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Th OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Wednesday Morning. May 18. 1945
PAGE FOUR
"No Focor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Axotr , i r
from First Statesman. March 28, 1351 I
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher -Member
of the Associated Press ,
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of aL
news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
When the World Rocked
John Reed, former Portland journalist who
is buried in the Kremlin at Moscow, wrote a
book on the. bolshevik revolution which was
published under the title "Ten Days That Shook
the World." - : ... i .
Of the period from the death of Roosevelt
through the surrender of Germany it might be
said they were "thirty days in which the world
shook.". - Never before with the exception of
Passion Week have so many events of momen
tous significance -crowded into a brief space of
time. From a headline writer's standpoint they
were at once his delight and his despair. The
Iront page failed to carry the load of "front page
must" stories. No newsman expects to see the
like again in his lifetime. Here is a summary
of the starring events , which made the month
from April 12 on a month fruitful for history:
April 12 Death of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Georgia. I
April 13 Harry S. Truman takes Nation's
- helm, charting course of victory and lasting
, peace.. .
April 24 Marshal Henri - Philippe Petain,
Vichy Chief of State, surrenders to face treason
charge.
April 25 The United Nations Conference on
International Organization opens at San Fran-.-
CISCO.) i
' April 25 United States and Russian troops
cut Germany in two by junction along Elbe
f: river. '
April il Benito Mussolini executed by Ital
ian Partisans.
April 28 German peace offer to U. S. and
England rejected; report of total surrender de
nied by Truman.
May 1 Germans announce death of Adolph
Hitler; Doenitz, new Fuehrer, says war to con
i tinue. 1 -
--. May 2 Russians proclaim capture of Berlin.
May 2 Germans surrender unconditionally
in Italy, Southern Austria.
May 4-t-Germans in Netherlands, Northwest
Germany and Denmark give up.
.May 5-4-Germans surrender in West Austria,
Bavaria.
May 6- -Unconditional German surrender in
"little red schoolhouse" ends European war.
May 8 Truman, Churchill proclaim V-E day,
pledge victory over Japan; surrender "ratified"
in, Berlin. ! '
May 9 Air Marshal Hermann Goering, No. 2
on war criminal docket, surrenders to Ameri
cans. . .;
May 10 Partial demobilization plans an
nounced for U. S. troops; transition to peace
time economy under way.
Time for New Meeting
The return of Molotov to Russia and Anthony
Eden to London puts emphasis on the need for
an early meeting of the heads of the principal
powers of the United Nations: Great Britain,
Russia, the United States, perhaps China and
France. Although the conference at San Fran
cisco dealt chiefly with problems of a new or
ganization for oeac. while-thes men wpr. in
this country it was possible to hold conversa
tions on .subjects relating. to the peace settle
ment, like Poland. These men have returned to
their capitals, j and many grave issues arising
out, of the war remain unsettled. Yalta's agree
ments have become bogged down. Trieste lifts
its head like another Danzig.
Churchill and Truman have expressed them
selves as eager for a new conference with Stalin.
The latter can have no excuse about his duty as
chief of staff in lighting a war to prevent his
attendance. Statesmen of the secondary level
(foreign ministers) have been unable to com
pose differences over Poland. Perhaps the heads
of the state can. At least they ought to try to
'do so.
"The Polish question involves not only the
composition of the government at Warsaw, but
also the lot of the 16 members of Polish resist
ance who were arrested,' and the future bound
aries of Poland; The new Austrian government
is not recognized by Great Britain and the Unit-
. ed States, but is by Russia. How can this differ
ence be adjusted? When will American news-
, writers be permitted to have access to liberated
or enemy territories now occupied by Russia?
How . nearly uniform will be the administra
tions of the several portions of Germany?
Here are topics 'for the leads to discuss and
if at all possible to agree on. The, immediate
peace of the world depends grdatly on how well
the victors do the job of handling their victory.
A new company has been formed to drill for
oil over around Burns. Hope springs eternal
. . perhaps on the theory that the desert land
ought to be good for something.
This war loan is the "Mighty Seventh." We
hope it doesn't prove as spurious as "Mighty
Oregon" sometimes in a USC game.
