jTW StatMnmu Scdam, Orocjon, Sunday, Tuly 3.
6,500 Atom Boi
J)estroy Cities of Ma joij Power
. gy Elton C. Fay A .
WASHINGTON, July 2-GP)- It would take as many as 8.500
atomic bombs to totally Sestroy the cities of a major military power,
an authority on strategic air said today. i - .
The estimate came from ur. ieian i. r-ossony,
bomb target selection for France daring the first part of the European
war later a psychological warfare expert for the United States navy
after the fall of France.
rlis calculations on tne enor
mous ' number of a-bombs re
quired, coupled with a , detailed
analysis of the limitations as well
as capabilities of existing bomber
fleets, questions the theory of an
atomic blitz" to defeat an en
emy in a quick war. He cautions
that "the destructiveness- of a
weapon is dependent on the quan-
; ukiK hi uiafvtn ran he
; in in wn.ii r
made available."
Views in Book
i Possony, currently lecturing
on military subjects at George
town university, set down his
views in a volume on "Strategic
Air Power for Dynamic Security,"
published by the Infantry Jour
. nal.
Possony used Germany, in itj
. wartime condition, as aji exam
ple of estimating the number. of
a-bombs necessary for a war of
"total destruction" against urban
areas, tie cnose uui cuumij m
cause statistics are available for
destruction wrought by conven
tional bombs.
The havoc produced by one
r atomic bomb isqual to about
4.000 tons of conventional bombs,
based on the actual damage pro
duced by the blast, Possony es
timates. Thisj, as he points out,
is different thai) the purely the
oretical figure (based on mere
measurements of blast) of one
a bomb equaling 20,000 tons of
T.N.T. That estimate was made in
the first official announcement of
the atomic bomb, at the time of
the 1945 attack on Hiroshima.
Alarming Statistics
Possony discusses in I cold but
alarming statistics tne aeam ion
expectable if an atomic attack
was launched against the United
States but challenges a statement
. that 40.000,000 persons would die
in the first 24 nours.
"Even if the bombs were con
fideirably more effective; th.an it
actually is, it Would be hard to
find masses of people so great as
sembled in a targetable concen
tration," he writes. "In order to
'kill so many, it would be neces
sary, for example, to destroy some
fO cities covering an area of ap
proximately 4.500 square miles.
Making allowance for one
third operational failures-and in
accurate drops, and for a 50 per
cent rate of interception (of the
attacking bombers) if the attacks
were run ' on single missions
about 10,000 atomic bombs would
be easily required for such an
extermination attack. That many
atomic bombs will hardly be
available as long as atomic tech
nology remains as complicated as
It is, but this Is little solace."
But "we can calculate that at
leant a million people win oe
killed" for each 135 atomic bombs
loaded into bombers, allowing for
misses and planes shot down en
route, Passony says.
While Possony expressed seri
ous doubts about the ability to
annihilate the urban population of
a nation by total destruction at
1 ; tack with a-bombs. he contended
their use against "selective" tar
rets of industry assures victory.
Such attacks will wipe out an en
, emy's war, making ability, and
make him incapable of continuing
the fight.
i:
Girl Finds Out
Feet Missing
RENO. Nev July 2-UP)-Thtr-teeti
year old Imogene Wittsche
found out tonight both her feet
were cut off as a result of a power
boat running her down last Mon
day while she was swimming in
Lake Tahoe.
But the Roseville, Calif., school
, gitl athlete was trying to be brave
about it. She read newspaper ac
counts of the accident.;
Her doctor, Fred Anderson, told
Imogen the whole story late to
day. She found the surprise, to
her, was that she had lost both
legs. Her feet were shorn off by
the powerboat's propeller. Both
legs had to be amputated below the
knees.
"She thought all the time she
had lost only one," her father,
Fred Wittsche told newsmen to
night.' 1
Cow Tracks, Not
Tire Tracks Lead
r-
To Missing Herd
BAKER, July 2 -iJP)- Ralph
Dunn, who reported his cows had
been stolen by cattle rustlers, was
a bit embarrassed today.
After several days' investigation
of the truck tracks which Dunn
thought were left by the rustlers,
state police found the cws. They
had merely strayed down the
road. .
The tire tracks? Made by vis
Itors5 fat Dunn's ranch, probably.
