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DREW PEARSON
Castro Must Have Known
Abpyf Panama Invasion
' BY DREW PEARSON
17 A C-lITlTnm, . .
moiiuiuiuw naoi castro s
statement that he knew nothing
poouf tne Cuban invasion force
lanaea in Panama is Fideli
sta double-talk.
' Here are the real facts: the
port from which the 08 Cubans.
plus 200 subsequent invaders, de
parted was Batabano, a small an
chorage in southern Cuba op
posite the Isle of Pines. At Bata
bano is a Cuban naval post, plus
an army post, plus a palice bar
racks, also a gunboat in the har
bor. Twenty miles away, at Man
agua, is the cadet school of the
Cuban army, with at least 300 sol
diers and officers.
Batabano is so small that it
would be impossible for a force
of Q6 well-equipped men, and la
ter 200 others, to depart without
the knowledge of the Cuban au
thorities and without direct au
ihorization of Fidel Castro. Ar
my commanders have to answer
to- Castro for their every move
and they make no moves without
direct orders.
;' Yet the oratorical premier of
Cuba claims that he was in com
plete ignorance of the Panamani
an invasion.
. Note Real fact is that Fidel
Castro attacks the United States
in Cuba and praises Americans
ivhen in the United States.
' He Uncovered Tepot Dome
f Few senators who listened to
4lnearnest plea of Sen. Clinton
Anderson of New Mexico to scru
tinize carefully the part played
by' Adm. Lewis Strauss in the
Jixon-Yates conflict - of interest
-f tine, realized one reason why An
derson was so crncst. They did
not know he had once played
J vital part in exposing another
reat conflict-of-interest case.
I In South Dakota where he was
y3orn, Anderson contracted TB
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
(Re, U.S. Pat. OH.)
Z United Press International
I NEW YORK-rFormer President
-Truman commenting on praise at
jhis 75th birthday celebration:
3 "I can hardly discuss It I am
timid man I'm embarrassed
Jy what you said here."
- HAVANA, Culm Cuban Pre-
jnler Fidel Castro on the success
-of his revolution: ' - . :
2 "We Cubans have responsibili
ties with other brother peoples
T)f the American continents. Many
peoples of America would like to
-have what we Cubans now are nt
jlainlng." " MERCED, Calif. Mrs. Elicia
barker, on why she left Poplnr-
vlllo. Miss., after her son was
lynched:
n "I couldn't even get anyone to
take me into the grocery store or
3o seen with me. Everyone was
afraid that something more would
"happen, and so they gave me
jnoney and told me to leave."
LAUR ELTON, N.J.-Miiglstrntc
Stanley J. Blair, who had sen
tenced two teen-aged boys to jail
Jor drinking beer:
"I don't like to send anyone to
jail. But where you've tried and
failed to help someone, that's the
next step.
WASHINGTON Sen. Styles
fridges (R-N.ll.) on the death of
"Deputy Defense Secretary Donald
A. Quarles:
"The loss qf Donald Quarles is
0 critical one for the United
plates at a critical time in our
defense and international relations."
local Projects
for Centennial
Are Discussed
Local projects for the State
Centennial observance highlighted
-discussion at this week's meeting
2)1 Chamber of Commerce dircc
Idrs. The Chamber agreed to assist
ihe local Centennial association
'hi efforts to establish welcome
3ooth facilities at the association's
'office in the Sacajawca hotel lob
;by. The city will be asked to
make available tourist parking
facilities in front of the booth.
President Powell Graham suid a
committee will be appointed to
lurther this project.
x - Graham also presented propo
sals for a city clean-up campaign,
Trior to the offiicnl opening of
Ibregon's Centennial celebration
next month. The proposals will be
jefcrrcd to the Retail Merchants
-Association for consideration,
"Visitors Information" signs,
-directing out-of-town people to
-the Charnb?r of Commerce office
jivill be. installed this week, ac
cording to Mel Elder.
In other action, directors dis
cussed the hiring of a new man
ager, to replace Fred Schneiter,
Lwho will become manager of the
Walla Walla Chamber on July 1.
' The board also approved a pro
posal to rent the film, "Main
Street and the Minimum Wage."
for local showings.
