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Salem, Oregon, Friday, June 17, 194 ,
Smearing Campaign Against FBI
- The action of the trial judge in the Caplon espionage
'case in permtiting the reading in court, against the opposi
' tion of the department of justice, all the FBI secret mem
oranda and reports found in the defendant's purse, threat
ens to bring the FBI into disrepute. It is the best break
.the communists have had for years, for the FBI is its
Jworst enemy in the United States and has performed an
invaluable service in keeping track of the Red termites
in their wrecking effort.
The law enforcement agency has been put in the position
of sponsoring or accepting as true various information
which, in fact, it neither sponsored nor accepted as accur
ate. None of the information is more vague, however,
than for instance, an anonymous letter which the FBI re
ceived many months ago and, according to regulations,
kept as part of its file. That was the letter which proved
to be the first tip on irregularities in the official conduct
of former air force Major General Bennett E. Meyers, now
in prison.
- Exposure of FBI files in the Judith Caplon espionage
trial revealed a mass of gossipy and mixed hearsay in
jiendo, whose true value is yet to be determined. Regardless
of the miscellaneous unverified charges and unsigned com
munications stored away by the FBI, its record made up
the best and most valuable list of subversive characters the
government possesses for its own defense. And the com
munists can be counted on to capitalize on the public hys
teria created by publication to discredit the FBI.
Already a call for a "bill of rights conference" to be held
July 16-17 in New York City has been issued. Accompany
ing material demonstrates that the conference will be a
sounding board for an all-out attack on the FBI and its
director, J. Edgar Hoover. The accompanying material
also leads to the suspicion that communist sympathizers
will have control of the conference when the time comes to
write the blasty resolutions of denunciation and protest.
Attacks have many times been made on J, Edgar
Hoover in the Red propaganda and the smear campaign
has found echoes in congress. It is reported that Attor
ney General Tom Clark has clashed with Hoover and even
President Truman seems luke warm in his support. Asked
at a press conference whether the FBI chief had his con
fidence, the president replied that Hoover had done a
good job and sidestepped other pertinent questions, say
ing the post-war spy hysteria will soon die out as in the
past. Let us hope it doesn't get Hoover,
State Insurance and Safety Programs
The state board of control has awarded a contract for
$83,496 for public and property damage insurance on the
state of Oregon's 3000 autos and trucks to the General
Casualty company, whose agent is Dooley and Co. of Port
land. It was not the lowest bid.
. - The lowest bit of $ 74,717 was submitted by Truck Insur
ance Exchange of Los Angeles, which now has the busi
ness. The insurance is for one year beginning July 1.
The only other bid, $98,503, was submitted by Phil Gross
mayer Co., Portland, for the Travelers Insurance Co.
Presumably the service rendered the past 8 years by the
1 low bidder has been satisfactory and the query naturally
arises as to why the board should spend an extra $8,778
; of the taxpayers' money more than necessary. The only
reason hinted, unofficially, is that the low bidder was a
1 mutual company but it is licensed to do business in Ore
1 gon and the state has done business with it. Secretary
' of State Pearson is an executive of an old line insurance
; firm.
i In explanation the hoard said that General Casualty
' also will spend from $10,000 to $15,000 as a bonus in edu
cating state employes on how to drive properly. The ob
ject is to reduce the number of accidents.
However, the same day before the contract was let, Sec
retary of State Newbry announced the creation of an en-
larged traffic safety division with Capt. Walter Lansing,
; borrowed from the state police, in charge, to reduce auto
i motive accidents in the state. Is it the board's intention
to let the successful bidder get credit for financing this
state safety program which taxpayers are paying for in
', increased insurance charges, or is it an additional cam
paign for safety ?
It would have been only fair to the other insurance bid
ders to have notified them that their bids should include
$10,000 for the state's safety campaign a condition not
stipulated to the unsuccessful bidders.
Los Angeles Torture Murders
i Los Angeles i.s again in the spotlight of torture murder
mysteries, the victims of which were nil attractive women.
The finding of the body of Miss Louise Springer, strangled
in the back seat of her sleek new convertible, makes nine
unsolved mutilintion slayings beginning with the "Black
Dahlia" case 29 months ago. None of the cases have been
solved, though fabulous rewards have been offered.
Mrs. Springer's 97-pound body had been twisted so that
it lay face down. Her dress was pulled above her hips.
