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V t SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. Mar 20, 19S1 DAV Holds District Conference; Elect Geo. W. Simmons District 5, Department of Ore gon, Disabled American Veter ans, met in Grants Pass last week-end for its annual confer ence. Matters of interest to DAV members of the five chapters in the district were discussed in cluding business to be presented to the state convention in June. Officers for the district elect ed were George W. Simmons, Medford, commander, and John Groat, Roseburg, vice-commander. James R. Lillie, Medford, was retained as adjutant. Endorse Officers For state and national offic es, the following were endorsed for election at the state con vention June 4 to 7 in La Grande: Thomas Van Lanning- ham. Oregon City, state com mander; Baden Robinson, Grants Pass, state senior vice-commander; Mrs. Olive Adamson, Kla math Falls, state chaplain, and Robert W. Bryant, Grants Pass, national executive committee man representing the 13th dist rict, Oregon, Washington and Idaho A resolution presented by Pat Graham, service officer for Jack son County Chapter 8 pcrtain ina to rehabilitation work of the state department was passed and recommended for passage at the state convention. The ladies auxiliary elected Marv Finton, Klamath Falls, commander and Laura Bryant, Grants Pass, vice-commander. Alice Davidson, Williams, is secretary-treasurer. Visitors among the auxiliary were Laura Bryant, state com mander; Blanche Zilintki, sen ior vice-commander and Laura Klein, Oregon City. Congress Urged To Let Rent Controls Lapse on June 30 Washington (U.R) Landlords urged Congress Tuesday to let federal rent controls die June 30 or at least confine them to "critical defense housing areas." The latter proposal would strip rent ceilings from Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, and a number of other major communities where they have been In effect for about 10 years. Said Morally Wrong Spokesmen for the landlords said in testimony prepared for the House Banking Committee that rent control Is "morally wrong, economically unjusti fied" and creates "artificial housing shortages." They com plained that landlords have been "maligned as the avaricious rich" whereas they are mostly small property owners who have been treated unfairly by con gress and rent control "bureau crats." The committee is considering legislation to extend price-wage-crcdit-rcnt controls beyond June 30. Commanders Lauded Harry J. Fitzgerald, Evans vllle, lnd of the National As sociation of Real Estate Boards, said all rent controls should be allowed to die along with price range controls. He lauded the commanders of Chanute Air Force Base In Ill inois and Fort Benning, Ga., Army Base for resisting efforts to impose rent control which would have discouraged, he said, any move by the community to solve housing shortages there, Charles Dlcken's famous book, "Pickwick Papers." is being filmed in England this summer. TV? ...rr-r -gg- 'UU$ TAIAUrr I'LAor-D 1Y INK - 'fAlil2l7QRD -HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION A A' I'LilvA'iANUWT AiUM.OIU.AL TO VfcLlS'" A. SWIiARINCliN - ' VUO$l! TOL L-UAULKSUli' ANP 'MftlUl'lWAU LAUOllS VHIIOUGH TDU ' ) IOUIr Y liARfi - )P' - 196 ;w TKlitamnioK oj uualiik; , , TC?fc 'Jltr COMMUNITY Japan's National Budget Balanced; Living Improved Tokyo (U.R) Japan's na tional budget is balanced, the country has $1,000,000,000 stockpiled in foreign exchange and its people are living better today than at any time since World war II. Seven years after its defeat, Japan appears to be stronger ec onomically than any of its Asia tic neighbors. Paradoxically, however, the normally optimistic Japanese are worried. They know they are riding a treacherous Korean war boom. Soon they will be shackled with the burden of re building armed forces. Outwardly, the fears would seem baseless. Japan's national PLAQUE DEDICATED The bronze plaque reproduced above was to be dedicated at cere monies at 3 p.m. today at Community hospital In memory of the late Miss Phillis Swearingen, who for many years was a leading figure in the operation of the hospital. The plaque unveiling was to be done by Mrs. Porter J. Neff, who presented the plaque on behalf of the Medford Hospital association. The Rt. Rev. Benjamin Dagwell, bishop of the Oregon diocese of the Episcopal church, which recently assumed own ership of the hospital, also was to be present. (Brainerd photo.) Whispering Campaign Directed at Booting Hoover Out of FBI BY LYLE C. WILSON Washington (U.R) A whis pering campaign which never dies, an undercover operation which never rests, is directed at booting Director J. Edgar Hoov er out of the FBI. The ordinary run of yeggs and hoodlums probably would be in favor of ousting Hoover. He makes things tough for them. But they have nothing to do with the campaign to get him out of office and to cut the FBI down to size and scope of operation de sired by its enemies. Communists Real Enemies These enemies are Commun ists, fellow travelers, and de luded left wingers. Communists and fellow