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'. 4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, May 11. 1919
.The Man Behind the Airlift
The lifting- of the Berlin blockade as a result of the
Allied airlift, the most remarkable and successful opera
i'. tion of its kind ever staffed, is largely due to General
11 Lucius D. Clay, who is retiring as head of the United
"States military government in Germany, and as commander-in-chief
of the American military forces in Germany.
He deserves the highest commendation for his skillful
achievement and fearless devotion to duty in one of the
most difficult situations in history.
Clay, who was a great nephew of Henry Clay, waa
graduated from West Point in 1918, commissioned in the
corps of engineers and served in various army posts during
v the twenties and thirties, a captain for sixteen years.
In the reorganization of the war department after Pearl
' Harbor, Clay was entrusted with key responsibilities for
procurement and production of army weapons, equipment
and supplies, and proved so indispensible in the supply
program that his request to be sent to the fighting front
' was refused. He quickly mastered the practical problems
1 of industrial production and his driving energy pushed
, the entire program at top speed.
In 1944 he was sent to service in the European theatre,
... until Mr. Byrnes in the office of war mobilization insisted
on getting his services. There he remained until Secre
tary Stimson chose him to manage military government
' in Germany for the United States.
- - Robert P. Patterson, who recently retired as secretary
." of war, pays General Clay the following tribute:
: "It is my considered Judgment that to General Clay more than
. to any other individual should go the credit for the success ot
the armament effort in the war years. No American has ever
had a harder assignment. As a soldier subordinate to the civil
" authority he has scrupulously carried out the directives he re
" ceived from Washington At the same time he has been com
pelled many times to make decisions of his own on the spur of
' - the moment. His policies, whether in the field of political life,
: of economics, of finance, of commerce, or of military affairs,
were those of an enlightened and conscientious statesmen and
soldier. As for his relations with the Russians, it suffices to say
,,that he went to Berlin prepared to meet them more than half
.-way. When their provocative tactics were revealed, they found
In Clay a man without fears and without nerves."
;- "In the early days of occupation," continues Patterson,
up "it was the fashion for writers to lake a quick trip to
Germany and tear off articles on our failure there. Grad
ually the articles disappeared. They were replaced by ar
ticles that told of steady progress. The latest chapters
-are the lifting of the blockade on Berlin and the forma
tion of a democratic government for west Germany. The
entire record is a credit to the American people, due large
ly to the fact that our interests there were in the care of
" the manly, modest soldier who will retire in a few days."
"New Vets' Pension Bill
'' Following the failure of the $100 billion veterans' pen
sion hill to pass, the house veterans' committee has ap-
proved a modified pension bill adding about $65 billion
to existing veteran benefits over the next 50 years.
"' The new measure liberalizes and writes into law regula
,t tions of the veterans' administration already in force for
n disabled and needy veterans. It bars pensions for veterans
. able to work more than half time under an amendment
u by Rep. Teague of Texas.
The unemployability requirement was hotly opposed by
'Chairman Rankin (D.-Miss.). He voted against it in com-
mittee and threatened to carry his fight against his
"' own rnmmittee's bill onto the floor of the house. He said
"The Teague amendment cuts out six-sevenths of the World
War I veterans aged 65 or over. It is the worst blow they
'hava received to date since the Kconomy Act of 193.1"
which reduced veterans' pensions.
As the bill now stands, it establishes pension benefits
totaling approximately a billion dollars a year through
the year 2000.
i The new version, which again carries the name of Chair
man Rankin (D.-Miss.), was put together by the commit
itee as a "reasonable" counter-proposal to the criticism
which greeted the earlier bill that it was much too expen
v aive.
The latest, bill would provide $72-a-monlh pension bene-
fits for needy veterans of both world wars at age fi.V It
" also would set up benefits ranging from $60 to $72 in
, cases of total disability.