A clothesline was knotted around her neck. Her body had
.been violated. The car was found near the place where
the 22-year-old nude, dissected body of Elizabeth Short, a
.New England beauty, was found in a vacant lot. Her
raven hair and sheer black clothes won her the "Black
Dahlia" nickname.
I Th list of other torture murders follows:
; Three days after the "Dahlia" murder, the body of Mary
,Tate. 37, was found on a street, strangled with a silk stocking,
i Less than a month later, Mrs Jeanne French was found nude
'and tortured to death In a lot near the beach. The following
', month, the .nutilatcd body of Evelyn Winters, former wife of
't movie executive, was found in the "gashouse district" near
;the Los Angeles river.
i The nude body of Latin beauty Rosenda Mondrago, 20. was
discovered early on the morning of July 8, 1047, almost within
the shadow of city hall. Her breasts were clawed, her face
beaten, and she had been strangled with silk stocking.
i In the case of Mrs. Dorothy Montgomery, 36-year-old church
worker, her husband was arrested, tried and acquitted. Police
still are searching for the slayer who left her nude, mutilated
body beneath a pepper tree.
Mrs. Laura Trelstad, 37, met death when she went dancing
.with a young sailor on Mother's Day. She was raped, beaten
and strangled.
On Valentine's Lay last year, Real Estate Agent Gladys Kern
disappeared. Two days later, her body was found on th
; kitchen floor of a secluded hillside home, stabbed with a hunt
,lng knife. A mysterious note found nearby blamed the kill
ing on "racketeer."
BY BECK
The Acid Test
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Jti t' A V0UB S0N BUILT FROM VOUR Jf
df)i fc&gfyFff HOUSE. !M JUST CURIOUS TO f'i
JH- ,t'' '-.!,- V see IF VOU STIU THINK IT Jjg
"r f;- V, V;, ,r . shows genius aftep rrTT
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Dn riftraw
pany; George Westinghouse,
Westinghouse Electric compa
ny: Clement A. Griscom, direc
tor. Cramp Ship and Engine
company, the Electric Boat com
pany, and the United States
Steel corporation; S. S. Palmer,
director, Lackawanna Steel
compang; 18 members of the
Midvale Steel company.
There is a good reason why
these gentlemen and their suc
cessors should be the most pow-
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Welcome Gals
BY DON UPJOHN
The girls' state meeting is now in session here with Its legisla
tive assembly et cetera and it will be interesting to compare what
the girls accomplish in their lawmaking efforts with that done
by the boys at a
similar meeting
here awhile
back. One thing
is certain about
the present
meeting as com
pared with that
of the boys, the
girls will have
the last word
which will in
one respect, at
least, prepare
Don fpjohn
The mention of the name of
Charles P. Skouras as the corpo
ration official of the year who
was highest paid of such ilk, he
having received $810,000 for do
ing his job, according to inter
nal revenue office figures, leaves
most folk cold, including us, as
never having heard of him be
fore. Evidently he has something
to do with motion pictures, as
he's from Hollywood. But it
must have taken a lot of button
them for their wifely station as nasslng and "vessing" from sub-
time goes on, that is, if any wife ordinates to collect that much
needs to be prepared to exercise majuma. At any rate, after Un-
that particular prerogative. cie Sam got through with him
Sooner or later maybe the girls ne wa, pretty well scaled down
and boys should hold one of to size, we betcha.
these sessions jointly for pur-
poses of comparison at first hand. The ordinary guy who sudden-
ly had $810,000 shoved at him
However, far be it from us to to sp(,nd during the course of a
Indulge in any levity concerning year wouid have quite a time of
such constructive moves as these it to j igure now to get rid of
to acquaint the youth with the same except for the taxes. He'd
state, city and county govern- pTetty soon get ted up on trying
ment. We expect to see most to take It out in coffee and
beautiful results as time goes on doughnuts, new fish rods and
and these lads and lassies take cars and would probably be glad
on their real duties in these re- to get back to the old routine.
gards. It's certain that some of
the elders who have had such Miss Royal Anne, our favorite
duties to perform In times past cherry, seems to be at her very
could have profited from a little best this year and ready to match
such instruction, let alone a lot up with any royalty that can be
of It. trotted out.
Vicar's Letters Intrigued Her
Steeple Ashlon, England VP) What was In the letters the
vicar wrote to the young ladies?
Postmistress Mary Tye had an itch to know.
She was fined 100 ($400) for opening letters to find out
and now there's a new postmistress.
"I was curious," she tuld the local court.
"I knew 1 was doing wrong, but the practice grew on me
me and I found I could not resist It." She said she vent on
from opening the vicar's letters to peeking at others.
