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BY BECK
Life's Little Tragedies
4
Salem, Oregon, Monday, July 18, 1949
Recalls the 1922 Oregon Primary
The sudden death of Charles Hall, 69, from a heart
attack, at Portland, former state senator and three times
candidate for governor, recalls the hectic Oregon primary
campaign of 1922, when Hall, endorsed candidate of the
Ku Klux Klan, at the zenith of the hooded-shirt hysteria,
was defeated by Governor Ben W. Olcott, who had the
courage to denounce the Klan and was defeated in the
general election by Walter M. Pierce, democrat.
Mr. Hall was a personable, handsome fellow, a good
campaigner, energetic and resourceful and attained suc
cess as a promoter. He came to Oregon from Pennsylvania,
was first a timber cruiser, then public works laborer in
Portland, then a druggist in Clatskanie county, learning
the profession he returned to later in life.
After a course at the University of Michigan he returned
to Oregon and acquired a drug store at Hood River, dealt
in orchards, tind built three business blocks. In 1907 he
promoted the Independent Telephone company, and con
tinued as manager there until the merger of the line with
O.-W. Telephone system.
In 1907 Hall moved to Marshfield where he organized
the Coos and Curry Telephone Co. and was off and on
an executive official until 1930. In 1917 he organized the
Bank of Southwestern Oregon, which he sold in 1921, the
year he organized the American bank in lViiirshfield. He
alse served as chairman of the board of the West Coast
Telephone Co. and as president of the Pacific Bancorpora
tion composed of 11 banks. He was state senator from
Coos and Curry from 1921 to 1933, was prominent in
community and lodge activities, until he left Marshfield
for Portland.
During the 1922 primary campaign, Governor Olcott
issued a courageous attack on racial and religious intoler
ance and the outrages perpetrated by the recently organ
ized Ku Klux Klan, which was having a mushroom growth
in Oregon. He was about the only state official that dared
to take a stand against the rule of fanatical terrorism
threatening the state. State, county and city governments,
including the police, were mostly dominated by the Klan,
especially in Portland and other cities. Politicians are usual
ly opportunists, and after votes.
The newspapers of the state were pretty well silenced
or sympathetic. Only five of the dailies vigorously fought
for preservation of constitutional liberty, including the
Capital Journal. All five faced systematic boycotts and
reprisals from the bigots. Only one of them was serious
ly affected, the Portland Telegram, the only daily in the
metropolis that rejected, amid torchlight parades and fiery
crosses, a hush-hush policy.
The following was the 1922 vote in the republican pri
mary for governor:
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Private Power Lobby
Sabotages Truman Promise
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The private power lobby pulled skillful wires in
the senate appropriations committee last week and created a neat
short circuit in one of Mr. Truman's famous campaign promises.
The effect was to switch public power over to the private
utility companies in the west.
What the committee did was that public power lines would
cut out appropriations for gov- rob Montana of power by trans-
ernment transmission facilities porting it to Idaho for an atomic
energy plant. Released to the
press by James Flaherty, presi
dent of the Montana Chamber of
Commerce, this was categorical
ly denied by Atomic Energy
Chairman David Lilienthal.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
S
and invite the
private power
compa n i e s to
build them in
stead. This
would stop pub
lic power from
being transmit
ted to the pub
lic except
through the pri
vate companies
at their own
higher rates.
The committee voted so secret-
Drew Pearson
Montana is a long way from
Iowa, but the Montana Power
company even influenced Rep.
Ben Jensen, Iowa republican.
Arising on the house floor, Jen
sen produced a map of Montana.
Congressman John Rooney,
lire tuiimiiucc .cu u-l,l J
ly behind closed doors that its '", ''
action was scarcely noted by the j J
SIPS FOR SUPPER
press. Yet the effect was to sa
botage the entire Truman public-power
program.
True Liberal
The man who really threw the
switch
I merely want to ask the
gentleman who prepared this
beautiful map?" sweetly inquir
ed Rooney.
"Who does the gentleman sup-
AFTER MAKINu A PLANE RESERVATION, IT'S
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IF YOU'RE AN AMERICAN
BUSINESSMAN, ODPS
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AN 0VERNI6HT BUSINESS
TRIP ONCE DURING
1948.
