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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, July 12, 1949
The British Dock Strike
Though the labor party governs Great Britain and is
rapidly socializing the country and its industries with its
accompanying unlimited '"austerity" or semi-starvation
program administered by red-tape regimentation, its rad
ical government seems to have as much labor turmoil as
the United States with its pro-labor administration. An
unauthorized "wild-cat" dock strike has tied up shipping
and consequently industry and threatens national food
shortage.
So serious has the situation become that at the govern
ment's request, King George VI has proclaimed a state
of emergency giving the government dictatorial powers
to break the paralyzing wild-cat strike. The immediate
response of the dock unions was to call out 2,700 more
workers, tying up 15 more ships, making a total of 127
ships unloaded by the 12,950 strikers.
A port emergency committee has been appointed to di
rect the loading and unloading of all ships barges and
vehicles, using the 15,000 non-striking dock workers,
troops and volunteers. Some 2300 hundred soldiers are
moving perishable cargoes with military trucks to feed
London's 12 million persons. Unless more troops are
utilized the number of tied-up vessels will increase by
eight a day.
Government sources said they could muster about 10,000
troops in Britain. If the state of emergency lasts long
enough, men from the occupation forces in Germany and
Austria may be called home to help. British army head
quarters in Germany and Austria already have been
alerted.
It is the first time since the general strike of 1926 that
a British government has invoked such emergency powers.
British labor leaders say that the dock strike is inspired
by the communists, which is logical, as many of the dock
unions' leaders are either communists or fellow travelers,
no matter tvhere they pull their wrecking tactics. Hawaii
is going through the same emergency as Britain.
All that socialism seems to accomplish is preparing the
way for totalitarian regimes where labor is reduced to
slavery, and the secret police purge the labor leaders that
don't play the game.
Cutting Excise Taxes Favored
The promise of excise tax cuts in 1950 along with cau
tions against losses is one point in President Truman's
11-point beat-the-depression by deficit expenditures, that
receives a favorable reception from congress. There is
general agreement Washington dispatches say that only
part of It could be put into effect before a pre-Labor Day
adjournment.
Chairman Doughton (D., N.C.) of the house ways and
means committee, joined with Chairman George (D., Ga.)
of the senate finance committee in promising relief next
year from some of the heavy wartime taxes. These have
applied to a long range of items from furs to face powder,
and include transportation fares and communications.
Both agree that if congress lifts the lid on excises now
there might be no stopping repeal of most of such levies.
George said the tax on freight which adds to the retail
cost of everything should be the first to come off. Dough
ton made it clear that it will take time for congress to
level the excise tax barriers. He said if consumers are
holding their buying for a tax cut, they will have to "wait
quite awhile" before they get one.
Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr., and others said Mr. Tru
man should have joined the bipartisan effort to reduce
wartime excise taxes on jewelry, communications, admis
sions and such.
Senator James E. Murray (D., Mont.), and Rep. Wright
Patman (D., Tex.), said they would introduce this week
an "economic expansion bill of 1949" to carry out the presi
dent's program.
Senate Repblican Leader Kenneth S. Wherry (Neb.),
said the president overlooked "the most important thing,
cutting federal costs." Senator Harry F. Byrd (D., Va.),
said: '"Just the same old pump priming fixed up in a new
dress."
West Salem Is Growing
Opening of a bank is a good indication of the business
growth of a community. Such is the case of the opening
of the new West Salem branch of the United States Na
tional bank.
Ten years ago West Salem had about 1400 population.
Now the estimate is that there are double that number of
people there. The coming to the community of significant
industrial firms has helped that boost in population.
Going back only two years, a view of the growth of the
adjoining community is enough to merit special notice:
In 1946, there was no drug store, but now there is one.
There was no new furniture store, but now there are two.
Then West Salem had no doctors, but now there are two.
There is a dentist where there was none two years ago.
No hardware store in '46, while now there is one. No
variety store, but now there is one. No radio station, but
now there is one, plus one for Salem located there. Two
years ago there was no radio store, but now there are two.
No commercial photography store, but now there is one.
A wholesale sporting goods business has come to town, and
another commercial saw filing business has been added.
There have bet-n so many new businesses it is difficult to
include all of them in summary form.
But so go the additions. The industries since 1946 in
clude C-Cruise, West Salem Machine Company, Gerwood
Products Company and Schwab Lumber Company.
And now the latest business is the bank.
