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4 The Ntwi-Review, Roieburg, Published Daily Except Sunday by the 1 News-Review Company, Inc. Xalaraa Mon4 glut mallar Mar 1. IKI. la afllea Raaabarf, Orataa. aiar icl .1 Marc S, lilt. ' CHARLES V. STANTON, Editor and Manager Member of th. Associated Press, Oregon Newspaper Puollihers Association, th Audit Bureau of Circulations EiprtMtU WHT HOLL1DAT CO., INC.. affle.i la Maw lark, Chloafa. BUBBCBIPTION RATES la Urafan Bf thiaa maalnt, SS.M. Oilill, Oraiaa SI. 0f Ibrea manlha, I3.SI. Br Nawa-Kaal.w Carrlar Far Taar, par mania, ll.sk. ' BOOMING CHOST TOWNS Charles V. Stanton ' The League' of Oregon Cities is reported to be urging studies into the effect upon municipalities of by-pass high ways. The league is said to be interested in whether the current trend toward removing through highways from the center of towns has either beneficial or detrimental effect upon local economy. , The league, it is stated, is asking the legislative in terim committee on highways to engage the School of Business Administration at the University of Oregon to make the survey. Discussion of the matter at the league's recent meeting, brought forth statements that economy of by-passed cities generally has been improved, but that some influence is found in the matter of providing favor able access. . Where access is proper and convenient, traffic is more apt' to turn off the highway to seek desired facilities than where access is more or less difficult., There is no question that the matter of convenience is essential to best utilization of highway economy. A sim ple example is to be found in Roseburg's recent reversal of its one-way grid in the downtown district. Since the pat tern was reversed only a few weeks ago, a noticeable in crease has been observed by businesses catering to tour ists. The number of tourists seeking information at the office of the Roseburg Chamber of Commerce has increased enormously. Roseburg's original pattern was set up to get cars out of town. The new pattern makes ingress more favorable but .is complicating exit. Bridge Will Be Needed In the matter of access to and from the new highway by-passing Roseburg, the) city is in a most favorable situa tion, provided a replacement is obtained for the Oak Street bridge. The bottleneck now existing at the Oak Street crossing of the river will prove a handicap in getting traf fic on and off the highway, it doubtless will discourage many tourists. But if and when a new bridge is built, giving a short and direct route to the city center, and with capacity to handle a larger volume of traffic, Roseburg doubtless will benefit in many ways. The trend all over the nation is to move trunk high ways away from cities. Studies show approximately 80 per cent of the traffic load to be local in origination. Thus, of the cars moving on the highway near Roseburg, approxi mately 20 per cent came from a distance, while about 80 per cent had their start or termination at some point with in 25 or 30 miles of the city center. By removing part of the local traffic load from main arteries, through traffic can be speeded. This is especial ly important and economical with respect to commercial traffic. Farm trucks, freight trucks, tankers, moving vans, Jog trucks, delivery trucks, passenger buses and other such vehicles, playing an important part in general economy, are operated more economically and with great er safety on limited access highways. Small Towns Affected The study, if it is made, should be extended into the small communities, rather than being confined exclusively to the larger centers. It is my belief that by-pass high ways will prove of great economic benefit to the larger towns, already seriously congested with traffic. But will the change help or hurt small towns? There is room for argument and only experience will supply the answer. Here in Douglas County I am worried about one angle. Our small towns may be hurt from the standpoint of trans portation. The loss of the Nighlcrawler takes one form of trans portation away from most of our towns, "it's no great loss, lor no. one used the service ( ?) anyway. That isn't say ing they wouldn't use daylight trains or, more especially, diesel coaches. But many of these towns also are being by-passed by the highway. It is to be expected that bus schedules will be changed. Buses doubtless will speed up their time by putting on additional schedules with