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Capitayjournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Auiitant Publiiher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che mekera St, Sulem. Phones: Business, 8037 and 3571; Want Ads, 3571; News Room, 3572; Society Editor, 3573. Full Leased Wire Service of the Aitociated Preis and The United Press.. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 20c; Monthly, 75c; One Year, 9.00. By Mall In Oregon: Monthly, 60c; 6 Mos., $3.00; One Year, $6.00. United States Outside Oregon: Monthly, 60c; Year, $7.20. 4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 13, 1948 Truman Aids Willamette Valley Project In his budget message President Truman seems to have treated the west very generously in his recommendations for appropriations. He requested $268,590,000 for reclamation projects for the year starting July 1 for work on 39 projects on betterment. An appropriation of ?48 million for the Co lumbia .basin's project was included as well as funds for Bonneville. In addition $1.4 million was asked to initiate a $13 million salmon conservation project on the, Columbia river. . For army engineer projects for flood control and river and harbor improvement, the president asked $662,707,000 of which northwest gets for rivers and harbors: Columbia river at Bonneville, Oregon, $900,000 ; Columbia river-Uma-tilla (McNary) dam, $30,000,000 ; Columbia river-Vancouver to The Dalles, $200,000; Columbia and lower Willamette rivers below Vancouver, Wash., and Portland, Ore., $929,000; Columbia river at Bakers bay, Wash., $60,000; Yaquina bay and bar, Ore., $109,400 ; Coos Bay, Ore., $2,000,000; Wrangell Narrows, Alaska, $1,038,400. For flood control projects $381,859,000 was asked for con struction work. The breakdown shows for Oregon projects: Dorena reservoir, $3,500,000; Lookout Point reservoir, $7,000,000; Detroit reservoir, $3,500,000; Willamette river (bank protection), $500,000; Fern Ridge reservoir, $155,000; Multnomah Drainage District No. 1, $83,800; Amazon creek, $67,000; Pudding river, $29,000; Mill Flour drainage district, Yaquina river, $22,000; Umpqua river and tributaries, $116, 000; Coquille river, $93,000; Arlington, $35,000; Nehalem river, $15,000. Yet this large expenditure does not please Senator Wayne Morse in fact nothing seems to please the Oregon solon except his own voluminous carpings and criticisms of every thing done and undone. Mr. Morse said in a prepared state ment: "I think the Truman budget on reclamation, rivers and harbors and flood control is another example of too little, too late." He continued: "If the republican party really wants to serve the best interests of the south and west and thereby help improve the entire national economy it will increase and not decrease the president's recommendations." Morse, who has just returned from Oregon state where he saw the Willamette river in flood that caused millions of dollars worth of damage, said such floods are unnecessary. He continued : "I say unnecessary because If congress would stop Its pennywisc and pound foolish policy on flood control, the people of the Willam ette valley and elsewhere In the country would be saved tremen dous losses each year from floods. "I wish every member of congress could have seen thousands of acres of fertile land which I saw Inst week under flood waters. I wish they could have seen the overflowing rivers rushing to the ea loaded with precious top-soil that will be lost to our agricul ture forever." But the fact remains that after long delay the Willamette valley flood control project is getting really underway. Budget making is a thankless task and pleases no one. Cuts In expenditures cripple service demanded and every commu nity selfishly seeks a slice out of the pork barrel. That is why, as the late Senator John J. Ingalls remarked: "The purification of politics is an iridescent dream." Tax, Spend and Elect Both state of the nation and the budget messages of Presi dent Truman shows that he has adopted in full the New Deal policies, tersely outlined by the late Harry Hopkins "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, and elect and elect." At any rate h is going the whole route with the New Deal and its union labor allies, at least in domestic policies. As Arthur Knock puts it in the New York Times : Except for regular republicans, right-wing critics In both parties of the administration's foreign policy, a large number of southern