Sat., May 9, 1959
Page 2
and went to New Mexico for his
health. Working for the Albu
querque Journal, he unearthed
the first clue to the famous Tea
pot Dome oil scandal. He learned
that a prize race horso had been
shipped from the east in a spe
cial railroad car to the New
Mexican ranch of Albert B. Fall,
secretary of the interior under
Harding.
Fall was a relatively poor man,
and his sudden affluence arous
ed Anderson's suspicion. , He in
vestigated, and in cooperation
with the Chicago Tribune and the
Denver Post, finally ran dc:wn the
fact that the race horse had come
Ircm the New Jersey farm of
Harry B. Sinclair of the Sinclair
Oil Company, beneficiary of the
Teapot Dome lease.
Anderson and his paper, the
Journal, were subjected to all
sorts of pressure, including an
iidvertising boycott which forced
Carl Magee, the publisher, to sell
the Journal to a friend of Presi
dent Harding's.
On one occasion, according to
Werner and Starr in their book,
"Teapot Dome," Secretary of the
Interior Fall came into the Jour
nal office and asked in a loud
voice, wno is the s.u.u. wno is
writing those lies about me?"
No Lies Here
Anderson stood up. He is six
loot two.
"I'm the the S O B. and I don't
write lies," he said
Fall ovaporled. Anderson went
on to become congressman, sen
ator, and a member of the cabi
net. The Teapot Dome scandal caus
ed President Coolidgc to appoint
two special prosecutors, Owen
Roberts and Alice Pomercnc, to
prosecute Fall and Attorney G?n
rul Harry Daughcrty, together
with Sinclair and Edward L. Do
henyi The Dixon-Yates contract, which
in by all odds the biggest con
flict of interest since the Teapot
Dome scandal, was cancelled by
the Eisenhower administration be
cause a banker representative,
Adolphe Wcntzcll, had been sec
retly placed inside the budget bur
eau to help pull off the contract.
Although the Justice Depart
ment officially cited this as the
reason for canceling the contract,
President Eisenhower, unlike Coo
lidgc, has appointed no special
counsel to prosecute the guilty.
NoteOne of those who helped
unearth the Teapot Dome scandal
was the late Sen. John B. Ken
drick: of Wyoming.' Hy secre
tary Was then a .youpff mJin nam
ed Joe O'Mahoney 'who later, as
senator from Wyoming, helped
unearth the Dixon-Yates scandal.
Another Wyoming senator, Gale
McGhce, is the . most faithful
Democrat icn the committee now
examining the Dixon-Yates con
flict of interest as it pertains to
Adm. Lewis L. Strauss.
Correcting Senate Speeches
The congress of the United
States is perhaps the only place
in the world where a man can say
une thing and have it recorded
entirely differently.
When GOP Sen. Everett Dirk-
sen of Illinois made that Clare
Boothe Luce faux pas, "Don't
beat an old bag of bones," it was
dutifully and accurately report
ed in all the newspapers. But
it appeared in a different form
in the Congressional Record next
day. Dirksen had changed it.
As finally published in the
Record, Dirksen said, "Don't beat
a political bag of bancs."
Perhaps it was accidental, per
haps deliberate, but Sen. Wayne
Morse's reponding remark was
partly omitted. Morse had re
plied to Dirkacn: "Doesn't the
senator wish to change that
phras?? I only referred to her
a a charming lady."
The congressional Record for
the next day, however, omits
Morse's phrase, "I only referred
to her as a charming lady."
Senate stenographers claim they
did not hear Morse make this
statement, but newspapermen did
and duly reported it.
Senators sc.mctimes protest mat
their debate should not be left
to the human frailty of stenog
raphers, but should be taped in
stead. Other senators, however,
object. The written transcript
of a court reporter can be alter
ed. A tape recording can't be.
McChord Jets
Break Barrier
pniiTi Aisin (UPIi Two Jet
F-102s stationed at McChord Air
Force Base near Tacomn, broke
the sound bnrrlcr Friduy night
iin.l Dip sonic-boom set off a
flurry of phene calls to news
papers and ramo sinuous.