limited stops, while eliminating some local services. Thus towns such as Drain, Yoncalla, Oakland, Sutherlin, Kiddle and Glendale, will be deprived of much of the public transportation rail and highway they now have available. Of course, if these beautiful spots develop into the ghost towns some of our pessimists are predicting, they won't stay that way long. So many of us, seeking to es cape the congestions and headaches of larger cities, will be moving in to enjoy prospects of peace and serenity that all our ghost towns will be booming. (J2mce (SioiSal The bigness of the big is one of America's recurrent worries. In ; politics the words "big business" and "monopoly of luting on Considerable the nature corporations in tune Magazine. Ihc new la.-ts should have a calming edeel on those who see business boogiemon in their nightmares. Fortune found that the big were (.iants, ail right. About 500 U.S. corporations produ.n one-fourth of the free world's Industrial output. This is half of tho iotal output of the United States. Bui, surprisingly, It Isn t any tiling new. since laua, uiu snr ut all. industrial assets sccounteJ fcr hv he 100 largest industrial cor- porauons ha, been just about a constant 25 per cent. Nor is the situa ion slultCying, as dose who wag their fingrs in warning would have us beiicve. "Since 1939." comments hor- nave llic potency year. General Motors was tops I "i ' V ''," .'.'. '. '"'" I""- h.rm., 1 ,' '" " " ' " ' 7"" ' I reckon he'll GROW OUT OF an aching tooth. with about 10 billion. Standard Oil ''.''. '.re, .u just as our East coast will s light is thrown on ' l N.J.) had over five billion in 1, confirmed that t h e . r;"m.,rnn . , I grow out of the hurricane season of America s b i g sales. U.S. Steel was third with ; fwm ,llll.n." .Bff. " 'Je. 'I'0 "J ,",p0! n' com. October or NOTemher n . t,rU in Vn.-. . mnr il,, ik. k.n, I nc.nen ny iTcsuicnt r lsenhower in " hi "e anic hi report m- lune, "the number of mining and manufacturing companies has in creased from about 240.000 to 360, 000, or by 50 per cent." The conclusion is that the site oi Hie Big 500 is no threat to com petitiveness if the business birth rate and population statistics mean anything. Ore. Sat., Aug. 13, 1955 Mall Par Jaar. Slt.M: alx aaanlba, IS.M; Br Mall rar Har, III.MI als mamai, lll.oa (la ajaaaoa), laaa tbaa ana faf, There were found to be 21 firms in the 500 which each did more than a billion dollars in sales last There has been a sneaking sus picion in some circles that when big business gets bigger It can not escape a destiny of servioo l.-lther than nrnfila .Otnviito m-in. I es and manufacturing costs to tho liono to increase sales could not ! lead elsewhere. The new study tends to confirm this. Big sales were no guarantee of profits. One firm, filth in total ,saies, was swih in net prolits. An- other, 37th in sales, was 354th in i proms. All the list was simi arlv " Ily another measurement the Ifuures were even more reassur- ;ing to the public. When proli's acre considered on the basis ( i the biggest were far from top 'per' I ioi mers. Considcrrd this wav. General Motors was in 81st position and me other biggies were similarly j omranKca by smaller firms. The 21 corporations which too- ped I billion in annual sale aver- aged I modest 7.5 per cent net) "Now Competition Said Needed To Force S.P. To Supply Sufficient Shipping Cars SALEM tft The boxcar short age on Southern Pacific Railroad lines in Oregon can t be solved un til the northern lines are allowed lo enmpele with the S. P., Clifford W. Ferguson, state director of rail transportation, reported here. In a report for the governor's emergency transportation commit tee. Ferguson hinted that the com mittee or the public utilities com missioner might bring an action before the Interstate Commerce Commission to bring about such competition. Ferguson said that the S. P. won't supply enough freight cars at points i where it doesn t have competition with other railroads. But, he added, the S. P. has plenty of ears available at points where it does have competition. Ferguson said competition could be brought about by either of two ways: letting the northern lines run their trams over S. P. tracks. or letting shippers on S. P. routes order cars from the northern lines. The northern lines are the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, union Pacific, and the Chicago, Milwau kee. St. Paul & Pacific. Ferguson's reports contained