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4 The News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Thur. July 1, 1954 Published Daily Icpt Sunday by the News-Review Company, Inc. KnUrad aa MctnA elm mallar Mar i, ma, al Ik aait atrtca at Beitbnrr. Ort(on, intar Ml af March t, lS'l, CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Mom Mambar of Hi AtMcidfd Prais, Oregon Nawiaapar Publishers Alsoclyiion, the Audit Buravu af Circulations (aprisaala br WEST-HOLUDAT CO., INC., afflcaa la N.w Yark, Chlcafa, San Franclaco, Loa Angalaa, Saattlt, Portland, Daavar SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Orafon Br MaU Par Yaar, H2O0; al montha, I M; thiaa montha, S3. 28. Outataa Oralon Br HaU Tar Yaar, $13.00; alx montha, 1.00; Uvea montha, 93.30. Br Nawa-Revtaw Can-tar Par Yaar, 113.00 (la advancal, laaa than on yaar, par month, SI .35. ASIATICS TAKE NOTE! Charles V. Stanton Was the short-lived Guatemalan fracas staged as a sort of sideshow to teach Asiatie anti-communist forces how to combat the Red menace? No one would admit it, of course. But it Is an interest Ins conjecture. Our State Department ha been very disturbed by the presence of a Communist-dominated government so close to the Panama Canal. A comparatively few years ago we might have taken more direct undesirables in the neighboring state. But current world conditions call for more finesse in cleaning out a nest of subversives. While troubled by this Red cancer in our own hemis phere, the State Department has been striving to inspire anti-communist forces in Asia to combat increasing aggres sion in that part of the world. The desired spirit of resist ance, hdwever, has been hard to build, particularly in face of moiintinu.Ked victories. ' The revolution in Guatemala is the first really decisive victory over communist aggression anywhere. Yet it was achieved strictly by a small group of fiery politicians who, when encouraged to lead out, found ready cooperation among the populace of the oppressed country. Straw Men Exposed We Imagine our own State Department . was calling most of the signals for the revolt in Guatemala. It was not hard to find leaders among exiled Guatema- ' lans. They have a unique practice in the Latin-American countries. 1 A person who gets into political trouble, if he can es cape to a neighboring state, is usually given asylum and becomes a political exile. He then spends most of his time trying to formulate a political coup that will permit his return. Thus, when someone wants to start a revolu tion, it is easy to find leaders. Naturally our State Department would be expected to deny any hand in the Guatemalan affair, but denial doubt less would be accompanied by pat to be considered otherwise. ' Asiatics undoubtedly will interpret the fracas in the light of their own problems. The victory by rebel forces in Guatemala exposed the Red regime to be composed by straw men. But because the straw men had guns, and could keep the nopulace under domination, the Communists were in the saddle. Populace Supports Rebels .But when guns appeared in the hands of anti-conimun-ists the populace rushed to help clean out the nests of the subversives. Tyrannies of Red oppressors are not con , ducive to party popularity. Is there not, then, a lesson for overrun and threatened Asiatic countries in the strategy connected with the revolu tion in Guatemala? Will not anti-Red leaders in Asiatic countries see a hope that they too can lead successful revolutions? Will they not gain confidence that they too will find cooperation from oppressed people if they can show those people an opportunity to throw off the yoke of tyranny? We can only conjecture and surmise as to the strategy by which the Reds were overthrown in Guatemala, and we can only suspicion that there was a large measure of dem onstration engineered by onr State Department as a sug gested pattern for the Asiatics we are attempting to draw into the anti-communist fight. At least jt's a good example. NEW YORK (. The marital romance of movie star La raine Day and Leo Durocher, manager of the New York Giants baseball club, is a victory of later love over dislike at first sight. The first time Laraiue, who looks like the girl every man hopes to wed, met Leo was in one of those velvet skip-rope Manhattan night clubs. "Everybody crowded around to talk to him as if he were import ant," she recalled. "1 didn't know who he was, but I certainly did dislike him." The feeling was so strong that two years later, when Laraine saw l.eo hoarding a plane on which she was a passenger, she hoped lie wouldn't sit by her because she dreaded having to talk to him But Leo sal down and did most of the talking. "I looked over at him after a while," said Laraine, "and slid denly thought to myself, 'This is the man I'm going to marry.' lie didn't know it but I did." Soon after that thev were mar ried. As .