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Newspaper Page TextCapital A Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Sa'em Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper ond also news published therein SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 2Sc; Monthly, SI. 00; One Yeai, $12.00. By Mail In Oregon: MontMv, 75c; 6 Mos.. $4.00; One Year, S8.00. TJ. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1 00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. 1 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, July 21, 1949 Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan The official name of the country now known as Trans Jordan, an indipendent state in northwest Arabia, has been changed to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and is now being used in official documents and also by the United States state department in references to the country. As is usually the practice when questions of geographic style arise, the American press associations have decided to use the official name in short form, Hashemite Jordan, which has the approval of King Abdullah's government. But the name is not as euphonious nor as simple as Trans-Jordan or better yet, Jordan, but that is not the way the Arab mind works. Hashemite Jordan is bounded by Syria on the north, Palestine on the west, Saudi Arabia on the south and east, and by Iraq in the northeast. Its area is 34,740 square miles, about a third of that of Oregon, and its popu lation about 400,000, about the same as Portland. Its typography, climate and physical characteristics are typical of most of Arabia, fertile, near the Jordan and the eastern shores of the Dead Sea (Bahret Lake) but much of the rest sandy desert. While part of the British mandate over Palestine, the government was autonomous. The head of the state was the emir, assisted by a legislative council and a council of ministers. Emir Abdullah ibn-Hussein assumed the title of king in 1946 following recognition of the sovereign in dependent status of the country by the British govern ment. What Hashemite Jordan lacks in other respects is more than made up in its history. Edom, Gilead and Moab, country of the early Israelites lay within its border and the region was of importance during the era of the Greco Roman civilization. It was conquered by the Moslems in 637 and formed part of the Ottoman empire down to World War I. Communism Like Cancer House spy investigators have named two atomic scien tists as members of a war time "cell" at a west coast lab oratory and are on the track of others. The house un American activities committee puts the finger on Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz and David Bohm as members of a cell at the radiation laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. The accusations were made in an official document that reproduced, with a foreword, last month's hearings on Communist Steve Nelson, communist party organizer in the San Francisco bay area in the early 1940's and now operating in western Pennsylvania. Lomanitz until re cently was a professor at Fisk university at Nashville. Bohm is a physics professor at Princeton university. The committee said that the Soviet government first tried to use Nelson's acquaintance with "one of the lead ing physicists engaged in the development of the atomic bomb" for infiltrating the Berkeley laboratory. Under Nelson's guidance, the committee said, a cell of five or six young physicists was developed in the laboratory. "According to a sworn statement by a witness," the com mittee said, "Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz was the principal communist party organizer. The records of this commit tee also reflect that David Boh . . . was also a member of this cell." Both men on two occasions refused to answer questions about membership in the cell on grounds they might incriminate themselves, the committee noted. It has been well said that communism resembles nothing so much as a malignant parasitic disease, surprisingly sim ilar to cancer, to which political bodies are susceptible. The resemblance is further emphasized by the fact that the initial disturbing communist group is labelled a "cell," and it is a cell of the human body gone wrong that causes cancer. By infecting other cells and spreading total poison, it is as fatal to the affected individual as commun ism is to the entire social structure. Handbill Puts Over a Point West Salem is all keyed up for the vote next Tuesday. At that