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- trm C77 m r.oci cetera) cinssis i ;rt Man, ou9 Commits buicide on Grave of Childhood Sweetheart i . Daily and Sunday' l vauf mil Laryngids in the oice9 j Tbe "Voice of America" seems to fee suffering from at bed case of laryngitis. Its cost glands -; are badly swollen; and what comes out jdoesnt sound good to congressional critics. Dr. ! Wilson Comptan, its- short-time director, has resigned. , .The "Voice" lias bad a rough time ever since fcaras set up alter the war to deUYer! propa ganda about the USA to counteract Communist i belching on the air. But when the "Voice" tried to tell the truth it got into trouble from com munities that didn't like the brand of truth , poured over the airwaves. Others have criticized It as too insipid and ineffectual; and of course It -ems under suspicion as a peddler of stuff with pro-Red slant so long as it was administered J by the State department. Senator McCarthy is : aiming at this in his current inquiry. - iNo. matter what the home hieacber-coachea have had to say the fact remains that Russia ; throws all the baling wire and tomcat choruses and boiler factory noises it can into the air to break up reception in the USSR and satellite counties. Even listening to the "Voice" is an of fense. And "neutralw countries complain because they are subject to propaganda barrages from r both Russia and the United States and perhaps I other countries. 1 f It is doubtful if we can ever succeed very ; well with a propaganda 'Voice." A democratic j country can't very well tell all the truth about f itself, nor can it safely warp and twist the truth j as can the totalitarian powers. We just can't i possibly match the devilish ingenuity of Herr Goebbels who set the modern pattern for radio j propaganda. tt might be just as well to wind up the "Voice" and give up the attempt to. get peoples fj other countries to think nice thoughts about us.r:The present laryngitis may be fatal to the Voice"; but it shouldn't be fatal to outstand ing over the world. Surely it isn't necessary for us to be telling the world how good we are. Changing Taft-Hartley Law Senator Taft'has offered his proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley law. The CIO con demns them and calls for repeal and reenact znent of the Wagner act. This is just a gesture motion because the CIO knows the Congress will do no such thing.: What may materialize into something worth while is the advisory committee of 15 which Secretary of Labor Durkin has named to con aider T-H changes and other matters in labor relations which may come up. This committee includes representatives of labor, management and the public Taft wants to hold to the 80-day strike in junction where vital public interest is affected. This is obnoxious to labor, and after the steel seizure fiasco of last spring not so popular with employers. :" We aren't too optimistic that the action taken ipjjjL meet with general approval from labor and management. Their differences are too wide and deep to submit to ready erasure. j i r. 1 Bay Ocean is not the only part coast which is being eaten away Political Ambitions of Nehru, Indian Seen Behind Statements Against Military Men in Government Br J. If. KOBJSRTS, jk. AasacUtcd Frees News Aaarst Prune llmister Nehru of India ; came pretty close to inctvuity the other day with bis talk before Par liament of r danger? connected with ' having military men at the head of governments. ' He didnt call President hower by name, but- be- brought the saatter up in a i discussion of the :- recent ' American order neutralizing Chiang Xaihek's Na tionalist Chinese forces on F sa. It was obvious be wasn't taJk- 1ns about Kaguib 1 or Tito Franco. It was an mrasual way for the head of one important govern ment te talk about another. . Almost in the same breath Neh ru reiterated his inanition to take sondes in the East-West conCict. Be said he wasn't trying to put one party to the dispute in the wrong But be didn't have ' anything de- zogatory to say about Stahn. Nehru's statements almost cided with conferences by two In dian leaders, one of them a mem ber of a Red front, with Stalin in Moscow. The other was the Indian ambassador whose activities have gotten India into several Ill-starred -attempts to mediate the Korean War and other ast-West difficul ties. ' - : Nehru has been trying to take a nudaJe course an the time, but has said a number of things hi the past winch had better been left unsaid if he hopes to be successful. The American people have just recenuy