FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1949
PAGE SIX
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
Food for Japan
Major Problem,
Military Finds
By Earnest Ilolierecht
. (Unilrri Pre Stuff CorrettpoiiUent)
Tokyo iU') Food production is
the most pressing single problem
in Japan today, one ol Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's key advisers told
the United Press in an inter
view.
"This is a nation of so many
people on so little land," said Lt.
Col. Hubert G. Schenck, chief of
uen. MacArtnurs nautral re
source section. "Current vields
from the 15,000,000 acres under
cultivation are not sufficient to
feed the population of nearly 80,
000,000 and in all likelihood never
will be."
. He said that although Japan
may succeed, by increasing both
yields and acreages, in producing
a bare subsistence requirement, he
' can see no escape from the con
clusion it always will be neces
sary to import food. He said that
is particularly true "in the light
of the net increase in population
of more than 1,000,000 per year."
V, S. Taxpayers Hit
Schenck said he believed that
any increase in Japanese domes
tic food production would be of
Interest to the American taxpay
ers, since they now are paying
millions of dollars a year to feed
the country.
He added that it should be of
interest to other countries who
also have had to look outside their
own boundaries for food and com
pete with Japanese for the small
amount of surplus food that is
available on the market. ;
"The fertility of Japanese soils,
the shortage of fertilizers, the
scarcity of unused arable land
and plant diseases are the major
obstacles to increased food pro
duction," Schenck continued.
"Before world war II, Japan
was one of the world's largest con
sumers of commercial fertilizers
both in amount per unit area and
in total tonnage, and practically
all the phosphate and potash fer
tilizer used was imported.
"The addition of reclaimed land
to the total culitvated area and
the steady growth of population
make present future fertilizer re
quirements greater than those of
pre-war years."
Land Reclaimed
Schenck said that although the
Japanese have long recognized
land reclamation as an important
means of expanding cultivated
acreage, past reclamations pro
grams have been ill conceived and
managed. , He noted that at the
beginning ' of the occupation,
American agricultural specialists
reviewed the reclamation pro
gram of the Japanese government
and recommended revisions of
certain plans and practices.
"Reclamation projects already
have added about 770,000 acres of
arable land to the cultivated acre
age; improvements projects have
added 250,000 acres more." he
said. "In addition to the land re
claimed for agriculture, Japan
has about 3,000,000 acres of uncul
tivated, non-forested slopes which
are being investigated as possible
pasture and forages lands for
livestock." '
National land-use programs and
better planning for future pro
duction, Schenck said, urgently
are needed in Japan to insure
maximum agricultural and forest
returns.
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FLAbH FLOOD Unidentified swimmer starts for shore after checking: two stalled autos for occupants
In Dallas, Tex., where heavy rains ranging up to nearly 12 inches flooded suburbs of the city. The flash
flood caused at le ast five deaths.
DOCTORS' CHOICE-Dr. El
mer I Henderson, above, of
Louisville, Ky., Is the new president-elect
of the American Med
ical Association. Succeeding Dr.
Ernest Irons, of Chicago, he will
take office at next year's AMA
meeting in San Francisco. ,
Geologists Plan
Picnic in Cavern
A newly-discovered cave will
be the meeting place of UeS'
chutes Geology club members
this evening, with a picnic lunch
planned. John L. Carter will load
the group to the lava tunnel, east
of Bend and near the Central
Oregon highway.
Officers of the club have an- i
nounced that all members join
ing in the outing are to meet in
front of the city hall tonight, at
6 o'clock.
Earlier in the season, the group
held a potluck lunch in a cinder
pit near Terrebonne, where hya
lite opals were collected.
2 FORESTRY CiKADUATKS
Two Oregon Stale students In
forestry, one of them a Bend boy,
who worked on the Deschutes na
tional forest In former years re
ceived their diplomas from the
college this spring. One of the
young foresters is Donald K. Gar
vlek, Bend, who has been ap
pointed forester on the Deschutes
timber sales s!nff and assigned
to the Sisters district. He is also
a Bend high school graduate, and
after the war served as clerk In
the combined Hcnd Fort Hock dis
trict office in Bend.
Robert B. Allison, Corvallls boy
who has done considerable work
on the Deschutes, Is the other for
estry graduate known here. Me
has been assigned to the Salmon
national forest, with headquar
ters at North Fork, Ida.
2 Air Lines
Compete m
Guatemala
By Robert F. Loftus
(United FreMa Staff Correspondent)
Guatemala City UWBuild a
better summer resort and the air
lines will beat a path' to your
swimming pool.
That's whats going on right
now in this Central American va
cation land 1,050 miles and five
air line hours south of New Or
leans.
