I The StaWv Sclera, Of Scrtnrdcrf . September 9. 1850
Wo Favor Sway Us, No Fear Shall Awe"
from First SUtcsouB, SUrch 2S, 1S51 .
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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Jimmie Roosevelt and Evacuation
Jimmy Roosevelt is having rather hard going
in his campaign for governor of California -against
popular Earl Warren. He has his mother,
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt out making speeches for
him; but so far without stirring up much favor
able comment for Jimmy. Old - Unci democrats
are said to be inclined to sit on their hands, not
being very happy over Jimmy's advent in Cali
fornia politics and remembering his run-out on
Truman two years ago. :
- Jimmy's campaign, against Warren has taken
the line of civilian defense. He is all worked up
over what to do when the a torn, bombs fall. His
latest proposal is to prepare to evacuate the mil
lions residing in coastal metropolitan areas to
the hinterland . That has brought a great haw
hw from Californians. They9 point out that
tnere'i no place to go except the deserts which
lack water, and the granite high Sierras which
in winter are snowbound. To prepare barracks
for so many would take labor and materials not
now available, and roads couldn't handle' all the
refugees fleeing by automobile.
It is easy to talk about evacuation, but when
you get down to a practical study it presents a
great problem. In the last war Oregon defense
officials concluded that the only practical eva
cuation that could be carried out in case of in
vasion would be from the coastal areas to the
Willamette valley. Careful plans were made to
conduct such a movement if it became necessary.
It was concluded after study that it would be
unwise to try to move people from the valley
and from Portland to the hinterland. Routes
would not be adequate and the interior could
not take care of big populations dumped there
suddenly.
Civilians in California cities will just have to
take what comes, as did Londoners during the
blitz (many were evacuated from London but
most of them returned to the city). Risky, to be
cure; but all life is a risk nowadays.
We don't believe the California voters will
evacuate Earl Warren from the governor's man-.
ion in Sacramento; and Jimmy will probably
hate to stay in the insurance business in Los
Angeles. - " .
Losses from Car Shortage
Suffering from the worst car shortage in many
fears lumbermen are complaining bitterly,
though they realize that their complaints will
not greatly affect the overall supply of cars to
this area. Frequent reference is made to the
losses which this car shortage is causing. Mills
have had to shut down or run at slow bell; men
have lost employment; wasteful j methods for
hauling lumber have '.been resorted to; users
have been handicapped for lack of a steady
flow of materials. One estimate we saw was $40
million loss for the lumber industry Of Oregon.
But how permanent is that loss? Demand not
satisfied today will still be there tomorrow.
Logs uncut today will be on. hand for cutting
later on. Houses unbuilt for lack of lumber still
will be needed next morlth or next year. The
Red Victories In Korea Declared Possible Only
Because of Shocking Betrayal of U.S. Defenses
By Joseph Alsop
WITH UJ5, FORCES IN KOR
EA When the situation is "flu
id.' which in this war means
wholly unstable
and quite poss- : ; "
ibly disastrous,
this reporter
cannot compete
with colleag- f
nes who write
lor tomorrow's ; :
paper, it may
be helpful, all I
the same, to try
to explain why
we are so sud-
j l ,99
a fearful refclEU
verse here. , It is a long,- bitter
and significant story, which ends
with Secretary of Defense Louis
A. Johnson.
In brief, during the past week, '
the enemy managed to mount a
primitive but massive offensive,
using: his limited stocks of heavy
military equipment only in big
areas, but lavishly expending
man power everywhere. Albeit
with shocking losses, this offen
sive was frustrated in the Am
erican sectors of the line, justify
ing the new American self -confidence
lately reported in this
space. In the long South Korean
sector, however, a major break
through has been achieved. And
as these words are written the
outcome Is totally uncertain.
No doubt ' the Pentagon will
bok. revive the silly canard of
Its first days of the war, that the
South Koreans win not fight. But
the plain truth is that the, South
Korean divisions had been' fight
ing continuously in the line for
anywhere from 60 to 70 days.
