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World CM Cartel
The timing of the release of a Federal Trade
Commission report may be attributed to poli
tics. It has been in the hands of government
officials for a year. The suppression was said
to be due to complications of international relations.-They
are no more favorable now than
when the report was completed; but Senator
Sparkir.an, Democratic vice presidential candi
date, has secured its release after some passages
were toned down.
Seven big companies, five of them American,
are accused of setting up a cartel for the han
dling of petroleum products, particularly those
from the Middle East. The FTC accuses the
cartel of price-fixing and overcharges of oil
delivered to Western Europe. Standard of New
Jersey, one of the companies named, promptly
denied it had committed any wrongful acts or
participated in any cartel. Since the report is
only a report and not a formal grand jury in
dictment there is no immediate way in which
the charges may be proved or disproved in a
court ox law. it wiu, however, maae political
propaganda during the campaign.
The Statesman thinks that American inter
ests have been served by the foreign invest
ments of these big companies. For instance
petroleum from Saudi Arabia and from Su
matra is now being imported to this coast for
refining for use in local markets. The Middle
East fields have proven of enormous value in
supplying Europe with energy fuel, and our
Navy and Air Force with fuel oil and gas.
Moreover those Middle. East resources are so
vast and the capital requirements so large that
it seems inevitable that it would be the big
companies which would exploit them. When
Standard of California and Texas Company cut
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-for shares in their Saudi Arabian concessions
they divided the risk and the capital require
ments and obtained access to markets being
served by the latter. It would seem there would
have to be negotiations and certain operating
agreements in joint enterprises of such magni
tude., '
Whether any law has been violated we do not
i know; or whether the companies have indulged
in nefarious practices. What we do know is that
American companies have a large stake in what
is the richest petroleum deposit in the world,
luc ivuuuic rirfc, uuc iu uic ciibciiiidc, uic in
vestment of American capital and employment
of American technical knowledge,-through these
American companies. Our government encour
aged them in exploring the fields and develop
ing them. During the war Secretary Ickes pro
posed that our government build a pipeline
across Arabia to bring this oil to the Mediter
ranean. This paper opposed such an investment
- by the government and predicted the companies
themselves could and would finance it, which
they did. The companies should be brought to
book if they have been extortioners or law
violators. On the-other hand they deserve com
mendation for bringing this huge store of pe
troleum into use at a time when our domestic
supplies are being drained off at a rapid rate.
And the oil companies have done a better job
developing Middle East oil than the army engi
neers have building air bases in that portion of
the globe.
Allies Refuse to
" Peace Treaty
By J. M. ROBERTS Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
The latest Russian note about
Germany tends to confirm the be
lief that she is only trying to con
fuse the minds of West Germans
over cooperation
with the Allies
while actually
intending to seg
regate East Ger-
many more
firmly behind
the Iron Cur
tain. It is typical
Russian tactic to
negotiate a Ger
man peace with
the Big Three
while ignoring
Germany .
She got away with it at Yalta
regarding China and the Eastern
European states, and now she has
them in thralldom. That's exactly
her aim with regard to Germany.
The Allies are not f oinr to be
maaeavered this time. They are
aroiaa to make aa all-Germ am
peace only with all Germany.
Prereqaizite to that is liberty
3 amoBf Germans la the Wester
ease, which lnvolres, a boat cr
erytaing else, free elections.
They -are not going to have aa
all-German goTernment until it
is secure from Communist sub
version. And they are not going to sign
away German rights to defensive
alliances or permit Russia .to try
to : turn it into a buffer state
through any fictitious nuetrality.
, The Russians want first to im
pose a peace treaty and then an
all-German government, just as
they did in Poland, and then have
a cowed populace go to the polls
and confirm the whole business,
just as they did in Poland.
It isn't going to work this time,
even if it means recognition of the
division of Germany for all tao
time that it is rotor to take to
. get am eveataal settlement. -through
war or a ctaaage in Ras
aiaa policy of the whole East
West dispute. The Allies will reply
to the latest note, and the ex
change may continue for some
. time. But it is obvious now that
ao basis for settlement exists.
The Russians just about have
time for one more demarche on
the subject before the Western
Tuesday. Angus! 13, 1853
A. SPRAUUE, Editor and Publisher
ffie tlS S Cammerelai. Salem.
