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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1947)
Y liliyj hmw i M hlv Ily PilANK JKNKINH IT-J DAY was twu year ago today. ' V-K liny wit several munllu iiioro than two year unci. VIKWKU In tlio rrytiil clearness i " IiIiuImuIii, in contrast i tun i uf slur llln In Japan wo Imvo nindo ion sldoritblo progies toward pence Hint rcliiibilitutlini. In lunic, we Imvit inurio mi moures nt ull. If we ixw in divorce uui selves wliully from wishful ihliiklnu mul mit upon lurk realism, we mut admit tliut coiiilltl'ms In htli'iiiie Mrs probably wuiinis rattier limn uriier. , WM1 ." Let t be flunk Willi oilrncivcn. In Juiimi, we've built U tiling through OUR WAY believing mmxrely Unit our W'ny lit best tTlinl In important It you HICUKVK IN YOUKHKl.e', you cum iit-t thing mine. II you luck kclf-uoiiflilriiiu, yuu II be likely tu weaken In the plnrliro. II yuu weaken III Uie pliH lirn. yuu won't il lur where the going I louiili ) " In Kurinic, we've been Imiidl- feVaptxrd by fiuny thinking. We never knew llirm Juit what we wanted to di The liuiKluiu Imvo known irum llir bmlniiinii KXACTLY what TIIKY wanted to du. HO They have put It ill over u, like Inn. They have inude progrwui toward their objective; we have made NO progress luwurd our. IN Japan, we huvo acted decisively. 1 We ro STILL acting lecisiveiy In Japan. Washington dispatches tell lis IhU morning Urn I wo Imvo Jual given lluniia one week lu ivit up ur hui lipjn Uie matter nt what in gulug to be dune In Korea, which kt the moment is the euro spot of Aula 'l ime Iim been wurklng lor liussla (lid AUAINUT u. We are moving. apparently, Ul MAKE TIMtf WOltK Koll UB. That 1 the tiadlllollul American w.y. IN Europe, we Imvo fiddled and 4 tuolt-d. Wo have blown hot one rtny and cold Ihe nest. Always we have been UUINU to do something, but never hi far havo we (Juno iu Wo have been olf-ag.'111-un-ag'lii-Piiiiicumii, to the lite. A a r-ult, war look ua In the eye In Eurupc. IN Europe, we aro slowly luting what friend we have. Why shouldn't we line our friends, when the brat we have brrn able to offer thrm is a sort of glorified Wl'A? WE licked Japan to a finish. We thru turnrd In and Ir rated the Jap fairly. The procrt aro be lliinlnil to luuk good Hint we will give thrm something tar bettor than Uiry had bcWn. . . Ai a result. Japan nmy come to be our bulwark In Aula tn a lime of unuuwst Mip .tautjt, aifiiiiaifj treated by Julius Caesar, were Home's bulwark for generation. ICantar aclrd fairly and DKCIB 1VELY. He did no firtdlim around.i INDIA today la "free" at last. The 1 Brltsah are pulling out leaving India to the Indians. It ought to be big day there. In lla way, It IH a b.,' duy. Celebra tions are under way In 1IOTM Indtus Moslem I'aklstan and Hindu India. BUT While Uie celebrations art going tin, while the people are making merry. FTOHTS AND BLOODSHED art going on at Ihe mi time. WHYf " Becauw the Moslem and the Hindus CANT GET ALONG TO GETHER. With Independence In sight, they are already ahrddliiK each other's blood over WHO la OOINO TO II K HOSH. The outsUndlnir tragedy of the world of today Ilea In the fact Unit Willi all the wonderful possibilities that lie ahead people haven't yet learned to get along with each other. Man Drowns In Diamond Lake John P. Hnyden, S4, of 714 N E. Webmer. Portlnnd, wns drowned while swimming In Dlumond lnko fcnto ycslerdny uftornoon. Stnto po. Tico mild Unit his body hud not been recovered today. Hnyden went out on the litkc with his wife In n rowbont, and decided tojo swimming near the shore. Ho dived In once In shallow water, then decided to movo on out to where Uie water was deeper. His wife told officers that he dived In ngnln Mtd In doing so Slished Ihe boat away and camo to if surface several yards distant from the craft. She Riilri that Har den told her he could swim soriie but not very well. Ho called to her to help him. but she was not able to row tho boat over to him before llaydcn went down again and did not reappear. Douglas county officers arc head ing tho senrch for tho body. Mr. and Mrs. Hnyden had been married three years. Billion Dollars Owed By lialy Written Off WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 MV-The united rJtntes today agreed to can cel about 1,000.000.000 In debts owed It by the Italian govoiiimcnt. . The movo was miulo, the Mate de partment said, to ease the "burden some clauses" of the Italian ponce treaty. The state department announced the decision In making public an accord concluded with an Italian financial mission after three months of negotiation. Under the pact the United States waives nil claim to payment for ap proximately $523,000,000 In clvlllnll supplies furnished by the American army to Italian civilians and 305, 000.000 owed for occupation costs, v About $175,000,000 In additional