Didn't Know Her
Hand Was Loaded
SEATTLE, July 2 -fP)- Police-
w nen today arrested a 16-year-
o. - girl they said slashed the
throat of a 10-year-old boy late
Thursday because he was shoot-
ng at her with a bean shooter
while she was watching a tele
vision program outside a hard
ware store.- .
They said the girl told them it
hps accidental as she was clean-
. i : her fingernails and forgot to
a itch the pocket knife from one
frtiard to the other when she slap-
pd at the boy.
1949
mbs Required to
Chicago Tribune Ads Nu Words
To Skedule of Simplified Speling
CHICAGO, July 2-(JP)-The Chicago Tribune today announced a
new step In it modfied spelling philosofy.
For some time, the newspaper has been using simplified spelling
for certain words such as "frati" (freight) f "catalog," 'dialog, and
"epilog"; tho',1! (though); "thru" ( through Kand "thorof (thorough).
Today the Tribune, remarking that jiuch words have become
familiar to its readers, embarKea
on broader changes in its cam
paign for "sane spelling."
Words Using the syllable "soph"
will appear with an "fVin place
of the "ph," like this sofomore,
sofistry, and so forth. Biografy
will be spelled like that.
If a word has more .than one
syllable and ends in "It," newH
spelling sofistlcates will drop that
last "f," as inrifraf.
Bailif, mastif, midrif, plaintif
and distaf will now make their ap
pearance ; in the Tribune. How
ever, puff, cuff, and scoff one
syllable words will remain the
same. One other thing: rime wiU
take the place of rhyme.
All the changes, the paper said,
appear in Webster's new interna
tional dictionary as secondary
choices, except "tarif." This is
added to" the Tribune list "for
consistency the newspaper ex
plained. I;
One seeming inconsistency lies
in the Tribune's spelling of such
words as "photograf and "philo
sofer." Why the "ph" at the start
and the f" in the middle? Well,
the paper sayi, it doesn't want to
change the beginning letter of a
word. Suppose it looks unfamiliar,
how could you find it in a dic
tionary? I ji .
Boggie Dies
After t Months
Outside Prison
SEATLE, July 2-;P)-Clarence
G. ' Boggie lived a free man six
months, after; 13 years in Wash
ington State prison for a slaying
ne claimed nesnever committed.
The 55-year-old Oregon logger,
given a conditional pardon last
Christmas Eve, died last night of
a hear attack;! at a northern Cali
fornia logging camp. His sister,
Mrs. Edna Stlkwood, of Lebanon,
Ore., telephoned Don Magnuson,
Seattle Timc$ reporter, of his
death today.!
Magnuson, whose long investig
ations for his newspaper convinced
him of Boggie's innocence of the
slaying of Moritz Peterson in Spo
kane, June is, 1933, was active
in the fight leading to the pardon
given by former Gov. Mon G.
Wallgrert. The state attorney gen
eral's office joined in the investi
gation. : ;
The new evidence obtained was
sufficient to 1; convince Governor
Wallgrert to take executive action.
In her call: Mrs. Silkwood told
Magnuson: :;
"We are grateful that Clarence
had six months of happiness as a
free man. ;i
His bride, "Gertrude, was with
Boggie at the time of his death.
He had been working a high-clim
ber for a - logging company at
Smith river, on the northern Cali
fornia coast. ' His parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. X., Boggie, Lebanon, and
six brothers and sisters also sur
vive. The funeral will be in Le
banon. U. S. JEditor
zes to
Chinese Reds
SHANGHAI, Sunday, July i
(fl)-Editor Randall Gould of the
U.S.-owhed j; Evening Post and
Mercury complied with commun-.
ist orders today and apologized
for injuring . four workers who
besieged his lapartment.
Gould shoiildefred all the blame
for the Injuries Actually, the in
juries were;! incurred during a
scuffle whert, pould's small, pret
ty wife, plowed through the
workers in leaving the apartment
Friday. : "
The local ! press -complained of
the bruises (that Mrs. Gould left
behind wien the workers tried
to block her; way.
The editor said in notices pub
lished in two local newspapers
that "a number of workers of the
Shanghai Evening Post and Mer
cury came to my apartment for
the settlement of their wages, and
: I injured four of them."
