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i 4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, May 26, 1949
-Harry Bridges Indictment
Harry Bridges, president of the left wing CIO lonsr
' shoremen's union, has been indicted by a federal grand
'jury, charged with perjury and conspiracy to obstruct and
"defeat naturalization laws. The government also sought
Tto revoke the recently acquired citizenship of the Australian-born
labor leader.
Bridges was charged with swearing he was not a mem
ber of the communist party, when he "had in fact been a
member of the communist party from 1933 until and up
to" his naturalization September 17, 1945.
Two other officials of Bridges' International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's union, J. R. Robertson and
Henry Schmidt, were indicted with him on similar charges.
Rail of the three was set at $5,000 each. A possible pen
alty of seven years' imprisonment and $15,000 fine could
be imposed.
John P. Boyd, deputy commissioner of the U.S. immi
gration ann naturalization service, says mm. me muiti.- h sliDOed
ment culminated a long investigation and is based on new peediiy back
evidence not presented before that Bridges joined the jnto their
communist party. He added that some prominent labor 0id position of
leaders had been "helpful in developing the case." Civil oppos 1 1 i o n
action has also been filed to set aside the naturalization Russia versus
decree and prohibiting him from ever enjoying any rights America, Britain
' and France. The
' ' . , , difficulty, as an-i,
. . ... . ticipated, is thefe1
Bridges has long been the stormy petrel of 1'acitic coast matter of set
docks and shipping, and the chief hell-raiser in the labor tling Germany's
Tinrnlv7inor the shinnincr inrlnstrv. If he was not a com- When the
munist he certainly followed the "party line" in both council assembled Monday, after
speeches and action. He has been the driving force in 'P- f ye" ? ' f'Jh!
: 11 1 -
CONFOUND HIMITHE
MINUTE I STEP OUT OF THE
HOUSE HE HAS TO DRAG THAT
OLD BATHING SUIT TO THE
FRONT WINDOW AND START
MENDING IT HE KNOWS IT 3
TOO COLD TO GO SWIMMING,
YET HE JUST WANTS THE
NEIGHBORS TO THINK I
NEGLECT HIM
JUST WAIT
wm.A
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Vandenberg Urges Giving
Reds Every Consideration
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Before Secretary of State Acheson left for Paris,
he stopped by Capitol Hill for some last-minute, parting advice
which will shed light on some of the policies the United States
will follow at the Big Four conference.
The big questions came up during the hour-long, closed-door
conference:
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
J
Draw FetrtMi
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Big Four Conference in
Paris Hits Serious Snag
By D.WITT MacKENZIE
luPI For.lio Affair Anftljiti
That crash you heard the other afternoon was the monkey
wrench landing in the proceedings of the newly assembled Big
Four foreign ministers' council in Paris.
The Big Four
1. How far
should we go in
conciliating Rus
sia? 2. Where
should we draw
the line on Ger
man recovery?
Senator Van
denberg of
Michigan cau
tioned the secre
tary of state
against taking too stern a stand '
with the Russians. He agreed CIO HOUSECLEAMNG
we mustn't give ground or show CIO President Philip Murray'i
signs of appeasement, but at the attack on communists and fellow
same time he urged keeping an travelers last week was even
open mind to any honest peace tougher than appeared in the
overtures. His attitude was that papers.
we shouldn't "burn the last It was so devastating that the
bridge." communist party liners were
Russia a voice in deciding the
fate of the Ruhr.
Acheson and Vandenberg also
engaged in a brief dispute over
whether the right-of-way to Ber
lin had been definitely spelled
out in the Potsdam agreement.
Vandenberg argued that it hadn't
been put in "contractual form,"
and urged the secretary of state
to see that our right-of-way to
Berlin is now made clear at
Paris.
TWO TO I
VOUU NEVER
ENROLL TO STUDY
MUSIC. .ONE
IN 3 TAKES
SOME LESSONS
DURING A
LIFETIME.
