at first was that prohibition would ruin the raisin industry, instead of which it boomed it; that the radios would wreck the phonograph Dusi ness, whereas they are making more records than ever, just so automobiles have not done away with saddle horses. A friend of ours who raises fine horses he sold a colt recently for $3,000 said that his business is booming. Rea son? Every little town nowadays is getting interested in saddle hors es. "It's a way of getting back to the 'good old days' without miss ing anything in the present. It's relaxing, gets a person outdoors, is nice for groups of people or for folks who want to get away from a crowd." Ask any librarian how the young er generation feels about HORSES! Auto Crash Kills Boy, Injuries His Mother GRANTS PASS tff An automo bile collision killed a year-old boy and injured his mother in Grants Pass Monday. Their car and a taxicab collided near the business district, hurling the baby, Darrell Topping, to his death against the windshield. The mother, Mrs. I.ynden Topping, was hospitalised, the extent of her in juries not determined at once. The cab driver, William Dilling no, escaped injury. I Fulton Lewis Jr. m . m aafl H CHICAGO While Chicago rocks under the impact of the Republican convention, a small group of dismayed poli ticians are working quietly in a secluded hotel suite on a plan for remodeling the party. They are led by GOP Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, SenHa minority leader. He has a staff of assistants, including sev eral members of Congress, all of whom are certain that Republi cans cannot elect a president next November unless the warring fac tions accept soma kind of peace program. Bridges and his aides have even attempted to extract prom ises from Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower and Senator Robert A. Taft that the loser in their fight for the GOP nomination would accept a vice-presidential nomination, Taft was approached through a prominent Republican from New York who is now in Chicago. Eisenhower was approached via his brother, Milton, who is also in this city in conference with the New Hampshire senator. The replies of both men. if they have been received, are a dark Chicago secret. It is known that Milton Eisenhower was the go-be tween for the General in order to bypass Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Bridges knows that Lodge, flushed with confidence and arro gance, will not compromise on anything before the nominating race, and probably with little af terward. A public relations firm is help ing the senator and his staff to prepare the proposal, which will go to convention delegates when and if a go-ahead is obtained from the two main contenders. Other candidates also have been ap proached. Not since 1920 have Republicans heen as widely split as they are today. Responsible leaders, then now, acted in the interests of parly harmony while recrim inations and bitter charges of thievery and double-crosses filled the air. In 1920, however, instead of at tempting to heal the breach by offering the vice-presidency as a sop, the delegates took the mat ter into their own hands. Thev refused to budge when Gov. Frank Lowdcn of Illinois and. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood were deadlocked. Instead, they forced the nomination of a dark horse, and made it plain to both candi dates that they were doing so be cause of disgust over the political bickering. Nothing could stop the assem bled delegates here today from doing the same tiling. Bridges is convinced, howev er, that within a few ballots one of the top candidates will have persuaded enough delegates to promote the nomination. He will not say whether he thinks this is Taft or Eisenhower. But he is con vinced that a move to pacify the loser must be made immediately. It will not be enough for the losing candidate to be generous with promises of support for the win ner. Senator Taft has already done this and Eisenhower has in dicated that he, too, would make the same statement if defeated. What is needed, however. Is the support of the followers of the losing candidate in an election in November, which all hands con cede is far from being won. And unless some sweetness and light, along with decent political pres tige, is ladled out. Republicans will Kill be snapping at one an 'Insatiable l. 'iVA; I a laui ar m I rlJillKNLVJK other through the fall elections. Additional pressure for the Bridges proposal is coming from Republican governor! in the var ious states, as well as members of Congress up for re-election. In fact, a serious effort was made at Convention Hall, when floor managers of Taft and Eisen hower delayed the start of the convention more than an hour while listening to peace proposals. Summerfield of Michigan and Sen ator William Knnwland of Califor nia were the two men who ask ed for a joint conference with Taft's and Eisenhower's campaign managers. The meeting ended in failure, with Clarence Brown, Ohio rep- representative and Summerfield emerging with statements of dis gust tor Senator Lodge. Both said the issue in this case the seating of seven Louisiana delegates could and should have been set tled in the conference room. But Lodge demurred. Senator Bridges, if his plan is to succeed, will first have to be successful in keeping it out of Lodge's hands. That much we can be sure of here in Chicago but that is about all. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRNR, 9:15 P.M. Delegates Tell Credo Of Kiwanis Convention If the Kiwanis International con vention held in Seattle recently accomplished only one of its pur poses to encourase the peoole of America to exercise their riqht to vote the session was wor'h while, in the opinion of Roseburg delegates who attended. Horace Berg, lieutenant govern or, discussed phases of the con vention and talks by prominent speakers, who emphasized the im portance of the peoples' exercis ing their right of franchise. Reporting also at Tuesday's Ki- wanis Club meeting were Georse iscuner. Nat Johnson and Matt Campbell. Another point stressed by top speakers, they reported was that the "government must exist for the people: not the people lor me government, "the govern ment derives its powers from thi governed, but during the last few years the people have been govern ed from above." "Liberty, let's keep It." was the general theme carried on banners promoting the convention, which attracted some 10.000 Kiwanians, in addition to many of their wives and children, for whom special en tertainment was provided. "Tl" history of liberty is the history of limitation of government powers." "We can't defeat Russia by establishing despotism at home." These were only a few of the quotes which the speakers brought back from the convention as expression of the general tenor of the meeting. Dr. Byron Woodruff, who b,id heen named as a delegate but went to Florida instead, reported briefly on his trip to Miami, and home by way of Washington, D.C., ind Niagara Falls. PI aajm fni a - t mm v jMaun mm,.mmmmmrmmm. B ' Tl ' ' NEW RECRUITER A. L. DeMott, left, for nearly three years Roseburg Navy recruiter, welcomes Leo H Boyd who will take his place loter this month. DeMott has been trans ferred to sea duty. (Staff Picture). In the Day's News (Continued from Page One) The convention itself decided (on an appeal to the floor! that 68 of Ihe 93 contested delegates. most ot tnem laft men, can not vote on seating contests until their own contests are decided. In ef fect, that action forbade a CON TESTED delegate to vote for him self or for any other contested delegate until his own status has been decided. This is the point: 1 The action that was taken was OPPOSED by Ihe Taft forces. It was FAVORED by the Eisenhow er people. The Eisenhower con tention was upheld by 54 MORE THAN A MAJORITY of all the delegates. It amounted to what is termed a TEST vote. Such votes come often in congress on minor amend ments to important bills. These minor amendments may not in themselves be of great Import ance, but the way the members divide on them is apt to forecast the way the voting will go on the bill when it reaches the point of final action. So far, the Taft forces have held control of the important committees, including the com mittees that pass on delegate con tests, but Monday's vote Indicates that in the pinches they can't con trol the convention itself. Therein lies the significance of the vote. It has been known all along that Senator Taft, who started early, would come Into the con vention with more pledged dele gates than General Eisenhower, who started late. But at no time has Senator Taft's pledged and nailed-down total of delegates ap proached the 604 necessary to nominate on the first ballot. There has been a twilight zone of dele, gates who might go either way. Mr. Taft, hoping to appeal to the more or less universal desire to be on the winning side, has adopt ed an attitude of complete con fidence with the idea of pulling these band-wagon people over to his side. The Ike forces, also aware of this fundamental urge to back a winner, have stressed the con tention that General Eisenhower will be a far more certain win ner next November, hoping that when the last chips go down the desire to name a winner in Novem ber will pull enough wobbly dele gates over to their side to bring their total of votes up to or past the 604 needed to nominate. Monday's test votes indicates that COULD happen. That is why it was significant. Reception To MacArthur's Keynote Speech At G.O.P. Meet Not Overwhelming By JAMES MARLOW CHICAGO UP Like a man who can be called if needed Gen. Douglas MacArthur flew into the Republican conven tion Monday night, made the keynote speech, and flew right back to New York. Conceivably, he could become the Republican nominee (or pres ident, if Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Taft kill their own chances in a deadlock, or he could be picked for vice president if Taft seta the nomination. There's no chance for him to run as vice president on an Eisen hower ticket While the two gen erals have worked together in uni form, and known each other for years, there's no love lost between them. And two military men on one ticket would be one too many, any way. But the reception (he general got here, no matter how it may have sounded on TV, was far from overwhelming. He received long applause and cheers when he marched down the center aisle in a well-fitting blue civilian suit. And he was interrupted 73 times by applause during his 57 minute speech. Some Oalegates Silent . But from the press box, next to the speaker's platform and with a good view of the