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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. April 22, 1932 Memoirs of Senator Vandenberg Printed; Tell of Secret Talks Washington (U.R) Presi dent Roosevelt gave British Prime Minister Winston Church Ill "some sort of assurance" be fore Pearl Harbor that the United States would go to war with Japan, according to the memoirs of the late Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg. The Michigan Republican's memoirs also disclosed that President Truman considered calling Soviet Premier Josef Stalin "on the phone" a month before the 1048 presidential election in a bid for closer U. S. Soviet friendship. Papers Published These other disclosures are contained In Vandenberg's pri vate papers, which will be pub lished in book form Tuesday. 1. Mr. Roosevelt, at the 1943 Quebec Conference with Church ill, gave Britain a wartime veto over American use of atomic bombs. This required Mr. Tru man to get British approval be fore A-bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The veto was clmlnated In Jan uary, 1948. 2. Mr. Truman told Vanden berg and others at a high level conference on July 14, 1B49, that this government proposed giving Britain "a full partner ship' 'on atomic energy "In cluding sharing trte 'know-how' on weapons making." Vanden berg successfully opposed the proposal. 3. Vandenberg had high hopes that Gen. Douglas MacArthur would be the 1944 Republican presidential nominee. Foresaw Iks Nomination 4. In 1949, Vandenberg ex pressed the opinion that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower might be the GOP presldenital nominee this year. 5. Vandenberg, at the 1940 Republican convention, rejected an offer by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to be Dewey's running mate and countered with a pro posal that Dewey be Vanden berg's running mate or that they flip a coin to see who should head the ticket. Wendell L. Willkle won the nomination. 6. Vandenberg frequently made acid comments about Pres idents Roosevelt and Truman, Sens. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) and Tom Connnlly (D-Tox.), Sec retary of State Dean Acheson, and other public figures. 7. Vandenberg went to the 1948 GOP convention with an acceptance speech "to be avail able in the totally unexpected event of my nomination." The 559-page book, entitled "The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg," consists of docu ments and personal correspond ence from 1939 to his death from cancer on April 18, 1951. This period covered Vandenberg's transition from an isolationist to an outright supporter of inter national collaboration. In a Jan. 27, 1942, diary en- Fire District Signing Brisk in C. P. Region Central Point Over half of the names for the petitions being circulated for the Central Point rural fire district have been se cured. Fire Chief Richard Krupp reported yesterday. Krupp said he expected that enough names would be secured by Saturday to complete the cir culation of petitions. Only 200 signers or 25 per cent of the registered property owners are needed in the proposed district, Krupp added. try, Vandenberg wrote that Churchill had won "some sort of assurance" from Mr. Roose velt that the "U. S. would go to war with Japan, regardless whether Japan attacked us or not. In still other words, we were slated for this war by the President before Pearl Harbor. The major objective of British diplomacy , , . has been to get us into the war. Even we in the Senate can't find out what is going on. This is Roosevelt's private war." Phone Call Described Details of the hitherto secret idea of a Truman-Stalin phone call were contained in an Oct. 5, 1948, diary entry. Vanden berg wrote that Mr. Truman personally called him and Con nally to the White House and "chatted informally about the possibility he might 'call Stalin on the phone' overseas and see what he could do with him." This was after the abortive plan to send Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson to Moscow. Vandenberg said he "made no comment ex cept to say that I thought a bi lingual phone conversation would be rather difficult." The call was not made. if! Alinj M01L7 Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) Italian ac tor Vittorio Gassman has been accused of promoting his Holly- w o o d career via his bride- to-be, Shelly Winters. But he turned out Tuesday to be a senior genius who's reached the top already. Vittorio shrugged he's turned down one major stu dio cantract here because "I want to be free to continue in the theater in Italy." Besides, he added, he likes Shelley not because she's a star but because "she's a sweet girl and she likes to eat." Newsmen have purred that the handsome Italian came to Hollywood with Shelly just to pursue a movie career. But, Gassman, the movie colony is finding out, is a top actor in his own right. Recently he gave a reading