4 Thm Sfnrt Sclem, Oregon, Monday. Jcaraary T, 1952
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CHARLES A SPRAGUS. Editor and Publisher
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Congress to Face Many Problems
Tomorrow the 82nd Congress will convene
in its second session. Members have had a good
long rest and should be ready to resume the
grind. Let us see what Congress faces.
Under the head of "unfinished business" may
be mentioned:
STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII AND ALASKA.
CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION. Senator
Humphrey has announced that hearing would
b held on a fair employment bill.
UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING. This
probably will be dodged till after the election.
NOMINATION OF GEN. MARK W. CLARK
AS AMBASSADOR TO THE VATICAN. A good
many senators hope to dodge a vote on this
Issue.
BILL TO RESTORE RIGHTS OF STATES
IN OFFSHORE OIL LANDS.
ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY PROJECT.
Certain laws expire by limitation and Con
gress will consider their extension or modifica
tion. Among them:
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT with Its
price-wage-materials controls.
RUBBER ACT which keeps the government
in control of plants producing synthetic rubber.
SOIL CONSERVATION ACT by which direct
payments are made for following conservation
practices.
Other matters which have "high priority":
RATIFICATION OF THE JAPANESE"
PEACE TREATY.
ACTION OR NON-ACTION ON THE PRES
IDENT'S PLAN FOR REORGANIZING THE
INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU.
THE FEDERAL BUDGET AND APPROPRI
ATIONS, including appropriations for the De
fense Department, for Mutual Security (for
merly EC A) and any new tax proposals.
INCREASE IN PAY FOR THOSE IN MILI
TARY SERVICE and extension of privileges
to veterans of Korean War.
FEDERAL AID TO SCHOOLS AND FOR
MEDICAL. EDUCATION.
Committees of the Congress may continue
probes of the Internal Revenue Bureau and
nhversive activities. New investigations mav
be launched into management of alien property
and sales of surplus property. Hearing is due
on the Benton resolution for the ouster of Sen.
Joe McCarthy.
From this catalog it is clear that Congress
will be kept very busy with its chores. This will
not prevent members though from conducting
a great deal of politicking with reference to
nominations for President and vice president.
And all legislation and all debate will be af
fected by the imminence of the national elec
tion. The disposition will be to "mark time" on
controversial matters unless decisions must be
made.
The voters should keep themselves informed
on what happens in Washington. The States
man through its Washington connections; the
Associated Press new service; a special corre
spondent, A. Robert Smith; its columnists the
Alsop brothers and through the service of the
Congressional Quarterly is in position to give
the fullest and most accurate Washington report
in its history.
In spite of all the abuse they take meat
packers continue to take the smallest toll in
the way of profit on goods handled of any large
industry. Swift and Company shows in its re--port
for its last fiscal year tht of each dollar
Ghost of Louis Johnson's Military Reduction
Plan Again Stalking Pentagon, White House
By JOSEPH AND
STEWART ALSOP
WASHINGTON The ghost of
Louis Johnson is rather dimly
stalking the corridors of the
Pentagon and the White House.
This is the real
meaning of the
crucially impor
tant tug of war
which is now
going on be
tween the
White House,
the Budget Bu
reau, and tha
armed services
over the size of
the 1952 mili
tary budget. It
is important to
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understand what this concealed
struggle is all about. The essen
tial facts are simple enough.
By agreement
.b e t w e e n the
efense Depart
ment and the
Budget Bureau,
a planning fi
gure of $45 bil
lion was origin
ally fixed for
the armed ser
vices. Around
the Pentagon,
this figure is
lench n.tk..
rather than a "target, to suggest
the fact that it was, rather, a
figure drawn more or less out of
'rin air. In order to give Charles
Wilson and the other experts on
t domestic economy some sort
of basis for planning raw ma-t-
-ial allocations and inflation
controls.
3y dint of the most merciless
s ueezing of the excess water
t t el the proposed budgets of
all three services. Secretary of
Defense Robert A. Lovett has
now come up With an overall De
fense Department budget of
about $51 billion. To arrive at
this figure, which represented a
sharp cut in current defease
spending, certain calculated risks
ad to toe taken.
calculate risks ia-
eluded Ike -TTrmrtlae that
tarre-eeate fUbtiaa weelu m4
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tej5onMatemaan
received from sales 78.3 cents went to pay for
livestock and raw materials, 10.8 cents to em
ployes In wages and salaries, two cents for
transportation charges, 1.9 cents for taxes, 4.5
cents for supplies and 2.9 cents for other ex
penses. This left just one-half cent from the
100 as earnings. This was unusually low gen
erally its earnings run about a cent and a fifth;
but we know of no big business that operates
year after year on as narrow a margin of profit.