findings of investigators whom he sent lo Washington stale, which is served by the four northern lines: and to Northern California, served by the S. P., Western Pacific, and Great Northern. Ferguson said that In Northern California, the Southern Pacific has violated its agreement to sup ply SO per cent of the cars ordered by shippers. The road, he said, is supplying 100 per cent of orders in that area, and. letting Oregon snippers sutler. In Washington, he said, the rail roads have plenty of cars. "Car shortages in Western Ore gon exist solely by reason of a virtual rait monopoly of this great lumber region hv the Southern Pa cific Railroad," Ferguson reported. "The only remedy," he contin ued, "that will effect a permanent solution is one which will insure competitive rail transportation service in all parts of Western Ore gon. "There must be some arrange ments made whereby the northern lines can supply empty cars to the Western Oregon area and in turn be rewarded with long-haul traffic in return." . Stevenson Makes Agreement With Averell Harriman By JACK BELL CHICAGO OP. Adlai E. Steven son and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York apparently have informal working -;reemcnt aimed at bringing one t9.2, has come to an understand ing with Harriman under which Stevenson will get first crack. These associates said, however. that if it becomes apparent at any Ip11"1 in the 12 months that " V " uniineiy 10 mane me grade, he could be expected to ;;1u'.mp! sm" nis sirengtn quick ' ! ly to Harriman. Together Stevenson nd. "ftf- ! , , , , n""t Peiful voting blocs in next '''"' vUi..rv.. mm '7hr,W V,"'"';.. .... ,arJ, "?PLl ! !'"nin P"V ranks. There is "mf """ever, mat he could sufficient votes to win the nomination without New York's 94 '" "" hal0,ms omfita on these sales. This com- pares with 6 per cent for all 5(10 ! as a group and 4 8 per rent for all manufacturing and mining con- .cerns. Some of the list of individual smaller companies picked off up to 38 per cent. More Than Ever, Uncle!" In another report, Ferguson ac cused the Southern Pacific of vio lating a PUC order that all lumber shippers be given a fixed quota of cars. Tho violation, he said, was that the railroad gave shippers in the Lebanon area more than their quotas, at the expense of shippers in other areas. The Southern Pacific competes at Lebanon with the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. At the other points, it has a monopoly. Ferguson said his investigators in Washington and Northern Cali fornia contacted many lumber shippers. Governors Urge p f i t LXpanded rederal Highway Progam By JACK BELL CHICAGO I The nation's gov ernors called today for a "greatly expanded federal-state" highway program In line with the "objec tives" of President Eisenhower's proposal to Congress. In a resolution aporoved unani mously at the wind-ub business session of their 47th annual con-1 lerenoe. the governors urged th-t congress make "far more" of i automotive excise taxes available and swirls around in circles just for road appropriations than the I as does the water in the whirl present S75 million dollar annual pool in your bathtub. u.. conirimit'on. But they did not express anv opinion about proposed increases taxes which now vicld ahout 2 W hillion dollars a vear. At the insistence of Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, the gov-i ernors struck out of a resolution prenarco ny ineir resolutions com- mittee describing Eisenhower's bond-financed road building as be ing "bold and imaginative." l.ov. Arthur B. Langlie of Wash- ington. a Ronuhtican and a siinnit political supporter of President Kisenhower. was chosen new I chairman of the Governors Con ference Highway Dept. To Develop Park On Deschutes PORTLAND t.ft A 150 - aero state park will be developed at the mouth of the Deschutes River, the State Highway Commission decided here. chase of the land there after Slate ! Parks Supt. C. II. Armstrong re- ported the site would become good marine park when a lake is lormed nenind The Dalles Dam J"mv under construction. The park he dcveloned. nas acquired options on some nl 13 tracts of, land he is Irving In acquire for 'park purposes in the Columbia Gorge. The commission has budgeted $50,000 for the pur pose. Exiled Cuban Rerurns Home; Gets Ovation HAVANA. Cuba '. Back fom three vears of political exile for ,mer p,.esl(1(.m Krlos Prio So'ar- ir .r,t)i rf , ., '""iishing of his palatial