STORIES IN LIFE
; Pink Rag Spills $12,000
,. New York, M"i A big blob of grease fell on the windshield
nf a police rar from an el track today forcing patrolman
.. Gilhrrt Orr to get out In the rain.
- lie spotted a pink rag In a gutter and pirkrd II up In use
In wipe off (he grease. He noticed the rag was knotted at
four corners and felt heavy.
Ho took It to the rar and opened II. Out spilled an even
I1J.00B In rash. Then were seventy-eight (100 bills, seventy-five
ISO's, and many smaller onrs.
Police hlgher-upa were mystified by the find. No such loss
had been reported anywhere In the metropolis recently.
.' Studio Passes 40th Milestone
Hollywood, (UP) Hollywood's gigantic movie Industry,
"whlrh started In a Chinese laundry off the beginning nf the
multi-million dollar business was "In the Power nf the Sul
"Man," filmed May I and , ISO, with the late Hnhart Bns
' ' worth starring.
Filming nf the picture was In a laundry. Boswnrlh. a
Shakespearean actor, got Ills for the two day's work, ad
, milting It was a "strange but not unpleasant experience."
But Boswnrlh was not sure of the future of the Infant
, entertaln-mrdia. He refused to let his name he used in the
picture. .
.
" Merry Grandmas Marry
! Glen Tails, N. Y., May 10 (41 A grandmother and her grand
daughter, who took husbands in a double ceremony, honeymooned
here today.
: Married Saturday night at North Rrnnkfield were:
r Mrs. Ella Kling, 83, and Charles Orne, a retired machinist of
Bnitton.
n Miss Edna May Munsnri, 21, of Cortland, who became the bride
of .lay Htilrhings, a railroad worker.
: The Rev. Paul Duffnrd of the First Baptist church performed
the double ceremony at the grandmother's home in the Madtsnn
county village. The couples served witnesses for each other.
- Recollections
f SHUT THAT DOOB AND STAY ) """"" " ta
- I OUTSIDE WHILE I'M TAKING
i) THlS ST0VE OOWNr . TTTI
'fx-s&W-i IWr,i (geewhiy'
WmmSMh imW'M, cant a guv J
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Cold War
By DON
County officials aren't going
down and when the rest of the
to the high falutin' idea, county
on standard
time. As the f
flunky remark
ed to Louis XVI
at the outbreak
of his big fuss,
"Sire, this isn't
a revolt, it's a
re v o 1 u 1 1 on."
But county of
ficials say they
can't do any
thing else as the
state 1 a w says
when they shall go to work and
quit In the afternoon and a
city ordinance isn't going to
cl.ange it
Whether or not the
town clock on tne courthouse
tower will be switched over re-
mains to be seen. That's up to
the ,iv lri.. .nrf .. I. ,i.nA.
k ..,,. ... j .
the county Judge and as it stands
now he's inclined not to order
WTI- ,?Ji." Z'XEZL
L2
to have a city-county building rain and he didn't know of any for the government and now scho1 dedicated to him
all in one on the courthouse i-t .- ,. , . ,, ,Ku.. .u . ...
block at has often been advo
cated, wouldn't that be some
thing with the city council or-
dering one thing and the county
court another? It would be fun.
It might even result in Grant
Murphy and Bob Elfstrom duel
ling it out with heavy language
at any rate.
Bird Lore
New York IU.B Police inves
tigating cries of "Let me out"
coming from a locked office yes
terday discovered a pet parrot,
railing attention in the only way
it knew to the fact that its
master, Gustave Moerei, .10, had
been bound and gagged and
robbed of $744.
Pn-n-nrf .,
cry for "Mamma" has mothers
hnuneinir nut nf herf in earlv
mornings in an East Portland
neighborhood. But it fs not their
offspring in distress. It's Charlie,
an impish talkative crow. Char-
lie was rescued by a youngster
from a water snaked nest in the
debris of flooded Vanport last
year. Since then, he has mim-
icked his patron and the neigh-
nornoon children.
