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4 The Ctatosmcmu SalonL Oregon. Tuoedar, Dbmbw 11, 1943 fXatercd at tha poatofflc at tem, Orefon. m aecond elaaa matter under verjr morntnc except Monday. Buslneaa office SIS S. Commercial. fCMBEB Or TB ASSOCIATED PUS I Tae AatacUte Pre la tatlU xetaslvely U Ut w far rcoaklteatloa ef aB fk as wen as ail AI mwi dspatdiea. MTMPT3I PACOTC COAST DIVISION OP BUREAU OF ADVUtTUJNO Advertising BcpctacntaUv Ward-GrUnth Co., New York. Chieo. San Francisco. Detroit MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION By Mall (la Avaace Or ton xasewhere tat V JLA. . .IS ., ,, , IjM 4.M .. , .M MM . , MJt One month . Six months. One year 'Man of the Year" For once there wasn't much argument among the hundreds of Associated Press newspaper and radio members as to whom was entitled to the accolade "Man of the Year." It is Harry S. Tru man, the man from Missouri, and while in some r, quarters his nomination for the 1949 title might Save been made rather wryly, his feat of the past year transcends parties in being the year's biggest domestic story. Few outside of the presi dent hi"! thought he would be elected but more than enough apparently believed he should be. In specific fields of endeavor there was more controversy, but even so there wasn't much , argument against the nomination Of Secretary of State Marshall in. the foreign affairs category. Marshall, who was "Man of the Year" for 1947, holds a unique place in the American scene. Particularly interesting was the voting for the top man in public service. It ended in a tie be tween former President Hoover, who has labor ed long and conscientiously on his governmental reorganization commission, and Paul Hoffman, director of the U. S. program of aid to Europe. Philip Murray won the highest rank in the labor classification to climax a busy year in which his right-wing forces came through with a clear-cut victory over the leftists in the CIO, and Henry Ford II was voted tops in industry for his continued able operation of his grand father's industrial empire and his service activi ties including the national chairmanship of com munity chests. J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Los Alamos laboratory where the first atom ic bomb was built, took high honors in science for his work in seeking a world control plan for atomic energy; Sir Laurence Olivier in enter tainment for his "Hamlet," and Norman Mailer in literature for his stark war book "The Naked and the Dead." All-in-all a distinguished list and a difficult ene with which to pick a serious quarrel. It would be interesting to choose a name now in regards to the "Man of the year" for 1949 but perhaps not impossible at that. The top per sonage usually is no Johnny-come-lately to the public scene. We won't pretend to predict, but we couldn't begrudge the honor even to Joe Stalin if he'd come through with any help to ward amity. No bets, however. The Ole Mississippi The Ole Mississippi finds an echo to the glory of its former days with the arrival of a 256-foot motorship at St. Louis. The ship, Angele Hig gins of the Las Americas Shipping company, brought 900 tons of scrap steel from Havana and will take general merchandise in return. The establishment of regular water service between St Louis and Havana, or other off oast ports, may presage a new era in water borne commerce of the middlewest. On non perishables, or on cargo for which time is not Weather Doesn't Stop; 'Big Easy 103' Bp Joseph Abes BERLIN Dec. 27 At Weis baden this morning, a steely haze hung very low over the steel- . cold ground. On the swarming airfield, the German workers clapped their chapped hands to ' warm them, as their truck moved away from Big Easy 103. Thirty five minutes earlier Big Easy 103 had come in from Tempelhof. now tne c-m was loaded 'again with an other Berlin ' cargo ten tons of dried apri cots, canned ap-plesauee.ee- ment and roof ing paper., , "We're ready to roll." said the pilot briskly. Pilot, co-pilot Junrph Alf1 and engineer performed the complicated ritual of starting the engines and warming them up. The big airplane lumbered down the field and took its place in the end of the runway. Takeoff were spaced only three minutes apart, and it was not long before the pilot called the tower. -."Hello, tower. Big Easy 103 In No. 1 position." i "Roarer. Biff Easy 103. You are cleared for Templehof at 6,000 feet, standard departure. ' You're No. 2 to take off." Then, three minutes after the plane across the runway had roared into the air, the final word came: "Big Easy cleared for rolling take Oft" . "Roger," said the pOoL and in what seemed no more than a few seconds the big plane was air borne and totally enveloped in ' the chill gray haze. For ten min utes the trio in the cockpit worked with concentrated preci sion, flying the prescribed three sides of a