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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1950)
v i- ...X.-K H.C.J . ' ..... V v " - ' mr .... ; ': 1 hi ::'r - " - w "J" - - - .. -. V Labor Gov't; Faces Rocky Road Ahead THE first test of Britain's shaky new Labor government will come Monday with King George's speech from the throne on the formal opening of Parliament. The King's speech is written by the government. Whether or not Prime Minister Socialist program of public ownership of industry of survival will become officially known. Until then there is only spec ulation and rumor. If Attlee does agree to suspend his nationalization program there are prospects of a Conservative-Labor "gentfeman's agreement" which might delay a hew general election for the next few months. Such a political truce might permit the virtually dead locked House of Commons, to deal with pressing problems both at home and abroad, British Communists sour ly referred to tills' prospect as a "backdoor coalition." i Temporary Trace '., Such a truce, however, could hard ly last more than a few months. The second test is likely to come with de bate on the budget April 1. Conserva tives campaigned for lower taxes. The Laborltes asked how it could be done and still maintain the national defense program and the huge social service agencies. Attlee has reshuffled his Cabinet, dropping five members of his pre election government There were no startling surprises, however. Some of his appointments constituted promo tions and some demotions. As expected. Attlee did not: make any changes in his three top lieuten ants. Ernest Bevin remains as Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Stafford Cripps is still Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Herbert Morri- son continues as deputy prime minis ter and leader of Commons. ShlnwcU Moved Up Perhaps the most important shift was the promotion of Emanuel Shin well from Secretary, of ' State for War to Minister of Defense. Shinwell replaces Viscount - Alexander who became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. -J. ; - - " Although the Labor Party got a majority of seven seats in the. House, of Commons it won only 45 per cent of the popular vote. Labor drew 13,- 248J57 out of a total popular vote of 23,723,453 the largest ever cast in a British election. The total vote of the combined op position, including 12,450,403 for-the Conservative and .allied parties, was 15,479,48a, In the 1945 election Labor got 11,- S9292 " votes, the Conservatives, 8,655.568. the Liberals 239,888 and the Liberal Nationals 759,883. Aerial 'European Maneuvers ; Not since the war h Germans so many heard the massive roar huge American, planes fl; in mass formation over their cities. In the last two weeks, with clearing skies and winter ending, the V formations have become, to them, an increas ingly common and ominous sight The UJS. Air Force explained last week. It said the fliers, whose Berlin airlift jobs did hot really, end until last October, were training again to fly men and vehicles anywhere in the world.- - Flights of 70 four-engine C-54 and C-82 carrier planes are being schooled in preparation for huge spring ma ; neuven the Air Force and Army will hold later this month. It will be under the overall command of Lt Gen. John K. Cannon; Air Force com mander in Europe. Sidelights Hitler twice ordered the razing of the Vatican, according to Rudolf Rahn, last Nazi ambassador to Rome, testify ing last week at a denazification trial in Frankfurt Germany. At Harrisonburg, Va a man es caped from a state, prison camp by hiding in the trunk of a parked car. The trunk lid - snapped shut as the o ter drove off. Next day the owner heVrd a thumping, called police to in vestigate, and the fugitive went right back into custody. Near Metamora, I1L, a truck slid off a road during an ice storm which broke all telephone wires. The driver appealed to William Brigg. a ham radio operator, who was unable to 'raise Peoria, only 15 miles distant I but did contact a radio operator in mid-Atlantic who relayed the call on another wavelength to the American .Relay League coordinator in Peoria who did send a tow truck to Mela mora. In Keene, N. IL, a woman on the first floor of a two-family house got rid of a vacuum cleaner salesman by saying ber neighbor upstairs might buy one. When the salesman went up stairs he entered an attic instead of an apartment and hit his head on a rafter. Incensed he fired a snowball through the first floor window, was