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th a tl P hi cl hi hi ci tr tr th di hi ki di w ol "1 Hi a Pi w m m ot tr. fo al m Pi fr hi et of di to q m se w hi ni fc hi 01 ft g: B t? si VI h S( d ei Z IT Capital A Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORSE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press 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. 4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 3, 1949 Top Priority State Highway Engineer Baldock's report to ease traffic congestion in Salem has the city talking. That's the way it should be if Salem is to work out a solution to the prob lem that has such an important bearing on the city's de velopment. Baldock's report is so basic as to form the pattern of traffic through and in Salem for the next 20 years. His projections are to 1970. Because the report is this important, the Capital Journal is printing it in detail. The arguments the highway en gineer uses for drawing his definite conclusions for one way traffic over the Willamette bridges and for a one way traffic system in the city are all contained in the report. And it should be remembered that Baldock has made these recommendations based on his many, many years of study of the highway system in Oregon and throughout the country. He holds national recognition in this field. Although his recommendations may be startling and sub ject to question, he makes them with full knowledge that he stakes his reputation on them. Districts within the city should be encouraged to check for their own satisfaction the experience of other cities with one-way traffic. Members of the South Salem Pro gress club, for instance, are going down to Eugene to check on the results that city has had with the one-way system. In this connection, Baldock assures Salem his recom mendations have been made after a careful study of the success or failure of traffic systems throughout the Uni ted States. And, it might be added, his traffic solution is fundamentally a system of one-way streets. If City Manager Franzen has his report on the Baldock proposal ready for the city council meeting next Mon day, the city will then start serious consideration of ac ceptance or rejection of the plan. If the plan is accepted, the highway engineer has called for an agreement of co operation between city authorities and the highway com mision. This highway plan is the most important single civic proposal before Salem today. It should be considered that way, "Playing Politics With Peace" Premier Josef Stalin's second unofficial offer within a week of his willingness to meet President Truman behind the "iron curtain" seems to indicate that the czar of all the Russias is getting worried over the progress made by western powers in Germany and Europe generally and over the formation of a North Atlantic defense league. But if he is sincere, why is the offer not officially made cither directly to Mr. Truman, to the United Nations or through diplomatic channels instead of to newsmen and radio broadcasters? At any rate, the Stalin offer has brought forth from Secretary of State Achcson a clear and concise statement of the American foreign policy to the effect that it will allow no Russian "peace maneuver" to disrupt by side deals with the Soviet Union the growing units of non-communist western Europe expressed in rejection of Stalin's proposal. Acheson accused Stalin indirectly of playing interna tional politics with world peace and stated that the pres ent state of the world is due to Russia's "obstructionism" and refusal to cooperate, that the whole world had been seeking peace with the exception of Russia. What Acheson said added up to a suggestion that Stalin stop playing politics with peace in the newspapers and in stead use any of the existing channels open to him to communicate with the western powers. Subject to these conditions the United States govern ment would welcome any serious move by Russia toward solution of some very grave problems, including: 1. MnkinR effective United Nations Charter provision for peaceful settlements of international disputes. Acheson pointed out that the Soviet Union vetoed that in the Security Council. 2. Creating an international armed United Nations force to give the organization some authority. This also was blocked by the Russians. 3. The return of Berlin to a normal way of life by the lifting the Soviet Union's blockade. 4. Achievement of overall German and Austrian settlements which would put those countries under their own government. This also has been blocked by the Soviet Union. 