SOMEONE
INJURED IN A SOCCER
6AME? IT'S 17 TO 3
THE MISHAP OCCURRED
TO THE LEG.
(8 INJURIES PER
PLAYER PER SEA
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By DON UPJOHN
From a little town in Lincolnshire, England, comes a dispatch
that the vicar at the village church yesterday staged a special
service for the 10 pubkeepers of the town and their regular cus
tomers number-
in favor of the electric . rir.C- "
irrrnTn. nv Promptly replied Rooney.
ing about fifty F"?
He invited the
customers along
so it would not
interfere with
the bartending
and drinking for
the day. Each
nub was given
its own pew and
the vicar made
the rounds on
Saturday night
versing the practice established
by the Salvation Army many
years ago. The Army took re
ligion into the pubs and the vicar
was merely bringing the pubs
into the church.
Thomas, .Oklahoma democrat,
Thomas, who has not hesitat
ed to use his prestige as a U. S.
senator to influence the commod
ities market on which he was
speculating, rallied enough dem
ocratic votes to give the repub
licans the voting majority.
"Why, of course they did,"
blustered Jensen. "They are
fighting for their lives. I am
glad the gentleman asked."
Don TJpJotra
Twas Ever Thus
(50 Years Ago in Pendleton
East Oreeonian)
Editorial: "The women are
beginning to plan to go away
to have a few beers and explain for the summer to disport them-
the plan. "The pub and the selves in cool idleness, leaving
church are close together," he their husbands their lesser
said, "both being for refresh- halves, whose sorrows as well as
ment and good fellowship." He joys they are supposed to share,
plans to repeat the affair a year to bear the dust and heat as well
from now and oDen a barrel of as the burden of life, alone and
beer after the service. unaided."
So skillful did the lobbies op
erate that the senate appropria-
The two senators who fought usual en o nami th in
hardest to save public power dividual p 0 w e r companies
WTt CaL uyde" ?L Arlzona which they wanted to receive
and Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming, the lush bonan2a of government
democrats. They were joined on fmanced power,
most votes by Senator Dennis T , ..
Chavez of New Mexico, demo- Jto.JEL?E
j tvt!i named to carry power from the
aVdw uv g0f Anderson Ranch dam near
North Dakota, republican. Boise
Those who voted with Thomas pac'ific Gas and Electric com.
for the b i g power companies is to get the shasta dam
were Senators Pat McCarran of facimies, supplying the rich
Nevada and Kenneth McKeller California central valley.
01 x ennessee, democrats, ana
Chan Curney of South Dakota,
Clyde Reed of Kansas and Guy
Cordon of Oregon, republicans.
Democratic
Webster Holmes J, 995
Walter M. Pierce 15,144
Will E. Purdy 1,261
Harvey G. Starkweather 6,325
Republican
Louis E. Bean 3,870
Charles Hall 42,511
J. B. Lee 2,066
Ben W. Olcott 43,032
I. L. Patterson 13,019
Geo. A. White 10,156
After the election which was so close that the result
was in doubt until the official count, the .publisher of the
Capital Journal was arrested and stood trial for having
changed his registration from democrat to republican,
being sworn in at the polls by freeholders, which was
sanctioned by the then existing election laws. He was
promptly acquitted but the incident reflects the bitter
ness of the KKK rule or ruin campaign for dominance,
attempted boycotts and other reprisals having been tried
and found futile.
Marines Are No 'Luxury'
Salem's own Marine Corps reserve unit had a birthday
Sunday. C battery of the Fourth 105 m.m. howitzer bat
talion was formed locally two years ago. It was this unit
that was first in the Pacific Northwest to reach full
strength. And the same unit won the Northwest company
pistol league championship this year.
The pride and record of this particular unit of the Corps
Is typical of the United States Marines. That esprit de
corps, the compactness of the combat units, and the special
ized training and missions have won for the Leathernecks
a place in the nation's history.
What will be written in the future, however, is what
concerns the Corps these days.
There has been recent agitation in Washington, D. C,
to eliminate the Marines. A behind-the-scenes campaign
would disband the Corps as such. The Leathernecks' duties
would be taken over by the army. The Marine air wings
would be merged with the Air Forces.
This kind of opposition thinking considers the Marines
as a 'luxury" force.