democrats and Mr. Wallace's followers communists, fellow-travelers, other brands of radicals, pacifists and the ever-present lunatic fringe the messages offered bonuses to every social and economic group. Its doctrinal base was the New Deal principle of spending for the many, taxing the few inordinately, and thus appealing to the largest voting group. But, unlike the pre-war days of the New Deal, Mr. Truman proposed that this new domestic spending be piled atop a very large security and foreign policy budget which is many times what it was in 1033-1940. Among the president's recommendations are the following which will add greatly to spending' by the government, all New Deal formulas: A ten-year planned program for the future. Extension and increase of social security benefits for unemployment insurance, old ape and survivors' pensions, and insurance against "insecurity" and ill-health. Federal funds for state education, including more and more expensive school lunches. More and larger housing subsidies. A new federal department to deal with education, health, etc. A bureau to ration food and "equalize" the dollar incomes money to support the subsidies lor crop insurance ami rural electrification. The president's evident belief is that this kind of a plat form of spending for special groups will insure strong support for re-election, even if the expenditures fatally damage European relief programs. Maybe No. 4 Will Fall In Too Bay City, Mich., Jan. 13 (Pi The automobile of John San born of Midland, Mich., broke through the ice of Saginaw bay while he was fishing nearby. So a IMnconnlng, Mich., firm sent a wrecker to retrieve It. That broke through and sank too. A pilot, attracted by the crowd on the Ice, landed to see what was going on. His plane broke through also. The problem now Is to retrieve all three vehicles. 'Most Likely to Succeed' Solingsgrove, Pa. UP) A Susquehanna university freshman, who had been voted "most likely to succeed" on his graduation from high school, Is charged with twice setting fire to the college administration building to avoid attending classes. The student, Joseph Sladek. Jr., of Wildwood, N. J., was held for Snyder county court yesterday after pleading guilty to arson charges before Justice of the Peace Fred M. Machmer. Coincidence Hollywood (U.R) As Mason Nurick drove to report the theft of his automobile, his borrowed car was rammed from behind. Indignant, Nurick got out to iurvey the damage and discover ed the car that hit the one In which he was riding was his own. commodities. More funds to of rural and city dwellers, more that hold up food prices, and Shovel or Else Rugby, N. D. UR Residents of Rugby are keeping their slde- walks free of anow this winter. Postmaster N. O. Knutson an nounced that mall delivery would be suspended to those whose walks are not shoveled. BY BECK Recollections r SIPS FOR SUPPER The Fleeing bY DON WMMAkW tlli'V A HONEYMOO-OON WILL h I ; W4MMm W ' .kv HAPPEN SOO OO N N.. M 1fW 'fH n tnalr until oup Wft&fflSSl" SfifflSSffl VISIT TO A VAUDEVILLE SHOW : ' jWiffltXeSF' yWWWF "AT YOU SAW YOU KID ' BROTHEP IN A FWOIMBIE tSHT. The Rotarians part of 'em at least got a sassy call down in the last number of their bulletin from Gardner Knapp. It referred to those who like to eat but don't like to listen. Said Mr. Knapp in the bulletin: "When Loil.f...... WasMnslnn's hirthrlav Arens fiot ud to introduce the speaker at last Wednesday's meeting, 17 yes, seventeen members made a dash for the door to get out. That, fellow members, Is what I call an Don Upjohn insult to the speaker. It happens every week, but last week was the climax. The commotion of the members leaving was so great that Lou had to stop the introduction until it was quiet again. The meeting was adjourn ed at exactly 1:00 o'clock, and incidentally, you who did run, missed a good talk on labor management relations. Isn't there some possible way that you members who have td leave early each week could arrange your affairs so that you could be absent just 30 minutes more each week. When a speaker spends his time and money to appear before our club, it is no more than common courtesy to hear his story. Gardner Knapp." Gardner seems to have quite a mite of trouble with persons and things that like to flee take his swan for instance. But, incidentally, maybe he'll avoid that trouble with the swan this year if swans know that it is Leap Year. The Obliging Judge Astoria W) James Hansen, Astoria, was in