rectangular course that would bring Big Easy 103 into the flight path to Berlin. Then the turn into the flight path was made. .We were above asrsunny blue of the winter sky above and the serrated, brilliant "No Favor Stoays Us, No Fear Shall Atoe" From First Statesmaa. March It, MSI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher One month.. Six moatha. One year of the essence, saving over the to coastal ports of commerce is never ceased to way, but the man with the gentleman, is won fame and settlement for agers say this clerical than However, since lishes a 40-hour the : concession boost in freight A bill will be income tax man sion, is a good ly lit expanse of white wool be low. Ten miles away . and a thousand feet below us, there was a speck which was another C-54 carrying another ten-ton load to Berlin. And ten miles behind and a thousand; feet below us, the chatter on : the radio an nounced the presence of still an other. The co-pilot picked up a Tempelhof announcement that the ceiling there was 200 feet and visibility was half a mile. Ifs way below minimum now," said the pilot. "But it will probably get a little better be fore we get in. We can make it -with a GCA.". i Once in the flight path, the trio in the cockpit relaxed. His tory and the air force had casu ally assembled them Capt Clin ton Hankins, from : Humboldt, Iowa; Second Lieut. John B. Du vall, from Fennyille, Mich, and Sgt. Kermit Green, from Los An geles for the job now in hand. On the Berlin air lift no crew assignments are ; permanent, but the three had flown together of ten enough to be friends.: They smoked and talked, mostly of the lift itself, and Green paid bis respects to the press by doing a cruelly funny imitation of an "extreme left-wing newspaper man" who had flown into Ber lin with him last week. "He wanted me to tell him I was oppressed."; said the ser geant, with rich scorn. M 'Mis ter I said, 'do I look oppressed, do I talk oppressed, do I act op pressed?' That fixed him." Over the Fulda beacon, the first report went from Big Easy 103 to Tempelhof Airways. Fifty minutes out of Fulda, the pilot again called in. The city was ut terly invisible bene&th the over cast, but we were nearing Ber lin. Tempelhof replied that the ceiling was now 600 feet, and visibility was "about to the end of the runway about to the end of the runway." A moment later we were cleared down- from 6,000 to 2,500 feet. "Roger," said Captain Hankins, "Big Easy 103 descending." Again the trio in the cockpit got down to serious business. The altimeter needle revolved ' act C Salem. consvaM March S. lfTf. Fubbatva Oregon. Telephone S-SU- local sews artaUS la lata aawspaaev. Sty Cktp Carrier - JjM s.oa JIN there should be a considerable method of rail or other handling and subsequently re-loading. ; The Mississippi from the days of sail has been a major artery for the plains states. Its heyday a saga, in song and story. It has be important as a water high inauguration of St. Louis as an ocean port gives it even greater significance. ; C. Aubrey Smith, readily recalled as the Eng lish character actor in numerous movies the monocle and air of an English dead in Hollywood, passing in his hillside mansion the papers said. He was 85 and was the only actor in Hollywood knighted by the king of England. . His death reminds one that many foreigners have come to America and fortune in the movie industry They have come from England, from Mexico, from France, from Germany and Sweden don't forget Sweden, the homeland of Garbo and In grid Bergman. For that matter, many musical artists, both performers and composers, have found a second and permanent home in the Un ited States, adding comfortable fortune to their fame. We do not complain: they all have made real contributions to art and culture in the USA. A federal railway was board recommends a the dispute between the non operating unions and railroad owners: A wage increase of seven cents an hour and a reduction in the work week from 48 to 40 hours. The man will add several hundred million dollars a year to their operating costs, which probably is true, because there are many more operating workers on railroads. the wages and hours act estab week as standard for other in dustry, the railroads will probably have to make to the non - operating unions. Whatever cost increase that causes will doubt less be compensated for when the ICC decides the pending railroad request for a 1 per cent rates. offered when congress meets to lift the president's pay to $100,000 a year, give him an expense allowance of the same amount, and provide a $25,000 annual pension when he retires. The expense allowance is a real life saver because it is free from the big bite the takes out of salaries. The pen idea making it unnecessary for the ex-president to engage in business or do lob bying or newspaper writing to get along. Prolonged