Capital A "Journal
An Independent Newspaper Established 1 888
GEORGI PUTVlAM, Editor end Publisher
ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher
Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che-
meketa St., Solem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont
Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409.
Pull 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.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
B Carrier: W'eeklr, ?Se; Monthly. 11.00; One Year, $12.00. By
Mail In Oregon- Monthly. ?5c; 0 Mos.. $4 0; One Tear, I! 00.
V. 8. Outside Oregon: Monthly. fl.00; ( Mot., $6.00; Year, HZ
4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, May .20, 1949
A Fourth Round of Wage Hikes
The CIO executive board has called for an immediate
fourth round post-war wapre raise for CIO unions, which
include steel, auto and electrical workers, demanded price
reductions from industries and aked all dissenting Jeft
wing board members to resign. President Murray warned
that if communist line CIO leaders, such as Harry Bridges,
continue to defy such CIO decisions they will be purged.
At the same time jrrav3 concern was expressed over un
employment, which was declared extremely critical in many
areas.
On wages, the board was not specific. In line with CIO
policy statements of the last few months, the resolution
said that "unlimited price increases and profit taking"
have weakened consumer purchasing power and caused
slower gales, falling production, and rising unemployment.
Building purchasing power, it said, must be done through
wane increases, prices reductions and smaller profits.
This is typical labor leader logic. High prices are
largely due to the high production cosU, forced by increas
ed wages and forced overtime and diminished production
due to shortened working hours, as well a labor slow
downs and wild-cat strikes. The present Ford strike is
due to speeding up the assembly line in a single depart
ment to lessen the cost of production and is in violation of
the contract signed by the union. At first it was disap
proved by the union officials and then ratified through
mass pressure.
The fourth round pay demands of the big unions have
not been formally decided on. The economic situation is
different from that prevailing when previous rounds were
made. Those wej-e "cost of living" rounds. But in the
last year living costs are down 3 percent from the post-war
peak of August, 1948.
.Moreover, "recession" or "disinflation" have created
resistance to any general wage increase at the present
time. The sellers' market no longer exists and increased
costs cannot be passed on to the consumer, for industry is
under pressure to reduce prices.
The strategy for the fourth round tends to put less em
phasis on wage increases and to stress the "fringe" de
mands of earlier years, increased social security costs,
pa,id by the employer in higher wages, which will be re
sisted as an addition to permanent fixed costs.
rlt will be resisted especially because congress now has
before it a comprehensive program to extend social secur
ity benefits of all kinds, which will add many millions to
national costs. At the same time there is afoot this move
ment to set up industry welfare funds to accomplish the
same purpose. These plans, directly or indirectly, have to
be financed, of course, by the general public, just as does
th.e federal system of social security.
It will create a system of industrial security programs
rkle-by-side with the government's own, cause confusion,
raise production costs, complicate collective bargaining
and increase strikes.
BY BECK
Life's Big Moments
AW COME YatET MEt'V.V MOW YOU PC MOT SCABED
ON.BUTCH- YTRY IT.lL&-V( AFTEP. t PPOVED tT VIAS f
GIVE US A A BET 1 CAN FV l SAFE.. BUT NONE Of" OJ
CHANCE 4? ROCK IT C'S-.A KtDSD PARE TO
TO GET IN El MARDEWN fe-v-'TtT TRY IT... COuBiS
THEBfSj lNBOOVI,: 'YMffeTt
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Real Estate Lobby Suffers
Setback at Private Dinner
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Hottest backfire the real estate lobby has suf
fered in its battle against public housing didn't get into the news
papers. It occurred at a private dinner In Washington in honor
of Sir Harold Bellman, British housing tycoon.
The dinner was given by Mrs. Frances Freed, widow of the late
Allie S. Freed,
phrey suggested that the new
symbol for the republican party
be the mole.
"The mole," Humphrey ex
plained, "only sees in the dark
ness and is blinded by the sunlight.
