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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1948)
Capital Journal An Independent Newipopor Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher ubllshed every ofternoon except Sunday at 444 Che- leketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont- Lds, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and he United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively ititled to the use for publication of all news dispatches j-edited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also tws published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: r Carrier: Weekly, foe; Monthly, 15c: One Teir, l9.o. By all In Oregon. Monthly. 60c; Mot.. 13.00; One Tear, li.es. 8. OnUldo Oregon: Monthly, lie; I Months. 14; Year. I7.se. BY BECK Ignorance Is Bliss 4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, September 27, 1948 st a New Form of Lottery rtTie Federal Communications commission has announc es intention to crack down on the "give-away radio (igrams, whether good or bad, broadcasts of which are ing a progressively greater part of radio time, on the im that they are violations of the lottery section of cri- hal statutes. fhe National Association of Broadcasters are challeng- the FCC proposal, claiming it lacks authority to set up ss restricting such shows, asserting it is a violation of e speech, but it "takes no position on the merit of the ze programs." It holds that if any of the programs now ng broadcasted violate the lottery section of criminal tutes, it is up to the attorney general and courts to take ion. the same legal question was raised last month by a con- ssional committee, which pointed out that a section of law which formerly gave the commission authority to 1 with lottery broadcasts had been shifted to the crimi rnHp Hnrinc the last session of congress. R"he FCC replied at that time that it planned to go ahead h its proposal under its broad authority to lay down es governing the conduct of radio stations. the NAB itself recently adopted a code which included provision frowning on "any broadcasting designed to v the radio audience by requiring it to listen in hope Reward." Fhe NAB has filed a protesting brief with the FCC, as e the ABC and the CBS, broadcasting chains alleging h a crackdown under present legal codes would be ar- rary, capricious and a clear abuse of discretion." Final iring on the controversy will be held October 19. Fhese "give-away" programs are clearly a form of lot- appealing to the public to get something for nothing ich people are always looking for, and has the same de ralizing effect. You do not pay cash for your lottery et, but you pay by time in research or study with the (lion to one chance you will lose. in the Guard Get Along Without Oregon? Oregon National Guard headquarters seems more inter- ed in the existence of the National kuard throughout nation than in this state itself. rhe adjutant general of Oregon is back in St. Louis now the National Guard Association meeting called to con er the threat of consolidating the guard with the army. (egon's headquarters is greatly concerned as to the fu- e of the guard itself throughout the nation. Kt the same time, Oregon guard headquarters can't see I advisability of staying in the state capital. There has n nothing to indicate yet that the headquarters was not ng moved out of Salem to Portland on October 1. Oiis seems like a strange set of circumstances. n one instance, Oregon s National Guard is worried, as he National Guard in general, over its future existence a separate military force. n the other instance, Oregon s headquarters blindly s ahead with its move out of the state capital where isions will be made at the coming legislature, for in- nce, as to funds for the guard's activities. ft is difficult to understand how state headquarters is ng to present the information legislators are going to nt from the guard when that guard won't even have a ce to hang its hat in the state capital. Are the legislators going to be bothered with the guard t Isn t interested enough in having its headquarters in capital where questions may be answered? LSo the guard presents the straiige picture of a struggle he midwest to keep its national organization intact and eliberate move in Oregon to go on its own way with no isideration for the legislature's and state's interests it. vakening to Realities onvinced by tragic experience that military prepared- s is the best safeguard lor peace, Great Britain, like ? United States, is hurriedly mobilizing her defense for- to meet anv emergency produced by the existing mter- tional east-west crisis. British ex-service men are being organized into a vast erve pool subject to immediate call to the armed forces emergency. Acting swiftly as Russian talks on the Berlin blockade deadlocked and the cold war crows hotter. Britain ftthin the past week ordered a slow-down of demilitariza- n, launched an intensive recruiting campaign, especially the Royal airforce, and began a revival of her elaborate lirtime defense system. The British Admiralty has ordered 100 of its 500 idle