discussed, thoroughly the whole matter - of " the "military xnind as regarding Eisenhower and ' decided by ballot lhat they weren't afraid of it. Nehru's state ment will hardly have the " appeal so them that it does to Sxemlia auuaors of warmonger" propa- In: Che same speech Nehru said "history win show whether Demo cracy or totalitarianism is better. I am convinced; that' ultimately Democracy .will pay t be higher dividends, not only to the country tivol.ed but to the whole world. PvIe ia, the I westsm world think, Justory has already decided 2?o "totor Swa& Us No Fear ShsJl Awe" Am find gSatesssuut. Z2asc3l S3, mi THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CaATXES A. SiaAGU -Editor ad Pub lixiier ' lev T 8. la u countl (Benton Mart. (Ben too. ; av tea.. of. the AaManrt fraos - BarstauMS 'TSSSan aaav. Portland Ont of Step of the Oregon by the waters. that matter pretty thoroughly. Nehru himself testifies that he United States has done more good for more people in the matter of living standards than . any other country. !, - I AH this sounds Eke Nehru is muddled. But he is known to be a man of i high . intelligence. What, then, is' behind an tads beating around the stump? " There is evidence in things he has said that polincsl tVtrw. both for himself and for his coun try, is strongly Involved. Be ihbii to think that there are profits to be By W. O. B.OGSXS . JSTHUSCAN PAINTIKa, text by Massimo PaUotino, translated .by M. XL Stanley and Stuart Gil bert, with 64 illustrations. CSki ra; $12.50). In that segment of ancient Italy, between the Arno and the Tiber where Renaissance art was to flourish so dramaticany . . . there was an earlier magnifi cent art, the Etruscan, ha the last half dozen centuries B. C. Ot sas an art of the tomb, on rock, pamted directly on pol ished surfaces or on thin plaster, fresco-fashion. Most ot it has to " be seen on the site, and most people haye been satisfied- to. settle for transportable, pottery and sculpture and let the paint- -inss go. The pictures, of funeral rites, of gsmes and dances, ani mals, birds, sports, of Creek and -Amazon, are reproduced - in this;' book- for the first tune, - and thong!! the scholar win find a -specific use. for them, the lay man will be stirred surprMnglv by their emotive forms, their rich h color, their clearly - defm . able esthetic values. Tnese skill- . ful artists were Influenced, says Paliotir. jTolzszar ct Eiruscsa. art at the L'niverslty ef Rome, tjjr Literary Guidepost sue l&M year . LM ar eUu Yamhill). Datrett). Currents on the bar at the mouth of the Umpqua River axe chewing away at land behind the jet ty and moving tbe sand for deposit in front of the Coast Guard boathouse Xaunchway . Installa- tion of jetties has an effect on currents and may have contributed to the resulting erosion at both coastline. The people of Oregon voted by a large major : ity to fix standard time as the official time for the state. Down at Portland however efforts art being made again to get that community to overrule the state majority. The Retail Trade bureau has voted to recommend fast time for scores. - Stores can fix such hours as they choose for opening and ig What causes trouble is when a community tinkers with Che clock. When that results in having dock-time differences confusion results. It would seem that Portland interests could be satisfied by deciding not to call for a "voluntary" shifting of the hour-hand on clocks but moving forward by an hour or half -hour the times for opening and closing of stores and offices. If dual time results the real sufferer will be the retail stores in Portland they will lose the last hour's business of people from the country. Why shouldn't Portland accept the popular ver dict of the state and forget about the whole DST business? , The Chinese Communist army in Korea is try ing to attract Koreans to desert by. promising them jobs and assuring them they will not have to return at the war's end. But repatriation of prisoners was the rock on which negotiations at Panmunjom broke; the Reds demanding repat riation to the last man. The present offer shows how insincere the Reds were in the truce talks and in rejecting the United Nations resolution, t Sincerity to them, however," Is just a bourgeois, imperialist, capitalistic device not to be borrow ed in the Communist dispensation! The San Francisco Chronicle had a reporter get himself sentenced to jails in surrounding cities. Then he came out with a series of stories , about the terrible conditions of those jails. In this state grand juries have been taking a