Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1949)
Seriate May fyiine Arms Aid Program 1 , - i f DJL J. ROBERT OPPENHE1MEX (right), one of A-Bomb pioneers, lauds work of David L lilienthal at Senate-House atomic In quiry. Htro ho chats with Son. McMahon, commhtoo chairman. Qov't Keeps HqatonR&ds ATTORNEY General Tom stage at home and abroad, with Clark sayi that alien Com- it ultimate success at stake, fhunists are fleeing the country Not only is the four billion $nd th number of Reds In this doUf PW"? meshed in a Con country is now about one third fftf10 tti- w cos but-th!f? .what i was three years ago.- SSftriKi LS.h Communists in the United States Xmf fnJL problems r on the run." he asserted during the week, j threat to government, s aniniluencoinUbor.orasapoUU- eel party." 'Super Report on Splee The House Committee on Un ' American Activities Committee is preparing what It calls a super report ' pn Soviet espionage, covering the (Complete history of Communist spy ing in this country and abroad, f It probably will be several weeks before the. committee is ready to re- lease the report It still is compiling some information, such as details of atomic- espionage, for instance, oiC which hearings were still being held, he spotlight on Red activities continues unabated. In Washington, Dr. J. Robert Op- Knheimer testified before the Seaate use atomic energy commission that David E. Lilienthal had done a splendid job in directing the postwar atomic bomb production. He declared Lilienthal had protected national se curity, and denied that export of , radioactive isotopes would be of any - use for military atomic purposes. - Secret FBI Reports Anerv denials, one with a demand for an apology from J. Edgar Hoover, boiled up in the wake of secret FBI reports bared at the Washington trial of Judith Coplon on espionage charges. The demand for an apology came from Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the Federal Bureau of Standards, whose, wife was mentioned in one re port as having arranged a "contact" between a bmine.'s rr.an and a sus pected Russian agent. ''Who attacks my wife's reputation must take me on," said Condon. "Hoover owes ber a personal apol- . . . The till director-, maintained si- lence but ait aide explained there would be no comment on anything coming out of the CoplSn ; trial. This aroused Condon. again, "I do not choose to accept 'rut. comment for an answer," he sa!d. t In New York. Mrs. Whittaker Chambers underwent the same, sear- ing cross examination to which her husband was subjected earlier: at the- Alger Hiss perjury trill. m nt ' ------ Court Upholds Contempt Citations In i unanimous decision, the U.S. Decided; By the University of Calt Circuit Court of Appeals upheld con- nations third largest, to re tempt of Congress convictions of film Quj" loyaltjoaths from its faculty of writers John Howard Lawson and .0. . V I Dalton Trumbo. , . -' , ! During the week the Army's new secretary, Gordon Gray, apologized for a slight to Gordon Clapp, chair man of the TennesseeValley Atrv thoxity, who had been classified as "unemployable" for the AMG in Ger many. ' Gray explained that a junior officer had checked over a list of seven candidates proposed by the military government to conduct a series of lectures on civil, service in Germany. This officer. Gray said, decided Clapp's qualifications didn't fit him for the post but in cabling Frankfurt used the wrong word "unemploy able" in connection with- Clapp's name. Quotes Joha Is. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers: "If we" are going to starve in this (coal) Industry, we will just all starve together." , Geo. Charles de Gaulle, head of the Rally"of the French Peo ple (RPF): "Political parties ere . finished. We are a country that is becoming more united. TFfo V. CONGRESS: Problems S1 TATE DEPARTMENT officials say the European Recovery Program i$ entiling a critical STM.n t ' President Truman' tried to focus , 1 portancf o erp , specn j week and at the Little Rock war f memorial. He denounced as "false economy" any reduction by Congress of funds fot the second year of the i Marshall plan. The President linked his fight for f ERP funds to a basic warning to the I American' people against slackening support of the home team in the Cold War just when things are looking i better. He also urged congressional i approval of the Atlantic Pact and the I military aid program