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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1949)
. L . . . u a t .' t n - i' 'V.'i t tcrci ; taar.v ,ulC .iCfr. wt: r.uti-ii ri H o:i jfouiv a euro ru - S : '.tltriT HAD A' h ! ! i - .; -" -nif rn rTi , Red Tactics in Germany PROCLAMATION of the new German state with a capital in Berlin has provided the Krem lin with a new soviet satellite re- Sublic. It," is another step in the led drive, for a unified Germany which can' be brought under control of Moscow. : ' ' This is how the east German state, claiming sovereignty over all Ger many, was established. A year ago. a People's Congress was handpicked . by Communists from trade unions, youth nd farm organ izations. These WOO delegates were confirmed in a - pletvscite held last May in typical Soviet style There was only one list of candidates but more than 4.000,000 Germans in" the eastern" occupation zone dared vote against it Well Planned Program A constitution, blueprinted in ad vance by the Communists, was adopt ed by the People's Congress. An ex ecutive committee of 400 set up by the Congress, transformed itself into a parliament to form he government of the new German .Democratic Re public. (' One clause in the constitution called for free popular elections and a date in October had even oeen set for the voting, but this has teen postponed. The first elections now are tentative ly scheduled for October 15, 1950. A provisional government with Otto GrotewohJ as premiei and Wil helm Pieck as president was pro claimed by the parliament and will hold office until the elections next year. Gerhart Eisler. who fled from U. S. prosecution last spring, is the new state's information nief. Eisler said the new republic would not attempt to rule western Germany Just yet but would follow the double principle of fighting the "western stooge state" politically while seeking to deal with it on trade and other affairs. x There is little doubt that the new republic soon will be admitted to the Cominform bloc in eastern Europe. SCIENCE: An 20-Year Breathing Spell Atom bomb scientist Enrico Fermi predicts that if the United States maintains atomic supremacy over he Soviet Union there will be no war for at least 20 years. "American supremacy is predict-1 able up to 20 years If we work hard,"-' declares Fermi, Italian-born Ameri-. can scientist and Nobel Prize winner'; in physics. "As for. me, 1 expect to' sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway." Fermi was a leader in the develop ment of the first atom bomb exploded- near Los Alamos, N. M.,Jm 1943.CA physics professor at the UmVersirjrof Chicago, he is now a visiting lecturer on physics at the University of Rome. He will return to the U.S. later this month. SicTe lights In Tokyo, an intoxicated geisha girl injured in an automobile accident after escorting a patron home was held entitled to benefit under the workers accident insurance law. In Oil City, Pa., two holdup men ordered taxicab dispatcher Richard Breene to open the office safe. He complied, grabbed a revolver inside the safe and fired a wild shot The thugs fled, spilling $100 they had taken from a petty cash box. Police called to the scene found Breene in a dead faint on the floor. In Pittsburgh, nearly 200 cab driv ers are working without pay in an at tempt to save their bankrupt com pany. The men ended a five-day strike by voting to pocket nothing but tips until October 17. All fares are to be turned over to a received for the cab company, formed by a group of GI's after the war. In London, a prowler invaded Buckingham Palace. At 3 a.m., palace guards were roused by screams of a maid the intruder disturbed, found him after , an hour's search, hiding ' under linen in a spare room. He was placed under observation. The Royal Family was vacationing in Scotland at the time. : - T - A California sea lion swam the English Channel in five hours and four minutes, beating any human's best time by nearly six hours. In the nude, except for a tight-fitting black corset to which was attached a 30-foot leash. .aT the seal was escorted by a trainer la a row boat which was towed by a tootorboat The swim was made from Cape Oris Nez to Dover but the seal, remained but a few moments on nglih aeiL The promoters feared a meeting with officials of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,. S f I c. in rv n nr r v"o j x Tin a r ,x n r-n i n; I TSffW Tty nr j fr d rvt ir k wv c; v x CONGRESS: Politicians Look afthe Record TIIHEC extra Senate races in New York, Connecticut and Idaho will aid the mathematical chances for a 1950 swing in; Sen ate control from the Democrats to Republicans. . The death a week ag( of Sen. Bert II Miller (D-Idaho) is expected to bring early appointment of a! Repub lican successor by GOP Gov. C A. Robins of Idaho. Before Miller's dealth the Democrats had 53. the Republi cans 43. j ! . , M The margin will revert to 10 votes before Congress meets in January because Sea! Raymond E. Baldwin (R-Conn) will quit in December to take' a post on his state's high; court Democratic Gov. Chester Bowles will fill the vacancy witlra member of his party. - i i ill Dalles vs. Lehnua j The count then would be 53 Demo crats, 43 .Republicans if Sen. John Foster Dulles wins next month's spe cial election in New Yrk to keep for another year the seat to which he was appointed by Gc v Dewey. If Dulles' opponent, former Demo cratic .Gov;. Herbert R Lehman, wins, the .Democrats would start the new year with 12 more Serate members than the GOP. M Meanwhile the first session of the Democratic 81st Congress has enacted less than half of President Truman's program into law.