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n To Be Restored Egypt'! famed twin statues, the giant 3000-
year-old Colossi of Memnon at Luxor, are to undergo a two
,year restroatlon program to efface the ravages of time.
Hoarders Like a Man Tossing
Money Away on Street Corner
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, July 19 VP) If
money away on street corner,
head examined.
, But something like that Is happening now.
..' Reports of heavy buying and price-boosting around the countrj
re multiplying.
Some shoppers are trying to
lay in supplies of tires, coffee,
clothing and other things.
J They're afraid rationing Is
coming and they want to be
lure they get theirs, no matter
What happens to the country or
anybody else.
it By making things scarcer,
they give certain unscrupulous
and shortsighted businessmen an
excuse for jacking up prices.
f. The hoarders, President Tru
Dan said, are foolish. And he
aid some of the businessmen are
((icklng up prices to profiteer.
Both words foolish and prof
Seer were mild ones. And It's
easy to see why.
Russian . communism means
government control and owner
ship of almost everything. Brit
ten socialism means some gov
ernment control and ownership.
British socialism's controls are
much milder than communism.
But this country, meaning1 the
people, has denounced commu
nism and feels so strongly
gainst it that now we are ac
tively fighting It. And there Is
strong feeling here against even
Britain' socialism.
.', In short, the tradition in this
country has been against gov
ernment control, Interference or
ownership. And we shout to the
world the wonders of free en
terprise. 4
Yet, widespread hoarding and
oaring prices in this present
situation will in time certainly
do two things:
1. Force the government to
step In and slap on rationing and
price controls.
2. And, by bringing higher
prices, make the dollar worth
Just that much less, thus dam
aging the foundations of the free
enterprise economy.
(The rationing, of course,
would.be imposed to give every
one a fair share of what can be
bought; the price controls would
be slapped on to keep the eco
nomy from being ruined alto
gether.) . If we get Into a war with Rus
sia or the present situation gets
very bad, the government will
have to step In with controls
anyway because then there will
be scarcities due to war produc
tion. But at this moment it isn't
clear that we'll go to war with
Russia or that the government,
unless things get worse, will
have to step in with controls.
Even if things don't get worse
abroad, at home here the hoard
ers and profiteers, by their
reckless performance now, could
create a situation of scarcity and
too-high prices. Then the gov
ernment would have to step in.
So the hoarders and profiteers
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you saw a man throwing his
you'd think he ought to get his
are like the man on the street
corner throwing away his mon
ey. They stand at this moment
in the midst of a fairly sound
economy, the kind they un
doubtedly want to preserve.
It's the kind of economy which
has given:
1. The hoarders so much mon
ey that they can afford to buy
more than they need, out of their
own selfishness.
2. The profiteers so much free
enterprise that, not satisfied to
sell at a fair profit, they can
sell at an unfair profit.
But by their hoarding and
profiteering they are endanger
ing the safety of the economy.
And, since they're a part of
that economy, they're endanger
ing their own welfare and. fu
ture prosperity. The man on
the street corner Isn't doing
worse.
Wins Easily in
Tractor Contest
Marvin Dixon, 4-H tractor
maintenance club member from
the Bridgeport community in
Polk county, recently won the
tractor driving contest. The
contest was sponsored by the
Baldwin-Mount Case Implement
company of Salem for boys be
longing to 4-H tractor maint
enance club according to Stan
Fansher, county extension
agent.
The contest was judged
according to safe and skillful
operation of the tractor. The
boys were given time to check
their tractor before starting.
After all the checks had been
made each boy was allowed to
try his skill at driving and back
ing a tractor hooked to a man
ure spreader. An obstacle course
was set up for the event. Points
were added for safety rules not
observed, markers upset or
scraped, number of times engine
was killed, shifting, etc. Each
boy was timed In this event.
The boys with the lowest num
ber of points were the winners.
It took Marvin Dixon 11 min
utes 26 seconds to drive the
course, and he had 730 points
to win the contest.
Second place went to Leslie
McBeth, Bridgeport, with 1200
points, third to Larry Simpson,
North Dnllas, with 1440 points,
and fourth to Fred Miller, Dal
las, with 2494 points.
Famed Geologist Dies
Eugene, Ore., July 19 U
Warren D. Smith, 70, nationally
famous geologist and member
of the University of Oregon
faculty since 1914, died at his
home here Monday night. Smith
was widely known throughout
the state for his work in Ore
gon geology.
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Brannan Says
His Plan Is Best
Twin Falls, Ida., July 19 0J.B
Secretary o f Agriculture
Charles A. Brannan says that
if better farm price support pro
grams are made than the one
bearing his name, he'd like to
see them.
The cabinet officer told an
audience of about 500 persons
in city park Monday night that
the department of agriculture
would welcome a better sup
port program than the one he
proposed but that no one has
come forward with any.
Brannan said what was need
ed was a program geared to
an objective income, one which
would assure the marketing of
an abundance of farm products
at attractive prices.
"We don't want class legisla
tion or a program for the bet
terment of the farm alone," the
secretary said. He said that
the abundance of farm produc
tion should be placed at the dis
posal of all the American
people.
Brannan appeared at a rally
in Rupert earlier in the day
where he told a crowd of 500
persons that farm support was
a "must" to the national eco
nomy. Removal of support
prices, he said, would give a
few big farmers ' an oppor
tunity to control all farming.