municipal court on a charge of drunkenness. He pleaded innocent. Judge Robert C. Anderson "What would you do, Mr. Han sen, if you were in my place?" he asked. "I'd find the prisoner guilty," Hansen answered. What sentence would impose?" asked the Judge. "Fifteen dollars' fine twenty days," said Hansen. you and "I concur in the sentence,1 nounced the Judge -and impos- ed it. State employes and bank clerks are looking ahead to February as a month of pro mise. Included in red marks on the calendar are Ground Hog day, Abe Lincoln's birthday, NOVELTIES Hat in Front Tulsa, Okla. (U.BAn annoyed Tulsa man had his own solution to the problem of what to do when seated behind an oversized woman's hat in the theater. An embarrassed woman re ported to police that the man had taken the hat off himself. Detectives who answered her call said the male theater patron first asked the woman to remove her hat. She refused. Whereupon, the man grabbed the hat. stomped It on the floor and walked out. Underprivileged Chicago U.P.) Members of the Anti-Cruelty society prepared 1500 dinners for distribution to underprivileged horses Christ mas Day, The dinner was based on a liberal portion of chopped apples and cracked carrots to which crushed oats, a ptnch of salt and a dash of bran were added. Banks OK, Now Los Angeles M Mrs. Minnie Nerhood, of Altoona, Pa., who never used to trust banks, was first in line when they opened their doors today. She clutched the life savings of $8,763 she lost Saturday when she left her battered purse on a street car. The money was returned last night by Oscar V. Van Patten, 54, a vacationing tax assessor from Coldwater, Mich. Van Pat ten found the purse on the tram. Rotarians UPJOHN ,0... j Friday the 13th and just to liven up a day added at the tail end which falls on Sunday doggone it. And slipped along in between is St. Valentine's day. Some thing doing nearly every other day as it were. The Fetrillo ban on new re cordings hasn't been in effect quite half a month but already once in awhile we hear a disc jockey slip on a record by some guy who yearns for a home where the buffalo roam and to have deer and antelope cavorting in his back yard. As soon as one turns loose about Jeannie and her light brown hair we'll know Mr. Petrillo is coming down the home stretch. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Marshall Plan Held Costly But Essential By DeWITT MacKENZIE (AP rorelsn Affaire Analyst) Secretary of State Marshall, in testifying before the house for eign affairs committee in Washington yesterday regarding his proposed European aid program, declared that "if we do not move out to meet the problem in Eur ope today it will certainly come to us here in the United States under conditions far more unfa vorable to us." The general didn't place a precise interpre- DeWIlt Maekenile grim sounding statement. However, at another point he gave this amplification: "European recovery, we feel sure, is essential to preservation of freedom in the most critical area of the world today. Euro pean economic recovery is essen tial to a return of normal trade and commerce throughout the world we want peace. We want security a great crisis has to be met. Do we meet the situation with action or do we step aside and allow other forces to settle the pattern of future European civilization?" Those statements give us a picture, I believe, of an Amer ica (and - other countries) suffering all the dire disabili ties which accrue from a lack of world peace. Marshall and Secretary of Commerce Har rlman told the committee that the aid program put burdens on the American people. Har riman named high prices as one burden and said that the project would add to our dif ficulties in trying to control inflation. Both secretaries, however, as serted that the gains would be worth the cost. It would be highly interesting if we could read the mind of General Marshall, who played such a great part in the late war. and discover what more he thinks it might mean if western Europe weren't rehabilitated ec onomically. However, the situ ation Isn't so- complicated that we can't figure the thing out for ourselves. In the first place Russia has made It clear that she is deter mined on communizing western Europe and adding it to the area under her domination. There are two ways of stopping this aggression. One is to create a military barrier through central Europe a task which only the United States could undertake, and she won't do it. The other is