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Friday, June 13, 1941
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The Caoitol Journal, Salem, Oregon
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Edging Us Into War
There seems to be no Question but that the American
merchant ship Robin Moor was
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German submarine in tne soutn
i,n,o But ha( an hour wan sriven
to life boats and no effort made
carried no contraband of war and the U-Doat commanaer was
fully aware that the ship was an American one.
All of which acrain proves the folly of our silly appease
ment neutrality laws to seek to avoid offense to the nazis
even to the extent of abandoning our traditional doctrine of
freedom of the seas. Perhaps we should be grateful that the
vessel was warned and not sunk "without trace" as in our
neutrality period of the world war.
There were times when the wanton sinking of an Ameri
pnn nhin would be considered ail act of war, in fact such
actions precipated the wars against the Barbary pirates and
the war of 1812 and almost caused a war against Napoleonic
France. The question now is what is the president, to whom
nil authority has been delesrated. Koine to do about it?
The Robin Moor was sunk enroute to South Africa, a long
way from the war theatre and from German submarine bases.
But it is on the route ships will follow going to the Red sea
area which the president some
can shipping. At the time the
shins so sent would be sunk
ing made good to deter American aid to Britain or entrance
into the war. Nazi psychology is wrong again it will have
the contrary effect. More sinkings will insure it.
It is becoming evident that if we are going to have free
dom of the seas, we will have
rule the seas as well as continents.
New Deal Controls Judiciary
The elevation of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to
the chief justice of the United States supreme court and the
appointment of Attorney General Robert H. Jackson of New
York and Senator James Francis .Byrnes of South Carolina
as associate justices merely completes the New Deal's control
of the august tribunal.
President Roosevelt as a
been enabled to select seven out
sure a revision of constitutional
lines for the next generation for most of the appointees are
comparatively young men. Thus the president has been en
abled to carry out indirectly through appointments the stack
ing of the court he failed to accomplish in his frontal attack
in 1937.
Justices Stone and Roberts are the only republicans left
on the bench. Both of them were "liberal" republicans and,
along with Hughes, have been middle-of-the-road men. The
conservatives, Butler, Sutherland, VanUevanter and McRey
nolds, have been eliminated by time.
All of the Roosevelt seven
the New Deal program. Frankfurter was originator of a great
part of it and is still presidential advisor. Black was a radi
cal champion m the senate, Murphy attorney-general, Doug
las chairman of the SEC and other commissions. Reed so
licitor-general, Jackson attorney
sounding board, and Byrnes senate leader.
The far west is without representation on the court, for
Douglas, though born in Minnesota and educated m Washing
ton, has for nearly a score
New York.
Instead of Grumbling
When patrons of the public schools become aroused at
the cost or the general or particular manner m which the edu
cational system is being conducted their usual reaction is to
grumble, vociferously or meekly as becomes their individual
ity. In the course of a year one does not have to listen in
tently to hear hundreds of criticisms and complaints. Yet it
is seldom that the annual school election at which district di
rectors are elected brings out more than a comparative hand
ful of voters.
Last year less than 75 of the more than 17,000 qualified
electors in the Salem district participated in the election. That
was duo chiefly to the fact that there was but a single candi
date for the one seat on the board to be filled.
This year it is different. There are four aspirants for
the five-year term of director to be f illod, including the retir
ing member who seeks reelection on his record.
For those who are dissatisfied with the manner in which
the schools have been run next Monday's election provides
them with an opportunity to effectively voice their objec
tions. They have three advocates of change from whicli to
make their selection a conservative attorney, a radical at
torney and nn auto service mechanic, each of whom repre
sents a distinctive school of thought as to how the schools
should be conducted.
From this field it, would serin that every voter can pick a
candidate to fit his own particular specifications, a champion
of his own particular ideas who can give substance to the
voice of the majority as befits the keystone of our democratic
institutions our schools.
That Brenner Pass Pact
Otto Strnsser, former close associate of Adolf Hitler, who
is now a refugee from Germany in an article in tho New York
Times, on information based on his political contacts in Berlin,
purports to give tho agreement recently reached at Brenner
Pass between Hitler and Mussolini. Jn it Germany is pledged
to "deliver Egypt and the Sudan to Italy and to help Italy with
armed force to reconquer Ethiopia, Eritrea, British and Ital
ian Somaliland and to add Jibuti to the Italian east African
empire."