time, the city across the Willamette river will de cide whether or not it is in interests of the residents there to merge interests with Salem. The decision alone is up to people of West Salem. A handbill being distributed to the residents there brings out a fact which brings out forcefully the logic of the pro posed merger: West Salem is surrounded geographically by Salem. The annexation of Kingwood Heights last No vember resulted in this encircling. This fact alone explains so effectively the mutual inter ests of the two communities. In this particular situation, the combining of the efforts of the two cities for the good of both seems the logical thing to do now. And, as the names on the mentioned handbill indicate, nil six members of the West Salem council are of this opin ion, as is the mayor, Walter Musgrave. As the vote nears, this mutual awareness of the communities' interests be comes more pronounced. As the Capital Journal expressed itself earlier in the week, the common interests of the two cities can be ef fectively served only by a common government. Overcome 100,000-to-l Odds Troy, O. (UJ9 Twin May Song and Twin Jay Song, twin two-year-old pacers, have won their greatest victory against fantastic odds of 100,000-to-l. Dr. E. M. Kilpatrick, veterinarian, said the birth of twins occurs about once In every 10,0000 foalings of horses. The chances of both twins living and reaching a serviceable age, be said, are one In every 100,000. The twin pacers reached the point of serviceability when both appeared on the Troy fairgrounds track, hiiclied to racing bikes for the first time. Little Mister Curious' Escape Chicago U.R) Six-year-old Michael Kuzola found an odd looking object in a bunk pile near his home here. He shook and squeezed It. Then, his curiosity satisfied, be threw It back. A neighbor became suspicious of the object and called police. They confirmed his suspicions. It wan a live hand grenade of a Japanese type which explodes when shaken roughly. -" BY BECK Actions You Regret THE FOLKS IN THE NEXT CABIN ) SAID COL MAN WENT TO vacation Krt.mr.T: CAN YOU BEAT THAT.. V&FJiMi , A SWELL PLACE LIKE THIS fcMPTV ALL SUMMER THEV NEVER TOLD US THEY WERE GOINS... fear wtAmJimvnsi MB 'I,, W f!: V Ml Ir. Sl. fTh. I ALWAYS SAID THEY WERE SELFISH IN(JW Wt LL HAVE TO SPEND OUR VACATION IN A HOTEL OR . SOME RESORT f WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Lewis' Reason Reversing Self on Work Policy By DREW PEARSON Washington Some people, including John L. Lewis, seem to have forgotten his all-too-familiar refrain: "No contract, no work." For today, John L. and the miners are doing what they vowed could not be done in the past. They have no contract, yet they are working. There is a secret, but excel- ment during the war. They gave lent reason for this. all their know-how to us, and John L. is not above making were working with American BY GUILD Wizard of Odds a deal with the mine owners, and has made one now. It was no accident that he rprpntlv Hp. clared that the Lf coal industry needed a czar. In fact, such a czar has been agreed upon by Lewis and the northern oper ators. He is George Moses of the Frick company. re . A 1 1 Drew Pearson scientists when the first bomb was exploded. Since January 1948, however, we have not been exchanging military atomic secrets with the British only information about peacetime uses of atomic ener gy. The British now realize as do our scientists that peace time uses of atomic energy are 10 or 15 years off, and its main current importance is military. Consequently they want to develop the atomic bomb, and have notified us that they want their share of Belgian uranium when the Belgian agreement SIPS FOR SUPPER Gallani- Lads By DON UPJOHN The public's conception of a fireman's job is divided into two general categories, i.e., viz., (a) putting out fires; (b) rescuing distracted kitties from the tops of telephone poles. But this week the field for the And after his appointment is exDires shortlv. formally announced the mine Uranium is still one Qf the workers will get either a raise scarcest m e t a 1 s in the world. ?r Hl"CTuaS u 1 eliaTe The Russians have been search fund This has been agreed upon , rantically for it have Ger. in advance, and that is the rea- man slave jabor combing sou. son John L. is violating his old tnern Germanv. adage: "No contract, no work." , ... , ., NOTE The justice depart- wTheJB"t'sh- mcan,whlle' "e ment is Investigating another bJessed .wlth virtual monopoly angle of Lewis's cooperation