sub-freezing weather in the Wil lamette valley will lead to a considerable ex pense for road rehabilitation unless truckers and other motorists use discretion when the ground thaws. The county court is wise in serving warn ing that all but essential trucks and buses should stay, off county roads entirely when roadbeds soften. The less lighter travel the better, too. rapidly until the 2,500 point was reached, and Captain Hankins - reported: "Hello, Tempelhof Air ways. Big Easy 103 over Tem pelhof range at 2,500." Tempel hof Airways replied with an or der to "go over to jigsaw," which meant to begin taking orders from the ground control ap proach controller. On the radar scope in his instrument-packed trailer, the GCA controller, by some incompre hensible magic, found the little blip that was Big Easy 103. The heavy-laden C-54 was sent by the controller around three sides of a small square and at last com manded: "Big Easy 103 on No. 12 beacon No. 12 beacon for your final approach. Now go over to final controller. And in an in stant, the wonderfully calm and soothing voice of the final con troller, who guides every air plane to the ground in bad weather, began on the radio. "Big Easy 103 steer right to a heading of 190 degrees." The pi lot answered, and a staccato ex change began. Captain Hankins announcing his position and the final controller correcting his course, until the triumphant an nouncement: "Two hundred seventy-five is now your hearing. Your glide path will be half a mile. You're coming into the center line very nicely and you're two and a half miles from touch down." The exchange continued until the big plane broke through the overcast and almost simul taneously touched the Tempelhof runway. e e e Then Captain Hankins thanked the final controller. Big Easy 103 taxied up to its place in the long line of C-54s on the grandiose Tempelhof apron. As the plane reached a halt, a truck backed up to its side and discharged 15 shivering Germans, who flung themselves upon the cases of ap ircot and sacks of cement as though their life depended upon speed as indeed it does. And another air cargo had been de livered to the beleaguered city of Berlin. (Copyright. lMt, Mew York Herald Tribune, loci LITTLF American Policy Gaining Ground, Critics Agree (Editor's note: This is the first of a series of five articles on U. and Soviet policy in Europe.) w By We Gallagher AP Foreign Affair Analyst BERLIN Is American policy soundly administered? Supporters of the policy are apt to answer In an unqualified "yes. Detractors in an equally empha tic "No." The answer is to be found in between these two extremes. American policy is making pro gress. It has not achieved a de cisive result yet. By and large it is being soundly administered. It could be. adminis tered better. " ERP Backbone The backbone of American poli cy is the European Recovery Pro gram. It has the double aim of putting western Europe on its fi nancial feet so it can support and defend itself, and at the same time contain the spread of communist dictatorships. No nation in history has set out on such a helping program on such a scale without direct financial re turn. This is appreciated by thinking Europeans, but it is not going to make the United States the most popular nation on earth. No one likes to accept charity, and that is what western European nations arc accepting, in a sense. This sensitive point has been stirred up not only by commun ists, but self-seeking politician trying to climb to power on na tionalist policies in various coun tries. Production Jumps This aid has certainly stirred the economic processes of Europe Without it, there is no doubt Eu rope would be bankrupt and an easy prey to communism. Production has jumped by leaps and bounds in Germany, Great Britain and most European coun tries over a year ago. Even strike- harrassed France has shown im provement. Western Germany's 45 millions in particular have been lifted out of a morass of poverty and started on the road to recovery, From the point of view of con taining the spread of communism the success of American policy has achieved more tangible results. Without the American aid pro gram there Is little doubt that Italy and France would now be closely locked to Moscow by tight com munist dictatorships. Germany would be Europe's poorhouse, wal lowing in poverty, and held down only by the force of the occupa tion troops. Led Election With U. S. help, Italy decisively rejected communism in last spring s election. The communists are still strong, but they are not in power. This is also true in France. The communists have kept France's government in turmoil, but their strength is less than a year ago. The communists in western Germany have lost steadily in power and prestige and are now a negligible influence. The first year of full American aid thus finds the United States with