Omaa ad elm matter gutter
Aluminum Plant at Skagway
Sleepy old Skagway, almost forgotten since
it was the entrepot to the Yukon in the days of
the Klondike gold rush of 1898, sprang to life
when real estate men started taking options on
property. The curious did not have long to
wait, for the Aluminum Corporation of America,
Alcoa, admitted it plans a $400. million plant
near Skagway for smelting aluminum. The
initial output will be 200 million T pounds an
nually, which later would be doubled. Skag--way,
with a recent population of only a few
hundred it boasted of some ten thousand at
the height of the gold rush will double that
former peak if the project goes through and it
is revamped by Alcoa into a modern city.
Another great project for production of alu
minum is under way near Prince Rupert, B. C
It is being built by the Aluminum Co. of Can
ada, once an affiliate of Alcoa but made sepa
rate to conform to a U. S. court order.
These great plants, with others newly built
In the U. S. add greatly, to the aluminum pro
duction capacity of North America. The de
mand : has multiplied many times in recent
years and will continue to expand in this avia
tion, light metal age.
Once again destiny has put its finger on
Skagway.
Our! insulation from TV will end in a few
months. Construction work began Monday on a
televising station in Portland with a tower on
Council Crest. Soon there will be "no place to
hide." v
A big brown envelope came in the mail Mon
day, bearing the imprint "United States Senate
Public Document Free" and the facsimile
signature of "Joe McCarthy U S S" as frank.
Enclosed, however, was not a "public docu
ment"! but the reprint of an article from the
magazine The Freeman. The article was a
laudatory review by John Chamberlain of Mc
Carthy's book "McCarthyism." On the last page
is advertising for additional copies of the re
print, for other reprints and for the magazine. .
Which; prompts the question, just how far can
a U. S. Senator go in using or abusing the con
gressional frank?
Col.1 McCormick bf the Chicago Tribune ad
vises people not to vote for either of the two
big party candidates. We usually disagree with
the colonel, so feel like recommending 1 both
Eisenhower and Stevenson as capable, honor
able men. And they do not suffer from cataracts
over their political vision as does the colonel.
Senator McCarran of Nevada says conserva
tive Republicans and Democrats may form a
new party if Eisenhower and Stevenson do not
affirm a strong program of "Americanism."
That might appeal to the four Mcs: McCarran,
McCormick, McCarthy and MacArthur.
jHeadlines the Oregon City Enterprise-Cour-iet:
"No VE Disease in County; Officials Say."
Now don't get confused on those initials. VE is
vesicular exanthema, a swine disease.
It is estimated that insects destroy enough'
wheat; in the USA to feed 16 million people.
And still we have a surplus for export.
Be Maneuvered Into Signing
With Red -Dominated Germany
German parliament takes up rati
fication of the new political and
defense agreements with the West.
The death of Dr. Kurt Schumac
her, Socialist leader and most
dynamic of the opponents of the
Western cooperation program, has ,
just -about assured the ratifica
tion. .. f. ' .
After that. Russia is likely to
give up all the pretense! she has
been making about care for a re
united Germany. She; probably
will move promptly to j solidify
East Germany as a Communist
satrapy, perhaps giving it the
Your Health
While we all know that peni
cillin has proved to be a life
saving discovery, the public
should be alerted to the fact that
penicillin, when misused, can
- cause really severe illness and
at times even death.
Sometimes I overhead people
say, "Science has made it easy
for the doctor nowadays. All ho
has to do is fall back on peni
cillin or the sulfa drugs for al
most anything in the medical
books."
Unfortunately, it isn't as easy
as that. Penicillin, while a great
boon, is no cure-all, but a power
ful drug that can easily be mis
" used, if not taken under the di
rections of a physician.
The increase in the number of
severe reactions and j fatalities
from penicillin has been alarm
ing, and it is high time for the
general public to heed this warn
ing. Penicillin should j be taken
only when necessary, ! and, of
course, the doctor is j the best
judge of its adequate use.
Penicillin reactions usually oc
cur in persons who have had pro
longed treatment with penicillin,
perhaps at some previous time.
These people may develop an al
lergy to the drug. Still others are
'allergic to it by nature.
One of the worst complications
of penicillin in those allergic to
it is a form of serum sickness. It
does not occur very often in chil-"
dren, but is seen to a great extent
in adults, more often in women
than men. - j
Serum sickness from penicillin
usually occurs from seven to
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same standing as a nationalist
state among the other European
satellites.
