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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 .
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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LEGISLATIVE
PORTLAND, March 13 (PP)
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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.' '
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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
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rmclsllallaa Isit St feaara aa
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faraeaali Maatfy alaar asr,
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(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."
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