5. Obtaining international agreement on the control of atomic energy; blocked like the others by Stalin's men. The Only Real Cure for Rape Three brothers from Silverton have begun serving terms ranging from 15 to 40 years at the state penitentiary after pleading guilty in Linn county circuit court to the torture rape of a Brownsville girl January 15, and the rape of an Albany woman last June 30. The cider brother was an ex-convict, 21 years old, was sentenced on two counts for 20 years each to run consecu tively, the two others, 10 and 16 years old, were each sen tenced to 15-year terms. The trio also face trials for torture-rape in Clackamas and Polk counties. The two older brothers confessed at tacking two Clackamas women last fall, and the oldest and youngest admitted raping a Monmouth girl last May. The newspaper account says : The brothers wer arrested January 26 by state police and admitted participation in the four rape cases. They were identi fied by their Brownsville victim as the men who followed her for four miles toward Sweet Home and forced her into their car after stopping her car by locking bumpers. She was also burned by cigarette butts. Last June 30 two of llirm forced an Albany woman into their car and after driving to Scravel Hill, tied her hands, raped her and put her out of the car. First of the admitted crimes was the rape of the 15-year-old Monmouth girl after they had stalled the car in which she was riding by putting water in the gasoline. They used the same method on a woman at Mnlino, raping her after offering to take her to a tow car when iier own car stalled with water in the gasoline. The oldest admitted raping another woman at Molalla November 11. These brothers seem to be congenital rapists, suffering from a form of sexual insanity. The newspapers are full of similar shocking crimes, many of them never solved. It does no good to imprison such perverts, only adds to the taxpayers' debts and the longer the imprisonment the costlier to the state and when released they resume their crimes. There is but one cure, castration. Even sterilization is not a cure. The law should be amended to provide com pulsory castration for such habitual rapists, and the threat of castration will act as a great deterrent to commission and an effectual cure when applied, There is nothing that such human beasts dread more. BY BECK Husbands WM llL SURPRISE THE WIFE. SHE'S WWM WwM ALWAYS 5AYIN3 1 even J fwM, WM MMmp the garbage pail aT 'wffi'ffM v''iWWM 7-? SIPS FOR SUPPER Time Will Tell BY DON UPJOHN We had several calls last evening chiding us and our favorite paper on reporting that the groundhog didn't see his shadow when as a matter of fact the sun did come out and shine quite brightly a time or two. One man was quite irate about but appe a r e d mollified when we expla i n e d that the sun did n't shine until after the paper had go n e to press, old Sol probably just having his little Den Upjohn 'iff Vv" 1 fun at our expense. But, at any Well, the Baldock and anti rate, this opens again the old Baldock clans are beginning to controversy about the ground- gather and the arguments get hog. As we understand the an- ting started on one way or two cient legend If the little chap way, on one bridge or two doesn't see his shadow when he bridge, et cetera. I should be emerges from his hole, he goes quite a wordy battle. At least back in and hibernates another it's punched old Salem right in six weeks and lets the weather the middle of its inertia, we hope, rage as it may. Under this leg- and whatever happens maybe it end he doesn't hang around all will lead to somewhere which, day waiting to find out whether whatever it is, won't be any the sun shines or not. And when worse. That's a cinch. one consider how the weather was yesterday morning we fail At any rate, it's mighty corn to see just what incentive he'd forting nowadays in crossing have to come out and wait Twelfth street at Mission with around. Any ordinary human the traffic lights going there at knows that yesterday, if he woke last. Several of them could be from a sound sleep, saw what sprinkled along South Commer the weather was and didn't have cial street much to the benefit of to go back to work, he wouldn't, the body politic as well as to the He'd just stuff his head under bodies of pedestrians who try to the covers and stay there. Cer- get across that maelstrom of traf tainly a groundhog that's sup- fic. Every time somebody ven posed to be smart enough to die- tures out into the rush and the tate the weather policies for the roar you can see him hanging next six weeks, would be smart onto his life with both hands. Oc enough to do the same. casionally one of them makes it At any rate, It'll be a good across. SALEM TRAFFIC REPORT