arrested, hauled to court and. fined. ."If you were a four-year-old I could undeestand," admonished the judge. In Tokyo, Taki Kinoshita took a concubine an old and widely prac- . ticed Japanese custom but his wife swung an ax on the concubine when she found her in bed. At the trial for murder, the Japanese judge said the wife had acted defensively to prevent breakup of her home, and gave her a susDended Jail sentence ct three years. Attlee has decided to shelve his istry in the interests Escape Animal Kingdom The animal kingdom landed on all fours in the news with a runaway leopard, a cat that dined; with -a mouse, another tab by that caused a car ! aauealc. and a fox. I strangling boy whofcl; . . . i losi nis cocjcer span iel dog. The bia story, of course, was Oklaho- w ma Citys leopard and how a nation of big game hunters i leaped to the cease. The big jungle cat; escaped by jumping' from an 18-foot pit in the. city zoo. It came back by itself after 60 hours of freedom, drawn by hunger and the mate it left behind. The 175-pound leopard gobbled some horsemeat, loaded with knockout drops, and dazedly submitted to capture. The animal died in its cage 15 hours later, without coming out of a coma. An autopsy was performed to dejter . mine the cause, of death. Meanwhile the chase and its devel opments crowded other news off front pages from coast to coast A "shoot to kill" order had gone out since the leopard is one of the few wild beasts which kills for the sheer lovel of killing. A posse of thousands of trigger happy citizens stalked the leopard but fortunately never caught up with it They were aided by planes, helicop ters, walkie-talkies, two-way radio police cars and a detachment of Ma rine Reserves. . ; '" Each night for three days the fren , zJed search was halted at dusk. Hunt-, era retired behind barred doors but furor kept on by teletype and tele graph. Almost everyone, it seemed, getting spots before bis eyes. A 40-acre wooded tract miles from the zoo, was burned after reports the leopard had been seen there. Hounds, trained to track mountain lions, were flown in from Colorado. Weekend motorists, hoping to be in on the kill, rushed in. One police of ficial, who estimated 30,000 cars were ranging the suburbs, said wearily: "When we find the leopard, It prob ably will be trampled to death." In Plain ville. Conn, Mrs. Alice Curtis disbelievingljr watched her cat drink milk with a mouse. In Indian apolis, the housecat of O. E. Oyler disappeared at the same time a queer squeak developed in the family car. A garage mechanic found the squeak actually was a meow from the cat wedged between a wheel spring and the car's muffler. At Morris town, N. J, an 11-year-old boy choked a fox to death with his bare hands because, "it was gonna bite my in ole pup who follows me around all the time." fete 1.1 L-i - - - - - -- - ?r NOTHING SOFT ABOUT IT SCIENCE: Hydrogen Hazards No Peace, No Victory? "Frankly I'm scared to death. Some times I feel prayer is the only solu tion, and I Uriah I had a direct line to the Almighty to ask1 him jor guid ance." ... Those are the words of Dr. Harold C Urey, one of the world's leading nuclear physicists and discoverer of heavy hydrogen. He said no one will know the ef fectiveness of the hydrogen bomb until one actually is set off and, he. explained, no one knows if the bomb will work, "I hope it doesn't," he added. Dr. Urey said he saw "absolutely no chance" of an agreement with Tin) vav(Q)iil.ip) mm wmK COLD WAR: T ! diplomatic leaders are re- w portedly convinced that the west may eventually arrive at a Eeaceful settlement with Russia ut only under conditions which may require years to establish. The most important of these condi tions are said to involve steel-nerved steadiness in dealing with the Krem lin, tightening of economic, military and political cooperation of the west ern powers, and agreement on a total cold war policy for the United States which observers feel this nation now lacks. - : U. S. Secretary of State Dean Ache son is said to be considering a major speech on foreign policy, particularly in regard to Soviet relations. This ' conceivably would expand Acheson's news conference statement of a fort night ago' in which he referred to a policy of matching American power against Russian power where possible, until world conditions art finally brought into balance. Long Celd War Some State Department aids now believe that the cold war is going to continue for a long time aasl that no one now can prophejy accurately whether it