Taca Airline and Pan American
Airways are battling for the lush
trade and tourist traffic between
the United States and Guatemala.
The competition isn't doing them
any harm and it s bringing more
vacationers and better all-around
business to this bustling little re
public.
At the moment the edge seems
to lie with Taca, an outfit manned
by veterans of the Latin Ameri
can air lanes and controlled by
the Waterman Steamship Co. of
Mobile, Ala.
Route Shortened
Taca shot out in front of Its
giant rival only recently when the
civil aeronautics board author
ized It to fly freight and passen
gers directly from New Orleans
to Guatemala City.
That lopped a big chunk of time
and expense off the old route via
Mexico City which Pan American
must toiiow. lime and money
are big factors both to tourists
and to business men with air
freight on their hands.
All that Is welcome news to
Guatemalans, who have been try
ing for years to tell the world
that they have the best year-round
vacation spot in this corner of
the globe.
They put on a demonstration of
that when Taca opened its new
route on May H by flying In a
planeload of company officials,
New Orleans business men and
reporters.
Brenth Tiiklnif Ride
The visitors got the full treat
ment,
dlive
By Arthur Scholes
Member of Australian Antarctic
expedition recently returned
from Heard Island
Sydney, Australia HP' Fantas
tic stories appearing in popular
scientific magazines in the Unit
ed States about the so-called un
told mineral wealth of Antarctica
are giving the world a misleading
and completely unrealistic picture
of the southern continent,
Such headlines as "Nations
Race for Antarctic Uranium," or
"Secret Plans to Bore Thousands
of Feet Through Ice," are highly
colored and imaginative.
Articles on those lines were in
cluded in a bunch of magazines
taken with the Australian expedi
tion to Heard Island. They were a
source of intense amusement to
all of us.
Nowhere could there be found
greater admirers of the magnifi
cent work done by Admiral Byrd
and his colleagues among the
Australian expedition men, but
such stories detract from the real
scientific value of the work done
by the Americans. Scientists have
found little evidence of mineral
wealth In the Antarctic. The ex
pense of exploiting the existine
discoveries might well exceed the
cost or tne Manhattan project
($2,000,000,000).
To understand the enormous
difficulties involved in the miner
al exploitation of the southern
continent requires only a simple
Knowledge ol physiography..
Vast Ice Sheet
Apart from the ever-shifting
moat of pack ice and icebergs, a
girdle of hundreds of miles
around the continent, the land
mass is a vast ice sheet thousands
of feet thick. Only the highest
mountains remain unburied.
Australian scientists who ac
companied Seott and Shackleton's
expeditions 40 years ago found
iron, copper and molybdenum, but
tnere have not yet been found de
posits that would be commercially
attractive.
The remoteness of the continent
and the conditions that would
have to be overcome by any or
ganization endeavoring to con
duct an industrial undertaking
mere would make the task colos
sal. Even if the Antarctic regions
were to hold great wealth, to lo
cate It and mine it under present-
uay conditions would seem to be
Impossible.
Quite a few scientists consider
the Antarctic coal measures will
not be worked until those of the
rest of the world have been ex
hausted. Much of the Antarctic continent
resembles the uranium-bearing
district of the Arctic, but to say
that it therefore contains depos
its of uranium and vast mianti-
ties of other raw materials Is just
guess work, lt will be many
years oetore the entire continent
has been geologically surveyed.
Other Misconceptions
Similar misconceptions exist
about the potentialities of the con
tinent as an aviation base for fly
ing great circle routes in die
Southern Hemisphere. Flying Is
possible with reasonable securitv
only in October and November. At
DANCE PLANS MADE
All members of the Bend Golf
club have a good time in store
lor them Saturday night, whether
or not they know how to do old
time dancing, committee mem
bers stressed today. The program
will feature square dancing and
other old-tirr!e steps, but there will
be entertainment for everyone
the committee promised. Claude
Cook will do the calling, and will
help beginners with the steps. The
affair is piannecj as a basket
social, with each woman to bring
dinner for two. The cocktail hour
and auctioning will be from 7 to
8:j0 p.m., with dinner and danc
ing to follow.
GIRLS ELECT
Camp Fire Girls of the Tanda
group elected Carol Skjersaa,
president of their organization at
a meeting June 9 In the home of
Mrs. Clinton Haugcbert.
