4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 18, 1947
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Helgoland Fortress Blown Up
The tiny German island fortress of Helgoland was blown
into the North Sea today by the British navy with a shatter
ing blast from 6700 tons of high explosives, touched off by
an electric impulse from a cable ship eight miles away. The
fortress had protected Germany's exposed northern flank
through two world wars. .
The blast was intended to change the rocky red island
one mile long and a third of a mile wide, standing off the
river Elbe estuary 28 miles from the German mainline from
a fortress into a harmless little haven for North Sea fisher
men. Clouds of smoke rose 8000 feet, as submarine pens,
anti-aircraft guns and radar installations were ripped apart,
peppering the sea for hundreds of yards around the island.
A British broadcast correspondent, flying over the scene,
aaid the island shot into the air "like skyscrapers on the New
York skyline," with a smoke column like "the Bikini atomic
bomb mushroom." .
The island was blown up by 8000 tons of explosives left
behind by the Germans when the war ended, and 3500 tons
more hauled to it by German engineers under British direc
tion and an unrevealed amount of ammunition concealed in
the tunnels honeycombing the miniature Gibraltar.
Helgoland, which commanded the Keil canal, was anciently
a religious center of the Frisians. It was ceded to Great
Britain by Denmark in 1814 and by Great Britain to Germany
in 1890 in exchange for Zanzibar. Germany fortified the
island in defense of the German coasts.
The first important naval engagement of World War I
occurred off Helgoland on August 28, 1914, between the
British and German fleets. British naval forces under Ad
miral Beatty included a submarine flotilla, two destroyer
flotillas and a light cruiser squadron, a battle cruiser squad
ron and a cruiser squadron. The action began early in the
morning and lasted until afternoon.
The British cruiser Arethusa was badly damaged, and
British casualties were 82 killed and 52 wounded. The Ger
mans lost three cruisers and one destroyer, with casualties of
700 killed and 300 prisoners, including Lieutenant Von
Tirpitz, son of the German grand admiral. The battle had a
determined effect on the German fleet. Beatty also com
manded the British navy in the battle of the Dogger bank
in January, 1915, and in the battle of Jutland May 3, 1916,
and received the surrender of the German fleet in the Forth,
November, 1918.
The Two Labor Control Bills .
The republican drive for labor reforms has shifted to the
senate amid indications that the senate will tone down the
tough union-control bill approved by the house. The senate
committee has, over the objections of senate leader Taft,
passed a much more moderate measure, but Taft is expected
to partially win out in the senate fight. Debate begins on
Wednesday.
While a tougher strain ran all the way through the house
bill, the major difference between it and the senate measure
was in the treatment of industrywide bargaining placed by
the house under a complete prohibition. It would allow the
same union representatives to negotiate for employes of
more than one plant only in cases involving companies em
ploying less than 100 workers and located within a 50 mile
radius.
The senate committee's bill would do almost nothing about
industrywide bargaining. Taft does not want an outright
prohibition. But he favors restrictions that would leave
bargaining power in the local unions, allowing them to com
bine for bargaining purposes if they were not subject to
dictation from the national union.
On the closed shop, house and senate bills were in virtual
agreement. Both would outlaw the closed shop but allow the
milder union shop, under which employes can be required to
join a union within 30 days. The two bills also would allow
maintenance of membership contracts.
Both would outlaw jurisdictional strikes and secondary
boycotts but by radically different methods. This difference
promised to bring a bitter dispute on the senate floor.
Both the house and senate bills would make unions, as well
as employers, subject to charges of unfair labor practices.
The two bills also contained similar emergency provisions.
Those sections would authorize the attorney general to
obtain injunctions against strikes endangering the public
health and salety for periods or 75 or 80 days.
Coal Miners
Live in Squalor
Washington, April 18 (U.B
The federal coal mines adminis
tration reported today that the
average coal miner and his fam
ily live In "squalor" and that
conditions in some mining towns
are a "national disgrace."