A spokesman, nt the Portland
nir hiiun snirt the two let Dlnncs
cracked the sound barrier flying
above 35.(Hio leei. nicy rcporieuiy
were 20 to 30 miles north of here.
SEEKS TRADE WITH RUSSIA
ii in nir .lANEllt. Brazil (L'Pl)
Brazilians attending an econom
ic rnnforenre In Geneva next week
are expected to propose full-scale
resumption of irauc net wren uus
;,i nurl rtrnTil.' it wns rnnnftorl to
day. Foreign Office sources said
tho Brazilian delegation has been
instructed to lay the foundation
for a trade agreement with Bus-
DETROIT'S
TO CARVE
Editors: Earlier this year,
approximately three dozen De
troit residents left in a cara
van to travel to Alaska where
they planned to start S new
life as homesteaders.
The group, known as the
59ert, arrived at Anchorage on
Good Friday, March 27, and
most of them since have gone
up the Susitna River from An
chorage to pick out homestead
sites. Martin Heerwald, UPI
' Seattle bureau manager, flew
' to the remote region to get
on-the-scene interviews.
, By MARTIN HEERWALD
United Press International
TALKEETNA. ,Alaska (UPI) -Detroit's
5!lcrs, some of them tem
porarily stranded across the frozen
Susitna River and others waiting
to cross, remain determined to
carve a living out of the Alaskan
wilderness.
This reporter and United Press
Movietone cameraman Parris Em
ory flew into this tiny community
of about 100 population to get a
first hand report on how the 59ors
are progressing with their plans
to homestead the virgin land near
ly 4,500 miles from home.
At the time of this dispatch .the
two dozen 59ers who decided to
make the Susitna Valley their
home are frustrated by the big
river which is just beginning to
break up, making it unsafe to
cross by foot, impossible to cross
by bout. About another dozen of
the original group of 37 decided
to stay on the Kcnui Peninsula,
south of Anchorage.
- Much Enthusiasm
Fourteen of the group here
crossed the quarter-mile wide Sus
itna with three house trailers
about a week ago when the ice
was strong enough to support the
trailers and the bulldozer which
pulled them. The fourth and fifth
War Memorial
Fund Receives
VFW Donation
Veterans of Foreign Wars con
tributed $100 to the swimming pool
War Memorial fund this week,
pushing total contributions to $324,
Jim Ritchcy, chairman of the War
Memorial Fund committee said
this morning.
Previous big contributors were
World War I veterans who gave
$100 and American Disabled Vet
erans who donated $50. ,t ,
Ritchey said that the committee
had hoped to have the memorial
ready for dedication ceremonies
on Memorial Day, May 30, but
added that at the present time a
later dedication date would prob
ably have to be set.
The memorial, made of gray
granite taken from the Wallowa
Luke area, will be placed on the
sidewalk leading to tho swimming
pool doer. The pool was originally
constructed by the city in honor
of World War II dead.
Ritchey said the plaque for the
memorial had been ord?rcd. A
six feet by 51 inch slab of granite
was brought from Wallowa Lake
last week and is present at the
Wheaton Monument Works where
workman will form the stone for
the memorial. Wheaton is donating
all work but labor costs to the
memorial.
'Centerville'
May
Become
Maj
ior Attraction
The sign erected this week by
Ihe Chamber of Commerce, to
note that La Grande is 30 miles
southeast of the geographic cen
ter of the 50 United States, was
described by a Chamber official
today as being one of the major
tourist attractions of the area.
Fred Young, chairman of the
Chamber's tourist and convention
committee, urged local people and
businessmen to call visitors' at
tention to the marker, which is
located on the corner of the Sac
ajawca hotel, at Fir and Adams.
"This is the sort of thing which
visitors like to photograph, as a
reminder of their trip," Young
noted. "We should make a spec
ial effort to tell all La Grande
visitors of tho sign."
A map on the marker indicates
how the geographic center was
determined. The actual spot is a
few miles off the highway, above
Catherine Creek State Park. The
La Grande Chamber of Commerce
has also erected a sign on the
highway above the park.