In years to come, the community will be able to look
back on those days of 1919 when the bank was established
and compare the growth. The comparison will be inter
esting to make at that time.
He Asks 50 Percent Salary Cut!
Cleveland UP) Mayor W. A. Sklenicka of suburban War
renville Heights asked and got a SO per cent cut In his salary.
The mayor has been receiving $1,200 annually. But he
decided that his expenses in office amounted to only $600.
"The people deserve the other $600," he said.
"Budgets have been going up too long," he explained.
"I'm going to start it the other way. Somebody baa to takt
tht first step."
BY BECK
Fun on the Farm
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Army Research Lessens
Fear of Atom Casualties
By DREW PEARSON
Washington While the atomic energy commission is informing
congress of streamlined methods for bigger and better atom bombs,
army doctors have been working quietly to prevent loss of life
from those same bombs and with surprising success.
It can now be stated, that, as a result of this research, army
doctors have lost part of their --
fear of the bomb's casualties, athlete's heart while a football
and that at least 20 percent of star at Wisconsin. This is now
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
1
the lives lost at
Hiroshima could
now be saved.
This is the
concl u s i o n of i
Col. Elbert del
Coursey, com
mandant of the..
army's medical I
research school, I
whose principal I
assignment has!
been to prepare
medical defens
es against the atomic bomb.
LAI
Drew Pearson
SIPS FOR SUPPER
In Reverse
By DON UPJOHN
Mr. Truman's reversal in attitude by withdrawing his demand
for a $4,000,000 tax increase this year leaves the impression that
maybe he's reached the conclusion the republican congress was
right in its
He explains that 65 to 85 per
cent of the victims at Hiroshima
and Nagasaki died of burns and
injuries, easily treated by medi
cal science.
aggravated by high blood pres
sure and a weight of 270 pounds
which he has not been able to
reduce.
It has also not been helped by
long and grueling hours in gov
ernment service. Krug had an
outstanding record with the Ten
nessee valley authority, per
formed a skillful and difficult
job as chairman of the war pro
duction board, also served in the
navy.
As secretary of the interior.
Krug did a good job of battling
John L. Lewis, but since then
poor health has forced him to be
one of the least active members
of the cabinet. After his Los An
geles fainting spell, he was wise
enough to take three months off.
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MEN, CHANCES ARE I IN 9 YOU'RE
THE THIN TYPE; 2 IN 9 YOU'RE THE
Ulon MIIO-MI IB TVPF- 3 IN 9
YOU'RE THE FAT TYPE. (OTHERS
FALL BETWEEN- j
MARRY BEFORE 18; IT'S 216 TO I A BOY WON'T
MARRY BEFORE 18. ('WfSSfJt
MEN, IT'S
3 TO 2 THE SUIT
YOU BUY THIS YEAR
WILL BE BLUE OR 6REY.
The challenge to the medical But another two months was
profession, therefore, is to aban- necesssary after the Phoenix in
don the present method of treat- cident.
ing each patient as an individu- Since then, Krug is less fre
al, and work out a system of quently in his office than any
mass treatment. Even the assem- other cabinet officer. Yet either
in its at- WO
titude all along
in this matter
and that after
all there are
only so many
feathers on the
old goose and a
lot of these had
been plucked,
at least enough
to leave a few
bare spots. May
be as time goes
Don Upjobn
pride or devotion to duty for
ces him to keep up the pretense
of official activity.
The tragedy in the Forrestal
case was that friends encourag
ed him to remain in office when
many knew he was desperately
tired and on the verge of nerv
ous exhaustion. Friends of
bly-line technique, Dr. de Cour
sey suggests, may have to be ap
plied to medicine.
The doctors have also made
progress in treating atomic ra-
office aren't exactly on jovial diation, which attacks the blood
terms. But it might be suspect- cells and causes hemorrhages.
ed that two Mikes could feel a Tests on the animals at Bikini
little truculent toward one an- showed that atomic hemorrhages
other just on general principles, can be stopped by a common "Cap" Krug would do well to
One of our compatriots speak- dye, known as toluidin blue dye. see that he does not make the
ing of Sheriff Mike commented Thereafter, the problem is to same mistake.
on his statement in which he have enough blood plasma on . .