They " had sustained ! appalling
casualties one regiment known
to the reporter has lost no less
than 3,000 men, or three times
the number on its muster rolls.
And they had still held on al
though they were often ill-supplied
with small arms ammuni
tion, food and even water, and
although they frequently had
trouble, because of poor ' com
munications, in securing needed
artillery and air support. -,
In these circumstances, it is not
necessary to ask why the South
Koreans broke at last under
heavy enemy attack. The ques
tion is, rather, why such an ex
cessive burden was imposed upon
them for so long. The answer is
simple. Lt Gen, Walton H Wal
ter well knew the South Kor
eans difficulties and did his best
to remedy them.; He also, knew
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lumber industry always has had its ups and
downs. The present bump may simply iron out
what would have been a slump later on.
Lumber isn't like fresh vegetables which
perish after a few hours' delay. Lumber isn't
head lettuce. Loggers and mul operators should
be glad it isn't, and that trees can be harvested
over years instead of days!
For all the croaking about the car shortage,
and it is justified in large degree, lumber mills
of the Douglas fir belt are expected to produce
more lumber than any year sin ce 1929 and may
surpass that great year. All connected with the
timber industry can put down 1950 as a very
profitable year though it has been a year of
trials. If we would only stop to count up our
blessings we wouldn't be so critical of the other
fellow, even the freight car supplier.
Doom in Two Years?
Billy Graham whose revival services in Port
land attracted hundreds of thousands of listen
ers, concluded his Oregon appearances with a
service in Medford Wednesday night. The Med
ford Mail-Tribune reported that he told his au
dience of 9000 persons that "God's judgment
will fall on America within the next two years
... "In two years without the intervention of
God, and it will all be over, our schools, our
churches, our way of lif e." ' The United States
he described as "the most wicked nation in the
history of the world."
Graham is a powerful preacher but we doubt
if he is any more accurate in his timing than
other prophets of doom. And we just refuse to
accept his description of the USA as the most
wicked nation in the history of the world. We
are willing to make a prediction and balance it
against Billy Graham's and that is that the USA
will still be doing business two years hence,
come peace or war. Our faith contains more of
optimism than the famed evangelist's seems to
. have.
It looks as though Franco would still have to
whistle for his American "loan." President Tru
man signed the general appropriation bill which
contained the tidbit of $62,500,000 for Spain,
but as he did so he announced he didn't regard
that item as a directive which means Spain
will not get the money until Truman is ready
to shell it out. Certainly was a lot of politics in
that deal, with many of the president's own
party leaders supporting the loan.
Russia counters the U. S. report of shooting
down 'a Russian plane, showing hostile intent
in Korean waters with the assertion that it was
just a trainer and the attack was unprovoked.
Of course our naval forces might have made a
mistake, but Russia's reputation for veracity is
so rotten its report will not be accepted without
proof. And what about the American plane, un
armed, shot down by Russians over the Baltio
sea?
Oh, to be a child again ... to enjoy the wide
variety of rides at the fairgrounds. .
well that the burden was ex
cessive. But he was forced to take
the risk, because he did not have
enough American troops to re-
. lieve our allies, by shortening the
South Korean sector of the de
fense perimeter. , .
This may surprise people at
home, who heard the President's
recent announcement that we
have five American divisions in
Korea. Unfortunately, however,
this announcement merely pro-
. voked the men in the line in Kor
ea to grim, coarse laughter. Pres
ent troop strength cannot be dis
cussed in detail, but the realities
of the situation may be suggest
ed by having a look at the past. .
Using the word "division In
the same way, the president
might have said a month ago that
we had three divisions in Korea,
the 24th, the 25th and the 1st
cavalry. Since three divisions
constitute a corps, any informed
person would then have assumed
that the usual strength and pow
er of a corps were thus being
brought to bear. But anyone
making that assumption would
have been sadly deluded.