rships overhauled for active service and the air ministry s called lor doubled jet-lighter production, ine Koyal inance works, which had been taking on civilian orders ring a peacetime slack, has been ordered to concentrate military production. The British home fleet is on its way to the West Indies r maneuvers in what Viscount Hall, first lord of the Ad- ralty calls the "biggest and most important naval cruise d exercise since the war." For some time British and American airforces have been bging joint war exercises and the Berlin fly way has pplied invaluable training for both airforces. For all is Russia is to blame for overplaying her hand in the '.d war which has had a boomerang effect in waking up e allies to the realities. f An Elephant Favor Is Asked Of Elephant's Standard-Bearer Madison, Wis. ) Got. Earl Warren wai asked Friday to jka time out from hit busy campaign tor the Tic presidency o do a faTor for Madison school children. Acting Got. Oscar Rennebohm dispatched a telegram to he California governor asking for his hrlp In unloading an lephant bought by Maditon youngsters for the City too. The elephant now Is aboard a ship from Slam. But It ran't and In California unlets striking longshoremen girt their permission. Warren persuaded longshoremen to lift their blockade on pet. ( to unload aa elephant purchased with pennies con- ribnted by Sacramento school children. Rennebohm asked H'arrea to persuade the longshoremen to anload the ele phant for Madison, which will arrive on the same ship. "The elephant will be aa appropriate symbol this year In Kiscoosia as weU as In California," Rennebohm said. tV, fl,..ir SE6 HOV Hf J STUOVMai . ,XV1t P!mTK6 TEAM WAS TO SET, M V J-.-Vi" U'-iV W GOOO AS. OH. t U7 vM;''j4ui'lauTTit him ptAv,! SIPS FOR SUPPER Nice Try, Anyway BY DON UPJOHN A county road crew recently completed a fine )ob of road work on the Drake's crossing road up in the Silver Falls country The subject of the work was to get the road in shape so the school bus could travel over It. yc4 ao tne road was widened, three sharp curves were cut off and' fills made in volving about 400 feet of road and everything was done but the graveling and a few loads of that were put on so things were just about get ting ready. But before the grav eling got finished a rain came along. Result, the school bus couldn't make it. either. Farm barns and houses all painted up and dolled up and living the life of Riley on the 1 banks of the Wabash, far away. Dm Cpjtha Snow reported over in Eastern Oregon while everything at a comparatively early hour here was Dewey this morning. Tom looked quite radiant and seemed glad to get back in the old fa miliar bailiwick. Woodburn, the world's berry center, put on a great fair and had on exhibit the biggest of everything. It's too bad they couldn't have had on hand a Lot of suspicious folks around crate of Doc Gerald Smith's mar- these parts as we observed any athon strawberries. number of men walking about the streets in the bright sun- It was only a few years ago shine this a. nv carrying their when folks thought nobody raincoats on their arms. could trust a Prussian. It seems a letter has dropped off the Also a lot of clock turning word, backwards going on around town this a. m. That 2 o'clock Sunday morning business didn't go over very big in the down town sector, at any rate. Secretary of Joy It seemed sort of nice, as it were, to lie there this a. m.. and doze away that extra hour. Heard a lot of people so express themselves and many of them looked and acted as if they were still dozing it away and intend ed to fight tt out on that same line if it takes all winter. New York (UP.) The Women's Research Guild believes that "the world needs more Joy and America should take the lead in supplying it," according to its presdent, Mrs. Kay Dorney. She suggested that a new member be added to the presi dent's cabinet, a secretary of en Our compatriot, Fred Zimmer man, just back from a three weeks vacation In his old Indi ana stomping ground and w a y points. Says he never saw corn so tall or so much of it and the natives say they never have Stealing Habit Buffalo. N Y. A store de tective here caught three boys stealing turtle food. They needed it to feed the 23 stolen turtles they had in their pockets. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER 'Inspiration Is Like a Bird' BOYLE ays Ferde Grofe. is like a little By HaL New York W Inspiration, say bird: "If you don't grab him when you can, he flies right out of the window." So Grofe, a master of mod- e r n American i musical compo site n . doesn''. allow the little bird to take to wing. He carries a rk- musical scratch hd-i Dad with him r w whe r e v e r ne goes and scrib bles down tune phrases as they come to him at home, on trains, in taxicabs. In this way. he carries out the function he best likes to be a tonal report er of his own land. 81 Bl At 56. the short, roly-poly composer is as busy as ever, adding steadily to the total of nearly 200 finished composi tions. Groft Is a kind of musical )ack-of-all-trades who became a top hand, one of the first composers to marry modern Jazz rhythms