for western Eu- f ropean and other "free nations." At Midway Point i ,"Wi are Only midway in carrying i out our pjolicy," Mr. Truman said, f "We have a long way to go before we can make the free world secure against the social and political evils I on which Communism thrives." The President's statement high lights one of the fundamental prob- lems which recently has been wor- rying some of his foreign policy Abroad, that is translated into in advisers. This !s how to sustain public ! creasing restiveness by labor and interest in and support for foreign pol- other groups against austerity meas- icy at tirr.H when international events i move along without a daily air of crisis. I Experience has shown that the less f people are; afraid of Russia the less! In Short f Opposed: By Geii Eisenhower, Col-1 umbia University president, blanket! federal education grants to states, claiming greatest threat to nation's! freedom comes from those urging j more powers fo- federal government.! Voted: fly Trieste citizens, by a 1. to 1 ratio, against communism and for.: reunion with Italy, Ratiflrd: By the Senate, the inter-? national wheat agreement, providing1 a ceiling price rf $1 80 a bushel and a floor price ranging from $1.50 the first year to $1.20 the fourth year. Used: By the British, occupation XJ?V to quell German protests at dismantling Ruhr manufacturing I EQU1UBWUM TEST W(m) Tfeos w L BERLIN STRIKERS, whh pistols takon from Soviot guards, forco lockod door In Russian-operated rail headquarters, American MPs lator aidod Russians in ejecting striktrs. CROSSING THE Iwilling they are to carry on an agreed juPn on range poUcy. ures, wage ceilings and industrial priorities. At home, it means renewed attempts to cut down on some of the Uxpayerdollars going overseas, Congress warly kept its eye on Music Reds & the Blues Paul Robeson, Negro baritone, reportedly told a Moscow audi ence last week that words of the song "Ol" Man River" should be changed. He suggested the phrases about a man being tired of living and afraid of dying be changed to "We, must fight to the death for peace and free dom." In New York, Oscar Hammer stein 2nd, retorted: ' "As the author of these words, I should like it known that I have no intention of changing them or permitting anyone else to change them. "I further suggest that Paul Robeson write his own songs and leave mine alone." ' - I- f ' " r I - v- - - ; 1 -! : " X --.r.: ' 'Jl . . . :. J ; s M : 1 i - -' . j ; '-';. I I If'' I Cr '.N w xyrzi LiutiiaaMMtiWBaaHHj T -i ii Tin i -rn mm IT -f"SiTYi iiV-iii 1f at Home and Abroad Tart, ItmmHIu fam PICKET LINE COULD IT disquieting trends in the domestic economy. The stock market fell to its lowest point in four years. Unemploy-',' ment jumped 273,000 in May to a new postwar peak of 3,289,000, according to the Census Bureau. 'Stabilizing' Industry Coal miners took a week off "to stabilize the industry" as John L. Lewis opened negotiations for a new INCOME: Before the Tax Bite Top Ten It's getting tougher to earn a mil lion dollars a year. The nation hasn't had such a wage earner, says the Treasury, since 1944 when Leo McCarey, film producer, was cred ited with $1,113,035. The trend" has been downward since. The top man in a new list by the Treasury Department of the best paid corporation1 employes in 1947 (or fiscal years spilling over intq 1948) is Charles P. Skouras. It's his third straight year as highest salaried man or woman in the U.S. Skouras, president of National Theaters Amusement Co., Inc., and of Fox West Coast Agency Corp., got $810,- Youth Time to Think Daniel F. McCarthy, 22, Brooklyn born former GI who wanted to re nounce his American citizenship to become a German, was sentenced last week in Frankfurt to eight months in jail in the United States. The son of a late Wall Street broker pleaded guilty in a U.S. mili tary court to entering the VS. zone of Germany illegally. He said he had fallen in love with the German way of life and denied a girl was in volved. "I like America all right," he said, "I just like Germany better." Telephoned appeals by his mother in New Hyde Park, N. Y, failed to change his mind. She was overjoyed at the court's verdict. The sentence to be served at the Fort Hancock, N. J, Army disci plinary barracks, apparently blocks any chance McCarthy might have of renouncing his citizenship within the next eight months. He had been free without bail, to get the