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Life At It's Lowest Ebb
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 16, 1949
fantastic Tale of the Tucker Car
A federal grand jury at Chicago has returned a 31-count
Indictment against Preston C. Tucker and seven associates,
directors of the corporation, promoters of a novel "revolu
tionary" automobile that never got into mass prductin.
The charges include mail fraud, SEC vilations and conspir
acy. The grand jury spent 12 weeks in investigation. The
company is now in the bankruptcy courts.
' This promotion was one of the most amazing frauds ever
perpetrated and illustrates the crookedness of some would
be extrepreneurs and the gullibility of the general public.
There is still a sucker born every minute, both promoters
and investors were activated by greed.
The current issue of Colliers tells the amazing account
in an article, "The fantastic story of the Tucker car," by
Lester Velie. The auto, Tucker told the world, would rev
olutionize the automobile industry with a rear-engine car
in the low price field. But nearly $26 million is gone and
pnly 49 cars built by hand which adds up to over $510,000
per auto.
, The "first completely new car in 50 years ' had its world
premiere one June day two years ago. In the world's larg
est factory, the $171,000,000 government owned Chicago
plant where Dodge made B-29 engines, 3,000 car dealers
from all over America and abroad strained for a glimpse
of the Tucker Torpedo, a "truly modern automobile de
scended from race track champions." Velie continues:
' "Reports and rumors had told of a car that would weigh 1.000
pounds less than ordinary carj and whose revolutionary rear
end motor 'the most effective power plant ever built' would
deliver up to 3 miles per gallon of gasoline and 'permit contin
uous cruising at 100 miles an hour." It would make all other
cars, obsolete, said the reports."
Nobody had ever heard of the 43-year-old Tucker before
hut he staged high pressure vaudeville salesmen shows
and his advertisements and press notices described him as
"one of the nation's top designers and inventor of many
'automobile improvements." But guards always prevented
backstage examination of "The Blue Goose" as the new
auto was called. What became of some of the $26,000,000
big and little people's money subscribed is thus described:
f Officers and promoters took approximately $4 millions of
tvhich Tucker got J7SO.0O0. The Tucker corporation spent $1,
1)10,000 in advertising. Some $350,000 was paid Tucker's ma
chine shop, for engine work, $40,000. Tucker's extravagant
family expenses were paid at a swank hotel. Tucker's old air
plane cost $15.00 for rentals. His private yacht cost $44,000,
ttc, etc. Engineers stated that months of additional engineer
ing and $50 million additional money was needed to put the
Tucker car Into production.
Mayor Dorothy Lee's Hats
p The controversy raging in Portland over the "outland
ish" hats worn by popular Mayor Dorothy Lee has reached
such a stage that the Oregonian prints a long editorial in
her defense. It claims that "the piquant, photogenic pul
chritude of hers is more than a match for any hat, not
fhat we mean maybe," asserting:
' "It is not the remarkable chapeaux of this redoubtable
foman we are defending, but rather her inalienable right to
pick her own hats and wear then when, as and if she chooses.
We for our part would not want a mayor so invertebral as to
fllow the snickering gossips to decide which hat she should
Wear. The implications, as respecting the broader aspects of
for administration, would be of gravest dubiety. Nor is it in
pats alone, we would say to you mesdames of either sex
lhat Mayor Dorothy long since proved her ahining courage.
n5 -nARiittcj mm'iis a swell way to .
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'MUT'NY'
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Bendix Strike Curtails
Production of the B-36
By DREW PEARSON
Washington B-36 slowdown while congress has been In
vestigating possible finagling on B-36 contracts, the inside fact
is that Consolidated Vultee has been forced to curtail produc
tion of the giant bomber because of a prolonged strike in one
key plant. " )
The strike is at Bendix, South favorably, and the new Negro
Bend, Ind., which supplies vital auditorium got almost as many
airplane parts throughout the votes as the additional fire
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
industry. Effect
ot the strike
has been so se
vere that the
air force is run
ning short of t'
spare parts for
some of Its most
effective squad
rons and may
be forced to cut
down on flying
time.