--. . The President can chalk up 15 ma k jor accompusnmenu rrom tne con- eress he helDed earrv Into Office bv hi. Wnr, mmin s iait var. vigorous campaign in last years election, f , M Left as unfinjshea business for the 1950 Congressional campaign: are a number of highly controversial pro posals among the 22 requests he laid before the present session j without getting final action.. j : - - " 1 - " Expert Looks In Rome last week, Fermi replied to a series of questions with1 the fol lowing observations: It is almost a certainty that Russia never will permit regular inspection of her atomic developments by Unit ed Nations experts. i Rockets Future Weapons American supremacy in atomic re search at present seems the only sure guarantee of peace. ' ' Danger from atomic rocket attacks is largely a matter of the future. There seems no possibility at present of any mass assault by rockets with atomic warheads. ; I v The smuggling of an enemy A-bomb into the United States by submarine or other;; means is possible but not scale attempts to move indus try and population underground are GOLDILOCKS Trade Faii First in the U. S. Three ; cities Chicago, Detroit and Atlantic City plan tn hold interna tional trade fairs in 1950 the first ever held in the United States. International trade fairs are quite unlike the "world fairs'; held in America in the past They are not designed to appeal to the general pub lic although the public may be ad mitted on specific days when crowds will not interfere with business. International trade fairs aim at in creasing world trade by bringing to gether businessmen, buyers and sell ers front all over the world. The sell ers are! equipped with samples and are ready to take orders. I i; c Announcement by the three Amer ican cities all within pweek has taken on somewhat the air of a race, climaxing months oi consideration. Chicago will hold Its ! fair first, opening August T, 1950. ! ; Detroit announced its fair will be pen sometime next October "or earlier.1 Like the Chicago fair. It Is scheduled to run two weeks. Atlantic City plans to open its two- week fair on November 20, 1950, -- ! "J f ATOMIC r. ; t&if ! loloji , ENERGY K jfeW iTTZnc COMMISSION , IT'S NOT THE UMPIRE WHO'S BUND Chief of these, of course, is Taft Hartley repeal The President was un ceremoniously turned down in both houses on that issue. The President can be counted on to revive his labor: proposals in Jan uary. Whether Congress will do any thing about them' may depend on . ... w;r,. n """u V, -r " Senile and House vacancies turn out this falL Social Seenritr The House passed a bill broadening the base and increasing benefits of the Social Security program. The Senate approved an aid to education bilL In January the Administration will bring pressure to bear on com- at the! Atom unnecessary. Wide dispersal of fac tories is also Impractical Twe-Year-Old Weapon Commenting on President Truman's announcement that . Russia recently had , an atomic explosion. Fermi said it appeared "99 per cent certain" that Russia had an atomic weapon two years ago. " He said Russia got off to a late start in atomic development but made rapid progress through intense, hard work. He said indications showed only about 50 to 100 German scien tists had aided Soviet atomic work. Fermi predicts it will be 20 to 30 years before industrial use of atomic power becomes practical. He says: There may be experimental models in perhaps five years out any exten sive use of atomic energy by industry is severely limited by Very high costs." MODERN STYLE Mining by Electricity The University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy is demon strating that coal can be turned to gas by sending i an electric current through it f The process is known technically as "electrocarbonization." With it, re searchers say, it wQl be possible I to heat homes and cook meal by utiliz ing coal that is still underground. The School of Mines is operating the experiment at tnc Tiger Mine, near Hume, Mo owned by the Sin clair Coal Co. v -" Dr. J. D. Forrester of the college faculty says the methods employed, when worked on a commercial scale will contribute to cheaper commod ities for the public benefit, and also make some large coal and oil deposits, heretofore ' unrecoverable, available for use. I. r: r -: The gas produced m the process can be used as raw material for syn- thetic production of gasoline or- can be converted into a heating fuel. ; " . ... : Tot, ImminMa Ti pletion of both these actions, both parts of the Truman program. The first order of business in the