f uranium first through Cana- with the mine owners the da secnd ,.roug,h ,t?eir fl"an- INCREASE IN POPULATION SINCE. ggj '"fj -.mP 6'hasbeen at50 rK-Esi TlMff ( THE RATE OF 15 SfW-'l TtI '. I ,lnl V PER GENERATION. J1Q 1 Jfil vjVx- I f PUNETRAINSORCAB VI U J'A'-- 53 THIS YEAR, IT WAS AN ."flU "Atp) UMBRELLA BY 3 TO I ' aaIt odds over anything else- BRIEF CASES WERE SKONfc 8 BALLON THE BREAK IN g POOL BY ODDS OF OVER 1,000 TO I, (tt) T II CLAIM EXPERTS, (aqukwh fROMmi -WAvVi2fy?S IVu poem of j.p.scmu. writ otsuO sumjbwp6-- Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon. THE BENES STORY local fire lad dies broadened into a more pleasant pros nective which didn't require the chemical or hose carts to get into d 1 a y bud did need the use of the hook and ladder. A fair lady with Mistaken Identity Albany VP) The disabled American veterans here have re named Oscar, rechristening their mascot duck Lulu Belle. The duck has been handed from member to member, each of whom had to care for the fowl until he had recruited a new DAV member. The rechristening resulted when one DAV was startled by an egg laid by "Os car." More eggs were laid so three-day week. For the mine owners to declare week would be a violation of the anti-trust laws, but since cial and political hold over Bel- three-day Bium. The British claim they've iiiouc wuaiuciauic jjiugicas ill making the A-bomb, though labor unions are immune from thfy ?tlU Probably lack the see the anti-trust laws, it is suspect ed that Lewis has put the three day week across for the oper WALL STREET'S BONER ret trigger mechanism. President Truman, in outlin ing the British position at the secret Blair house meeting last week, was sympathetic. He felt that national pride was involv- an apartment in the second story the name was changed. of a Court street building for- . got to take her key with her The county court has received and locked herself out. So she a special invitation from Justice appealed to the firemen and let of the Peace Ed Vickers of nobody say an appeal from a Breitenbush precinct to attend fair lady ever found a fireman 'he dedication ceremonies for the asleep at the switch. The de- North Santiam highway Sun- parlment turned over its hook day August 14. After telling all and ladder truck in one of the the plans, winding up with a quickest runs on record. A lad- mouth-watering request that der went up to the alley win- they attend a picnic lunch, he dow of the apartment house. waxes Pet'c and finishes with The lady thought it was meant 8 flourish by saying, ' Come for her and started to skip up where the trees and flowers mur- the ladder. But one of the fire mur sweet nothings into the boys decided this was too risky women's ears, and the fish jump so he scooted up the ladder in- out of the water and bite the stead, unlocked the apartment men" " the court members go, , ,,, . .... as no doubt they will, probably from the inside and the lady their wives wm wear ear plugs found herself safe at home again anj the men their levis in face at last. of the possibilities suggested. It was not Ben Fairless who. ed, that we must put ourselves really dictated U.S. Steel policy in Britain's shoes. Nevertheless, regarding the strike but Wall because of England's close jux street. . taposition to Europe, and easy The J. P. Morgan firm, which bombing range from Russia, he finances U.S. Steel, dictated and the others did not want every move from backstage, A-bombs manufactured In Eng with Endcrs Voorhees, chairman land. of the finance committee, acting as chief dictator. The solution may be more ex change of information, plus The J. P. Morgan boys even J0'"1 production in Canada. dictated the telegram which Ben Fairless sent the White House. NOTE Some critics Inside the Truman cabinet point out The wire was written in New that we armed Britain during York and phoned to Pittsburgh. All Fairless name. the war, financed her after the did was sign his war. and now face Britain's de sire to manufacture bombs and It was this remote Wall street same time conduct one- otucu udue Willi xiussia anu Ar gentina. In brief, we finance an ally over whose policies we have Benes Was Bewildered At Reception After Escape By Ok. BOHUS BENES (Visiting Profeisor it Willamette University) CHAPTER II When we left Ruzyne Airfield (at Prague) at eight-thirty on the misty morning of October 22, 1938, the airfield employes and especially the German military authorities at the frontier were certain the old Douglas plane was a so-called "Jewish plane" the Germans allowed to fly daily over Germany to Rotterdam. I will never forget our arri- val in England; it was something like arriving at a cemetery. berlain's Eng- lT land had been if very mucn re-& sponsible for the Munich be-p irayai. The English were shame faced and si lent, and they welcomed our plane at Croy don airport with much restraint, r. Bohui Benee He was an optimist. He did return, but never published his Munich story. I was glad he told me chapter by chapter about the almost Shakespearian drama of Mu nich. Although very discreet, he was unable to keep from dis cussing at least with me the opinions of Lloyd George, Ne ville Chamberlain, Sir John Si mon, and of others expressed in the House of Commons. Scrupu lously he documented for me all the sorrowful misunderstand ings and historical errors of our control that caused U.S. Steel to make one of the most stupid blunders in the entire negotia tion. The Wall streeters did not n0 influence. realize that the union wanted no strike, that Phil Murray CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES might have difficulty obtaining a favorable strike vote. That is, no one welcomed us. fnrrr,pr aih th Ft-onh Our good friend, Jan Masaryk, It was astonishing that Ed. was in London, but had not been ward Benes never became bit notified of our coming, and we ter His objectivity sometimes leu me airpon 111-ai-ease anu made me angry alone for a gloomy automobile cfni u...:u.nj v.. 4i el . . T3,T,,U lsn and French political blunder Firing Across Atlantic - Dr. Karl Compton, chairman of the But when TT s stool cont ito research and development board, r, w , ,, first abrupt telegram to Truman P7e a secret briefing to brass vamne yer anows rvescuers now turning down a fact-finding "T ' v, ,".'c"pur'- house in Putney. . In a week .Edward Benes started to work for the sec ond liberation of his people. Soon after the news of Ed- Colville, Wash. (U.R) Sandra, a former Coast Guard rescue dog In the war, is the toast of (he town. The six-year-old German shepherd found ' two-year-old Daryl Wembley in less than an hour after a 100-man search party had failed to find a trace of him during a six-hour search. The youngster was sitting on a log, crying and wearing only an undershirt and one shoe when the rescue party arrived. He was scratched and frightened but not seriously hurt. Sandra owned by a Spokane kennel operator, T. D. Burger, picked up Daryl's trail after having been given the scent from a piece of the clothing. Burger said it was the first rescue work Sandra had done since her war duly. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Salute to Jackie Robinson For Inspiring Declaration By DeWITT MacKENZIE uP Poreun Altalr. 4nnir.it A salute to Jackie Robinson, former noted college athlete and now the Brooklyn Dodgers' star second baseman, for his inspiring declaration of faith in our country before the un-Ameri can activ 1 1 1 e s board and demanding action un der the Taft-Hartley act, it swung the steelworkers over whelmingly in favor of a strike. Later, U.S. Steel had to reverse its position. BRITISH AND A-BOMB Real fact about the British ed the first guided missile, ca pable of shooting across the At lantic, will be completed in four or five years. Compton warned that our worst bottleneck is a shortage of physicists needed to work on the atomic bomb, chemical war fare, and ordnance research. The U.S. won't be able to train iTlu "esouaiions ' enough physicists until 1958, he Britain has never had any A- sai(j bombs stored on her territory. Compton bluntly told the Two VPars atrn it wn nlannoH . .... . . . i kk r Drass that ne is working to in crease the nation s fire power so to send six bombs to Scotland without the trigger mechanisms of allowing themselves to be in timidated by Adolph Hitler, he talked of the incredible ignor ance of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on international political questions. He shook his ward Benes' landing in Croydon head over the not less incredible reached the capitals of Europe, moral debacle of Daladier and the extraordinary and varied Bonnet, his former friends and reaction of the governments and Allies. And he repeated several the people came back to us. times, each- time more mindful The impact on, Uncle Edward 0f the future, what he had told was one of bewildered surprise. me already in his villa in Sezi- Czech workers sent fresh m0vo Systi, while still ill in bed: flowers by air mail to Madame "if ever Central Europe is Hana