will end in an atomic con flict or In restoration of tranquility around the world. j On the economic front some of the Administration's best Informed ' ad visers say that by 1952, when the Marshall plan is scheduled to end, the United States must increase its imports by about three billion dollars a year and resign itself to a foreign aid program of about a billion dollars a year for an unpredictable length of time . - - ,i. Russia has revalued Its ruble in terms of the dollar and switched from the dollar to gold as its international monetary yardstick. The ruble is now declared worth 23 cents, compared to the old rate of . a little less than 19 cents. - Statistics lliinots. Central " Since 1900, Wilbur A. CogshalL pro fessor emeritus of astronomy at Indiana University, has been ascer taining the geographical center of population in the United States for the Census Bureau. Through figures supplied by the Bureau he found the 1940 center to be on a f encepost southeast of Carlisle in Sullivan County, Indiana. Now, however, with the heavy wartime exodus to the west coast Professor CogshaU predicts the precise geo graphical center of the U. S. popula tion as shown by the 1950 census will be somewhere in southeastern Illinois. Dr. Cogshall first determined the magic spot in 1900 as six miles south east of Columbus, Ind. In 1910 it had Slipped into the city limits of Bloom ington, Ind. It was near Whitehall in Owen, County In 1920, and in 1930 the center of population had shifted to near Linton in Greene County. Russia on the atom and hydrogen bombs. The current Russian leaders, he explained, have created a revolu tion and must see it through. ; Meanwhile four other I American atom scientists agreed that si hydrogen bomb conceivably could be turned into a world suicide weapon capable of wiping out friend and foe alike. A cloud of radioctive dust from such a bomb could go round the world, they said, slowly but surely taking the life of every man, woman and child. . . That creates the possibility that in war an enemy, faced with defeat could threaten to loose a hydrogen fcomb and wipe out the world. Mob Q .MOVING DAY American soldier burns Stars and Stripes along -ministry i" Sofia closes down after severing off diplomatic relations The revaluation Is apparently ah- banning all travel of private Ameri other step in the Soviet effort to es- can citizens to that country, tablish the ruble as an international Bulgaria is the second Balkan na- competitor of the American dollar and British pound. Net Domestic i The decree of the Soviet Council of Ministers does not mean, however, that Russia is going on a domestic gold standard. There is no indication that the ruble will be convertible into gold internally. Last week, the State Department followed up its break of diplomatic relations with Communist Bulgaria by Dates Monday, March C British Parliament reconvenes. Wednesday, March t Farm Day, - Thursday, March 9 Connecticut Legislature con venes to consider new constitu tion. Anniversary (67th). US. Civil Service Commission. Friday, March II Anniversary (74th), telephone. Sunday, March 12 Birthday (38th), Girl Scouts. Russian Parliamentary elec tions. Belgian advisory referendum on return of King Leopold. Prospecting 20th Century Style In this atomic age the oldtime pros pector and his burro are as outmoded as tne coverea wagon, xae oeiger counter has replaced the geologist's hammer. The plane and specialized truck, have superseded the mule, The prospector" himself is no longer a grizzled desert veteran but a spruce young college i graduate, frequently with a PhJX 1 The government Geological Survey has been experimenting with airplanes equipped with Geiger counters under its wings for finding uranium, thorium and other ores used in .the construc tion of new type bombs. Scientists from the ' Department of Interior have been developing detect ing apparatus shock-mounted in light trucks. One sensitive device reacts to radioactive gases from ore deposits.' Another prospecting method calls for mounting of two 42-inch Geiger tubes on the roof of a car, with a meter on the Instrument panel to sig nal when atomic deposits are being passed. The signal is sufficiently strong to permit' prospecting along roads at 30 miles an hour. Another method is subsurface pros pecting with Geiger-counter. probes lowered into holes dug in the soil with earth augurs, or into holes drilled into solid rock as far down as .300 feet In Short . Sentenced: Dr. Klaus Fuchs, top British nuclear scientist, after plead ing guilty to betraying American atomic secrets to Russia, to 14 years in prison. Ordered: By the N. Y. State Public -Service .Commission, a sweeping in vestigation into all safety procedures of the Long Island Rail Road, as a result of the head-on crash February 17 which cost 30 lives. Declared: By Secretary of State Dean Acheson before a Senate com mittee, that he does not condone any offenses with which Alger Hiss was charged and found guilty. Admitted: By Capt, William Brown, full I responsibility for the grounding of the battleship Mlssiouri January 17 in Chesapeake Bay. (AO Bieftts Kmtrvd. AJ Nwtatnm) ilizing for i a L6nc Pull .