"That is typical of the repub
icans." explained the senator
from Minnesota. "They are just
discovering the yesterdays to
day, and are unwilling to rec
ognize that there will be any
tomorrows."
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
IAW. PO YOU Wf AR AN AA
WIDTH SMOt .'
loo to I you
BON'T-ANP
1000 TO I
YOU DOM I
rVEARAAAAA
ALWAYS FAITHFUL
a big construc
tion tycoon who
built the Buck
ingham Apart
ments across the
Potomac in Vir
ginia. At the
dinner were
Edward C a r r.
ex-head of the
National Asso
ciation of Home
Builders; Oscar
Kruetz, president of the Nation
al Savings and Loan League;
and Morton Bodfish of the U. S.
Savings and Loan League, the
latter indicted for violation of
the lobbying act.
Sir Harold is chairman of the
Drt Fc,r,
Out in Seattle, republicans
are scheming to run a woman
against bachelor Senator War
ren Magnuson of Washington
next year. They figure the only
f&?biJ&&Q 9. 'bouT -AND .i.
t mi ip
I If 1 I X II m j- L ' .
A BOOKLET f)N CHILD CARE IS THE GOVERNMENTS BEST
SELLER IT'S JUST 7 TO I YOU PON T HAVE IT. FOR 23,000,000 COPIES
HAVE MEN SOLD. (TiwiMsm CiimAae.o A$tlD mi)
Dog Aids Injured Master
La Grande, May 19 OP' A man, trampled by his saddle horse
and rescued with the aid of bis small black dog, was being treated
In a hospital for pelvic fractures and head injuries.
Iva Cantrell, 59-year-old railroad worker, was rounding up
cattle at his Five Points ranch Sunday when his horse threw him,
and stamped on his head.
Unable to walk, Cantrell sent his four-year-old dog to the
house, a quarter mile away. He tried to crawl after the dog.
The dog hurled itself at the back door, but Mrs. Cantrell think
ing it had run away from the round-up work, ordered it back
to the pasture.
The dog raced back and forth from the door to the pasture
until Mrs. Cantrell realized something was wrong, and found her
husband.
His condition was reported serious.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
U.S.Will Not Join Pacific
Pact Until Dissension Ends
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
Forelcn Afflrj Aoamtl
There likely will be some heart burnings, but need be no
surprise, because Secretary of State Dean Acheson has ruled out
at least for the present any American participation in a Pacific
defense p a c m,,,,-. Ilmmtmm ' "
fense. While many of its mem
bers are weak militarily, yet by
and large they are at peace in
ternally. There is no civil war
in any of them.
ooey nauonai ouuaing socie- candidate who can beat the
ty British equivalent of the handsome senator is Mrs Pearl
Savings and Loan League so Wanamaker. state suDerintenri-
ent of education, but there is
his American friends were all
set for an evening of oratorical
fireworks against public hous
ing on both sides of the Atlan
tic. The British financier got a
big hand when he blasted at
"stringent government controls'
some worry that Mrs. Wana
maker at heart is a democrat
. . . The Wardman Park hotel
in Washington refused to let
Dr. Ralph Bunche, the Negro
diplomat who mediated the
Palestine dispute, speak in one
on private housing construction of its hotel rooms. The Middle
in his country. Suddenly, how
ever, the applause died like a
busted light bulb.
Figuring he would also blast
public housing in England, and
thus provide ammunition they
could use against the Taft-EUen-der-Wagner
housing program,
the dinner guests began asking
about the dangers of "socialized
housing" in America.
"I can't agree to that," re
plied Sir Harold. "Of course,
I would rather not comment on
your American
public housing,
East Institute had reserved
private room in which Dr.
