Farmers Suffer
Sales Cutback
For Second Year
Washington. Mar. 3 (U.R)
For the second straight year,
farmers have suffered a 10 per
cent cutback in crop sales dur
ing January and February.
The agriculture department
estimated today that cash re
ceipts from farm marketing to
taled $3,700,000,000 during those
two months.
If this 10 per cent disparity
continues throughout the year,
net farm income may drop even
more, perhaps as much as 15 per
cent, since farm production costs
are expected to stay relatively
high.
If it does, the total would be
about $11,740,000,000, the small
est in eight years and 34 per cent
below the 1947 record.
Some Hit Harder
Some states are being hit hard
er than others in the overall cut
hnrlt. Cash receipts from farm
marketings in North Dakota last
year dropped 32 per cent. On the
other hand, cash receipts for
those In Florida rose 19 per cent.
Cash receipts from farm mar
ketings in 1949 for the top 20
farm states, and the percentage
increase or decrease, were esti
mated by the department today
as follows in these states:
California, $4,206,815,000,
down six; Kansas, $933,578,000,
down 17, and Washington, $505,
867,000, down 11.
Reservists Must
Waive Payments
When In Service
MAmhort nf ervire resprVt?
components who are receiving
aisammy or reiiremeni Denem:
n.,,e urn it, a ctlVi navinflltl HllT
Inn onv norinri nf rpgprve Hlltv
training for which service pay
is sou cm unaer ine terms oi
public law 434 of the 81st con
gress, the veterans administra
tion has announced in answei
to numerous inquiries.
Tka law nrnuiHpi federal nav
n nAi-inrlc nf rllltv. drill
and training as specified in the
act. It contains a provision re
quiring that payment of any pen
sion, compensation or reurantm
u.n.(H. moo ka waivpH fnr ner-
iods during which duty pay is
received.
May Sign Wairer
The VA has set up a procedure
whereby a reservist need sign
Wot nna urailTAr rtllfinff HI1V IISL'al
In arnap In moot thi Tfi'
no famnnt The UrnlVPf IK DBSCU
on the estimated length of time
Ikn vacant e is kP V Tn DP. in
remainder of tne tiscai year, nn;
necessary adjustment in the num
ber of days for which waiver
is made is accomplished later.
Where government insurance
premiums are being paid from
pension, compensation or retire
ment pay which is waived for
the purpose of accepting reserve
pay, adjustments also are made
by VA so that the insurance is
kept in force.
TWELVE MEDFOHD (OHEGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday. March 3, 1950
Fear of Arctic Gives Way
To Deep Respect Following
Peacetime Military Tests
By Charles Corddry
United Press Aviation Writer
Washington. Mar. 3 (U -R) -
Fear of the arctic has- given way
to something more like deep re
spect after the stiffest peacetime
military tests ever staged in the
north. ,. .
Generals of both the united
States and Canada know now
that their troops can tive, worn
and fight for extended periods
in temperatures ranging down to
40 below rero in some of the
most rugged country anywhere.
But they also have learned
that improved tactics and the
toughest indoctrination that can
ba devised are essenuai to suc
cessful combat operations in the
vast reaches of Alaska and
northwest Canada.
Value Damonttrated
The value of special training
both for survival in extreme cold
enrl fnr arctic combat was dem
onstrated vividly in the recently
compieieu escitiacBwcciunBi.
Troops of the U. S. 14th regi
mental combat team, Camp Car
son. Col., and the Princess Pa
tricia's Canadian light infantry
were out-maneuvered on several
occasions by the "aggressor"
force from the U. S. 4th infantry,
stationed in Alaska. Yet the
"aggressor" always was outnum
bered. . The 4lh infantry troops ap-
fieared in excellent condition at
he end of the war games, despite
the fact that some had been in
the field since late January and
had encountered lower tempera
tures than the "allied" force. In
some spots their thermometers
registered 60 below.
Chief. Convinced
While the manuovers showed
that combat can be conducted in
the arctic, commanders of both
Canadian and American forces
were convinced that only small
units, probably of battalion or
regimental siie are likely to be
engaged.