remarked he hadn't done any- hand to administer mass trans- NEW U.S. CITIZENS
thing wrong while in office, of- fusions. Attorney General Tom Clark's
fered the suggestion his state- As further proof that the ato- campaign to educate naturalized
ment would have been more il- mic bomb isn't as devastating as Americans on the duties of citi-
luminating if he had told what 14 has been built up to be, Dr. zenship is getting vigorous sup-
on congress which gets damned he had done that was right. de -ursey claims that a person port from New York's radio
for most everything will be dis- might even survive when direct- stati0n WHOM.
covered to have been a fairly We noted that our sturdy old underneath an atomic explo- Generoso Pope, who owns the
far seeing body in a lot of ways, ft 4 BA friend County Com- s'n Provided he were protect- station, came to this country
even if it does move ponderous- mjssioner Ed Rogers hadn't re- ed y a Iew teet 01 eartn or con" from Italy with no parents,
ly and slowly to reach its de- ceived his busted lower plate crete- found his first job at the age of
cisions. All congressmen can't back in a repaired condition as Furthermore, It is believed eight, but has now risen to be
be wrong. In fact, if we remem-, yet this a.m. Maybe it may have that a Person could come out come one of New York's most
ber correctly, Mr. Truman him- required some non-skid surfac- alive lrom a simple, six-inch, potent leaders. So he feels that
self was on for some years and ing put on so he'll be guarded concrete- shelter, located even he knows something about the
the mantle of the presidency against slipping on the next within the two-mile radius pre- advantages of U.S. citizenship
has altogether changed the skin chicken neck and having to go viously considered fatal. and he wants others of New
underneath. back for further repairs. Ed In both cases the shelters York's vast foreign-born com-
does a remarkable job of enun- would protect those inside from munity to feel the same.
One of the big Questions in ciation for a man suffering such the deadly gamma rays. But Run by his son, r oriune .rope,
our infantile brain for a long a disability. Maybe it's just right whether the shelters themselves WHOM broadcasts in foreign
time has been just why a chap for that Oklahoma accent to take couia wimsiana ine terruic con- languages n uuuia
wants to be a congressman in effect. cussion, Dr. de Coursey points er than any other station m the
the first place. There are some out, would depend upon how USA.
perquisites, of course, but they EcB prjces continue to go up much was absorbed and deflect- During the Italian elections
also are accompanied by a lot ine one won. ed by the surrounding buildings, last year WHOM arranged
of unwarranted cussing 8 y n,aklng one wo.n NOTE Dr. de Coursey ad- shortwave broadcasts from New
. der what can cause so much dis- mits that the super atomic bomb, York Italians to their relatives
Tf m that n iuii, r.t ih content among the hens. Why developed since Bikini, would abroad, with the result that
Oregonian and Mike Elliott of not turn 'em loose on the cater- increase the casualties but not thousands sent democracy me
the Multnomah county sheriff's pillars?
Cooled Off Over Hot Story
San Antonio, Tex. (P) Lewis Harris of the San Antonio
Express dashed into a burning building and turned on the
light. Be wanted to see the fire better.
He saw It.
He didn't see the stream of water from a fireman's hose,
it smacked him from behind and cooled his enthusiasm for
his hot story.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
First Lady of Jungle
is for African Blue
change the medical problem.
The bigger the bomb the more
the patients, but their treat
ment remains the same.
CABINET ILLNESS
The Truman administration
may have the unfortunate ex-
sages orally to the folks in the
old country.
It had an important effect on
turning the election for democ
racy. CONGRESSIONAL Teamwork
The closed-door meeting of
Long;
norionro nf onnthoi- vrv inir senate and house conferees on
cabinet member, unless friends the p u b 1 i c housing bill was a
of Secretary of the Interior model of how congress should,
"Cap" Krug take him in hand. and can, act when it wants to.
Krug's fainting spell while A total of 102 differences in sen
testifying before the house pub- ate and house versions of the
lie lands committee last month biu were ironed out m j'g time
was not an isolated case, but the Even GOP R e p r e s e ntative
third time this has happened Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, lead
publicly. mS congressional friend of the
wuitJ n i, . real estate lobby, went out of
T.! Ancwlw Krmf Jlee,Ch '2 his way to cooperate in expedit-
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Osa Johnson, the first lady of the jungle, lives
on Park avenue now and it makes her homesick for the serenity
of Africa.
', 1 1 iniijiii jm themselves with their plumes as
"I like my
jungles because
I don't have any
c o m p e t i t ion
there," she
laughed.