The divisions themselves were
condemned to feebleness, in the
"first place, when Secretary of
Defense Johnson, on taking of
fice, arbitrarily gutted what the
president had left of the late
James V. Forres tal's American
rearmament program. In order to
retain the divisional sturctures,
regiments were kept at two
thirds strength without their
third battalions; no divisional ar
mors was provided except the
light tanks, useful only for recon- '
naissance; and grave shortages
were accepted In artillery, com
munications and other essential '
supports.
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In the second place, only a few
months before the Korean war
broke out. Secretary of Defense
Johnson issued supplementary
"economy" orders. The existing
corps organizations, which are in-
termediate between division and
army and serve as pools for heavy
weapons, were therefore neces
sarily impressed. And this meant
that there would be none of the
vital corps, tanks, no powerful
corps artillery, no corps signals
or administrative structures.
Such was the inner nature, in
the army, of the famous process,
of "cutting fat but not muscle
and getting ready to "lick Joe
Stalin." The result, according to
an official estimate from the
highest source, was to leave the
first three divisions that entered ,
Korea with less than one-half the
normal fire power of an equiv
alent grouping at war strength.
It is true that some of the worst
gaps in our forces here have rec
ently been filled, the expedient of
committing the American strate
gic reserve in Korea in a time of
universal peril in the world. But
even so, the president must have
been gravely misled by interested
persons when he claimed we had
five divisions in the field! unless
a division is to mean a mere half
empty shell with an official num
ber. That is why the foxholes in
the American line are still spaced
at Intervals of 60 yards, and why
the American line could not be
further extended.
Some may argue that Gen.
Walker ought to have shortened
the whole defense perimeter,
American and South Korean, by
further reducing the beachhead.
Certainly he was strongly en
couraged not to do so by the Pen
tagon, so hungry for blame-erasing
victory, so fearful of the pol
itical repercussions of retreat. At
any rate, in all fairness, even in
this moment of crisis, it must be
said that Gen. Walker has done
wonderfully well to hold the
Chindong-Taegu-Pohang defense
line for so long with such poor
resources.
One before, at Taejon, he bare
ly saved his, whole position from
disintegration. A little later,
when the enemy first strongly
threatened the approaches to Pu
san, he blocked the threat with a
single regiment, three tanks, and
his own army headquarters se
curity company. This brisk, stout
unpretentious small man has
never rattled, and has always
made a little go a very long way.
If he fails now, it will not be his
fault.
In plain words, it will be the
fault of those who defrauded the
American people, claiming they
were making? America strong
when they were making America
weak. This evening, because of
that weakness, all is chaotic At
worst, the present crisis could
.produce catastrophe. At best, it
will end with the loss of vital
positions, dearly bought with the
blood of young Americans. When
one has seen these young men,
hopeful, brave and fuU of good
gifts, fall thus in battle, it is hard
not to demand a just and ruth
less penalty from the guilty men,
the tellers of untruths, the or
ganizers of weakness and dis
aster. . Ktw York, ribu?. Inc. , ,
MacArthur
Warned of
Korea Clash
By J. If. Koberts, Jr.
1 AP roreiga Affairs Analyst
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 -V?l
Douglas MacArthur foresaw an
American clash with Russia In
Korea as early
as October 1945.
forts to obtain t
absolute rule in
Korea had a
clash over- ac
cidental viola
tions of the 38th
parallel by
American
planes had con
vinced him of
that, he told Al
bert Z. Carr,
former White House adviser who
tells the story in his latest book,
"Truman, Stalin and Peace,"
published by Doubleday.
Carr was first an assistant to
Donald Nelson in the war produc
tion board, shifting to the Roose
velt offices In 1944 as an econom
ist adviser. He made two trips to
China in connection with the
American effort to reach a solu
tion of the problem there before
the communists took over, and
later served two years in Ger
many as consultant to the inter
allied reparation agency.
'
Carr says he wrote the book
'primarily to tell some untold
stories of the maneuvering of
late war and early postwar days.