The CMA, reporting the con
clusions of an 11-month survey
of miners' living conditions, said
the blame must be shared by the
mine owners, John L. Lewis'
United Mine Workers (A F L)
and the miners themselves.
The agency urged health and
sanitation schooling for mine
families in backward areas, an
improved system of prepaid
medical care, and the adoption
of state laws to compel mine
owners to build and maintain
sanitary housing for the miners.
"If it is the custom and tra
dition that mine families shall
exist In squalor, it is time for
that custom and tradition to be
abolished," the CMA said.
In congress meanwhile, Sen.
Guy Cordon, (R-Ore), agreed
with Lewis that stronger federal
mine safety laws are needed.
Cordon said the government
should be empowered to close
dangerous mines until safety
violations are corrected, or to
Impose fines "big enough to
force compliance."
News of Relative
In Texas City Sought
Mrs. E. E. Bergman of 1601
Chemeketa street has been vain
ly tndeavoring to ascertain
whether a cousin, Thorole Le
men, district manager of the
Standard Oil company of Texas
City, Tex., was a casualty in the
disaster that struck that commu
nity this week. Communica
tions with Texas City are virtu
ally non-existent. Lemen has a
wife and daughter.
Mrs. Arne Lien, route 7, is
awaiting anxiously information
as to the safety of her brother,
Richard Bray, who has been sta
tioned at Texas City with a na
val unit. Mrs. Lien has been
checking through the American
Red Cross. Bray is married,
Mrs. Lien said.
Tri-Club Contest
Slafed Sunday
A tri-rlnh rnntpsr will V
hv mnHpl nirnlnno nl,,V, In c
lem and Portland at McMinn-
ville bunday with the Salem
Cloud Chasers completing trans
portation plans Thursday night.
Others taking part in the con
test are the Salem Model club
and the Portland Grasshoppers.
Prizes will be awarded in seven
divisions.
The Salem U-controI contest
will be held here June 22 with
the annual free-flight meet July
27, locations yet to be decided
upon. Bob Olson spoke on U
control design at the mfln
Thursday night. The next meet
ing oi the Cloud Chasers will
be May 1.
Dimensions of wood are not
affected by temperature
changes, although it will swell
because of moisture.
Life's Big Moments ij
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Sips f or Supper
By Don Upjohn
Parking meters arriving by
airplane to beat out the dead
line are of the manual type on
which the city saved about $10
apiece by not using the auto
matic kind. Probably the extra
difference in cost to the compa-
any shipping by airplane would
have paid for the automatic met
ters. But us old timers used to
have to crank a car and maybe
it will show the younger gener
Novelties
Memory Teasing Name
Jefferson City, Mo., April 18
lP) A St. Joseph, Mo., realtor
told the Missouri real estate
convention meeting yesterday
"you probably won't remember
anything I say but 1 11 bet you
remember by name." His name
is Early Bird.
Gratitude
Osaka, April 18 WP) A month
ago Shigeo Iwamiya's money
and values were stolen by an
other Japanese. They were re
covered and returned by an
American soldier.
Unable to speak English
Iwamiya could only bow. The
unidentified soldier left, but
Iwamiya hired an interpreter
and started looking for him.
After a month's search he
found h.i man, Pvt. Alfred
Doane of Paterson, N. J. and
through the interpreter, Iwa
miya s gratitude was expressed
Grant Land Sales
Doubie 1946 Figure
Portland, "April 18 (fP) Sale
of timber on Oregon and Cali
fornia railroad grant land this
year has nearly doubled the fi
gures for the first quarter of
1946, W. H. Horning said today.
Horning, regional administra
tor of the bureau of land man
agement, said sales in the first
three months of this year total
ed $000,902.40, for an average
price of $7.39 a thousand feet
Last year the figures were
$268,380 for an average price of
$4.28 a thousand, feet. The
footage: 121,960,000 board feet
this year, compared with 62,-
720,000 in 1946.
Man From Eugene
Fatally Injured
Eureka, Calif., April 18 (.&)
Accident injuries were fatal
yesterday to John Saballus, 20.
former Eugene, Ore., resident.