Bunche was to hold a round
table discussion with a small
group of experts. But when the
hotel discovered that Bunche
was a Negro, it cancelled the
reservation and returned the
money . . . The Chinese nation
talist government has moved
half a billion dollars in gold
reserves to a secret hideaway
in Formosa. The gold was
moved in the dead of night . . .
program for President Truman will name
because I do George P. Shaw, now ambas-
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Men Now Exceed Women
In Plastic Surgery Cases
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) More men than women are giving themselves
a change of pace today by getting themselves a change of face.
They get a new outlook on life by going to a plastic surgeon
to have an ob- fT" "r
P9
I 11 l
Brl
similar to the
Atlantic treaty
The condi
tions on which
the Atlantic al
liance is built
are quite dif
fer e n t from
those existing
in the orient.
The secretary
took note of
that fact when
llil
The picture in the orient is
far different. Many of the coun
tries in that huge area are torn
by revolution China, Burma,
Malaya, Indonesia. Chief of
these, of course, Is China with
lio.. nnm.lotinn nf fitj, hnnrifori
he folds a news conference In mmions. As Secretary Acheson
points out, the dangers of Asia
are those revolving about the
DeWIII ftfarkenil
Washington:
While it is true that there
are serious dangers to world present conditions of that coun-
yuxzK CAisiiiiji ill iiie tiiuuuuii try
in Asia, it also is true, as Prime
Minister Nehru of India slated
How would you apply a de-
to the press the other day. that fe"se. Pact 10 s"ch hotchpotch
a Pacific defense pact could not ?' vl,ole" "nd P'e"t""IIV T
take shape until present inter- Lcnce? w.0Uld,ntI Vncle.
'It Still Stinks Says Sprague
State Senator Frank H. Hilton, a member of the senate
assessment and taxation committee, has proposed in a
letter to Governor McKay that he take legal steps to pre
vent Ray Smith, Portland republican, and Robert Maclean,
W'aldport democrat, from taking office as tax commission
ers, to which they were appointed by a "deal" between
Secretary of State Newbry, republican, and Treasurer
Pearson, democrat. They replaced Commissioners Earl
Fisher and Wallace Wharton. They overruled Governor
McKay on the appointment.
Hilton cited a state law dealing with qualifications of
tax commissioners as basis for legal actions against the
appointments becoming effective June 4, date when the
terms of Fisher and Wharton expire.
The law states that "each commissioner shall be skilled
and expert in matters of taxation." Hilton implied that
Smith, who resigned Wednesday as secretary of the Port
land Eagles lodge, and Maclean, farmer and auto court
owner, are not qualified under the law for the positons.
Hilton proposed that the attorney general should start
proceedings to enforce the law.
These appointments are popularly regarded as opening
maneuvers for the 1950 campaign for the governorship
nomination. Newbry gives every indication of being a
candidate against McKay and Pearson has been boosted
as the democratic aspirant. Senator William E. Walsh
ealls it "the beginning of the civil war."
The Republican state executive committee hail recom
mended a Port land tax attorney, Carlisle Roberts, for Fish
er's job and Wharton was endorsed by Wm. L. Josslin,
democratic state chairman.
In a letter to former Governor Charles A. Sprague,
Pearson denies any deal with Newbry for fixing tip the
bi-partisan state, reaffirmed his statement that he did
not wish to reappoint Fisher and Wharton "for personal
reasons," and denied his candidacy for governor. He said:
"Also. I wish to reiterate that I am not a candidate for gov
ernor. The appointments to the tax commission were not poli
tical and I am personally very proud of them. The results of
their work will apeak for Itself and I have no apologies to
max..
Now if Secretary of State Newbry will make a similar
denial of gubernatorial candidacy, there will probably ba
harmony in both parties. But Sprague it skeptical. He
declares in his newspaper:
"Personal reasons" are quite Inadequate to Justify ouster of
Wharton, who has demonstrated his competence, to replace him
with a man with no experience in the Important and technical
field of taxation. No, Walter, the gangup with Newbry atill
stink.
Televised Surgery for AMA Meet
I.oa Angele nj.j Operations hums patients will b.
televised la full eolor for th. first tint this summer.
