S outhern Oregon Miner, Thursday, May 16, 1946 t l a x S H M K L P e n n ta ln e d , llu r r lH Ion M a - c h i l i '* , g "o il C "*" llli" i> | 4 0 O , un dock. M . V a u g h n , 147 M . U th I t . . C o r s o i- Us, O r». W heat Needs 'Billion Bushel' Rains U. S. Proposes Long-Range Curb On Reich; Rain Needed to Spur Growth of Early Spring Seeding D E N T IS T R Y on CREDIT TERMS r»ii» s. io, it M m D r . H arry S i m I SENATORS URGE RUI.F. CHANGE ( F . D I T O K b M O T R : W b * » « p in t e a s a r e » « p r e s s e d l a lh » s » c e la m o s . »b»y ar» Ih»»» »f < W e a i e r a N e w a p a p e i I n l a a 'a a e w s a a a ly a l a a n d n o t a e e e a s a r l ly a f th ia N e w s p a p e r .! F O R E IG N M IN IST E R S: Reich Curb W EATHER: Crop Factor When Secretary of State Byrnes presented the U. S. plan for a 25- year control of Germany to the Paris conference of foreign minis­ ters, he reiterated this government’s determination to prevent a postwar military revival of the reich simi­ lar to that which occurred after World War 1. Definitely committing this coun­ try to active control over Germany to assure international security, the proposal would link the U. S„ Brit­ ain, Russia and France in a treaty calling for complete demobilization and demilitarization of the reich; elimination of its munitions indus­ tries and arms imports, and periodic inspections to check on observance of regulations. In proposing the 25-year treaty, which could be renewed for an additional 25 years at the date of its expiration, the U. S. took the initi­ ative in seeking to relieve Premier Stalin’s fear of a revived Germany, Because of Russia's apprehensions over future German aggression, Moscow insisted upon the formation of a friendly Polish government to act as a military buffer in the west and has worked for the economic and military integration of the Bal­ kan states. Byrnes’ historic proposal shadowed other important de- With another record-breaking har­ vest needed to help the U. S. meet both domestic and foreign demands, the American farmer looked sky­ ward in many sections for the sign of rain that would bring nourish­ ment to the fields. With warm weath­ er permitting early planting in parts of the east, south and west, precipi­ tation was needed to get crops off to an early start. In the east, spring weather has MUSIC SOOTHES . . , Herman C. Menge, a retired Racine, WIs., been erratic, with temperatures druggist, visited the son and found a director trying Io tame a raging ranging from the middle 70s to near lion. Menge pulled out his ocarina and started playing. The lion freezing. Though rainfall is approxi­ quieted down. mately six inches below normal, re­ cent showers have broken some of the dryness. A deficiency of rainfall in western Minnesota and North and South Dakota seriously menaced wheat and small grains in those areas and appreciable precipitation before July 1 will be required for good yields. While dryness has resulted in sparse stands in northwestern Kansas, wheat is in good condition By BA U K H A G E in the rest of the state. News Analyst and Comm entator. Heavy rainfalls throughout the Rocky mountain region have re­ Answer: Because this trial is not lieved immediate fears of drouth WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. merely a trial of a handful of Inter­ while growers in northern Colorado As the Nuernberg trials draw to national criminals. These evil vil­ have been warned against insect and cutworm infestation due to a close, I continue to hear two ques­ lains are only a small part of the drama, even if it is they, and not tions repeated ad early hatching of pests. what is behind their castigation, infinitum in the which sometimes still produces m a rk e t p laces headlines. The trial is a great proc­ and bazaars, in ess of legal documentation. the coffee houses and the couloirs It is the recording of history, for (not to mention the first time in history, of history the lecture halls) written ih blood, and ink hardly One is: Why on yet dry. It must be a complete rec­ earth are they ord; the record of a crime which, d ra g g in g out until it is so recorded, may never th e s e t r ia ls ; be admitted as a crime in the eyes aren't they ever of international statesmen and going to end? lawyers. The other is The Allied military tribunal (op­ Do you think any eration justice, as it was known in of these fellows the army) was planned, and is be­ (the prisoners) are gbing to get off? ing conducted to its long and appar­ Associate Justice Jackson knows ently infinite end for the purpose of as well as anyone else that news blueprinting a legal precedent for from Nuernberg has long since de­ holding as punishable criminals, the parted inconspicuously from the heads of states who plot and carry front page. He knows, from read­ out aggressive warfare. ing the American newspapers which That is the answer to question reach him not too belatedly, thanks one. to the ALS (the army’s special Question two: Are they ever go­ courier service), that his role in the ing to convict these fellows? I an­ Nuernberg case will never bring swered that in part when I said him a succes de scandale. He knows that the proceedings were far his presence is needed in Washing­ more than the trials of the defend­ ton on the Supreme court bench. ants who sit daily in the prisoners’ Why, then, does he tarry? dock of the court house at Nuern­ berg, or in their lonely