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Board to Study
CVA Legislation
Members of the state board of
control will study the propos
ed Columbia Valley administra
tion bill and probably make a
report to a congressional sub
committee expected in the
northwest this fall.
The study was suggested by
State Treasurer Walter Pear
son, who recently appeared in
Washington and testified in fa
vor of the bill. However, Pear
son told the board that he
thought there were some fea
tures of the bill that would be
objectionable to the state of
Oregon. Gov. McKay, who
also was in Washington, where
he opposed the bill, agreed to
the study and suggested that
the attorney general sit in when
the members go over the bill.
The board also voted to in
spect sites for the proposed $2,-
500,000 office building in Port
land Thursday. An effort will
be made to consult with mem
bers of the Portland planning
commission, the majority mem
bers of which are in favor of a
west side site.
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Hamlet at Home Robert
Breen, as Hamlet, holds Yo
rick's skull in the play by
Americans at Kronborg Cas
tle, Elsinore, Denmark, where,
tradition has it, Prince Ham
let lived.
Raps Failure
To Mobilize
Washington, June 29 ff
Bernard Baruch took the Tru
man administration to task
Tuesday for failure to have
ready a stand-by total mobiliza
tion plan for a possible new war.
The 77-year-old elder states
man said the need for such
plan "never was greater" be
cause "the cold war is as total
as actual war."
"Yet," he said, "with the cold
war dragging into its fourth
year, we still lack any effective
plan for the swiftest possible
mobilization of our resources to
insure reaching our allies in
time."
Baruch's text was prepared
for graduating exercises com
memorating the 25th anniver
sary of the industrial college of
the armed forces.
"Additional delay," he warn
ed, "is a needless gamble with
our national security a need
less invitation to disaster."
Baruch nated that when' the
the national security resources
board to frame a complete war
'time mobilization plan.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, June 29, 1949 17
'When this agency attempted
to act it was, as you know, pre
vented from doing so," he said.
It has still to be heard from."
Baruch told a reporter he
meant a mobilization plan draft
ed by the national security re
sources board when Arthur M.
Hill was its chairman. Baruch
described it as "a full mobiliza
tion plan, including price con
trols and allocations of mater
ials." He said the board approv
ing it included seven cabinet
members, yet President Truman
turned it down.
Hill resigned late last year
and John Steelman, Mr. Tru
man's assistant, has been serv
ing since then as temporary
chairman. Mr. Truman tried to
appoint Mon Wallgren, a friend
and former governor of the state
of Washington, to the post but
cancelled the appointment at
Wallgren's request after it wai
pigeonholed in the senate.
Westbrook Is Honored
Falls City Three daughters
of L.C. Westbrook helped him
to celebrate his birthday and
Fathers' Day recently. They
were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dav
is of Eugene, Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Plank and family of Sa
lem, Mr. and Mrs. Don Sund
strom and family of Fall City.
A dinner was given at the coun
try home of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Sundstrom for the event also
with Mrs. Westbrook as a guest.
Grandma's Family "Grandma," a deer on a farm at Arling
while Harry Lund, farm superintendent, holds the other two.
ton Heights, 111., stands over two of her quadruplet fawns
AWKWARD HORATIO ALGER CHARACTER
Displaced German Builds
$50 into Wealth of Millions
By PETER KALISCHER
Tokyo U.R) A refugee German artist who was 19 when he
arrived steerage class at Nagasaki in 1940 with $50 in his pocket
is today one of the biggest business men in post-war Japan.
His name Is Shou' Eisenberg,
originally of Munich and thanks
to Hitler, of Geneva, Luxem
bourg, Strasbourg, Brussels,
Paris, Antwerp, Rotterdam,
Shanghai and now Tokyo.
He started by painting oil por
traits of a few Japanese tycoons
and wound up becoming a tycoon
himself.
I first met Eisenberg early in
1946. He had a small shop on
the Ginza, Tokyo's Broadway,
where he sold cheap toys, nick
nacks and curios.
He still was taking commis
sions for oil portraits, a source
of income which tided him over
the war years. v
Last week he greeted me in
the lobby of a Hong Kong hotel
and returned to Tokyo on the
same commercial air liner.
I learned that in three and
one-half years Eisenberg had
become the president of three
companies, owned two factories,
acquired one-third of a seven
story Tokyo office building, a
whole one in Osaka and had
branches all over Japan. He
also owns housing developments
In which most of his 1,200 em
ployes live.
Twenty-seven-year-old Eisen
berg is also the largest export
agent for Japanese aluminum
enamel ware, copper and brass
Vmanufacture and communica
tions equipment, and sells the
lion's share of Japanese textiles
and textile machinery to India
and southeast Asia.
Two months ago he engineer
ed a $2,500,000 sale of Japanese
telephone and cable equipment
to the Indian government. Soon
he will represent the Indian
Bahrat Air Lines, when it opens
its Tokyo terminus. Eisenberg
now is Incorporated in New
York as well as Tokyo.
Asked the obvious question,
how did he get the snowball
rolling? He replied:
"Bathtubs. Aluminum bath
tubs and Chinese rugs."
He explained that in 1946 oc
cupation officials ordered the
Japanese government to furnish
20,000 bathtubs for army depen
dent houses. The only bathtub
factories in Japan turn out enam
ed iron tubs by a slow and cost
ly process.
With my portrait commis
sions during the war I invested
. in Chinese rugs," Eisenberg said.
"I sold the rugs after the sur
render for a good profit and
bought a small aluminum plant.
Then I turned out quickly a
nice, cheap aluminum bathtub
snd showed it to the army."
The army was enchanted and
approved the model. With the
order as collateral, Eisenberg
borrowed 2,500,000 yen from the
Japanese government and sub
contracted the entire aluminum
'jidustry.
Today nearly every American
lamily in Japan takes a bath in
in Eisenberg tub.
"Myself, I prefer the old-fash-
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ioned Japanese tile tub," Eisen
berg admitted.
In six months, concentrating
on first priority army orders,
Eisenberg gained control of the
aluminum industry, brought the
enamelware manufacturers to
the point of ruin and then saved
them by selling the Dutch East
Indies a 100,000,000 yen export
order for enamel pots and pans.
In effecting the rescue, Eisen
berg also took over the industry.
This, big, slow-moving rather
awkward Horatio Alger charac
ter with lank brown hair and
blue eyes was declared stateless
during the war but now holds
a Polish passport which last
October enabled him to leave
Japan on a selling tour of the
entire Far East and India. He
had personal interviews with
the premier of Ceylon and In
dian Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru.
Eisenberg speaks fluent Ger
man, Japanese and English,
some Dutch and no Polish. His
principal reading is American
comic books. "They pass the
time on plane trips," Eisenberg
says.
In 1943 he married a pretty
Eurasian girl. In six years they
had four daughters, whose birth
days like the number of Eisen
berg enterprises he has a hard
time remembering. "I'm sort
of the Eddie Cantor of Japan,"
Eisenberg said.
Pontiac, Mich., was settled in
1818 and named after an Indian
chief.
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