(iOUHt i6nr.
lOSAnHtUiCU)
Q. ODDS ARE JUST UNDER EVEN A ST0CK
Jf? y"s HOLDER IS A WOMAN.'
FjA) WOUNDED MEN
Ktl j LJLs ,n battle, By20 to Kx
tr" I, OWE THEIR LIVES TO -.
t BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS THAN
Z-S?,.. TO ANY OTHER TREATMENT.
Senator Thomas of Utah was
building Germany. "Is there any
feeling anywhere," he asked,
"that we should rearm Germany
as a buffer against Russia?"
Acheson assured not, but
Thomas kept hammering this
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Germany, when she get, her Bi
sircrigm uhuk, migub Blue wiiii
Russia; that Germany has closer
thrown into complete confusion
and, at one point, Ben Gold,
president of the left-wing fur
workers union, became so dis
gusted with his fellow leftists
he went out for a round of
drinks. Returning, Gold stood
up and denounced Harry
party line just as
well as you do."
At another point Murray ad-
!LC'. X?h thr tha" ,W?!i ministered the crowning blow,
. . mat uie uernians even siurieu 117141. a4.
res oration of four-power con- rebuilding their army and navy With
trol throughout Germany, as 1L : v.j ,. trial of comi
World War I. Thousands of
trol throughput Germany,
laid down in Potsdam, and for
MlBDlisnmeni ox a uerman German, actually worked inside
ministrative functions.
Russia until Hitler bit the hand
that was helping him. Thomas
This would mean a return to recalled,
the original controls on Ger-
many and would do away with
the newly created German re- Senator Lodge of Massachu
public. setts argued that we should
the New York
communist leaders
wherein the justice department
has produced scores of commu
nists who were actually govern
ment agents, Murray arose and
asked the commie faction:
"How many of you are really
FBI agents?"
RFC PROBE
It would be a complete re- strengthen Germany's economy ator wiliiam Fulbright, chair
versal of much that the western wjthout building up her war- man of a banking and currency
allies have been working for.
making capacity. To prevent a subcommittee, will make a
Vishinsky proposed that the ,: , -!.-. sweeoing Drobe of certain offi
tiwtt'. lnw f u,oorfrln tio nn hirinninir the Russians waiKea oui 01 ui --- - -- y power, he demanded that Ache- " nn.ui, t.-
the ILWU lonpr series of waterfront tie-ups beirinning .. ,,. w the out- the Big Four, and countries iL;. . ,. nance corporation who were
with the bloody 98-day siege of 1934. ,., . ' h, . ,
tnvt fpnst. bordering Germany. These coun-
Repeated attempts have been made to deport the Auatra- The opening meeting was a hail- tries would include not only the
Hon hut thw hove failed nrimnrilv Wmiae he had the feiinw.wcll-met affair amone western nations of Belgium, The
Bevin of
:minnort of "Ma" Perkins, then secretary of labor, and Foreign Ministers
-11 t-.-l- J .- . l t: A I.... (U.I Jnnn. Britain firhlimon nf FrfltlC.
- oiner niKn Huiiiuiiairaiiuii oiiiciMiH. j Lwu-iiiuntns ucjiiu- .. - . ,
tation hearing in 1939, presided over by Dean James M. Vishinsky of Russia and Acheson on ine east. ...
t i: u. u j i.... i i ij . lj of America. The frequently fiery The western foreign ministers
iI j a 1 iuP ulu a n "".u:"':Z. Vishinsky promptly agreed to followed Vishinsky in rapid sue
Germany's forces and factories.
The secretary of state promis-
t ,,v-mr,n..r ed this would be done. He add-
but Poland and Czechoslovakia fd that Russ.ia would have noth-
Netherlands and
given plush jobs with business
firms shortly after these firms
got loans from the RFC.
Fulbright is chiefly interested
in John Hagerty, former head of
ing to say about the Ruhr, since ,J " Ism:". "Z.
.he nt nnlMnff from he Bnhr """. v
in peacetime.