flllscellaiicmis claims woro wiped out .simultaneously. "Tho terms of tho understanding ' hi ii ... I . I i ii "X . . I'ltICK FIVE CTNT8 Liberalization Of Homestead Terms Favored Limited llberullrjillou of furin exiierlence reulremrnts for appli cant fur humeateuds under tho forthcoming Cuppcck buy opening was generally fuvnred at a conference held by the reclamation bureau yes tenluy to obtain opinions and suggestions on rules and procedures, for the opening. Other geiicriil Impressions frum tho twuhour dlscussluu by repre nciltutlvrs of veterans oikuiiImiIIuiui, Irrlgullun districts and others, In cluded: Itelrnlloii of the financial requirement of $::0UQ rash or the rqulvalrnt III unrncumbered aaaeta the same as In the 1U4G open ing waa favorett. The group wanted revision of procedure to that only finally quallMrd appllranu would parUrlpate In the final drawing, thus voiding the unplraunt dlwjusllllratlons of appllranu after they have been announced as "winners. Ocnrral oplnlun of those present at the advisory session was that there should be limited form experience requlreiueiita, and Uie Tuieluke center of tho Mixloc farm bureau filed a letter suggesting continuation of the previous requirement. Those were that Uie applicant must have two full years' furin cxjwrlcnce In the last seven years of civilian life, 0 with some credit fur life on the British Quit Indian Posts KARACHI. Aug, 14 UPt Viceroy Lord Mounlbatten relinquished the rrlns of British powrr today to the new Moslem Dominion or raktsun, the birth of whlrfi at midnight he callrd "an event in history. Tomorrow," tho viceroy declared In a farewell address before uie Pakistan constituent assembly, "two new sovereign states will take Uielr placa In tho commonwealth; not young nations but heirs of an old and proud civilisation; full Inde- prndrnl slau-a vitas leaders are statesmen already known ana re spected throughout Uie world; . , . not immature government, or weac, but fit to carry on Uielr great stun of responsibility for peace and pro' gress in the world Murrrndrr Powrr The viceroy returns to New Delhi tomorrow Ui surrender llrltlsh puwer to Hindu India and become gov ernor general of that hw dominion. Even as he snoke I Karachi. blood was being spilled i.i communal suite ill thr Punjab, whore limning briar ecu Musloma on Uie one hand and Hikha and Hindus on Uie other reached new heights of destruction and violence. Lahore, uie csiillsl of the vast northern province which Is being split between Moslem Pakistan and Hindu India, counted It casualties in the hundreds after long hour of rioting and flames swept Uirough much of tho city. The fighting also tanned out into Amritsar ana oilier outlying area of Uie Punjnb. No Special Session Seen WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 up) President Truman declared that he sees nothing on tho horlioii to re quire special seNiton of congress, thus virtually eliminating possibility of Irglslullva action uils year on new funds to aid Europe s recovery. The presidents remark came at a news conference at which he de clined to comment on tho current talks on Increasing Ruhr coal pro duction or on Uio general Urltlsh financial crisis. Mr. Trumiin said that he would be nimble to supply figures on how much tne Marshall man win com. He pointed out that any estimate will depend upon surveys by Utts country as well as the results of the Paris conference on Secretary oi oinicV niarsnaii s siikkcsuuii uicy get together on a self-help plan. He said, however, that lie would fiirnfBh these figures when report are nq'tiplcte and results of the conicrenco are Known. Armed Services Appointments Due WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (Pi- President Truman said today ho ex pects to make a series of appoint ments under the unified armed serv ices act very 'soon, possibly next wecK. Mr, Truman told a news confer ence that Secretary of tho Navy Porrcstnl will lake his oath as the nation's first secretnry of defense sometime soon, putting the new unl- tication into effect. After that Is done, the president said ho will appoint Forrcstnl's suc cessor as navy socretary and mBke his appointments of secretaries of war and air. Of Debt huvo tho effect of alleviating several of the burdensome clnuses of the Italian pence treaty, and thereby substantial assistance Is rendered to the Itallnn economy," the stnto de partment announcement snld. Other highlights of the compre hensive accord with Uie Italian gov ernment are: 1. Unfreezing of approximately $00,000,000 In blocked Itallnn pro perties and assets held In the United States once the owners are certified as non-fascist. 