Those would-be wreckers of the Corps have closed their
minds to a record of 174 years in spearheading attacks
and moving into tough spots. The Marines have always
been small in size so as to be ready at all times for jobs
that called for a readiness to die.
How could a nation forget what a debt it owes to the
men who wear the globe and anchor on their uniforms?
How can their services be considered a "luxury"?
Salem didn't forget its Marines Sunday. The Leather
necks' record is one that will stand up with that of any
military organization in the world. There is no reason for
ever forgetting the Marines. And there won't be so long
as the Corps is permitted to remain as a specialized unit
of Uncle Sam's armed forces.
An 'S' in Three RV
St Louis (U.R) Chairman 3. Harry Pohlman of the board
of education's finance committee was a little hasy about the
"three R's" of education at a committee meeting.
"Every child in our school system," he said, "should have a
thorough grounding In the three R's reading, writing and
spelling."
4 Grandchildren in 11 Days
Butte, Mont W) Four timet within 11 days Mr. and Mrs.
Don Cronln became grandparents.
The quartet of cousins were the main attraction for several
lays at the hospital nursery.
This is an ODen-mindedness
not often found among the cler
gy. But if it worked so suc
cessfully with the adult pub
minded folk, why couldn't some
similar plan be worked out to
stimulate interest in Sunday
school? We expect the kids
could be made to flock to a spe
cial Sunday school gathering
where free comics were dis
tributed, a few transcription of
radio crime thrillers put on, free
pop, candy and gum and a range
set up after the session for a
little target practice. As long
as the kids are going to have
a regular diet of these things
there's no reason why they
shouldn't be included in their
Sunday fare, as well. After all,
the English vicar was only re-
It seems the county has picked
up a neat piece of change from
the new parking regulations at
the courthouse block as result
of a law of the last legislature
allowing enforcement of the
rules by fine or imprisonment.
But the early examples will
probably bring about what Fire
Chief Roble has asked for
free lanes into the courthouse
building in case of fire or emer
gency. As soon as it is found
the county officials mean busi
ness night parking will be found
elsewhere.
The showdown fight will now
take place in the conference be
tween senate and house appro
priations members.
The house has already voted
The Public Service company
fo Colorado is to construct fa
clities for the big Thompson
project. -
The committee report stated
that private companies should
transmit power to government
projects free of charge. This
was not required by law, how
ever, in the past, the electric
against the power companies and companies have flatly refused.
fight for the public interest is
NOTE During President
TViimon1 rtnKnptnrminM itrVii(
tough Congressman Mike Kir- te.st tour th th'e west
wan of Ohio. Though he hasn't he repeatedly warned: "The
a. single tivwci piujcit 111 ills uis-
trict, Mike is always ready to
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon..
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Louis Goes 14 Years
On Borrowed Blood ;
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Little Louie, the kid who lives on borrowed
blood, has had a good year.
"I don't get as tired as I used to," he said, as he rested on a
hosDital bed aft- Wmmmmmmmmm
"tney tnrew adverbial phrases
at us, and I can't tell a depend
ent clause from an independent
clause very easy" -but that
doesn't worry him. He feels,
with some justification, that
grammar isn't everything in
sports announcing.
He used to have to stay in the
hospital several days, receiving
a pint of blood each day. Now
he only comes each Thursday,
gets a pint, and goes home.
"T know n lnfr nf npnnla Im-a
to fully replenish their own now.. said Louie who has be-blod-
. , , come a kind of mascot at the
There is no cure known. They hospital. "After all, I been corn
must live on the blood of others ingiere since I was just a kid."
or die. And usually they die v . . . ,, .u . .
Rnf in T.nnio'e wW "Yes, and you teU the doetori
ai .,j 4k... j. . now how to give transfusions,1
93 pound frame there is a great ., . , f,rf ,. '.
gusto for living, a stout heart
that won't give up.
He is in his 14th year now,
and there is a good chance he
may yet win his long and tedi
ous gamble for life.
er receiving his
500th transfu
sion. Louis was
given his first
transfusion a t
the age of seven
months when
doctors discov
ered he had
Cooley's a n e
mia. This rare
childhood dis
ease whose victims are unable
Ha) BoyU
power monopoly wants to own
rou up nis sleeves ana Dauie ior carry tne p0wer from govern-
public power.