Benes. Joseph Goebbels Bolshevized, not Joseph Stalin, Tadio and press raged at Ed- but Neville Chamberlain and ward Benes, calling him a cow- Messieurs Daladier and Bonnet ard and worse names. will be responsible for such a crime " "fLrd f? Jh6 be necessary. that "hordes of soldiers" won't bbmb and without which it can not explode. Censoring Michigan Scandals In the secrecy of the senate c o m m i ttee of the house of. representatives. That declara- s tion constitutes a moving human document a notable chapter in the history of our t r o u b 1 ed times. It was a diffi cult task for this DeWItt Mafkmsle .3 1 1 I the way to solution. He didn't evade this delicate issue in his testimony. For in stance: ' "I don't pretend to be an ex pert on communism or any other kind of a political ism . . . But you can put me down as an expert on being a colored Ameri can, with thirty years' of experi ence at it. "And just like any other color ed person with sense enough to TT .. . .. Ot-lCV Ul LUC i it h""""-"""" elections committee, Senator plans to ship the bombs brought Knowland of California has , t oTu J P" 8ne t bat for his friend, Sena- ment was called off tor Ferguson of Micnigani by Meanwhile, we have rece.v- watel.irlg down the serfate' re- 5 fV"en uramum Port on vote frauds in Michigan. SStain tt a ?nS WU? Senator Kncwland doesn't want N.nrnf mB nly v, 1VeL anything said about illegal cam- t hy.?l S v. Po'Sn contributions from Michi- , " J hermore the British gan auto dealers or about Fer. when we started joint develop- guson's relations with Chrysler. (Copyright 1949) young Negro to take the stand look around and understand and voice an opinion regarding what he sees. I know that life in Paul Robeson's statement in these United States can be Paris that American Negroes mighty tough for people who are wouldn't fight against Russia a little different from the ma because they love that country jority in their skin, color or so much. the way that they worship their Robinson had been urged by God, or the way they spell their many people, mostly commu- names." nists, not to comply with the ... committee's request that he np- That s(acd (hfl jssue piainly pear before it. ... enough, but Robinson went on Why then did he dot it? to relate how he had been used In his straight-forward way as ..,he lnboratory specimen" in he told the congressmen it wasn t introducing Negro plavers into easy to una uie aiuwci, uui no organized baseball. Since then POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Men's Vanity Gave Yankee Idea That Clicked By HAL BOYLE New York W There is one sure and simple formula for mak ing a profit in America. It is to ask a large number of people what they want and then mass pro guessed "it boils down sense of responsibility.' to Lata.. IL some six other colored players have been signed up "a start has been made, and nrncfrpq. Jackie said that if Robeson goes on And then: made the statement attributed to him, it sounded "very silly." Thn uitnne ripplnrpH that "most Negroes and Italians In other American fields besides and Irish and Jews and Swedes baseball if we can get rid of and Slavs and other Americans s'"; of the misunderstandings would act as all these groups nd confusion that the public did in the last war. They'd do still suffers from . . . their best to help their country "I can't speak for any 15.000,- stay out of the war; if unsuc- 000 people any more than any cessful, they'd do their best to other person can, but I know help their country win the war that I've got too much invested against Russia or any other for my wife and child and my- enemy that threatened us." self in the future of this country, But this declaration of loyalty and I and other Americans of was by no means all to be got many races and faiths have too out of Jackie's testimony. Under much Invested in our country's it all appeared to be an under- welfare, for any of us to throw current of faith that America's it away because of a siren song internal racial problems were on sung In bass." r duce it and sell it to them at a price they can afford. I would be very rich my self by follow ing this easy! formula except I for one thing. Every time I ask people what! they would most like to have they all say: 'Money!" And I'll be darned if I can increasing shoes," said Stone, think ud a wav to manufacture "We'd rather mention George "We're going to make progress money cheaper than the govern- aft' Frank S1nJ1ra,TJB,n,s ST0S' They say that Alexander the Great, who whipped the