Editorial Comment
WORLD CARTEL FOR COTTON
Our cotton export subsidy, which in essence Is
the "dumping" so long abominable in our eyes, is
bearing its natural fruit It first provoked a price
war between the United States and Brazil in the
world cotton market ' Now it is incubating a plan
for an international government cartel in cotton,
which representatives of the principal cotton grow
ing and spinning countries will offer their govern
ments for adoption. ;-.V':"f
. As our Washington bureau j related last week,
Brazilians have ready a draft of the cartel plan. It
includes production and export quotas, agreed sell
ing prices, acreage limitations on planting and pur
Chases by the government; of each producing coun
try of its excess, production, if any. - -
A specially intriguing feature of the plan is that
cotton surplus purchases by the government of any
producing country are to be financed through loans
from ' our Export-Import Bank for three years at
3 . interest The world's needs would , be esti
mated by the cartel's governors every -six months
and yearly export quotas might be revised accord
ingly. ' , '
It is a beautiful plan and yet our countrymen
cannot but feel a little hurt by the loan provision.
It is too like an intimation that we are a bit mer
cenary in our world outlook. Why shouldn't we
be allowed to five them the money. Wall Street
Journal. ; ' .. , .,..,..-.'
'Oh, Oh, What's This?' ?
Speaking before the Washington Advertising
club, Robert El Hannegan, postmaster general
and chairman of the democratic national com
mittee said that the program for me future
would be government cooperation with business
rather than control. He said that once he
threat of inflation ends, government controls
wUl be lifted, adding: !
I hope that in those years, under President
Truman, old uncertainties that plagued our na
tion's business and those who managed it will
disappear. .. . .ii .:','
Read that again; it's a new word out of Wash
ington. And it comes from the man jjWho made
Truman vice president (and hence president)
and whose apparent assignment Is tomake him
president again. -The administration, via Bob
Hannegan, is starting out to woo business .and
business management. : ., f
There was a time a decade ago when Presi
dent Roosevelt made overtures to business, and
had a group of business leaders set; up as an
advisory council in the commerce department
It soon became evident however thaf their ad
vice was not soughtj that the new deal was de
termined to flail banking, utilities, and other
business scapegoats. Since then business has
been skittish of government at Washington.
"Old uncertainties," indeed; how eagerly bus
iness awaits their disappearance. Hannegan'
bow is clearly to the right, like Senator Hard
ing's bid for return to "normalcy" in the 1920
campaign. I
A new prophet has arisen in Israel The days
of the scourge are at an end. The president aims
at an era of good feeling, with an end of the po
litical plagues which have irritated arid annoyed
business executives for a dozen years. This in
deed marks a change of direction, any one which
was not first "cleared with Sidney." j
British Election j
Prior to Prime Minister Churchill' speech of
Sunday it was predicted he would set a date for
a general election in Great Britain. July or Oc
tober were the dates favored by th prophets,
leaving August and September out for vacations
and harvesting. But the prime rmnisfer gavi no
intimation he was considering an eafly call for
an election. Instead he talked ina vein as
though the present government would continue.
An election will, be held; it seems certain, at
a date not very far off. There has been no elec
tion for ten years, and nowthat the great weight
of fear and of effort has been lifted with Ger
many's defeat the British will want i fresh ex
pression of public opinion. Held soon, the con
servative party would probably receive a fresh
mandate and Churchill be retained as head of
the government Even so he would prefer a
coalition government until the Jap war is con
cluded and the country well on the way to
peace. The labor party lacks the leadership and
the public confidence, though it has contributed
mightily to the common task of winning) the
war. If the election should be deferred very
long, the opposition might gather strength and
gain power. The differences are not fvery great
however: the conservatives are standpatter!
who legislate along very liberal lines while the
labor party talks radical and legislates Very
conservatively. Britain will still beBritairi no
matter when an election is held. I " J
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Eclipse of the Rising Son
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FRONTlV
Wandering People
Rapidly Being
Helped Homeward
The Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
(Continued from page 1)
Vidkun Quisling, held under arrst at 'Oslo'
pending trial for treason, has been! given the
job of cleaning toilets at the prison vhere he la
confined. The Norwegians are setting a good
example of how to treat traitors and war crimi
nals. Some one should pass Hermarl Goering a
brush and a water bucket J '
diaphragm fall and almost vis
ibly settles back in Indifference,
IDid you ever study the anat
omy of i a radio joke? Often its
incubation and its skeleton ! are
so plain you can see thf joke
coming j even before the! come
dian utters it or the audience
perceives it. There are, In suc
cession,! the build-up !(whose
tailoring is sometimes painfully
obvious), the clinch and the
breakaway, with ' a patis. for
audience perception. Sometimes
the pause 'is prolonged, because
either the audience or the joke
Is dull. 1 Sometimes the recovery
is fast! as the audience I "fields
the ball" quickly. And! some-.