The new technique will be part f the annual meeting ( th
American Medlral Association to be held la Atlantic City In
on..
niark-and-white television f Derations r first tried
la Baltimore aeme years age. Last year, It was Mee.ufully
demonstrated at New York City and later at a medical meet
ing here.
Th eolnr program for the AMA meeting this year sr.
feeing arranged be the Columbia Broadcasting dratem and
lb smith, kUin frock Lsfeanterlaa, Philadelphia.
nal conflicts in Asia were re
In the first place the Atlantic
Sam be letting himself in for if
he signed a mutual defense pact
with such an aggregation? It
strikes me he likely would find
treaty covers , theater which hi.mse1' in V"e Psi'"n ot, the
represents the greatest immedi- L"" Antaeus of an-
not feel it proper to do so. But sador to Nicaragua, as ambassa
I can tell you that the British dor to El Salvador . . . The Rus
program has worked out satis- sians are making exhaustive
factorily. In fact, as I see it, preparations for the foreign
it's the only way to provide ministers meeting. The Amer
adequate housing for low-in- ican embassy in Moscow reports
come groups." that lights in the Russian for-
eign office have been burning
Minnesota's jack-in-the-box until S a.m. for the past week.
Senator Hubert Humphrey has Foreign Minister Vishinsky re
come up with a new symbol for ports on the job about 2 a.m.
the GOP in place of the tradi- and doesn't leave until about
tional elephant. At a democratic 8 p.m.
banquet in Pittsburgh, Hum- (Copirimt
That's What the Sign Said
Jersey City, N. J. W) Central Railroad of New Jersey
ferry boats between here and New York have little boxes
containing literature screwed to the wheels.
On each box is a sign: "Please Take One."
Railroad police today are looking for 12 missing boxes,
taken by literal-minded passengers.
School for Expectant Moms & Pops
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
lUnlted Pru Sufi Correspondent)
Washington U.R) If you are modern, you take the prospective
baby sitter with you to the school for expectant moms and pops.
I went to one of these schools conducted by the Red Cross.
There sat half a dozen couples '
iectionable f a
cial feature re
modeled. "Since the
war we have
more men than
women pa
tients." said Dr.
Gregory L. Pol
lock, a pioneer
specialist in thisi
form of human'
sculpture.
In the last 30 years he has
operated on some 5.000 persons.
Among them were the widow of
a U. S. president she had her
face lifted and scores of so
ciety, theatrical and movie ce
lebrities. Dr. Pollock is something of
a Broadway notable himself. He
went from booking to bobbing.
As a youth, before he went to
medical school to learn the art
of how to bob noses, ears and
bosoms, he worked as an enter
tainment booking agent. Many
of his old clients later became
his patients.
The science of plastic surgery
has undergone significant change
In three decades. At present it
is a mushrooming branch of
medicine, allied in some ways
to psychiatry.
"When I began there wer
only a handful in the field," re
called Dr. Pollock. "Now there
are more plastic surgeons than
you can count.
"It used to be a hush-hush
matter, done in strictest privacy.
People were ashamed to admit
they wanted to try to improve
on the face that their parents
or life had given them.
"Today they want to brag
about it. They even throw cock
tail parties to unveil their new
nose."
And the patients are no long
er merely the idle wealthy, seek
ing to hide the traces of age.
Most are working people.
"Plastic surgery isn't a fool
ish luxury," said Dr. Pollock.
"In an overwhelming number of
cases it is an economic invest
ment It isn't just vanity that
impels them to want their faces
changed.
The feature most people find
fault with about their anatomy
is the nose. Then come the ears
too much like Peter Rabbit or
a pair of swinging doors. And
then, in order, are wrinkles,
over-sized bosoms and weak
chins.
Paraffin was abandoned years
ago as a subsurface stuffing to
iron out wrinkles. Doctors found
it tended to melt and collect in
lumps beneath the skin. And
it was an incipient agent of ma
lignant growths.
