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fpfo) jd lyuulKlr " ' ' : ' By FRANK JENKINS THIS In a llmo for plain speak ing. Loft do a little of it hero mid now. In blunt, uudlp lomutlc language, tills i what P.palclont Truinun'i now forolgn pulley nicuiin: STOP RUSSIA NOW while there I (till (lino. If we wall too long, iho'll be too big to handle. TN deciding whother or not to buck up Ilia now forolgn pol icy announced by the President (wliono job iindtir the count itii tlon l to bundle foreign policy) wti nuiKt take tin nurd, pracii- I cm unit atlon: At vi unit Into pruyeriul consider- vunt cost, we got rid of Hitler Mud fascism. We now face Stulm mid communism. To Unit rxlcnl. we ere beck where we started. IN gutting rid of Hitler end " fufcf.lmii we took Heavy losse: One of these win BRIT- A IN, Britain, wounded, nick, almitut bunkrupl, in no longer a world power. For neurly a century and a half, Brltuln ibieldcd tin while we wore growing up. We now must ahleld Hrlluln. We must mimo her buck to health after the wound ahe u Tiered during the war to end HltlcrUm. Either that or we muit STAND ALONE. . TJKHE 1 another fact we' ought to fnce: We aren't dealing with the Rumiun people. If we were, it would be quite simple. We are dealing with a wt of Ideological fiiimtira who hold vat power In their hand. An Ideological war la aimllar tn a holy war. History la full of exumplca of the atrange things men do under the preiwurei of a holy war. The Crusadca, for Instance, which kept the world upset for nearly two centuriei. What haa happened before ran happen again. HERE la a word of advice from one humble, Insignificant citizen to the president of the . United Stale: ''" Now la the time to tell all. Vou know what ll hidden be hind the acetic. Tell the people about It, Lay the facta before lhcm. You fear, of cuurae, that ' In doing o you might offend Russia and o make matter worse. Well, if the aituatlon 1 as grave aa your new foreign pol icy, with all of U Implications, Indicates, tlyj American people are entitled to know the worst, in no olhcr way can they make the decision that will be in volved if they are to follow you ALL TIIE WAY in the course you recommended to them yes terday. F REIGN policy la the (oil out of which war grow, Hislory leaves ua crystal clear on that point. The shaping and the di rection of American foreign pol icy la the constitutional duty of the Prealdcnt. But foreign pol icy can be aucccaaful ONLY aa It is understood and backed up by the people, pOR generations, the Monroe 1 Doctrine was practically our only foreign policy. It was out standingly successful because tho American people understood It and believed In it and were willing to back it up to any ex tent. Wo don't yet understand your newly announced foreign policy, Mr. Truman. We don't yet know enough about It. You speak too 'sjimich In parables. You leave too much unsaid. If wo are to back 'it up with all of our lives and all of our property, you must lull us more. You must make it as simple and as fundamental as the Mon roe Doctrine. If it Is true that we must stop Russia now, while there Is still time, before she gets too big to'handlc, you must tell us so. The time has come for plain speaking. ' Hungary, Occupied Korea . T I A f" If ar i op lisc WASHINGTON, March 13 W) War-torn Hungary and occupied Korea loom biggest- today on any Hat of potential candidates for extension of President Tru man's declaration of support for free peoples, Officials of. several govern ment departments already are at work on proposals to help these two nations whose pliKht like that of Greece and Turkey, has resulted at least In part from Soviet Russia's expansive pres sure. , The foreign help which the United States has extended since Vli day suggests that a global projection of the policy Mr. Tru nin n outlined yesterday to con gress might later Include China iw.ii duly as well. This government made plain Its Intent to bolster Hungary in announcing a $19,000,000 sur plus proporty credit last month, and still later by voicing a sharp PRICE riVE CENTS T ml Bflen- Fs'-Hap : - VAI Tl kJ f a. I B.'