times It's a plain dud. . ;
L You pan classify radio Jokes,
by the way-the audience! reacts. '
Some are firecracker gags, which
often are spontaneous aid gen
uine (Phil Baker and Bab Hope
and Fred Allen are good at that);
and the; audience is kept popping
in continuous If not noisy mirth. :
Then there are "fuse' jokes,! the
kind where the mirth fizzes like
a -fuse and finally; ends in a
sputter with" no special effect
Also there are delayed; . action
jokes, time bombs you might
; call them, not because they were '
built that wvy but because of
the difference in time of seeing
the point of the joke by various
members of th audience. You
can feel the laughter roll along
and grow in volume as the point
tS GERMAlhr-C-With the
war over, the long trek; home
or to places where homes used
to be is' being shortened for
Europe's wandering peoples who
became political prisoners, slave
laborers, or simply part of a
frightened horde fleeing before
the storm of conflict j
The energies of American arm
ies have been
turned toward
getting these
displaced per
sons back where
they came from
and results have
come swiftly. !
. 'The Ninth
army alone has
repatriated 120,
000 French,
Dutch, Belgian
and Luxe m- Kenneth Dixon
bourger nationals from east of
the Rhine in recent days. During
the last week the average daily lwish td be repatriated, Morgan
; not to mention political problems,
has prevented the mass repat
; riation fpf eastern and southern
i Europeans. :! -
j "However,!' arrangements are
now being made with the Rus
sians to handle the transfer of
ilhose displaced personnel who
; have t pass through territory
the Soviet army now occupies,
in order to; reach their homes,"
; said Capt i Morgan. "There is
no reason to believe they won't
i be under, way in a few days."
! i 1
That 'will be another sizeable
Job. In Addition to 154,000 west-.
. era Europeans uncovered in this
: sector, jthe Ninth army- military
government officials have tallied
280,000 j Russians, 115,000 Poles
: and great numbers of southern
: Europeans of varied nationalities.
Although it may seem strange
; at first! not all of the western
i Ikiropeahs displaced by war
of the gag
listeners.
Here
registers with
the
this
Interpreting
The War News
By KIRKE(L. SIMPSON f
Associated Press War Analyst;
Grim notice that his name is on the first priority
list of Nazi war criminals has been served on Her
mann Goering, Hitler's onetime successor -designate.
It was placed there last November b the United
, Nations war crimes commission in London.' ' j '
And withHitler presumably beyond teach of hu-.
man vengeance and Himmler missing the plump
and strutting air marshal feems destined to the
place he once coveted, He looms as th No. 1 Nazi
under the criminal accusation brought "against him
by the commission. ,: , f
Realization of Goering's unique place; on the' long
roll of Nazi war criminals yet to be completed prob
ably inspired in part General Eisenhower's repudia
; tion of any tendency: to treat Goering' as an 'ordi
nary war prisoner of high rank. It certainly stirred
the crimes commission to formal announcement
, that his name had stood for months on "the! first
listyf those Nazi charged with war crimes. '
- In the absence of the specific indictments, how
ever, it is impossible to say how Goering will be
tried. :.' : ,; v P 'vji,:;-'-;""";'-.-''. .''' v ;f i "
The war crimes commission had its s birth under
the Joint "statement on atrocities issued at Mos
cow in November, 1943, and signed by President
Roosevelt Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal
- Stalin. -: -. i - " - .?
It provides that "those German officrs and men
and members of the Nazi party who have been re
sponsible for or have taken a consentin: part m the
above atrocities f.fwiU be sent backs to the coun
tries in which their abominable deeds were done in
order that they may be judged and punished accord
ing to the Taws of these' liberated countries i and of
the free governments:' which wiU be erected there-
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At the moment that .United Nations purpose wu
. promulgated Goering: was the No. 2 NazL At that
moment, too, Nazi crime in Poland and Russia"
were still being uncovered and were especially
stressed In the Moscow statement of atrocitieSi- It
was made public in order that Nazi war criminals
. "will know they will ;b brought back to the scene
of their crimes and judged on the spot by the peo
ple whom they have outraged." j
Goering's "consenting j?art' in atrocity charges
can hardly be questioned,
There seems everyj probability of at Russian de
mand that he be committed to Russian custody for
trial on Russian soiL under Russian law and by Rus
sian Judges, ' y 'S" " ' - .