2, Turning over of 28 merchant vessels to the Itallnn government, 16 of Uiem American Liberty ships which will replace seized Itallnn vessels lost during the war. Eight others aro Iliillnn ships being re turned by the United States and flvo me vessels purchased from other American ropublics, KLAMATH farm us the child of a farmer after IV years of age. One proposal made at the con ference yesterday fur farming re quirement ran about like this: The applicant should have 24 months' fall-time farm experience after the age of 15, and subsequent to some specific date, such mm 19tt, with credit of one month for each two months spent on the fans a the child of an operator, and cred it up to It months for time spent In an agricultural collrge. Opening l.'p Urged A rough draft along Uiat line was read and seemed to be gen erally appruved. A representative of the Merrill American Legion, however, said his group favors throwing Uie homesteads "wide open." "How many were qualified to shoot a gun or fly an airplane before they went to wart" he td. The VPW of Tulelake wa re corded a favoring UberallxaUon on the farm experience question. E. M. Hammond of the Klamath Irrigation district board drew ap plnuse when he advised: "Don't make It too tough and make liars out of the boys." diet Main of the Tulelake Grow ers commented that a man who had had no farm experience In th lust is years apparently to not In terested In farming. - .No Speculation . All hand appeared anxious to prevent uie acquisition of home steads for speculation purposes. and tho matter of leasing home steads came In for considerable discussion. There Is no current re striction on leasing. One man sug gested lowering Uie financial re quirement to $1000 and permitting the homesteader to lease half of Ins place for the first year or two to gain valuable experience from the lease operator. . A strong suggesUon was made that Uie new procedure be so farmed to prevent post-drawing disqualifications. One plan sug gested was to have a preliminary drawing of perhaps 100 name a (Uiere will be 48 farm unlis open ed i and the examining board then Interview these people and weed out all those not qualified under the rules. The remaining qualified nppltcnut would then participate In a final drawing, each "winner" receiving a farm without further question. Tho session yesterday was only advisory for the benefit of the ex amining board which will make recommendations to the commis sioner of -reclamation on the Cop peck opening regulations. The com missioner is expected to issue the formal announcement about Octo ber 1. Members of the examining board Nelson Reed, John 8. Wynn and E. L. Stephens wore present, and Stephens, a reclama tion official, presided. Several re gional reclamation officials Includ ing Ten Brook Williamson, region al settlement officer, were present. Bonneville Staff Cuf PORTLAND. Ore.. Aug. 14 The Bonneville power administra tion tins relcnsed 616 employes be come of reduced funds, Admln- Istrntnr Paul J. Rnver snld today. Most of thoso released were em ployed 111 the Portland area, he said, and the cut now leaves 881 on Uie payroll. The reductions by departments Included: administrative services, 255 to 168: division of Industrial resources nnd development, 54 to none: power sates, 83 to 42: system engineering, 38 to 28; engineering and eonstrucUon, 440 to 320; ouera Uon nnd maintenance, 186 to IIS, Raver snld reduction most likely to be felt was that In the operation nnd maintenance division. Mercury Hits 89 Wednesday The mercury was flying high Wed nesday nfternoon when the tempera ture rose to n warmish 89 degrees for Uie dny's high. High tempera tures were reported throughout the state. At 13:30 today, the tempera ture stood nt 85 degrees. Despite high daytime tempera tures, the nights this week have been cool with the minimum at 49 Wcdnesdny night. The state weath er burcnu predicted continued warm weather with a maximum of 86 fore cast for Friday. EALI.H, OHKOON, THLKHD' ,o;:p- - w y - - . Here are the member of the homestead examining board for (he Coppeek bay land opening scheduled for late this year. Left to right: E. L. Stephens, reclamation bureau official and secretary of the board; John 14. Wynn, new Tulelake homesteader, a graduate of Oregon Bute college and former resident of Junction City; Nelaon Keed, Klamath Fall business man and chairman of the 1946 examining board. Reds Rap Greek Aid LAKE SUCCES8. Aug. 14 11 Russia charged today that "the crudest interference Into the Inter nal affairs of Greece emanate .at present from the United Suites." Hits was interpreted immediately 1 a reference to the Truman aid program. uiving the united Nations secur ity council what he , termed "an answer to Uie American speech made Tuesday, 8 0 v I e t Deputy foreign Minluea Andrei (A. Orfl myko snld foreign interference was worsening the situation daily inside Oreece. He also charged that former axis collaborator were holding promt-, nrnl position in the Athens gov ernment. I Gromykj told the council; 1 "The l'.uatlon In