Meanwh i I e ,
equipment and improved water
works. White citizens of Richmond,
Va., some time ago took the lead
in electing a Negro to the city
council. It was white votes that
put him there not colored.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Shut the Door
BY DON UPJOHN
Local weather experts seem to be buffaloed at the cause of the
sudden cold spell which seems to have temporarily turned our
customarily balmy valley into shivery, frigid habitat quite in
viting w poiar wwv -
bears and Esqut
mous. The most
logical explana
tion advanced so
fa" seems to be
that somebody
with a new
home freezer
plant unaccus
tomed to its op
eration absent
mindedly when
departing from
home left the door open. If such
is the case they also, incidental
ly, must have left an electric fan
supposed to be stationary and
permanently located in one spot,
but one of our realtor friends
Indicated to us yesterday that
the only time he is interested in
real estate is when it is moving.
Anonymous Vigilantes The
FBI is investigating a mysteri
ous outfit calling itself "The Vi
gilantes" which has been bom-
i it .. : . u . i .....
intf letters demanding that all
the FBI is checking reports that Masons and Jews resign. About
strike leaders are communists, 50 congressmen have received
infiltrating into this key indus- letters.
try because of its power to para- Authors of t h e letters have
lyze the air force. brazenly used the local tele
Federal Mediator Arthur Viat phone numbers of the Sons of
fears a sympathy strike may the American Revolution, which
now spread to the Studebaker caused the Sons to tip off the
plant. All the fault has not been FBI.
on labor's side, however. Man- G-men advise congressmen
agement has been bull-headed who receive such mail not to
and strikers are sore at Bendix open the envelopes, on the
industrial rel a t i o n s manager, chance that the writer's identity
Millard Stone, whose handling can be established from finger-
of the famous Auto-Lite strike prints,
branded him as a labor-hater.
ANOTHER WAR? -IT c HAMS-RAmri
WOULD COST EVERY AVERAGE jfV STAGE AND HOfi-
r,IAM! Jl ARE MORE PlEMflfUL
0URATON K""11,5-"
DURATION, I IN AIL THE REST
t I lJf X 1 OF THE WOUP.
YAoOk xtfi l-HAMS'OUTNUMBfl
IF YOU HAVE A HIGH I.Q..V0U'RE MORE SUBJECT TO BOREDOM,
BY ODDS OF 9 TO I , THAN THOSE OF LOWER I. Q. ,
(THAMS fO AiKINS, MM JOHNSON, StATTll, MSM.)
Send your
of Odds,
"Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
' care of he Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
The stock market seems to
have been bouncing around like
a rubber ball the past few days,
down a billion one day and up a
billion the next. But this hasn't
worried the rank and file very
much considering the fact that
the total of their securities are
represented in some good old
on yesterday afternoon and last F'S' bo"d? tucked awy
Don (Jpjcha
night. The sooner they get home l?hV dePslt,box r s5k;
and shut the freezer door and
turn off the fan the happier ev
erybody will be in these parts.
A new twist came in the great
national sport when a Chicago
gin snot a big league first base
That's one class of securities that
can be bought on margin, as it
were, by payroll deductions but
can't take a beating from the
bulls and bears.
! There is no question of Dorothy Lee's couratre she
demonstrates us much in her headgear as in her war
igainst Hint-machines. In this, however, she has no mon
opoly of feminine courage, they are a courageous sex when
ft comes to headgear, as the present as well as the past
tmply demonstrates. Just walk down any street for proof.
T The fair Dorothy as a public official is following a dis
tinguished precedent. It will be recalled that during her
flver 12 years as secretary of labor, "Ma" Perkins contin
uously wore an outmoded hat of about the vintage of 18!)0
And became famous for it. It made her the butt of as
many jibes and jokes as formerly showered the old Model
T Ford. But they never fazed her or disturbed her seren
ity and poise. And the same holds good for Dorothy and
her headgOBr which may also become her trade-mark.
The fair sex in this land of the free have one advantage
In picking out their headgear they don't have to see
themselves in it an advantage over the rest of the people.
And of course, Dorothy is enjoying her inalienable right
to pick out her chapeaux. It is a right that exists only in
democracies, Bnd is lost to the sex is the socialized and
totalitarian states where the hierarchy of bureaucracy
prescribes what women wear. Portland's mayor proves
that rugged individualism still prevails in "the land of the
free."