This very act, however, will
mark the climax of Russia's
greatest postwar defeat. Seven
years ago she thought she would
be able to subvert not only all of
Germany, but all of France and
Italy as well. To settle for East
Germany only, and that because
of military occupation, the same
weapon used farther East, is for
her to admit the failure of her
whole idelogical campaign in Eu
rope. By
Dr. Herman 3undesen
fourteen days after the person
has started taking the drug. Red
"hives" break out over the body
in most cases, and swelling of
different parts, such as the ton
gue, nose, arm, face, or leg. may
also occur. There are pains and
swelling of the joints, and severe
itching. A purple rash may ap
pear. Various treatments have been
used to relieve penicillin reac
tions antihistamine drugs, cal
cium injections, adrenalin, vita
min K, novocaine, cortisone, and
ACTH. Novocaine injections, cor
tisone, and ACTH have given es
pecially good results. The anti
hisUminics may give temporary
relief.
-
A new method, using a drug
known as sodium dehydrocholate,
has given excellent results. This
is injected into a vein daily, or'
every other day, and at the same
time a slightly different form is
given by mouth three times a
day.
- However, it is better to prevent
an illness than to treat it. Your
doctor will tell you that anyone
who has shown signs of penicillin
should be given one of the new
types of penicillin which do not
cause allergic reactions.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
W. R.: My newborn baby has
a flat red birthmark. Will it dis
appear? Answer: As'a rule, flat red
: marks disappear' as the - child
grows older. Later on they may
be skillfully trated with X-ray
and radium, or carbon dioxide
snow.
msim
(Continued from page one.)
rather than by any personal or
ganization. And the new group
ing may be throwing out a chal
lenge for future political control
in Oregon.
Those first to launch the ship
and unfurl its sails to the politi
cal winds profess their continued
loyalty to the cause. There is
a report the Portland master
minds would like to get Phillips
aboard now as "honorary chair
man"; and probably Hatfield and
Emmons can sign on as deck
hands. But others are going to
walk the bridge and sit at the
captain's table.
Those who wore the biggest
I LIKE IKE buttons now have
cause to wonder. Does Ike Like
Me? The real question though
is whether under the new crew
the ship will safely make port in
November.
Better English
Bv D. C. WILLIAMS
1. What is wrong with this sen
tence? "My wife and myself plan
on attending the two first meet
ings." , '
2. What is the correct pronun
ciation of "entrepreneur" " (an
employer)?
3. Which one of these words is
misspelled? Benificence, benig
nancy, benevolent, Benzidrine.
4. What does the word "inrrec
oncilable" mean?
5. What is a word beginning
with ap that means "a short, pithy
sentence"?
ANSWERS
1. Say. "My wife and I plan to
attend the first two meetings."
" 2. Pronounce an-tre-pre-nur, a as
in ah, both e's as in her, u as in
fur, principal accent on last syl
lable. 3. Beneficence. 4. Not cap
able of being friendly or in har
mony. "Their divergent views
and opinions were irreconcilable."
5. Aphorism.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Tell
i tha wtnt doctor .
SMOOTH HIGHWAY ENDS
Hollywood on
By GENE HANDSAKER
HOLLYWOOD "The Big Sky"
is a big, pretentious, outdoor
drama marked by rugged scen
ery and little
suspense. A slim
character actor
named Arthur
Hunnicutt, who
retains the
drawl of his na
tive ' Gravelly,
Ark. (population
200). steals the
picture.
Kirk Douglas
is nominally the
star of this
story of fur-
traders poling
.up the Missouri
River into Bla ckf oot-inf es ted Mon
tana Territory. But Hunnicutt, as
the expedition's shrewd and sea
soned leader, emerges . as a big
time player of the salty, good-in-any
emergency character.
The film was photographed
largely in Wyoming's Grand Te
ton National Park. Douglas and
newcomer Dewey Martin, a for
mer theater usher here, are ad
venturers who join the excursion.
Elizabeth Threatt, a half-Cherokee
New York fashion model,
plays a Blackfoot hostage who is
supposed to guarantee safe pas
sage through Indian country.