Is a good example of
type, from the Jack Benny pro
gram of Sunday night:
: - I
j Benny: "I see they have ended
the midnight curfew.". , j .
! Mary L.: "Yes, and they have
lifted the ban again at horse
. racing." ; ' -
i Benny: "That's fins; now
Crosby can r a c e his horses
again." ." !' ' i'
1 Mary L.: "Yes, and they won't'
have to get in by midnight"
' It took several seconds ! for
Mary's ; cute line finally to reg
ister among the j. duller-witted.
The radio listener noted the re
sponse ! of the audience1 was in .
the form of a rolling crescendo,
A little laughter now and then
turnover has reached 10,000.
"That means that by early next
week the entire army area should
be largely cleared of j western
Europeans who desire to be re
patriated," said Capt George
Morgan, of Durham, N. C., for
mer Duke university professor
who now serves as a military
government officer.
For, the first time since X re
turned to this sector a month
ago, roads no longer are clogged
with . footsore' wanderers. By.
trucks and railroads they are be
ing shipped out as swiftly as pos
sible. Those still waiting to; go
are being fed: and clothed more
adequately and housed whenever
possible in various army ' "DP
camps'. Once they avoided these
camps .because, . unable;: then to
help transport them homeward,
the army only .impeded their pro
gress with red tape. "
Now word has spread like a
gypsy rumor and the wanderers
eagerly seek out such camps in
order to take advantage of their
quicker transportation, i
The majority of those repat
riated have been western Euro
peans since the military situation
is relished by the best of men
- and women. ' j, And the! study of
radio programs and what makes
; them elkk , (or fail toi click) is
interesting and sometimes funny,
' Try listening to the radio au
: dience next time you tune in on
radio comedyt 7 i v
said. This 1 due to several fac
tors, but the most likely reason
is fear of the attitude the folks
back home may take.
Those who want to go and
whose homes or communities are
within I reach of American army
transportation facilities are get
ting, ori their way swiftly.
There's something pretty won
derful fabout watching their de
light atj this- long: awaited op
portunity to ride after walking
so many hundreds of mile. Their
eyes practically worship Ameri
can trucks as they pile their mea
ger belongings aboard and clam
ber up
breathlessly for the last
ride home:
It ' .
: It wap the same with the bat
tered qid "forty-and eight" rail
road . cars. The people tacked
green tranches and fresh flowers
on c&rs- before the trains pulled
put If they had any remnants of
their national flags, those too
were pinned up. r . .
- - And las trainload after train
load of wanderers pulled . out
above tjhe sounds of puffing en-r
gines and clanking cars came the
music of accordions- and guitars
' and the strains of patriotic songs.
' Interspersed with such stirring
anthems would come occasionally
the "Beer Barrel Polkanz" or
"Ive Been Working on the Rail
road" -the best they could do
in a gay musical way to thank
the Americans for the long lift
home. , - -
FIGHT1NO LTBEKAL: THE ATJTO
BIOGBAPBY or GEORGE W.
' MORRIS," (MicmllUt; S3).:
I have thought . conscience
was the guide," Norrii says of a
vote he cast in disregard of the
' stand of his party and the opin
ions of bis constituents. He con
tinues: : ! - ' : ' i :
"Otherwise, a member of Con
gress giving weight to expressed
public sentiment becomes only
an automatic machine. If that is
the line of duty' of a member,
then Congress requires no patri
otism, no education, and no
- courage." ' ':". ' 1 1-
This is the key to his distin
guished career, which included
40 years in Washington, or five
terms in the house and five In
, the senate. He made many enemies.-
But he made ' very- many
more friends; his defeat and re
tirement in 1943; and his death
the following, year, brought
nationwide acknowledgment - of
the depth and honesty, of his
mind and the benefits bestowed
oa the country by bis independ
: ent course. - . ' " j ; :
He ended : the domination of
- Speaker Cannon, led in the fight
for the anti-injunction act" the
TVA and the RZA, and fathered
the 20th "Lame Duck amend
ment He also opposed U.S. en
try. in World. War I and, after
Versailles, the League-of Nation,
though not teamed ' up .' with
lodge. He , backed America's
- present wartime role, however.