Division St. Bridge to Cost More Than Marion St. Site By R. H. BALDOCK Bute Highway Engineer PART II SALEM BRIDGE (Continued) As will be later pointed out, the amount of traffic carried by the proposed Division street four-lane bridge Is determined not by the capacity of the bridge itself but by the capacity of the approaches. Two-way traffic on Division street and two-way traffic on Commercial mid Liberty streets Examination ot the city streets complicate the situation mater- i e a d i n g northward indicates tally. ql,ite conclusively that North The elimination of a left-turn BroaciWay will make by far the movement on Liberty and Divis- t,etter connection, and it is ion streets would necessitate lhought that Broadway ultimate passing under the bridge at Com- ly will be the main north-and-mercial street so a right-hand soulh arterial, replacing to a turn could be made at Liberty large extent the need for Com and Division streets. mercial street serving such traf- Of course, the same type of jic movement could take place using Front street, but it is less desir able because of railroad switch ing activities on Front street. If tile Division street bridge is carried to Liberty, the over-all cost will be $3,825,000, or nearly half a million dollars more than lanrting the Dricige al commer- es shollc oe designated as one cial street. Under such circum- wa s(rects. stances, the Division street struc- should the Division street four ture would cost about $025,000 anebridgc plan be adopted, more than the one-way bridge Mme provisi0n would need to plan. be made for a connection north- The cost of landing the Mar- pnstriv. Division street ter- lon street and the Center street mjnatcs at High street. bridges at Liberty is estimated Two alternate plans are pro to be $3,182,000. The landing of Jor tnia connection, the bridges at Commercial street Gne pian would involve the will require a short section of wjdening and extension of Fair eight per cent grade, approxi- grounds road, the widening to be matcly 200 feet long. performed on the existing street The only danger or hazard betwecn Capitol and Church, and would be the probability of frost the extension of Fairgrounds or ice on the approaches which road from church street to are somewhat more hazardous on Broadwav. This is estimated to the short section of eight per costi jnciuding right of way, cent grade than on a five per $900,000. The cost of widening cent grade. the existing Pacific highway To eliminate this hazard, it is (rom the intersection of Fair- proposed to place electrical heat- Rrounds road and Capitol street ing units in the pavement with northward to the Hayesville automatic control so that the school is estimated to cost $825,- heating units will function when not). the temperature drops below 35 Xn alternate to Fairgrounds degrees. These electrical heating road widening and extension units will keep the bridge abso- would be cither a connection to lutcly dry and prevent the for- Libertv and Commercial along mation of frost or Ice. at a cost and parallel with the railroad of not to exceed $5,000 per tracks to a connection with the bridge for a two-lane structure proposed Pacific highway on the or $10,000 for a four-lane struc- west side of the Southern Pa ture. eifje railroad tracks near the " Hayesville school or the use of Some Importance has been Norway and Shipping as one placed on overpassing Commer- way streets from Broadway to cial street because it is an im- Summer and Capitol streets, portant north-and-south arterial. (Concluded on Fax. S. Column 6) time to give the matter a real test and see how the weather turns out. If it's good enough to plant potatoes in February, then it's likely the new version of the myth will have to be accepted. If not, then the old timers knew what they were talking about. Up to now we haven't received any report from Riverdale as to whether Doc Bill Thompson is still plucking ripe tomatoes. Moreover, the one-way traffic plan with synchronized traffic control will expedite the traffic flow. Should t h e Marion-Center street one-way-bridge plan be selected, Marion and Center sti-oots eastward from the bridg- WASHINGTON MERRY New York Welcomes French 'Merci Train' BY DREW PEARSON Washington As New York's parade welcoming the French Merci Train moves up Broadway today, not many people will know that seven city departments worked long in advance to plan it. Chief problem was figuring out a safe route for the French boxcar over New York's un- d e r m i n e d streets. Many New York ave nues are shell thin because of the i n t r i cate subway under neath, and the French World W a r I boxcar mounted on an irmy trailer weighing 20 tons. Even New Yorks city hall is nan over maln objections." a subway, so police had to mark Howard, chief of the RFC's off areas strong enough to sup- business loan section, is married port the French car. to the youngest sister of Frank New York Central Railroad Hancock, of Oxford, N. C. Han engineers also had to determine cock, an ex-congressman, went whether the car could travel to school with Secretary of the over Park avenue, under which Army Royall at the University run New York Central tracks. 