Ike Planning
To Play Golf
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPI)
Weathcr and the caddies' alarm
clocks willing, President Eisen
hower planned to play golf early
today.
The Chief Executive drove from
Washington to nearby Camp Da
vid, Md., Friduy for a restful
week end. He pluycd golf during
the afternoon at the Gettysburg
Country Club, about 25 miles
from the enmp. He told Dick
Sleichter, the club' professionnl,
he planned to play again this
morning.
59ERS DETERMINED
WILDERNESS HOMES
trailers started to sink through
the ice as the next day's thawing
began to make the ice mushy, but
the modern-day pioneers managed
to save the trailers with the help
of townspeople.
If anyone in the group was
thinking about giving up the whole
idea and returning to Detroit, the
feelings didn't show. Enthusiasm
expressed for Alaska matched the
brightness of a cloudless day with
temperatures in the 50s and Mount
McKinley, tallest in the nation at
20,300 feet, towering snow white
above other peaks about 60 miles
to the north. .
Alaska "Just Great"
"We haven't become discour-
Newest Lung
Cancer Study
Report Given
NEW YORK (UPI) Outdoor
work, heavy drinking, and fre
quent respiratory illnesses are
statistically significant in lung
cancer but are far outranked by
cigarette smoking, the newest
study of the problem showed to
day. TV star Arthur Godfrey was in
cluded in the report's statistics.
Of 500 lung cancer victims
whose personal and ancestral his
tories were minutely investigated,
about one-fifth were outdoor work
ers, about one-seventh were heavy
drinkers, and one-third were fre
quently ill of respiratory trou
bles. But more than nine-tenths
were cigarette smokers and four
fifths had smoked two packs or
more a day for years.
The study was made by Drs.
Herbert L. Lombard and Leonid
S. Snegircff of Harvard Univer
sity, Tufts College, and the Mas
sachusetts Department of Public
Health. It took seven years and
was designed to meet criticisms
of previous statistical studies of
relations between cigarette smok
ing and lung cancer. Such criti
cism has been made by the to
bacco industry and some statisti
cians. This new study showed that 80
per cent of the victims had
smoked more than 9,125 packs of
cigarettes, or two packs a day for
12'a years. But the average life
time consumption of the group
was about 15,000 packs, or 20
years at two packs a day.
It found that the younger pa
tients were among 36 who had
smoked less than 5,475 packs in
their lifetimes. This was the sole
exception to the study-'g...fincu'ng
that "the' total number of packs
smoked. , .is the important varia
ble, and it makes no difference
whether the total effect was ac
cumulated over a short or a long
period of time," the scientists
said in reporting to a technical
organ of the American Cancer
Society.
The younger patients had
smoked two packs a day for no
longer than seven and a half
years before developing lung can
cer. The report said this "excep
tion" suggested that persons who
started smoking while young were
slightly more liable to lung can
cer than others. Only eight of the
500 were non-smokers and 19
others didn't smoke cigarette's.
They smoked pipes or cigars.
Timothy V. Hartnett, chairman
of the Tobacco Industry Research
Committee, said he found the re
port "interesting in that it is
one survey that shows factors
other than smoking which are sig
nificantly related to the incidence
of lung cancer."
He noted that Lombard and
Sncgireff acknowledged that their
statistics could not prove that cig
arette smoking is a direct cause
of lung cancer. This is the posi
tion of the Tobacco Industry He
search Committee and of many
scientists, he added.
Lamb Dealers
Protest Grade
PORTLAND (LPH Lamb
dealers are complaining that they
stand to lose money because of
a sudden down-grading of meat.
Prosscr Clark, veteran sales
man at the stockyards here,, said
the Department of Agriculture
has changed its mind overnight
as to what a choice grade lamb
is.
"Up to two weeks ago Oregon
and Washington lamb feeders
were able to report that their
lambs were grading 80 to 85 per
cent choice the next to the top
grade. Now the same producers
are shipping what they say are
better lambs and the carcasses
from these arc grading only 10 to
15 per cent choice," Clark said.
He said this left the area short
of choice grade lambs and "pro
motes an uneconomical situation
for producers, meat packers and
consumers.
