"Listen Do Your Hear One Complaint?"
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XA GRANDE- OBSERVER
Monday, August 3, 1959 Page 4
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LA uranue 1'UULiKiiiNa couPANT CKOKCE S. CIIAIJ.IS Adv. Director
TOM HUMES. Circulation Mgr.
He Won't Go Voluntarily
ljuile naturally lloijert Kennedy hopes
James lloffa will make good liis llireat
to sue him for The counsel for the
Senate Rackets Committee is confident
that the very serious charges he lias
been making in public about the Team
sters boss are true and challenges lloffa
to prove they are not. i
Kennedy has openly accused lloffa of
misusing1 union funds, putting gangsters
in high office in the union, making secret
deals with employers to enrich himself
and "continuously betraying union
members."
Those are pretty serious charges. If
lloffa does not take his accuser to court.
he is all but admitting that thev are true.
So whether he does make good his threat
to sue Kennedy will be a significant de
cision on his part. Our guess is that he
won't dare, lloffa knows how much
evidence there is against him. lle's.been
libeled before. A national magazine once
designated him in largo typevas VFublic
Kiiciny N(i. 1." I!ut he didn't sue. Jloffa
clings to tho protection provided by the
maxim that a person must be presumed
. innocent until proven guilty. And the
only place you can be formally proven
guilty is in a court lie won't go to court
voluntarily,
Another Excuse To Look Elsewhere
Influential Republican Senators have
rumbled their disapproval of Secretary
Ilerter's plan to name Charles K. I.lilen
as his special advisor. If a fight over a
proposed appointment develops as expect
ed the losses can be great on both sides.
At stake is Ilerter's position as master
of his own operation, the State Depart
ment. In the balance is Bohlen's decision
whether to retire from government ser
vice for a more remunerative private job.
: In proposing that Bullion, our ambassa
dor to the Philippines, be named his
special advisor, Herter frankly admits
that Bohlen has much more experience
in dealing with the Russians and under
stands them far better than he does.
Herter in proposing the foreign spe
cialist for the job indicates that he. in
tends to shape and use the state depart
ment to fit the country's needs as he
views them. In offering Bullion's name.
Herter has made it clear he intends to
hew out his own policies rather than
follow the lead of his predecessor, John
Foster Dulles.
Dulles considered himself every bit as
much of nn authority on Russia as
Hohlen; he was responsible for pulling
Bohlen out of the Moscow post and send
ing him to Manila.
The post proposed for Bullion does not
require Senate confirmation, but Sen
ators Dirksen, Bridges, lliekenlooper
and Young have indicated they are op
posed to the proposed assignment.
Republican opposition to liohlen rests
largely on the part he played as inter
preter as advisor to President Franklin I .
Roosevelt at the Yalta conference.
Bohlen has defended the Yalta agree
ments as sound. Failure of the agree
ments, he maintains, is the direct result
of the Soviet Union's subsequent rejec
tion of the terms it had negotiated and
pledged to live up to.
It ia fairly certain that Herter did not
approach Bohlen on the question of serv
ing" as special advisor without President
Eisenhower's tacit approval. Without
lresidential opposition to the npixiint
ment it is not likely the Republican Sen
ators will press the attack against
Bohlen too far.
If these same congressmen mount a
large enough offensive against the gov
ernment officer, however, Bohlen will be
presented with an excellent opportunity
to retire rather than embarrass the Re
publican Administration.
Should he retire the country will lose
a key foreign-oriented official; the Ad
ministration and the Republican party
will be weakened in the face of a Presi
dential election year, and the rest of the
world will have one more excuse to look
elsewhere for leadership.
Barbs
"Father knows Best" is something
lliat.no one else in the family knows.
Many a man at the bench overlooks his
wife while looking over the bathing
beauties.
Security is easy for manicurists. They
have their jobs nailed down.
The best kind of a check to keep on
yourself is one that you can cash in on.
A Colorado man left home because his
wife wouldn't cook. Often the word is
"couldn't." '
When the thermometer gets up around
00 the ambition of most people is not to
have anv.
A person doesn't have to be intoxicated
to drive the way some people do.