-- girl Laraine hated base ball so much that she would urn- fiire a game at school to keep rom having to play it. But todjy she wlchcs some 77 baseball games year. "It's making a nervous wreck out of me," she said. "I don't feci like an average fan. Winning ar. l losing affects our Uvea. It s our future. "When we lose a game, I'm much more upset than lo. tie doesn't bring the game home wilh him. "If the Giants win, we take in movie. We never go out aftor he loses a game, nut il l not oc cause die feels miserable. "He says,-'People slwSys ak you how you lost they never ask you how you won. But if you've lost a game, there la no point in losing it over and over again. Laraine, who recently completed a leading role in "The High and the Mighty," has adjusted her film career so as not to let i! conflict with the job of being Mrs. Durocher. . . . action to get rid ot political crossed fingers. It was too She makes a picture a year, acls in (our television dramas, serves as a panelist on the TV program, "I've Got a Secret." but she goes 'o spring training with Leo, at tends every home game here, and when Ihe team takes lo the road flies out to their California home to be with their children, Chris and Michele. "Before 1 married I.eo 1 wauled to win an academy award," she said. "Now all I want is for u lo win the pennant. My work is secondary." I.araine has done a wonderful public relations job for her hus band's ball club. She is popular im me piayers and their wives. me sports wri er hk hoi- an4 the wives of the sports writers ; like her. too. (or her pleasant 1 honest, friendly manner. In tne ! lealons world of baseball her ta.k hasn it been easy. Laraine has won' out hy being simplv what she i good wife who backs her hus band all the way. "People who meet Leo for the ' first hme are always surprised ;o find out he isn't a roughneck " she said. "Why. l.eo dresses heaii-l lilully, and he is always gracious I and charminji, , "That may sound like I 'm in love with him. Hut I don't alwavs agree with his baseball strategy The thing about Leo is that lie can talk you out of a game. He could be success at anything he went Into." Laraine Is credited by the sports writers with putting m,ich of tne present polish ot iier rhinetone-in-the rough. She herself feels. the stories of his truculrnce are ex gjerated sports world myths. With her. gently does it. The beat part of the year is the winter period in their new home in Bev In The Day's News (Continued from Pago One) the communist brand of Ihe ham mer and sickle permanently burn ed into its rump. I'd say that before we can reach the desirable stage of "peaceful co-existence" with the Soviets that you mention we'll have to convince the men in the Kromlin that they JUST CAN'T HAVE THE WORLD WITH THE SOVIET, BRAND BURNED INTO ITS RUMP. Convincing them of that is our present job. It's a big job. Once we get them convinced that WE CAN'T BE TAKEN it will be com paratively easy to figure out a way to get along with them in the world. But as long as thev think tht;y can TAKE US, they'll keep on trying. What went on in Guatemala is still puz.ling including the hi'l. den ball trick the commies ap parently tried when President Ar benz resigned in favor of a junta thai seemed to have been rather i heavily loaded wilh communists. The anti-conimiinist crowd, how-' ever, refused to fall for it and , held out for elimination of all! communist influences in the cau-1 ital. I still hope the anti-communists down there (who seem to I have handled themselves rather i well so far) turn out to be Gualf-I malan PATRIOTS who are ready to fight and die if need be 'o 1 tree their countrv of communism 1 and KEEP IT FREE. j If the spread of communism is to be checked, there must he ' found somewhere in the world some nation that is rendv atrl willing to EIGHT FOR ITS OWN 1 LIBERTY. Guatemala might be that na tion. Anyway, it's worth hoping. At the moment, it will have to be agreed, the world is a ralher grim-looking spectacle. The farth er one looks, the harder it is to see a bright spot. Wait a minute. Do you remember the gencr.il reports from the valley of the Rio Grande about this time a year ago? It was so dry that every thing was cracking open. BUT NOW THE RIO GRANDE IS STAGING THE RIGGEST; FLOOD IN ITS LONG HISTORY