Oreece worsens tflth every day because uils foreign interference into Uie internal affairs of Greece not only Is continuing but Is also strengthened. All tho world knows who Is really Interfering Into the Internal affairs of Greece and from what side Oreece Is threatened with real danger." Search On For Plane ROSEBURG. Aug. 14 iM A four-state senrch was launched here today for trace of a private plane carrying a Roseburg council man and his family missing more than a week on a flight to Shelby, Mont. The civil aeronautics administra tion station here reported Paul O. Lund, his site and two children were to have returned here Sun day or Monday after a visit with relatives. Chief of Police Kenners- ly started a check that disclosed the family apparently nevtr ar rived at Shelby. Kenuersly said police at Shelby reported the Lund aircraft, a Fair' child PT23, was not among those listed at airports there. A positive check was made diffi cult by lnck of names of the Lund fnmlly relatives tn Shelby. Ken' nersly snld Lund . had planned to fly via Spokane and KaUspell, Mont., and the CAA had been ask ed to check all auxiliary fields along the route. Labor Bill By-Pass Eyed DETROIT. Aug. 14 m Rep, Fred A. Hartley (R-N.J.) said to dny he was "concerned by the at- Utude of so-called big business" In agreeing with some labor leaders to by-pass provisions of the Taft Hartley labor law. Addressing the 53rd convention of the International Apple associa tion, Hartley said he had noted a tendency of employers, "because business Is good and there Is plen ty of easy money," to "go along" Willi labor leaders seeking contract clauses Immunizing unions against Uie law. "Let me serve notice on employ ers Uiroughout the nation that tf I find, as I've already done, that they are by-passing the act, I'm going to Invite them to Washing ton." "The Tuft-Hartley law is the law of the land as far as I'm con cerned, and I'm going to see that It's enforced and lived up to" the New Jersey congressman asserted. jfjT 14, 1947 Homestead Examining Board Named jH"mV tax. ' A L fc S .... J , - r ' r;. gs'.! i - -i irnuiHt hi l . Maaataaaoi raf"r in am' mail . I Labor Department Torn Up By Congress, HST Charge WASHINGTON. Aug. 14 oPr In blunt language. President Truman accused congress today of tearing up Uie labor department. That waa one of the accomplish ments of congress, he said at' a news conference. Quickly then. Mr. Truman added that he has no doubt the labor de partment will be rebuilt eventually that it can't be permanently torn up. Congress made appropriations cuts which labor' deparyrieyijjfjiyls Marshall Due At Rio Meet RIO DE JANEIRO. Aug. 14 iP) Secretary of State George C. Mar shall of the United States was- due here today for an inter-American conference on hemisphere defense and delegates eagerly awaited his reaction to an Argentine proposal to Include economic subjects In Uie talks, which begin tomorrow. Diplomats have anticipated that the Argentine proposal, made in brief yesterday, may develop into a demand for a "Marshall plan" for the western hemisphere like that tn the nuking for Europe, Informed American sources, who said Marshall probably would state his views at the opening session, ex pressed belief that the United Slates would stand pat on Its original in tention to confine the parley to defense matters. Work On Dam To Start Soon BREWSTER, Aug, 14 t,P Tom Welborn, member of the Columbia basin commission, reported today army engineers would be able to finish preliminary work fti time to start actual construction next year on the Foster creek dam, 51 miles below Grand Coulee. Authorisation for the new dam. expected to cost more than $100. 000.000 and take five years to build, was given by congress last year but there has been a shortage of funds for engineering investigations. Wel born said the army now has enough to finish this phase, Welborn and Art Oarton, com mission chairjtian, conferred recent ly with army engineers in Seattle regarding the amounts needed to complete preliminary work nnd the amount to be sought for construc tion at the next session of congress. Officers May Face Check FORT LEWIS, Wash.. Aug. 14 Wt Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower says reporta of lavish living by army officers In the Mediterranean the ater "will be Investigated If they prove -well-founded." The army chief of staff comment ed on the reports, carried by news paper columnists nt a news con ference in Seattle before coming here for reviews and inspections. "That (the charges) is new to me." General Elsenhower said, In response to a reporter's question. "I dpn't know anything about them. But If there have been any well-founded charges, we wont have to wait for congress to Investi gate." The Mediterranean theater Is commanded by Lt. Oen, John C. Lee, General Elsenhower and his pnrty