cells near F u ll D o c u m e n ta tio n Secretary of State Byrnes (left) chats with Foreign Commissar by Molotov (center) of Russia and Foreign Minister Bidault of France. la R e q u ire d And for those who fear that jus­ By answering that question, one tice will be cheated, let me say that velopments at the foreign minis­ can answer the other two I men­ most of those men, if it cannot be W A R C R IM IN A L S : ters’ meeting called for speed­ tioned at the beginning of these established that they took official ing up conclusion of peace Look for Loophole lines. part in the planning and execution treaties with former axis satel­ Brought to book by the Allies’ One: Why is this thing being of an aggressive war, are probably lites and considering the eco­ international war crimes tribunal in dragged out forever. . ? wanted on other charger in local nomic reconstruction of Ger­ Tokyo, former Premier Hideki Tojo courts. If they go free from Nuern­ many and Anstria. immediately challenged his indict­ berg, the local courts will try them, The Big Four were quick to reach ment on 55 counts on grounds that as the “ Beast of Belsen" and oth­ a decision on the reduction of the the Potsdam declaration did not ers were tried and convicted for postwar Italian fleet and the division provide for the charges set forth. their separate and private crimes of the present navy among them­ As Tojo’s attorney, Ichiro Kiyose It Is possible, for instance, that selves and Greece and Yugoslavia. declared that the Potsdam agree­ Built up into an imposing force ment did not specify political activ ' the sadistic, degenerate Streicher. Jew-baiting wielder of a jewelled under Mussolini, the Italian fleet will ity as war criminality and speeches whip that was a symbol of his psy­ be cut to a maximum of four light by President Roosevelt and Prime chosis as well as an instrument of cruisers, a dozen destroyers and Minister Churchill had limited the his perverse desire, will not be con­ complementary gunboats, coastal meaning to war atrocities. Since victed by the IMT. He is so low patrol craft and auxiliary vessels the principle that militaristic politi that his fellow prisoners won't cal activity constituted war crim- | K IN G C O T T O N : speak to him; so crooked that even inality originated at the Nuernberg when he was a Gauleiter, he The smallest cotton crop since trials, Kiyose argued, it could not ■ couldn't be trusted to sign a single 1921 is indicated for the U. S. by be applied to terms of the Potsdam order of national or international the crop reporting board, the 9,015,- declaration under which Japan sur- ! significance. He finally stole so 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight tendered. much from the Nazi party Itself that comparing with 12,230,000 bales in Named with Tojo were 27 other j he was incarcerated. 1944 and 12.293.000 bales for the 10- top prewar leaders charged with The Nuernberg trials will con­ year (1934-43) average. The record starting the war, conspiring for tinue until the record is completed. crop was 19,946,000 bales in 1937. world domination and atrocities Justice will not be cheated. And it Harvested production of cotton­ against prisoners and internees. In is to be hoped that aggressive war. seed, a leading oil crop, in 1945 is pushing the* indictments, U. S. on the basis of the proceedings of indicated at 3,634,000 tons, 26 per Prosecutor Keenan declared they this court, will become illegal. How cent less than produced in 1944 and were based on the principle that GRAND OLD MAN . . . Charles can the United Nations hope to out­ Evans Hughes, only living for­ 30 per cent less than the 10-year political leaders who plotted the law war unless they establish with mer chief justice, leaving the average. execution of a war shared joint re­ sword, scales and woolsack that White House after conferring with sponsibility with the rank and file war is illegal? President Truman. who carried on operations. WASHINGTON^ DIGEST Complete Trial Needed To Legally Outlaw War C h eats D eath T w ice TO SAVE FORESTS Helicopters for Forest Fires? MARCH F IE L D , CALIF. - With March Field pilots flying the latest model army “egg-beaters,” tests have been conducted in Angeles na- tional forest with helicopters to de­ termine their effectiveness in forest Are control. If tests are successful, the forest service may have its own fleet of rotary-wing aircraft. The helicopters were used for ex­ perimental dropping of fire-sup­ A diphtheria putient in a Home, It­ pressing materials from the air — aly, hospital, three-year-old Alfredo a project in which skill approxi­ Marsili twice was brought back to life mating that of the wartime bom­ by skillful medics after his heart had bardier was turned to a peacetime stopped beating. The first time he suf­ purpose which might mean the sav­ focated he was revived by an injection ing of millions of dollars worth of of adrenalin and glass tubes were in­ national wealth. The plan, if successful, will ulti­ serted in his throat to facilitate his breathing. When a nurse dislodged the mately benefit woodsmen in Maine tubes while washing him, he suffocat­ and Tennessee as well as in the ed again, but once more he was brought F ar West. The basic advantage of back to life with artificial respiration. the helicopter, according to the ex- DENTAL PLATES | perts here, is that it would enable the trained fire-fighter and his kit j to get closer than