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4 Tha Newt-Review, Roieburg, 3bo Dlewsltemew Published Doily Iicept Sunday hy tki News-Review Company. Inc. CaUrai Meand eli mstUr Mt 1. 1130. l Us ( vffiet sl KibBrf. OrccttH, eadr cl f March 1. 11 CHARLES V. STANTON IDWIN L KNAPf Editor Mimjm Member ot tha Aiwciatad Prui, Oregon Nowipopor Pvbllihert Attoclation, tha Audit Bureau at Circulation! rMHUl T WIr-HOI.I.IDA CO. INC!., HUM la Nw rr, Cklcaie, ' rr..cl.c. L AottlM. ..tlU. P.fll.al. St. L..I. f VMCairTlON EATES la 0...-B. M.il r.r T..r, iia.M: .11 " U.U Ibr.a v.atb... 12.76. B)r N.wi-S.vl.w C.rrl.r Ptr Y..r, lll.ee Ma te xtual. 1... Ihaa pi rr. Mr m.nlk. 11.23 Oul.Kl. Or.on By Kill P.r Year, eil.eo, .Is nontM. .M; Ihr. ra.alha. Il.ee. WHERE DANGER LIES By Charles V. Stanton Isn't it rather straps?, when you stop to think about it, that, though we may have hundreds of lightning fires in our forests during a summer season, nearly all disastrous fires are man-caused and, for the most part, preventable? Wouldn't it be supposed that, when lightning starts so many fires, we would get heavier losses from that source? Occasionally fires originating from storms escape and grow. But far more of the major forest fires start from logging accidents, care less campers, or smokers. During the past week we have had scores of lightning fires in western Oregon. None, however, has been of major degree. Yet an exploding power saw, a carelessly dropped match, or an untended campfire may start a blaze that will destroy thousands of acres of virgin timber. Perhaps an experienced forester could tell us why man caused fires so often spread out of control while lightning fires seldom get beyond a lew acres in size. Possibly it is because Nature is more predictable than Man. When a storm strikes a forest area, firefighters immediately are alerted and are prepared to combat fires before they can get a good start. Cut Man is unpredictable and there is no forewarning where his fires may explode. Thus time is lost in getting men and equipment to the scene. The fact that man-caused fires usually are far more se rious and damaging than those originating from natural causes should impel us tn slop and think. Man-caused fires are preventable. They result from carelessness, accident or deliberate incendiarism. We have successfully reduced the number of fires from each 'of these causes through educa tion. We still have far to go, however, before we reduce them to the absolute minimum. We can continue lowering our annual fire losses so long as public interest and cooper ation maintain. Every fire, no matter what its origin, hits us in the pock etbooks. It destroys materials that should be producing jobs. It sends potential payroll and profit dollars up in smoke. It represents loss of potential income tax dollars, while adding to the burden of direct taxes in equal proportion. Thus it pays every one of us to act as a fire warden in helping lessen fires originating from the causes within our control causes which produce the major disasters. Television Interest Lacking We were interested in a recent news item stating that experimental television programs in Basel, Switzerland, have been suspended because of a lack of public interest. A proposal that television be supported by public funds was rejected when the matter was referred to the people of the Canton. The project then mental basis, financed by private capital. After two months the project has been suspended. What is television's future in this country? Surveys indicate that television commands a large au dience when first introduced into a community. Adult view ers, however, are inclined to lose interest after the novelty wears off. Youngsters ren.ain loyal fans. Television draws tcmendous interest when public events broadcasts are on the program. The recent political conventions, for instance, were followed by millions of view ers. Sports events likewis-e draw large audiences. To be financially profitable, TV programs must have commercial sponsorship. Advertising on television is very expensive. Already somfj firms, which jumped into early TV sponsorship, report I'dvcrtising costs to be too high in proportion with business generated. One Swiss Canton hr.s suspended television. Will the television set-up in this country fail in like manner? We doubt it. Despite the fact that television, according to all reports we have obtained, is operating at a heavy deficit, there ap parently is no lack of rA capital. Investors are fighting to grab available channels in large population centers. American capital has a way of making things work. Some method, we believe, will bo found to bring costs more into line with potential returns. Programming will be improved, through studies of subject material, anil service will be ex tended to more people. We don't expect television backers to give up as easily in this country as apparently they did in Switzerland, It's hard to believe that the tightly rolled little ball about the aiie of a baseball can ever unroll itself when placed in a shallow bowl of water; not only that, but turn dark green instead of the dry brownish color it is in tiio store! "Resurrection plant" Is a good name for It. We watched ono wo brought home from the Sealion Cave as it uncurled its ti'.;htlv rolled moss-like self, and it did seem incredible I At another place I bought some of this "air plant'1 one sees ev erywhere now. The