with traditional symphonic forms. But he has done about as well with other people's work as with his own. His arrange ment of "Whispering." when he was beating the piano for Paul Whiteman helped sell 1.500.000 records. His arrangement of "Rhapsody in Blue" brought fame to himself as well as the late George Gershwin. Grofe is about the least genius-looking genius in the geni us market. "I work best when I am un der pressure and when I am Inspired." he laughed. "But I inspire easily." He is still full of gusto and tunes. One class of listeners likes him for his popular songs, suet as "Wonderful One " To others he is best known for his sem;-long-hair creations like "The Grand Canyon Suite." "Missis sippi Suite" and "Symphony in Steel." ivrj Drew ftiriM WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND r Thomas Threat to Expose Senator If Probe Goes On . By DREW PEARSON Washington A great many people have wondered whatever became of the senate probe of Senator Elmer Thomas, democrat of Oklahoma, which Senator Ferguson, republican of Michigan, began with considerable fanfare last winter. The start of the probe made newspaper headlines, then sud denly and mys- . ' rather full information and data repecting your connection with such organization. 'While you have deemed it in the public interest to invest igate my wife Edith Thomas and to leave the impression that I have used and am still using her as a 'front' for my private business transactions, I wonder what your friends and constit uents in Michigan will say when they learn that the same charge can be made against you. "I have all the pertinent facts with respect to the said com pany: the names of the stock holders, the number of shares and the official positions held by each such stockholder. "You must know . that the making of such information public at this time could not possibly do any person any good but instead, because of your unwarranted attacks upon me and my family, uch publi city would unleash a horde of reporters who will go to any limit to get news stories. "You, your fine wife, your likewise fine daughter and her equally fine husband, should not be subjected to constant tel ephone calls and requests for interviews as certainly will happen if the charges against you and your family are made public. "This is my forecast as I know full well what you have already done to me and mv fam ily. "Again I must remind you that you and your committee went on a 'fishing expedition' in an effort to develop evidence to destroy me ... as stated inasmuch as I do not have ac cess to the United States treas ury and to investigators and de tectives, I will be compelled to defend myself against further alleged charges on the senate floor. "I assure you that I do not want to be driven to making public, data, in the form of charges against you and your committee. "Personally it should be of no concern . . . where you have spent your summer vacations, whom with, who paid the bills, or when and how you have en tertained your friends here in Washihngton. That is your pri vate business but you must re member that I have private business myself. "Swanky parties with all that goes along including the best of drinks including good cham paign all paid for my an other is not good publicity at any time and is especially bad In a personal campaign year." Luckily, I am not a candidate this year. "You will no doubt be sur prised to know that among my letters and reports, some not signed that charges have been made that certain wealthy auto mobile interests, acting through lady members of their inside organizations, have made gifts teriously Sena tor Ferguson quit. He said abso lutely nothing more about his democratic col league from O k 1 ahoma even looked e m b a r r a - t e d and chang ed the subject when the matter was mention ed. . The reason for Ferguson's sudden change of heart has now come to light. Senator Thomas did some investigating of his own regarding Senator Fergu son, then wrote him a personal letter threatening to make these facts public: In particular, he dug into the connections of Senator Fergu son's son-in-law. Charles R. Beltz. with the Chrysler Auto mobile company and its subsid iary, Chrysler Airtemp. To get the full picture, it is necessary to recall that on May 6. 1946 this column first dis closed the fact that Senator Thomas had been making speeches on the senate floor aimed to influence the cotton market while he, his wife and friends bet their money in ad vance on cotton. Senator Thomas promptly de nied this. But two years later, when the official records were published, his speculation deals were fully confirmed. Furthermore, four of his cronies Ralph Moore. Robert Harriss. Tom Linder of Geor gia and J. E. McDonald of Tex as were indicted for illegally influencing the commodity mar ket. Meanwhile, republican lead ers, who had promised the pub lic they would "investigate," and who had thoroughly probed the commodity speculations of two democrats Ed Pauley and the president's personal physician decided also to turn the heat on democratic Senator Thomas of Oklahoma. Senator Ferguson of Michi gan, widely acclaimed