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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.
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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. The amount
which would satisfy claimanti
would undoubtedly burden even
a sound economy.
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