0l' North Carolina and was a Suave Grover Whalen, chair- member of the sub-committee man of New York's gratitude 0f congress which helped create train committee, got so excited the RFC. over planning the train's ar- Finally, after getting the run rival that he even showed up around in Washington, Strick on time for meetings In New land was advised by North Caro York that's considered revolu- ima friends to retain Hancock tionary. for the purpose of putting the All sorts of people, inspired loan through the RFC. by the French gesture of friend- At their first meetingi says ship, offered their help and co- stricklandi Hancock called in operation. his brother-in-law. Within 10 When it looked as if the SS minuies Howard remarked to De Grasse, bringing part of the Frank Marks vice president of French gratitude train commit- the strickland Furniture Co.: tee, might be late, the coast ,.Don.t call Me Howard. Call guard offered to fly out to sea me j;rnest," to bring them in early. . ' . ... Frederick Lyford. president ,After , that' "V"8, s ot Merritt, Chapman and Scott, Pai?Tw;alsy' and ?bJe':,ln ,' he heard about the train, offered FC loa" vanished Within heavy derricks to unload the ree weeks . , of M25 000 The Moran Tugboat Service offered tugboats for tying up the French ship. Mort Blumenstock of War ner Brothers arranged for film ing a special picture to be shown to the French Deople. telling them how the American people letters of ex-Concgressman Han v elcomed their gesture. cock give releaving evidence, American Legion "40 & 8" this column has obtained photo unite offered to drive their spe- stat copies of these letters. On cial locomotives from as far Jan. 9, 1947, Hancock reported away as Rome, N. Y., for the to Strickland on his contacts Eroadway parade. These are the with his brother-in-law inside veterans who rode in the cars the RFC. marked "Forty Men Eight "In keeping with your sugges- Horses" that became so famous ticn," the ex-congressman wrote, in World War I. "I discussed with Mr. Howard To welcome the French ship, the matter of incorporating the air forces supplied an over- Strickland Furniture company head aerial salute, even set up as soon as practicable and he a special plane for aerial pho- agrees that is Is the proper thing tographers . . . Radio Diffusion to do. Francais, the French radio net- i have been devoting most of work, arranged to cover every my time to your problem this angle of the story and broadcast week, and I am hopeful that it bask to France. some satisfactory decision may Finally, but by no means last, be forthcoming next week after were the American railroads, Mr. Howard returns to his desk without which neither the and his opportunity to discuss Friendship Train nor the French the amended application with Thank-you Train could have the proper officials In the Wash been born. Ington office." Working night and day, ex- Againi on Dec 1947 whe ecutives of 20 railroads mapped an increase in the Strickland out the exact route of the Merci loan was about to come through T,ra,lnJt I0liBh CVery lat,e th,e Hancock reported: uimeu ittLea, Hviieruu&iy nam ing it free to as many cities as possible so that the greatest num- K- ,i i,i (ki. tcken of appreciation from France. BROTHER-IN-LAW For some time it has been whispered around the recon- out struction finance corporation Th discussing the fee he hat .f you wanted government h ,d ' Hancock hinted oans you had to employ certain hjs .JAe ' as j. " lobbyists j ..j reai nowe that , 5 C,u . CUrSe' 15 Vf ot 'he best things in the for by all the taxpayers and is service do t a, supposed to operate for the ben- ire th , t Ume flnd that efit of them all. Furthermore, compensation of my kind must loans are supposed to be grant- lnclude other considerations. ea on their merit not through Strickland says that Howard political pull or with extra cost could have been under no ulu. to the man borrowing the sions to the manner , whicn money. .... .his brother-in-law was using However, here is the story of him. orj on one occasiorli when a small business firm, the Stnck- Strickland memioned the loan land Furniture company of t0 Howard at