Valley Project Progress Report
Over the past week-end visitors to the projects of the
Willamette valley basin commission were aniBzed at the
progress being made on those projects. Particularly note
worthy was the speed of construction work at the Detroit
dam site on the North Santiam river.
These yearly inspection trips bring out so clearly the
annual progress on a program which was started with an
idea bark in The purpose of the series of dams,
whose original number of seven has grown to 19'proposed
dams, is fundamentally flood-control. The other purposes
could he stated as power, irrigation, domestic water supply,
and lowering of flood tables so proper outlets can be secur
ed for drainage.
Seven dams were In the original authorization by con
press in 10.18. Of those, two have been completed: Fern
Ridge and Cottage Grove. Dorena will be completed this
fall. Two more are under construction: Detroit and Meri
dian. The two others in the original authorization have
been abandoned and others substituted in the plans. Rig
Cliff, below the Detroit dam, was authorized this year.
Those remaining in the proposed 19 for the Willamette
river basin are contained in the Army engineer's "308"
report but have not been authorized yet.
When the dami are constructed, it is proposed that the
Army engineer put into effect a hydrologiral reporting
network for flood warning and reservoir regulation.
Left out of the calculations, however, are the advantages
th state and iU people will take of this network of dams
In the fertile and beautiful Willamette valley. That is
for the people to decide: How and in what manner they
wish to develop the rich area that is here.
All business at Mt. Angel will
close up tight next Saturday
man just for the fun of it. We night for opening of the strictly
always thought that the umpire new modern baseball park, Eb-
was the only one who stirred nf,r field over there. That's a
such lethal thoughts in the minds community that never does
of baseball fans but if this feel- things by half and whenever
ing is going to extend to mem- there's something going on ev-
bers of the team there'll be a lot erybody takes part and takes
more embryo athletes taking ud Part wholeheartedly.
golf.
Up Detroit and Idanha way
W l,0v. th-.ui ,u , , " seems that these days about
We Mways thought that real everything Is one dam thing or
estate was one thing that was another.
Try, Try Agoin-So Thieves Did
Worland, Wyo. URpatjent thieves who skidded into a
ditch with the car they had stolen from a local garage
trudged back to the garage and stole a wrecker.
But the wrecker met a similar fate. Both vehicles, mired
deeply In the muddy ditch, were found abandoned several
hours later by police.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Hoover Hits Substituting of
Security for Self-Reliance
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
tlfl ForriKn Affairs Anaimii
That was bold and challenging speech which former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover made at Ohio Wesleyan university during
the week-end, when he took a vigorous dig at the brand of "new
era" thinking which substitutes
security for self-reliance. preme court of the United
it s iiKeiy to Dring mm a good States.
"Moreover, governments have
not been able to fix the wages
of sin. Nor have they found a
substitute for profit and other
personal stimulants."
deal of mail
pro and con.
Certainly the
topic is timely,
for there are
few corners of
the world where
it isn't being
discussed and
in many cas
es experiment
ed with. Even
John Bull, who
through the
uHill Marasniki
Do you remember what the
Lord said to Adam? It went
like this:
"Because thou has hearkened
onto the voice of thy wife, and
has eaten of the tree, of which
I commanded thee, saying, thou
shalt not eat of it: Cursed is the
Unemployment Jitters The
president's council of economic
advisers last week sent him a
confidential memo pointing to
increasing unemployment at a
time when it should be decreas
ing. The council is also worried
about wage negotiations of 3,
000,000 workers in the steel,
coal, transportation, electric and
auto industries in which the un
ions are demanding more wage
increases while profits are dropping.
The economic council's chief
battle is with Secretary of Trea
sury Snyder, who tell Truman
that business will continue good,
with nothing to worry about for
the next 12 months.
Federal Security Administra
tor Oscar Ewing does not share
this view. He called at the White
House last week to urge an im
mediate federal wdrks program
to calm unemployment jitters.
Despite the unemployment
trend, only a meager public
works program is now before
congress a bill to authorize 575
new public buildings.
"
Backstage With the Diplomats
Secretary Acheson has been
trying to arrange another for
eign ministers meeting for New
York in September. Still not dis
couraged, he is willing to try an
other conference before giving
up hope for some kind of deal
with Russia on Germany.