ever to the key ’ spot in one hop. For several years the closest ap­ proach to this has been the “smoke- jumper,’’ or parachuting fireman of the forest service. Trained at the regional base at Missoula, Mont., this sylvan paratrooper has served heroically and efficiently, but a chute does not steer like a helicop­ ter. David P. Godwin, assistant chief of the division of fire control of the United States forest service, flew out from Washington for the tests. He was met by regional offi­ cials of the service and by Lt. Col. Rollo Lawrence, in charge of the army air force search and rescue work centered at San Francisco. Details on the “ bombing’’ with flre-suppressants would not beconv available until summer, members of the party said. Like the helicop­ ter experiment, it was approved in principle by the army last October. March Field’s own search and res­ cue unit, to which the helicopter pilots are attached, is headed by Maj. Fred W. Milam of Meron, Ind. Besides the rotary planes, the unit equipment includes two B-17s, five twin-engined advanced trainers and four Cub-type spotters. Their movements are guided by the res­ cue control center at North Holly­ wood. America's annual loss through forest fires is staggering. Each year thousands of acres of natural forests are lost through fire, large­ ly because fire-fighters cannot reach the blaze to put lt out before it spreads over a large area. WASHINGTON -T e n senators— Democrats and Republicans—got together secretly the other day Io study that most sacred of all sacred cows—senate rules. Behind their meeting wus the conviction that die­ hard Dixie Democrats can block any measure they oppose via the fili­ buster, and that the majority must rule if democracy is to function in the U. S. A The secret meeting took place aft­ er senators received a flood of let­ ters both for and against the at­ tempt by Wayne Morse, Oregon Re­ publican, to secure passage of the anti-poll tax bill through unani­ mous consent of the senate. Only senators on the floor at the time Morse attempted this strategy were Morse himself and Republican Wil­ liam Langer of North Dakota Liberal Democrat Warren Mag­ nuson of Seuttle, Wash., was pre­ siding. Had he immediately asked senutors if there was objection, there would have been none and tire anti-poll tax bill would have passed. Morse had identified the bill only by number, so Magnuson did not at once recognize it. But, even if he had, probably he would have hesitated to pass a controversial bill without debate. He was rescued from this dilem­ ma by Senator Ernest MacFarland, Arizona Democrat, who quickly came to the floor and objected. Since then, senate mall has been strong with letters both objecting to the Morse attempt as trickery and supporting Morse on the ground that this strategy was no more un- fuir than the filibuster. Regardless of the above mer­ its, a bipartisan group of ten senators has determine^ that senate rules must be changed. They seek to lim it debate on any single bill to ten days, which would bring up the anti- poll tax bill, already passed by the house, before the senate re­ cesses. They are thinking also of bringing up legislation to cre­ ate a permanent FEPC—provid­ ed they succeed in winning their amendment to the senate rules. The ten senators are: Democrats —Pepper (Fla.), Magnuson 'Wash .), Guffey (Pa.), Glen Taylor (Idaho), Huffman (Ohio), Kilgore and Capper (Kan.). • • • iir M m *■ e»r , Dtnit-ii AllSKV 81 DC • I t o 8 MORRISON PORTLAND. OR! 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They will receive some minor rebukes, especially for poor co-ordination of army and navy in­ telligence; but nothing serious. Democratic members of the committee also will absolve the state department of any blame and will let major blame rest where the original Roberts re­ port contended It belonged—on the shoulders of army and navy commanders In the Hawaiian area—General Short and Ad­ miral Kimmel. Republican members of the com­ mittee will (He a sharply worded minority report upholding Short and Kimmel and charging (1) that Short and Kimmel weren’t sufficiently ad­ vised by Washington about inter­ cepted Jap messages presaging the Pearl Harbor attack; and (2) that the two officers weren't provided with enough long - range patrol planes to spot the Jap fleet. • • • PATTON'S DIARY The war’s stormiest hero, Gen. George S. Patton, was the center of many a controversy before he died. But today the war department is still sitting on one of the hottest of Patton's hot potatoes—the general's secret diary. Only a few people In the war department and the Patton fam­ ily know It, but the famous gen­ eral kept a careful diary all during the Normandy campaign. Jotting down his frank com­ ments about the Allies and even about his superior officers. Some of the comments just about burned up the page. General Patton especially paid his compliments to the famous Brit­ ish field marshal, Montgomery, whom he criticized with almost the same bluntness as the soldier in the Sicilian hospital whom he slapped. • • • CHIPS FROM A G R A N ITE L IF E Most people have forgotten, but it was Harlan Stone to whom the na­ tion owes a debt for picking J. Ed­ gar Hoover as head of the FBI. When Stone became attorney gen­ eral, he swept out Burns and select­ ed a young career man, Hoover, to take his place. No one had ever heard of Hoover before. . ... 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