Senate next year is scheduled to be consideration of the House-approved bill repealing taxes on oleo mar garine. The President undoubtedly wiu ' - - "TTZ L..,zrv..uu ! pre wr icuun on wmuuwj ucui ; insurance. That may provide the most crucial ht of the second session. The health insurance plan, together with civil rights, seem certain to be prime issues in the 1950 campaign zor con trol of Congress. Changing economic conditions have outdated some of the President's re quests made last January. Almost for- Dates Monday, October 17 Festival of Harvest in Japan. National Bible Week starts. Tuesday, October 18 Anniversary (82nd), U.S. takes possession of Alaska. Anniversary (51st), U.S. takes possession of Puerto Rico. British Parliament scheduled to reopen. Friday, October 21 Eclipse of the sun (not visible in the U.S.). Anniversary (70th), Edison's practical electric lamp. Sunday, October 23 Camp Fire Girls national con ference opens in Portland, Ore. World Order Sunday. Sport Champs Again The New York Yankees won their 12th baseball world championship last week beating the Brooklyn Dodgers four games to one. ft was the third time these two teams had met in the post season classic and each time the Yankees won. It was a unique series in many ways. Both clubs practically played themselves out to win their own league pennants and had little left for the World Series. It was obvious after the first two 1-0 games in the series that both teams were tired. Fne Yankees, in particular, had an irr.posmg hospital list throughout the season but all the "cripples" played the series. Joe DiMaggio, still weak from a bout with virus pneumonia, was a ghost of his former elf but in the last game he did manage to pole a home run for one of his two series hits. DiMaggio refused t j let his eight-year-old son play hookey from school to see any weekday games but Joe, Jr., was watching Sunday when his father hit the homer. Aftei the game he greeted his father in the dressing room with this spongy: "Gee, pop, guess what? 1 lost one of your baseballs in the stand. -That's OJC son." said Joe, Sr happily. 1 managed to lose one my self today." Yankee pitching 1 with Allie Reyn olds, Joe Page and Vic Rase hi far ex celled the Brooklyn stall. Brooklyn's Don Newcombe who lost the 1-0 opener to Reynolds was batted out when he tried to pitch again after two days of rest. Quotes Sen. George W. Halene (R Nev): "I predict we shall even tually discover in the United States all the uranium ore needed. Sea. rami H. Douglas (D-Dl): There are a lot of highly mar celled secretaries and typists whose services (to the govern ment) could be dispensed with without any Toss of efficiency.' Wardens ef British prisons: "Hanging (of convicted murder ers) Is expeditious and human." 4U KighU gwirmd AJ KwfwtMrc DOUBLING THE GUARD gotten and likely to remain so are requests for standby wage-price con trols, restrictions on .-onsumer credits, authority over commodity exchanges. 'Point Four Program At midyear, Mr. IYuman asked for and didn't get an Increase in some taxes and repeal of the transportation i. f th. (m limit nn ......... RFC loans to business, authority for an Investment study, trengtnening oi i . . : the unemployment compensation sys- tern, and authority o guarantee in- vestments abroad the "Point Four" of his inaugural address. Point Four legislation is in the works and probably will get approval early next year. TOPPING OUT Construction workers cheer as blue and wnite United Nations flag goes up for the first time atop the U. N. head quarters building in New York. President Truman is to dedi cate the cornerstone of the 39-story structure on October 24. 3 SEEK Casey Stengel posed for this gag shot last spring when the Yankees opened season. E5LEQE Dl NATJDtlALE FfiDut pr-DEMDHRATisCHEIi iilUEUTStUltlD! ' ' HEW STATE-Wnhelm Pieck, president-lo-bo, addresses the Poo- pie's Covad! off the new East Gonna Repvblk after tho newest Soviet satellito state was prodoimod by Gorman Ceaummists. Goes In Pen tagon Ba ttle j ' TWO YEARS AGO, the nation's Army, Na and Air Force wer folded into one Department of Defense. Experience during the war had shown the costly defects of service rivalries and taught that modern war cannot be compartmentalized as in Napoleon's time. ; But unification existed only on paper. James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense, could not iron out inter-service differences de- spite repeated conferences of hiih Czech Left Face If there is a single Czech a year from now who cannot read and speak the Russian language, it will not be the fault of the Communist-dominated Prague government In probably the greatest effort in modern history to teach an entire na tion a foreign language, Russian courses were launched last week for youne and old in i schools, factories and clubs. &tuaenis in seconcwry scnoois musi be able to read Russian by the end of the year at rates ranging from 60 to 80 words a minute. School teachers must read at least oe Russian book a month and discuss it with other teachers. By the end -f the year every M. - A t 1 A leacner must nave reaa uya e.nren- burg's Tempest' Meanwhile the j government will take over control of all churches in Czechoslovakia on November 1. Under the new church control' bill, the state will pay salaries of all priests and pastors as civil servants The government Is continuing a purge of "political un reliables," which has thrown thousands of people into has thrown thousands o ramD. Manv have 5ail o campi Many nave " """T.rr" VrrZ'TtY owners in mi appears to oe - mpt to liquidate the Czech middle diss. . ' Many priests are numbered among the victims. The government accuses them of opposition to the new church control law. nanprt in vnai iniwan IS 1 HAPPY JOES-The DiMaggios, i Jr. and Sr., exchange victory smiles after the World Series. 