hand. One in Lane County condemned the county jail : there and the sheriff has made other arrange ments for care of prisoners; The Coos County jury was very critical of jails at North Bend and Myrtle Point. It takes periodic investigations to keep jails decent. In spite of all the reported pressure for tax reduction we believe the majority of Americana prefer to get a balance in our budget and to quit rolling up xthe deficits which inevitably result in inflation and higher prices. This probably means that the excess profits tax should be con tinued another year. Certainly it would be poli tical suicide for the Congress to grant tax relief to corporations and none to individuals. reaped, : position to be attained in all of Asia, If he and India can play the . role of mediator. Ha knows, particularly in the Korean War situation, that the West is anxious for a settlement. : He may think that If he appears to Stalin to be a little critical of the West, the Russians may be a little snore willing to intrust lam with some mission He seems to be unaware of the moral as wen as material issues which make it impossible . for , anyone to water on both shoulders in times. Greece, Crete, Rhodes and Cor inth, One of. the handsomest of . the familiar Skira publications, this is also one of the most fan -portent, since ifs a new veuiuie in a field so-gexierany unfamiliar. TTALIAN PADITING FH01I ' CARAVAGGXO TO MODIOLI ANT; Critical studies by LioneUo Ven turi, historical surveys by Hosa bianca Skira-Venturi, translated by Stuart Gilbert, with C3 repro ductions (Skira; $1750)'. , The last of three volumes on Italian painting, this gets out of the period of sure-fire, uslvers aUy , accepted masterpieces into more arguable recent times. Be productions are, as always, ad mirable, though there is an oc - casional - painter hardly worth the technical pains: Llichelar-! Cerquozzi, for instance or L-l-vestro Lega. Spanish PAirrruTc; tsxss VELASQUZ3 TO PICASDa by . Jacques Lassaijac,' translatsd by Stuart Gilbert, with 73 re;TO ductions (Skira; $17X3). ' Second . volume - oa - rganish .-pafatirg,. tLls includes 13 Ccya plates, 13 Yelasquez, six n Gre co, six Picsts a, three. Iliro, one Grit, cmDiJ .and so on. -: - MM "wefcTi: -ss- . I ; C'rjxe McterM 1953 at thafa , there's tremendous difference la tQaa used at transmission point and KFTV itself sua p .m. Tuesday somewhat tisaiama ... TV i iqiHialnl limliu how ever . . . wonder is that it works as well as It does ... incidentally, the morning paper who scheduled that Mardi Grai for 1129 p.m. our time probably heard from irate customers . . . SUtesmaa was "unable to find exact time it due on air but knew It couldn't ba 11:30 pjn. so scratched that out of log . . . JEPTV to step up power la March. Thers arc Jl snakes of talevirion sets beieff sold in this ares . . . probably 8 of them comprise 75 per cent of the Males . . , tchy hoi a certain ice cream stare been caught short on gallons recently? . . . "TV parties sake ebowt all the gallon containers we can put up," dealer seys , . . Car-rying-things-too-far department: radio commercielizer to ther night seid certain muto dealers would "beck up every ear they selL . . . Now whmt would happen if they hired . . salesmen toho swore te- stand back of every car they sell? . ... old stuff now but whoever hmd TV turned on at 2 p.m. lest Seturdmy saw one of the most dramatic programs ever offered in this area . . . it was new CBS show Ton mre There, and depicted last hours of ill-fated Germen dirigible Hindenberg. 4 i Hollywood says we dont understand film stars and their trou bles and temptations, and. In fact, that we dooft understand Holly wood . . . weU, it's certainly helpful to such nmV i ilamUnjj; when one of the super-super inslde-HoUywood gosslpists spends 10 min utes on a onlckter report of the movie capital with at least half the tone devoted to dl voices, marital troubles, iwHmaxrlace. etc. J what is it-that snakes Dinah Shore so popular? ... looks, for one thing; voice, for another; third the fact that she doesn't grimace, glower, gush or simper at applause-time . . . std toe bad so many good TV artists have to prate about their spoexsors products them selves instead of leaving commercials to announcers. it Lawrence Hmrvey may have quite a bit his ntiad for Smlem, since he apparently plans to be here most of next "week . . . Joseph Brenner, Beverly HiUs, mttorney and per sonal representative, also to be here , . . chamber of com merce been offering assistance in any Harvey plans abrew "ing, which include operation of Ray-O-Vmc