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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
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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.