-l I f.. TL I ) " .... V' aWjg.?,araAuj..ii ii.i ,r, j ' i hi) :'"': , 1 ia Ik ' Saa aa a l j Upper photo was taken this morning, showing for the first time the new Tule lake homesteader together in a group. The aingle woman farm winner. Eleanor Jane Bolesta. may be seen at extreme left, standing. Below, left. Robert L. Smith. Banks, Ore., No. I on the liat, puta his finger on the unit he wanta, pointing it out to E. L. Stephana, project superintendent and examining board secretary. Below, right, Cewin McCraeken. Arlington,- Va.. receives hia certification card from Tea Broeck Williamson, aeated. regional settlement officer. ; . . ; a Germans Shun Mew Party BERLIN, March 13 m American military government political officials aald today that leaders of the Soviet-sponsored socialist unity party from Ger many's Russian zone had met with little success in efforts to promote a social democratic communist party merger In the United States zone. These officials said that Com munist Wllhelm Pleck and Social Democrat Otto Grotewohl, co chairmen of the socialist unity party now on a speaking tour in the U. S. zone, had sought to ar range conferences with socialist democratic leaders to discuss deals for merger and coopera tion with the communists. "Everywhere they have been given the cold- shoulder by re sponsible social democrats," the officials reported. ror u.o. Mia firotest against Russia s "direct nterfcrence" In an attempt to upset the "freely elected" demo cratic majority in the Budapest parliament. 1 - Korea, a nation divided by American and Russian occupa tion zones, has a status some what like Austria, but the Koreans can qualify as a free people under formal declara tions of the wartime allies. The program of American as sistance now - being put into shape is aimed at repairing rail ways, factories and other pro ductive facilities tn U. S.-occu-pled southern Korea. The objec tive Is to make that area self supporting regardless of tho con tinuing dispute with Russia over terms of the joint trusteeship that was agreed upon at Moscow In 1945. Congress Is to be asked for additional funds for Korea, but the amount has not been dis closed. . . ' KLAMATH When The New . .mesteaders Picked Out Their Land vr- Aimosphere Of Good Will Reigns At Farm Selection By LOIS STEWART Eighty-five veterans of the last war, some still wearing a jacket, a shirt or a pair of trousers issued to them while in service, stepped to the platform in the bureau of reclamation hall this morning, laid a finger on a big map and as winners in the big Tulelakc homestead drawing, became land owners. All 88 of the winners were E resent in the jam-packed room ut one, Leland L. Cheyne, who waived his right to a homestead In order that he might be ell- fible in the next government and lottery.. He was No. 85 on the list. As the men and the one womah,- Eleanor J. Bolesta stepped from the crowd and se lected their future home, there was applause and in some cases groans and rippling murmurs. To. a layman, who looked only on the map and was unaware of the possibilities that lay in each individual unit, it was slightly confusing. Did the crowd re sponse mean the winner had "picked a dud or had he chosen a mighty fine piece of land that at least 25 other veterans had their hearts set on. Probably the greatest ap plause was accorded Mrs. Boles ta, an ex-Wave, who was No. 51 on the liat. She did not get the fiiece of land she would have se eded first, but she got her sixth choice' which is In the same neighborhood. The land has been In alfalfa for three years, one In grain, and a portion is now in clover. "We're happy," she said. Her young husband, a marine who saw service in Bougainville and Guam, was at her side, He uses a cane for a leg wound received on Guam and although Eleanor is the farmer in the family, she prophesied he'd be one, "and a carpenter- too, before he's through." First up to the big map over which E. L, Stephens, project su perintendent and member of the examining board, presided,- was big. black - haired Robert L. smith, 34-year-old United States FALLS, OREGON. THURSDAY. "-'''--TV't "V?v.a" army air corps mechanic who comes from Banks, Ore. He was born in Banks and has spent most of his life on a farm. -What he doesn't know about the soil isn't worth knowing, according to the other boys. Smith's dad, Arthur Smith, operates - a big strawberry farm at Banks, but this younger Smith doesn't think he'll go in for berries. He is figuring on row crops and as No. 1 on the list had the right to take what he considered the choicest of all the tracts offered in the new opening. Smith's selection is in that area where the Japs farmed dur ing the war period. .His neigh bors are the Hamiltons, the Walters and the Barks. . The No. 1 homesteader, who saw service in the India-Burma, China Defense and Central Bur ma campaigns, isn't the only bachelor homesteader that has been besieged by letters from the Lonely Hearts club and a couple of " other matrimonial agencies. These tender missives came right along with offers from insurance men, farm im plement equipment dealers and the rest of the boys who had something to sell. Smith, blushed and said he "wasn't paying any attention" and anyway, he's building a lit tle house on his land that is going to be big enough for one. Smith's mother is credited with finally landing her son on one of the richest pieces of ground in Uncle Sam's garden. She saw a little piece in The Oregon Farmer about the home stead drawing and wrote about ICantlnae an Paga 4, Colamn a) - LEGISLATIVE PORTLAND, March 13 (PP) V-3f(la-.