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Weather Bureau Launches Probe on Warning Given Flooded East States
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Expanded Service
Could Be Result
Of Investigation
Washington (U.R) The
Weather Bureau has launched
q an official investigation to de
termine whether its stations
gave the public all possible
O warning of the disastrous floods
in the East.
A spokesman for the bureau
said today the inquiry could lead
to recommendation for an ex
pended flood warning service in
Eastern states.
The spokesman said prelimin
ary reports from investigators
in the field indicate that weather
forecasters did a "generally ex
cellent" job in predicting high
water conditions on major riv
ers, such as the Delaware, Sus
quehanna and Connecticut
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reau's present flood warning
system.
But he acknowledged that
flash floods on some of the trib
utaries of these rivers descended
on victims with little or no ad
vance warning.
Money, Equipment Needed '
He said the Weather Bureau
would need "a lot more money
and equipment" to extend its
3 river forecasting services suffi
ciently to give adequate notice
of flash floods on tributary
streams. And in some mountain
valleys, where heavy cloud
bursts can start flash floods roll
ing in less than two hours, it is
practically impossible to insure
early warnings, he. said.
Steps to improve Eastern
flood warning facilities had been
taken even before last week
end's floods. A river forecasting
service office, previously sched
uled, will open Sept. 1 at Hart
ford, Conn. It will cover the
New England area. At present,
the Weather Bureau has only one
specialized river forecasting of
fice, at Harrisburg, Pa., for the
entire northeastern part of the
nation.
Rainfall Prediction Off
A reporter asked whether the
leather Bureau should not have
put out more specific and de
tailed warnings of the extra
5 ordinarily heavy rains that
drenched Eastern states in the
path of dying Hurricane Diane.
v-. The spokesman said weather
sations did predict ram all
a'ong the hurricane's path, but
conceded- that the amount of
rainfall in many areas was more
than the forecasters expected.
He said this simply showed that
-meteorologists don't know as
GO much about storms as they wish
0 they knew."
Asked what kind of facilities
might be added to improve flood
forecasting services, the spokes
man said more radar stations
would be one answer. Radar en-
a Dies a central weainer siauun
to detect heavy rainfalls at a
considerable distance, and to
alert local weather observers to
begin shooting in hourly reports
on rainfall and river conditions
when a flood is threatened.
Brazil's Finance Minister
Bolsters Coffee Markets
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Plea Will Be Made
For Japanese Inmates
Tokyo (U.R) Japanese For
eign Minister Mamoru Shige
mitsu, who spent two years in
prison as a war criminal, left by
plane today for the United
States to plead in Washington
for the release of other Jaoan
ese still serving terms for their
World War II activities.
Ten years "is sufficient time
to be confined," Shigemitsu said
before leaving for talks with
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, which also will cover
Japanese rearmament.
A total of 577 men still are
imprisoned in Tokyo's grim Su
gamo Prison. Seven of them are
Class A prisoners, men who
helped plan Pearl Harbor and
gu.'ded war time Japan which
ran roughshod over millions of
Asians.
They are the last of 28 top
war criminals indicted by the
International Military Tribunal
after the war. Seven were
hanged. Seven died in prison.
Five were released because of
illness. Shigemitsu served two
of his seven-year sentence and
was paroled.
RADIO TOWERS BUZZED
Stuttgart, Germany (U.R)
Radio Stuttgart complained to
day two American jet fighters
buzzed its radio towers Monday.
The station said the planes flew
between its two towers, which
are about 400 feet apart.
By JUAN DE ONIS
United Press Correspondent
Rio De Janeiro -OJ.R) Fi
nance Minister Jose Maria Whit
aker, who looks the part of the
family doctor with his white
hair and benign smile, hopes to
nurse the coffee market back to
health with common sense and
a good bedside manner.
Like many a family doctor,
Whitaker has the advantage over
theorists and "miracle cure" cof
fee experts in that he knows
the patient intimately.
As a Sao Paulo banker for the
past 50 years, Whitaker has
spent most of the 77 years of his
life in almost daily contact with
the growth, financing and com
merce of the .little red beans for
which Brazil is famous.
A noticeable tranquility in lo
cal coffee growing circles fol
lowed Whitaker's assumption of
the finance post, and only the
protests of interested commer
cial parties against the suspen
sion of price-support by the gov
ernment ruffled the calm.
In the hubbub that followed
the suspension, coffee futures
fell 600 points on the New York
exchange. After a weekend of
thinking over Whitaker's succinc
explanation for the move the
market rapidly recovered.
The New York coffee market
is Dr. Whitaker's thermometer,
and a stable or rising reading
means the patient is healthy.
"Whitaker generally prefers
to let the exchange quotations
talk for him," said an aide of
Whitaker's. "When the market
is right there is nothing more
eloquent."
But during the crisis that fol-
lowed the suspension of govern-j
ment purchases of coffee from j
the present crop Whitaker made j
some significant statements that I
throw light on his approach, if
not his plans.