Clarence Jungwirth, Stayton
and Mill City sand and gravel
operator, was over at the coast
Sunday where the Jungwirths
and his in-laws the Grant Mur-
ph.vs stopped for a picnic din-
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
An Aim at Real Democracy
ly DeWITT
tiA Poreltn
WA(i.m dtrmnnu'i mui tn,,hlif.an nnntl it, il inn mnrlnlnH nn
. . '
the American and British systems of government is one of the
most remarkable documents of
It is truly the
product of our
new era.
This constitu
tion pro v I d e s
(on paper, at
least) the great
est degree of
iemocracy the
country ever
has known. In
deed, one mighi
say it provides1
if 1 r t u a lly the
only democracy Germany hat
experienced, because the short-
lived Weimar republic (1918-33)
died an unnatural death before
it could fulfill Its promise.
Even more striking is the fact
that Germany twice the insti-
gator of world wart within a
generation not only outlaws
aggressive war but provides for
the transfer of the Reich t proud live In existence.
sovereignly to a United States Well, they are going to have
of Europe. their chance to prove that claim.
And Germans who only a They still will be under allied
short time ago were bowing the supervision until such time as
neck to the Hitlerian dictator- they have demonstrated their
ship are given a sweeping bill ot fitness to walk alone, but the
rights which declares that "the allied purpose Is to encourage
dignity of man shall be Inviola- them to Hand on their own feet,
ble." The constitution, of course,
can only apply to the three tones
What a transformation! to western Germany at the out
There still are knocking about set, but it has been drawn up
plenty of us "old timers" who so as to Include Soviet-controll-hark
hack to the days of Kaiser ed eastern Germany as soon as
Wilhelm 1L the "U highest" a United Nation can be achieved.
UPJOHN
to take daylight savings lying
citv switches over next Monday
offices will bang along as usual
ner. Clarence bought a couple
Ul ...v. .,:, l
them. He tossed the other into
the trunk of his car for future
nome use. However, ne torgoi
it when he got .home and did a
lot of commuting in the hot sun
Monday and didn t have any
. .i i i. ...
ia. mi
til Tuesday afternoon. And
when he did
un o.mu.m, omy
county assessor, jumped the gun
today and as far as we know
w ,h, first , ,naI. in , straw
... . . ... . . . ..
hat ,or the spring. But it was
ir me ajriiiK. dui 11 wm
... . ..
no, oue .o me not weamer ne
A': ""Ie
'Freedom' Was No Bargain
Gate City, Va. (U.P1 Six prisoners who escaped from the
county jail gave police a few surprises.
One decided to go back within two hours after the jailbreak.
When he walked in, the startled officers hadn't learned of
the escape.
By working fast, police rounded up three others of the six
In a short time. -
A week later, the other two threw a session of circuit court
Into an uproar by walking in to give up. They said they were
"tired of hiding."
ocw rnnnu
OPEN FORUM
No Rights for Pedestrian
To the Editor: We are fairly new
six montht ago from Pasadena,
We are struck by the beauty of
time of the year when your
trees and flowers are doing
nelr "nius. io inarm m iuui-
ist and newcomer.
There are so many places oi
Interest nearby that, merely to
live here, is a grand vacation.
But on the other hand, we
are amazed at the flagrant dis-
respect that the motoring pub-
lie has for the pedestrian.
We know that your slate law
give. the pedestrian the right-
of.way when he between ,,
... '
' "
'se in obtaining our driven
license It was one of the ques-
MocKENZIl
Aflilr Aniuatt
. ' I -
the kind ever drafted
who fathored World War I. our-
nanl In hi nnlirv nt imnorinl
... ... ...r.......
autocrat who believed that he
ruled by divine right, a fact
which Inspired an American to
write the famous satirical poem
ZZtZZ? whirh intulMr
the emperor.
Then came the world war
which resulted in the abdication
of the kaiser.