"What do you mean by Rus
sia?" Senator Thomas broke in.
"If you mean the satellite states,
r par Tne .. . . ...........
. ,.r.H ,v, lnen "ussla nas lne inieresi mer RFC Washington official.
- wno goi an xiB,uuu-a-year )OD
Central European countries, uhder similar circumstances
similar strain and argued oenina ine iron curiam, ne irom ine i-iywooa nasties cor-
against returning to the starting aa.?'. a,a5 '.BVlDlg D"5,nfM Prauon oi Hampton, a. i;.
lailea to estaDlisn mat Bnages was men a memoer oi xne gn g(!endi prop0sed by the three cession and with few but pointed
Communist party. western powers, saying affably: words.
A second hearing was held in 1941 before Judge Charles t am not absolutely con- Acheson made It clear the
i o . , vt v i o i . it i r : . ... . i ti : . . i I .
rt. nears oi new lorn. f)ears rnxiiniueiiueu iiiai nnuura vincea by your argument, never- waaii i kuuik m unao wnat jn the wor,j in tne Ruhr.'
ne deported on tne ground ne nas Deen aiiinaieo wun theiess I win consent to your naa oeen none in wesiern uer
enmmnniRts. However, the United States sunrpme court Drouosal. . . . We are going to many. Schuman followed in
' 1n a 6-3 decision held there was no evidencee to support gree on all questions here.
this. ..... The we8lern P0"" had point (Potsdam) and repeating the Ruhr, which would give
" ' tered the meeting determined to old misUkes. Bevin hai-keri nn
., tirmges was reDUKea oy rresiaent rninp Murray oi me carry through the establishment Acheson and Schuman.
-T-v ? - - Mi i : ii .' . : , .. t l ..!.' i .... .
'iu ior naiinuiiK me urKitiii.uuuii a nuwucm punty nu of , federal republic in their What all this really means is
supporting Wallace instead of Truman in its November lonef of Germany, and hoping that we have entered a new
' election and since being a bitter critic of the president. tQ ersuad(! RuMia lo brir- tne phase of the battle for control
And the CIO is now trying to purge the commies and of Germany, politico-economic
.Clean house. ! ? , i 8 keystone of Europe. Observer,
meni. Anal is, mry are aiming ih nlr thev n. In Ih.
a $30,000-a-year job with the
Waltham Watch company after
he helped the company get a big
government loan. He is also in
terested in Sterling Foster, for-
Had a Grand Time
Hull, Eng., May 25 WV-Mrs. Mary Hannah Walker, in a
hospital, tang a aong, smoke da cigarette, drank a bottle of
tout and wouldn't get back Into bed when the party was over.
It was her birthday. She was 103.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Receipe Given to Women
For Success in Old World
By HAL BOYLE
New York M") The sweet young thing had a stormy look in
her eyes as she marched up to my desk. i
"May I be of any assistance to you, ma'am?" I inquired
cautiously.
You have to
be vaurious in a
newspaper of
fice these days
when pretty
girls come up
to you. You
never know
whether they
want you to be
the last man in
their pyramid
i- -n
vou they just shot down their ' woman's world
" -..Lnnther for read- todav- The prime aim left to
" Ki,. men now is to make women
ing too many comic books wora.n
Yes, you can help me, she pend j, jsn.t Just , femnn.
"Why are you mad at men?"
"Because they take up so .
much space. What chance has
a woman who wants a career?
Men hold the big jobs. If there's
a soft touch in life, it's theirs."
She said this and me sitting
there cramped on an iron waste
basket. "Look," I said.' "You've got
life backwards. Men lost out in
the struggle to rule the world
said. "You wrote a piece
age we're living in It's a femi-
(Coprrliht 1149)
OREGON TUBERS EXPLOITED
Commission to Plug the Spud;
Find New Uses and Markets
ing college men graduates how nlne rampaf!e..
to get ahead in me. dui i.uw "Well," she said. "I can see
about the girl graduates? why tne call you the poor
Haven't you anything to tell man,, pnilo,opher. You certaln
me?" ly aren't the poor woman's Soc-
"Have I?" I asked, looking to rates or Gable either, for that
see which ear she wanted filled matter. What about equal
first. "Sit down, my dear." rights?"