feel of living in postwar Germany without a ration card. The -military court held that the law controlling entry into Germany is similar to the immigration law of the United States and must be up held. McCarthy was told he had five' days to file a petition for a review of the verdict and sentence. MARSHAL TITO (Uft), Yugoslav prtmior, was tht targtt of a socrot Cominform mooting last wook in Silosia whoro Krem lin handed down plans to smash Yugoslavia economically. f 1 BE 'PURE COINCIDENCE'? contract with mine operators. The mine shutdown caused furloughs for thousands of workers in steel, rail- way and other affiliated industries. Unions in the steel, coal and elec trical industries opened negotiations for new contracts which may go a long way toward determining if la bor is to get t fourth round: of pay increases since the war. 000. That is $175,300 less than he was paid tfce, year before. lnenopsaianea woman tor was raovie star Betty Grable with $208,000. And that's $91,333 less than she raadethe year before. "-Movie stars were crowded out of the top ten earning spots in 1947 as businessmen made one of their best showings in years. All income is be fore taxes. The ranking after Skouras includes Vincent Riggio, president of Ameri can Tobacco Co., $484,202; Preston Sturges, movie director, 20th Century-Fox, $470,650; E. H. Little, presi dent, Colgate, Palmolive. Peet Co., $350,000; A. A. Somerville, R. T. Van derbih Co.. $319,398; Seton Porter, president. National Distillers, $310, 0C0; William Randolph Hearst, pub lisher, $300,000; Theodore Seltzer, president, Bengue, Inc., $295,613; Eugene G. Grace, board chairman, Bethlehem Steel, $292,279; G. A. Bry ant, president, Austin Co., $270,789. There were more than 1,000 men and women listed as earning at least $75,000. Forty-seven drew more than $200,000. V Dates Monday, June 2$ American Institute of Electri cal Engineers convenes in Bos ton. Wimbledon, Eng., tennis cham pionship tourney opens. Tuesday, June 21 Summer begins (year's long est day). Wednesday, Jane 22 , World heavyweight champion ship boxing bout, Joe Walcott vs. Ezzard Charles, Chicago. Anniversary (fifth), GI Bill of Rights. Thursday, June 22 Young Republican convention opens in Salt Lake City. Saturday, June 25 National Railroad Fair opens Chicago. . Anniversary (39th), postal sav ings banks. Syrian national elections. 'Cold War Still En, Big 4 Parley OUTBOARD CHAMPION Vic Scott, 32-yoar-old aircraft inspoc tor from Lovittown, N. Y flashes past finish of the 140-mile Albany-New York race at average speed of 37.6 miles per hour. Foreign Ministers Deadlock at Paris IT HAS been said that the Big Four foreign, ministers at Paris achieved 90 per cent agreement on small matters and 100 per cent disagreement on important issues. rA As the Paris session neared its windup, the ministers turned over such key problems as German unification and the drafting of a Ger man peace treaty to their deputies for study. The deputies are sched- uled to report at the next Big Four Science Slicing It Thin The Bureau of Standards has ex plained how to slice tissues one one quarter millionth of an inch thick. Take, a monomer and a catalyst and stir them into a clear plastic polybutyl mcthacrylate, for instance. Embed the tissue in that. Now get out an ordinary old con ventional microtone. Shoot some car bon dioxide gas into it. The gas enters the specimen chamber and cools the specimen. Bring up the microtone blade to the specimen, which is mounted on a brass block. Then, as the brass warms again, it expands, advancing the specimen a distance imperceptible tothe human eye, like progress at a foreign min ister's conference. 1 Now cut! If you have followed directions precisely, your slice should be ap- proximately one-tenth of a micron thick. An average human hair is about 75 microns in thickness. ' The bureau says thin sliced tissues are sought for eagerly by researchers in bacteriology, immunology, pathol- ogy and industrial technology. People Hoover's Credo Herbert Hoover spoke last 'week at the OhieWesleyan University gradu- ation. What lifted his speech above other commence ment oratory from coast to coast was that this country's only living former President outlined hit credo. Hoover advised graduates not to abandon self reli ance in a quest for security. While security uciicit HOOVER eliminates the risks in life, he saia, it also kills the joy that lies in