country estate. ; I no was booted out in the 1952 I mt'll!"rynco"p which "'"'ned Kul-1 gencio Batista to power. He a-- t rived by plane Thursday nicht - ifrom Miami and Was Pr.nln k. 1 several thousand imrtr. ik i airport. Aiinougn repeatedly accused of plotting against Batista's regime, i Prio was nermitted tn return ider a political amnesty which went into effect last May. I i !n The Day's News (Continued from Page One) the area known as The Doldrums. The Doldrums ai-p located lo the northeastward of South America and almost due east of the Ba hama islands which lie to the southeast of Florida. Here they grow up (very quick- ay) and migrate to the east coast of the United States. The United I Clements' successor at head of States has become finicky about the Senate campaign group will be immigrants, but no laws have yet named by Democratic leader Lyn been devised that will keep out don B. Johnson of Texas. Johnson, inese rough and lough and alto- gcther undesirable cbaracters. In their migrations, they're as regular as the migrating birds. They begin lo move In on our East coast along in August. When Annie I or Abbie begins to kick up a dis turbance in the offing, we say: I "Heck! Fall's coming again." I Annie and Betty and Connie and Diane belong to the hurricane i " tribe. If you want to know what a hurricane is like, fill yourbath- II tub with water. Then null the plug and watch. As the surface of the outgoing water nears the out let of the tub a whirlpool will form over the hole. The whirlpool is caused by the water that is rushing to get out. In its haste some of the water misses the tar get and swings around in a con centric circle to hit the hole and get out. If you can imagine a whirlpool. lurneo upsioe flown, you will have a perfect picture of a hurricane. In the case of a hurricane hot at the bottom forces a hole In a hurricane, the wind serms jlo be blowing, straight, but in real- lty it is going around and around what is known as the hurricane's eye, which is a calm soot in the middle, iust like the hnl in 'the water in your "bathtub whirl- pool. Incidentally, the "eve" of Hi, r. ricane Connie is said as this is written to be slowlv approaching I the Carolina coast anH ..... i ly expected tn reaoh th. i line in the general neighborhood of 10 o'clock tonight. Eastern dav-I light time. Let's close this piece with a tragic incident that is not too un common in the earlv teens. It concerns 14-year-old Alfred Green, of Livingston. New Jersey. He lost his girl. All he knows is' that her name is Mary and she's 12, and has red hair. He met her at an amusement park last week and was smitten hut when they parted he forgot to ask her last name and her ad dress and phone number He a so far gone about it that he's run- ;,hih mPeture and has L'.' l;'PP.?t"e f"Pletely. So , - , iicijj lo cate her. and the old .-ioftiea are giving him all the help they can. But no luck, so far. General Electric Co. CranM Wage Increase NEW YORK i.fi The CIO In ternational Union of Electrical Workers won wage increases from the General Electric Co. in an agreement for a new five-v ear contract this week, hut not the guaranteed annual wage the union sought. The contract agreement, subject . ..; u" t: ... 1 for supple- mentarv navdurina neriod. of unemployment. There is a clause, howev- er. which permits reopeneing otseph Project. Wash. To start the contract in 195g for a 30-dav review of "unemployment secur- i,..' m.llBP i .,. j....;ki reopening clause as a measure of success for the union on the guar- intrni annual wan iue He said ,.... ;.A....inn.' u-iit i . . l ,, a . "lavoffa and what should be done about them." Government Shuts Off Federal Help For Expansions WASHINGTON I The govern ment has temporarily shut off federal help on more than six bil lion dollars worth of proposed in dustrial plant expansion. The ac tion was taken pending a review of defense necessity of the ex pansion program. Mobilization Director Arthur S. Flemming ordered a shutdown on special tax benefits for new plants and equipment in 19 industries and a "suspension" of action in 38 other industries. The latter group includes tre mendous proposed investment pro grams in the electric power, steel, railroad, oil, aluminum, aircraft and chemical industries. The review will require "a month or more," defense mobiliza tion officials predicted. When it is completed, many of the expansion objectives may be reduced and some may be closed