2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 2, 1949
Potato Farmers Protest
At Being Whipping Boys
Washington, Aug. 2 Of) A spokesman for potato farmers told
congressmen from potato producing states today that the growers
are "tired of being whipping
program."
W. M. Case of Grand Forks,
White House Not
To Be Replaced
Washington, Aug. HIP) The
White House is going to be ren
ovated instead of replaced.
Senator McKellar (D., Tenn.)
chairman of an official commis
sion on the project, made the an
nouncement following a session
in the White House today.
Congress has appropriated $5
400,000 to do the work.
In one report to congress, Pres
ident Truman conceded that it
might be cheaper to rebuild than
to try to repair the ancient struc
ture on Pennsylvania avenue.
However, he said that the Amcr
ican people would like to pre
serve the present building in
sofar as possible for sentimental
and historic reasons.
The commission decided to re
tain the mansion in its present
form rather than build an en
tirely new structure as had been
advocated by some congressmen
and others. '
The commission, which Mc
Kellar heads as chairman of the
senate appropriations committee,
is the final authority in the con
troversy. The reconstruction will in
volve the residential part of th
White House. The Truman fam
ily is now living in the Blair
house, across Pennsylvania ave
nue from the old slate depart
ment building.
The executive offices in the
west wing have not been dis
turbed.
It has been estimated that the
remodeling work will require 18
months or more.
The presidential part of the
present structure has been de
clare unsafe by building engi
neers. Woods Witness
5 Percent Probe
Washington, Aug. 2 Ml
Housing Expediter Tighe Woods
said today he told senate "five
percenter" investigators that his
agency's postwar building regu
lation was a "farce."
Woods spent 90 minutes with
the staff of the senate's special
Investigating subcommittee and
afterwards told newsmen that
the names of both James V.
Hunt and John Maragon figur
ed in the closed door session.
Hunt, a former army officer
who now is a "management
counselor" here, Is a key figure
in the senate inquiry.
Maragon, fabulous former
Kansas City bootblack who now
calls many top government of
ficials by their first names, ap
peared before the staff of the
special Investigating subcommit
tee three consecutive days last
week.
Woods said over the week
end that committee investigators
had found Hunt mentioned in
the housing agency's files In
connection with postwar con
siruciion work at two race
tracks Tanforan at San Bruno,
Lant., and Jfoxborough, neat-
Boston.
Woods said then that in (he
Tanforan case, Hunt asked the
housing agency to give favorable
consideration to a 1947 applica
tion for a go-ahead on construe
tion work at the track.
He also said that Hunt "sought
our opinion" as to whether the
Foxborough track could qualify
for a green light on construction
work. Hunt was advised, Woods
said, that the track was eligible.
The housing expediter said he
understands that Hunt was paid
a $15,000 fee by his client in
the Foxborough case. He could
not name the client.
Rent Controls Off
Oregon Motor Courts
Portland, Aug. 2 W) Port
land Area Rent Director E
Daryl Mabee said today that
controls have been off motor
courts in Oregon tor some lime
His comment was made on an
announcement by Sen. Cain (R.
Wash.) that rent control on mo
tor courts and trailer parks in
Washington and Oregon will be
removed by the end of the
week.
Mabee said, however, he has
received no announcement from
the nation's capital on decon
trol of trailer space.
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"NIGHT WIND"
boys for the farm price support
N. D., executive secretary of the
Red River Valley Growers i
sociation and member of the
national potato council's legisla
tive committee, told the potato
bloc:
"We are tired of being held
up to public scorn as the recip
ients of so many millions of dol
lars without any credit at all for
the growers' own efforts over a
period of three years to reduce
costs.
"The record clearly shows that
potato growers, on the whole,
have done almost exactly what
the government has requested
of them under programs that
have been in effect."
Today's Capitol Hill meeting
was called by Senator Brew
ster (R-Me.), chairman of the
informal congressional group
from potato states. It was called
to discuss a threat mandatory
price supports might be with
drawn from potatoes, the only
perishable crop In the price sup
port program.
Last Friday Chairman Pace
(D., Ga.) of a house agriculture
subcommittee called a hearing
on his bill to institute produc
tion and marketing restrictions
on potatoes and to prescribe
penalties for violators of such
controls.
Grower representatives op
posed the measure, saying they
had not had time to study it.