In the first place, common
sense and moderation appear to
be the primary reference points
in Whitaker's thinking about
coffee.
This may not seem exciting,
but for many, observers here it
was precisely an absence of com
mon sense and moderation that
caused a 30 per cent drop in
Brazilian coffee sales last year
and plunged the nation into one
of its most difficult economic po
sitions. Nearly all the Brazilian au
thorities who have spoken dur
ing the past eight months of Bra
zil's coffee policy have called
the 87-cent-a-pound export price
minimum fixed by ' former Fi
nance Minister Oswaldo Aranha
one year ago "disastrous" ... a
gambler's long-shot that failed."
New Crop Problem
Aranha's successor, interna
tional investment expert Eu
genio Gudim, is credited with
having made a successful assault
on an unhealthy "soft" internal
credit situation, but his lack of
familiarity with the commercial
aspects of the coffee business
maintained a depressing nervous
ness in the trade.
Whitaker's common sense pol
icy insists coffee is produced to
be exported, not to be bought up
by the government. That is why
he suspended , the government
purchases.
At the same time, flooding the
market with coffee without ex
panding old markets and find
ing new ones, can . only depress
prices, without increasing sales.
Therefore, Whitaker cut off sup
port purchase right at the point
where he felt supply was in pro
portion to current demand.
I The government now holds 3,-
200,000 sacks from the current
drop, which will be placed in
reserve, exactly as Brazil agreed
to do in its talks with Colombia
and the other Latin American
producers.
Whitaker wants Brazil's ex
porters to get to work and sell
the most they can from the 4,
200,000 sacks that remain out
of government hands. When the
new crop comes on the market
July 1, with an estimated 16,000,
000 sacks for export, Whitaker
wants sales to continue at the
best possible price. To help the
producers he has promised to
maintain crop financing at pres
ent levels.
What remains to be see is the
position Whitaker will assume
on the minimum price the law re
quires be set for the new crop.
All the indications are that what
ever will be decided will meet
the test of common sense.
Sale of Container Grown
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Log Falls From Truck
Killing Gaston Driver
Pendleton, Ore. (U.R) Ivan
Brown, 22, was killed last night
when a log rolled off a log truck
at Harris Pine mill here.
Brown, a truck driver from
Gaston, Ore., apparently walked
around behind his truck as it
was being unloaded. A log slip
ped off the rear of the truck
and struck him on the forehead
killing him instantly. The acci
dent occurred about 7 p.m.
Glenn Klein Returns
From Cornell Studies
Glenn Klein, Jackson county
4-H agent, arrived in Medford
last night after a two month's
absence to study at Cornell Uni
versity, Ithica, N.Y.
Klein was one of two 4-H lead
ers in the state to receive the
Sears, Roebuck foundation
to take the summer course. His
study concerned human development.
July Cost of Living
Shows Large Increase
Washington (U.R) The cost of
living in July showed the largest
increase of the past 14 months,
mostly because of rising food
prices.
The Bureau of Labor Statis
tics reported today the gain was
three-tenths of one per cent.
Small as it was, the increase
means a penny an hour wage
rise for some 650,000 General
Motors and Ford Motor Com
pany workers and for 200,000 in
other industries.
The BLS index of consumer
prices for July was 114.7, using
average 1947-49 prices as a com
parison basis of 100. The June
figure was 114.4. The increase
put the index figure just half
way between the high and low
figures of the past two years.
BLS also reported the take
home pay of the average factory
worker last month was at an all
time . high for a July, though
i lower than the record set in
May. For a worker with three
New Type Truck Seat
Absorbs Road Shocks
Detroit (U.R) A new type
of truck seat that will give truck
drivers five times the present
protection from road vibration
and shock has been demonstrated
by the Bostrom Manufacturing
company of Milwaukee.
A new torsional rubber spring
suspension system will absorb
many of the shocks of road travel
which the driver now feels.
The company said the seats
sell at retail for $90 to $100.
They said the new seats will
reduce accidents due to fatigue
and also would protect drivers
from health disorders believed
due to the constant jolting of
road travel in a truck.
Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) The
burglar who ransacked Donald
L. Miller's home wanted to
make sure of a fast getaway, po
lice said. Spike holes in Miller's
dirt driveway showed the in
truder wore track shoes.
dependents, July take-home pay
averaged $69.84 a week.
Portland Traction
Case Goes To Court
Salem (U.R) A fight between
Portland Traction company and
the state public utilities commis
sion wound up in the Oregon
Supreme Court yesterday.
PUC council John McCul
lough filed a writ seeking to
force the company to resume its
former interurban service be
tween Portland and Oregon
City. The traction company had
cut 10 runs a day from its service
claiming there was not enough
business on the line.
Action on the writ is expected
next week. The decision would
apply only until commissioner
Charles H. Heltzel made a deci
sion on the schedules following
a hearing.
The mandamus writ was sepa
rate from a circuit court ruling
which refused to grant the PUC
an injunction against the trac
tion company.
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