Carr apparently Is In major
agreement with current Ameri
can foreign policy, as far as it
goes, but recommends going far
ther. He thinks western rearma
ment should be accompanied by
direct notice to Moscow that ag
gression means war wherever it
occurs. In this respect Carr
seems a bit cloudy on the rela
tionship of actual military
strength to policy, and the need
for rearmanent before, not con
currently with, such a stand.
Carr traces much of our pres
ent Asian troubles to the Ameri
can decision to .withdraw her
troops from China after the war,
and to our public announcement
that the defense of Korea was
not considered vital in the Amer
ican plan.
Carr thinks that American fail
ure to supply a large postwar
reconstruction loan caused Stalin
to decide that Russia must make
her own way alone, and set the
park to the cold war.
He attributes much of the ten
sion to such personal and legalis
tic conflicts as that between for
mer Secretary of State Byrnes
and Molotov. He cites Truman's
dispatch of Harry Hopkins to
Moscow In search of a modus
vivendi, and the abortive idea
for a similar trip by Justice Vin
son in 1948, as the reverse side
of the personal diplomacy picture,
and says the Hopkins trip eased
a very dangerous situation.
Carr sticks pretty closely to
things that he knew about or had
something to do with, which may
explain some of this apparent
disregard of what now seems ob
vious, that Stalin Co. never had
any real intention of cooperating
for postwar recovery. Or the
author may consider that his re
fusal to become overheated about
Russia lends character to his
book, which is less a thesis than
a reporting job, anyway.
Literary ...
Guidepost . . .
By Bill Ryan
THE SECRET GAME, by Fran
cois Boyer (Harcourt, Brace;
$2.50)
Francois Boyer, a 30-year-old
Frenchman, has written a mov
ing anecdote of World War II.
"The Secret Game" is simply the
story of . what happened to one
little girl who saw her parents
killed during the Nazi blitz
which drove thousands of panic --
stricken refugees along the high
ways of the French countryside.
It is a bitter little story, fleck
ed here and there with what
appears to be reluctant humor,
of how the child wandered into
a tiny village untouched by the
war. The "secret game is an
. Invention of the child's tortured
mind. In swiftly moving? pano
ramic style, the author develops
a strangely morbid tale which
leaves the reader with a shock
ed sense of horror.
There is fury in the tale, too
fury that such a thing as "the
secret game ever could have
been conceived. While Boyer
weeps for what happened to the
child and the stolid peasants
whose lives she affected, he
weeps also for France.
Better English ,
1. What is wrong with this sen
tence? "I dislike these kind of
oranges." .
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "bindery'?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Soulful, souless, sonor
ous, somnolence
4. What does the word "alac
rity" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with su that means "to yield"?
ANSWERS
X. Say, T dislike this kind of
oranges. 2. Pronounce bin-der-i,
first 1 as in lee, and three sylla
bles, not bind-rL 3. Soulless. 4.
A cheerful readiness or prompti
tude. "He obeyed his father with
alacrity. 5. Succumb.
keep cnEGtni cnsEi
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"No red hands, scragrly hair, bent back, raw knees ... only thing
I can flxrer is she got some secrets I dont knew abest! . .
An effort to bring Evangelist
Sunday has failed and Grahrm will not appear. The state fair
board approached the Salem Gospel Crusade with the idea the
popular young evangelist put on
the grounds Sunday morning. Admission to the
services would be free and fee to the grounds
cut in half. But the plan fell through when
first of all Billy nixed the idea of a gate charge
and secondly when he stipulated that all Sa
lem pastors cancel church services Sunday
morning. This latter in keeping with Graham's
Strict rule Of tininlpnnminationaHan and his
practice of never competing with other religi
ous services. Graham has informed the local
gospel crusade he will attempt to appear' in
baiem after the first of the year.
Tatroscopc . . . A lon legless beggar soliciting with out
stretched cap on the walk leading to the main west gate to
fair ground ... crowds passing him by . . finally along
comes a spastic who halts in front of the legless cripple . , .
spastic requires an agonizing three mmutci, with helpless-ly-shaking
hands, to search his pockets for a coin ... final
ly drops the money into the beggar's cap and chats with
him a few minutes ...