They urged that potatoes be
left alone for the present sup
ported at 60 per cent of parity
and with acreage goals set by
the secretary of agriculture.
Parity is a figure calculated to
give a farmer a fair return in
relation to things he buys.
Pace said that the current
program benefits non-coopera-
tors more than cooperators and
is costing the government "un
justified" amounts. He said the
agriculture department esti
mates the potato support pro
gram will cost between $50 and
$100 million this year.
This, he said, could endanger
the whole price support struc
ture.
Case said the present "very
low level of 60 per cent of par
ity" amounts to the equivalent
of insurance" on the cost of pro
duction. He said the record will show
that under the present support
price support and goals, acreages
have been cut voluntarily to 41
per cent less than in 1943 and
are the lowest in 70 years.
Alabama Klan
Leader Jailed
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 2 (IP)
Alabama's top Ku Klux Klan
leader was ordered back to jail
today for refusal to produce rec
ords of the whilerrobed order.
William Hugh Morris, direc
tor of the Federated Klan, was
returned under a contempt ot
court citation arising from his
refusal to give the records to a
grand jury.
Under the decision, Morris
can be held indefinitely. He
can clear himself of the cita
tion only by turning the Klan's
records over to the Jury.
The jury resumes its Invest!
gation of mob violence after i
week-end recess. Eighteen men
already have been indicted on
flogging and related charges.
Morris has been out on $500
conditional bond after previous
ly spending 16 days in jnll.
Circuit Judge George Lewi
ruled that the Klan chieftain
failed to clear himself of the
contempt charge.
The decision followed a three
day hearing during which Mor
ris testified he was now willing'
to produce the records but can
not because they were stolen
from his home.
Morris, a Birmingham roof
Ing contractor, was in jail at the
time of the alleged burglary at
ms home.
Solicitor Emmett Perrv ask
ed Morris the Klan's numerical
strength in Jefferson (Birming
ham) county. Morris replied
between 6,500 and 7,000.
When asked If he could recall
the full names of any individual
members other than the offi
cers, Morris replied;
"I can't recall the names."
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geles county grand jury, accept copies of their indictments as
they surrendered at Los Angeles. Left to 'right: Sgt. C. V.
Jackson, Lieut. Rudy Wellpot, Bail Bondsman August Nardoni
and Court Clerk L. D. Hahn. Jackson and Wellpot are former
members of the police vice detail. (AP Wirephoto)
Russian Protest
Rejected by U. S.
Washington, Aug. 2 UP) ,The
United States today emphatic
ally rejected a Russian protest
against Italy's membership in
the North Atlantic defense pact.
Secretary Acheson termed the
charges "utterly without foun
dation" in a note delivered to
the Russian embassy shortly be
fore noon.
"The text of the treaty itself
the best answer to such mis
representations and allegations,"
the American reply said.
The Soviet government had
charged that Italy violated its
peace treaty by joining in the
12-nation defense treaty last
April.
Acheson had denounced the
Russian charges at his news con
ference last Wednesday, fore
shadowing today's formal re
jection of Russia's latest ac
cusations.
In his written reply, Acheson
noted that the views expressed
in the Russian note of March 31
are identical in their misrepre
sentation" of the nature and in
tent of the Atlantic treaty with
those published by the Soviet
foreign office last January be
fore the text had been decided.
'It would thus appear that
the views of the Soviet govern
ment on this subject do not ar
ise from an examination of the
character and text of the At
lantic pact but from other con
siderations," Acheson wrote.
Bomb Explodes,
Cohen's Home
Los Angeles, Aug 2 P) A
crude, home-made bomb explod
ed near the home of gambler
Mickey Cohen today, arousing
him and other householders in
an exclusive Brentwood neigh
borhood but doing little damage.
Police said they were unable
to determine whether the ex
plosion, across the street from
Cohen's house, was the work of
pranksters or was an attempt to
get the gambler.
Cohen is still suffering from a
shoulder wound Incurred when
he and his party was ambushed
at a Sunset strip night spot July
20. In that shooting Edward
(Neddie) Herbert, Cohen's 35-
year-old lieutenant, was injured
latally.
Officers L. L. Lance and John
llasko reported the bomb ex
ploded in a driveway of the
home of Mrs. Maria Wilkes,
about 50 feet from the bedroom
where Cohen was sleeping.