It was understood that the
USDA's point of view was that
the lambs ore grading good in
stead of choice because they are
showing yearling lamb tendencies.
SIGN CULTURAL PACT
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) One
hundred Iraqi students will study
in Communist Czechoslovakia un
der terms of an Iraqi-Czech cul
tural exchange agreement signed
Friday in Baghdad.
aged yet," said Mrs. Eleanor Ru
bino, who with her husband
Nicholas, gave up good jobs to
come here They have a son, Nick
Jr., 10. who thinks everything
about Alaska "is just great."
"It's ' been hard, believe me,"
Mrs.- Rubino said, "but we'll man
age somehow. We might have to
live in tents for a while, because
now .we can't move our trailer
across- until the river freezes
again next fall. And we probably
will have to melt snow to do our
laundry and face a lot of problems
we haven't even dreamed of yet.
But you can't beat the Alaska peo
ple. We've never known anyone
as friendly and helpful."
What about schooling for the
Rubino's son, when the family is
settled across the river?
School By Mail
"I'm told Alaska offers a won
derful correspondence course."
Airs. Rubino said, "and Nickie
will get along all right. In fact
he's looking forward to school by
mail."
. The 59ers have been so con
cerned with getting . everyone to
gether across Ihe river, to the cast
from lierc, and making plans, for
summer that they haven't made
definite winter plans. The tem
perature in the region, on the cold
side of the moist curtain which
protects tho coastal areas, may
dip as low as 50 degrees below
zero.
"One thing is sure," said Bob
Watkins, a bachelor who has
grown a full beard and mustache
sinve arriving in Alaska, "we'll
have to stick together and help
each oilier or we won't survive.
But we plan to stay together, and
I think we will."
More Land In Susitna
Watkins explained that most of
the 59crs decided on the Susitna
Valley, although the original plan
called for homesteading the Kenai
Peninsula, because land in size
able, farmahlc quantities is less
available on the Kenai.
Asked if they had any advice
to give others planning to home
stead Watkins replied:
"Tell them to travel as lightly
as possible. We found we carried
much too much food and equip
ment with us. We just as easily
could have bought our food, even
our .Ijnusc trailers, right in An
chorage Wo would have been
money ahead if we had brought
virtually nothing but ourselves.
One family even brought its 24
inrh TV and hi-fi sets. Frankly, we
didn't know as much as we should
have iibout Alaska. We made a lot
of mistakes."
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Wagner Attempts
To Halt Strike
In Hospitals
NEW YORK UPIi Mayor
Robert F. Wagner called together
union and hospital officials today
in an effort to keep a strike at
six hospitals from spreading to 15
more.
Members of the Retail Drug
Employes .Union walked off the
job Friday to support demands
for union recognition and higher
pay. They immediately began
picketing the six private, non
profit hospitals.
The Greater New York Hospital
Association announced later that
"all services are normal" despite
the lack of the 3,800 nurses aids,
orderlies, cleaners, kitchen work
ers and other "housekeeping" em
ployes estimated by the union to
have walked out.
The union threatened to extend
the strike to nine additional hos
pitals if its demands are not met.
And the rival Teamsters Union
warned six other voluntary insti
tutions it would call out its mem
bers unless it were recognized as
their bargaining agent.
The strike was called in the
face of state Supreme Court re
straining orders.
Affected thus far were the Beth
Israel, Mount Sinai, Beth David,
Lenox Hill, Brooklyn Jewish and
Bronx hospitals caring for about
2,700 patients. " .
Hospital spokesmen said they
could keep going indefinitely fn
der present emergency arrange
ments. Herter Confers
With Adenauer
BONN, Germany (UPI) Sec
retary of State Christian A. Her
ter confers with Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer today to review
U.S.-West German viewpoints on
Berlin and Germany before the
Geneva foreign ministers confer
ence Monday.
Herter planned to leave four
and a half hours later for Ge
neva. The views of Washington and
Bonn were reported already close
on the approach to the German
question, and Foreign Minister
Hcinrich von Brentano was quot
ed as saying Herter brought a
"good calling card" in his Thurs
day night TV-radio speech outlin
ing American views.