Mel Lambert, rodeo announcer at horseshow, is a five year
veteran of the bucking saddle . . . Lambert lives in Salem and
travels with the show . . . several years ago at a rodeo at Tri
Valley, Oregon, the regular announcer failed to show . . . Lam
bert lassoed the mike and has been talking instead of riding
ever since. i
Lambert explained mystery of how world's champion cow
boy, bronco buster, bulldogger, etc are picked ... cowboys gain
one point for every dollar of prize money won in competition at
rodeos over the nation . . . results are forwarded to Fort Worth,
Tex., (where else?) and tabulated once a year, and highest
pointers in each division get the crown and titles ... 4-H club's
famous dollar dinner, which used to cost only a dollar for four
persons now cost all the Way from $1.50 to $120 to prepare
Tom Armstrong, fair official, says Golden Pheasant" restaurant
on grounds is the cleanest of any fair on the west coast . . . "I've
seen 'em all," says Tom, "and no other fair restaurant in any
other state has linen table cloths!'
- L. E. Eastman of Silverton, retired metal worker, has one
' of the most interesting exhibits at the fair. It's a collection
of miniature copper utensils. Eastman says it took him 400
hours to make just one set of the copperware in his hobby
... finally found out what the painting, tchich shows sever
al skeletons romping around, represents. The picture shows
the results of atomic war tcith what is left of the human
race walking around with their bones showing . . . Mrs. Kate
Cordon Raymond, sister of Sen. Guy Cordon, has entered a
colored chalJc drawing of two collie dogs which she says,
often pose 40 minutes at a stretch ... Joe Porter of Rose
burg, livestock exhibitor, went home from the fair early this
year. Joe was showing off his milking short horn cow in the
judging pen when the animal (probably showing off)
knocked Joe down and then steppedXon him.
Howard Pyf er, health educator for Marion county health de
partment stirred things up considerably for the state health
mobile chest X-ray unit at the grounds Friday. It was the last
day the unit was to appear and it was in need of customers. So
Pyf er made a quick turn of the midways and soon had every
barker, loudspeaker (and even a mentalist urging the crowds to
have their chests X-rayed . . . Grimes Brothers ranch of Harris
burg is used to fair calves by now. One of their Holstein cows
at the fair had a calf Friday.
was bom at the Pacific International shows in 1947 and the
father was born at the state fair
. born to Grimes cows at every state fair since 1945 and in 1946
bovine babies were born at three fairs to their cows . . . Fair
officials, judging from unofficial grandstand and gate receipts,
believe this year's financial yield will top that of last year.
yessjwsssosjpsiyqoses
Norblad Asks Truman State
Facts on Water Diversion Plan
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President Truman has been asked to give the people of the north
west the facts concerning the proposal to divert waters from the
Columbia river to California, it was disclosed Friday by copy of
a letter sent the president by U. S. Rep. .Walter Norblad, 1st Oregon
district
Particular mention was made by Norblad of a letter he received
recently from President Truman J
in which the latter said "that the
water will be diverted from the
Columbia river at the point
where it flows into the Pacific
ocean."
"I wish to call your attention
to the fact that because of high
tides at this point the water is
very salty and would be useless
for any purpose,' Norblad wrote.
Norblad said he understood
from statements of those In the
reclamation service that the wa
ter would be taken from the first
point in the river below where
it is used- for reclamation. This
particular point," Norblad aver-J
red. "would be near its con
Duence with the Yakima river,
which Is about 300 miles up-
by Lichty
f .few
."at II .Jf J VS. --
fur1
Billy Graham to the state fair
a program at
The mother (doing well, thanks)
here in 1948. Calves have been
stream from the point where you
indicate in your letter that the
diversion would take place."
Answers to five questions were
asked by Norblad, as follows:
1. Has feasibility of project
been established from an. en
gineering standpoint?
2. What would be the cost of
such a project?