Little occasional skirmishes and
minor cries fail to generate much
exekement in this more than
two-hour film. The supporting
cast includes Buddy Baer as a
member of the expedition, Jim
Davis as leader of the villains,
and Hank Worden as a. friendly,
dimwitted Blackfoot. But Hunni
cutt, who had smaller parts in
"Broken Arrow," "Red Badge of
Courage," and other films, is the
brightest star of "The Big Sky."
Marilyn Monroe, of the much
discussed figure, shows she can
act, too, in "Don't Bother to
Knock." In this she is a dis
traught young woman who baby
sits in a Manhattan hotel one
evening for V couple of visiting
out-of-towners.
Across the courtyard, from op
posite rooms, Maruyn and Airline
Pilot Richard Widmark spy each
other. Presently he is in her room
with a bottle of rye. Marilyn, rec
ently released from a mental
hospital, takes him for her flier
sweetheart who died in a crash. .
Seeking to keep others from in
by Lichty
... is his behavior normal? . .
!
Parad
terrupting, she conks a bellhop
with an ash tray, trusses up her
: babv-sitting charge Donna Coch
ran), and starts pandemonium
in the hotel. Widmark, aghast at
the mess he finds himself in,
convinces his bar-singer girl
friend (Anne Bancroft) that he
has a heart after alL This is pret
ty taught and grim stuff, but at
''least it should keep your mind
off any other worries you may
, have.
ara.-s
Literary
Guidepost
By W. G. ROGERS
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF
STALIN, by Louis Fischer
(Harper; $3.50)
Already the author of several
books about Russia, where he
spent 14 years, Fischer now
writes about the chiefest Russian
of them all. Stalin is in the title,
and in these pages, too, but the
sun never sets, you might say, on
the man, his Russia, his influence
and his menace, now together
grown so very big, and there is
a great deal here about the
Stalin circle, or aura, or shadow.
The last part of the book de
serves to be mentioned first. It is
concerned with what will happen
when Stalin is laid to rest . . .
perhaps beside the shrunken re
mains of Lenin in the mausoleum
in Moscow's great Red Square.
It's guesswork, of course, but
here it is: Fischer thinks that, as
between army and police, the lat
, ter have the inside track and that
Beria of the dreaded NKVD is in
line for a top place; with him
there might be two others,
Malenko, a younger man like
Beria, and the veteran Molotov.
But Stalin will leave his heirs
three red-hot problems: A hostile
peasantry over 100,000,000 strong,
dissatisfied national minorities,
and a suspicious outside world.
Fischer thinks Stalin has led Rus
sia up a dead-end street. He has
kept out of another war, he has
not made a friend anywhere, and
by these two feats he has made
the dictatorship prosper and the
Russian people suffer. If the
democratic world doesn't waste
all its energies in hatred of ev
erything Communist, if in short
it can secure 20 or 30 years of
tranquility, prosperity and
progress, it would just natural
ly choke Communism out like i
noxious weed ... so this author
supposes.
The earlier chapters go over
ground already very familiar,
Stalin turned revolutionary at an
early age. He swears; likes dirty
stories; has had three wives; has
two toes grown together and an
arm i that doesn t function nor
mally; "outranks all the auto
crats in history;" outsmarted
Trotsky; outsmarted also some
Allied leaders at Yalta, Teheran,
Potsdam, or so Fischer, like some
other commentators, believes.
Some of his opinions about pre
war Stalin run counter to some
authoritative contemporary esti
mates.
River Claims
Fisherman
EUGENE UF)-A fisherman from
San Francisco drowned Sunday in
the Willamette River near Halsey.
He was Cornelius H. Houston,
41, who was fishing with John
Patapoff, Halsey. The latter said
he was baiting a hook and when
he turned around Houston was be
ing carried downstream.
There were three other drown
ings, two fire deaths and six high
way fatalities in the state over the
week-end.
Crooked Dice in
Pocket of Slain
Crapshooter
PORTLAND UP)-A crapshooter
with nine crooked dice in his
pocket was shot to death Sunday
and Detective R. R. Chappel said
Monday it was pretty definite that
the man was a fugitive from
Pittsburgh, Pa.
The dead man was known here
as William M. PowelL 36. Chappel
said only a checking of finger
prints remained to make positive
his Identification as Frank Sneed,
wanted for Mann Act violation and
for jumping $13,000 bail on that
charge in Pittsburgh.