In early life, following, the ex
ample of his mother, he was a
party regular. But as. he learned,
he says, that the evil of machine
politics was as great among re
publicans as democrats, and as
he realized that in his adopted
state of Nebraska he was 1 sup
ported by voters of both parties,
he began to kick over the trace.
-He went along with T. R. and
the Bull Moose; campaigned for
a democrat" against Vare of
Pennsylvania in 1828; bolted the
. , GOP to work for- "AT Smith
against Hoover, who would 'fol
low Coolidge in vetoing TVA;
and in 1938 ran as an independ-
eni.: r. '; '-: 'j-o-: i :
The book makes stirring read
ing. It is an essential document
, in American history. The "fight
'mg uoerar was persuaded to
write it by J. JE. Lawrence; who
helped arrange and edit the ma
terial -and who, as editor of the
. Lincoln (Neb.) Star, backed Nor-
ris, politically. . .
GRIN AND BEAR IT
The Safety - Valve
By Lichty USTTEES FROM STATESMAN HEADERS
Salem Scouts Get High Rating;
Valley Troops, Patrols Also
Share Council's Top Honors
Cobra patrol of troop J, Salem, won the highest patrol rating at
the Boy Scout circus and camporee in Salem last week end, with a to
tal of 3270 points, a recapitulation of the competition disclosed Tues-
Eagle patrol of troop , Salem, was runnerup with 3080, and hon
orable mention went to CXO patrol of troop 6, Salem, Owl patrol of
troop 11 Salem, Flying Eagle ! pa
trol of troop 20 Salem, Flying
gle patrol of troop 52 Silverton,
and Crow patrol of troop 14 deaf
schooL " . ' ' ' - -J
Top troop was troop Salem,
with troop 14 of the deaf school a
das second. Honorable mention
troops included, troops 11 Salem,
42 Keizer, 52 Silverton. . j
Troop 31 of Sweet Home was
voted to have made the greatest
contribution to the circus, and
troop 25 of Jefferson the- greatest
contribution to both the circus and
camporee. .. -; v
Ratings of troops and patrols
were based on camping, cooking,
citizenship, neatness, resourceful
ness and general all-around scouting.-
-' -
Patrol ratings by letters, as given-
out by the area scout office
Tuesday, included: . I s
-A" plus CobraT troop 3, j Sa
lem; all patrols, 9, Salem. j ;
"A" Flying Eagle, 52, Silver
ton; Peewit 53, Woodburn; Crow,
14, deaf school; all patrols,) 42,
Keizer; Flying Eagle, 20, Salem;
Owl 11, Salem; CXO, 6, Salem.
"A" minus Pine Tree, 52, ! Sil
verton; Flaming Arrow, 52, j Sil
verton; Wolf, 54, Gervais; all oth
er patrols, 14, deaf school; all pa
trols, 68, Pratum; Wolf and Pirate
patrols, 1, Salem; all other patrols,.
11, Salem; Flying Eagle, 3, Salem;i
Rattlesnake, 4, Salem. .
B plus Flaming Arrow, 22,
Albany; Comanche, j 28, Albany;
all patrols, 25, Jefferson; Panther,
56, Mt Angel; Flaming Arrow,; 56,
Mt Angel; Stag, 54, Gervais; Fox,
59, Brooks; all patrols except Ea
gle, 24i Dallas; all j patrols, (31,
Sweet Home; Panther, 20, Salem;
Black Bear, 1, Salem; Wolf, 3, Sa
lem; Lion, 8, Salem; all patrols, 16,
Salem.' .1
"B" Beaver, 22, Albany; Tiger,
28, Albany; Cobra, 52, . Silverton;
all patrols, 53, Woodburn; all pa
trols, 44, Grande Ronde; all pa
trols, 50, Stayton; Eagle, 24, Dal-
las; all patrols, 41, Keizer; all pa- i
trols, 8, Salem; Beaver, 4 Salem.
"B" minus Tiger 22, 1 Albany:
Pine Tree, 28, Albany; Beaveij, 3,
Salem; all other patrols, 4, Salem.
"C" plus Owl 55, SUyton.
fC" Flaming Arrow, .30, Leb
anon;! all patrols, 46, Turner;! all
patrols, 51, Lebanon; Stayton Ex
plorers, 53; Covered Wagon, 53,
Woodburn. I 1
"C" minus Eagle;; 12, Salem,
; "D" all patrols, IT, Salem; Pan
ther, 4, Salem J j
"F" all patrols, 10, Salem
Women Adopt
TfDivision
Prosram
...