3. Just how would the project
be paid for?'
4. Will this be undertaken now
during this time , of national de
fense needs and increasing defi
cits? 5. Would it not appear cheaper
am1 acir tn tan the ' waters of
the Smith, Mad, Eel, Russian and
W - ;
Gvilian to Head U. S Economic
Mobilization, Truman Declares
By D. Harold Oliver
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 President Truman assured the na
tion Thursday that the home front economic mobilization Droaram win
be under civilian direction from start to finish.
There certainly won't be any
tioner at bis news conference.
The president said he will report to the nation by radio Saturday
lu&ui on uie iuuu work xiu mc
rifice" needed at home to back
up American fighting forces in
Korea. Previously the White
House had indicated that this
speech would not be, made until
early next week. .
The address win be delivered
at ISO p. m. (Pacific daylight
time) Staurday from the presi
dent's oval office room In the
White Bouse. It win be carried by
all major radio networks and also
will be televised.
Before speaking, the president
probably will" sign the sweeping
economic control legislation ap-
nroved last week by congress. He
said the measure still is being an
alyzed by interested federal ag
encies. The bill gives him broad dis
cretionary powers, inciuoing au
thority to impose either selective
or. general price and wage con
trols.
To Tlrhtea Credit
. First steps to be taken are ex
pected to include tightening up on
installment buying terms, prior
ities for scarce, essential mater
ials to holders of military con
tracts, and limitation of inven
tories of basic materials to pre
vent hoarding and assure wider
distribution of supplies.
Asked todav whether be still
feels the time Is not at band for
invoking any price and wage
ceilings, Mr. Truman said he
would answer a lot of questions
about the program in his week
end talk.
t Bernard Baruch. the well
known economic adviser, said in
a letter to the Baltimore Evening
Sun that it is important that all
the controls be put Into effect
auicklT. He said that a "drift as
usual" course could be extremely
costly.)
Independent Asency .
A published report that the
president plans an independent
economic stablilization agency to
franHi wage and price controls
when they might be needed
brought a comment from Mr. Tru
man that be is not now consider
ins such an asency.
Also, it was news to him that
W. Stuart Symington, chairman
of the national security resources
board, would be over-all boss of
the procram.
Several senators who heard
Symington testify before the sen
ate appropriations committee had
Cot that J impression. Symington
told the senators that although
there is no present need for ra
tioninf and price-wage controls,
$40,000,000 of a pending $160,
000,000 appropriation requested
would bo used to build up a new
agency , to handle price controls
if they are invoked.'
Mr. Truman's statement that he
has no present plans for any sin
gle agency to handle ' such eco
nomic controls could not be dove
tailed immediately with Syming
ton's testimony to the senators.
In reply to another news con
ference question, the president
said he believes, although he does
not consider himself a military
strategist, that United Nations
forces in Korea will regain this
week ground lost in the last few
days. He said bis advices are that
the front line has not charged
materially in Korea in ten days.
2,000 X-Rays
Given at Fair
uver z.000 rree chest x-rays
were given at the state mobile
x-ray unit at the state fair this
week. V
The unit left the grounds last
night after a five-day stay. Assist
ing in the operation of it here
were members from the state
board of health, the Marion coun-4
ty health department the Marion
County Tuberculosis and Health
association and volunteer workers.
Biggest day for the unit was on
Monday when Labor day crowds
moved 924 persons through the
unit.
Couple Cling to
Boat 2 Hours Until
Rescue Arrives
ASTORIA, Sept ft-t'rVJon Eng
lund, 13, is credited with the res
cue of a couple clinging to an
overturned boat in the Columbia
river here yesterday.
The boy noticed that a boat he
had seen a few minutes before
while watching from his house had
disappeared. He notified his father.
City Commissioner Axel Englund,
who sent out a boat to rescue the
couple, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Tay
lor. '
They had clung to the bottom
of their 16-foot cabin boat for
nearly two hours. They were not
injured.