In most cases pushing ahead opens
the door to success a lot letter than just
pull.
The answer to why some drivers get
bad breaks and others don't ' is bad
brakes.
A judge says it's easy to keep a sweet
disposition. Sure, if you have plenty of
sugar left after bills.
Any driver who puts his hands or arms
out of a car window is sticking his neck
out.
DREW PEARSON SAYS:
Big Ed Johnson Fighting
For First Love - Baseball
WASIII.N'CTON-Big Ed Johnson
who used to fire locomotives on
the Union Pacific between Western
Kansas and Denver, took an air
plane down to Washington from
New York the other day to testify
against uaseoaii monopoly.
ISig Kd felt right at home going
hack lo Washington. He spent 18
years of his life there as U.S.
senator from, Colorado about as
many years as he spent as a rail
road laborer on the Union Pacific
then telegrapher, then train dis
patcher and locomotive fireman
lie also has felt at home in the
Slate House in Denver, having
served two terms as governor and
lour terms in the Colorado legis
lature.
But Big Ed didn't feel much at
home in an airplane. You could
tell that by the way he tried to
stuff an unwieldly brief case under
the seat in front of him, instead
of beneath him. As a result, he
couldn't stretch his legs. And when
you're six feet four you need to
stretch.
However, airplanes have revolu
tionized bast-ball, Ed Johnson con
fided to me. And that is one rea
son he is crusading for another
baseball league. Even when Big
Ed served in the U.S. Senate, he
was president of the Western
Baseball League. Now that he's
retired from active politics at the
age of 75, he's giving all his time
lo baseball.
"San Juan, Puerto Rico, is base
ball crazy," he explained. "And
they want to be part of our new
big league. With airplane trans
portation you can get to San Juan
as easy as Los Angeles and San
Francisco. The major ball teams
have their own airplanes now.
Players Are Monopoliied
"But our chief problem is the
baseball monopoly," continued the
man who is trying to break it.
"That's why I'm going to Wash
ington to testify before , Senator
Kefauvver's anti-monopoliy com
mittee. The two major leagues
don't want a rival, and especially
the major ball clubs don't want to
give up their monopoly on players
they don't need. '
Some of the clubs have 400
players under contract, each.
Every May 20 they cut down their
actual team to 25 men, but they
keep' 400 under contract just to
keep them from getting Into the
hands of other rival clubs."
Big Ed pulled a rule book of the
major leagues out of his brief
case and turned to rule 2. It
rends:
'Since the supply of skilled
players is not equal to the demand,
the major league clubs shall not
have title to fnore than forty (40)
player contracts at any time.
That s their own rule," con
tinued the ex-senator from Colo
rado, "but they don't live up to it.
And when they keep 400 players
under contract in order to prevent
other clubs from using them,
that's monopoly."
I asked how many players the
Washington Senators had under
contract.
-That's one of the poorer clubs.
f think Griffith has about 150.
However, the St. Louis Cardinals
right now have 435 players under
contract.'
"What happened to your Western
Baseball League?" I asked the
man who had been its president.
The majors put us out of busi
ness. They just told us we couldn't
have any more players, and that
was that. We couldn't operate any
more. However," said the man
who so long was a power in the
U.S. Senate, "I believe Estes he
fauver now has 'em on the run
and the prospect of a third major
league will break up the player
monopoly.
Toasts were going the rounds at
the dinner given by Gen. and Mrs.
Tim Mclnerney at the F Street
Club in honor of the Tony Biddies
Old frienlds had gathered to pay
tribute to the man who had served
as ambassador to Poland, then as
ambassador to all the exiled coun
tries during the war, then as a
member of Eisenhower's SHAPE
staff in Paris, and now Is adjutant
general of Pennsylvania.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn
was there, with his old Republican
friend, Ex-Speaker Joe Martin, and
a lot of senators, together with
Chip Robert of Georgia, who, when
Democratic National Treasurer,
used to tell how he called Am
bassador Biddle In Poland to "bor
row syo.ono from mm to rescue
the Democratic party from ban
kruptcy. '
After the first toast, Biddle, with
a waistline no different from the
day he won the tennis champion
ship in France 25 years ago, made
a little speech of appreciation to
his old friends.