out entirely. Th. ai-iinn ia rvmx-terf lo mil damper on the investment boomcould do them no harm and the and thus indirectly support the ad - ministration's attempt' to clamp down on any threatened inflation. Flemming acted at a time when 924 applications for the rapid write off were pending, covering an esti mated $9,300,000,000 in plant and equipment expansion. Senators Gore, ' Symington May Replace Clements WASHINGTON tjf Sens. Gore (Tenn) and Symington (Mo) were said by associates recently to be under consideration to -replace Sen. Clements (Ky) as chairman of the Democratic Senate campaign com mittee. The committee probably will be reorganized soon. The custom is that senators do not serve on the group in the year in which they are up for re-election. Clements, up for re-election in 1956, appears to face a batik-. He campaigned hard against A. B. (Happy) Chandler in the bitter Kentucky governorship primary decided last Saturday. Chandler, ! former governor and senator who defeated the Clements-backed can didate. Bert T. Combs, has said he will try to prevent Clements from returning to Washington next year, now convalescing irom a neari ai- tack, has made no announcement of his intentions. But several Democratic sources who asked not to be named said Gore and Symington, who have served on the committee under Clements, are good possibilities for the post. They suggested as other possibilities Sens. Kerr (Okla). O'Mahoney (Wyo) and Mansfield (Mont). Republican senators reorganized their comparable group some time ago. Sen. Dirk sen (111) who is run ning next year, relinquished the chairmanship to Sen. Goldwater (Ariz). Anti-Reds Vow To Win Election In San Marino SAN MARINO W The antl- Comnunisls charged this wcca that the Reds are going to vote living men twice and dead men once in the election of a new leg islature Sunday in San Marino, the world's smallest and oldest re public. At stake in the balloting will be control of the 32-square-mile nation on a mountaintop overlooking the Adriatic and surrounded by Italy. The Communists and their Social ist allies have run the 1.600-vear- old reDiiblic since the war and for the past four vears with a two- vole ""Jof'tv "le 60-mcmber legislature called the Grand Coun- cil. With onlv the men of San Ma- rino's 14,000 population eligible, a: hundred votes could tip the scales. The anti-Communist front led by the Christian Democrats complained that the Red alliance Is trying to keep its majority by taxing tne voters list. The Reds customarily send scouts abroad to offer free bus or train tickets for San Marino work ers in Italy, France or Belgium to come home from their jobs and vole. This year the anti-Communists park property. The- aliapel will be are rushing home eligible voters ! available to all faiths. It will have who live in the United States but three altars one each for Protest have not yet become American cit-jant, Jewish and Catholic services iiens. Sixty-nine of these, recruited mounted on hydraulic lifts. By from New York City, Detroit and! raising the altar needed, the chap Sandusky, Ohio, were due in Mi-i el can be prepared in a matter lan Thursday aboard a special of minutes for a particular faith plane. Interior Dept. Lists Funds Set For Reclamation WASHINGTON im The Inter ior Department announced this week that money has been set aside to begin construction of 10 new neclamation projects or units of projects. Thev include: Michaud Flats. Idaho To pump water out of the Snake River at American Falls to serve 11.550 acres. Total estimated cost. $4 -831.000; available this year, $520, 000. North Unit. Deschutes Project, I nr. t k..:u . mg rMervoir on the main canaL ! Total estimated cost sifinflftnn- I available this year J25O.0O0. Foster Creek Division. Chief Jo- work on pumping plant and distri hution system to serve 3.647 acres. Total estimated cost U. 4)6,000; available this. vear. $631,000. Rait Division. Yakima Project. Wash. To start work on th 11.250-kilowatt capacity power plant on the Rora Canal. Total estimated cost, $3,034,000; avail able this year (300,000. Witness Says Officers Made Monkey Of Blanchard FT. LEWIS, Wash, i A de-1 was under duress, brought about fense witness for Lt. Jefferson D. by starvation, sickness and deaths Brwin testified at his court martial of fellow prisoners daily, Wise here that his senior officers in said. their prison camp "made a suck-1 The Chinese had unquestion ed' out of the Blanchard, Okla. ably set out on a calculated career soldier. i program to starve us into submis- The witness was Col. Robert H. 