delegates ou the floor, it was clear to this re porter that not all the delegates were cheering or applauding him to a man. Many of them sat still, looking up at him. This was his eighth major speech since the one in which he told Congress 15 months ago, after being fired by the Truman admin istration, that old soldiers just fade away. Each speech he has made delayed the fading. His speeches have been increas ingly bitter against the adminis tration but Monday night's outdid Quiet Election B In Mexico Turns To Bloodshed MEXICO CITY Ml Monday's political riots claimed a fourth life as soldiers and police patrolled uie streets of Mexico City Tuesday. AH roads leading to this capital city were blocked. Police said the numbers of persons under arrest had reached 400, compared with 3UO Monday. Three were killed in the riots and a fourth rioter, not identified, died Tuesday of his injuries. Esti mates of the number of injured varied from 65 to 200. Police de clined to report on the dead and injured. Similar outbreaks were reported in other Mexican cities. All an- parently were quelled quickly, how ever, and there were no indications of any deaths or injuries. Government sources said Mon day night's riots were only the curtain raiser to a large uprising by supporters of anti-government candidates running far behind in the counting of votes from Sunday's presiaentiai elections. The disorders ended the political peace which had reigned since the polling began and which had led many Mexicans to congratulate themselves on their country's first modern election without violence. Boy Nearing 2 To Get Cigars For Birthday NEWARK. N. J. iff Little Jimmy McLaughlin has exacted a solemn promise from his mommy for his second birthday Aug 3 a big box of Italian stogies just for himself. Jimmy blue eyes, blond ha.r and always ready to talk a blue streak was getting a little tired of mooching his father's cigars. He began smoking when he was eight months old. "He picked up daddy's cigar one day." said his pretty 23-year-old mother, "and there's been no hold ing him ever since. He's unbear able all day long unless he has his early-morning cigarette." She estimates his daily con sumption at six cigarettes and one cigar. Jimmy, who has been carrying on conversations since he was one, says he likes fun and girls in addition to cigars and wants to play baseball for the Giants. The comment of his physician, Dr. Nathan Zuckerberg: "Defini tely a precocious child." all the others. MacArthur con demned the administration at home and abroad. It was a care fully prepared speech and the gen eral paused so perfectly in the right places It's possible he prac. ticed it before delivering it. Atlantic Pact Avoidad MacArthur told his audience he had been a Republican all his life and since a keynote speech is sup posed to rally a political party while lambasting the opposition, MacArthur delivered as expectea. He nowhere mentioned the Atlan tic Pact, which engaged so much of Eisenhower's time in building up a European Army, but he seemed to cast doubt on its ability to work. While savlni? we must keep our agreements the Atlantic Pact would be one of them ne saia failure of "collective security" in Korea "plainly warns us that loo much must not be expectea irora collective security elsewhere." Sn although he was making the keynote speech, the foreign policy plank adopted by tne Kepumicans at this convention may go. mucii further and will have to go fur ther If it's going to meet Elsen hower's demands than MacAr thur seems to want to so in foreign alliance and help. MacArthur bad solutions (or do mestic problems, too, but again onlv Generalized without saying precisely how he tnougnt tne solu tions could be worxea out. Shoe Factory's Product Evokes Russian Satire MOSCOW 11 A Soviet satirist thundered Tuesday that anybody who wears the shoes made by the Penza regions Kuznetsk shoe fac tory will have to walk tip-toe. All the shoes have nails sticking up through the heels. . Satirist G. Rylkin, writing in the government newspaper Uvestia, snorted that the heads of the Kuz netsk factory are nothing but "shoemakers." In Russia, "shoemaker" is prac tically a bad word. It is used as an epithet to describe anyone who is totally incompetent. The Kuznetsk factory, said Ryl kin, has spoiled its goods for two years. In 1951, he added, 18.000 pairs of women's and men's shoes had to be junked, and "special atten tion was devoted to spoiling wo men's summer sandals." - J The trouble, said Rylkin, is this: "During the first three weeks of each month the heads of the Kuz netsk factory 'catch flies and count crows' and then during the last week declare 'storms' ('go all out') to fulfill the output quota set by the plan, forgetting totally about quality," Federal Power Board Chairman Appointed WASHINGTON Iff President Truman Tuesday gave Thomas C. Buchanan a recess appointment good until Congressyeconvenes as chairman of the Federal Power Commfssion. Buchanan, a Beaver, Pa. lawyer, has been FPC chairman since 1948, but the Senate did not confirm his reappointment when Truman nom inated him earlier this year. , The Senate Commerce Commit tee refused to act, and at the time Chairman Edwin C. Johnson (D.. Colo.) said it meant Buchanan was out of a job. Some members opposed him on grounds he was not qualified for