competition, in individual adventure, new undertakings and new achievement. He declared: "These contain moral and intellec tual impulses more vital than even profits. "At all times in history, there have been many who sought escape into security from self reliance. "Some tell us that in their new era, life is still a race, but that everybody must come out even at the end. An other modernistic school adds that life still may be a race, but each step must be dictated by bureaucrats with stop-and-go signals." He described his own commence ment at Stanford six decades ago, the fears the depression of that day cre ated and the warm welcome he and his classmates found in the "cold. cold world." Then he added: "I found the Drofit-takers a cheery and helpful lot, Who took an enor- factory administrators producing poor mous interest in helping youngsters quality goods be sentenced to wear or get a start and get ahead in life. use personally their i vwn shoddy "And you will find that is also true products. today . 1 Danbury, Conn., j Walter Trask, Hoover described the wealth of 50. amateur rao operator, went to possessions and jobs in the United Ieep on the air Fellow "hams States and said: "It is very sad, but heard his voice die away and did it ever occur to you that all the "groans" stan They telephoned po- neoDle who live in these houses and ail those who run this complicated machine are going to die? ' "Just as sure, as death, those jobs are yours The plant and equipment come to you by inheritance ready to run. But the best of these jobs are never filled by security-seekers." " t meeting scheduled forsometime in September in New York. Creation of a deputies' "group to study a German treaty would, it was felt, maintain contact among the big powers and rtelp ease international tension. Their continuing study would also make it easier to convene an other ministers' council without loss of face. Hope Dwindled In the fourth week of the Paris parley, there was little real hope of reaching any basic settlement of the main problems which brought the ministers together. Progress had been made, however, on a number of tem porary trade agreements I The Paris parley opened a month ago under a facade of hope. It had been called at Soviet suggestion to discuss new proposals on Germasy. Andrei Vishinsky. the new SoVM foreign minister, turned up with the same old arguments that had dead locked the council at London, a year and a half eailiei. , The Russian stand, unacceptable at London, was even more unthinkable at Paris. In the inrm. the three western powerr h?d unified their zones politically and economi"clly. A government for 40.00f' 00f) firmans had been $ot up Wider the Bonn con- stitution. The Russian bloekcle of Brrlin wis cirumvnt?' by the air lHt vi the weftwi c'mter-block;"ie we-. i!ce7in.! nw.ern Germany and the roviot 3tel!i,r mMr.tri!s. Propaganda Turlics The facade A hope ''.rumbled swift ly at Paris wv,eu Vi.unsky refused even to consider western proposals ' for a unified Germany Unwilling to conriliafi, he tred to turn the council forum into a sounding hoard for propaganda appeals to Ine Germans. The patience of western diplomats was rubbed thm At one point. Dean Acheson. US Secretary of Stte, called one of Vishinsky's proposals "as full o propaganda ax a dog is of fleas." "In fact." Acheson said, "I think it is all fleas and no dog." Sidelights In Baltimore, death came for the third and lasl tirm to James" W. Stanck. 49, wpo 'died" twice before. The printer ntered the Maryland General Hospitar-for arr operation." While on te ble, his heart stopped beating. Dr. Joseph V- Casta gna cut open the patient's chest and mas- saged the heart It waj 20 minutes be fore he showeo signs of life- Later his heart stopped again, but responded after nine mini of massage. On the third day he succumbed to pneu monia. -) In Clarksville, Va., C. W. Blanks recently offered a substantial rewaj for identification ol the motoristwho ran over and kiljd-jajsjjog: Last week. Blanks was killed when he swerved his .ar to avoid hitting a dog. The car overturned A humorist in IzvtsUa, Soviet gov- eminent newspaper, suggested that "ce wno iouikj ir nsierp. snorm. into the mike. Near Port Jervis on the New York-Pennsylvania boundary, Clare Pounell's motrcycle hit a deer on National " Highway Six The deer ' kicked him. broke his leg. (All ffiffhU Rmmwd A? Nrwrltmtitm) r : " r o f f Ol , I I i T '