plant (former alumina-from-tldy) on Cherry Avenue tut well as TV Chan sal 24 ... no known plans jelled for studio . second floor ' downtown site very mveilable but Brenner told Televine he doesnt like studio being off ground-level . . . if you're a -TV-owner, have you noticed how your TV hosts and try to pry out of you compared to others you've seen? ! r e " " . KPTV has moved the Garry Moore comedy-variety show up to ; 11:45 ajn. ... operative IS says I Married Joan is out-drawing I Love Lucy 2 to 1 In Salem telenesta ... LaBoheme, story of tober eular French girl by Puccini, wfn be Metropolitan Operaed 130-3:00 pa. Sunday ... Jack Benny also be Sunday .feature at 430 pJn. . . . who says radio and newspapers arent compatible Oregon Broadcasters Association goes on record urging construction of new Journalism school building at U. of O. . . from looks of present Jon. bldg., no one could oppose a new one, at that. . . j . The Safety Valve WANTS FREEDOM IN VOTTNO . To the Editor: . Some dogs go barking along one line. There is just one thing that is game for them. Some men i?5! te uuoom ww go yp yp yapp" after that. Mr. Hounsell has been hired by the people in Jus dis trict to go to Salem and help make tost laws that shall be for the good of all the people in our state. That requires good Judg ment and rraaninmg Yet he pro poses two sksiui 1 1, both along the same line, to "hound a man' out of office who said, before el ection, that if be was sentto the senate be would give matters his careful consideration and then vote according to his best judg ment. This man also told us in plain words not to vote for him if we did not want him to do just that. We. the people, in majority vote, elected him to do just that. Why the howl? We hear no yap ping about Byrd and Byrnes who also decided to change their first cplnion and vote outside their party, or about Edgar W, Smith who changed his party." All my life long I have been a Republican, and every ances tor I ever heard of, and they are many, was a Republican, but we were taught that our brains ' were for Individual use and de cisions and that we should not balk like a mule at party fines .lest we overstep their. dictum. I think the t-ie has come for a respectable sparging in the gov ernment of our own country and state, by the people as a whole, when men think less ot what is good for the people-than they &9 cf .what .. is ; detrimental far .one man who dares step over bis LWS w m 0Qi at fault wham the TV picture is ironing out bag ... the "please what you think of their set party una. What kind of a coun try would this be if we were forbidden to change our opinions except at certain times, and were not allowed to vote for whom- 1 soever we would? L for one, . want no laws restricting my right and privilege to vote for anyone I consider the best qualified ; for a position, : be he Republican, . Democrat or Independent. Let us ask divine guidance before act- - - 'GRIN AND BEAR IT "YTisi U ilii d?-xresiaa yeare stack mill, " Wq ) jr x.j " : fCoatisrued from page one) time snight tell ns to get out? It urges the advantage of big car riers as mobile bases, and says that none of these was sunk to the last war by air action. The counter argument is that ships do not run on dry land, and might not be able to get close enough to bomb enemy vitals. Also, that hordes of smaller ships and plan- as must be provided for tan ha for supply and An economy-minded surely will not be drmtisvd to give both the Air Force and the Navy all they want. Whether Sec retary of Defense Wilson can ef fect a compromise or issue an order which will stick is uncer tain. Each mifcs has powerful friends In Congress who may take up the fight if the generals and admirals are required to lay off. Congress will htn a snaat dirA cult time trimming the defense budget in the face of these de mands for overseas bases whose cost runs into the hundreds of aJSto and for anjimaiihis cost Is only slightly One cast help questioning the judgment of me military in its extended ptogiam of building and maintaining ah bases. Strat egto bombing has Its ttmrtatians. The program may help deter Rus sia from aggression. On the other hand it may also excite Russia's fears of attack from the West Morse and Long certainly nave posed a hot question as to what we have got far our money on these foreign bases. They have projected before Congress and the country how much more we must spend on this feature of de fense, and the alternative of spending on super-carriers for the Navy. Northwest By Daa K. Clark emeritas ef