-Tr. tion to be placed out-of-bounds for American travelers. Trips to Hun gary were barred last December when the State Department decided the Red-dominated Budapest regime was not giving normal protection to American citizens. Growing Hate Campaign There were other developments in the growing "hate America" cam paign in the satellite countries behind the Iron Curtain. MERCY TRIAL: Breath of Life , Because a nurse gave medical opin ions something against the code of doctors the death evidence was in a snarl last week in the Manchester, N. H, "mercy' trial of Dr. Hermann N. Sander, accused of killing a patient Incurably ill with cancer. The trained nurse gave opinions, signed but not sworn, to the defense. She testified for the prosecution in more exact medical language. As a result the defense claims she showed Mrs. Abbie Borroto, the pa tient, was cold and dead before the allegedly fatal air was injected by the doctor. But the prosecution claims the nurses's story, worded a bit different ly, showed Mrs. Borroto alive at that instant. Pro and Can , The mixup hinges around state ments as to whether Mrs. Borato was breathing. Her -statement to tBe defense read that the patient was not breathing. But in testimony, guiaea oy tne prosecution, she said what she meant was that "As far as I could see Mrs. Borroto was not breathing. I mean I couldn't count the breaths." She said the last time she was able to count breaths was before Dr. San der came into the room to give the air injection. She explained that breathing is counted by seeing a rise and fall of the chest.' ' , Husband on Stand But, she said, the patient did gasp both before and after Dr. Sander, en tered. She said the last gasp came' about when the first air was injected. The difference between a breath and a gasp, she explained, is that in a' gasp the mouth opens. Reginald Borroto, 63, husband of ' Tb NJ& SSktfe F&s&x !. tAISlNO THE tOO" with codo machines as U. S. with Reason footed Bulgaria. The U; S. Embassy In Czechoslo vakia reported the sentencing of a naturalized American citizen to a year in a labor camp for saying. In America we throw away better food than they eat la Czechoslovakia." The citizen of Slovak origin was visiting relatives in Topolciany, Slo vakia. Embassy spokesman said he was arrested last December and sen tenced to sit weeks fat prison and fined 2,000 crowns ($40). But after completing his prison term, he was rearrested and sent to the, labor camp for a year. Ugal Evidence the cancer victim, testified he had never asked Dr. Sander to end his wife's life and that ho had been told that drugs had immunized his wife from pain and suffering. He previous ly had declared he thought Dr. Sander was a wonderful man and in no way responsible for his wife's death. Pastor's Prayer The physician's pastor, the Rev. Leslie Curtice of the Candia Congre gational Church, prayed for him to be the-spearhead of a movement to permit dignified death. After the serv ice he said: 1 am not trying to interpret the action of Dr. Sander. But consciously or unconsciously, he is spearheading an attack upon the issue of a person's right to die. I believe . . . our rever ence for the dignity of human person ality demands that we permit people to die a legal and dignified death." Quotes Walter Re other, president of the CIO United Auto Workers, advising school teachers to join an AFL union: "We get more pay for a sweeper in an automo bile factory than many teachers get. Tm opposed to the CIO or ganizing teachers. That belongs to the AFL. " r O. John Begge, former Assist ant U.S. Attorney General, urg ing liberals to join the Progres sive Party: "Come on over, non Communistf progressives, and take charge of your own Pro gressive Party, Give us the4 re spectability you say we lack and need." -v . Marshall JPlan Aid CONGRESSIONAL committees; V are studying the foreign aidl program with economy axetf 'poised. .., In an election year, the urgeidr prune expenses is always keen.