Other officers elected were:
Donna Carlson, vice-president;
Kalhryn Shaver, secretary; Lyn-
neu Haugebert, treasurer; Marga
ret Homan, scribe, and Donna
Gumpert, program chairman,
enr. including a halr-niisliu'
down to Antigua, the old!01"01' times conditions are most
capital of Guatemala, which was j"1""0'"''""-
destroyed bv an earthquake in At Heard Island we experienced
1773 and restored as a watering- j frequent ' winds exceeding 1(H)
place for native and foreign vaca-1 ml'h. Weather predictions for
tinners. imore than 2 hours ahead are
Halfwav to Antigua, the lead ! almost impossible. Then there is
car came upon the wreckage of a " ecrtaluty the forecast will be
ceo and a )lon truck 'Tic mcimuc,
Widow Missing,
Suave Stranger,
$5,000 Sought
Chicago, June 17 upi A red
haired widow and the suave
"fiance" who disappeared with
$5,000 of her life savings wore
sought today by detectives who
feared that the woman had met
with foul play.
Mrs. Reseda Corrigan, 39 and
attractive, left home Sunday
night after receiving a mysterious
telephone call and telling her
daughters "I'm going to get my
money back.
The daughters, Reseda, 19, and
Orpha, 16, told police of their
mother's romance with a distin
guished looking stranger who
said his name was Sam Engel and
posed as a wealthy movie pro
ducer.
They were to have been mar
ried June 7, the daughters said,
but Engel disappeared June 5.
Mrs. Corrigan and the stranger
met in May, in front of the Fine
Arts building on Michigan Ave.,
where Mrs. Corrigan had taken a
singing lesson.
The stranger tipped his Hom
burg and told the widow she re
minded him of his wife, who had
died.
Checks Involved
In the weeks that followed he
entertained Mrs. Corrigan and
her daughters lavishly. He told
the widow she had a beautiful
singing voice, and that he would
make her a movie star.
Soon the white-haired stranger
proposed. Shortly before the
scheduled wedding he wrote a
check for $50,000 for Mrs. Corri
gan, and checks for $2,000 each
for the two daughters and a son.
Ho said lie didn't want anyone to
know that he was marrying a
woman without funds.
He said the checks would be de
posited in her name In a bank at
Coral Gables, Fla.. and persuaded
Mrs. Corrigan to withdraw from
her bank the $5,000 she had re
ceived from her husband's insur
mice policy.
She gave him the money, the
dauaghlers said, and shortly aft
erward he disappeared after tak
ing them to an an exclusive res
taurant and buying them costly
flowers.
Mrs. Corrigan reported the case
to the state's attorney's office.
Then Sunday night she received
the telephone call. The daughters
said It apparently was from her
missing fiance.
Capt. Dan Gilbert of the state's
attorney's police said he feared
Mrs. Corrigan had "met with foul
I play."
SHE MUST A BEEN A BEAUTIFUL BABY Frances Jean Lupe
holds up her baby picture to show how she looked in 1934 'when
she won a $3000 insurance policy as the prettiest baby in Chicago
World's Fair competition. She now lives in Decatur, 111., and col
lects the proceeds on the policy on hoc 18th birthday this month.
Siam Again Designated
As Thailand, Land of Free
NOW YOU TELL ONE! '
Worland, Wyo June 17 UP'
Grasshoppers devouring foliage
In other parts of Wyoming appar
ently are sissies compared with
hoppers In the uig Horn miiim-
driver explained that thev had '""''fst of different nations In, tain region, it was revealed here
collided two days earlier, killing Antarctica Itself Is being attrib- today.
two men and injuring another, !j,,0(l the desire to establish A Johnson county rancher re-
iKini-.-, mi iicn-MM- pin poses, sucn ; ported thai nungi v hordes of
as strategic air or naval bases, or I erasshonners had e'n.iwml jihoui
testing grounds for sub zero war-1 200 feet off the top of 13-Hifvfoot j
Someone wanted to know why
the wreckage hadn't been re
moved. The driver sounded his horn,
tramped down hard on the gas
pedal and swept through the nar
row gap between the two wrecks
at a careful Ml miles an hour.
"We leave them there as a
warning to motorists," he said.
The opossum, next to the buz
lard, Is probably the champion
scavenger among American ani
mals; dead snakes, frogs, birds
and many other animals consti
tute his diet.
By S. Clmvala
(United Pre3H Stuff Correspondent)
Bangkok 'IP Siam again has
become Thailand, "The Land of
the Free," a change that will be
confusing to foreigners but hard
ly noticed by Thailanders.
Thailand, or its equivalent in
the Thai language, traditionally
has been this country's name.
On Wesak day, May 11, 1949,
a Buddhist holiday, an official an
nouncement by Premier t leld
marshal Pliibun Songgram pro
claimed the change from Siam
to Thailand. The announcement
was largely tor the benctit ot
English-speaking people who
seem to tmd iam easier to say
and remember.