Summing up, U. S. Brig. Gen.
George C. Stewart, Sweetbrlar
field commander, said:
1. With air superiority, troops
can be moved over the Alcan
highway the year round. Without
it, they probably cannot move
at all.
Not Limiting Factor
2. Supply is not a limiting
factor. What will govern com
bat operations in the Arctic is
the number of troops that can
be deployed. He thought eombnt
teams of 5,000 men would be
ideal units.
3. More than the usual com
plement of maintenance would
be required to prevent a break
down of transport.
Murder And Suicide
Reported At Newport
Newport, Ore., Mar. 3 U R
Sheriff Tim Whelp snid today
that Ernest Murray. 30, killed
his wife, Marian. 41, and then
rommitted suicide at their Nye
Bench home late yesterday.
Bodies of Murray and Mrs.
Murray were found in their
photograph shop - residence by
Leona English, 11 year - old
daughter of Mrs. Murray by
former marriage when she re
turned from school.
Murray hnd fn served with
divorce papers earlier in the
day.
Whelp and District Attorney
L. G. Encli.ili said it was murder
and suicide.
Hollywood, Mar. 3 U.R
Janet Blair leaves today to star
in "South Pacific" after divorc
ing her husband, who preferred
K laying golf to coming home to
er cooking.
Dead tin- Sunday Claulfled U ai I
nnon Saturdays.
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bo DEPENDABLE,
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4. Soldiers fighting in the
Arctic should be pulled out of
combat frequently for rest and
recreation in heated buildings.
West Germany Said .
Infiltrated With Reds
Frankfurt, Germany, Mar. 3
(U.R) Lt. Gen. Clarence R. Hueb
ner, commander of U. S. army
troops in Europe, said today that
western Germany is "honey
combed with communist agents."
Huebner's assertion followed a
recent disclosure that important
documents had disappeared from
homes of army officers, and the
arrest here of a 22-year-old So
viet national suspected of being
a "confusion agent."
A flurry of public spy talk also
was stimulated by a report that
a training program would bring
American troops and certain key
civilians here up to date on the
radioactivity which follows
atomic explosions.
Huebner declined to go beyond
his bare statement. But confi
dential informants reported that
every person dealing here in im
Dortant information was subject
to a screen of "confusion agents."
They were described as having
tne mission oi creating suspicion
to draw army countcr-intell.i-gents
away from the real spy.
Oregon Farm Market
Receipts In Decline i
" Portland. Ore.. Mar. 3 U.R)
Oregon farm market receipts
showed the first annual decline i
in 12 years during 1949. the U.S. !
department of agriculture noted
today.
The 1949 receipts more than
trebled pre-war receipts, but
they were 13 per cent below the
1948 record. Farm crop receipts
showed a 15 per cent decrease,
while receipts for livestock
dropped 12 per cent.
On a national level, fewer
people were on farms than a
year ago and wages had dropped
about two per cent, the report
snid.
Russia Not Planning
War Of Aggression,
Sen. O'Mahoney Says
uenver. Colo., Mar. 3 (U.R)
Russia has "no Idea of waging
aggressive war against the
United States," Sen. Joseph C.
O'Mnhoney, (D Wyo.) snid to
day. ,
O'Mahoney, chairman of the
jenate committee on Interior and
insular affairs, sold the com
munists are "counting on a de
pression to create conditions
which would make it ensv for i
them to tnke over the world 1
without a struggle."
As a means of combatting a de
pression, O'Mahoney recom-
mended a system, slmilnr to thai ;
used by the federal deposit in- i
surance corporation, which i
would guarantee agnin.-t failure
of little businesses.
Hollywood. Mar. 3 (U.R)
Singer Kay St. Germainc, denied
one divorce from Jack Carson
three years ago, had another suit
on file today charging him with 1
desertion.
Salem, Ore., Mar. 3 U.R
Earl C. Latourette of Oregon
City filed his candidacy for Jus
tice of the Oregon supreme court
here Wednesday.
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