world and died trying to surround a wine jug, padded his sandals. They also say that Napoleon, a small fry with big fry ideas, fixed his boots so that there was considerable leather between his feet and the necks he some times walked on. And sh-h-h-h! Hitler hiked up his heels, too. "But, of course, we don't like to mention Hitler wore height- ment, ... But up in Brockton. Mass., there is a plain-spoken, 53-year-old Yankee who was cagey by, Al Jolson, Billy Rose, Hum phrey Bogart, Rudy Vallee and Dick Powell." Stone says he has put his "elevators" on these gentlemen. Much later we learned from Munich and Berlin (through C o 1 o n el Frantisek Moravec's Czechoslovakia military intelli gence) that soon after his res ignation the Gestapo had been preparing to arrest Edward Benes. From Holland several thou sand teachers and professors sent Dr. Benes a huge box con taining their individually signed visiting cards and a beautifully written expression of admira tion. From all over the world hundreds of telegrams and letters reached our house in Put ney in a single day, congrat ulating Edward Benes on his escape. Still remembering his stand in the European crisis, many thanked him for saving peace. Our house was virtually be seiged by journalists and pho tographers who wanted a pic tre and Hanna and Edward Benes and news about the ex-President's plans for the future. But the taking of pictures was post poned for a few days. And Edward Benes' "Story of Munich," which every news paper wished to get from him, was flatly refused by the ex President, the most discreet statesman and diplomat I have ever met. Declining a very high offer from one British and one Amer ican publisher for a book about the Munich crisis, Uncle Edward told me: "Munich does not mean the end for me. It was a beginning. Our people will have to be lib erated again. Therefore, I am not going to publish any sensa tional story about Munich. At least, not before we return home again . . ." Then he explained thoroughly how foolish he thought the policy of the Western democracies was a policy which allowed only the Soviet Union to offer help to the Czechoslovak people, threatened by Nazi imperialism. "How they will regret their foolishness," Edward Benes said, unable to understand the lack of psychological and political in sight of the members of the French and British govern ments, who virtually pushed the Czechoslovak people Into the arms of the protagonists of Bolshevism. When his health Improved, and we would walk after dark in the streets of Putney, I learn ed astonishing details of the Czechoslovak tragedy of that year. "Yes, there is some truth in the suggestion that I was be trayed by my own people," Dr. Benes once fold me, with visible effort. "It was when the negotia tions were completely concen trated in my hands, and I had to face the threats of the French and British Minlsteri that Czechoslovakia would be left alone against Germany. "Was I to allow the situation to degenerate into a war?" "I was stunned when I learn ed that behind my back Mr. Mi lan Hodza, our Prime Minister, had secretely negotiated with the French Minister of Foreign Af fairs, George Bonnet. Hodza had urged the French govern ment to threaten us and thus facilitate our capitulation. When I was told about it, I felt be trayed." (CONTINUED TOMORROW) enough ten years ago to ask and some 1,000.000 others in the this innocent question: last decade. He did it by per- "Would you like to be Waller?" fecting a shoe which looks like And one out of eight men said "yes." So Ben Stone did something for the "little man." He put a normal footgear but has a thick cork heel that makes a midget feel like calling Primo Camera "Sonny." height - increasing shoe on the was pleasantly surprised to find market. Now he helps grown- they had more than HoUywood up people grow up more about and Broadway appeal, two inches more. "It is purely a matter of vani- It really wasn't a new idea, ty but to them it is important." He Had No Snake-Appeal Lewistown. Mont. (Pi Montana Rancher Martin Norman said he had the shakes after this experience with : rattlesnake: Norman and Ted Langford were out trailing cattle in the Missouri brakes near here. They stopped for a rest and stretched out in the grass to cool off. A noise attracted their attention and when they looked up, there was a rattlesnake between them. Norman rolled out of the snake's range, but Langford froze and lay still. The rattler slithered up to Langford, looked him over and turned and went away.