Cohen, shaken and white, told
officers: "I was sleeping soundly
when I heard something. I
thought it was a dream a night
mare, sort of I can t under
stand what it could mean."
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New York, Aug 2 W) Joe Di
Maggio, center field for the
New York Yankees, has turned
over to officials of the club the
problem of a lady fan who he
thinks is bedeviling him by writ
ing to columnists" about a show
girl Junior Standish.
Arthur E. (Red) Patterson
public relations director for the
club, said the fan writes con
stantly to DiMaggio and that of
late she has written to column
ists, signing the letters either as
Miss Standish or as a friend of
Miss Standish, telling of the
purported romance.
Both DiMaggio and Miss Stan
dish have denied their acquain
tance has blossomed into
romance.
Patterson said that DiMaggio
gets hundreds of letters daily
and that the fan, who DIMag
gio never has met nor seen, is
one of the most persistent.
"Apparently she gets a vicari
ous thrill out of seeing Joes
name linked in the columns with
Miss Standish, Patterson added.
Dorothy Arnold, movie star
let, divorced DiMaggio in 1944
after five years of marriage.
They had one son, Joe, Jr., who
now is 7 years old.
Pickers Are Handy
For Bean Harvest-
Lebanon Sufficient pickers
to harvest the bean crop are in
local yards, according to a re
port given through the Lebanon
office of the state employment
service, unless a prolonged heat
spell causes a sudden maturing
of beans, which will then re
quire additional pickers.
Mills and logging operations
in the locality are likewise op
erating fairly steady. In the
event of higher temperatures
and low humidity, work In the
woods will be forced to shut
down. There is believed to be
an ample supply of cold decks
on hand to meet this emergency,
It was reported by the service.
To ease Its unemployment
Eire is trying to reopen aban
doned industrial plants.
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Portland's Columbia airport
will be the scene next Sunday
afternoon of the third annual
Northwest Air Maneuvers, with
the famous "Acrojects" from
Williams field, Arizona, taking
top billing.
In addition to the performance
by the "Acrojets" the Air Force
will have many planes in the
sky. Besides the air force ma
neuvers the plans for the show
include a flight' of National
Guard and Air Reserve aircraft
an all-girl air race; and a dis
play of Air Force and civilian
planes.
Funds realized from the air
show will be used to carry on
Civilian Air Patrol cadet train
ing for the year, at the 15 Ore
gon Wing air units of which
Salem is one.
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2 UP) Rude Pravo, the Czecho
slovak communist organ, today
accused the Vatican and the
Roman Catholic hierarchy of
trying to provoke civil war in
Czechoslovakia over the state
church strife.
The newspaper sought to im
plicate Francis Cardinal Spell
man of New York and what it
called the "American organiza
tion" in the alleged plot.
The charges were made in a
long article by Andre Simone,
the paper's foreign commenta
tor. It was entitled "The Vatican
Fifth Column."
The attack appeared after a
week's lull in press assaults on
the church.
Simone claimed the Vatican
was working in cooperation
with the "American organiza
tion" whose task, he said, is to
organize espionage and diver
sions in those countries which
have deserted the capitalist sys
tem. "To ttiis organization belongs
Cardinal Spellman, who is' the
Pope's Schacht, because he rais
es 80 per cent of the Vatican
income and is potentially the
mightiest man of World Catholi
cism next to the Pope," the ar
ticle declared.
Allen Dulles, brother of Sen.
John Foster Dulles (R-N.Y.),
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was named as director of the al
leged organization.
(In New York, Dulles said he
knew nothing about the report.
He pointed out he is chairman
of the executive' committee of
the national committee for free
Europe. The purpose of that or
ganization, he said, is to fur
ther the cause of liberty and
peace and to support in this
country political leaders who
have been driven out of their
own homes by communism.)
Silverron Community
Canning Plant Closed
Silverton The Silverton
community canning plant is not
to be opened to the public this
season it was announced today
by members of the executive
board of management of which
Mrs. Carl Specht is chairman.
Home canners are planning to
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Kanning Kitchen, South 13th
and Wilbur streets this year.
Previously many Salem home
gardeners patronized the Silver
ton plant.
Trinidad and Tabago have
drawn up plans to provide the
colony with 27,000,000 gallons
of water a day. '
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