lustory, CJaiversity of Oregee Prefc Teeasis way was Astoria restored to the United States? In the Treaty of Ghent at the dose of the War of 1812 there was a clause stating that all ter ritory or places taken by one nation from the other during the war should be restored without delay. Fort Astoria, or Fort George, as it had been renamed by the British, came under this provision for, as was stated in a previous article, Captain Black of the British warship sxaasaasi took possession of the fort dur ing the war. For various reasons it was two years after the Treaty of Ghent was signed before the United States was la a position to send a naval vessel to the Pacific to re-assert American sights. La September, IS17, how over. Captain John Biddla was ordered to proceed to the mouth ef the Columbia in the aloop-of-war Oatorle. He was to be ac companied by John B. Prevost as agent of the government to "assist the claim of the . United States to the sovereignty of the adjacent territory, in a friendly and peaceful manner, and with out the employment ot force." "Sir Charles Bagof , the British Minister in Washington - was much disturbed when he learned of the action, and he reported it to his home government. Fortu nately, the British government was not inclined to become ex cited over the matter and after some discussion it was decided that the site of Fort -Astoria would have to be restored under the terms of the Treaty of Ghent. Orders to that effect were sent to the Commander of the British naval forces in the Pacific and to the agent of the North West Company at Fort George.' Thus it was that on October 6, 1118, John B. Prevost, repre senting the United States, and Frederick Hickey, representing ing, and then follow It, being sure it is divine and not Satanic Marion Foster Gribble 139 Kenwood Avenue Medford, Oregon by Lichty so afraid cf. never JLarrensT our savtacst ..." . ST. LOUIS UB A fatany wounded IQAfla ekppSsteTCUtl CSpQaWSsSew OTCF the death of his chudhood sweet heart, was found slumped ever a woman's grave Wednesday in a St. Louis cemetery. - St. Louis County deputies tenta tively identified the man as August C. Cramer, about 60 years old, of Qidncy, ITL - He died at St. Louis County Hospital from a bullet wound la his head without making a state ment. ,:r ....... The grave over which bis body was found was marked by a head stone bearing the name "Delia Decker." Cemetery records showed a Delia Decker, 64, was buried there sa May. 1851. Witnesses told police they 1 the man carry paper - wrapped flowers to the grave. Shortly after ward they said they heard a shot. In tbe man's ctothmg was a note which read: . - "When I lost Dell I lost every thutg I eared for. X cant carry oa any loncer without JJeU.- Deputies said they learned from a sister of tne late Hiss Decker, airs. Edward Boyens of St. Louis. Coal Miners Stage Battle CLAR7TEXD, Pa. ill -1 right ing with buuets, atones and clubs, pickets and non-union coal miners battled for nearly a half -hour today at the Robert Bailey strip (sur face) mine near this Western Penn sylvania community. -- A United Mine Workers organis er was shot. The victim was John Lonetti, 49, police chief and president of the UMW local in Ids home town of Vintondale. Dist Atty. Joseph Da rue of aearfieki County said about 125 pickets and 3C miners were In volved, i History Great Britain, signed and ex changed papers of restoration an acceptance at Fort George. The North West Company re mained in possession of the fort because of its purchase from Astor's Company. But American diplomats were able to use the official ceremony of restoration very effectively as a virtual acknowledgment of our right, not only to the Astoria site, but . , also to the country south ot the Columbia River. Your Health Texts With New rain-Renevtng Dreg Of the various reasons why people seek medical help, one of the most frequent is for the re lief of pain. Many times- the doc tor is called on to remove pain temporarily even before the real cause of the pain can be cor rected. This may require pain-relieving drugs, sometimes powerful ones. The physician will use1 these drugs when necessary, but in doing so he is faced with an important problem. a Many of the drugs used for re lieving pain so . distort the nor- mal body functions that their use may be prohibited in certain cases. Good examples of these drugs are tnorphine or the opium i group, many of which cause; se vere nausea and disturb ade-. quate nutrition. These drugs also have a tendency to prevent nor- , mal bowel movements, and cause . severe constipation as , well as. urinary retention. ' Of course,' we do not want to use drugs that will disturb the mentality of the patient, as may the barbituates, such as pheno barbllaL when used improperly by elderly people. It is important that drugs which are habit forming be most carefully employed. In studying the reasons for Addiction, we find that many people become addicted to narcotics or barbit-. urate drugs because they take the drugs for long periods of time without the physician's su pervision... "-.