--A 11 --v-v u.A..iU-rz.-.:A-M cessfully invoiced today py state sen. Frank n. Hilton, Mult nomah, on a traffic court citation. , 1 Deputy City Attorney Steve does Tiot nave to appear" petore Municipal judge J.- J. wuuian on a citation of falling to stop at a stop street. King said Hilton in a letter quoted the state constitution which "makes legislators immune from arrest during the legislative session and in going to and from it" except for treason, felony or breaches of the peace.' ' MARCH 13. 1M7 Cvden Area : I I - m - '.v 3 Dutch Press Plane Search BATAVIA. Java. March 13 (P) Search was renewed at dawn to day for a Dutch air force Dakota plane carrying two crewmen and 25 passengers, reported missing yesterday on a flight from Ba tavia to Bandoeng in the interior of Java. ' A Dutch spokesman said the search, which was being pressed both by air and land, was cen tering around the rugged moun tains north of Bandoeng. At the request of the Dutch the Indo nesian republican army ordered patrols to comb mountain areas which are in nationalist hands. The passengers, all civilians, Included nine women and two babies. The Dutch did not dis close their names, but they num bered 14 Europeans, 10 Chinese and one Indonesian. KFLW To Carry Eugene Hoop Tilt Don Neal, KFLW sportscaster, will be on the air again tonight at 8:45 to bring Klamath listen ers a play-by-play description of the Pelican-Eugene basket ball game, played at Eugene to night. -. ... Klamath's defeat of Lebanon last night put them in line for a stab at Eugene's Axemen, tonight in ine quarier-iinai piayons. . Scores in the consolation tour ney at Eugene to date are: Redmond 42 Astoria 39 Rainier Molalla ... 47 .. 38 IMMUNITY OK Legislative immunity was suc King said, "It appears Mr. Hilton WEATHER H.t. (Mar. Itl Mia. tl rmclsllallaa Isit St feaara aa SIrtam Mar la data l.ta Laal aar It.sl Karaaal faraeaali Maatfy alaar asr, Uallkt aa MSar. (Telephone till) Number 10SS1 1 Applicant Refuses To Take Farm Land in the former Jap camo garden farm area was given preference today as the 86 new Tule lake homesteaders gath ered at the reclamation bureau building at the airport to select their farm. The first four homesteaders on the list chose units in the area that produced truck crops for the WRA center when it was operating during the war. It lies south of the Southern Pacific tracks and the highway, under the shadow of the Tule lake peninsula, and the soil there is deep and fertile. The fifth man picked a unit at the west edge of the main block of homesteads to the north and east of the tracks, and from there on the choices were widely scattered over the entire new homestead area. Runs Smoothly Running smoothly and with out a hitch, the homestead pro cedure was completed just be fore noon, the only unexpected incident coming up at the end when Leland L. Cheyne, No. 85 on the list, refused to accept one of the two farms left when his name came up. He signed a waiver, making him - eligible for the next drawing, and the farm will be made available to Eldred F. Charley, Medford. the next qualified alternate, if he wishes to take it. Am id an atmosphere of mounting suspense, the - home steaders all veterans of World War II gathered at the recla- .-Unetkm - building before J o'clock tola morning. There was a mat- ILaatiaaaa aa raga a, laltaui Rumor Hints Bulgar Crisis ISTANBUL. March 13 P) Rumors of a crisis in Bulgaria circulated in Turkey today in connection with reported move ments of foreign diplomatic per sonnel. Usually reliable sources said a United States diplomatic cour ier stopped at the Bulgarian frontier was told by a guard. "there is a terrific crisis I can t say more. Unconfirmed reports mean while said the French diplo matic mission to Sofia had de parted from that Bulgarian capital and might reach Istanbul today. News dispatches earlier naa reported a French protest against Bulgarian treatment. The U. S. courier, informants said, was refused admission to Bulgaria, despite his