Mrs. Tye said she never told anybody what she found out.
Col. J. F. E. Pye, chairman of the court, told Mrs. Tye:
"The whole fabric of this village's life might have been
undermined by your action."
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Probe of B-36 May Turn
Into One of Navy League
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The much ballyhooed probe of the B-38 is now
taking an unexpected and not too happy turn at least for th
navy.
The turn is so unhappy that naval reserve Captain Congress
man Jimmie Van Zandt, the Pennsylvania republican who start
ed all the B-38
furor, would
just as soon for
get about It.
Tor Chair
man Carl Vin
son of the arm
ed services com
mittee Is not
merely probing
the B-38. He is
also investigat
ing the source
stories against Secretary of De- 'ul. unscrupulous, and consis -fense
Johnson and Secretary of ny irrepressible propagandi
se Air Symington. - "Z.t0i b,g"avy' 11 Py''
In other words, he is probing , The bigger the navy, the more
the delicate but higly important P'ate. the more generators,
question of who wrote Congres- the more copper and nickel these
srnan Van Zandt's vitriolic gentlemen sell to Uncle Sam.
speeches. Members of the navy league
In this connection, it may be hv been active, and brazenly
significant that the navy has sud- admitted their activity, in sa
denly transferred its press rela- botaging American diplomat at
tions and propaganda expert, international conferences.
Rear Adm. Edward Ewen, to " " Charley Schwab of
Guam. Admiral Ewen had serv- Bthlehf. fL"!"1 a"octe
ed only a year of a three-year wh P'd $25,000 to "Big Bass
tour of duty. But suddenly he P"" Shearer to frustrate the
was whisked off to a distant G'nev" Naval Conference. The
Island, far from the strong arm steel and shipbuilding compa
ct a congressional subpoena. Just dldn 1 wa"? nava llm
The Vinson committee is also "" ucceed. Dividends, for
expected to apply the microscope ,nm came ahead of their eoun
to the most powerful backstage try e"rt r Peac
lobbying organization ever to At Geneva. Shearer would
buttonhole congressmen for a have got nowhere if he had not
government bureau the navy had the all-too-eager coopera
league. tion of several U.S. naval of
Frank Hecht, president of the ficers sent to Geneva to work
navy league, has now become for naval limitation. Instead,
so vituperative in comparing they did the opposite.
Secretary Johnson to European One of Shearer's most active
dictators, that good-natured Bob naval collaborators was Adm.
Fleming, president of Washing- Joseph M. Reeves, later exposed
ton's Riggs National bank, Is all as such before the senate naval
set to resign as treasurer of the affairs committee. During the
navy league. As treasurer of the balance of the Hoover economy
G.P.O congressional committee drive, the bewhiskered Reeves
last year Fleming helped raise was kept in simulated disgrace,
around a million dollars for But FDR was the admirals' gift
Dewey, and has no love for the from heaven, and under Roose
administration. But he hasn't Velt, Reeves was actually re
been able to stomach the navy warded for his lobbying by
league diatribes. promotion to be commander-in
The navy league has now tak- chief of the fleet,
en over the admirals' crusade
against the bill before Congress T, may be ,urprise to Pres.
tightening unification. What the jdent Truman and Lpuie John.
admirals say privately the navy ,on ,0 ind the navy Uague
eague now says for them pub- now fronting furiousiy for the
licly. , , . admirals. But it surprises no
, ,. ,. .. . newspaperman who has watch-
Harry Truman isn't the first the admiraIs work.
president to nave irouDie wun
ay guild
Wizard of Odds
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SCIENTISTS
MAINTAIN 4 Or 5
AMERICAN WIVES
ARE. "STARVING" (NOT
GETTING PROPER
NOURISHMENT.
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wlsard
of Odds," ear of the Capital Jonrnsl, Salem, Oregon
Milking Fails to Halt Vacation
Plymouth, Eng. VP) For tO years fanner Joe Trevethsn's
vacation plans were gummed up by one problem: What
about the milking?
This year, at last, he solved it. He rented a field for two
weeks at Lewdown, his chosen vacation spot. Then he pack
ed the cow and her ealf Into a truck and took them along.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
There'll Always Be an England
But 'It Isn't England Anymore'
By HAL BOYLE
London VP) There Is the sound of many hammers here In the
land of the over-boiled potato.
And the sound of many complaining voices.