The only seat I have for call- "What about equal wrongs
ers Is an iron-rimmed waste- do you want those, too?" 1
basket. She stood and stared at asked. "Einstein couldn't figure
it in careful helplessness. I sat a formula to give women equal
and stared at it, too. Then I got rights. And it wouldn't be fair
up and sat down" on the waste-
basket, and she moved over and
sat down in my chair,
Angry west coast longshoremen blast the Bridges in-
By WILLIAM WARREN
(United Press SUff Corrupondf at ) 9
Nine experts who see eye to eye when it comes to spuds have
dictment as a "monumental case of political spite" and the T "7Z ,u,Z . .7? "
i ;i, i i , t, ,j - ' ..i . j i would remain under allied su- der the old four power con
pi ion, win ue 10 raw uruiKei a nmi iyi u.imi.eu iu pervision until complete moral a Soviet dominated eastern Ger- been named by Gov. Douglas McKay to help put potato grower.
mienc. criuc. pjr ira irumnn auiiiuiiHirHiiuii anu u.ry and economic rehabilitation had many might in due course dom- of Oregon in the chips.
may succeea as linages nas a. nypnouc control over ine been achieved. inate the whole country and thus
to them if he did."
- "How can I have a successful
career?"
"Work hard, use your brains,
be friendly just like I told the
college boys. And don't try to
capitalize on sex in business." .
"Is there any way I can avoid
dock workers.
Power Rates Still Lowest
The recent legislature created
Spuds,
House Bill 113
When Vishinsky was called on achieve German communiiation. the Oregon potato commission to pJ." thVtoTal diet'of virtually
to state Russia's position he ac- If that view is correct, then act' in the idlom of tne prfss
agents, as luoer-inumucrs iui
every consumer, hash browns,
French fries, chips, boiled, bak-
cusea ine western powers oi at- tne fight among the powers :; ,'," tj win iii ,,..t rrencn iries, cnips, uoura, Dan
nie first rat increase granted to Portland General Partin '"" ,h principles laid must go on. The west never will ing the ' commission, observes SJ; v.""" 'IV' "i ' iwestock
Electric and Pacific Power & Light companies' electric down in the allied pact made at give in to any arrangement that potatoes make up one
service by the public utilities commission went into effect Potsdam just after the end of the which will throw Germany un
;May 24. It rolls back the rate reductions put into effect European fighting. He called for der control of the Kremlin.
In 1945, brings domestic rates nearer into line with higher
'rates charged by the non-tax paying TVA, and permits sm
payment of increased maintenance and operating costs
feed. A plant at Dallas makes
"I don't think there is any
thing I can tell you," I said.
"Why?"
"Because you just showed you it?" she dimpled.
have already learned woman's "No, I guess not," I sighed,
most important art how to get "Not for another 30 years. Then
men to do what you want." it won't make any difference,
"Oh, men!" she said. "I some- What's your name anyway?"
times wish all the men in the "Just call me Jane College,"
world were dead not that they she said. "I came to see you on
probably aren't." a dare."
Jto finance war-deferred system improvements which have
cost to date $50 million.
m The rate increase, some 80 percent less than petitioned
,or will cost consumers $1.79 million a year, ranging ac
cording to classification, from 6 to 1 1 percent.
Nearly all electric utilities In the country have made
"gradual Increases in their rates since the war, including
those municipally owned and northwest PUD's, adjusting
low-rate blocks or increasing surcharges from 5 to 10
percent.
r- Domestic consumers in Salem, and other cities served by
'ihe two power companies will still have lower rates than"
the 1948 average domestic rale of the government-owned
TVA. The average rate paid by domestic consumers in
JTVA territory last year was 1.50 cents. The PGE new
rates will be per year 1.S9 cents per kilowatt hour per
haps the lowest in the country.