Then rose a surprise speaker-
Mrs. Biddle.
"Tony just hates to go shop
ping," she confided. "I never can
get him to go anywhere with me
to buy anything. But this after
noon after we arrived in Washing
ton and hadn't too much time to
dress for dinner. Tony insisted on
going shopping. He bought a tape
measure and a pair of binoculars
You see, he's just been ap
pointed a judge in the Miss Amer
ica contest."
QUOTES FROM
THE NEWS
United Press International
MOSCOW Vice President
Richard M. Nixon, recommending
that Nikita Khrushchev be i
vited to visit the United States:
"He would see that our econ
omy is strong ana productive,
and while his visit would not con
vert him to capitalism any more
than my visit here would convert
me to communism, it would serve
to change his ideas of how our
system works.
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico New
York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller,
on the engagement of his son
Steven, to the family's former
maid. Norwegian Anne Marie
liasmussen :
"We couldn't be happier. She is
a wonderful girl.
ALEXANDRIA. La. Gov. K
Long, threatening to have national
Democratic committeeman Ca-
mille Gravel removed from a po
litical rally:
'If you don t keep your clap
trap shut. I'm going lo have you
removed as a common heckler."
WASHINGTON Sen. Homer
E. Capehart (R ind.', on the pro
posed invitation to Nikita Khrush
chev to visit the United States:
"I. for one, am not ready to
forgive them (the Russiansi for
their post sins"
Rockefeller
Has New Help
For GOP Spot
WASHINGTON (UPI) Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York had new support today for
the GOP presidential nomination
from a former backer of the late
Sen. Robert A. Taft.
Sen. Homer E. Capehart R-
Ind), generally regarded as a
member of the Republican con
servative wing, came out for
Rockefeller amid predictions
that Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's chances for the nomina
tion have been1 helped by his Rus
sian trip.
House Republican leader
Charles A. Halleck Ind.(. mean
while, announced his willingness
to be the running mate of either
one. HaiiecK said ne woum ac
cept the GOP vice presidential
nomination if it were offered to
him.
Halleck refused to declare a
preference between Nixon and
Rockefeller for the top spot. How
ever, he said he believed Nixon
would win the nomination if the
GOP conventionwere held today.
Rockefeller said at the gover
nors' conference in San Juan,
Puerto Rico, that he would not
rule out the possibility of becom
in ga candidate for the nomina
tion although he is not now a
candidate. He said Nixon was the
leading candidate.
Capehart. who backed Taft for
the Republican nomination in 1952.
said Sunday he had no doubt that
the GOP could win next year if
Rockefeller headed the ticket.
New Missile Due
Army And Marines
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Army and Marines are going to
equip infantrymen with a new
guided missile designed to knock
down low-flying combat planes.
Sketchy details of the new
weapon, called "the Redeye,'
were disclosed and test models
were shown as part of the annu
al three-day meeting here of the
Assn. of the U.S. Army.
-The Redeye looks like a World
War II anti-tank bazooka. The
weapon, fired from the shoulder,
has an infra-red "heat seeker" in
its nose which will carry it to a
strafing or bombing airplane that
gets within range.
The Redeye and its launcher
weigh 20 pounds. The weapon is
four feet long.
The Army has awarded a six-million-dollar
contract to develop
the weapon to Convair Division
of General Dynamics- Corp.,
which will do the work at its Po
mona, Calif., plant.
Bank Clearings
Exceed Billion
PORTLAND (UPI) Bank
clearings exceeded a billion dol
lars during July and building per
mits during the month topped the
totals of both June, 1959 and
July, 1958 to indicate a brighter
economic picture for Portland.
The billion-dollar bank amount
is the second time such a clear
ing has occured.
The increase in city building
permits resulted despite the new j
planning anu tuning mc Wlllg
put into operation which brought
a processing slowdown.
Building permits for suburban
Multnomah county also exceeded
the June figure but were 304.000
behind July. 1958.
New housing starts, however.
lagged behind both a year ago
and the figure In June for Port
land and its unincorporated sub
urbs.
Now III Progress. .
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