There is
the navy league. Herbert Hoo-
"You must take off your coat
MacKENllE'S COLUMN
Case of FDR Jr.: Fame of,
Father Help or Handicap?
By DeWITT MacKcNZIE
Portlin Sltllr Anumi
All America is watching with intense interest the advent of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Junior, Into national politics, and
not a few are wondering Just what it means to a young man to
the
follow in
footsteps of a
famous father.
Is it an ad
vantage or a
handicap?
Years ago In
England I put
that rather
searching qucs
1 1 o n to my
good friend, the
late Sir Austen 0pWlll .,,
Chamberl a I n
He then was British foreign sec
retary and had written his name famous man.
trying period of his career.
These things he gets because he
is his father's son.
However, all that soon
chanRes.
His political associates uncon
sciously begin to measure him
against the stature of his father.
They look for far more from the
young man than he should be
expected to deliver with his lack
of experience. Thus faults
which might be overlooked in
another apprentice are logged
down against the son of the
ver also had his headaches. Just a"d ? . wrk helPln8 to save
17 years ago he got into such )he "tuation, navy league pres.
a mudslinging duel with the Went Hecht has frantically
navy league that the latter end- ,wJlt,en to thousands of .people,
ed up charging the President of You .mus' J!" ur4. cru?,adf
the United States with "abysmal Bv P'n " to deeat the e,for,ts
Ignorance " now belng made to emascula,e
Attempting to practice econ- our and Jeopardize our
omy. Hoover had ordered the country's safety, you can help,
admirals to cut their 1933 budg- "Stir up Interest in your lo
et. Instead the admirals upped cality," Hecht exhorts. "Talk
it by $40,000,000. And Hoover to your local editor. Write cards
sent the budget back with a de- or letters to those on your Chris
mand that it be reduced $20,- tmas list. Talk to your congress
000.000 under 1932. men and senators. Go to Wash
Whereupon the navy league, ington; telephone or write your
acting as the megaphone for the representatives. Ask for copies
admirals, hurled the "abysmal of material to send your friends.
ignorance" charge at Hoover Help arrange lor speaners De
just as the same navy league is 'ore various groups; tell the
now calling Secretary Johnson story. Speak up for America
a dictator. and the U.S. Navy."
There is nothing wrong with
Most folks have forgotten the presenting pro - navy or anti
origin of the navy league . navy views before congress. The
which shouldn't be forgotten, right of petition is guaranteed
For its founders read like a by the constitution. However,
meeting of metallurgical mag- it is equally Important that the
nates. public know who is behind all
They include: Charles M. the propaganda. It is largely
Schwab, Bethlehem Steel cor- either the admirals themselves
poration: J. Pierpont Morgan, or their friends who. In many
United States Steel corporation cases, profit from navy con
and owner of a controlling in- tracts.
terest in the Carnegie Steel NOTE The Inescapable fact
company: Col. R. M. Thompson, (, lnat vou nave unification or
International Nickel company; vou don And you can.t have
B. F. Tracy, attorney for the jt with one branch of the ,erv.
Carnegie Steel and Harvey Steel ,ce waging , death battle
companies and director of the against its commander.
Tennessee Coal and Iron com- (coprruut urn
con
fidence in the
sound of the
hammers and
authority. For
the hammers
are rebuilding
battered E n g
land. But in the
comp 1 a i n 1 n gts
voices are doubt
and uncertain
ity. There is ei
ther dissatisfaction
wav that England
dismay that it hasn't achieved grocery stores.
more for the common man down y0u have a feeling that Eng
ine new political path It has land would be lost if everyons
been traveling. broke from the queue at ones
' 'to grab a bus seat, instead ol
Says one young voice of so- patiently taking his turn,
cialism: "There'll always be an Eng-
"Yes, we've got many things land, you sense, as long as th
we didn't have before. But we English accept the discipline oi
English are losing the taste for necessity and they still do.
Scotch whisky and meat, be- But they are a little weary
cause we get so little. And that of being complimented on theii
is bad for us because whisky courage and endurance. They
and meat made us great." want the brave new world ol
And a voice from the politi- promised plenty to come a littlt
much as you'd expect. The face
of the great gray lady by ths
Thames is wrapped in scaf
folding as workmen restore ths
beauty pitted by German bombs.
They have cleared away the de
bris of many gutted buildingi
and turned them into car park
ing sites.
Big Ben still tells the pass
ing hours. The people still stand
patiently in long queues for
most of the things they desirs
with the buses, theatrical entertain-
going or ment, prized food items at ths
cal past says:
"They are trying to do too
much here for everybody. It
can't be done in a small land
that lives by bringing raw ma-
faster.