as the senate's foremost investigator and who aspires to be Dewey's attorney general, was given the job of investigating Thomas. Then, suddenly, on Feb. 14, Thomas, wrote Ferguson one of the most extraordinary letters ever written by one senator to another, and nothing has been heard of the Thomas probe since. Ferguson dropped it like a hot potato. This column has now obtain ed a phohtostat copy of the Thomas letter. It is written in longhand and after referring to the fact that Senator Ferguson has spent a great deal of public money in vestigating him. Senator Tho mas continues: I OCA TIOM Of FATAL HOMS ACCIDENTS t gmi i IbatuI kitcwsn I T isA boom rra ILft 31 , PI . LIVING I Es3 ROOM I PklMflp I" ' J glJ .YARD ',-r - btwii wt-y ccwcc f tcaorirs m wane ioeirions MacKENZIE'S COLUMN It Doesn't Add Up to Bluff By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP roreun Affair Analrst) A crude sign was found the other day pinned on the garden door of No. 10 Downing street, famous residence of many gen erations of British prime ministers and now occupied by Clement Attlee. The notice advised him: "Moscow is bluffing." The seer who made that sign, wasn't the only one who has a notion the Rus sians are stag ing an enor mous bluff. You hear the remark frequently, generally by folk who hold that the "bluff" should be called by a display of force. That is a terribly foolish and dangerous assumption. True, there undoubtedly are times when the Muscovites do bluff, and I dare say the same thought Moscow was bluffing, DefflU HicKeailt Heath has delivered to Bulgar ian Foreign Minister Kolarov a note which accuses the com munist government of Bulgaria with ruthlessly smashing demo cratic freedom in that country. The communication charges that the communists there have resorted to the use of "involun tary servitude, banishment, con centration camps, imprison ment, torture and execution." There is no bluff in the great offensive which the commun ists are waging throughout southeast Asia. British Foreign Secretary Be vin declared the other day that the communists aimed at seiz ing that great theater. If America and Britain is true of the western democra cies. Diplomatic strategy has worked that way on occasions. However, the world revolu tion for the spead of commun ism is no bluff. It is the greatest menace man kind has faced. There was no bluff in the rape of Czechoslovakia, or in the conquest of the rest of east ern Europe. The United States has just called the turn in blunt terms on bolshevist operations in Bulgaria. American Minister Donald R. they wouion t Be engaged in such sweeping rearmament pro grams. These preparations don't mean that America and Britain think war is just around the cor ner. Sir Stafford Cripps, Brit ish chancellor of the exchequer, expresses the belief that there is not much possibility of a war soon, though "accidents can al ways happen." But the democracies aren't treating the bolshevist threat as a bluff which can be handled by appeasement. I assume that you will not of valuable coats, dresses and It took him three years to compose the "Grand Canyon Suite." one movement of which came to him as he sat under a tree on the Hackensack. N.J., golf course. It takes a sympho ny orchestra 34 minutes to play it. On the other hand, he turn ed out "Serenade to Ruth." a six-minute piece, in 23 hours flat. He stood on his feet all night, jotting down notes on a piano toS, to finish it. He is prolific to an extent he doesn't seem quite to realize himself. He has written so many tunes he has forgotten how some of them go. and has to be reminded of their names. Before he began composing what his cello-playing grand father disdainfully dismissed as "shoo-fly music," Grofe ran away from home at the age of 14. He ushered in a theater, drove a truck and worked in a book bindery and an iron foundry un til he returned to the family profession in 1909 as a violinist with the Los Angeles symphony orchestra. These experiences Grofe re membered later when he began the task of "describing America in music." Today his chief interest is composing band music, a field he feels has been neglected. "There are more than 125.000 school bands in America. They want new music." And Ferde can compose it. Like William Shakespeare or Dr. Samuel Johnson he is a business man as well as an ar tist. "It's a gold mine." he said, his gray-blue eyes twinkling in a plump Buddha face. In composing his well-known "March for Americans." Grofe said he put down a hundred fragmentary tunei before he felt he had what he wanted. "Took me a whole week," ht complained mildly. object to me using my private funds to do some investigating of facts, or incidents that are coming to me from all parts of the country. "I have been in the congress for over 25 years; I have been in every state in the union: I have friends in almost every city of the country, and I have many friends and even relatives in Michigan and especially in the great city of Detroit. "In the past it has never even occurred to me to think of re peating the stories and incidents about senators and congress men and to mention the name of a lady