-- ' i Scientists : have searched a number of years for drugs ; that resemble morphine in its effects : without having the toxic and ad dicting qualities of this drug. . t Now we learn thatn new drug ; known as "dromoran has been used for just this purpose. This drug has been tried out In va rious surgical operanons so neve pain following surgery, It was f omvi the dromorsn did nOT. CUtUUB VIC yyWM. u m0B nausea or vomiting. There is not so much distention of the bowel as with other drugs, and pa tients given ibis drug remained FILE'a v i .CAXCtlTS CIIAE13 FOLDZJ GUIDZS THAi;cm CACZ3 Emm Vr wm P li ."cV.Ccsit. r. :"-:! ' . that Delia Decker and Cramer had been awihcaita smce childhood. She was unable to say why the two, who were unmarried, had not wed. ' GIAiTestedin Officer's Death FORT DTX, NJ". m Army au thorities said Wednesday a Brook tym CI is being held la the death of a lieutenant who originally was inougns io nave been aiued ao-- eklentalry during maneuvers. Maj. Gen. Homer W. Kiefer. commander of the Sth Infantrv rs- i vision, said an Investigation of the aeam cc lx. Klchard M. Daven port of New London, Cono-, had established - that he "apparently was murdered."' Held in the s'tlng waa Pn. Edgar 91. Owens. SO, of Brooklyn, Onus aumitted hi a tkned state. ment he shot the lieutenant. No Lt. Davenport was fa tally wound ed latt ia the afternoon of Feb. U whue leading his platoon on a simulated assault charge. The pla- curao Boaaea rmes. Holland 7on't Ask for Aid PORTLAND Oft The Netfcar. lands wffl not ask American finan cial aid to rebuild dikes and re claim land flooded two weeks ago, Jerome L. Heldring sakt here Wednesday. Heldring. chief of The Nether lands Information Service, said the country would use some of its own money which had been set aside to match American economic aid. He wffl address the Oregon Press . Conference ia Eugene Friday. Misconduct Case Dropped LOS ANGELES U Misconduct charges against Donald W. Doug las, 60. fcRinder-prexident of Doug las Aircraft Co., were dropped Wednesday when his wife filed an amended complaint for divorce. The new document charges only cruelty. It made no mention of Mrs. Marguerite Carrie Tucker, 51, a divorcee whom Mrs. Charlotte Douglas, 60. named co-respondent in her original cross suit for ,-. . lU.UIKU,n,t MMMAWm Tucker was assistant to the presi- I dent at the aircraft firm. By Dr. Herman landesea alert, comfortable and co-operative while receiving It. Perhaps most important of all, none of the parents had a tend ency to . become addicted with the use of this new drug. Of course, this drug should be used only when the physician pre scribes it. . QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS J. O.: I am a woman, 31, who has diabetes and would like very much to have a child. Will diabe tes prevent my having one? Answer: At one time, before the excellent modern methods for controlling diabetes were de vised. It Was very difficult for a . diabetic person to become preg nant. However,- with modern methods of treatment, diabetes will not prevent pregnancy. ' , Better English By D. C WILLIAMS 1. What Is wrong with this sentence? "The condition of things are chaotic, and we must talk about them previous to our departure. - 2. What Is the correct pronoun da tion of "coupe"? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? Aperture, apathetia, apsratus, aptitude. 4. What does the word "re- " mean? S. What is a word beginning with all that means "to lighten or lessen physical or mental troubles? ASSWZZS 1. Say, "The condition of things is chaotic, and we must talk about them previously (ad verb) to our departure. 2. Pro nounce as though spelled koo. 2. Apparatus. 4. To go or come back. "Such minds have regressed in "varying degrees to the childhood of the human race. 8. Alleviate. Hoover, Truman and Eisenhow er are the only U. S. presidents t m unvz tc:::c For fissrlaAil t-, nsrvoes hsadathes, csrvevs irritabry, exxaLy, ilarp lessness. ew 3 PeJ mm sTcrii- Oven Dally. 7:39 A. IX - t P. IX , Ssndays. 9 A. !X - e P. IX i 13 tim CCTTlTZZTZtZX