True, sales run into billions, but the company
has to handle a huge amount of merchandise to
make much of a showing on the profit side.
Local Artist to Sing
Aspiring young professional talent should be
encouraged, especially in the aspirant's own
home town.
Salem will have an opportunity to offer just
such encouragement this week when young
Sharon Currier is presented in a voice recital
Thursday evening at Salem High School audi
torium. Sharon is equipped with a fine soprano voice,
a healthy ambition, determination and some
experience before audiences.
But a singing career doesn't result from those
ingredients alone. Years of voice training with
little income are usually required to add to the
young singer's experience and reputation before
she can hope to be self-supporting in the career
of her choice.
In Sharon's case, she has study at Willamette
University and in Chicago and performance
with the San Francisco Opera last season be
hind her. Now she will go to New York for
more study and, she hopes, more singing.
To encourage her, the Salem Lions Club de
cided to raise a scholarship fund by presenting
her in concert. A nominal ticket price was
adopted in hopes that a capacity audience
would provide not only a material benefit but
also a morale lift.
An undertaking of this sort deserves full sup
port from the public. And judging from all re
ports, the entertainment value alone is well
worth turning out for.
Negroes in Salem
E. C. Berry of Portland's Urban League, an
organization to foster good race relations, ia
quoted as saving that few Negroes live in Salem
because they find it hard to find living accom
modations. We do not know if that is correct
or not, but consider it regrettable if it is true.
Salem has had Negro families residing here,
more in the past we believe than at present.
The usual reason given for the small proportion
of colored population here is the desire they
have to live where there is a larger Negro com
munity, hence the drift to Portland. We recall
no anti-Negro incidents here but have no doubt
that Whites here as elsewhere may be sensitive
to having Negroes for neighbors. On the other
hand there is a large measure of tolerance in
Salem which can be drawn on for preserving
the rights of minority groups.
Salem High's basketball quintet really pulled
one out of the bag in walloping the state-champion
Jefferson team of Portland Friday. That
upset could give the Vikings just the lift they
need to make things tougher than expected for
every team they meet the remainder of the sea
son. The Viks may get to that Eugene tourney
again after all.
again break oat to Korea; that
there would he ne new Koreas;
and that general war was most
unlikely, at least within the
next two years. On this basis,
a great deal of fat was eat off
the three services. Indeed, the
knife tame perilously close to
the muscle. The Army, for
example,, was eat away back
from a requested $22 billion
to a SIS. billion. The Air
Force was cut back to about
$21 billion, and the Navy to
something over $14 billion.
This required real sacrifices.
Air Force supporting: projects
were reduced or eliminated, in
cluding proposed developments
in the vital electronics field and
the program for modernization
of air transport. The Army was
particularly hard hit. An effort
was made to confine Army cut
backs to "soft" goods- things like
blankets and gas masks, which
could be made up rapidly in time
of danger. But there were also
most serious reductions in such
"hard" items as artillery, which
has been expended in Korea at
a rate of six tiroes over the com
parable rate for the last war,
on a gun-for-gun basis.
Yet en balance, the risks ta
ken were no doubt reasonable
risks, and the great balk of the
cats were certainly in fat rath
er than muscle. For example,
the actual combat onita ef vthe
Air Force, in the Strategic and
Tactical Air Commands and
Air Defense, were- left intact.
The 143-group pregrant waa
approved, and there were only
minor cats in combat units in
the ether services.
Yet now something has begun
to happen which is Strikingly
reminiscent of certain tragic
episodes in the past.-For the evi
dence suggests that president
Truman and the Budget Bureau
have seized on the arbitrary
figure, which was never intend
ed as an accurate indication of
defense requirements, and de
clared this figure sacrosanct.
Tha meaning ef this is
simple. There can be ae farther
pruning en a majar seal witb-
eatting deeply into
muscle. Air Force -appropriations,
for example, can only
be cut at the cost of reducing
the combat group program.
Further Army cuts can only
be at the expense of the al
ready very dangerously low
reserves of "hard" equipment
like artillery, in other words, a
redaction to $45 billion or
thereabouts will amount to a
reduction well below the ab
solute mlnimpni required if
some real balance between
East and West is to be aehleve
ed by 1954, even assuming that
there has been no general war
and ne new Korea hi the
meantime.