visa, by au thorities wno declared they were unaer instructions in his case, inese sources said that a Pole on the same train, identi fied from his credentials as Councilor Ludwik S. Bartel of the Tehran Polish legation, was allowed to enter Bulgaria with his wife and child after authori ties had telephoned Sofia. Tijuana Paper Burned To Ground . MEXICO CITY, March 13 (JP) German Medina Parra, publish er of "Diario Del Pueblo ' at Ti juana, lower California, said in a cable received here today that his newspaper plant .had been burned to the ground because he was conducting an anti-vice campaign. Medina Parra, who crossed the border to San Diego, Calif., to send his message to the Mexico City afternoon paper. Ultimas Noticias, blamed the act on a gang dealing in drugs; white slavery and operation of vice centers. Medina Parra said the paper was fired last Sunday. Details Delay Lease Awards The awarding of the leases in the Frog-Pond and League of Nations tracts, on which bids were being read Wednesday, was delayed until Friday by the necessary detail involved in the choosing of farms by the Tule lake homestead winners. The staff at the bureau of re clamation offices at the airport worked late Wednesday evening compiling the abstracts of bids and making comparisons and It is expected that the lots will be awarded starting Friday morning. House Okays 2 Cent Tax OnCigarets SALEM. March 13 (if) The Oregon house of representa tives, without debate, passed 53 to 5 today the bill to tax cigarets 2 cents a package for the next two years only, and thus raise $4,000,000 for the state's general fund for the next biennium. The bill, coupled with a ore- I'lously-approved measure to et the tax commission take its 11,000,000 expenses out of rev enues, cuts the general fund deficit to $5,000,000. Both measurea still must be approved by the senate. Voting against the cigaret tax were Barry, R. A. Bennett, Wiley, Wilhelm and Manley Wilson. Rep. Robert C. Gile. Rose- burg, chairman of the house assessment and taxation com mittee, told the house the com mittee put the two-year limit on the bill in the hope it would stop a referendum attack against it. The people defeated a similar bill two years ago by a narrow margin. The house also sent to the senate a bill amending the rural district school law, which the people passed at the general election last November. The bill postpones effective date of the act, which is intended to equalize school taxes, until January 1, 1949.. Collier Eyes Compromise SACRAMENTO. March 13 m Both Senator Randolph Collier K), Yreka, and Assemblyman Michael J. Burns (R), Eureka, chief sponsors of the $2,800,000. 000 highway expansion measure in the two legislative houses, to day expressed the hope they will De able to oDtain a aaiisraciory compromise on the big highway bill. They conceded the assembly's refusal to support their move to have the construction . program referred to the lower house as a committee of the whole instead of sending it to a standing com mittee, has dimmed the prospect of getting the bill through with out concessions. The motion to have the entire membership sit as -a committee to give senate bill No. 5 a hear ing, Tost by a 20 to 44- rote. -As a result, ASeemDiy apeaxer bam Collins sent the bill to the as sembly revenue and taxation committee, reportedly hostile to the Collier committee road pro gram as a whole. Tax Slash Still Slated WASHINGTON, March 13 0P Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.) declared todav that President Truman's foreign policy statement, raising the possibility of heavy new fi nancial commitments abroad, will not stop the republicans from cutting taxes. He made this statement to re porters after the house ways and means committee, of which he is chairman, heard Secretary ol the Treasury Snyder strongly oppose any tax cut this year. Snyder said there might be a tax cut later and told the com mittee that this year, for the first time since 1931, the govern ment's income may be as large as its expenditures. Knutson is author of a bill for a 20 per cent cut in personal in come taxes. As to the effect of President Truman's statement, Knutson said: "Of course if we are going to shoulder the burdens of the world we could have no tax cuts now or in the next generation. If we don't have a tax reduction now we will never get it." Bend To Install Parking Meters ' BEND, March 13 IP) Bend plans to install parking meters on a six-month trial basis about May 1. The city commission desig nated manual meters which will take pennies good for 12 min