He was hurt last week-end
when a car in which he was rid
ing crashed into an underpass
on the Redwood highway. Rich
ard Olsen, Eureka, also died in
the accident.
ation what a tough time we had
in the old days when they have
,to pull a crank on a parking me
ter. Anyway, it won't be any
harder than working a slot ma
chine at the same price per yank
of the crank.
She's Mighty Nigh Right
(Independence Enterprise)
A lady rushed Into the office
of W. A. Wiest, justice of the
peace, last week and stated that
she wanted to obtain a divorce.
Judge Wiest informed her that
she would have to secure an at
torney and file a complaint be
fore it could be obtained "My
goodness, I did not know it
would be that much trouble, I
thought you just had to ask for
it," the lady remarked.
- Incidentally lady came into
our office this a.m. to complain
about the ladies' rest room on
the courthouse grounds. She
didn't give her name but said
she was mad enough about con
ditions there, or nearly mad
enough to sign her name to some
thing. She said that the place
is a disgrace to the town, un
kempt and filthy and that the
taxpayers of the city are enti
tled to better conditions. Un
fortunately we've never looked
into the ladies' rest room there
but will take her word for it as
we know at times all the words
she used could have applied to
the men's place without even
stretching a point.
Alone in the Big City
(Monmouth Herald)
Like the country mouse which
went to visit the city mouse in
the fable, a country rat rode to
town, stowed away in a truck,
one day recently. When the
country rat made its appearance
and dropped down on the paved
street, it met a reception some
thing like what the country
mouse did. Citizens ganged up
on the rat and after a lively
chase, caught and killed it.
Everybody around town today
is holding his breath between
clouds wondering whether it'll
rain on the baseball opener to
night. If it does rain on the
hometown team and the visitors
it will rain on the just and the
unjust alike, as it were.
Minerals Meeting
At Grants Pass
Grants Pass, Ore., April 18
(U,R) Meetings of three organi
zations actively interested in the
mineral resources of Oregon will
meet here simultaneously May
24, it was announced today.
The groups are:. The board
of directors of the state depart
ment of geological and mineral
industries; the Oregon Mining
association, and the Oregon sec
tion of the American institute of
Mining Engineers.
m rmmm I
By DeWitt MacKenzie
(vP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Former Vice President Henry
Wallace would seem to have
carried a sizeable load of coals
to Newcastle when he started
his Europeon speechmaking
tour by telling England that
Washington's G r e c o - Turkish
program embarks the United
States on "ruthless imperialism"
and points the country toward
war with Russia.
If our Uncle Sam is embark
ed on career of sin (the old
scamp), then Cousin John Bull
is in the mess up to his neck.
For it was John who first sig
nalled that he no longer had the
wherewithall to hold the fort in
the Balkans and would Sam, for
gosh sake, please rush to the
rescue by supplying Greece and
Turkey with the. means of de
fending themselves against ag
gressive communism.
In short, John and Sam are
partners in the crime which Mr.
Wallace alleges. Small wonder
then that a high British official
on Wednesday let it be known
that his government accepted
no responsibility for anything
Wallace had said in Britain or
might say in the future. This
was after U. S. Attorney Gen
eral Tom Clark had declared in
a speech that "one who tells the
people of Europe that the Unit
ed States is committed to ruth
less imperialism and war with
the Soviet Union tells a lie."
Socialist Raps Wallace
On top of this the London
Daily Herald, which is the or
gan of the labor (socialist)
party, printed a pointed editor
ial which was signed by the edi
tor who used the first person
singular instead of the usual
editorial "we," presumably so as
not to commit the-government.
The editor said he thought Wal
lace, while condemning the so
called "imperialism" of the
United States, had dismissed
much too lightly the many glar
ing faults of the Soviet policy.
Apart from this, the editor
said, Wallace's speeches had
done good in Britain, because
they had caused a great many
people to think harder and talk
more frankly about the pre
sent drift in the relations be
tween the great powers.
Thus it would seem that Mr.