As n result of this agreement, French collaboration was
obtained, as Italy was forced to renounce claims to Tanisia,
Corsica and the French Riviera. Hitler gains important bases
for the campaign against the British in tho Near East and
against American aid in the Atlantic. An equilibrium is es
tablished in the Mediterranean between France and Italy
With Germany arbitrator.
Of course with Britain once defeated. Germany will prob
ably take over both the French and Italian African empires
along with France and Italy. '
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JS"! ' JS FEELING PASSES
By Don
Jim McGllchrist, guide at the
state capitol building, has become
an expert at the Job and by the
hundreds of orations given to var
ious squads of tourists who hang
on his every word, has worked up
a spiel of no mean dimensions or
of no small interest. Jim has them
going away with the feeling that
they've been treading on holy
ground and that they've had the
privilege of walking around the real
capitol of a real state and he does
a bang-up Job of same. Occasion
ally, but not often, Jim gets set
back on his heels Just a trifle. As,
for instance the other day, so the
story goes. Two attractive young
women wandered Into the- capitol
corridors much as the usual tour-
Novelties
In the News
(By tha Associated Press)
Important Protection
Philadelphia American war fliers
won't get shot in the pants, If mili
tary authorities can help it,
A major product of a new armor
factory here, Is a thick plate to go
under the seats of military air
planes to prevent what might be
called "unlucky hits" from below,
Bagged
Topeka, Kas. Kansas floods pro
duced a fish story with an Irony
touch.
V. E. Mclntyre, newspaper de
liveryman, put his golf bag in his
car so he could take part in a golf
tournament at Lawronce later In
the day.
Ills trip halted by high water, he
calmly took his No, 3 Iron and bag
ged a dozen carp.
Can You Blame Her?
Dcs Moines Today (Friday the
13th) Mnrjorlc Smith gave up Iowa
drivers license No. 13. She says she
isn't superstitious but since ob
taining the license two years ago she
figured In two auto accidents: un
derwent two operations; suffered ex
tensive burns on one arm while
cooking; lost some valuables when
her apartment wns entered and rob
bed.
U. S. Gets New Base
Manitowoc, Wis. The army
Knocked the props from an acro
batic net which appeared Inst year
with a circus when It. Inducted Ray
mond J, Roslnsky, 25. Roslnsky, the
catcher for four other men in the
act, nt one point held all four on
his shoulders.
Church Grants Two
Licenses fo Preach
At the mld-weck service Wednes
day night the Calvary Baptist
church granted licenses to preafh
the gospel to two of the young men
of the church, the first to enter full
lime Christian work in the history
of the church. One, Mr. Ronald
Adams, has been attending Eastern
naptlst Theological seminary In
Phllndelphia and the other, Mr.
Harold Oilman, has been attending
the Northwestern Evangelical Theo
logical seminary in Minneapolis.
Both of these young men will con
tinue their studies and later they
will be ordained.
Snndny morning Rev. Amo Q.
Wenlger, the pastor of the church,
will speak on the subject, "A
Mighty Deliverance." The choir, un
der the direction of E. D. Llndburg
will sing the anthem, "Send Out
Thy Light," by Parks. The pastor's
subject for the evening will be "A
Work In Vain." Miss Doris Schunke
will preside at the Howard Emer
son organ.
Italv Is planning construction of
a plant to recover magnesium and
bromine from sea water, the depart- !
ment of commerce reports. j
Upjohn
lsts wander In and Jim volunteered
his services to the strangers to show
them about. "I don't know as that's
hardly necessary," remarked one of
the young women. "I'm Martha
Sprague, the governor's daughter."
But that was only an Incident. Jim
is becoming as real an Institution
as tho capitol building Itself.
Aha, so this Is Friday, the 13th
and today we've succeeded in avoid
ing the customary pitfalls. There
ain't no Friday the 13th going to
worry us any more, not as long as
we can carry around one of Dick
Severin's four leaf clovers In our
pocket, and we sure kept ours zip
pered up tight today.
On Friday the 13th nine years
and one month ago today we had
the pleasure through our column of
saying a few words of greeting to
Quy Ijewelllng who mounted the
circuit bench in this county on that
day for the first time. Today on
another Friday the 13th he sings
his swan song here and we're glad
to say that the nine years and one
month he's seen here In active ser
vice doesn't cause us to take away
one dot of an "i" or cross of a "V
from what we said about him then.
In fact, we might dot a few more
"l's" and cross a few more "t's" In
his behalf. Ouy started getting his
legal career In Salem at Willamette
by working as a prison guard or at
anything else that would buy a
textbook. Be came up the hard way
and made a success of It. He de
serves all the honors he can get.