well, such is too low for me to attempt to describe other items to certain members of your family. "Senator, your activities against me and the personal charges against you ha-e no proper place in the senate of the United States. "I have done nothing that I am ashamed of and I certainly know of nothing that you should be ashamed of save perhaps your attacks upon Mrs. Thomas and me. "I have personally written this lengthy note in order to keep it strictly private. How ever, for fear that I may here after need a copy I have had the sheets photostated, but I do not plan to make the contents public unless I deem public in- "In my formal letter to you I refer to the 'Chrysler Airtemp terest will be served thereby. omcj v.orporauon ana to tne "Sincerelv "Charles R. Beltz and Company' ..Fr Mro Tunvis (Cop?mM ltJ and this is to advise that I have Almost 3 Million in the U. S. Over 14 Can't Read or Write Washington There are 2.800.000 Americans over 14 who can neither read nor write but that's a record low. The census bureau said so as it announced results of a survey made late last year. Coitipare the present 2 7 per cent illiteracy rate with the rate in 1930 4.7 per cent. It was. 6 5 per cent in 1920, and a whopping 20 per cent in 1870. The bureau credited this "marked progress" to these factors: 'The greater enforcement of compulsory school attendance laws, the extension of educational opportunities, the dying off of the relatively numerous aged illiterates, and the special train ing given Illiterates in the armed sen-ices during World War II." Father of Nine Blames Housing, Not Family Size, for Lack of Home Hollywood UJ9 After s fruitless year of house-hunting, a vet eran movie stand-in and his family of 10 were separated and sleeping in dormitories today. "Landlords just slam the door when we tell them we have nine children," said Russell Cole. 38, who used to be a stand-in for Peter Lorre, Claude Rains and Lou Costello. When the ninth baby came he had to quit pictures and take a steady job as railroad fireman. The two older boys are at boarding schools. Cole, his 33-year-old wife. Dorothy, and the other youngsters are In a dormitory at Hollywood Guild Canteen. They were evicted when the landlord sold a six-room house where they had lived 10 years "Whether we'll have any more children depends on God." Mrs. Coll said. "I believe in large families. It's not my family that I The Judge Was a Magic Fan Los Angeles 'IP' Luckily for Everett A. Drummond, Su perior Judge Ben Rosenthal is a legerdemain fan. Drummond, a one-time stage magician, appeared before his honor on a charge of possesing a blackjack. The ex-magician explained the eight-Inch Redwood stick he carried was in reality a rolling pin and so harmless it wouldn't even break an egg. By way of demonstration, Drummond brought forth black velvet bag and an egg. He placed the egg In the bag and rolled over it with the stick. Opening the bag, he dis closed the egg still Intact. He broke It In a dish, to prove it was real. The judge dismissed the case. FILM CAPITAL Fiddling With Another Fad BY VIRGINIA MacPHERSON Hollywood UP-' Hollywood, land of the diamond-studded sun glasses and imported limousines, is fiddling with another fad. This time it's astrology. And the results are wondrous to behold. Maria Montez won't even get out of bed if her horoscope looks dark. Linda Christian refuses to date Tyrone Power un less her planets . "It's uncanny how right some of those fellows can be," Sle zak says. "Mine has predicted the sex of my three children on the nose. With the last two I've cleaned up on bets around town." Astrologer Isadore Oblo han dles Slezak's horoscope from New York and the actor swears he hasn't missed yet. ft NOVELTIES Timely Home-Run Chicago 0J.B A home run saved Clarence Carlsons $1,800 diamond ring. Carlson had parked his auto mobile near a Softball game. A bandit slugged him and started to remove the ring from his fin ger. Just then a batter in the soft ball game hit a home run. Out fielders chased the ball toward Carlsons car. 7 The bandit fled without the ring, thinking the outfielders were after him. say so. And Walter Slezak floods his home with 20.000 watts of light every night because his astrologist says this is bur- I glar-month for him in the zo diac. Tlrrlnla MtcrhtnM Movie stars who started dabbling in rum blings from the zodiac for a few laughs are getting so they won't start a picture or pick cut a new husband without a planetary okay. And the boys who commune with Cancer and Leo and such are getting rich. We know one who's even branching out. Now he consults a chart and tells his clients what color to wear on certain days. He calls it "color scoping." (He'll do the same with per fumes, too. But he hasn't found a name for that yet.) Slezak. Montez, Christian, et Warning al, get daily or monthly bulle- Colfax, Wash. (U.RA stolen tins from their astrologers, tell- prowl car recovered by polics ing 'em what to do and when, in a blind allev bore this note: You'd be surprised how rell- "Next time it will be in the giously they follow orders. river." No Change of But In Rott DEPOT 520 No. High Ph. 33815