You never can tell. Harry Truman's Condition Better KANSAS CITY W - Former President Harry Truman was re ported greatly improved and past the critical stage of his illness Tuesday by Dr. Wallace Graham.! his physician, who gave a personal ; report on his patient's condition. Mr. Truman's condition has been ' listed as serious since last Salur-i day, a week after he underwent an emergency operation for the1 removal of his appendix and gall ; bladder. Dr. Graham said Mr. Truman1 showed signs of being his old self Tuesday morning, and greeted him with this comment "Well, doctor I'm over the hump. We have this thing whipped " Hie doctor said the former Pres. ident has improved greallv "1 would say the critical stage is past," the doctor told a news 1 conference. "Mr. Truman is show ing signs of being his old self. He is quite aleii. His eyes are clear i and he certainly is much better." The former President's recovery has been hampered hv his hvper-! sensitivity to antibiotic drugs' needed in his treatment. erly Hills, which has a soda foun-l tain in the den. : "I.CO loves Ice cream," she said ! "I serve him a banana split fori lunch, and a thick chocolate milk shake in the afternoon. In the evening he likes a variety of sun daes." Nobody pilches harder for Dure, cher today than the ami who looked at him in an airplane sev en ers ago and suddenly rea-j lized he was her world. I Anchor Point FBI Reports On Powell Said Out- Of Files By ROWLAND EVANS JR.. WASHINGTON un William F McKcnna, the administration's top housing scandal investigator, testi fied Tuesday an FBI report listing eigni arrests oi uyne u. rowel:, ousted former top official of the r ha, is missing from the agency's 1HVS. Powell's record came out as he refused for the second time to an swer questions by senators investi giiting million-dollar "windfall" profits from builders of government-backed apartment projects. Twice at "hearings before the Senate Banking Committee Powell has based his refusals to answer on "my constitutional protection against being compelled to be a witness against myself." Committee Chairman Capehart (R-IndP tried without success !j get Powell to answer questions aliout his past record in which the FBI showed arrests dating back 38 years for embezzlement, larceny bad checks and disorderlies'-. Capehart then said that PoweK "hid behind the fifth amendment." The senator placed in the hear ing record Powell's 19114 applica tion for an FHA job. Capehart said it showed the 58-year-old Powell replied "no" to the question wheth er he ever had been "arrested for any reason whatsoever." McKenna. deputy Housing and Home Finance Agency administra tor., said he has been unahle to find any trace of a 1941 FBI re port on Powell. He said the record, showing the arrests, was sent to the Civil Serv ice Commission in 1941 and again in 1948. In normal course it wou'd have been forwarded to FHA, Mc Kenna said, but it is missing. Onlv a disorderliness arrest, at Washington hotel in 1943, occurred while Powell was in FHA's employ as assistant commissioner in charge of rental housing. PoweiZ then forfeited $5 bail. Americans Hold Sway At Casino In Baden-Badsn BADEN-BADEN, Germany OB The croupiers of Baden-Baden's" famous gambling casino are bon ing up on their English. Once, French. German and perhaps Ital ian sufficed. But these days tne "Spielhank" sees more Ameri cans than anyone else, be they officers and civilians stationed in Germany or part of a huge tour ist crowd. As a result, thus looks like this watering place's best year since before Ihe war. A tropical garden in the Black Forest, the town of Hadrn-Railrn has attracted kingi, nobles and shoe manufacturers, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers for many generations. The hotels are jammed. So are the places where maladies a.-e treated with a series of "baths," hut, saline waters that gush from the earlh and apparent have some properties to alleviate arm ritis, rheumatism, gall bladder troubles, and even nervous tics. The French still more or less "occupy" the area it's part o their zone hut these signs are fast disappearing;. The visitor tak ing a "cure" is now king. Some doctors scoff at the bath. But old-timers who have been coming here for years are still ambling around at incredible ag es, able to pack away thr-o Kliiare meals a day without burp ing and they contend there's something to it. OSC Professor Will Succeed BPA Engineer PORTLAND Eugene C. Starr, 52, professor of electrleai engineering at Oreson State Col lege, will succeed Sol E. Schullz. resigned, as chief engineer of l!ie