Held here under a first degree
murder booking is Alex Rainey,
46, a railroad car cleaner. Chappel
said Rainey had signed a state
ment saying he made a toss of the
dice and won $20, but got a
threat from Poweil backed up by
a knife blade when he tried to
pick it up. His statement said that
in defense against the knife threat
he shot Powell in the chest with a
.32 caliber pistol
The detective said the crooked
dice in Powell's pocket had certain
numbers missing so all combina
tions could not be thrown.
Chappell said Geraldine Smith,
living here as Mrs. PowelL was
held as a material witness and
also was wanted for jumping bail
in Pittsburgh on a charge of keep
ing a disorderly house. The de
tective said all three are Negroes.
Billy Rose's
Wife Calls for
Dates. Places
NEW YORK (JP) Eleanor Holm
Rose Monday called upon her es
tranged husband, showman Billy
Rose, to give the dates and places
of the alleged misconduct he
charges in his suit for divorce.
The former swimming star mov
ea in sxaxe supreme court lor a
bill of particulars. " . i
The motion comes up for argu
ment .Tuesday morning.
. . .
airs, nose s suit ior a separa
tion and Rose s suit for divorce
have been joined and are schedul
ed to go to trial Sept. 10.
Adultery is the only grounds for
divorce in New York state. On
June 28 Rose was era n ted the
right to serve an amended com
plaint listing additional adulteries
he attributes to his wife.
Mrs. Rose s motion for a bill of
particulars, as well as other papers
in the case, have been sealed by
uie court.
Jake Bennett
Plans to File
PORTLAND WVJaka Bennett.
recalled as Portland city commis
sioner last May, Monday said he
would file for re-election to the
same post.
Nate Boody has held the post
since Bennett's recall. Boodr is
one of nine who have filed for the
office.
Meantime Dave Goldman, man
ager of the Recall Bennett Com
mittee, reported that he will start
court proceedings to test Bennett's
right to re-enter the race for the
office from which he was recalled.
REDS CLAIM KILLINGS
TOKYO W -The Communist
Peiping radio Tuesday claimed
without confirmation that 15 Ko
rean War prisoners were killed
and more than 40 wounded at an
Allied prisoner of war camp Aug.
io. ine location of the camp was
not given. The Red account did
not say how the prisoners were
killed.
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State Approval
Of Hospital Plan
HERMISTON (P)-The Hermis
ton Community Hospital Associa
tion has $50,904 in cash and $18.
000 in pledges toward its $110,000
goal and it was ready for a go-
ahead signal.
Martin K. Ransom, association
president, took a certified check
for the cash to Portland to bolster
the request for approval from the
state Health Board. Only $35,000
in cash had been set as the goal
before state approval could be
sought State approval is a step
toward getting federal aid.
Legion Chief
Pictures U.S. as
'World Chump'
NEW YORK (JP Thousands of
American Legionnaires were told
by their national commander Mon
day the United States has fallen
into the role of an international
chump that is afraid to speak the
blunt truth.'
Commander Donald R. Wilson
said the nation has lost its old
simple honesty and developed a
"sophisticated, super-modern ap
proach" that has gained us "scorn
at the conference table."
"We have in less than ten years."
he declared, "talked ourselves into
the position of an International
dupe of fantastic proportions."
Speeches by Wilson and other
notablesincluding Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey. AFL President William
Green and defense mobilizer John
Steelman highlighted the open
ing day of the Legion's 34th an
nual convention.
Commander Wilson's criticism of
national policies came shortly after
he read a message from President
Truman, urging the Legion to "put
all the facts before the people" in
the current political campaign.
In what Truman termed "my
last message to you from the
White House," the President told
the Legionnaires that after he
leaves office he will continue to
work for a secure America at
peace.
"Despite passing reverses and
discouragements, we have been
making real headway in this
course in recent years," the Presi
dent said. "Yet much remains to
be done."
Canada Forest
Closure to End
VANCOUVER, B. C. W)-Tht
20-day-old forest closure, in the
Vancouver forest district, with the
exception of Saward forest on the
northern part of Vancouver, Is
land, was to be lifted at midnight
Monday.
Heavy rains during the weekend
brought practically aU fires under
control and after a morning sur
vey the Forestry Services announ
ces lifting of the closure order.
It was established Aug. 5 when .
forests were closed to travel and
logging throughout the district
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