"Here you get
invited to din
ner and right
away you start
worrying, 'what
shall I wear and
what will so-
and-so wear?'
"But there I can wear khaki
trousers and hunting boots and
put my little gun on my shoul
der and go out into the jungle
and feel I am queen of all I
survey.
"I can look up at the blue,
blue sky and feel all Africa is
mine."
She said she was going back
too,, for one last trek to the land
whose wild life was filmed by
her explorer husband, Martin
Johnson, as she stood guard with
a gun.
Johnson was killed in a plane
crash in California in 1937, and
Osa was badly injured.
"I have a secret valley," she
said. "I can't tell you where is is.
It has never been explored, but
Martin and I always vowed we
would go back. It's teeming with
big game lions, rhinos, ele
phants, buffalo everything.
There must be at least a million
head of big game in that val
ley." She is planning an expedition
consisting of two station wag
ons, six Jeeps with trailers, and
a helicopter.
"I can flutter over in the hel
icopter and tickle the backs of
elephants and ostriches. You
should m the ostriches fan
they run. They make Sally Rand
look like a sissy.
"I want to make a full length
color film of wild life there.
It's never been done.
"Animals in zoos are out of
their environment. They lose
their color and become wishy
washy. But a wild zebra he
looks like black and white sat
in, slock and fat and glossy. And
the giraffe he's a gorgeous
bronze. He glistens in the sun."
Osa has kept busy since her
husband's death. She has pub
lished nine books and is now
writing four more for children,
based on the life stories of her
own animal pets.
She is also completing a cook
book of exotic recipes, prepar
ing for a lecture tour and nego
tiating a television contract. She
has a library of 2,000,000 feet of
film taken by her husband on
their travels.
Now 55, Osa is still as viva
cious and energetic as the day
she married Johnson at 16.
"I thought we'd live in Chan
ute, Kas., and grow a couple of
kids and a vegetable garden,"
she said. "But Martin had an
itchy foot. So I went off to the
jungle with him, and I fell in
love with it, too."
She estimates she has travel
ed "roughly 1,500,000 miles" in
her career.
Osa's favorte hobbies are
fishing and cooking, and she
spends a lot of time in her kit
chen. "I'll 'bet you," she said, "I'm
the only girl on Park Avenue
who bakes her own bread."
and could not resume. Again, at
Phoenix, Ariz., while speaking
on a national radio network,
Krug was only two minutes
through his address when he
started to keel over and had to
hand his speech over to some
one else to read.
However, Wolcott was suspi
cious when Senator Burnet
Maybank of South Carolina, a
democrat, wanted to insert an
amendment guaranteeing that
tenants wouldn't be moved out
of slums faster than new public
housing could be built for them.
"WViv rfn -unn want tn nut that
After his recent illness before in the bill?" he asked Maybank.
the house public lands commit- "Well, to be very frank, it
tee, Krug rested for half an win get us some more votes in
hour, went back in the commit- the next election," grinned the
tee room and made a heroic ef- South Carolina senator,
fort to resume his testimony. Mavbank's engaging frankness
He was unable to do so. so startled Wolcott that he
A hulking figure of a man, dropped his threatened objec
and only 42, Krug looks the pic- tion, and the Maybank amend
ture of health, but developed an ment was approved.
WHICH WILL SHE CHOOSE?
Prison Camp Meeting Reveals v.
Same Wife for Both Men 7
Hamburg, Germany U.R Two German officers met in a
Russian prison camp. They soon discovered that they lived
in the same German town, in the same street, at the same
number and had the same wife.
This was how it came about, according to the Hamburg
newspaper "Abendblatt." A German major, returning to
the front from home leave in 1942, told his wife to marry
again if he were killed. Soon she was officially toll! of his
death in action.
Eighteen months later she married another officer. In
due course he was captured. But husband number one had
not been killed. He was picked up on the battlefield by the
Russians.
Finally through the painfully slow communications from
Russian prison camps the wife learned of her difficult posi
tion. She asked the two men to wait until they are back from
Russia. Then, she-says, she will decide which one to keep as
her husband.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Don't Count Chiang
Kai-Shek Out Yet
By JAMES D. WHITE
(Substituting for DeWltt MacKenzle, AP Foreign News Analyst)
For the first time since 1943, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
has left Chinese soil.
This time the stated purpose is to talk over the communist
question in Asia with President
Elpidio Quirino of the Philip- talked about is the idea of a Pa-Pmes-
cific pact against communism
Accompanied by such aides as to be underwritten by the Unit
his publicity expert, Wang Shih- d . b .