It is true that the armed ser
vices have in the past failed to
deliver a dollar's worth of com
bat strength per dollar spent. But
this failure is being gradually
overcome. The process can only
be gradual to attempt to deal
with the failure by hacking away
arbitrarily, in the Johnson man
ner, is in the long run the falsest
kind of economy. It is true also
that this county is spending very
large sums for its security. Given
the full $51 billion figure for
the armed services, the whole
security bill will come to well
over $60billion, when items like
the $3 billion base-building pro
gram, atomic energy and mutual
security appropriations are add
ed. Yet the fact is that we can
not boy security at cat rates.
We must be prepared to ac
cept calculated risks there la
ne such thing as absolute se
curity in these times. The de
fense program has already been
squeezed down to a point Just
above the PllmsoM line where
the risks become unacceptable.
A Whito Honae-dictated
squeeze on top ef this wfH
force the whole program well
below the Plimsoll mark. As
this Is written, the issue re
mains ia doubt; President Tru
man may yet withstand the
temptation to revert to John
sonisaa. Tet that there should
be these symptoms ef a rever
sion to Johnsonism Is anything
but reassuring.
(Copyright. M3X.
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I think ril need soma help! . . . this ia my first experience in
depositing . .
First outlet of the new Salem Phono-Tel Music Co., was
installed at the Dutch Mill last week. Owner Doug Yeater Jr,
says this is a trial run and that he's got other outlets contracted
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... It is crammed full of exciting Weeks to celebrate. This week,
frinstanco ia Odorless Decoration Week (for women who dont
use perfume). Then come Printing Education Week (for edu
cated printers), Church and Economic Life Week, Jayeee Week,
Idaho Potato and Onion Week (you can get fried on this one).
National Thrift Week (know any thrifty nationals?). Large SUt
Week (stuffed with seven, full days). National Crochet Week
for warped taxpayers who are all woofed out), and National
Fur Care Week (as in the popular Washington song: "My Baby
Don't Care Fur Clothes").
An old 1901 Sears, Roebuck catalogue ad uncovered in
Marion County Circuit Court exhibits plugs a 10-piece (count
'em) complete bedroom outfit for only $19.95 (knocked down
from $25). Included in this dandy deal was a bed, dresser, com
mode, bed spring, mattress, two pillows, chair, rocker and
table. Shoppers today may not think this is such a redhot bar
gain but where can you get a new commode thrown in with
a bedroom suite these days?
Statesman Farm Editor Lillie Larson, back from a trip to
California, says the weather is bad but the traffic system is good
In the land of sunburnt smog. Seems she and her husband got
into a peachy auto smashup right in the middle of L-A. Lillie
got her right side bruised a little and husband Harold nearly
got his rear fender taken off. But, they said, the ambulance
service was so speedy (no charge), and the traffic cops so polite
and helpful that they (the Larson's) somehow felt It was almost
a pleasure to have tangled bumpers with a celebrated California
driver.
Mail bag lament . . . "Dear Sir: We are going to be frank
with what we want. We are lonesome Marines over here in
Korea and have been for about 8 months and have not received
much mail since we've been here. We would like to receive
letters and pictures from some females (human, we take it).
We wish you would put our request in your paper. Thank you.
(Signed) Cpls. Glendal G. Rockwell and Philip M. Swandener
and Pfcs. James M. Land, James L. Helton and Donald D. John
ston. Address: I Batry, 3rd Bat., 11th Marines; 1st Marine Div.,
FMF, co Fleet Post Office, San Francisco."
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the habit of shaving daily and
now its promoters are urging
the second shave to do away
with the "five o'clock shadow."
Time was when the barber
shaved men. The once a week
shave was "standard practice"
and it took a strong forearm
to whet the blade to cut off that
growth of beard. A few of the
better-to-do were shaved more
frequently. I recall a druggist
a bachelor who with great regu
larity went along the street Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays
for a shave. Saturday though
was the garbers' big day; and
they worked far into the night
scraping the chins of the men
from town and country who
wanted to be prettied up for
Sunday.
A regular customer was pro
vided with his own shaving mug
(they are collector's items now).
It was kept on a rack with oth
ers and reserved for his ex
clusive use. The druggist would
have a mortar and pestle painted
on his mug along with his name.
Next to it might be a mug with
a picture of a horse hitched to a
smart buggy that belonged to
the proprietor of the livery
stable, The mugs went out when
the safety razor came in, fol
lowed as it was by the electric
razor.