"Ah, England It simply lsn'1
England any more," grumblei
the hotel porter. But If you vol-
terials here for manufacture, and unteered such a remark to him
shipping the products elsewhere you'd get an unforgetabla re
buke.
What the people like to heal
the Americans say Is:
"I liked England during ths
war because you were so kind
to us. And I'm glad to be back
and see again the friends I
made here then."
If you don't mention the Mar-
for sale.
"Ninety per cent of the peo
ple will have to go back to
living the way they always did.
Then the ten per cent with ex
ceptional ability can live as well
as their brains and initiative en
title them to."
I came here with a group of
war correspondents revisiting ,haU piaIli tney don.t, And only
European battle areas on a tour a f00is American traveli S.OOO
sponsored by the American miH to brag about his "gener-
Overseas Airlines. osity" to , hard-up relativi
London hasn't changed as whose muscles he may heed.
lndeliblv Into history as a primo
mover in, and a signatory of,
the Locarno Treaty of peace in
192,1.
Sir Austen was son of the
noted statesman Joseph ("Joe")
Chamberlain. He also was
brother of Neville who, as
Prime Minister, later tried the
unhappy experiment of appeas-
On the whole. Sir Austen
thought, it was a severe
handicap In the political
world for a young man to
have a noted father. Ob
viously, he himself had
overcome that handicap
magnificently.
There are plenty of Amerl-
ing Hitler an experiment can examples of sons following
which your columnist wltnes- famous fathers, both In politics
sed at close range, having fol- and in business.
lowed the Prime Minister to th In the political field there are
conferences at Berchtesgaden, Innumerable father and son
Godesberg and, finally, Munich, combinations. Besides the F.
You will note that one brother
was fortunate and the other en
countered disaster.
I was spending the day with
R. Roosevelts the Tafts, the
LaFollettes, the U. S. Grants,
the Teddy Roosevelts, and so on
back into history.
And In the realm of big bus-
Sir Austen at his country home lness the Rockefellers, the Mor-
when I broached the question gans and the Fords are but three
of how the fame of a father af- In a long line of dynasties. In
fected a son at the beginning some cases success has crowned
of the Utter s career generations of heirs.
The foreign secretary replied So far as concerns the polltl-
ln effect: cal world, there art many who
At the outset, of course, the will agree with Sir Austen
father's position Is of great help Chamberlain's conclusion that
to the son. It provides the young In th long run son must fight
man an entree which he might his own battles. Now comes
not otherwise have. It gives T. R. R , Jr, to try hit luck on
him useful friendship at a most that basis.
HOW ABOUT:
Salem's Hospital Drive?
Answering the Questions
fFdUor'i Nol: In fw tftki th tUitm limi 4rTrimnt vretrtm will fc
bronchi btfort th np ( th ftalptn re. tbit th 'itlni belnr ral4
my b known bv Jl, alnnr with th tntwft-t, th Cftpltftl Joarnal I pratlnr
bv prlntlnc them dally, QaMtlant ma b ttlreetM I th htital rirai hratl
tjuartm, SM N. Hlch St., r mj b phonl U I-SSS1.)
QUESTION: Mr. Wedel, (administrator, Salem Memorial Hos
pital) Why does Salem Memorial Hospital need the $190,000
being A5ked through the Salem hospital development program?
ANSWER: During the war and iW(. Modn 8cjencc df.
the immediate Post-war period. mandl beMw and be,(er serv.
neither hospital in Salem ex- , nd onl b carrying
panded Its facilities nor mod- tn h 0) (h, proIram WJ
ernlzed Its plant to any appreci- have b ,hgt can fu,fm
able extent. Nevertheless, dur- demand,
ing all this time. Salem and its w ' w, nped $190
adjacent trade area have been 000 to carry out the plans we
growing until the population has hav, made , ive modern ho.
been doubled. With regard to pi(al ,ervlee t0 our ever.grow.
hospitals, it has remained static. ing popuiMion.
Just what does this mean with
reference to the Salem Memor- f:'-:.::.::.::::.:-.-...:;
lal Hospital? It means that the J
need for modernization has be- g
come acute. We have tried to ft
meet this crying need by inaug- ij
urating a remodeling and re-
decorating program in the build- J
itself; by the addition of more 3
bed space; and by the purchase h
and Installation of the latest 5)
and best equipment to replace K
older, out-moded facilities. V,
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