Chieh, the Gimo has flown into "
northern Luzon from his island teP beynd the po itical alli
retreat on Formosa. An official ance Proposed by the Pacific j
source said Chiang and Quirino front against communism,
talked about forming a non-mil- This idea has been in the
itary Pacific front against com- heads of non-communist Asiatic
munism. leaders ever since the Atlantic
pact was announced. Quirino
The visit is another example himsclf has discussed it, but he
of the Gimo's real, if reduced, aPP?ars to have had in mind a
importance kmd ot conmlc union. Chiang,
' . , . . . .. whose armies have lost most of
He operates in a kind of poh- tneir American equipment to
iical sub-stratosphere He ha, the w(juld ob"abl Uke
"retired" as president of China, to mUitar defens'e ar.
but not resigned While no rangement which would giv.
longer the acting titular head of him more
the Chinese government, he re- Tr .. , , ,
mains for many reasons the No. . Inany case', thLUm.tJed Stte
1 non-communist leader in his has ben. co.oi to0Le idea from
country the beginning. Even Prime
. ... Minister Nehru of India pointed
He is still the acknowledged out that Asia is too confused
head of the Kuomintang, the politicaiiy to make such a pact
government party. This posi- y,0T no,
tion entails the following: However, Chiang's visit to the
The government still the le- Philippines is another way of
gaily recognized government of keeping the idea alive. It also
China is answerable to him serves to keep his person in the
through the party. So is the news at a time when there is
army. So are the navy and air- sentiment in Washington to try
force, which have cut off Red giving him some more help
China's foreign trade by enforc- against the Reds.
ing tne closure of Red ports . .
without calling what they have
done a blockade.
"Retired" or not, Chiang still
is firmly in the picture. When
The communists have given
him the biggest boost, however.
In Shanghai they let the do-
h. .T.h fr T'u'7; "ce work over a young Ameri-
against the communist last week u!",vice Con1'J ne a"
he commanded widespread at
tention in the American press
No More Hot Dog Days
cool
Jacksonville, 111. (iP The hottest dog in town is
canine. No more hot dog days for him.
The mercury had been in the 90's last week. A heavily
furred, 250-pound St. Bernard dog was reported dying from
the heat. The Jacksonville Journal ran a short story about
his plight.
There was immediate response. The dog's owner, Major
Henri Servais of the Salvation Army, was busy all day an
swering the telephone from persons who wanted to help.
An ice company sent over an air-conditioning unit and
installed it on Servais-' glassed-in back porch. The huge dog
isn't moving off the porch, a cool 60 degrees, into the steaming
95 temperatures.
One offer of help came from a three-year-old girl who
wanted to fan the big dog during the heat wave.
But he doesn't need any fanning now. He's air conditioned.
When Men Were Rugged
Mobile, Ala. 0..R) In the days before the Civil War, Ala
bama's "biting Irish" in at least one instance used the press
to advertise challenges, inviting their adversaries to come
armed up to and including the teeth.
This is evidenced by an advertisement appearing in a 1837
edition of the Mobile, Ala., Commercial Register. It read:
"I am well informed that John Cannon has expressed a wil
lingness to meet me in single combat; now this is to inform
him that if he is disposed to measure strength with me. I
will meet him at any time 20 miles out of the city of Mobile
within a 24-foot rope ring and fight him for S500 or $1,000,
and he can use his teeth if he chooses. He is a disgrace to Ire
land. He must either meet me or submit to the charge ot
cowardice, which I now throw in his teeth.
"William CaUaier." ,
beaten up in Red Shanghai orob- 1.'
ably does Chiang Kai-Shek's
cause more good in this country
than a dozen nnhtirnl nnnfpr.
One thing he and Quirino ences. yj
Baby Sitters Take Notice
New York, July 11 iP) A cargo plane, converted into a
flying zoo, arrived today with a wild animal cargo which
includes three baby gorillas wearing sweaters and diapers.
Philip Carroll, Miami, Fla., said he caught the gorillas in
the French Cameroon. He also had two larger ones, two years
and two years and a half old. The baby gorillas will go to
loos in Cincinnati and San Diego, Calif.
Included in the cargo was a five months old elephant, 30
inches high and weighing about 190 pounds. It is goins to the
St. Louis zoo.
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