The senate's sellout to the pri-
'If we can pull him through
until he's 20, he may improve
smuea ur. Margaret Rice, a
pediatrician. "And some Thurs
days you don't come when you
should."
Louis squirmed and looked
busy. He doesn't like to talk
about the times he plays hookey
from the transfusion needle.
The usual reason is he gets too
ment dams to the users. . . . The
monopoly wants the transmission
Multnomah county's sheriff is
familiarly known as Mike but
his first name really is Marion.
Wonder if he was named after
our favorite county?
vate power companies was the lines so that it can charge what
result of high-paid, high-pres- it likes for the power. The
sure lobbying. power companies want to take
The Montana Power company neir cut out of the investment
was an example. John Corette, made by the government for the
vice Dresident of Montana now- benefit of the people.
Tragic Twist of Fate
Davis, Calif. (U.R) Arthur Greenbaum of San Francisco
crawled out of his overturned automobile in a field near here
only to walk onto the highway, where he was killed by a car.
CAPITOL COP IN NEW CAREER
'Skeet' Hunt Went Home
To Die-But He Fooled Em
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Biloxi, Miss., July 18 (U.R) Five years ago, Washington kissed
Walter "Skeet" Hunt goodbye and sent him home to ol' Mississippi
to die.
They took him to a hospital, parasol with a bow to the irate
and the surgeons said "so long," lady.
er, personally visited every
member of the house and sen
ate appropriations committees.
While he was exerting h i s
charm in Washington, his com
pany back home was publishing
a propaganda book called "Pub-
lice Power Means High Taxes,
Truman blamed the G.O.P.
controlled 80th cogress for obey
ing "the orders of the power
monopoly" and refusing "to pro
vide the money for public trans
mission lines." Now the senate
appropriations committee, con
trolled by democrats, has gone a
step farther. They stipulate
too.
The late ReD. Marion Zion-
But none of them reckoned ehek, the madcap congressman
with "Skeet," a tough old cop wno lined to waae Dareiootea in
and a champion fighter of odds, ornamental pools around Wash-
He'd been on the rones before ington, was another headache.
financially and otherwise
and nobody was going to count
him out now.
"Skeet" was right.
Socialism and Less Money for tnat the - lines actu
irngation. aUy be built by the Mme ..power
The Montana Chamber of monopoly."
Commerce even spread the lie (copyright 1949)
Daredevil Stunt Is Costly
Cheboygan, Mich., m Haste wasted 1 53.35 and four auto
mobile tires for Edgar Malin
Malin, speeding to get across the Cheboygan river State
street bridge before it lifted, poked his car through a guard
rail, raced it up the raised part of the bridge and jumped
the four-foot opening.
As the car landed at the other side of the span, all four
tires blew out.
Then Malin was fined in justice court on a reckless driv
ing charge.
said Dr. Harvey Gollance, dep-..interested in a baseball game
uty medical superintendent at and forgets to go to the hospital. A
the King's County hospital. play first base and the out-
"There are cases of that kind field," said Louis and added
in the medical records." modestly, "of course, I do a
Louis is a quick-witted, cheer- little pitching, too."
ful, intelligent boy. Somehow He has never seen a major
he has learned the odds are league game, and one of his big-
against him, but he discounts gest ambitions is to watch his
the odds. He's sure he'll make hero, Joe DiMaggio, knock a
it- " home run. He prefers the New
And hundreds of New York- York Yankees over the Dodgers
ers who never saw him have treason in Brooklyn,
helped keep the small, dark- "I just like the way the Yan-
haired kid alive through blood kees play," he said. " I like
donations to the Brooklyn Red their style better. I saw them
Cross. on television once."
He talked about his future as
he lay there waiting for his The 500 pints of blood bor-
0me a"d me- rowed by Lou'e in his short life-
"When I grow up, I'm going time is equivalent to th. amount
to be a radio sports announcer," that flows , tn yei f
he confided shyly. "Every- aduUs Sometime he'd like to
body at school says I got a . . . ,
good speaking voice and I take be a donner himself,
part in all the plays." "I'd like to help someone the
Louie didn't do too well in same way people help me," he,
his English studies this year said.