The town barbersop did more
than cut hair and whiskers. It
provided bathing facilities for
transients' or for those weary
of the washbasin or tub ablu
tions at borne. It acted as a
laundry agent too. These were
by lichty
here. The idea behind this glorified juke-box
is simple. You simply press a button on the
machine. This connects you (like on a tele
phone) with an operator in a downtown rec
ord studio. You tell the operator what tune
you want and if she's got it you get it and
right now she's got over 1,000 selections. Out
side of Portland, Salem is the only city in
Oregon to have this ditty dispenser. Just so
Jake Bennett doesn't get onto these machines.
going to be a mad. mad month
sidelines to the main business.
For all the kidding the barber
has taken for his loquaciousness,
for "barbershop quartets" which
we do not recall at all, he is a
man of parts. He cares for his
trade well. He has worked long,
long hours and usually at rather
meagre rates of pay. He is a
friendly soul. In these days of
equal rights he has as much
claim to a five-day week as any
one else. So let him have his
Mondays off, though many will
find time hanging heavy on their
hands. They may just take a
"postman's walk' and keep their
hand in by shaving themselves.
Better English
By D. C. WILLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this
sentence? "After having struck
her, the driver stopped his car."
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "Ave Maria"?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Guinea, guilotine,
gruesome, gullible.
4. What does the word "indu
rate" (verb) mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with dy that means "forceful"?
ANSWERS
1. Omit after, or say, "After
striking her." 2. Pronounce a-va
ma-re-a, first, third, and last a's
as in an. second a as in day,
as in me, accents on first and
fourth syllables. 3. Guillotine. 4.
To make hard. "Extreme heat
indurates clay." S. Dynamic -
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There is one word which ex
presses a good rule of life; Worki
Without work life is empty, use
less and unhappy. No man can be
happy who does not work.
Bismark
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Confessions of
Ex-Marshal
Raise Doubts
EVERETT, Wash. (P) Law of
ficers of Washington and Californ
ia probed Sunday Into the story of
a former town marshal who was
quoted as saying he killed three
men in the last three years.
Sheriff Tom Warnock said Sat
urday night that the former mar
shal of nearby Darrington, Harold
G. Chase, 22, told of the killings
after attempting to break from
jail where he is held on an arson
charge.
Warnock said one of the killings
Chase related was of a patient at
Northern State Hospital at Sedro
Woolley, Wash, when Chase, him
self; was an Inmate.
Authorities at the hospital said
they were inclined to doubt some
of the details' of Chase's account
of strangling the patient, Leonard
M. Lewis, 50, of Sedro Woolley.
Records show Lewis died Jan. 28,
1949 by strangulation. It was called
suicide.
No Record Found
Warnock said Chase also told of
strangling Dr. Russell R. Bradley,
50, Everett optomterist, Dec 12,
1950, and of killing a French
teacher he knew only as "Joe" in
San Francisco last September or
early in October. California po
lice could find no record of a kill
ing fitting the pattern related by
Chase. He had been quoted as
saying he dumped the body into
the ocean.
Warnock quoted Chase as say
ing he took $538 from Dr. Bradley
after the slaying and $300 from the
man In San Francisco. His state
ment said Lewis had given him a
"bad time."
Dr. Bradley's death had been
listed officially as due to coronary
thrombosis. His body is to be ex
humed for an autopsy.
Left After Fire
Chase was marshal at Darring
ton last September and left the
job after a fire which caused $40,
000 damage in the business district.
He was later arrested at San Fran
cisco and charged with arson in
connection with the fire.
Chase was convicted in 1948 of
arson for a series of residential
fires near Everett, and was given
a 10-year sentence, suspended. It
was after that when he was com
mitted to Northern State Hospital
for observation and treatment. He
was released later.
At Washougal, Wash., the widow
of one of the three asserted vic
tims said her reactions ranged
from doubt to disbelief.
She is the present Mrs. Helen
Hart, former wife of Dr. Bradley.
His death Dec. 12, 1950, was med
ically certified as from a heart
ailment.
Mrs. Hart will confer Monday
with Sheriff Warnock at Everett.
She said she recalled Chase
vaguely as "one of the men who
came to the house that night and
informed me of my former hus
band's death."
Frank Costello
Contempt Trial
Starts Today
NEW YORK f)-Frank Costel
lo, reputed kingpin of an alliance
of crime and politics, goes on trial
Monday. Accused of contempt of
the Senate in refusing to answer
questions put to him by the Ke
fauver Committee.
It will be the 60-year-old rack
eteer s toughest brush with the
law, one that could get him 11
years in prison and a fine of $11,
000 if convicted.
Though often arrested and sev
eral times indicted, Costello was
convicted only once of a crime.