"I hereby : express ,my apology
to the injured workers," he added,
"and guarantee that there will be
;no repitition of the incident."
i Gould also is scheduled to make
an oral apology to the entire
body of worker? who are protest
ing his closing of the newspaper,
j The apology was ordered by the
foreign affairs division of the
municipal security bureau. The
Officials asserted r Gould and his
wife slightly: injured the arms of
four workers.
ROOBUTOR 7 MILLION
! NEWYORK -(INS)- Prof. Jos
eph Klausner, professor of Jew
ish literature at the Hebrew uni
versity : in Jerusalem, estimates
that Palestine today "should be
able to provide a home for five
million Jews and two million
Arabs." ; :i -
Apologi
Decimal Point in
Ad Means $10,000
VALE, ? Ore J u 1 y 2CP)-John
Bennett has filed a suit to force
the Malheur county court to sell
him 23,000 acres of grazing land.
Bennett tried W Ymj the land at
its advertised price,! $1,193, but
was refused a deed. It was explain
ed that a decimal point was mis
placed in the ad and the price
should have been $11,930.
oeor
Agree to Need
For Economy
WASHINGTON. July 2 -(JP)
Senators George (D-Ga) and Taft
(R-Ohio) agreed today the gov
ernment's $1,811,000,000 deficit
makes it essential that congress
crack down on federal spending.
George, chairman of the sen
ate finance committee, told re
porters the excess of government
outgo over income; in the year
ending last Thursday puts con
gress squarely up against some
unpleasant monetary facts.
"If we are not going to be in
different to fiscal" realities this
deficit constitutes the strongest
possible reason for ; reductions in
the appropriations congress is
making for the new year," George
said.
In a separate interview, Taft
said the red-inked treasury re
port "reemphasizes the necessity
for economy in government ex
penditures.
George, who has opposed new
taxes, said he favors a 5 per cent
cut in spending.
Cutting ECAFund
He said the best opportunity to
get any such result seems to lie
in cutting the $3,568,000,000 voted
by the house for the economic
cooperation administration and in
reducing the $15,900,000,000 it ap
proved for the armed services.
On the other hand. Senator
Robertson (D-Va), a member of
the appropriations committee con
sidering the ECA bilL insists
there should and will be no dras
tic cut in the money for European
recovery. Any such reduction
would have a heavy imoact on
the American economy, he said.
Smaller Air Force
Secretary of Defense Louis
Johnson is reported to have told
a closed appropriations hearing
mai aoout $750,000,000 . could be
cut from the department's money
bill mainly by reducing the fu
ture size of the air force from
70 groups proposed in congress to
the 48 urged by President Tru
man. Chairman McKellar (D-Tenn)
of the senate appropriations com
mittee already has proposed that
$800,000,000 be sliced off the ECA
funds. The committee has com
pleted hearings on the military
bill but has not yet begun Its
item-by-item check on the meas
ure. Umpire Galls
Game Forfeit
At Spokane
WENATCHEE, July 2-(JP)-The
Wenatchee Chiefs won a 9 to 0
Western International league game
irom ine bpokane Indians by for
feit here tonight.
But onlV after six Snokano nlav.
ers were ejected from the game bv
umpire Max Skulik, and Skulik
naa entered the shower room with
his uniform ripped by irate Spo
kane players.
The fracas began in the sixth
inning when Skulik ejected Lyle
Palmer; Indian center fielder, for
protesting a called third strike too
vehemently. An inning later, Jim
Neely, warming up in the bullrjen.
was thrown out by umpire iCcky
Flammima for continuing the pro
test. He was followed by Jim Brill
heart. In the eighth. Bill Werbow
ski, Tuk Stainback, and Jack Cal
vey were ordered out, and it was
Calvey's refusal to leaved that pre
cipitated the Spokane team descent
on Skulik that caused him to de
clare the game forfeit
At that point, first of the eighth
with no one out, the game was
tied at 8 to 8. Home runs were hit
by Jim Warner and Richie Meyers.
oi me cnieis. ,
(Short score, probably nullified
by forfeit). -
Spokane 500 001 02 8 7 1
Wenatchee .... 100 312 1 8 11 2
KimbalL Bishop (6) and Parks;
Frick, Greenlaw (1), Caplinger
(8) and Pesut
FLTNN FACES DIVORCE
LAS VEGAS, Nev, July 2-(P)-Nora
Eddington Flynn filed suit
for divorce today from actor Errol
Flynn,
For Qeni
Trucks
Vans, Stakes. Flckvps
Do' Your Own Haallng.