But he was no match for
'Skeet," who once carried the
lawmaker, kicking in protest, to
dry land and personally laced
nn hie eVinna and 4nnlr him
Today he and Mrs. Hunt opcr- ,ome
atc a thriving sea-food estab- . . .
lishment here, by the Gulf v.nm ,ar.ii hill n th. ih
of Mexico And doing well with market here was , ,onR nop or
iruzen iisn.
"Skeet," white-thatched and
But, after a long inter
lude in the hospital, he made
it.
He had a lot of time to think,
missing a few important teeth, and he put his time and thoughts
still likes to reminisce about to good use. Before long he
Washington, and how he got came up with the idea of those
there. He was just recovering fancy packets of frozen fish. His
from one of his setbacks in 1932 specials are stuffed flounder,
when, he recalls. Sen. Pat Harri- which comes frozen and ready
son asked him how he'd like to for a quick warmover in the
take a fling at Washington. Hunt oven, and crab pie a combina-
said he wouldn't mind. tion of crab meat celery, onions,
He started out as a capital po- peppers, parsley, mustard, bread
liceman, became disbursing of- crumbs, cooking oil. hot sauce,
ficcr and a liaison man between flour, salt and shortening,
the White House and the senate. "Skeet." recalling the fortune
Finally, in 1936. he was made that slipped through his fingers
chief of the CaDitol cops, because he couldn't see World
"Skeet" promptly found himself War I coming, hopes he might
in the midst of trouble which be able to recouD by shipping
he dearly loves. his specialty all over the coun-
Mostly his job was to keep the try.
crackpots from rushing the floor Especially does he hope to
of congress. It posed problems recoup on what he missed when
which he usuallv met with head he failed to reconnize the ap-
work and Irish savvy, but, in proach of World War II.
land lies in Southern Korea.
That is south of the 38th parallel
that divides Korea into two sepa
rate countries.
extreme cases.
persuasion.
with forceful At that time he owned a par
cel of ground about 40 acres-
There was the time a lady on the outskirts of his native
tried to crash the house to op- Biloxi. He thought he was pull
pose conscription. lng a good one when he sold it
She wouldn't take "no" for for $7500.
an answer. When "Skeet" He realizes now that he
blocked her wav. she swung her should have held on a while,
parasol and brought it down That same strip of ground, now
crashing on "Skcet's" head. But part of the sprawling area
he stood his ground and, like the known as Keesler air force base,
gentleman he is, returned the later brought $300,000.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
400,000 Men Asked
For Little War in Korea '
By JAMES D.WHITE
(Sututltutlnt tor DeWItt MacKtnzlr. AP Foreltn News Analyst)
Since late May, a warm little war has been going on in a
remote corner of Korea.
Northern and Southern Koreans have been killing each other
!? !lf."5iin-P!ni2?Uia:. M southern Korea by July 1. A
n. i s(hr military advisory mission re
mains.
The little war on Obgjin is
merely the latest clash more
severe than usual in a lone
The upper, smaller part is series of border incidents,
north of the line. From this There have been no reports that
northern region north Korean the Koreans are any more work
militia moved across the bound- cd up about it than usual,
ary and tried to take over. it may have helped to speed
The southerners say they Up, however, consideration by
threw them back, but that the the American congress of a
northerners keep infiltrating measure which would give
back and have to be cleaned out. southern Korea about $150 mil-
lion in American aid.
This little war hasn't got very
hot yet. Meanwhile Dr. Syngman
The front is only about 25 Rhee, head of the southern gov-
miles long. Neither side has ernment, has asked United Na-
thrown its real army into the tions permission to quadruple
fight. his armed forces. That would
There is a United Nations make them number about 400,-
commission in southern Korea 000 men.
which has reported that it can't Friday his assembly in Seoul
do much more than observe voted two years compulsory
what is going on. military training for all Korean
It has tried recently to get men reaching 20 years of age.
into Soviet-dominated northern His government was set up
Korea. It wanted to verify the under United Nations auspices,
withdrawl of Soviet troops last It is recognized by the United
winter. The request was acidly States and several of its allies
rejected by the northern Kor- in the cold war as the legal gov-
cans. ernment for all Korea. This
American combat troops left government is anti-communist.
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