travelers want Hoov er bounced because he inter feres with their subversive activ ities, plants spies in their treason cells, and enables the govern ment from time to time to send them to Jail. So the Communist Party line is that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI are the enemies of civil lib erties In the United States. Not only Communists peddle this story. It is told in strange places. Once in a while the comrades think they have Hoover on the run and one of their front organ izations comes up with a public campaign to oust him. Lawyers Guild Active The National Lawyers Guild Is subject to such seizures. The National Lawyers Guild is de scribed by the House Un-American Activities Committee as "just one more highly deceptive Communist-operated front organ ization, primarily intended to serve the Interests of the Com munist Party in the United States." Not much has been heard of the oust-Hoover movement of late. A great many Americans are enlisted for the duration in a solid effort to bat that move ment down anytime, anywhere. All hands, then, would be in terested In a booklet Just re printed from the Iowa Law Re view, Iowa City, la. It Is "Civil Liberties and Law The "free university" estab lished in the United Slates sec tor of Berlin as a counter-measure to the Russian-dominated In stitution has Increased lis stu dent enrollment from 2,200 to more than 5,000. Enforcement: The role of the FBI." The author: J. Edgar Hoover. Great Problem "Here is America's great prob lem today," Hoover wrote, "to maintain the basic civil liberties of the individual, which are the foundation stones ot free gov ernment, yet, at the same time. to protect the security of the na tion. In 20 pages Hoover states his philosophy of liberty, the law, and the enforcement thereof The booklet is recommended reading fo reverybody espe cially those innocents who have listened to the phony wails of the Communist Party line. fir POSSIBILITY of filing treason charge against Dr. James Endi cott, ex-misslonary, for uphold ing Red claims of germ warfare by UN forces in Korea Is under study In Ottawa by Canada's justice minister, (h'n :' budget this year is as in the several years past---balanced in spite of a 21 per cent defense outlay. Foreign currency hold ings have swollen to an equiva lent of $1,000,000,000 includ ing $600,000,000 dollars and 100,000,000 pounds in sterling exchange. Official Japanese gov ernment indices claim the peo ple are enjoying a living stand ard just about equal to the pre war 1934-36 period. Weakness Discerned The U. S. armed forces spent $734,000,000 in Japan in 1951 and are expected to spend $200, 000,000 annually in the future, according to the estimate of Frank Waring, U. S. embassy counsellor. The weaknesses in Japan's ec onomy show with very little dig ging, however. The optimistic complexion of Japanese economy was due in equal parts to U. S. aid, occupa tion insistence on a rigid anti inflation line and the Korean war. However, United States aid which totaled $534,749,000 at its height in 1949 and $357, 324,000 in 1950 was stopped in June, 1951. The Japanese government, which followed U. S. financial czar Joseph Dodge's anti-inflation dictates most unwillingly, will be under heavy internal pressure to relax the line. The armistice talks at Panmunjom may bring the Korean war to an end. The flaws in such an economy are obvious. Normal foreign trade, which is Japan's life-line, produced an import balance last rear of $840,746,982. However, japan added $334,772,902 to its foreign exchange holdings last year because it did not have to pay for the bulk of American aid goods and because purchas es in Japan by the U. S. occupa tion forces and the U. N. com mand for the Korean war effort reached a post-war high. Production Cut Korean war purchases alone in the year and a half since hos tilities began through December 3 totaled $541,563,000 and Ja panese officials have estimated it will Increase to $700,000,000 this year. Delivering arms, equipment and services to the U. N. forces in Korea will not support Ja pan's entire economy. That was made evident this year, when Japan found it was producing more than It could sell. The Ja panese government in February ordered a 40 per cent roll-back in cotton spinning mill opera tions and a 30 per cent reduc tion In rubber processing. Additional Problems Japan's independence will bring with it a whole raft of ad ditional new problems. They in clude (1) The problem of repay ing U. S. aid what portion will depend on the United States (2) reparations to countries which suffered damages under Japanese World war II occupa tion the Philippines alone is asking $8,000,000,000 (3) re tirement of pre-war Japanese government bonds held by for eign bondholders, and (4) remu neration of allied internees, and of allied property holders whose assets were damaged during the war. That Japan can pay only a small portion of that huge debt is obvious. Japanese officials re fuse to estimate that total debt for fear of prejudicing negotia tions on them. 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