And we're glad to greet his succes
sor, Max Page, yclept "Blng" by
his fellows, who succeeds Ouy on
the bench here and whom we've
known ever since knee pant days
his not ours and know he has the
poise, Judicial temperament and le
gal knowledge to make a Judge of
the first-class variety. And If that
be oontempt of court, he can throw
us In the Jug at his pleasure.
From Molly Pitcher down the
pages of American history have
been full of stories about the cour
age of various American women.
That they haven't lost It Is demon
started by the courage it must take
for some of 'em to appear on the
streets In the hats they wear.
Probably typing above paragraph
Is tho hardest luck we'll have on
tills hard luck day.
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Kelly Says:
Orton Known to Be
Communist for Years
UAW Leader Admits
Communist Registration
Aluminum Strike Led
By Exposed Communist
:By John W. Kelly
When O. M. Orton, representing
the International Woodworkers of
America (CIO), defied the govern
ment of the United States and Im
plied that the Defense Mediation
board was trying to disorganize la
bor It caused no surprise to the
house committee investigating un-
American activities. The committee
(popularly known as the Dies com
mlttee) has known Orton as a com
munist for years and knows that In
defying the government he was fol
lowing the party line. Furthermore,
the committee knows and names the
leaders of other strikes on the Pa
cific coast, strikes which tied up
hundreds of millions of dollars of
war orders.
In contract with the CIO. loggers
and millmen of Fuget Sound, some
20,000 of whom have gone on strik
ing and who, through Orton, re
fused the mediation of the board,
the Columbia river loggers have re
ceived a pat on the head and the
blessings of the board for compli
ance. ,
Dies Committee Active
On October 24, 1938, the Dies com
mittee notified congress that Orton
was a communist and lived at Aber
deen, Wash. For this statement the
committee was ridiculed by a nutn
ber of high government officials,
for in those days the reds were more
than tolerated by the admlnistra
tion. Shortly before the strike of
CIO loggers in Washington state a
member of the committee again di
rected attention to Orton's connec
tions with the communist party
This was on April 3 (speech in Con
gressional Record) and the strike
started early in May.
That isn't all congress has been
told about Orton. Representative
Dies alleged three months ago that
Orton was one of the CIO leaders
sponsoring the American peace mo
bilization. Last week the committee
received testimony that the Ameri
can peace mobilization was organ
ized by communists and Is con
trolled by them. Day and night, 24
hours a day, the "mobilizers" have
been picketing the White House for
more than a month. The pickets,
carrying banners, are usually young
sters of high school age and elderly
women. 'They are paid for picketing
and some of the money has come
from the CIO seamen's union.
CIO Members Testify
President of the United Automo
bile Workers, which has tied up air
plane orders at the North American
plant, Inglewood, Cal., is Elmer J.
Freytag. Under oath last week at a
Dies committee hearing, Freytag
was forced to admit he registered as
a communist voter in Los Angeles In
1038. Chief organizer for CIO on
the Pacific coast Is Lou Michener,
who came to Washington with Frey
tag. Back In August, 1938, Michener
was Identified as a communist by
the committee on un-American ac
tivities. A few days ago the commit
tee obtained a photostatic copy of
Michener's party membership book.
Two CIO members came to Wash
ington and testified to the commun
ist control of their union; told of
their fight to get rid of the Frey
tags, etc. Scarcely had these wit
nesses returned to Los Angeles than
one was beaten up by a goon squad;
the other had two telephone warn
ings that his house would be dyna
mited.
The strike In the aluminum plants
in Cleveland, O., is now being led by
Alex Bllant, exposed as a commun
ist by the committee in August, 1938.
Dies committee has been denounced.
very recently, by Philip Murray,
head of CIO, when the committee
called attention to these communist
organizers. But when O. M. Orton
Conference to
Draw Big Crowd
A record attendance will be on
hand for the annual conference of
food and drug officials of the 11
western states In Portland June 19
and 20, according to word from the
office of A. W. Metzger, chief of the
state department of agriculture
foods and dairies division. Metzger
is president of the association.
Oregon men on the program will
be Mayor R. E. Riley of Portland
who will give the address of wel
come; Prof. E. H. Wlegand, Oregon
State college; J. Deane Patterson,
chief machinist, state department
of agriculture, Salem; Prof. J. E.