The Weimar republic tried to
inaugurate democracy, only to
h overtaken by the Hitlerian
regime, whirh represented one
' the most terrible dictatorships
' " "me.
Now we get the violent revul-
aion of all this in the new con-
stitution. German political lead-
ers claim it Is the most progres-
WASHINGTON MERRY
Airlift Fliers Did Real
Service for the Country
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Today the Berlin airlift is suspended and the
pilots and ground crewmen who performed the greatest air feat
in history at long last get a rest.
What they and the nation may not know, however, is what
intelligence reports from Russia say about their work. They say
that the Berlin airlift has done
more to increase American
prestige In Europe than any
thing else.
Even behind
the Iron Cur
tain, the acts
of the Berlin
airlift are
known. The
Russians could-
l
news out. fjrf
of a city of 2,-tY
wuv.uuv l:up
by air, day in
Drew ri rt.tu
and day out, was too staggering
a story to suppress. It was a
great human story, spread not
by newspapers, but by word of Maryiana as a gin to tne J. ta
mouth. fcar Hoover foundation. They
The Soviet government not lso P' to raise money priv
only couldn't suppress it, but a.,cy n.elP bu,ld and ,lnanc
was worried about it.
So the Dilots and around
crewmen, as they ease up on
their labors today, may never
really know how ' much they
have done for their country.
J. FnfiAR HOOVER SCHOOL
During the J, long years he
....
J; Edgar Hoover has received
,' """" "
,. .
Various corporations have in-
vited him to leave the govern-
ment and Join them. Movie com-
crime-story adviser Big
as meir crime aiory aaviser. Dig
nanioi naua aevan mm Tn corvo
detective agencies sought his
services. But Hoover has said
,
When vou eomoare thi. with
the general field of ex-govern-
,. . ,
ment officials, Hoovers sacri-
menl oii.cwia, xioover . s-yr.-
looms mucn Bigger tnan
X, . , ' . ... ,
toP ."!e"t. "lc'al!
er.ve Z- .
and make big money in private
ana maKC dik money in private
ij...,. i w. ..:-. i
""k" "
of lawyer whoW0nce "worked
in Salem, having arrived some
California.
your fair city, especially at this
tions which had to be answered.
..i mt nuiiiiwuvc.
My wife and I have had sev-
" .lum ul,i
run down at street crossings and
at one time while we were car-
rvlnK our granddaughter in
pur arms, all due to the fact that
loc"! d"vers f respect
to thm fiAripitrian
In ,w0 casPS wt have bepn
waited on at local street cross-
lngs and in both case, as ,
looked up to acknowledge the
courtesy I noticed that they
wpre ut of s(ate
I rPad in one of the local
i-V.i u w,"'",.,""y W7R
nivic uiiy ui live vvcia iuii uuwn
by some careless motorist and
I notice that the the driver wai
held for not giving the right-of-
way o a pedcstrian-especially
a en i In.
This was a sad case, for the
t : ... , .. .
BCUUUBI.V llljUrctl, Dill U
t serves to wake up the local
population to the crying need
for protection for the man who
u nibc u w,a nn
U- ...u- : i
me BUdinil YV1IU tdlllfS HIT UHUV
where the law says they have
that right, some good mav come
from this tragic accident.
We went to the police depart-
mfH,:nd rP'fJT "i"
rondition and were told that the
reason was because the popula-
tion of Salem was nearing 50.000
and that there was onlv some
46 police to man the situation.
miwa uic p 1 1 tt i ni inr corners
However, we also notice that
there are plenty of police to
watch the parking meters and
to give tickets If a driver parks
five minutes overtime, but no
police to watch the corners for
j V f th wom'n and
"hlldren who wish to cross the
,r"t.
" ILLIAM C. SWAIN.