planned tS leave McChord field, wash., for Lowrv field. Denver, to morrow morning after spending to day at this post. (Tclrphone (111) No. 1109 have declared will mean a cut of one-third to one-half in the de partment's payroll. As a result of these cut, officials say, the division of labor standards will be abolished and operaUons of other divisions reduced. Tne laoors standards division has been making studies dealing with safety and other industrial matters. Also, the Tali-Hartley labor law took the U. S. conciliation service tv hich seeks to settle strikes and labor jltsimtesl -Irom the. labor de parim and nude ft an ihaepend- em agency. Mr. Truman lave his aDnraisal of what congress did to' the department alter a reporter asked rum about tne luture 01 various labor agencies. The president was then asked if the last republican platform did not promise a concentration of all the various activities dealing with labor under one deuartment. The president said it did and that he could recite chapter and verse. Blaze Sweeps Supply Dump BATAVTA. Java. Aug. 14 trtA spectacular fire swept The Nether lands Indies petroleum board s main dump at the Part of Tandjoengpriok uus aiiernoon. Native firemen extinguished the blaze after three hours of heroic effort. They saved two large tanks of high octane gasoline, but 5000 cans and drums containing more man iuu.uou gallons 01 gasoline were destroyed. Col. L. L. Drost, Batavla area base commander for The Netherlands army, said the fire was "most prab- aojy saooiage, "August It to Indonesian Inde pendence Day and now it's time to look for the fireworks," he said. Drost said only a change in the wind saved the entire dump from obstruction, ine maze endangered large military suddIv dumns and s'-'pping nearby. A substantial portion of Dutch military and civilian fuel sunnlles for West Java are stored at Tand Joengprlok, seven miles northeast of Uie center of Batavla. Leave Pay Date Upped Patrick K. Kllby of the veterans administration todav announced certain tihases of tho terminal leave ooiici mil which deals with cashing the bonds after the date set by congress. Seotember 1. 1947. The bill, public law 254, which was oossed by congress and signed by the president recentlv. permits cashing the bonds by the banks after the first o next month, or the veteran may hoW the bond to accu mulate the two-and-one-half per cent Interest for a five-vear period. An important part of the law ex tends 1 or one year trie period in which veterans may apply for ter minal leave pay. Instead of Sep tember 1, 1947, the original applica tion deadline, veterans may apply up until September 1, 1948. Some veterans have used part of their terminal leave bonds to apply ns payments on national service life insurance. The VA advises that the portion of the bond left after pay ments have been deducted and being held by tho treasury may be re funded after the September date. The law also permits the refund of all amounts of bond proceeds held as unearned premiums paid in advance of the due data. INDIAM BILI, TEXT On Pare One of today's second section will be found a copy of the Indian liquidation bill, S 121Z, to De subject of a congressional hearing here next week. , . l,-f -. J Put Up Or Shut Up Is U.S. Attitude WASHINGTON, As, M Wt The l.nlted h la tea gave Russia one week from today to "put up or shut up" in Amerlcan-Hovlet efforts to achieve a united Korea, Stripped of It dlplumallo lan guage, that Is the essence of 8ec retary of Btate Marshall's letter to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, setting an August 21 deadline for a report on the long stalemated argothuwm by a oint commission in rieoui Ii the Russians fall to put up by then, Marshall said, "each govern ment may immediately consider what further steps may wefully be taken to achieve the aims of the Moscow agreement, namely the establishment of an Independent, united Korea which can take Its place among the United Nations." American authorities who left no doubt as to the new "put up or shut up attitude represented Marshall as determined that the Korean negotiations must not bog down completely as have efforts to reach agreements with the Soviets on some other issues. While tne letter su4e no mention of what "further steps" this govern ment might have fax mind, some af firials luijetted the Inlted States might take the faaae back to a foar power conference tn quest of some other method of reaching an agree ment. Pepper Gives HST SuDDort WASHINGTON. Aug, 14 W Prom the White House steoa Sen ator Pepper iD-Fla.i voiced hn sup port today of President TB2so for reelection. I dont think there is anv nuestlon but that the president should be and will be nominated, and should be and will be elected." Penner i. clared to reporters after a call on uie president. Adding political significance tn the Florida