. Sara 4
Packing ; Pads and Hand
Tracks Famished.
.Central Service
1 Garage
Cor. Ferry and Libert?
Phone 2-9062
3,000 Watch
At Fairgrounds
By Charles Ireland
SUS Writer, Th Statesman
The Portland Eaglea women's
drill team, nattily attired in red,
white and blue, copped first place
and the Governor's trophy in the
state-wide drill team contest at
the fairgrounds Saturday night.
The event ended the 1949 Salem
Cherry land festival.
More than 3,000 attended the
final session, bringing the three
night total to about 7.000 as esti
mated by Cherrian officials.
Salem's Eagles Junior corps won
the drum and bugle competition.
The largest unit present, its 33
members wore Scottish kilts and
gave a pleasing performance.
Keenest competition was in the
women's drill division. Stepping
off at a fast cadence the white
clad Portland Women of Elks unit
marched . in and out of intricate
formations that brought spon
taneous bursts of applause from
the crowd. Judging, however, was
based on afternoon performances,
and the judges' tally gave the
Portland Eagles women a score of
92 to 88.3 for the Women of Elks.
Last year the two teams had tied
for first at the Cherryland drill
contest.
A close third was the Sheridan
Eagles women's team. They scored
88.2. A group of 'i military men
served as judges.
Scene-stealer of the evening was
a chubby-cheeked,!, blonde 3&-year-old
baton-twirler from Cam
as, Wash., who performed with the
Northwest Majorettes. The crowd
took little Eva Royal to its heart
when she got a bump on the head
from a bigger girl's baton. She
left the field in tears, but came
back to finish the' performance
after a bit of parental soothing.
Her unit won a special award"
as did the Sheridan Rodeoettes, a
group of girls who also twirled
batons. The Medford men's drill
team won without opposition.
Gov. Douglas McKay presented
the top award to Caroline Roskos
ki, captain of the winning team.
Ray Moore was chairman of the
contest. The Salem, high school
band provided music but did notfount H1" a private investiSa
Pension Law
Referendum
Petitions Full
PORTLAND, July 2-JFj-The
referendum petitions on the old
age pension bill appeared on the
verge of success today, but the
prospects of Oregon's three other
referendum prosposals weren't so
bright.
,The daylight saving referendum
about two-thirds of the way along,
with only two weeks left. And the
other two referendum had barely
gotten started.
Petitions are out to refer to the
people four different laws passed
by the 1949 legislature. A total of
15,928 signatures must be obtain
ed by July 18 to keep the laws
from going into effect.
Joe Dunne, leader of the old
age pensioners, said 12,500 valid
signatures have been checked on
the pension referendum, and that
more than enough signatures to
make up the balance will be ob
tained. Lee Stidd, jr., Portland, chair
man of the daylight saving com
mittee, estimated that about 10,
000 valid names have been obtain
ed on the petitions to halt the
anti-daylight time measure. But
he expressed worry about whether
petitions circulated in upstate' Ore
gon would return on time.
Only some 3,000 names have
been checked on the referendum
to prevent construction of a Rogue
river dam. But W. J. Smith, Port
land, who is working on the re
ferendum, said hundreds of other
filled-out petitions are ready for
checking.
The fourth referendum was hav
ing the toughest time, hat one,
backed by a group of Cottage
Grove veterans, is aimed against
a law providing for the licensing
of electrical contractors. The vet
erans complained it would force
them out of business.
Sil-Sox,Sked
Monarch Club
SILVERTON The Silverton
Red Sox will face a tough test
here Tuesday night as they col
lide with the barnstorming Kan
sas City Monarchs, colored club
at McGiness field, starting at 8
o clocK. , , J
The Red Sox, boasting an array
of top ex-pro stars, are given a
good chance to topple the Mon
archs who have built up a form
idable record during their cross
counry travels.
The Silverton mound choice
probably will be Charley Sau
vain. v
THIEF IN NO HURRY
QUANAH, Texas, July 2 -m
Officers are hunting a thief who
is in no hurry. He stole a tractor
from a field near Paducah and
drove it 30 long, slow miles to
Quahah before abandoning it
Opening July 2nd X
stop TERRY'S ct
fountain and lunch
FREE Sat., Sun.
& Mon.