Simmons, Oregon State college; J,
D, Mickle, director state department
of agriculture, Salem; W. C. El
ford, city of Portland division of
sanitation; L. F. Allen, administra
tor Oregon liquor control commis
sion, Portland; C. Earl Watklns,
president Oregon board of phar
macy, Portland; Dr. J. R. Haag,
Oregon experiment station, Cor
vallis. A number of outside speakers
also are on the program.
A no-speech banquet at the
Multnomah hotel, 'where sessions
will be held, will bring the confer
ence to a close Friday night.
Escaped Convict
Still at Large
Jim Scott, 19-year-old Indian who
escaped from a state penitentiary
work crew Thursday, was still at
large today.
Warden George Alexander said
Scott was believed to have been
seen driving east near Stayton, and
that watchers were on the alert
along the Santlam highway as far
as Bend.
The Indian was committed from
Harney county on conviction of be
ing armed with a dangerous wea
pon. He was described by prison of
ficials as "not particularly danger-
CIO Orders Purge
Of Subversives
Los Angeles, June 13 (JP) A score of top ranking CIO of
ficials are coming to Los Angeles in response to Richard T.
Frankensteen's call to purge the Pacific coast leadership of
the United Automobile Workers of
charged . the Defense Mediation
board with being labor-busters,
Murray said Orton's accusation was
"lying defamation."
Communists In Labor
It may appear, to some, that there
Is too much harping on the com
munists In this column, but slowly
the facts of these termites In organ
ized labor are coming to the sur
face. They are responsible for many
of the strikes which have delayed
production; they are striving to
break down the morale of the Amer
ican people; they are attempting to
foment civil war. Being good organ
izers, they moved in when the CIO
was being formed and had them
selves elected to responsible posi
tions. When the Dies committee be
gan Its expose years ago It was ridi
culed, but the prophecy that ehlck
ers would come to roost Is now being
borne out. Congress Is on the verge
of doing something drastio if these
strikes are not stopped.
When the 41st division (Maj. Gen.
George A. White) receives 100 per
cent equipment on a priority It will
know that It Is marked for a for
eign expedition as a "task force,"
which Is the 1941 name for Ameri
can Expeditionary Force. First to be
completely equipped are 14,000 men
at Camp Devens, Mass., all regulars,
but Chief of ' Staff Marshall hints
that a few good national guards In
the service are also on his list. More
transports have Just been taken
over by the army, Including boats
from the Matson and President lines
on the Pacific coast.
. By Gene Ahern
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3a(em Sketched By WiilVanch
"If you think they look lovely now Just wait till you see how
they'll look decorating one of Mrs. Ed O. Morrison's strawberry
6hortcakesl"
West Salem Guest
Honored at Party
West Salem, June 13 Mrs. Terese Hanks arranged a
party Tuesday evening at her home in Elm street compli
menting Miss Agnes Stronk of Twin Falls, Idaho, who is
her guest this week. The evenings
was spent at cards with high honors
going to Mrs. Norrls Looney and
Mrs. Teresa Cooper. Miss Stronk
received the guest prize.
Present were Miss Agnes Stronk.
Miss Willa Loomis, Mrs. Teresa
Cooper, Miss Gladys Wendedahl,
Miss Margaret Abert, Miss Betty
Bedford, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Mrs.
Norrls Looney, Miss Rose Ann
Hanks, Mrs. A. Phleaulof and Mrs.
Hanks.
Club Holds Frolio
The Tuesday Luncheon club had a
welner roast In Rosemont park
Tuesday noon. Present were Mrs.
L. Hartman, Mrs. Glen Davenport,
subversive elements.
Frankensteen, national head of
the aviation division of the CIO
UAW, declared in a radio address
their purpose is to "clean out Com
munists from positions where they
could dominate CIO politics In the
UAW organizing drive on the Pa
cific coast."
He reiterated his declaration that
the five-dBy strike at North Ameri
can Aviation plant called by local
union officials during negotiations
before the national defense media
tion board at Washington, was "a
wildcat and outlaw strike."
"I condemn the Irresponsible acts
of the local leaders of the striking
UAW who surrendered our union to
the Communist party and who
sought to use its strength to pre
cipitate a strike against our national
union, our national government and
our national defense," he declared.
Frankensteen has suspended of
ficers of the local union and mem
bers of its negotiating committee,
along with five UAW international
representatives. He announced he
had filed charges against Lew H.
Michener, UAW west coast regional
director, with national CIO head
quarters. Next objective of the UAW air
craft organizing drive, Franken
steen said, will be Douglas Aircraft
company, with some 20,000 produc
tion workers as against 9,000 at
North American.
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