'sion to force us to come over to Wise, Tacoma, who was also a their way of thinking to their prisoner of war in Germany in ideologies" he testified. World War II. Erwin is charged i with making pro-Communist state- j. a-a I I J ments and aiding the enemy while InulQII I inibCNflnd a prisoner in Korea. assaaeva aaeaaaai their Chinese captors, Colonel Wise testified, were determined to have three prisoners elected to a so-called peace committee, which was subsequently used for propa ganda purposes. The American officer-prisoners, Wise continued, decided prior to the election who would be named and Erwin was one of them- "It was a matter of determining who were to be the likely suckers,' Wise told the Army nine-member i board. "They decided on men who ,nlnB no s"! 'Lieutenant Erwin happened to be the junior of the whole bloom ing shooting match, so naturally he was going to get elected first." Wise also said that he himself headed a liaison committee at Pyoctong which flatly rejected a Chinese request that they promote the Communist indoctrination pro gram. As a result, he said, he was punished by having to stand at attention six hours in a hot sun. Erwin, however, was not pun ished, he said. But only Erwin can answer why he went so far in parroting the Communist line, lie continued. Everyone in the prison camp Ex-Air Force Captain Indicted For Using Paper WASHINGTON u The Justice Department here has announced the indictment and arrest of a for mer Air Force captain and con gressional investigator on charges of misusing a classified Air Force document. The man Is Rea S. Van Fosson. who resigned from the Air Force last Nov. 23 and was hired the next day as an S8,200-a-year investiga tor for the House un-American Activities Committee. He left the committee last Jan uary. , At the time of his employment at the Caoitol. a committee source sid Van Eosson's separation from the Air Force was associated with his delivery to the committee of a secret document. Van Fossen was arrested by U. S. marshals at his Silver Spring, Md., home. . At the "same time a sealed indict ment returned by a federal grand jury here Wednesday was opened in district court. It charged the 36-year-old for mer Air Force captain with .un lawfully removing and "convert ing to his own use" a classified document from the files of the Air Force office of special investiga tions. In six other counts, the indict ment charged Van Fosson with making false statements to in vestigators about this document. The indictment itself disclosed that the document related to Jay Lovestone, general secretary of the Communist party in the United States 25 years ago, and now execu tive secretary of the Free Trade Union Committee of the AFL. Million Dollar Worship House Seen For Canyon CHICAGO im Plans for con struction of a one million dollar non-secretarian house of worship I on the rim of the Grand Canyon were announced ncentlv hv for- mer Gov. Howard Pyle of Arizona, Wol"k on 'he Shrine of Ages Chapel in the National Park will begin next year, Pyle said. Now a special assistant to Pres ident Eisenhower in Washingtn, Pyle is chairman of a steering committee for establishment of the chapel which will be the first place of worship in the Grand Canyon 1'ark area, for 21 years, he has been a producer-writer for the an- nual Easter sunrise services which he founded in the park. iNational Park service policy prevents building of a church by iany particular religious group on service. The shrine, designed by architect Harcld E. Wagoner of Philadel phia, will have no spire or tower. It is described as hm-izonta1 'n movement in form similar to that of an Indian kiva, to blend with park surroundings. Aly Khan, Rita Square Off For Legal Fight RENO. Nev. i.fi Moslem Prince Aly Khan and actress Rita Ha? worth souared off for another '""il fight this week as Aly sought to have their daughter visit him m rrance. Through his attorney. AW filed ? ,n le!n posters mis week a motion in District "Court here in this capital of the disputed Wednesday asking Judge A. J. Saarland. Maestretti to order Rita .!o send ' Heinrich Schneider, chairman of the 5-year-old Yasmln to France h,s Democratic Party (DPS), for an 11-week visit 1 ''' suit Friday with the public No date ha, been ,e. for a he,, K'MM J.n'ne", .... . Hoffman was responsible. Aly said