TIME to repair or replace
GUTTERS
DOWNSPOUTS
FLASHINGS
PL UMBING -MSA TING
- GO - ROUND
But Hoover was satisfied to
work for years on less than
$10,000; only recently got a sal
ary increase to $14,000. He is
truly devoted to public service.
Therefore, it was appropriate
that yesterday the 25th anni
versary nf Hoover's directorship
of the FBI a bipartisan group
of senators and representatives
introduced a bill establishing a
model school for rejected boys
outside Washington in honor of
Hoover. For work among boys
has been one of his greatest con
tributions. Already, a group of private
citizens have secured a 530-acre
farm near the upper Potomac in
the school.
The bill, introduced in con-
f res
by Senators Thomas of
Morse ot Oregon and
Utah,
Ive of?,ew York a"d Congress-
men """" l Pennsylvania
fnd Case ' New Jersey pro-
--
thL " 00'-
erne(, by , board composed f
gn cqua, umber of government
officials and private citizens.
This would give the school
. ,. , frrtm , ,
prise which the government it-
sclf ,acks
....
Hoover, himself, would be the
d:n- ... h-hiH t h
" ul" , aj Lil j " " .
, ' n. " ' "
- .,:
?". ,h.e daV. mht Comewhen,
'nste!a M UKln? tempt.ng of-
fer from private business, he
.,..j A . .
.. , .. . ,
thj he . mostimDrov.
ing the youth of the nation,
And in view of Hoover's long
service at a modest government
.,,. K : "
salary, nobody in congress is
going to object to putting up
T'J "
UNDERNEATH HIS BELLOW
Bellowing Bill Langer, the
unruly senator from North Da
kota, likes to size un a man be
fore voting to confirm him for
nftin That', u.ktr ha Mnir-A
the confirmation of Adm. Paul
Mather to succeed Jess Larson
as war assets aaministrator.
Finally Larson called the se-
nator and asked what he had
aeaint Admiral Mather
"r iustTanrto look him in
the eve " roared Laneer
Larson hurried Mather over
.A8!!?.",1,,
specn TnV b fondly en-
ator threw an arm around the
admiral and said: "You look
like a two-fisted guy. We'll
confirm you this afternoon."
...
ACHESON TO GERMANY
Secretary Acheson has decid-
ed to visit Germany while in
t.Pi. thm fn... nnu... -nn.
ference ln fact Acheson alrea-
dy has a speech ready for his
brjc case wj(h thf, jdea that ne
would go to either Stuttgart or
prankfort as did Secretary
Byrnes in 1948.
'The purp0M f the speech
would be to assure Germans
tnat ,he Vnited sute, has no in.
tf,ntion ot turning them over to
,he communi,tai even if we do
reacn an agreement wltn Kus.
pnrtTn ll ,re Arh-Jr?.
d " JSriSnS
ZZ1 7 1 1 - VP"!' .if.
1, i, Z, It ih.
?,nSl. 1 P! ,. .uiiL!
United Slates want! them to go
ahead full speed with plans for
a separate
western German
state
NOTE Acheson may run In
to competition from Vishinksy
who it bound to make . ,imiu;
,peech , ea,tern Germany.
jt;nGE (?) fRANK LAUSCHE
Th hia n.,A.linn v..rU
nhin mTi(in. i. ...... ii-
in
.,, r.vn- pnU. r ...h.
Th. nnii,i.i.n, , ,
UCSS
whether he will run
Wun,.. . aAmM-..i-
Z "V"r v ce nresident
f" , president
. fc ' ,h. ,,,. .
,,Mement LauX m.t an
SL' im.
- ..i h,.. , n.,!il. ..