Z Klectric power is still the cheapest essential service the
resident of Salem and the northwest buy even if it is
by itat regulated taxpaying corporations instead of th
Jtx exempt, unregulated PUD's,
I Bride Wins $49,000
f Norwich, Conn., May t u.vMrs. Winona Thlel, tJ, a
tirlda ( two months, said today she didn't know she had
o many friends until ah won 149.000 In a soap jingle contest.
Mrs. Thlel, secretary to Norwich's mayor, was almost
kpeerhlesa yesterday when two armored ear guards brought
-4K.000 one dollar hills Into her office and stacked them on
her desk. They told her she had won first prise In a Jingle
,Mntri sponsored by the Colgate Palmnlive Pret company,
- "Oh, my gosh," was all she managed to say.
r After depositing tha money In a bank, she and her husband,
Raymond, a surveyor for the state highway department, re
tired to their apartment where they were kept husv answer
ing the phone and doorbell aa hundreds of well-wishers eon--gTatulated
them.
a h said she sent In three Jingles about tha soap, fluper
2.uda, but that she didn't know which one was Ihe winner,
r At Hartford, John J. Fltspalrirk, rollertor of Internal
revenue for Connecticut, estimated that Mrs. Thlel would have
.Ho pay a tai of about tt,000.
a
: Chicken Lays Flat Eggs
' Cleveland, May II U. Mrs. Charles Valrk said todsr that
the has hen which lays flat eggs.
She said that the hen, a Leghorn, has been producing the
'flat eggs regularly for several weeks, mixing them now and
"then with the conventional round eggs.
,1 The hen, a healthy bird, apparently thinks nothing of It,
'Mrs. Valek said, because she earkles the same tor both type
II , -.,
Sleeps During Battle
Shanghai () A Chinese driver edged his truck full of oil
drums as close to the garden bridge over Soochok creek as he
could.
A battle between the communists and nationalists over the
bridge was going on. Bullets whined through the air.
The truck driver shrugged. The bullets were not meant for
him.
He Yawned, nodded. Then fell asleep.
A hour later he still slumbered. The battle went on.
Whoever wins will get the bridge and the truck and oil
drums.
Bad News Ladies: Price of
Hair-Dos Are Not Coming Down
uregon s leading casn cropi i aim Mo liour Another at Mer
are grown in every county. Then rm mgkeJ poUto ,Urcn Potato
it states: alrnhnl Hnrinff the vrain alcohol
, "Oregon potatoes are in a shortage of a couple of years
poor competitive position in the back, was used to bolster bour
markets of the coast due to large bon and other potables,
advertising campaigns by pro- it wm be the function of the
ducers in other states. Well or- commission to explore all these
ganized, well timed and well consumer outlets and to expand
placed advertising on the part them; and to find other uses, if
of the Oregon potato industry is possible, for Oregon spuds. The
Indicated as a need." new tuber-thumpers will go in-
So the commission was ere- to action July 16, when the law
ated to plug the spud; to find becomes effective. They'll hire
ways and means of increasing an administrator for not more
consumer demand and new than $8,000 a year to devote full
markets for Oregon gems, white time to carrying out the corn
roses, burbanks and other as- mission's aims, which Include:
sorted Irish delights. "To conduct advertising and
Heaviest producing areas in publicity campaigns in this and
Oregon are the Klamath basin other states, designed to pro-
NOW., .roomottos
on tho CASCADE
By HARMAN W.NICHOLS
lUnllH Ftmj auff CorrNtpondvnn
Washington nisi Dad, if you think the price of keeping Mama
pretty is going to follow the downward price trend you're wrong!
We go right to the top to answer that one.
To Mrs. Maye Whitley, Dallas,
Tex., president of the National ing back a shock of short hair.
Hair Dressers and Cosmetolo- The hair cut and hair curl
gists association. She was in people, she said, have done a lot specializes
with some 10.000 carloads a
year: Central Oregon with 3.300
to 3.S00 carloads: and Malheur
county with 3.000 carloads.