Wallace's efforts in Britain
haven't done much, if any, dam
age to London-Washington re
lations. However, an assault on
an American foreign policy, de
livered abroad by a one-time
Police Trying
To Take Indian
Newport, April 18 (IP) Lin
coln county sheriff's deputies
and state police prepared an as
sault today on a mountain
stronghold where an Indian, ac
cused of wounding a deputy
sheriff last week, was believed
in hiding.
The hide-out was reported in
the big timber a nearly virgin
fish and game area on the north
slope of Euchre mountain. Po
lice said they had been told it
was equipped with rations for six
months.
The Indian was Boyd Bensel,
on whom Deputy Jack Waterman
attempted to serve a warrant
charging insanity. Waterman
was shot in the shoulder and
Bensel disappeared from the Si
Ietz Indian agency before aid
could arrive.
Police did not disclose when
they would leave to scout out
the Euchre mountain area.
vice, president, could do vast
damage in other quarters.
One of them, for instance, is
the big four Moscow conference
which is in the midst of a grave
crisis because of bitter differ
ences between Russia and the
western allies. The Wallace
speeches might be the one thing
which would stiffen Russian op
position to the disputed propo
sals of the western democracies,
in the belief that there was a
large and growing section of the
American public opposed to the
new foreign policy of President
Truman. By the same token
Wallace's views might increase
Washington's difficulties with
such Russian influenced re
gimes as those in Yugoslavia
and Poland, with which both
America and Britain have ex
changed sharp words.
Wallace Extends Campaign
Perhaps it's possible to assign
too much importance to the
effect of Wallace's speech-making
on foreign relations. Time
alone will tell how much signi
ficance the peoples of other na
tions will attach to his utter
ances. As previously remarked,
if damage already has been done
it probably is elsewhere than in
England.
However, Mr. Wallace ' has
moved on from Britain to a new
theatre of operations. He is
opening his crusade in Stock
holm, Oslo and Copenhagen
where he is scheduled to deliver
more speeches. Will Scandina
via understand as well as has
Britain?
Food Prices Would Tumble if
Americans Went to Pre-War Diet
Washington, April 18 VP) Food prices would tumble if America
went back to its pre-war diet. For example, Americans are eating
meat at a rate of about 150 pounds a person a year. Some want
even more. And It is competi-"'
tion among consumers that sets
the price.
To meet the demand, farmers
are producing about 21,500,000,
000 pounds this year.
In the pre-war period of 1935
39, consumption averaged 126
pounds. At the same rate now,
Americans would take only
about 17,890,000,000 pounds
leaving a surplus of about 3,610,
000,000 pounds.
Such a surplus would break
Truman to Run
Says Connally
New York, April 18 (U.R)
Sen. Tom Connally, (D., Tex.),
asserted flatly last night that
President Truman would be a
candidate for re-election in
1948.
"President Truman will lead
our party in 1948. Upon the re
cord of achievement of the par
ty since March, 1933, and upon
the record of Harry S. Truman,
the people of the United States
will triumphantly elect him . . . '
Connally told the Democratic
club of New York at a Jeffer
son Day dinner.
It was the first outright
statement by a party leader that
Mr. Truman would run in 1948,
although Democratic National
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan
has said several times that the
president "is our man."
More than 14 per cent of the
wounded men in the Union
Army during the Civil War died
but only 44 per cent of the
wounded in the American Army
in World War II died.
the price and require widespread
government buying of meat un
der the federal price support
program to prevent an agricul
tural collapse.
During the war, however,
with incomes high and fewer
non-food items to buy, many who
had been on a low level diet
were encouraged to buy more
and better quality foods.
And from every sign they
want to continue to eat well.
The increase in consumer de
mand is even more pronounced,
on a percentage basis, for some
other food items than meat.
Before the war, the annual
per capita consumption of eggs
was 298. It now is running at
the rate of 400 a year, or a gain
of nearly 35 percent.
As in the case of meat, if con
sumption of all items dropped to
the pre-war level, there would
be surplus supplies and prices
would drop sharply.
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