SJ Heel.red "for th
benctT"
'
THIS IS CM BEST... Serve this
natural cheddar to the family and
lunches and dinners , . . and
rimes, too, when there's a craving
or two of inmtlhing ftlly good
MOW AVAIL ABU
Aftfr monthf of saint and mellowing. Row
Vatlev Chene i now ready fot yon,
ASK YOUR GROCFR or arWer 5 fc, aVtVAt
itrttU
rir, AWrf rff la itm
a"rrlr far year tft 9M.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
0N IN EVERY 2 OF US
SUFFERS FROM SOME FORM
OF ALLERdY. THAT MAKES IT
EVEN ODDS, (mmu swiiTWt.
muisoh. wis. uueaoss with ihis turn)
Loved Boat Too
Hollywood. U.e Kva Gabor, beautiful brown-eyed Hun
garian acress, won a divorce from broker Charles Isaaci
today on grounds he loved hia boat better than he did her.
"He was happiest when he was on hla boat," ahe tearfully
told Judge Paul Nourse. "He went there every week-end. I
wasn't asked to go along."
Divorced from Swedish Dr. Erie Drlmmer in 1942, sho
married Isaacs, 28, here in September 194.1.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Psychologists Have Worries
By HAL BOYLE
New York W What worries me about psychologists It that
they worry about themselves.
And, particularly, I am worried about the stage of life at
which they wor- JV
j:ff.
" ..' ""-f
ent ,hlnRS-
j.-or aays ana
, , have
bMn muinng
-., ,,
over a worry
""l. "
,,mf,"u" .
sented recently
at the Midwest
ern Psychologi-
ci iswviai.
,. i r-hi
cago.
It was a composite picture 01
what 103 elderly psychologists
had worried most about at d.f-
ferent ages. It left a lot of
questions unanswered in my
mind. And it also has left me
jVen,
dOn t
more convincea inai i
want any psychologists
convinced that I
romping barefooted among my
menial complexes.
Heretofore I had always
thought of psychologists as
white-coated men with bifocal
spent their live, in
dim laboratories peering at trap-
Ped white mice wandering in
aeunnina- maze. Thev were sun-
Posed to learn from the mice
great lessons to help mankind
84 out of iU trap, too.
Judging from this worry
timetable, however, I think the
psychologists are caught in the
maze. And I am beginning to
wonder if the white mice aren't
learning something about men-
tal freedom from looking out
at them.
At 18, the survey showed,
foragers in the pastures of the
brain are most concerned over
idealism and personal develop-
Be sure it's
PURE CANE
flavorful
guests at
in-between
for I bitt
PMtturixtdl
Mtllowtdl i
Daliciovt Cheddar I
P-T
ytUwt trsiT&lyfy
mt. ANn. ca.se. ciamit, m. m i
PIMM Mnd racip
Ctv-
I mm mtm Mat '
r-w j
EVEN IF YOU'RE
AN ACTOR WHO BU0MS
TO A UNION, ODDS ARE
4 TO I YOU'RE NOT
WORKING. ,
Much
ment. At 20 they are In a blue
funk over their personal ap
pearance, although most boys
lose their pimples before then.
.
Comes the ripe old age of 23,
and what is the fledgling psy
chologist fretting most about?
Why, sexual morality. Accord
ing to Dr. Kinuey's famed re
port, this is some four years
after the average young man
should find this his most Dress-
jnf! problem,
It perhaps com lelelv nor.
mal ,hat a, 31 ,hey shoud fee
, . , A,-,. .
, business or professional suc
cess. But why, at 33, are they
mmi w0ied ver Job Iecur
,
Why are these two years so
critical?
Well, they jog on to 38 and
are do th h
"hey hit 41 and mope over their
politic 1 , eviction. At 42 they
have finally decided whether to
vote democratic or republican
or go all out for Henry Wallace
-and it 1, marital difficulties
that plague them most,
And at 45 life has cut them
down to their last two big wor-
ries. This is the year they pino
over giving up their unfulfilled
ambitions and turn again to their
health. For the rest of their days
nothing frustrates them more
than how their ulcers are far-
ing.
What year do they worry most
about the white mice? And who
worries most mice or psycho!
ogists?
Be sure
with C H
boeklvt
a.. . Ii. -
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