Multnomah and
county ship some
mote Oregon potatoes."
To find and open up new
markets for Oregon potatoes."
"To make use of all advertis-
Clackamas Ing means and methods and
300 carloads make such advertising contracts
of quality seed potatoes a year, as it deems advisable for pub
about 11 going to growers in licity and advertising within and
other states and 13 to Oregon without the state of Oregon."
growers. The commission will be fi
ll. S. Alderman. Willamette nanced by a tax of 14 cents a
Valley spud grower near Day- hundredweight on all spuds
ton, downriver from Salem, grown In Oregon and sold
nAial(Taa In ,-A,,.tnM IhIum Ihpnnffh rnmmeittl ik.nnil.
wasnmgion to auena tne nair ... rcr.rcn.na inunn mat tan for tne potato chip lran He Tne tuber-thumpers, getting
Fashion Council Clinic of Asso- girls look better in short hslr. ,ends a lot of spuds to Portland set to plug the spud, already
elation. Ditto short girls. chlp makers. And what's this? have been offered one tentative
"Doggone," Maye said, smooth- So. you see. she said, "the he lhip, ifl0 cari0ads a year slogan:
Ing out her grass-green dress, hair of milady is going to be as to , chlp maker at Houston In "For tastiest tubers, trv Ore-
"We can t cut our prices. Eggs short as we can make it and still Texas a state listed aa one of gon O'Briens, the Irish 'potato
go down a couple of cent a make the girls look pretty." the heavier potato producers. with palate appeal."
dozen and maybe you pay a little Maye, who doesn't have any-
less for a steak, but the excise thing to worry about In the
tax on beauty remains the same beauty department herself, turn-
and so does the price we pay ed the interview back to the
to keep the feminine population business of how much a perma
beautiful." "ent or hair-cut cosU, and ao
Before the lovely lady from what! The 27,000 beauty shop
Texas had a chance to blow her members of her association, she
brunette roof on the question said, don't worry about it a bit.
ot taxes, I interrupted her with During the last depression, she
one about this short hatr-do the said, the beauty shops were the
gala are wearing. last to suffer and "we are not
The styles for the fall will be about to suffer now. A woman
even shorter. And there will be will wear a bunch of torn lace
very little excuse for a bride, or on her slip or maybe even a run
even a woman with more experi- down heel but never a pale
ence, to come to the breakfast face or uncurled top-knot."
table looking like something Also, she said, the first thing
pulled out of a raven's nest. a woman looking for a Job thinks
"We're working on this short of is her fingernails. Or her hair
hair business," aha said, brush- or lips.
i
Baby Is Surprise
Cleveland, May It Mr, Francis Weber, IS, whe hadn't
known she was pregnant, let eut an amased gasp from her
bed early today, then shouted to her husband: "I've Just had a
baby."
Her husband, Oedeon, 14, awakened with a start and was
dumbfounded.
He called his parents, an ambulance, a hospital, and the
police. They all reached the house In record time and de
clared the Infant, a six and a half pound baby girl, was dolcg
fine.
"France Is a ehunky girl anyway," Gfdeon said, "but she
certainly didn't look like she was going to have a baby."
Now, at low cost, you can enjoy the complete privacy
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Cancadt between Portland and San Francisco,
Designed for single occupancy. Roomette have a
comfortable pre-mad bed which come out of tha wall,
toilet, washstand, wardrobe locker, mirror, luggage
racks, cool drinking water, individual regulation of
ventilation, air-conditioning, heat and light The cost?
Only tlO.OS, Portland to San Francisco (plus 16
Federal tax).
The Camdi also often double bedrooms, compart
ments, drawing rooms and lower and upper berths.
Next time, try a Roomette en this fast, disss!
propelled, all-Pullman train to San Fnneiaos.
The friendly Southern Pacific
C. A. LARSON, AGINT
Prion 3-9244