Korea Casualties
Said Eligible for
Wartime Benefits i
' American servicemen disabled in
Korea are eligible for certain gov
ernment benefits and membership
in the Disabled American Veter
ans, Salem chapter announced
Friday.
The veterans adninlstratkm has
ruled that servicemen in. Korea
who are injured or become ill in
line of duty are eligible for dis
ability at wartime rates though
the US. is not officially at war.
Dependents of servicemen who
lose their lives in action in Korea
are entitled to death compensation
at run wartime rates.
other rivers in northern Califor
nia? ; -v-- . y
military dictator, he told m oum.
Alls.-.:!.. r
ixiuiiiienis ior
GPs Families !
Becomes Law :
WASHINGTON, ! Sept S-(ff)-!
A bill granting allowances of $43 j
to $85 a month to help care for '
the families of enlisted service- i
men became law f today with !
President Truman's signature. i
To get such an allowance, an !
enlisted man will, have to allot !
part of his regular pay to his
family. The deduction from his
own pay win range from $40 to
$80 a month, depending on the
man's pay grade. ! i
Thus an army private, who gets
$80 a month, would allot $40 to
his wife and the government
would grant under the new i
legislation $45 more, for a total
of $85. : . j"; . j
The allowance system is retro- 1
active to Aug. 14 From that date 1
to next June 30, the cost to the 1
government win be an estimated
$300,000,000. i ; ' i
Enlisted men in the three low- '
ance of $45 for one dependent ;
Those in the four pay grades '
above win get $17.50 for one de
pendent . : ' - j
In all seven pay grades the al
lowance wfll be $67.50 for two
dependents and $85 for three de-1
pendents. i j
Enlisted men in the three low-4
est pay grades must contribute
$40 from their monthly pay. Men
in the next two : higher grades
K- ana js-9 win allot Sou.
Those in the two top grades (-
and E-7) win allot $85. The pay f
deductions remain the same re-
gardless of the number of de
pendents. 1 '!''?''
Death of Youth
In Korea Stirs
ation
MIAMI, Flav Sept Rep.
Smathers (D-Fla) has been asked
to investigate the death of a 17-year-old
Miami (army) recruit in
Korea onlv five month aftr ha
State Rep. George Okell, acting
for the boys father, David Haw
thorne, wrote Smathers the young
soldier was sent into action after
only sketchy training. -. 1
"Certainly tf this situation exists. '
our young men are not being pro-1
perly protected," Okeu said. "I am i
as anxious as anyone to do nothing 1
that would impede our war effort 4
but at the same time I do not feel
that a group of 17-year olds are -
BmlmM tA riarwil ramhif Ti crtit
ing unless they are well mixed
with men of more age and more
experience. - - ;
Hawthorne said his son. PFC
Vernon A. Hawthorne, died of
wounds on Aug. 13. He enlisted in
the army March 14. ;
"When I signed the papers for
his enlistment, said Hawthorne.
I had been led to believe he
would have .no less than a : year's
training in this country, and pos
sibly three years.'1! j
s i .
2 Teachers on
Way to France
Two goodwnr, teachers are en :
route from Salem to France today !
to Instruct in French schools for a
year. Both are 1950 graduates of
Willamette university.
They are Henry Cooper, son of ;
Mrs. Teresa C Cooper, 873 N. Lib
erty st, and Gerald Lawrence of;
Westport They wfU sail from New
York Thursday on the second voy-
age of the La Liberte, refurbished ,
French liner. "
Cooper will Instruct classes in :
English conversation at the Lycee
de Garcons, Cherbourg. Lawrence
will teach at Bordeaux. Both were
selected for their; assignments by
the French government
X
Civil Service
Tests Slated
Civil service examinations for a
number of positions with the UJS.
department of agriculture have
been scheduled for October, it was
announced here. 4 r
Applications for the Jobs In the
Pacific northwest until October 6.
They are for construction and
maintenance supervisors In three
categories. Interested persons may
obtain blanks and information
from John B. Ulrich at the Salem
postofflce." :j , j-
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