the post. Owner Of Repaired Car Sues Motor Company PORTLAND Iff Balsiger Motor Co. of Klamath Falls was sued in Federal Court here Monday by a Seattle motorist who said faulty repairs caused him to have another accident. The motorist. Frank P. Webb. said in his complaint that he ran into a tree, damaging the steering mechanism. The Klamath Falls garage, he said, repaired it, and he started out. Within a hundred miles, he said, he ran off the road again, suffering permanent inju ries. He asks $27,763 damages. Italian Women Cooks Finally Win Recognition BOLOGNA. Italy Iff This i city's association of cooks finally admitted that women, at least po- tentially, can fry an egg. i For the first time since the as- J sociation was founded 50 years ago, 16 women cooks were award-1 ed association diplomas. i Said Association President Carlo Bolognini: "Members have gen erously decided to make peace with the women cooks in recognt tion of their potential culinary abilities." T Nawa-ftavfaw aat aart baaa I I alaRraraat by I A: I S bjm piaaa I Mall bahm claaai;.a MIG Speed Tops World Record, ' Magazine Says NEW YORK Iff .Russia's Ml-G-15, which is tangling with U.S. F-88 Sabres over Korea, has a top speed in excess of the world's of ficial aDeed record and a sensa tional rate of climb of nearly two miles a minute at sea level, accord ing to Aviation Week, McGraw Hill publication. The magazine says in an exclus ive story based on a newly declass ified but long-secret Air Force evaluation of a captured plane that the Mi-U's speed is 584 knots (672 r'lcs an hour) and Its rale of tmb at sea level 10,400 feet a minute. The official world speed record Is 670.981 mph, set at sea level in 1948 in an F-86 by USAF Maj. Richard L. Johnson. Ex perimental aircraft have gone faster, but their exact speed has not been disclosed. There are three versions of the Russian-built Mi-G-15 in operation against United Nations forces in Korea; two are day fighter types and the third is equipped with radar for night and all-weather operation, according to the mag azine. In configuration the Ml-Gs are the same, but thrust of a later -model has been Increased through J further engine development. Gross weight of the Mi-G is about 12,500 pounds, as against 16,500 pounds' for the F-86A Sabre. Its wingspan is 33 feet, with 42-degrea sweepback. Armament includes two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. auto matic cannon. The magazine quotes a top USAF spokesman as saying, "Sov iet workmanship reflected in fabri cation of Mi-G-15 turbojet engine parts is high, of excellent quality, and jn many instances compar able to American standards and practice." The Russians have managed to squeeze an extra 1,000 pounds of thrust from their version of tha British Rolls-Royce Nene jet en gine which powers the Mi-G, for a total of 6,000 pounds, dry, at sea level, the magazine reports. (At 375 mph., one pound of thrust equals -one horsepower. The Mi-G-15 engine closely ap proximates the U.S. and British advanced development of the or iginal Nene jet .engine, the mag azine points out, but the execution of development has been markedly different. This is representative of a separate approach and is ob viously the result of independent Soviet work. Materials used in construction of the" Russian engine are similar to those used in later advancements of the- original Nene by the Brit ish and by Pratt 4 Whitney Air craft Division, United Aircraft Corp. Soviet Initiative Shewn Aviation Week quotes Air Force officials as saying analysis of the Russian power plant combustion chamber shows that the Soviets combined a substantial amount of initiative with known procedures in duplication and copying. Evalua tion engineers admitted tnat tne Soviets have overcome .a design problem that until recently had been. rtually an insurmountable obstacle for the British and U.S., the magazine says. The captured Mi-G was built in 1948 at Zabod, 1, Kuybyshev. The Soviet manufacturer redesignated the copied engine as model RD 45. The Mi-G-15 in many respects still outperforms the Sabre, ac cording to the magazine, because the U.S. fighter is ornamented with almost two tons of 'gadgets' deemed necessary by the military for pilot safety and convenience in flight. The Air Force analysis was made by engineers of Pratt & Whitney,' East Hartford. Conn.; USAF technical specialists at Wright-Patterson AFB, O.; Cor nell Aeronautical Laboratory at Buffalo, N. Y., and several other agencies. Transmission Lines Work Dispute Aired PORTLAND Iff A National Labor Relations Board hearing on whether the AFL Brotherhood of Electrical Workers should hava. jurisdiction over 1,500 employes oi Northwest Line Constructors Asso ciation, opened here Tuesday. The workers are those who build transmission lines and sub stations. The electrical workers' union locals at Portland. Medford. Seat tle and Tacoma claim jurisdiction. Opposing this are the operating engineers, teamsters, carpenters, hod carriers, and building and con struction laborers' union. Robert J. Wiener is the NLRB examiner, who will make his rec ommendation at the close of the hearing. VaVaMlai STEARNS MORTUARY Funeral Director HOLT GRIMES Mrs. Harry Stearns Licensed Lady Assistont Our service is for all and meets every need. Any distance, any time. Phone 2711 or 2713 Oakland, Oregon