On- Dip lcs Craam on Pia
I . " i DoubU Dip
. j ka Craam Conas 5c
Located On Silvarton RdL
I By Orwtg's Store
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Mr- -
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HEAT H AT A spectaUr
wears a paper bat as he waits
far the gates to apen at Wimble
don, England, tennis matches.
Minister 'On
Whipping List!
Of Hooded Men
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 2-JP)
A Methodist minister who uncov
ered a series of east Alabama flog
gings said today he had been warn
ed he was on "the whipping list."
He is the Rev. Luther Brown,
pastor of the Millersville Method
ist church, 80 miles east of here.
He told state officers the warning
was given him last night at pray
er meeting there. .
Bankhead Bates, director of the
state patrol, assigned men to in-
vestigate the threat to the minis-
ter.
Brown said he was told "you
are pretty close to the top of the
whipping list." He did not give
other details to newsmen.
He and another Methodist min
ister, the Rev. Frank Ledford of
Ashland, disclosed five floggings
by robed and hooded men in Clay
In another part of the state, a
disabled war veteran said he was
flogged by a hooded mob the day
after the state legislature passed a
law to ban the wearing of masks
in Alabama.
John Thomas Franks, 34. told
newsmen he was flogged last Wed
nesday night near his home in the
little community of Boston, 90 mi
les northwest of Birmingham. 1
Franks said the masked men
accused him of drinking and stay
ing away from home. He denied
it-
A Jefferson county (Birming
ham) grand jury is investigating
a series of flogging, cross burnings
and threats in this area.'
Federal Police
Greet Batory
NEW YORK, July 2-(P)-Seven-teen
immigration officers in plain
clothes greeted the Polish liner
Batory when it docked today with
681 passengers from Gdynia, Co
penhagen and Southampton.
The Batory was the ship used
by communist Gerhart Eisler to
flee this country as a stowaway
while awaiting an appeal on his
conviction of Contempt of con
gress and passport fraud.
When the Batory last came
here, armed, uniformed immigra
tion officers from the Canadian
border swarmed over the pier.
Today they permitted visitors
to enter the pier but kept a close
watch on persons leaving the
liner.
Hoskins Men
Hurt in Wreck
DALLAS, July 2 Two Hoskins
men were in Dallas hospital to
night with injuries ncurred in a
car -train accident near Valley
Junction Friday night
They are Robert Graham, 28,
with a left eye cut and other lac
erations, and William Alcorn, 23,
with a left leg fracture and cuts.
A third Hoskins man in the ac
cident, j 0. E. Frantz, 33, was re
leased after treatment at the hos
pital for cuts.
The trio was- brought here by the
Dallas ambulance Rafter their car
they were driving from Hoskins to
Pedee struck a switch engine on
the Valley & Sileti tracks.
Have; Your Sunday Dinner At The
ELKH0RN GUEST RANCH
15 MiUs East of Manama on tha Elkhorn Road
Now is tha timo to plan your vacation in tha mountains!
Hiking Fishing Exploring
Beautiful Scanory, Comfortabla Rooms, Grand rood
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Conscientious, Di
i Service
545 North Capitol
Senators Plan
: I i (
To Challenge
a
By Don Whitehead
WASHINGTON, July 2 -WV
grotrp of senators today planned to
challenge the state department's
China policy with a multi-million
dollar program of military and
economic aid to the nationalist
forces in China.
Senator Knowland (R-Calif)
told a reporter a "large number
of senators both republicans and
democrats will support the new
move to fight communism in Asia.
The precise amount of aid to be
asked has not been determined.
Secretary of State Acheson has
said it would be disastrous for
the United States to become in
volved in any large-scale effort to
salvage the battered nationalist
government.
Disagree Sharply
'But Knowland, Senator Bridges
(R-NH), I and others disagree
sharply.
Knowland said the group will
fight for"! an amendment to the
foreign aid biU or some other ap
propriation measure to give na
tionalist China the money, food,
supplies and arms to continue the
fight against the red armies.
The tentative plan also calls for
an American military mission
similar to one sent to Greece to
help in the fight against the com
munist guerrillas.
No Fighting Troops
Knowland said no American
fighting troops would be sent to
China, But the mission would ad
vise the nationalist armies and
supervise use of the military - and
economic ' aid.