to put the countries of west ern Europe on their feet eco nomically so that they can de fend themselves and of course that involves the Marshall plan. Now if the Marshall plan is put Into effect, Moscow plans to fight it tooth and nail. That's offi cial. If the Soviet Union can defeat the plan, then the road will be open for her to sweep through to the English channel. And if there is no Marshall plan at all, the conquest of western WASHINGTON MERRY U. S. Is Using More Oil Than It Can Produce BY DREW PEARSON Washington Until he died last week Charlie Michelson, one time high priest of democratic strategy, had sunk completely out of the public eye. There was a time when politicians lined up outside his door, when senators sought his help, when cabinet members submitted their speeches to his seasoned eye in order to gauge p V! b 1 i c reaction. There had b-e e n a day when Charlie guided the po litical hand of John J. Raskob, when he helped steer Henry Wallace away Drew hearaon from sensational publicity in connection with an astrologist, and when he aided the then un certain path of Franklin Roose velt in the difficult days of 1932. But those days have been gone sometime now, and in his latter years Charlie Michelson was largely forgotten. The peo ple who once sought his counsel came no longer to his door. Day after day passed and only a trained nurse sat opposite him as he played solitaire. There were a few, however, who stuck by the aging Mi chelson to the very end, and most faithful among them was a man who had nothing to do with politics. Scarcely a day passed but this man did not drop in to play a game of gin rummy, bring Michelson spe cial food, or try to revive his waning interest in life. This man who remained faithful when others forgot is an American of Greek descent, George Vournas, who owed no thing to Michelson, had never received a political favor in his life, but merely believed in helping his fellow men. Oil Dries Up " The American oil industry is now spending the suge sum of $1,800,000 in a powerful counter-sales campaign to Europe will be so much easier for bolsheyism, What then? Answer: Russia would have all Europe as a base for operations against the rest of the world. We don t need any diagram to show what that would signify. Most certainly it would mean another world war, with the United States holding the defenses of democracy against that swollen bolshevist empire. That's what we face if there is no Marshall plan, or if there is one and it fails. However, the general says the program can succeed, and the indications are that the countries of western Europe are eager to co-operate. Why shouldn't they be, when they are sitting right under the big guns of an aggressive com' munism which all of them fear? HIGH-SKYING Course of Big Meteor Is Sight of a Lifetime BY J. HUGH PRUETT Pacific Regional Director, American Meteor Soeletr The American Meteor society, whose president is Dr. C. P. Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania, is deeply interested in determining the heights, paths spectacular fireballs, which light up the night like day, are often quite noisy, and are seen from localities hundreds of miles apart. Sometimes newspaper requests for observers' accounts bring over 100 letters to the re gional director of the society. The present writer received 517 reports on the twilight meteor seen over California and Nevada, November 29, 1947. The method of tracing will be described next week. Although the metor society undertakes to trace and public ize only very startling objects, we always welcome isolated re ports on quite unusual and strange meteors. One Spotted from Plane During December, 1947, aside from two spectacular fireballs, accounts of three lesser, but very interesting, meteors were re ceived. On the ninth, an air corps veteran reported he had Just seen a fairly bright object which appeared to be traveling horizontally. Just skimming along the tops of the distant Cascades. Its motion seemed relatively slow it was likely 200 or 300 miles away during the four or five seconds it was in view. Near the end of the flight the impression was re ceived that it actually was get ting slightly higher. On the 14th at 6:50 a newspa per boy was startled by a flash, and on looking up saw an aw fully bij white light right over head dashing northward across the only clear place in the sky - GO - ROUND persuade people not to buy oil. The amazing fact is that it was only just recently