One of the great developments
in plastic surgery has been th
creation of cartilage banks.
"With cartilage w can tak
a patient worried over his re
ceding chin and make him look
like a bulldog if he wants to,"
smiled Dr. Pollock.
Plastic surgeons now operate
on babies two days old (cleft
palate) or women and men past
three score and ten (wrinkles
that rankle).
ate threat to the western de
mocracies. True, the orient
cient days.
Anteaus was the son of earth
expecting an event. And there
also were some grandmas and
grandpas and mothers-in-law
due course may present an even and none could throw him be
greater menace a fact which cause he gained fresh strength
we most certainly can't ignore, every time he touched his moth
However, since we already er. Along came Hercules, how
have made a start in Europe, ever, and conquered the Libyan
that must be our main imme- by lifting him up so he couldn't
diate concern. touch earth at all.
Then, too, the Atlantic treaty Likewise our Uncle Sam
covers a compact front, present- might soon find himself hoisted
ing a far more formidable de- by a Pacific defense pact.
and bobby soxers all potential ter panel."
thumb from corner and bring
point to edge of opposite side.
Makes comfortable thick cen-
sitters who were expecting
lesson in baby handling.
The teacher, pretty Miss Lil-
Mr. S. did everything right
but the pin-sticking, which the
instructions didn't mention. Be-
His Twins Please Grandpa
Batrsvillr, Miss. U. An 82-year-old grandfather who is
too old to work said today he couldn't see anything unusual
about his 41-year-old wife's presenting him with hefty twin
sons.
The proud father, W. T. Thompson, pointed out that he and
his wire have three other children, haven't they? The oldest is
14. The youngest is two. The one in the middle is five.
The twins were born at the Thompson home 15 miles from
here last Saturday. The news Just reached Batesville yester
terday. The boys were not even w ighcd In at birth, but today they
tipped the scales at 5 pounds 8 ounces each.
4.'. ---..-., ... o - i,AWlfc-.iit. Me,ai3www fM-'JI
Now They're Convinced
Seattle, May 14 -Mri
Harry Day promptly con
vinced hospital attendants Fri
day they were wrong when they
auggested she go home because
her baby was "not due for some
time."
Mrs. Day, 17, scarcely had
reached her home after being
persuaded not to enter the hoa-
pital when a daughter was
born with aid of neighbors and
a police patrolman.
And she hardly had gotten
back to the hospital this time
by ambulance when another
daughter arrived.
The hospital said Mrs. Day
and th twins were in excellent
condition and could stay.
lian Adams, told all the folks fore Miss Adams knew what
about how to hold a baby when was up, he was running around
you want to wash, diaper, pow- the place with diaper and doll
der and perfume it. pinned to his necktie.
She used a doll during the The wofst part about these
demonstration. It was a special courses is that a guy who wants
one which let out a squeak to learn something has to crook
whenever it was pinched or his neck over the shoulder of
stuck with a pin. somebody who has no business
Miss Adams' first trouble being there,
came when a grandpa tried his I was trying to take notes
hand at putting on one of the (having on business being there
new-fangled diapers. It was myself) over the shoulder of a
called a kite fold, "with square." man who was an expectant-ex-
Gramps, who said his name was pectant father. A friend of a
Harold Stoddart of Alexandria, friend of his, he said. And he
Va., was following instructions, was the one who asked the
He was a little cranky about it silly question which ended the
since, at 70, he claimed to know session.
the "old-fashioned way." "About this oil you use for
The book said: "Keep the the skin?" he asked. "Do you
thumb on one corner, fold over use the same oil for summer
two sides to make a long 'V as you do in winter?"
shape. Turn down remaining The nurse kind of gave him
flap to form triangle. Lift a cold stare.