a dinner in the High Point, N. C, when it tried Washington hotel, Howard re- to borrow from the RFC to marked: ccmplete construction of a fac- ,.,. , , , . , "What are you doing, trying to by-pass mv brother-in-law?" Strickland's loan application (Copyright 19491 BY GUILD Wizard of Odds ft DDS ABC $O0!NG$ TUi$ QUDV ON US: Ml . M rSSFf!iCl JUMDCR0M I I TU& QQDS ARE- t'&H lUkT IF YOU tOt A DUNf, WTU A PAIAWUTE. A.W0PKIN& G'BL. WU A5t OV&B 55 ODD? Alt 9010 TUAT V0U MOPt-TUAN 8,000,000 WOMEN vtQUT PC uiiOTOQ KILLED' OVEB 35 A0E-UOI.DIN6 JOIK - GO - ROUND was approved by the RFC re gional office in Charlotte, N. C, but when forwarded to Wash ington nothing happened. So Strickland came to Washington to push the loan himself. "Regardless of which office we had appointments with," he says in a sworn affidavit, "from day to day it became increas ingly obvious a Mr. Ernest How ard, who we understood was from North Carolina, was al- ways present and raised the ? was Uter raised to $350,- Hancock $6,000, with additional fees later. If there is any doubt about the part which brother-in-law Howard played in the deal, the "I notified Ernest (Ernest Howard) to notify you and Bob ivicHBiii mm i was leaving on ILV"" ?T.. ,y" "n well understand I was immedi ately notified of the board's (RFC board) action, which the chairman told me over the tele- Dhone was not too ensv to work 12.500 TO AGAINCT PITCHING A PtBCECT GAME ( WITHOUT UfT7 OH CM B'US). ONLV 4 PERFECT GAME? IM THE 50.000 MAJOP LEAGUE BATTLES Children Will Be Children Cambridge, Mass. UP) Four-year-old Tommy Neville trie for an assist at a Cambridge city council meeting and drew penalty. Taken to the council meeting by his father, Mayor Michael . Neville, Tommy tired of proceedings and walked to the rostrun "Daddy, daddy," Tommy exclaimed. "Be quiet, be quiet," said the mayor, directing the child bac to his seat. Directly thereafter an alderman challenged Neville's requei for public works funds. "Be quiet, be quiet," Tommy shouted at the alderman. The tot was ousted gently from the room and taken home. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Alone in a Doomed Trade By HAL BOYLE Columbia, S. C- W) From the upstairs room between mldnigh and dawn comes a clickety clack. It sounds in the traffic room of the Western Union and nobod hears it but an old man lean ing toward re tirement. He is ' one of a race of heroes dying out in our own lifetime. And nobody but themselves bothers to know that they are going "Clickety Ht.1 BoyU clack clickety clack click- Delane Phillips, 56, who hi ety clack ." been interpreting the clicket Through the dead silences of clacks since he was 14 yeai the night come the messages. A boy from Germany says he's arriving home with a fraulein wife a father in California says in 10 words that mother is dying and makes the 10th word "love." FromKansas City a husband lets his wife know he arrived by plane okay on a foggy field. "Clickety clack clickety clack clickety clack ." Good and bad news speeds through the senseless night. And a telegrapher, a lone man in doomed trade, takes the news down and passes it on. What men they were and how few they are left the old The messages he transmits sti telegraphers. They stitched the affect him. American continent together "It's a thrill to send word with their clickety clack click- the birth of a baby." he sail ety clack. "And saddening to send woi Now the old timers are drop- of a death. Especially at my ag ping out, one by one. Bright when you realize the certain en young girls tap out by hand on of all things mortal." automatic transmitting machini the messages that used to go b Morse wire. In the old days the Mors telegraphers used to grow grat ually deafened by the staccal tnusii nf a sounder, whose nois J was enlarged by a Prince A bert tobacco can stuck in I sharpen the clickety clack -the clickety clack. "But we have to leave out th tobacco can now," said Lusti old. "They found the sound cai ried to far. Somebody passe by outside who understood th Morse code might pick up private message. Phillips is the son of a com try printer who named his chi dren the phenomenon of ligh First came Hugh (Hue) and the Day, Ray, Lustre, Bright, an Fair. A seventh child broke th pattern by naming herself Juar ita. She wanted to avoid th family's sunshine prejudice. Phillips has been workin nights for more than 30 yea: the midnight to morning tricl IT'S AMAZING WHAT A NEW DRESS OUTFIT WILL DO FOR YOU If you want folks to see what a handsome looking man you really are, discard those working clothes whenever you are off the job and come in and let the J. J. 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