He was found guilty in 1915 of
carrying a gun and served less
than a year in jail.
When he appeared before the
Senate Crime Committte in New
York last March, he refused to
answer a number of questions and
twice walked out as the commit
tee prepared to interrogate him.
Complaining that he was suf
fering from laryngitis, he spent 15
hours before the committee, croak
ing "I don't know," "I wouldn't
remember," and "I refuse to an
swer." During the hearing he would
permit only his nervous, twitching
hands to be televised.
Egyptian Civil
Strife Reported
By Eyewitness
ISMAILIA, Egypt WV Twenty
three Egyptians were killed and
six Britons wounded in two days
of fighting at Suez, the British
Army reported Saturday night.
An eyewitness from Suez said
Egyptian mobs were getting out of
hand, and "it's not the British
they're having trouble with now,
it's each other. Police and Moslems
and who knows who else are hav
ing a go at each other."
The British Army said the care
taker of the Christian Coptic
Church at Suez was killed, his
body dragged through the street
and set afire, and the church gut
ted by fire Friday. Most Egypt
ians are. Moslems. The Coptics in
Egypt are mostly descendants of
Egyptians who adopted Christian
ity in the 4th century.
British officials said the Egypt
ian government was trying to hush
up some of the incidents in Suez.
A Cairo dispatch quoted the
newspaper Al Balgh as -. saying
traitors acting as British, spies'
Intervened in fighting between the
British and Egyptian police and
"commandos' Friday and fired on
the Egyptians from the rear. The
newspaper said three of the al
leged traitors were captured and
shot and one of their bodies burned.
Guided Missile Worship
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BREMERTON, Wash. U. g. Navy Cralaers Canberra (tap) and Boston
(bottom), soon will bo converted Into world's first known; guided
"- warships, the Navy announced Thursday. The 13,60 t-toa
heavy cruisers were being prepared for trip to East Coast yards
for remodeling In heavy snowstorm at the Bremerton Navy Yard.
Beth ships, commissioned la 1943,' hsvs been la mothballs. (AF
Wirephoto to Tha Statesman).
West Counters
Russ Plan for
Korea Talks
PARIS The Western pow
ers mapped a counter-drive Sat
urday against a Russian proposal
for a special U. N. Security Coun
cil meeting to consider the Korean
armistice and other World dan
gers. The West gave its support to a
proposal calling for a top-level
meeting of the Security Council
be held at the time the Council
considers such a session would do
any good.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Vishinsky has offered a resolution
for a special meeting of the Se
curity Council, with the first or
der of business to be consideration
of the Korean armistice.
U. S. Delegate Benjamin Cohen
declared such action might disrupt
the armistice talks in Korea.
A number of delegations of the
small countries, however, favor
any attempt by the big powers to
talk things over and Vishinsky's
proposal drew considerable sup
port.
To meet the demands of the
smaller countries, the proposal for
a Security Council session of top
importance whenever the council
feels it would be the right time
was drawn up. This is expected to
be introduced in the 60-nation Po
litical Committee of the Assembly
Monday by some of the 11 coun
tries sponsoring a long resolution
on collective measures against ag
gression. Noise, as well as music, is a
series of sound waves in the air.
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Salem's 45
Barber Shops
Will Be Closed
Mondays
Effective January 7
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Why all the excitement about rates on savings??
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have PAID .2lA on savings EkCH
JANUARY AND JULY for thepast
several years! f
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Knife, Fork Club
To Hear Tom Kelly
Tom Kelly, crusader for conser
vation of natural resources, will be
the guest speaker at the - Jan. 14
meeting of Knife and Fork Club
at the Marion Hotel, President
Guy N. Hickok has announced.
Kelly, a former newspaper car
toonist, uses his art ability and his
humor to get over the philosophy
of conservation. A pioneer? in con
servation education, he Is often
called The Cartoonist Missionary
of Our Great Outdoors.
House Auction
Due Sunday
Four more houses will be sold
next Sunday as the Oregon State
Jiighway Commission resumes
auctions of homes located on site
of the planned truck by-pass route
east of Salemi 1
Claude M. KHgore, Salem real
estate auctioneer, will chant the
sales of houses located at 3650
Center St., 3660 Truman Aye, 3755
Monroe Ave, and 3585 Garden Rd.
The houses were open to ? inspec
tion Sunday.
Included with the sale of each
house is a lot in Rehb's addition,
east of Salem, where the bouses
may be relocated. Additional in
formation may be received from
C W. Parker of the State Highway
Department. 1
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