Herter left Washington late Fri
day with full backing of President
Eisenhower and a planeside state
ment that he was leaving in a
"hopeful spirit" but that his ex
pectations of success were "not
too high."
Grand Jurv Investigates
Embezzlement
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -A Fed
eral Grand Jury opens an inves
tigation next week into a $3,714,710
embezzlement climaxed by the sui
cide of a bank vice president.
George A. Hewlett, 40, took his
life last Friday after agreeing to
go over discrepancies in record
of the Long Beach branch of the
U. S. National Bank of San Diego.
He left a note mentioning John
Hendrickson, a wealthy manufac
turer, who was arrested in the case
and freed in $50,000 bail. Hendrick
son was ordered to" appear before
the Grand Jury next Wednesday.
Postage Boost
Due For Dead
Letter Basket
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
administration's request for a
nickel stamp on first class letters
appears likely to wind up as a
dead letter in Congress.
There was no noticeable enthus
iasm among congressmen for the
administration proposal to raise
the four-cent rate for regular let
ters to five cents, and boost air
mail letters from seven to eight
cents. : '
One Republican member of the
House Post Office Committee,
Rep. H. R. Gross (Iowa) predict
ed flatly "there will be no rate
bill passed this year."
Gross said- he would not support
any postage increase this year on
top of the 550-million-dollar an
nual rate hike Congress voted
last year.
The administration proposal,
which would raise 355 million dol
lars a year, is -a key part of
President Eisenhower's plan for
balancing the budget in the 1960
fiscal year which starts July 1.
The narrowly balanced budget
he sent to Congress assumed that
postage rates would be increased.
Without them, his budget would
show a 275-million-dollar deficit
instead of a 70-million surplus.
Eisenhower did not spell out
any details of the increases in
his Budget Message. The propos
al for a penny hike in regular
and air mail rates, submitted in
a letter from Postmaster General
Arthur E. Summerfield to Speak
er Sam Rayburri (D-Tex.) late
Thursday, gave no explanation
for the 108-day wait'.
JET LANDS SAFELY
LONDON (UPI)-A Pan Ameri
can Boeing 707 jet airliner carry
ing 108 passengers from New
York developed brake trouble
prior to its arrival here Friday
night but landed safely using its
emergency braking system.
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And Suicide
Hewlett, a banker for 22 years
and up to his recent promotion to
vice president a cashier at the
Long Beach bank for four years,
was outwardly a successful man.
Rut last Friday, Hewlett re
ceived a call from the bank just
before he and his wife were leav
ing to go to a movie.
The call from the bank informed
him that discrepancies had been
found in the bank's books. Hew
lett was asked to go to the bank
the next day, Saturday, and he
agreed.
Hewlett and his wife went to the
movie but .halfway through the film
Hewlett slipped out of the theater,
went into a nearby alley and put
a bullet through his heart with a
.38-caliber automatic.
He left a note of apology to his
wife.
The part of the note federal
agents studied with interest read:
"No one else is involved in this
terrible mess or even has the
slightest knowledge of it, but John
nie Hendrickson. We have not
used any of this ourselves. It has
all gone to John."
Hendrickson denied any part in
the embezzlement, -admitting only
that he had become friends with
Hewlett in 1954 when as a plumb
er he had a commercial account
at the bank.
Water Supply
Fair To Poor
PORTLAND (UPI) Oregon's
1959 irrigation water supply out
look remains only fair to poor ex
cept on streams with irrigation
reservoir facilities.
W. T, Frost, snow survey super
visor for the Soil Conservation
Service, added that reservoirs
hold an average supply of water
but will be seriously depleted by
excessive irrigation demands this
summer.
April precipitation fell far short
of normal, he said.
The mountain snow - pack has
been melting rapidly and only
one-half of the snow which was
on the ground April 1 remains.
The April 1 snow-pack was only
61 per cent of normal.
Vale Youth Drowns
On Malheur River
VALE, Ore. (UPI) Douglas
Crabb, about 15, drowned Friday
afternoon while swimming near
here. His body was recovered in
the Malheur river at the mouth
of Willow creek.
Four other teenagers reported
they had been swimming with
Crabb. They said he dived into
the creek and failed to surface.
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