Thailand was adopted officially
on Juno 24, 193S, during the for
mer Phibun regime. At the end
of world war 11. Premier Thawi
Bunyaket restored the name
Siam to popular usage, possibly
to please the allied victors, who
were inclined to associate Thai
land with the Japanese occupa
tion regime.
British Objected
The British were reported to
have recommended the change on
the grounds that Thailand
sounded "boisterous and aggres
sive."
Historically, the people call
themselves "Thai" meaning "The
Land of the Thai", or "The Land
of the Free."
The name Siam is pronounced
"Sayam" In the national lang
uage. There is some doubt as to
when and how the name "Say
am" originated.
The names "Muring Thai,"
"Prater. Thai" nnd "Prates Saym"
have been used interchangeably.
(Prates is the Thai word for
"country.
But "Muang Thai" has been the
most common and most popular
name.
Not Compulsory
The change back to "Siam" in
the English language after world
war II did not change the coun
try's name in the Thai language.
Business and commercial firms
are expected to change their
names where they involve use of
the country's name. But so far
it is not compulsory. There is no
law at present covering regis
tered trade and business names.
Marshal Phibun was thinking
in terms of' a "Greater Thailand"
when he first changed the name
to Ihailand in 1938. there are
millions of Thai scattered
through other southeast Asia
states such as Burma and Indo
china and the Chinese provinces
of Yunnan and Kwangsi. Their
total number at least may equal
the population of Thailand itself.
Espionage Trial
!n Recess Today
New York, June 17 illi The es
pionage trial of .11 communist
leaders was in recess today after
the prosecution gained an admis
sion from Gilbert Green, Illinois
party leader, that American com
munists had been subservient to
the kremlin.
The five-month old trial will be
resumed Monday. Green, the sec
ond defense witness, was ex
pected to continue his testimony
in an effort to prove the defend
ants did not conspire to teach and
advocate violent overthrow of the
government.
Green testified that a letter
from Jacques Duclos. French
communist leader, was responsi
ble for ousting Earl Browder as
party chieftain in 1945 and the re
organization of the party along
strict Marxist-Leninist lines.
The prosecution contends' that
Duclos was delegated by the Rus
sian politburo to censor Browder
for his approval of capital-labor
cooperation. Duclos allegedly die
tated the party's current policy of
j opposition to big business and
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Argentina nnd Chile claim their
share of Antarctica merely tie-
cause, in their opinions, the sec
tion south of South America is a
continuation of South America
and therefore a continuation of
Chilean and Argentinian territor
ies. Both those questions are be
yond the realm of the scientists.
To them the wealth of the Antnrc
tic Hps in its vast field of study -meteorology,
cosmic rays, marine
biology, glaciology and geology.
high Cloud peak in the Uig Horn
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THERE'S A DIFFERENCE j
Providence, R. I. 1 1- -After a
week In the United States, a 13-year-old
refugee got around to
writing his relatives in his native
Italy and mailed the lei tor. He
was confused by the sudden jangl
ing of sirens and bells, police
Capt. Anthony Gentile explained
lo the youth the difference be
tween the red fire alarm boxes
nnd green mail boxes.
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Brannan Asks
Farm Plan Trial
Washington, June 17 tui Agri
culture secretary Charles F. Bran
nan today asked congress lo g We
his controversial farm subsidy
plan a trial run by authorizing di
rect price support payments (o
hog raisers.
As for the whole plan under
which the government in effect
would subsidize both the produc
ers and eaters of food the signs
were that the administration will
wait until the 1950 congressional
election year to push it in the
house and senate.
Brannan told a senate agricul
ture subcommittee that pork
prices are falling steadily. He ask
ed emergency authority to pay
farmers the difference between
prices they got qn the market and
the government's hog support
price.
Alternative Cited
The alternative under present
law, he said, is for the govern
ment to buy pork on the market
when it falls below the support
price. The trouble with that, he
said, is that it puts the govern
ment in the position of keeping
up the price to consumers. And,
he added, it saddles the govern
ment with a lot of pork it will lose
money on.
Other congressional develop
ments: Economy Sen. Harry F. Byrd,
D., Va., denounced the military
retirement system. He said too
many officers retire after 20
years' service with 50 per cent of
their base pay to take high pay
jobs in industry.
Atomic Sen. Bourke B. Hick
enlooper, R., Ia., accused the
atomic energy commission of
wasting public money by ordering
construction of a $10,000,000 gas
pipe line to supply the Oak Ridge,
Tenn., atomic works with fuel.
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