that the oil industry was willing to face the facts regarding the oil short age. Before that it was blandly asserting that oil would flow freely as soon as there was suf ficient transportation. This writer as early as Sept. 7 predicted that gasoline would have to be rationed this winter, while Acting Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman inform ed congress in late September in a statement available to the oil industry and the entire pub lic that oil would be extremely short and should be rationed. Despite this critical situation, oil-burner manufacturers sold 80,000 burners in November an all-time high. And even while Standard Oil of New Jer sey was unloading surplus oil burners on the public, it was quietly converting its own Bay- way, N.J., plant from oil to coal. For the inescapable truth is that our basic oil reserves are drying up. And the strong likelihood is that many Ame rican homes will go without heat for prolonged periods this winter while farmers will run short of motor fuel to harvest their crops next fall unless a stiff conservation program is adopted at once. Boiled down to the cold facts furnished the government by oil men, here is the oil outlook to day: America's petroleum reserves are estimated at about 22 bil lion barrels. Of this, less than five billion can be traced to new oil fields discovered during the past decade. The balance was added through "revisions of previous estimates and exten sions to know fields." In other words, recent dis coveries account for little more than two years' supply at the present rate of consumptioe. On the other hand, the percentage and size of new discoveries is dropping off. While a major discovery is not impossible, it is highly un likely. Geologists have been probing the most promising ter rain for the past 15 years with out tapping a single major field. So, while our productive capacity has reached its peak, the nation is draining Its oil reservoirs faster than new oil can be poured in. The deficit is estimated at 429,000 barrels per day, and the rate of con sumption is on the upswing. The only immediate solu tion is to increase foreign oil Imports. This is why Arabian oil and the dynamite-laden Near East become so import ant. The government already plans to import more oil than it exports this year for the first time in history. In case of war, of course, out side oil could be cut off by sub marines. This leaves the only remaining answer: Synthetic pe troleum. And experts say it win take another ten years to pro duce synthetic petroleum com mercially. (Concluded on Page 11, Column 8) and possible landing places of In a fraction of a second It struck a cloud layer and was lost. The boy was greatly excit ed. At about 6 a.m. the day be fore Christmas the wife of I newspaper editor saw a curious green light floating leisurely down the sky. "It did not seem to change in size or color nor did it explode as some meteors do. It was so interesting it seem ed like 30 seconds before it disappeared behind the trees, but I imagine it was only a small fraction of that time." It too was likely very large and quite distant. Sight of a Lifetime The California-Nevada fire ball of 194S was both spectacu lar and strange. To those obtain ing a side view, it seemed to be travelling almost horizontally, and was surely in sight for 20 seconds. It was variously re scribed as a "luminous cigar," "a flashing blue monster," "ell like," "a green iridescent fish" and "a nebulous and slimy pol lywog going through the sky." But a woman at Napa, Calif., ended her description with, "This meteor was a thing of beauty, long to be treasured in memory's chest." A big meteor is a light of a lifetime. It is often mistaken for a plane falling in flames, or a foreign "infernal machine of some sort. During the recent war, one such object caused a great deal of expense to the ar my and F.B.I, before its nature was determined. THIS FUNNY WORLD I i ay ii, i ) ii. 