1 41 ; 1 V All-Out brass. Squabbling went on in public until an order silenced all men In uniform from airing policy disputes. B-3C Program The controversy flared into the open last spring when Rep. James Van Zandt (R-Pa) a Naval Reserve officer, charged on the floor of Con gress that there were rumors of ir regularities in the B 36 bomber pro gram. A House investigation cleared the new Defense Secretary, Louis A. Johnson, and Air Secretary Stuart Symington of any private interest in plane manufacturing firms. The House protx uncovered CedHc Worth, a civilian official in the Naw W . department, s author of the anony- mo us report and Worth resigned after admitting the charges ere unfounded. Just a month ago, Capt John C Crommelin, Jr . blew Ue top off again, by charging publicly that the Navy was "being nibbled to death" at the Pentagon under the unification setup Try, Try Agate A fortnignt ago, Capt Crommelin again tried to blow the cover off tbe dispute. This time he succeeded, i In a dark corridor of the National Press Building In Washington, he handed reporters a document contain ing views or three high Navy officials endorsing uis charges. At first, he insisted his identity be kept secret k,, j. T : L . , . , -f but three days iater he told the press lo aneaa and his name. Capt. Crommelin was immediately suspended by the Navy and placed under house arrest, later eased ! to confinement within the capitaL Crom- melin said he was willing to be jailed if only the Navy side of the strategic controversy could be beard by re- ponsiDie, unoiased judges. The House Armed Forces Comnjit tee determined on a full-scale inve$ti gation of the Navy's repeated charges. Navy Blen Sonnd Off Witness after witness, all in Navy blue and gold, charged that Air Force bungling and plotting would ulti mately scuttle the Navy air arm and relegate the Navy to mere convoy duty in another war. Chairman Carl Vinson of the House Armed Forces Committee added his own comment Congress, itself, S he said, seems about to let naval avia tion "wither on the vine," spurred on by unsympathetic defense officials Vinson said he was greatly dis turbed by a report that Secretory Johnson had ordered a 300 million dollar cut in Navy spending out of funds not yet approved by Congress. Rep. George Bates (R-Mass) said that apparently Congress intentions were being arbitrarily by -passed. j Adm. Arthur W. Radford, com- , mander in chief of th Pacific Fleet, characterized the B-36 as a "billion i dollar blunder" and denounced the whole Air Force strategic bombing concept as unsound. Johnson asked for an opportunity to answer the Navy critics." He sug gested the committee also ask former President Hoover, Gen. Eisenhower and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to testify. In Short . . Announced: By ECA, a $95,000,000 public works program for Italy, ;un derwritten by Marshall plan funds. Fired: By the Baptist Home Mis sion Board, missionary Stanley Walk er Smith, 38, from the Seminole mis sion at Dania. Fla for whipping three Indian girls who got intoxicated at a party. Freed: By Chinese Nationalists, two American mercnant vessels held for attempting to run the blockade of Chinese Communist torts Agreed: By 31 nations at the An necy, France, economic conference, on new tariff schedides to help lift world trade barriers. Estimated: By experts of the three western occupation powers, that $250, 000.000 will be needed to overcome economic effects of the Russian block ade of Berlin. Church Militant Episcopalians The Episcopal Church of the Unit ed States wound up its two weeks' triennial convention at San Francisco last week with a Bishops' pastoral letter calling for a militant church. The pastoral letter, representing the thinking of all the bishops, urged an aggressive campaign during tho next three years against "a world wide attack on freedom. It dted religious illiteracy as -a basic weakness of the Church and warned: : . . . like a pendulum between two ex tremes, we have moved from an ex agger ted individualism to a demonic collectivism, from an Individualistic anarchy to a collectivurt tyranny. "As God's children we are neither bricks In tho bunding of the state, nor Irresponsible individuals. J - "We have been contaminated by the secular humanism of our time . . . that is why . we call our people to' crusade for better Christian' educa tion." . . - y vv- -a 9