of Italian poetry at the local .Cir cle theater. Most of the movie luminaries there didn't under stand Italian. But he held them spellbound for two hours, any way. Top Italian Actor Gassman, 29, is one of the five top movie and stage idols in Italy. His father is a well-to-do construction engineer, and he studied at the Academy of Dra matic Arts in Rome. Since then he's starred In 93 plays in nine years. His name has been up in lights for such stage successes In Italy as "A Streetcar Named Desire," "All My Sons," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Anna Christie." He's also written a play, and ALINI MOSSY United Preu Correspondent is a director of note in the Ital ian theater. He specializes In Shakespeare and classical Greek drama. He's had a book of poems and a short novel published. IS Movies Shelley's future husband has been a leading idol on celluloid since 1948, too. He's appeared in 19 movies, and was the villian who attacked leggy Silvano Mangano in the popular "Bitter Rice." Furthermore, he says, he knew virtually nothing about Shelly when he met her in the lobby of a Rome theater last fall. "Hardly any of her pictures had played in Italy and I had never seen her on the screen," he explained. "I Just knew she was a star, which I'd read in the movie magazines. "I didn't believe all I read," he added gallantly. "I'm interest ed in her future, not her past.' First Movie Due Gassman starts his first Holly wood movie, "The Glass Wall," with Gloria Grahame, for in dependent writer-producer Max well Shane next month. For six months of every year, he and Shelly plan to stage English language plays in Italy. He's opening a theater in Rome next fall, and it will be subsidized by the Italian government. "I like Shelly because on our first date she was not pre occupied with diet," beamed Gassman. "In Europe actresses tend to be sophisticated and snobbish. They are impossible to talk to. But Shelly takes to everybody. This is a very sweet quality." California became the No. 2 cotton producing State in 1951. Dead tint Sunday Classlflcda la at noon Saturday. Biggest three-time winner in history of r.lobilgas Economy Run Thii h tft third year In a row fhaf Mercvry Has distinguished itlf In the official AAA-iuporvitdrd Mobilgas Economy Run. In 1950 Mercury defeated all cofi on a pouod-fof-pound basil to become the first Sweepstakes Champion of this notional event. Lost yeor Mercury's big cousin, the Lincoln, won the Sweepstakes ond Mercury hod to be content with being First In Ms Price Class. This yeor Mercury Is back again as the one ond only Sweepstakes Champion. The course this year was harder, ond more mourrtoinous than ever before 1415 miles between Los Angeles and Sun Valley.ldaho. Whafs more this year's Mercury is 12X more powerful with 12 more horses to feed thon last year. Bui despite this, Mercury for 1952 has proved Itself the No. 1 Economy Cor of alt time. It's a completely new cor from Jet-scoop hood to Hide-away gas cop. We'd like you to drive it and discover Ms truly thrilling performance for yourself. Mercury Anwica'i No. 1 Economy Car 25.4 miles per gal. with Tooch-O-Matic Overdrive IN MEDFORD SEE MEDFORD MOTORS 6th and Ivy Slight Rise Due In Living Costs Washington (U.R) T h e gov ernment's cost - of - living ther mometer was due to register a slight rise Tuesday. The Bureau of Labor statistics said it would issue a report show ing what happened to consumer prices between February 15 and March 15. Informed sources said the in dex would be up about 0.1 of 1 per cent. This would be the first time since December 15 that there has been any increase at all. Prices dropped sharply last month. The rise leaves prices one half of 1 per cent below last Decem ber. The slight rise will prevent any cost-of-living wage increases this month and when balanced off againsUast month's drop may cause a wage cut for some groups. Contracts covering less than 100,000 workers are tied to this month's index, with ma jor "escalator" contracts falling due on other months. Among those affected are some 20,000 CIO electrical workers at the Spcrry Gyroscope plant, Long Island, the Ford Instru- Grain Spoilage Seen Investigation Subject W a s h i n g ton (U.R) Sen George D. Aiken (R.-Vt.) has called for an investigation to de termine how much grain has spoiled In government storage bins. Aiken made the demand as the Senate Agriculture committee continued its inquiry Into short ages of grain stored in private warehouses. The committee called repre sentatives of the Plains Grain Co., Fort Worth, Tex.; Hender son Grain Co., Farwell, Tex., and Garden City Grain and Seed Co., Garden City, Kan., to testify. 42 Names Drawn Monday For Columbia Farmland Othello, Wash. (U.R) Forty t. names were drawn from pool of 3.000 names of applicants seeking priority to full-time Co lumbia Basin farms here Mon day. 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