be Is ready to post the1 The swastikas were stuck most necessary $100,000 bond and in'W on posters of the three parties other ways has tried to comply I which advocate a return of the with terms of an agreement the (border territory to Germany. Some couple reached last fall on details: placards of organisations favoring of Yasmin's visits with her father, i autonomy under the Western Eu- ropean Union were defaced. COFFEE DAMAGED Schneider charged Erhard Lin- BOGOTA. Colombia (Jn Heavy senmeier. Hoffman's son-in-law. insect damage threatens to curtail with violating the Saar statute on this year's Colombian coffee crop, I political activity prior to the Oct. it was reported Thursday. '23 plebiscite. Conspiracy, Fraud Charged In Suits PORTLAND 1 New charges of Indian timberland conspiracies and fraud were made by the gov ernment in three suits . seeking a total of $377,000 damages this week in U. S. District Court here. The suits name a group of de fendants accused of illegally gain ing title to 480 acres of timber on Indian land in Com and Curry counties in Southwest Oregon. One suit named Clyde W. Flinn and John C. Blanford, Fred M. and Irene K. Marsh, and Myron and Jane Doe McElwain. They were accused of complicity in a 1950 transaction to obtain 160 acres of timber rights in Coos County at a fraction of market value. Flinn, a former employe of the Federal Indian Bureau here, and Blanford were convicted ia 1953 of conspiring to defraud two Indian land owners in Curry County. The defendants served terms in a fed eral prison and were ordered to pay 540,000 in fines. Another of the new damage suits named Flinn. Blanford, the Marsh couple and Francis LaFrance, in connection with a Curry County land deal. The third comnlaint listed as de fendants Fred W. Newell, a son-in-law of Marsh: Newell's wife; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Clarence How ard; H. W. Crook: G. H. Bettis and Lawrence Payne. This suit in volves a 160-acre tract in Curry County. The government, attempting to avoid (he sales, contends the In dian owners were not competent to I handle the transactions. The suits also seek restoration of the land to its rightful owners and restitution of any proceeds by the defendants. Indicated Yield Listed For Crops Of Northwest WASHINGTON t.r,-The indicated yield per acre and nroduction, re spectively, of imnortant crops in Idaho, Oregon ard Washington as forecast here bv the Agricul ture Department included: Winter wheat: Idaho. 27 bushels ner acre and ?0.007,0O0; Oregon, 26.5 and 18.576.000: ?rd Washing ton. 28.5 and 52.04t.OO0. Soring wheat o'her lhan durum: Idaho. 33 bushels ner acre and 14.124.000: Oregon. 25 and 3.17.V 0O0; and Washington, 21 and 3,360. 000. ; Drv field neas: Idaho, 1.100 ooiinds per acre and production 346,000 hags of 100 pounds each; Washington. SnO and 1,624,000 Hops: Idaho. 2.250 pounds per acre and production of 3,600.000 Dounds; Oregon. 1.200 and 4,680. 000: and Washington, 1,660 and 21.5W.O0O. Barley: Idaho. 33 bushels per acre and production 18.843.000 bushels: Oregon, 31 and 18,104.000; and Washington, 28 and 18.984,000. Sugar beets: Idaho, 18.5 tons per acre and production 1.4O6.O0O tons; Oregon; 21.5 and 366,000; Washing, ton, 22 and 660.000. Apples (commercial): Washing Ion, 31. 300,000 bushels; Oregon. 3,100,000. Pears: Washington. 7,280,000 bushels; Oregon, 6,242,000. Potatoes: Idaho. 298 bushels per acre and nroduction of 49,225.000 bushels: Oregon, 320 and 13,440, 000: and Washington, 421 and 16. 410,000. Secretary Weeks Claims Charges Unfairly Made , WASHINGTON m Secretary of Commerce Weeks has charged here that businessmen in gov ernment and the entire free enter prise r.ystem have become the tar get of "a massive attack" by "people whe don't believe what this administration believes in." The charge was fired by Weeks at a news conference in which he made a stout defense of business generally, and specifically of busi nessmen serving the government in advisory roles. Weeks' statement came less than 13 hours after Rep. Celler (D-NY), chairman of the House antitrust subcommittee, threatened whole, sale issuance of subpoenas to gel at records of the commerce secre tary's Business Advisory Council (BAD. Celler said he wants to penetrate what he called the "aura of secre cy around the Commerce Depart ment's Business Advisory Coun cil." Nazi Swastikas Pasted On Election Posters SAARBRUECKEN ifl Hun dreds of Nazi swastikas were past-