Acheson has told Vishinsky
he is willing to appoint Bob
Murphy, American ambassador
to Germany, as his deputy to
work with the Russians, British
and French until the New York
meeting rolls around.
Real fact is that President
Truman was a bit worried in ad
vance of the Paris conference
about the way Acheson would
stand up under pressure from
Vishinsky. Now he is satisfied
Acheson is a tough negotiator,
and even if the Paris conference
ends in failure, Truman thinks
Acheson has done a wonderful
job. He told him so in a tele
phone conversation last week.
.
Negro Improvements It's
largely obscured by senate fili
busters but white leaders in the
south are taking more responsi
bility regarding Negro better
ment. Jackson, Miss., recently held a
significant vote on waterworks
improveme n t s , additional fire
equipment and a new Negro au
ditorium. All three were voted
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Dwight Palmer, under White
House consideration as head of
the national security resources
board, is an active battler
against bigotry and discrimina
tion. Head of the General Cable
corporation, he practices what
he preaches among the 5000 em
ployes of his firm.
The Vinson committee to in
vestigate the B-36 will subpoena
all records of the Navy league
to find out where the money's
coming from to battle the B-36.
Senator Johnson of Colorado
is holding hearings on install
ing radio telephones in trains
an 'important safety measure.
' Landlords by the hundreds of
thousands are applying for rent
increases under the new law
guaranteeing them a fair return.
Many are entitled to raise rents.
Bill O'Dwyer will rejoin his
old law firm, O'Dwyer & Bern
stein, when he retires as mayor
of New York.
New U. S. Citizens Attorney
General Tom Clark has been
waging a quiet, consistent cam
paign to make naturalization
ceremonies more important. He
feels that when a foreigner
takes on the obligations of Ame
rican citizenship, it should be
accompanied by a ritual as im
pressive, though not so secretive,
as an initiation into a high fra
ternal order.
Clark has published an en
lightening book, "Gateway to
Citizenship," on the obligations
of American citizenship. It's
worth reading.
A nine-judge panel in Califor
nia does one of the best jobs of
naturalizing citizens. In Wash
ington, D.C., Judge Alexander
Holtzoff rates high.
Behind the Iron Curtain The
Red army high command has
just completed a highly secret
meeting with army chiefs of
staff In the satellite countries.
The army commanders from
Hungary, Poland, Czechoslova
kia, Roumania and Bulgaria all
were present. Purpose of the
conference was to map coordi
nated military strategy just In
case.
U.S. diplomats report the Rus
sians have discovered a tremen
dously important deposit of ra
dium, and possibly uranium,
Just outside Archangel, Siberia.
Hundreds of Russian engineers
and geologists have been sent to
open up active mining. The de
posit is believed to be one of the
largest in the world.
(Coprriiht 1M9
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
First Sight of Ireland Touches
Hal's Semi-Prof essiona I Status
By HAL BOYLE
Shannon. Ireland, June 16 W) Oh, it was high up In the air
we were, 8,000 feet above the great Irish Sea.
Inside the cabin of the Americar overseas airlines flagship
America,
were
some 30 corre
spondents re
turning from a
tour of the Eur
opean battle
fields and out
side was a thick
cloud making a
mystery of the
land below and
the sky above.
We had run
into the clouds
after taking off from London.
Some of the passengers dozed in
hearts of forebears who had left
this beautiful land for some,
thing better but carried th
memory of it wherever they set
tled. There was one among us, Cor
nelius Ryan, 'who had been borr
here and was seeing his home
land again for the first time ir.
eight years.
"There is Ireland's tallesi
mountain Cahirciveen," hi
said.
"It looks more like a Neu
their seats, quietly digesting one Jersey swamp with the mumps,'
of Merrie England's post-war mumbled a sleepy cynic whost
austerity meals and wondering father certainly hadn't com
if God ever made anything more from Ireland,
courageous than the English. "Now over there, the Insb
But some of us were look- central plain," said Ryan. "Se
ing out impatiently waiting for how few roads there are an..
the clouds to clear. We were notice how small the farms syF"
semi-professional Irishmen in
the crowd, seeking to know with Around each farm is a ii
our eves the thing our mouths wall. They were built in It hi
uays wnen me lrisn usea ioay,
"We may not have any amirninl.
tion to fight the British, but w
had gabbled about all our lives.
a , u;,: 4 -niea
up 'an rOdS taow"-H k to th
land must be heaven, boys, why
aren't there any angels out there
playing harps in the clouds?"