Bonneville Power Administration, it w.i announced here Wednes day. The appointment is effective July 1. Slarr. a native of Oregon, was graduated from Oreaon Stale and has tiiiwlit at the Corvallis schoil continuously since 1927. Since 19.19. he has been consultant engineer for BPA He was civilian scienti fic observer at the Bikini atom.c tests in 1946. Congress Chat By HARRIS ELLSWORTH. M. C, 4th Oregon - Diitrict Whether by accident or intent, the bill to authorize the appropri ation of funds for foreign aid called the Mutual Security bill- comes to tne noor oi tne Mouse at a time of great tension in world affairs. I am certain, how ever, that it could not have been "planned thai way." The bill is a big one in that it covers our world-wide efforts, and it has been the subject of much study and long hearings by the Foreign Af fairs Committee. The Committee just happened to finish its la bors and send the bill to the House for consideration coincidental with: (1) the visit of Prime Min ister Churchill and British For eign Minister Anthony Eden; (2) tiie disturbing speech made in the House of commons by Eden: (3) communist activity in Central and South America which is causing serious worry here; (4) a new government of France which is moving independently in coaling with the Indo-China problem; and (5) the fizzling out of the con. terence in Geneva. Only about 27 percent of th some 3.5 billions in the bill goes lo Europe. That, as well as the re mainder, is mainly for the purpose of bolstering up the defense ef forts and military ability of the free world. Although it seems necessary to go ahead with expenditures of this type while world tension con tinues, I shall vote for this au thorization bill with no enthu iasm. I cannot escape the feeling that there is just a slight toned of hysteria behind the writing of j millions and billions into such a ; bill. In other words, I respect the experience, the wisdom and sin. ! eerily of the Foreign Affairs Com mittee but I wonder about their ability in the field of mathemat ics. For example, one thing in particular bothers me about the bill. Of funds PREVIOUSLY ap propriated some $2.6 billions are still unspent, although obligated meaning that contracts or other commitments have been made. To over simplify the matter a bit, I would feel better about if if they would use up the money already given before asking for more. The bill referred to is not, how ever, the final step in taking this money from the treasury. The Ap propriations Committee will set the amounts recommended to be appropriated. Perhaps that com'mitlee, more versed in figures than is the Foreign Affairs Com mittee, can straighten out tne mathematics. It seems pretty certain, as this Is wcitten. that Ihe forthcoming Rivers and Harbors and Flood i Control bill will contain a para! qrapn auinonzing tne construction nf Ihe Green Peter Dam on the Sanliam River as a multiple-purpose project including power Senator Cordon and I introduced this legislation a year ago last April. What it means is that plan ning and construction money can he appropriated for this dam. !f the so-called partnership hill is en acted for this project later Ina Federal government will be re lieved of the necessity for borrow ing some S'-'8.ooo.O0O to pay for the power facilities which will then be paid for Iqcally. Meanwhile this much needed flood control dam will become eligible for appropri ations. Oregon Gors $12 Million Federal Highway Funds WASHINGTON Secretary of Commerce Weeks Wednesday an nounced apportionment of 8. 5 mil. lion dollars in federal highway aid for what he said would be "the greatest surge in highway con struction in the history of Ameri ca." The money will be doled out to the slates and territories during the fiscal year beginning a year (rom Thursday as they put up matching funds and make highway Improvement expenditures. New York go! the biggest allot ment over 58 million dollars. Ver. mont got the smallest 4 million. The slatr-by state breakdown in cludes: California $47,108,037: Idaho to. 897.775: Montana $13,551,714; Ore gon $12,889,469 and Washington $14,(1.986. Peter Jdon WASHINGTON - (NEA) -The Pentagon will have the equivalent of 30 civilian vice presidents d new proposals by Defense Secre tary C. E. Wilson are approved by Congress. Mr. Wilson wants Armv. Navy and Air Force to have two more assistant secretaries apiece for a total of six more "v.p.'s." I Each service now has a secre tary, an undersecretary and two assistant secretaries a total of 12. The Department of Defense now) Every one of these civilian vice n...iw.ni. r ... Hna hi. deputies and assistants, plua equivalent military men in uni form to tell them what it's ail about. The result is that there is now proportionately more top bureaucracy around the Pentagon than there ever was. This explains in part why ses sions like Secretary Wilson's big conference and clambake at Quantico over a recent ' weekend teems like a good thing. They help everybody get acquainted with everybody else on a first name basis. The official attend ance was around 151). Call 'em vice presidents and you won't be far wrong. MORE EVIDENCE THAT au tomobile salesmen aren't on the job in these recession days plugging their product and pin ning down prospects has been furnished by Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey. At a "Borrowing Committee" meeting of about 30 leading bankers from all over the coun try, brought to Washington every so often to review government loan programs, the secretary ask ed how many of the group had been called on by an automobile salesman this year. Only two of the bankers raised their hands. Secretary Humphrey then asked how many of the group would now be in the market for a new car if solicited and sold. Fifteen raised their hands. P.S. to salesmen. Secretary Humphrey himself isn't in the market. He just traded in the oU I convertible which he drives around town himself when it de veloped mechanical 'rouble. This Is what made it safe for him to raise the question. THE OLD SUBJECT of liquor and entertainment expenses fori the State Department and TJ.S I embassies overseas is alwavs good for a debate in the Senate and this year was no exception. To hide its real nature, it's called officially "representation money." Sen. Paul Douglas (D III.), a Quaker, a teetotaler and one of the really few sincere advocates of economy in the Senate led off this year by proposing to cut the fund from $500,000 to $300,000. "We should not try to float our foreign relations In a sea of cham- Adlai Stevenson Will Vacation In Oregon PORTLAND I Adlai Steven son, former governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, will vacation in Oregon next week. Democratic party officials said Stevenson would arrive Saturday and spend a week at an undis closed Oregon ranch. On July 10 Stevenson will ad dress a Democratic rally at Eu gene. ASK FOR COUNTY FAIR I pi 4 100 PROOF II PREMIUM QUALITY X tS STRAIGHT BOURBON lltellny pagne," he said. "We should try to bring about simplicity in tile lives of our government officials at home and abroad." Senators of both parties jump. ed on him. Sen. William Knowland (R , Calif.) said the charge that this fund was for me mutual mcun ation of our foreign service was unfair. Ren. .1. William Fulnrieht ID., Ark.) said that if the govern- ment didn't provide for this, the ,tc diplomats aoroaa would own r i tin trots sen. Mixe Mansueia iu..jioni.j Pi"ted, out lhat .lne mone' w" used to entertain congressmen when tney went abroad. Sen. Edward J. Thye IR., Minn.i cited statements by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles himself saying that in trying to econo mize by staying at a hotel in Ge neva instead of renting a villa, and by cutting down on entertainment, he had lost many chances to bold informal meetings with foreign statesmen where the real work of these conferences was accom plished. HMD RAC FRIDAY TIME TRIALS RACES START ADMISSION Kids 6 to BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY THRILLS AND SPILLS GALORE AT R0SEBURG SPEEDWAY 4 MILES SOUTH ON 99 W.A.HAttER CORP.,PHIlA.,PA. AT YOUR FAVORITE BAR, CLUB. More Property Bought By State SALEM W Purchase of an other piece of property on the Capi I '" wra lucsoay oy ; the State Board of Control here, The board okehed a price of $16,. 750 for the lot at the northeast corner of the Center and Summer I Street Intersection, near the mall s "url" "" a program ci Maci.aren scnooi for Boys for providing temporary living quarters in the vocational building was also approved by the ooara. Tuesday afternoon the board is meeting in joint session with the : Intermediate institution advisory committee and baniord Bates, con. sultant on penal institutions, on site selection and policies for a pro posed new intermediate institution for the state. The institution, for which an ap propriation of $1,250,000 was voted by the 1953 Legislature, is sched uled for construction in Marin County. Money for purchase of a site will come from the Emergency Board. Bates, with state officials, visited two possible sites for the institution Monday. TOP NIGHT 7 8 PM PM 12 50c Adults 1.2S HOTEL OR LIQUOR STORK