utes, and nickels good for an hour. Crawford Claims Indian Bureau Dissipating Funds WASHINGTON, March 13 (JP) An assertion that the bureau of Indian affairs is dissipating the resources of the Klamath Indian reservation in Oregon was made to a senate public lands subcom mittee today by. a-delegate of the Klamath tribe. The delegate, Wade Crawford, said bureau officials permitted cutting of the greater part of the reservation's timber stand, which he estimated originally amount ed to 7,000,000,000 board feet, and has otherwise failed to run the reservation on a business-like basis. .' Interest earned by the $32, 248,000 in the Klamath reserve fund is spent for salaries of bu reau employes, rather than being Vandenberg Urges Firm Red Policy WASHINGTON. March 13 (IP) Head of the state, navy and war department discussed with the ' senate foreign relations commit tee behind closed door today President Truman's appeal for $400,000,000 cash and indirect military helD for Greec and Turkey. War Secretary Patterson. Navy Secretary Forrestal and Acting State Secretary Acheson brought along top aides to ex plain details of the proposed moves which some members of congress openly declared might lead eventually to war with Rus 1 sia. Military Report To report on the military as pects of the president's proposal to help train and sustain Greek and Turkish -troops. Forrestal had Vice Admiral F. P. Sher man, deputy chief of naval oper ations, with him. Vandenberg said the session was called "to canvass the whole situation," but that any action might be delayed for soma -time." 'It is my understanding:" he said, "that the house will be asked to act first on this legisla tion." He referred to measures to carry out Mr. Truman's pro posals. ' Actually, Vandenberg said, the senate group has not yet re ceived any bills dealing with the subject. Basic Understanding "The plain truth is that Soviet American relationships are at the very core of this whole prob 1 e m," Vandenberg declared. "Every effort should be made to terminate these controversies. This effort must occur in plain understanding of basic prin ciples which we shall not sur render." Asserting that the indepen dence of Greece and Turkey must be preserved "not only for their own sakes but also in de fense of peace and security for all of us," aVandenberg added that in this critical moment "the president's hands must be up held." , , Mr. Truman told congress communists and political infil trations threaten the "very ex- . istence" of Greece and Turkey. (Further details on page 2.) Marshall As!is Unified Law LONDON, March 13 (IP) Secretary of State Marshall pro posed four-power unification of German denazification proced ure at the foreign minister council session today, Moscow radio reported. Marshall's draft resolution envisaged "charging the allied control council with the publi cation of a unified law for. de nazification of the whole of Germany," the broadcast said. It added that the American secretary "deplored the mistrust which exists among the occupy ing powers as regards the ef ficacy of the efforts for denazi fication made by another power." "But this," It said, "did not prevent Mr. Marshall from im mediately afterwards reproduo ing the unsubstantiated rumor that active nazis in the Soviet zone are acquitted if they be come members of the socialist unity (communist) party of Ger many." Former Gonzaga f" President Dies RFATTT.F. March 13 (JPi The Rev. James M. Brogan, 78, former president oi uonzaga university, Spokane, and assis tant pastor of St. Joseph's par ish church here the past seven years, died at a hospital last night, on the anniversary of the canonizations of St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Francis Xavier, co-founders of the Society of Jesus ia which Fr. Brogan served. The ritual office of the dead will be read tomorrow evening and two requiem masses will be said Saturday at St. Joseph's. Burial will be in Mt. St. Michael, Spokane. kept for the Indians, Crawford testified. He asked the subcommittee for legislation to free the Klamath tribe from government control, and for diversion of the reserve funds among members of the tribe. Crawford's wife, Mrs. Ida M. Crawford, who described herself as one-fourth Indian and a mem ber of the Daughters of the Revo lution "a fundamental Ameri can" said the superintendent of the reservation dominated af fairs of the Klamath tribal coun cil. "The Indian bureau wants to take care of the Indiana because they have property," she testi fied. "The Indians ought to run their own business." Vi ;0