One of the greatest faults of
our China aid in the past,'
Know-
land said, "is that we have not
supervised the end use of the
aid. No one has followed througn
to see what use was made of the
economic and military aid."
He took issue with a state de
partment statement of March 21
showing; the United States had
given China $1,000,300,000 in
grants and credits for military aid
since August, 1945. ,!
Knowland said this figure i is
misleading. He said reports show
that less than half this amount
.MmiIIu u'nnt tntr militarv PO1110-'
aiuaiij , ....v j
ment for China's armies.
Sam B. Tice
Appointed as
Deputy Sheriff
Sam B. Tice, 1210 S. 18th st.,
was appointed a deputy sheriff
Saturday; by Sheriff Denver
Young. H
An additional deputy on the
sheriffs! force, Tice fills a Job
created by recent adoption of jthe
new county budget. i
His appointment. Sheriff Young
said, will permit assignment of a
second deeputy to duty in the
eastern! Marion county area. The
North Santiam canyon of the
eastern: part of the county has
been a; busy spot for the sheriff's
department since dam construc
tion and related projects began
swelling ; the population there.
New i canyon deputy will be E.
G. 'Scott, whose present 3-11 p.m.
shift will be , taken over by the
new deputy. Already on sheriffs
duty in the Santiam country is
Deputy Larry Wright. .
New deputy Tice, a Willamette
valley native, recently returned
from army duty in Europe. He
was in the criminal investigation
department in the Mediterranean
area for three years.
Seismograph
Records Quake
PASADENA, Calif., July
A heavy earthquake, sufficiently
strong to cause widespread dam
age and loss of life if in a popu
lous area, Was reported today by
California institute of technology.
Seismologist Dr. Charles Rich
ter estimated the distance at 5,900
miles, the direction not determin
ed. The shocks were felt here
at 12:09.45 pjn. (Pacific standard
time).
In New York, Fordham univer
sity said its seismograph record
ed shocks 7,600 miles distant at
3:11.51 p.m. (EST) and 4.17.24
pjn. (EST).
Father J. J. Lynch, Fordham
seismologist, said the quake prob
ably was in the western Pacific
between the Marianas islands land
Japan, j
j TeL 3-3672
Policy
Coplon Case Determines V.S.
Policy of Releasing Secrets
Rather than Releasing Spies
By Jack Adams .f
WASHINGTON July 2-WVThe Judith Coplon case ha cut tha
pattern the Justice department is carrying through in Such spy
cases no matter if it gets hurt doing so. :
The government was forced to dump carefully guarded secrets
before the eyes of the world, or see the case against its onetime em
ploy inrown out ox court.
Airlines Asked
To Help Keep
Judith in U.S.
NEW YORK, July 2 -tfV Over
seas airlines and other travel
outlets were advised today that
Judith Coplon's passport has
been lifted.
Airlines officials at first inter
nreted this as an alert to ore
vent her from fleeing from die
United States. But Lincoln White,
state department press 'officer,
said in Washington that passports
of persons convicted of a crime
always are taken up. ,
International travel firms are
notified of the. lifting as a matter
of course.
Miss Coplon was convicted
Thursday of spying for Russia.
The 28-year-old brunette report
edly is spending , the weekend
with friends near, her mother's
Brooklyn home, resting after her
10-week turbulent trial in Wash
ington and preparing for a sec
trial scheduled to begin here
July 11.
The tiny one-time justice de
partment analyst was tired and
pale on her arrival by plane from
Washington last night.
The justice department said ft
had issued no orders for a special
Coplon watch.
In th. ,case here, the govern
ment will try to prove that Mis
Coplon and her alleged Russian
accomplice, Valentin A. Gubit
chev, conspired to send informa
tion to the Soviet Union.
It is reported the government ai wflich have been jealous
will seek a month's delay in the i iy guarded for 25 rears.s The He-
New York triaL
Norblad Asks
How U.S. to
Pay Off Bonds
WASHINGTON, July 2 - (j?)
Rep. Walter Norblad of Oregon
demanded to know today where
the federal government will get
the money to pay off the war
bonds maturing soon.
In a letter to President Truman
criticizing the national debt, the
Oregon republican said some
$4,000,000,000 dollars of Series E
bqnds will mature in 1952, along
wftji $38,000,000,000 of other bond
issues.
"The total of these maturing
bonds, he wrote, "is almost
equal to our entire national
budget.