Rabbit Breeders Set
Association Picnic
Lebanon The Linn County
Rabbit and Cavy Breeders as
sociation will hold the annual
picnic at Roaring River park
on Sunday, July 23. Dinner will
be served at 1 p.m. with meat
and coffee furnished by the as
sociation. All rabbit breeders
in the area are invited.
Officers of this club are: Ray
Clayton, Sweet Home, presi
dent; E. Rudisil, Corvallis, vice
president; E 1 d a Whitmarsh,
Crowfoot, secretary, and Mary
Clayton, Sweet Home, treasur
er. Wherever
Huge Gambling Ring Found
By Accidental Check on Man
Culver City. Calif., July 19 (U.R) Police today uncovered a
huge gambling ring which booked more than $1,500,000 month
ly in bets on major league baseball games, and said the ring
was linked to a nationwide syndicate.
Clientele of the giant gambling operation included "lots of
Regains Baby
Up for Adoption
Redding, Calif., July 19 U.R
A 19-year-old Bremerton, Wash.,
mother regained custody of her
seven-months-old son today af
ter she testified she was forced
to put the infant up for adop
tion because she couldn't pay a
$107 hospital bill.
The unmarried girl, whose
name was withheld by Superior
Judge Albert F. Ross, said she
was enroute from Bremerton to
Oakland, Cal., when the baby
was born at Memorial hospital
here last December.
Hospital authorities, she said,
refused to let her have the infant
until she paid her $107 bill in
full. One month later, the girl
said, she was talked into clear
ing her debt by allowing the
child to be placed for adoption.
"That's a new one, a hospital
holding a lien on a human be
ing," Judge Ross commented.
"Titles to children can't be
transferred like sacks of wheat."
Ross returned the child to the
custody of the mother and ad
monished both sides. Probation
officer Edna Saygrover said she
would demand a full scale Inves
tigation of local adoption prac
tices. Your
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yprominent people, including
movie stars," Detective Robert
M. Conlon of the Culver City
police said.
Conlon said FBI and treasury
department agents are moving
into the case.
Conlon and Police Sgt. M. H.
Martin uncovered the ring acci
dentally. They followed a sus
pected race track bookie to a
drug store and his trail took
them into the rear room of the
store.
The room was headquarters
of the ring's operation in this
area, Conlon said. Culver City
is 12 miles west of downtown
Los Angeles.
The ring booked bets on out
come of games and individual
player performances, the offi
cers said.
"We have absolute proof of its
tieup with a syndicate with out
lets in New York, Chicago. Phil
adelphia, St. Louis, Boston and
other places," Conlon said.
.
Police took three men into
custody. They were described
as "only the guys who handled
the telephones." However, au
thorities found ledgers contain
ing entries which point to brains
behind the operation.
Conlon said he could not iden
tify the heads of. the syndicate
until the men were arrested.
"They're people pretty well-
known throughout the country,'
he said.
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Arrested for violation of the
Culver City bookmaking ordi
nance were Herman Mallard, 39;
Joseph Harris, 50, and Max T.
Brown, 47, all of Los Angeles.
They were released on $250 bail.
Police said the bail was small
because the men were booked
on - misdemeanor gambling
charges.
"We didn't realize what we
had," they added.
Suffer charges will be placed
against the men, they indicated.
.
Officers said while they made
the arrests in the rear room
about $150 in bets were tel
ephoned in within three min
utes. They said the ring had a
short-wave radio in addition, to
standard bookmaking equipment
such as telephones, ledgers and
account sheets.
The baseball bookies took bets
on outcome of games and indi
vidual player performances.
They were the first big baseball
gambling operators uncovered in
this area, Culver City authori
ties said.
Among records seized was a
book which contained names of
more than 200 prominent Cali
fornia residents who placed bets
with the ring, police said.
Regional Building Up
Seattle, Wash., July 19 U.K
Buildinig permits issued in the
Pacific northwest and northern
Rocky mountain states during
the first six months of this year
exceeded the value of those
Issued during the same period
last year by $57,147,235.
ON THE STREAMLINED NORTH COAST LIMITED
CHICAGO $8125 NEW YORK $12505 WASHINGTON, D. C. $11945
Longshore Local
Attacks Bridges
San Francisco, July 19 UB
A local in Harry Bridges' long
shore union demanded today
that the West Coast labor leader
either quit his job as president
of the ILWU or resign from the
presidency of the Maritime Fed
eration of the Wojld.
The action against Bridges,
convicted of perjury in win
ning his U.S. citizenship in
1945, came as a unanimous re
solution of 200 walking bosses
in local 91. They termed the
maritime organization "one of
the main cogs in the machinery
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Bridges, free on ball while
appealing a six months jail
sentence, has twice halted union
resolutions condemning the
communist invasion of Korea..
A movement suggesting the
immediate jailing of Bridges
was stimulated in Washington
last week. The U.S. attorney
general's office Is reportedly
examining the possibility of re
voking Bridges' bail.
Local 91, which has endorsed
President Truman's action in
Korea and pledged full assist
ance in loading all cargoes and
ships involved in the war effort,
claimed the World Federation
of Trade Unions has issued or
ders to " do their utmost to
sabotage and delay In all ways
the program of the U. S."
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