SEMLER EXTENDS TIME
FOR CREDIT PAYMENTS
More Liberal Budget Terms Now Available
Off-Again On-Again
Molalla. Ore UP Molalla's on-again-oft-again daylight
saving time appeared hearted for "on-again" today.
Mayor Clyde W. Kendall said he would proclaim daylight
saving time ollirial at t:ll a.m. Wednesday, even If It neces
sitated calling a special meeting ot the city council tonight
to decide the Issue.
Kendall said a rerommendation of the Chamber of Com
merce last night had prompted his decision to put th city
n DST.
Previously Mnlalla had followed Portland in taking np
daylight aavlng time April 14. Then three r four days later,
largely on prole ts from farmer, th city reverted t. stan
dard Urn.
Saves Dollar by Dollar
pokane U" Charles Hink, a Spokane servir station
perator, bought a new ear yesterday,
"There's your money." he told the dealer, pointing to a
wooden chest. In the chert were t.taa silver dollars, all mint
ed In 121. Five years ago, Hink started aavlng 121 Iron
men, figuring to get a new ear. It worked.
did the dealer. He wrestled th 178-poand box Into his
ear and apent th rest at th day counting and stacking cart-wheal.
Good news for those who'
need new glasses is announced
by Harry'Semler, head of the
Semler Optical Offices. The
Semler Credit Plan renowned
for its many liberal features
is now offering easier terms and
allowing payments to be spread
over a longer period of time. '
"At this time
.sy, when high liv
ing costs and
1 1 l h o 1 1 d a y x-
1 fpenses have left
.i, -ino many short!
am
offer
ind
more helpful
credit plan, ab
solutely without
one penny in
terest or extra
Harry Semler.
I want everyone to have the
glasses they need, regardless of
how small the payment they
can axiora.
Aft fpenses have Ie
At -iso many shoi
(1 'of c"h' 1 '
T" P happy to offi
v. fV this easier an
V
charge." says
This opportunity to obtain
glasses on longer-term credit is
available to all, regardless of
where the eye examination is
made. Terms arranged without
delay or red tape, with pay
ments as low as 90c a week.
Speedy service, absolutely
without any sacrifice of quality.
Is also featured at the Semler
Optical Offices. Glasses are
usually ready within 24 hours
after the optometrist's prescrip
tion is brought in.
Combining good looks and
good vision, the Semler Optical
Offices display a complete selec
tion of modern, smartly-styled
glasses, in exquisit designs and
gay. youthful colors.
The Semler Optical Offices In
Salem are located in the Waters
Adolph Building. State and
Commercial Sts. (Phone 3-3311).
Other Semler offices in Portland
and Eugene. Open daily 8:30
am. to 3.30 pm, Saturday to
1:00 p m.
You wore right!
that day has como
Remember how, all during th war yean and
immediately after, you kept telling us (and
other businesses), "Just wait! There'll come a
day! You'll be screaming for business again."
Well, you were right! That day is here. And
while we aren't actually tenanting, we an
looking for business.
To make matters worse, lots of people think
all our trains are still full all of the time. They
don't even bother to ask us for reservations
they're so sure we'll say, "Sorry, all sold out.
Here's the truth of the matter:
You Can Get Space Immediately on...
The Cascade, Beaver and Klamath
t SAN FRANCISCO
Th M'eaf Coast t LOS ANOILES
The Daylightt and Lark
from SAN FRANCISCO t LOS ANOIliJ
The City of San Francisco
htm SAN FRANCISCO CHICAOO
Occasionally on weakends on. of then popular trains
may b. sold out, or a ortain typ. of Pullman space
may not b availabl. on a moment's notice as if yon
can, it's still a good idea to rewrv. in advance
But pleM rem.mbr this: W. can tak. can of yon,
now. on ir finest, fastMt train, avra on short notica.
Jurt tail whm and when you want to go.
3. A. ORMANDY.
Omml Pasmntw Amtt
S-IP
Th fritndly Southern Pacific
C. A. LARSON, Agent
Phone 3-9244