salesman said it "would keep for years and grow. Lives on air." Well, alter the res urrection plant's performance I shall expect to see this air plant do tricks, too. The dictionary, by the way, says that "the resurrection plant is Buy of several club mosses of the gen us selaginella. . . whirha. when dry, close ud so as to resemble a bird's nest but expand asain when moistened." One can dry it out thoroughly and put away "until the notion strikes one to have it out gain. Why wouldn't these little novelties be excellent for a friend who is able to enjoy such things in a leisurely way, ono who is In Or. Friday, Aug. 8, 1952 went ahead on an experi MEHDIHG BASKET ftfjMn:Jvw"i-T "tailing) bed, for instance. Especially a child! I have been enjoying two very tall slips of angel-wing begonia which Mrs. II brought one day. Her own plants grow to the ceiling in a room where the ceilings are high. She said she would give me the next "tops" she had to cut off and sure enough she did. How plant-lovers do enjoy sharing! I shall he glad when 1 can have a turn at it again. It's one of the most enjoyable things about gar dening. Despite this heat all ihe little slips I set out have somehow weathered the lack of rain. Dear me, 1 do wish it would rain. Wish we might have had pari of Medford's "inch ot rain" last Sun day. 1 guess they could hae spar ed It all right, don't you think so? This weather is what Calif.irni his call "vrUKtuakc weath.r!" There are big cracks in tho dry ground where 1 have not watered. It's a mystery to me how 'rings along the roadside thrive tho way they do. Uruguay is the smallest of the republics of South America. Fulton WASHINGTON In addition to using a convicted criminal to try and prove that had a colored maid, Alger Hiss, trial attempted to prove that Chambers wasn t even a resi dent in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, at the time he said Hiss visited his home. The effort failed, just as the attempt to discredit the maid end ed in a fiasco. After months of search just pri or to the second Hiss trial, work ing from addresses, descriptions and an nil painting two decades old, the Federal Bureau of Invest igation located Edith Gland Mur ray, a one-time maid at the Cham bers home. J. Edgar Hoover, I'M rrireclor, described the search as the "finest type of FBI investi gative procedure." The Murray woman placed Alger and 1'riscil la Hiss in the Chambers home in Baltimore, clinching the gov ernment's case. The significant date Is April 1, 1938. Chambers had to be in Balti more, at the Mount Royal Ter race Apartments, on that date or much of his testimony regard ing his association with Hiss and the date of his break with the Communist Tarty could be dis credited. Hiss says he was not in the city. As late as April 12, 1M8, Mrs. Chambers ordered gas and elec tric service for the apartment in Baltimore. Ihe utility company records in Baltimore were avail able to the Hiss defense.' Thsy apparently did not check them. The FBI did. On April 1. 1938. Mrs. Cham bers brought the family car to a repair shop at Randallstown, Maryland. This is a suburb of Baltimore. Repair slips are still available. The Hiss defense examined the files of the headmaster of the Park School in Baltimore. Other trial data hinged on an examina tion of the school files; both the Government and the defense can be presumed to have looked over the records carefully. Hiss did not submit to the court two pertinent letters in the Park School files. The two letters in Ihe file ar3 from Mrs. Chambers. The first was mailed from Baltimore on April 2, 1938. The second indicat ed in its contents that the family would bo in Baltimore at least until April 9, 1938. One of the documents Cham bers received from Hiss is dated April 1, 1938. Hiss contours that Chambers left the Communist Party before that date, hence could not, as a Communist, have received anything from Hiss at that time. This Is one document, out ot hundreds. But the date thereon was utilized in an effort to free Hiss from prison. Chambers testified at both tri als that the approximate date of his break with the Communist Party was April 15. 1938. He made the estimate on the basis of a job translating a book for the Oxford University Press. Miles J. I.ane. U. S. attorney who successfully argued against a third trial for Hiss, states in his depostion that the "corre spondence relating to the transla tion was accumulated by the de fendant through the services of Eleanor Kirstein, a former Tass agent." Tass was and is the official Soviet Russian news gathering agency in me u. s Nitli this and other Information ! at his official disposal, Federal ! Judge Henry Goddard ruled that Alger Hiss is not entitled to a j third trial. The notice of the I Full Speed Ahead! iy f$gi Lewis Jr. Whittaker Chambers never in his demands for a third judge's ruling attracted minor at tention in the midst of the presi dential nominating conventions. It is worth repeating, in sub stance, however, and worth re membering in the days ahead. The propaganda that Hiss was framed has not subsided. Judge Goddard ruled; "The contention of the defend ant is that he is entitled to anoth er trial. On the contrary, I am of the opinion, after a full consid eration of all the defendant has offered, that he is not entitled to a new trial; The defendant has submitted no proof which would support a finding by a jury that the typewriter received in evi dence at the trial was constructed by or for Chambers or that the typewriter was not the original Hiss machine. There is no newly discovered evidence which would justify the conclusion that if it were presented to a jury, it would probably result in a verdict ot acquittal." Hiss is eligible for parole this November. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily On KRSR, 9:15 P.M. Year Taken Off Military Stride By Steel Strike WASHINGTON I A Defense Mobilization report, censored be fore it was published, says 25 mil lion man-days of work were lost in the steel strike, knocking mili tary production a whole year off its stride. The report of President Truman was maoe by Aciing Delen.-e Mo bilizer John R. Steelman. who re leased excerpts Wednesday after deleting secret data. Steelman estimated 25 million man-days of work slipped by dur ing the idleness of 600,000 striking steel workers. Stoppages in stoM-using Indust ries before the 54-day strike was settled boosted his total of idle to perhaps 1.400.000 men. There were some bright spots, however, including: 1. The new T-48 medium tank is now rolling off the assembly line. 2. Total warplane output contin ued upward, despite the strike. 3. Serious loss of perishable foods was avoided. Aside from the military phase of mobilization, th? report also said: 1. After removal of pr'ce ceilings from many items, no commodi ties climbed as high as the ceiling level. 2. Easy-payment credit reached a new high of 514.300,000,000. The report also said that draft calls, now running about 30.000 a month, will jump above 50.000 In October and stay that way until June 30, 1953. LICENSE REFUSED BONN, Germany mi The West German Economics Ministry re fused to issue a license Thurs- day for a 35 million dollar trade contract between Red China and a group of German firms drawn up at the Moscow Trade Conference last April. In the Day's News (Continued from PaEe One) is caused by the actions of a wick ed congress that wouldn't heed the wishes of the President and his aonoiMive bureaucrats) the Guar anty Trust Company of New York, which keeps a price index of its own, says in its latest bulletin: "The general level of basic com modity prices CONTINUED TO DECLINE during the 30 days end ing on July 15. The wholesale price index of this company for July 15 stands at 170.2, .showing a decline of 1.9 points BELOW the June fig ur?. This is' the NINTH CONSEC UTIVE MONTHLY RECESSION registered by the index." The report continues: "The index numbers (of whole sale prices of basic commodities) for July and comparable months are as follows: July 1951 , 192.7 June 1952 172.1 July 1952 t 170.2 '"Eight of the commodities, in cluded in the index declined during the period under review, while an equal number advanced and six remained at the levels reported a month ago." It is at least worthy of note that (he bureaucrats who are screaming about the RISE in prices are poli ticians who seek to discredit the congress that wouldn't give them more power., whereas the Guaran ty Trust Company, which says prices have been DECLINING, is merely seeking to give information for the guidance of the business men who are its customers. I know all this sounds cynical In the extreme. I don't like to be cyn ical. I'm deeply ashamed of it. I'd give anything to be able to feel otherwise. But I 'ind I simply CAN'T swallow ANYTHING that comes out of Washington and HAS PO LITICAL ANGLES as this price business certainly does. What wouldn't I give for nation al leadershin that 1 fcan BELIEVE and TRUST! But enough of politics. Let's turn for a moment to Korea. The temperature rose to 100 on the Korean front yesterday. Hardly weather for hard fighting. And yet, during a 13' u hour period, one ad vanced post on the central front changed hands three times. At the last word, red troops held the po sition. If you think fighting your way up a hill under a blazing sun isn't hot and desperate work, just try it some time. Add to the heat the fact that at any moment you may be, cut down by a commie bullet' or a splinter from a comr ie shell or a commie hand grenade. But our boys over there do It. Thev do it unhesitatingly. They KEEP ON doing it. T ran't heln thinkin? that if we on the home front would tackle our problems in the same spirit that our boys on the fighting front tackle theirs we'd soon have every thing running smoothly and effi ciently. Federal Work Slated On Savage Rapids Dam WASHINGTON i Bids are ex pected to be called next month for rehabilitation work on the Savage Rapids Dam near Grants Pass, Ore., Sen. (illy Cordon's (R-Ore) office reported Wednesday. It will be late September or Oc tober before actual work gets started. That will be at the end o the summer irrigation season. Con gress has voted $700,000 for the project which the bureau hopes to have finished before the 1954 irri gation year. TAX OFFICIAL QUITS SALEM Oregon State Tax Commissioner Robert D Maclean resigned Sept. 30, to re-enter priv ate business. Stevenson Not Eager For Close Truman Contact WASHINGTON I President Truman said Thursday that every thing necessary to obtain a Demo cratic victory will come under dis cussion when Gov. Adlai Steven son meets with him and his cabi net here next week. He told a news conference the questions it will include, among other things, what part he should take in the campaign. Since Truman obviously is r'ar ing to get in some licks at the Re publicans, Stevenson may