A; seven-point home extension
program will be presented to 22
full time units in Marion county
the coming 12 months. This was
the decision reached at the county
planning meeting held Monday at
the Salem YWCA. ' ;
. The seven point program will
include the following divisions:
1, Tile It Now," a home book
keeping project; 2, housework J the
healthful way; J, conserve with
the scrap bag; 4, improving sew
ing technique; 5, home recreation;
6, buffet meals and hospitality; 7,
sugar saving desserts. J
' New communities in which th
program . wiU be presented nexl
year are Lansing avenue. Turner
and " Aumsville. Full time pro-
grams will be presented in West
Woodburn, North Howell, and
Aurora where only part time pro
grams were given in the last year.
Another 16 communities inwhich
the full time program of the past
year will be continued are Edisa
lane, Pratum-Macleay, East Salem.
Silverton, Silverton Hills, Liberty,
Union Hill, Hubbard, Marion,
Salem Heights, Central Howell,
Stayton. : Roberts, Sidney - Talbot
and Gates. '7-'. ' ' -
Mrs! Glenn Briedwell of Silver
ton and Mrs. Rex Hartley of Sid-ney-Talbot
Were new members ol
the county board, named. They
succeed- Mrs. James Keyes ( and
Mrs. W. R. Woodburn. Mrs. Harry
Martin was reelected for a one
year term. Fifty women attended
the meeting. District meetings
will be held 'to accommodate all
sections of the county.
Distribution of Laws
May Run Into Delay j
Distribution of the session Jawi
of the 1945 legislature may be de
layed until July 1 because of the
threatened suit of F. H. Young,
manager of Oregon Business j and
Tax Research, Incn to set aside
house bill -403, permitting tax
levying bodies to create a cash
working account" up to 10 per 'cent
of the estimated expenditure of
the tax levying body. , I
Secretary of State Robert S. Far
rell, jr., said it was ' intended to
start distribution of the . session
laws on June 16 but this will not
be possible ' in event the . suit is
filed. .
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MA
j- "I really don't have time te play with the children, bnt I do scream
and threaten them,; and that seems like a game te them!" -
REVISING HOUSE JOURNAL
-To. the j Editor:
The ! Oregon Journal . - (Port
- land) May 12, has the following
story from its Salem bureau and .
: we think its reproduction in
your valuable newspaper will
be of nterest to the taxpayerr
of the Munty:
' Revision of - the- house and
' senate , lournals of the recent leg-
islative session cost the taxpay-
ers a otal of $4920, . according .
to feet rds in the ' secretary . of
state's office. Of - this amount
- 12004 went to desk clerks of the
h senate for their services and
- $2920 to house "clerks. The high
er cost: of the house 'committee
is.accojmled for in part by "the
presence of two . repierrtatives,
H. R. Jones and John Steelham
mer, both of Marion county, each
of whom drew $320 for their
-.. Services at the rate of S3 a -day
for the! 40 days allowed for this
' poet-session task .. ,-:
:T Inquiry at the state 'office r&
veals that no two senators' were
appointed to supervise the. cor
rection! of the . senate : journals;
- Hence $640 went.to increase cost
of house journal. "Was the. house
Jounwdj in such a mess thatit
required services rso-called -of
- two local assemblymen to
straighten it out? Why this ex
tra load on the taxpayers? Why
. this sinecure? What did these
- - two lawmakers do who were
elected- In the first place to pror
tect taxpayers and eliminate use
less waste of money? j
Yours truly, i
HENRY "HALL
KANSAS CITY, May 14-C)-Ernest
Young probably found
few sympathizers among the
schoolboy set when he complain
ed - that -thieves had raided his
"place of business." ' -
Young is the city's dog pound
keeper. . Thirty-seven of the ca
nines, have disappeared the. past
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Restrictions on Trade
With . Belgium Removed
WASHINGTON, May 15.J()
The treasury ,ha$ removed: all
its restrictions on , private trade
with Belgium, as it did with
France a month ago. , j
; Belgian assets in this country
are still frozen, but the treasury
announced that dollar balances
acquired by Belgian bankingj in
stitutions since Feb. 2,-1945, may
be freely used to make payments
in this country on behalf of Bel
gian nationals. - j. "
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