-Ia addition there is the fact that Mar shall plan funds are reviving Euro-, pean industries at the expense,-, in-t some instances, of American export trade. Some lawmakers are incensed i .that UJS. funds to Britain are boW' stering Socialism at the expense off capitalism. ECA chief Paul Hoffman told 'the House Foreign Relations Committee it might be SO years before Europe4 is able to pay back dollar loans to the UJ3. Hoffman opposed a suggest tion by Rep. John M. Vorys (B-Ohio) ) that future foreign aid bo mostly .on " , pay-back basis. - V; Had Paper . : " . .-, They cant pay." Hoffman saiLi. "Bad paper is not an asset. If s only a headache. : ... -i'. - - . W. John Kermeey, head of the ECAV mission to Britain, predicted England ' would earn about three-fourths of the dollars she needs in the coming year.' He said the ' United Kingdom : had built up its exports to the United States to 114 per cent of the 1323 level. - - . v - Recently Hoffman declared that the Marshall plan had been so successful ' in its first two years that a real dan ger is that Congress will consider the job done and cut off funds to keep.) the plan rolling. Keporte Front Abroad Bef oe the Senate last week, Barry Bingham, ECA director for France, testified that Russia has ordered" French Communists to intensify their 5 efforts to wreck the Marshall plan.; Robert M, Hanes, ECA chief ht western Germany, disclosed one of r his bureau's big problems is to belpc Germans find a - larger VS. market f for their goods. West Germany's doU". lax exports must rise dramatically., ho -said, if Germans are to achieve re - covery. Chairman Tom Connolly (D-Tex) of the Senate Foreign Relations Com ; mittee,. denounced British attempts r to do business with the empire (ster Bng) bloc at the expense of American-1 exporters. He charged Britain had "ordered sterling areas notjjb buy? American ofl. i Finance Own Competition . Senator Henry . Cabot. Lodge ?XU- Mass) noted that this ebuntry waJs encouraging British textile imports at -a time when two Massachusetts tc tile firms have had to shut down. . The National Labor-Management ' Committee on Foreign .Trade Policy issued a statement attacking the Ad ministration plan to find American , markets for an additional one bUion dollars worth of European goods an nuaUy. . I ' . "Competition from Europe can bring down the economic roof on our . heads," the statement said. "This pol icy foreshadows the growth of ghost towns in American industrial cen ters." Education ABC's for Teachers American school teachers are beingv advised to stop, look and listen to the public and then, if they are wise-, to throw away the book of big. fancy, words and use simple language. The 1950 Yearbook of the American Association of School Administrators says the American public cherishes simple definitions, summarized re ports and - the "musical brevity of ' language." Entitled "Public Relations far America's Schools," the book says: ' "Too many educators have assumed' that the purpose of public relations is to sell the public their ideas. "They have ignored the attitudes, opinions, drives and desires of tho cuhlic itself." . . It recommends the use of "$5 in stead of $54-words in a campaign t secure public support and under standing of school problems. ,. Public relations is pictured as- two-way process in which educators talk to the public and give the pob -lie an opportunity to talk back. The' books says: "If the schools are to be peopled schools in the truest sense, it is essen tial that the people share in basis decisions which affect them. The yearbook was distributed to 11,000 delegates last week at the asso ciation's annual convention in Atlan tic City, N. J. It was prepared under supervision of Dr. Paul J. Mismer, superintendent of schools at Glencoe, HL . Wildlife Gobbler G)meback ' The wild turkey which once ranged from Ontario to Mexico between tho oceans is making a comeback with ' state and federal aid. In cooperation with 13 states, tho federal Fish and Wildlife Service is restoring the birds to their hereditary ranges. Colorado, , for Instance, has In creased its wild turkey population from 6JD00 in 1943 to 18.000 last year. ' -One of the benefits was that Colorado, ' which has not had an open season on turkeys since 1899, had a three-day season last October. Hunters were limited to one gobbler apiece and 23 per cent of those licensed got their' V .1 . ' 1 .t :.v V ' " . . ,;:v. j