find him self confronted with the difficult task of suggesting that the Presi dent take a back seat. The Demo cratic nominee has been at some pains to avoid close identification with the Truman administration. In a confidential tone, the Presi dent told the newsmen be would have supported Barkley for the Presidential nomination had Bark ley remained in the race. (Barkley pulled out of the race after a group of labor union lead ers publicly called him "too old." He is 74.) Truman went on to say he thought the convention picked the best possible men and men who can be elected. On other political subjects, the president: 1. Voiced his support of W. Stu art Symington for election as Mis souri senator over' GOP James P. Kern. While the President backed State Attorney General J. E. (Buck) Taylor in the primary election Tuesday, he told his news confer ence he is just as fond of Syming ton. Tinman said he voted for Tavlor because he was in a frame of mind to vote for him. He said Taylor's defeat did not affect his own stand ing in Missouri. 2. Said he was glad his frequent! critic. Gov.- James F. Byrnes of : South' Carolina, had been con-; verted. j This was a reference to the fact that Byrnes Wednesday urged the South Carolina Democratic conven-! tion to back the Stevenson-bpark-man ticket. In 1948, South Carolina gave its electoral vote to a States Rights ticket running in opposition to Tru man. Deportation Act Hits Dad Of Two U.S. War Vets BOSTON m A Finish-born 49-year-old mill worker of Wendell, N.H., who says he signed a Com munist party membership appli cation in 1934 because "they told me they wanted to win a strike in which 1 was involved" was ordered deported Wednesday. Federal Judge Charles E. Wy zanski Jr. ruled "witn reluctance" that Carl A. Latva, who signed the Communist application, paid 50 cents and "never heard from them ! again," must be deported to his native Finland. I Judge Wyzanski said that under the McCarran act he was bound to uphold the deportation of Latva. The McCarran act, passed by Congress in 1950 over President i Truman's veto, was aimed at sub versives. Among other things it authorizes deportation of aliens who have been members of any organization advocating violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Aliens ordered deported, but who aren't accepted by their home land, may be jailed here for six months. Latva, whose two sons served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, said at his home: "An immigrant like me ... I don't know right from wrong be cause I hadn't been here very long. Then 20 years later because I tell the truth they want to break up my family and take me away from the country I love." Latva came to the United States as a child of 13 from the village of Pori, Finland and has worked in New Hampshire textile mills since he was 17. In 1941, Latva, who is married to a native-born girl, filed a dec laration of intention to become an i American citizen. j Eight years later he filed a pe tition for United States citizenship which is still pending. Sen. McKellor Facing Tough Election Rival NASHVILLE, Tenn. I Show ers fell over big portions of Ten nessee Thursday but election of ficials said they expect the heav iest vote in history for the Dem ocratic and Republican primaries. Electors will decide the po litical future of K. D. McKellar, 83-ycar-old dean of the Senate in point of service, and Gov. Gordon Browing, who is out for a third consecutive two-year term. McKellar, chairman of the Ap propriations committee, faces his toughest opposition in decades in jn.usr.nM Ren Albert Gore. ' who's Fourth District was elimin i ated by the state's 1951 redistrict ! ing act. Demolition Work Begins For Cow Creek Bridge The bridge across Cow Creek near the Glendale Junction on High way 99 has been closed to traffic, with all vehicles detoured to the by-pass at creek-level below. De molition has been begun in prepar ation for building the modern steel span which is planned there. ERSATZ SNOWBALLS EVANSVILLE, Ind. W - The temperature was in the 80's when an Evansville woman called po lice to complain that some dovs had been throwing snowballs at r.?r house and that one hit her son. The copi were skeptical but in vestigated. They found some boys had fashioned snowballs from shaved ice taken from nearby dairy. Pirt-Timt Work For OSC ! Student Nets $103,670 OREGON STATE COLLEGE -Students at Oregon State college working their way through school earned a total of $103,670 last year on jobs secured by the OSC hous ing ana employment service. Of the total, $89,520 was cash actually received and $14,150 rep resented an estimated valuation of work for board and room, ac cording to Mrs. Rose Duthie, hous ing and employment secretary. Nearly 1200 men and 160 women were listed for work by the college service, Mrs. Duthie reported. Steady cash-earning jobs were found for 226 students. RIOT OVER RICE . PUSAN I Korean newspapers reported that 1,000 civilian refu gees rioted on Koje Island Wednes day because their rice ration had been reduced. f k not kH 1 I imVnmt by I I 1: 1 1 pA, phone 1 2-211 brral 4: 1 S and 7 p-a. KINDERGARTEN TWO HOURS DAILY 3Vz to 6 Yean $10.00 A MONTH 1110 NORTH JACKSON STREET CALL MRS. BERNARD SAAR 3 - 7 3 6 5 n NEED A NEW OUTLET? WE'LL PUT IT RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT IT. BUILDING A NEW HOME? REMODELING AN OLD HOME? 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