a defensive although not yet decisive victory. Wj now come to the second question of whether U. S. policy is being capably administered in Europe. There have been some anguish ed cries from some nations that American administrator were trying to strip them of their sov ereignty. But these cries have been far fewer than were expected. For this, credit goes to these adminis trators of American policy. Interest Conflicts It is true that some U. S. rep DUTCH BOY AT in Europe Is in Europe succeeding? Is it being resentatives in some cases have none too tactfully tried to make Europeans do things American style. Sometime they were right. Other times they found conditions abroad made it impossible to con duct business operations in the American way. One of the greatest threats to the European Recovery Program and American policy has been the conflict of national interests in Europe. The most toutstanding of these is the French-German dis pute which will be taken up to morrow. The most notable fears a year ago were two-sided. Europeans feared the U. S. would use ERP to force capitalism down unwilling European throats. Americans fear ed ERP funds would be used by Europeans to socialize and do away with free ente. prise. Neither fear has been realized. Hypochondria was a word used originally by the ancients to de rangements of the abdominal re gion. Diary of A Sidewalk Superintendent been trying oil day to yet m touch with the crrcbitects on the new Stevens and Son Jewelry Emporium. Found out thei names are Douaan, Helms and Codne. Also learn ed that they're the same out fit that originally desianed the building. Now, if they'd only asked ME, I could have told them Sid Stevens would be moving In . . saved them all this work! Wonder i why nobody H listen to us fellows. Why fust yesterday one of the fellows working on the building said we're the backbone of the industry. I THDfX he said backbone? Anyway. I hope Sid Stevens knows how much help I'm giving himl THE DIKE 1 ' ' ' 1 " THE HAci Is spont bofforo you know It By using: your gift money to start a savings account it will bring you con tinuing security and satisfaction. Plan your saving program today. . . there's no lubetituta for a savings account. Diick Hiihters Pay Penalties For Violations A number of duck hunters, ar rested over the week end by state police on game law violations, paid their fines in Marion county dis trict court Monday. Calvin Maurice Hall and John A. Ennis, both of 3S10 N. River rd.. each oaid a 125 fine on charees of hunting ducks too early Sunday" morning. They were apprehended on the Willamette river. Ernest Junior Porter, 1025 Diets ave., and Robert Marion Porter, 4982 Rickman rL, each paid a $25 fine : on charges of hunting too early Christmas morning and both paid $10 fines on a complaint of hunting in a game refuge. They were arrested on Minto Island. Albert Ray Kemp, 245 E. Wash ington st was fined $23 on a charge of hunting without a li cense Sunday along the Willamette river. 1 1, Fines of $250 each also were met ed out in district court Monday to Louis Joseph Dansky, Wood burn, and Adam valentine ScheU, Ger vais,: both charged by state police with driving while intoxicated. Ed ward Dansky, Woodburn, passen ger in Louis Dansky's car was fin ed $25 on a charge of being In toxicated. Frank Paul Kajer, Eugene, charg ed with driving while intoxicated and with fleeing the scene of an accident, is slated to -stand trial both counts on January 6. Kajer, arrested early last week by state police, pleaded innocent Monday to both charges. He is being held In Marion county Jail in lieu of $500 bail. Higby Back from Scout Head School Howard Higby. field executive In the Salem headquarters office of the Cascade area Boy Scout of fice, , returned to the office Mon J? CKIQOS-flT.lAS MOMGY OH THE' BANK' It ready whon yoo nood OPEN YOUR SAVOHGS ACCGLr:3u Sovlncs deposits January 11 draw Interest from January 1 1949 FIRST UATIOUAL DAUII ( day from six-weeks adult scout leader course. I ; Higby attended the Schlff Scout reservation school at Mendham, N. J. The course is one for profes sional scouters. Higby is to have charge of the Polk and Silver Falls districts In the local council. 1 S ' ' : - i Former Resident Albert D. Sutton Dies in Portland i T ? Funeral services for Albert Sutton, former Salem resident who died in Portland f Sunday, will be held from the Colonial mortuary in Portland Thursday at 1 pjn. The Rev. A. J. Kempln of Port land and the ReV, IL A. Schlatter of Salem will otficiate. i i Sutton was bora In New London, Ohio, April 23, 1$69, and lived In Salem from 1825! to 1945. Ha was employed by Allen's Fruit cannery in aiem ana uvea at 880 N. Cot tage st, before moving to Portland four years ago. For H Roof ' Of. Enduring Beauly AND Dhiinciion SHINGLES AT YOUB BUILDING SUPPLY DEALER It rncdo bof erp ! ASK FOR Ui &Z)iVmJfL a. j A