'ij 1 , -,"'- S Tliit'i funny, I ihoufhi a PAGES OF OREGON'S Lincoln Won Oregon in 1860 By Plurality of Only 270 Votes BY OSWALD WEST Ex-Governer of Oreton from 1MJ lo 191B (Yesterday Mr. West showed how the Oregon delegates lined up for the national conventions in 1860, with the state ' Democratic delegation split on slavery.) I CHAPTER VIII (Conclusion) I The Democratic National Convention, meeting in 1860 in' Charleston, S.C., gave a majority las, who had debated the slavery But Senator Douglas failed to' get the required two-thirds vote, necessary for nomination. The pro-slavery delegates, including the entire Oregon delegation, walked out and joined in forming a rump con vention. Both adjourned to meet in Baltimore. The Northern wing nominated Douglas and Andrew Johnson. The Southern wing nominated John Breckinridge and Joseph Lane of Oregon. The Republicans, meeting at Chicago in May, nominated Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Asahel Bush of Salem inti mated that a joining of local Whig-Republican and the Doug las Democrat forces was in the offing. The Marion County Re publicans, acting upon the ad vice of Col. E. D. Baker, re frained from putting out legis lative candidates, and endorsed the Bush ticket. In Washington and Yamhill counties the Douglas Democrats voted for the Republican legis lative candidates. A Fourth of July oration de livered by Colonel Baker at Sa lem made new friends for him and brought praise from Bush's Statesman. The election produced the following legislative results: Lane-Smith Democrats 19 Douglas-Bush Democrats. . 18 Whig-Republicans 13 So the pre-election Senatorial deal was carried out. Long term: J. W. Nesmith, 27; Mat thew P. Deady, 22. Short term: Col. E. D. Baker, 26; George H. Williams, 20. Thus ended Judge Deady's senatorial ambitions. He was then Judge of the U.S. District court. This Baker deal forced Bush to pass up his old friend Judge George H. Williams. How ever, he was taken care of later. Rugged Men of Sweet Home Unite to Beat the 'New Look' Sweet Home, Ore., Jan. 13 (U.R) Seventy-six mere males In this western Oregon logging town of 1100 population were banded together today in new effort to beat the "new look." . They formed the "Whiskerno" club conceived In hairy op- . position to long skirts. Club members said they favored mutton chop whiskers to give a turn-of-the-century counter part to the female hemlines, but any kind of a beard would do. The club said it planned to stay In business until St. Patrick's day or until long-skirted women caoitulate. Don't, build that home.. . . . until you have investigated MARVAIR HEAT FROM THE EARTH No home is completely modern without this truly modern heating and cooling unit. No smoke ... no soot ... no ashes ... no dirt . . . with Marvair not even a flue! Marvair Heat Pump burns no fuel and the cost of operation is surprisingly low only about $35 a year for an average six-room home Suitable for older homes, too. PHONE OR WRITE FOR FOLDER 225 S. W. Jefferson Street Portland DEALERS: Within the next few days a franchise dealer will be appointed for the Salem area. He must be energetic, able to maintain an aggressive sales organization and be financially sound. Refrigeration knowledge desir able. Extensive advertising and sales promotion co operation will be furnished. If you are interested Dlease phone, write or visit us. dog might cheer him np PAST vote to Senator Stephen Doug question with Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln carried Oregon by a plurality of only 270. The combined Democratic vote produced a majority of 3800 against him. This Presidential vote brought home to the Union forces of Oregon that only through work ing together could the friends of secession be defeated. So, it was not long before The Statesman, The Oregonian, and The Argus were advocating a Union party. . In January, 1862, a call for a Union meeting was issued by many leading Democrats and Re publicans, The convention was held at Eugene on April 2, and nominat ed the following winning ticket: Representative in congress, John R. McBride (Rep.); gov ernor, Addison C. Gibbs (Dem.); secretary of state, Samuel May (Rep.); state treasurer, E. N. Cooke (Rep.); state printer, Harvey Gordon (Dem.). The Democratic "regulars', (pro-slavery . wing) . met .anfly nominated a ticket composed largely of Southern sympathiz ers. Judge Deady, sensing the growing spirit of the times, thought it about time to look for shelter. So, wrapping his ju dicial robes about him, he voted for McBride and others on the Union ticket. Thus the Unionists gained complete control of the legisla ture. Bush's lieutenant, Benja min F. Harding, was chosen U.S. senator to succeed Benjamin Stark, pro-slavery Democrat, who had been appointed by Gov ernor Whiteaker to fill the va cancy caused by the death ol Senator Baker. Thus did the loyal forces in Oregon combine to support the Union, combat secession, and forever stamp out slavery. (The End) 4, Oregon ATwater 3035 Ui