senator's remarks are the particular position he occupies In uie aemocratic party. Pepper is close to the CIQ and other labor groups. Be also Is a warm friend of Henry A. Wallace, farmer nee president who was ousted by President Truman as com merce secretary after they eih over foreign policy. Furthermore, Pepper has been a frequent critic of Uie present admln istraUon although he applauded Pre.dent Truman's labor and tax 01118 vetoes. Pepper called at the White. House Immediately after Mr. Truman had held a weekly news conference at which, political matters came, up In U . . Holy Land Riots Flare TEL AVIV. Palestine, Aug. 14 0P1 Two more persons a Jew and an Arab were reported killed to day and a score more were injured In InterSracial strife along the tense boundary of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and the all-Arab community of Jaffa. Unofficial figures Indicated this casualty toll since Sunday; dead, eight Jews and five Arabs; wound ed. 43 Jews and 15 Arabs. Along the sualid marketplaces where the Jewish community abuts on the Arab, belligerent youths ap peared on Hie alert for new provo cations. More than half the small, dingy shops were closed and there was little traffic. Police had hoped apparently In vain that the morning had brought the end to the four- days of strife. Last night's curfew kept some 30,000 Jews and Arabs In then houses. It was the first time Arab terri tory had bean under curfew since the Arab rising of 1936-1939. tV.SrX -1 OS' -'- Pjyl ft .,v ,$.v i ---' ' Jwf : i m . 1 ' ' -tn I 7fc-vVV ;.- - . U7 ' x V- 'W J5' " t Y V lM?5t N' W-fMilffe Wes Robinson, once summertime reporter for The Herald and News, Is swinging a pick this vacation time to pick up a few extra dollars for school. The 9 o'clock photog caught him bard at work this morning la Moore park. Price Probe Backed By President WASHINGTON. Aug. 14 WW President Truman indicated today he has no plana to call a labor management conference, sueh as the CIO proposed as a movo to seek voluntary ruts In prices. Mr, Tramaa was naked; t cm, swnt t news rotifer eoeo a iht CIO proposal. In rep It. Mr. Truman reane4 that in Nmmbrr. IMS, be railed; a lakw-managramt ctsnfrmsr. He eommrnled that Hi was aat sag eftwfsf. The 1945 conference was con cerned with labor relations and economic matters. The president said he heartily endorses the price Investigation Just undertaken by Attorney 0en eral Clark, and hopes lt will obtain, results. Probe Slated' Clark has ordered the Justice de partment's anti-trust ohrtstaa to In vestigate food, elothinn and housing prices to determine) whether there are any conspiracies to raise prltw A reporter asked Mr. Trsmaa If be mow ky hia ramrka that kj hoped Clark res Id cheek the raw b prices or simply point out (fro who have combined to keep prices ap beyond normal profit margins. The president said the reporters would have to wait and see, but ha thought that the investigation would be more likely to point out thoso who are holding prices up unnecessarily. However, he said he couldn't an swer until the Investigation was completed. On a related matter, Mr. Tru man said he has a cabinet food committee looking into the crop outlook to determine whatever step may be necessary as to exports. He said this when a report asked if the reduced cm outlook in some commodities had led to any studies as to the possible limita tion of some exports. World Peace Truman Hope WASHINGTON. Aug, 14 UP President Truman said todsT that he still is hopeful of the permanent world peace which he regrets has not yet oeea secured. . Speakjng on th second anni versary of V-J Day, Mr. Truman told a news conference he had an ticipated when he announced tha surrender of Japan two years ago that the peace would have been se curely established by this time. He said he regrets tn sav that At has not. Tl . f Las' Itnl ihanHMiwI tki belief, he added, that the nations will eventually accomplish a peace for the benefit of all the people of the world.. The president said he has never bad any doubt about the wisdom of droppuig atomic bombs; on Japanese cities since he futures it saved the lives of 250,000 American boys. Man Tangles iiiii it witn Dig Dear HOLLYWOOD. Fla.. Aug. 14 OP! A bit of fisticuffs with a 200-pound bear landed Russell Odham of O&nia, Fla-, In a hospital here where, he was reported recovering today. Spectators reported that, the fight at a roadside refreshment stand near the Seminole Indian reservation started when Odham began to swing on the brum, landing a hard left and s right. The bear went into acUon after the one-two punch by grabbing Odham, squeezing him, and clawing his leg. witnesses said. Odham managed to escape from the bear after delivering a blow to the stomach, but returned to the at tack and was slashed on the wrist before the spectators could break up the fight