And, to that, there was only
one answer. The Irish are so
sure of heaven they play their
harps on earth.
Just then a starboard engine
gave a tug at a cloud and swal
lowed it whole, and through the
mist there gleamed a river be
neath us. And faraway, sure it
was a fair river as if the lord
had taken the milky way and
poured it star by star between
the green banks and all the stars
had melted and ran together in
a silver flood.
at them.'
I looked at the pinched greet
farms and I realized why mj
mother and all her sisters had
come to America, leaving theiJ
only brother to inherit and till
the small family farm.
Ireland had exported its ba.
con to Europe. Crowded beyond
the power of its land to support
it had exported its sons anl
daughters to the United States.
They had followed a west
ward sun that sank in hopeless
ness on them here, but rose like
a morning star on the wide fresh
land of America a land where
every Irishman could Join a po-
lice force and walk a beat big-
Looking down at the map of ger than the farm he had. left
Ireland, they saw it through the behind.
All meat-seasoned just right!
l ast how good, plump and juicy Armout
Frankfurter aral Tbay'ra mad fresh
vry day in Portland seasoned
uat lha way you lika 'am her rn
Oregon. Armour Frankfurters
are a-meaf, mo nothing
but nn bf and pork
and seasoning I .
generations has stood for solid ground for thy sake: in sorrow
conservatism, now is up to his shalt thou eat of it all the days
neck in socialism. of thy life;
Hoover said that while "secur- "Thorns also and thistles shall
ity" eliminates the risks of life, it bring forth to thee; and thou
it "also kills the Joy that lies In shalt eat the herb of the field:
competition. In individual ad- "In the sweat of thy face shalt
venture, new undertakings and thou eat bread, till thou return
new achievements. Unto the ground; for out of it
"These contain moral and in- wast thou taken: For dust thou
tellectual Impulses more vital art, and unto dust shalt thou re
than even profits, for from them turn."
alone comes national progress."
The United States hasn't em-
This Is from man whose life braced all the new era Ideas,
is a romance of American sue- said Mr. Hoover, adding:
c'"- "The reactionary notion of
He was orphaned at 10 and equal opportunity with the right
was self-supporting by 15. He of everyone to go as far as his
rose to the top as a minlng-engi- ambitions and abilities will take
neer, working in many parts of him, provided he does not tres
the world. Fame came to him nau on others, still holri In the
Bit Upset Over Wife's Tardiness
Elisabeth, N.J. IF Radio patrolman found James Christie,
26. sitting angrily In his car with his hand bleeding and his
windshield smashed.
Christie said H was all right, police reported he had just
been waiting for his wife and punched the windshield In
anger because she was late again.
Doctor at Elisabeth General hospital took eight stitches
to close the wound.
Portland-made
to Oregon's taste
U S GOVERNMENT INSPECTED
Ppg Frankfurters
a leoder in America's finest line of sausage
for his relief administration
work In Europe during World
war I, and finally he was elect-
American dream.'
Does it still hold In the dreams
of other "capitalistic" nations?
ed to the presidency. Previous" Well, Britain for one is making
ly he had served eight years as a great experiment in socialism,
secretary of commerce. She has had some four years
And It is recorded that Hoov- of socialism, going far In nation-
er gave every dollar from his alization and even daring to so-
puhlic salaries to help the needy, cialize medicine. Another gen-
But let's get back to that eral election is due to be held
speech. by July of next year, and then
"At all times in history there the people will pass the verdict
have been many who sought es- on the question of security ver-
cape Into 'security' from self- sua self-reliance, as Mr. Hoover
reliance," said the ex-president, phrases it.
"And, If you will look over the That verdict will be by a na-
workings of these newest eras
throughout the world, you may
notice that the Judgment of the
Lord on Adam has not been en.
tirely reversed, even by the su-
lion which achieved its great
ness through "competition, in
Individual adventure, new un
derlakings and new achievements."
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