"I should be very interested
in knowing what you propose to
do to pay this obligation, he
said.
Pilot's Memory
Photographic
PHILADELPHIA, July 2 (INS)
Some day. in th future, Eddie
Sawyer, the Philadelphia Phillies
manager should write a book en
titled "My Memory."
There isn't another pilot in the
national league who can match
the 38-year-old Philly pilot when
it comes to memory. His is the
photographic type, which, consid
ering the brand of ball the Phils
play occasionally can be a dis
advantage. Even in a baseball uniform in
the shade of the dugout. Sawyer
resembles a college professor. Be
fore he took over the Phils, he did
teach science at his alma mater
Ithaca College, in New York.
"I neverv took a note all the
time I was in college," Sawyer
admitted. "I memorized every
thing from the lectures.
Sawyer related how he "could
read a textbook once and never
look at it again and still tell you
what was in the book."
He did all his teaching at Ithaca
from memory, and although he
had 1,500 students, he remembered
their first and last names and
where they lived.
. ! ' ii,
I wish to express my sincere
thanks and appreciation, to the
Salem Fire Department and my
friends for their fast and effi
cient work in extinguishing the
fire at my store and thus avoid
ing tremendous loss. Their care
in avoiding damage to my jewel
ry stock and fixtures was also
very commendable.
j
Attorney General- Tom Clark
personaUy made' tfie ,toigh de
cision, j
He said privately at that time:
"I will not drop easel against
people I believe are" trying to
destroy the government.'
Position Described f
His position,' described today,
was: this: j-
1. Abandonment of the Coplon
would have been an opejn invita
tion to any nation wanting to spy
on the United States t0 get a
gents on , the government payroll.
2. It would have encouraged
any federal worker .who might
want to copy or remove secret
data passing through hjjs hands.
The worker would have!! felt that
the more secret the material! the
safer he would be iromjl-prosecu-
uon- 1 i, ,
To Throw Book ; i;
The department policy means
that if any government!, employe
takes national security cjata from
the files to which he has access,
knowing that it may fall into un
friendly hands, Clark intends "to
throw the book at him."!
Highest justice department
sources made this amplji; clear in
the wake of the 10 weeks! of court
room dramatics which resulted in
the conviction Thursday 0f the
chic, 28-year-old Miss Coplon.
Standing poised In the packed
court yesterday, the Barnard col
lege honor graduate desfribed the
outcome as "a pyrrhic yif torv" for
her prosecutors that lis, a vic
tory gained at excessive; cost, the
kind one cannot afford to win too
often. i; . ,
Yielded Reports
The government won nlv after
yielding up for public vifciw confid
ential investigative, reports from
iense demanded the reports. It was
sustained by presiding jrudge Al
bert L. Reeevs.
Justice attorneys' hope and
say they believe ttyat Judge
Reeves ruling does- not necessar
ily set a precedent for opening re
stricted files in possible future
trials.
-They point out that the Coplon
case was unique. Involving as it
did the first prosecutidW for al
leged tampering with secret FBI
records. The cite dozens of other
criminal trials requiring FBI in
vestigative evidence in which the
court has agreed to "cjjJiting" to
delete from pubheation names and
situations not related U the' im
mediate triaL or to private inspec
tion by the Judge, jury, (defendant
and counsel alone. ? i
'it!
900 Uop Growers
Participated jin
.Referendum IVoJe
Over 900 valid ballot were cast
by Pacific Coast hpprowers in
the recent grower referendum on
the hop marketing agreement, sign
ed June 30 by Secretary of Agri
Culture Brannan and ii effective
July 1. Paul T. Rowell, Salem of
fice of US. Hop Growers asso
ciation, reports. j-
Rowell received the information
from W. J. Broadhead Portland,
agent of the secretary, of Agricul
ture, v who conducted the referen
dum. I;
Rowell quotes Broad.head as
saying that this very heavy ballot
represented votes from growers of
over 80 per cent of the fntire 1948
production, with affirmative votes
received from 84 per cent of the
entire industry. -
DOMINICAN. GOLD RfJSH
CIUDAD TRUJILLP!!-(1NS)-A
vague reference in ancient .Span
ish documents to lost gold! mines
has touched, off a treasure hunt
in the Dominican Republic. Geol
ogists of the government bureau
of mines have uncovered one an
cient mine at Pueblo iViejo.
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