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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 2, 1949
Norblad's Question to Congress
Walter Norblad, congressman from this district, raised
a few eyebrovs in Washington, D.C., last week.
He said congress had been illegally convened since July
1. He based this contention on Article 1, section 5 of
the U.S. constitution which states, in part:
"Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall without,
the consent of the other adjourn for more than three days, nor
to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be
itting."
Norblad's opinion is that during remodeling of the capi
tol both houses moved to a place other than that in which
they were sitting and no consent "of the other" was obtain
ed to make that move. The entire question, obviously, is a
legal one, And because it is a legal one, there are all kinds
of opinions.
For this bit of careful watching and raising of an inter
esting point, Norblad has "received some chiding from his
own district. Particularly from his own district is this
chiding unfair.
Those are the persons who can think back to the wran
gling that went on over possible changing of the location
of the capital here in Salem following the capitol fire in
1935. In the Oregon constitution, Article XIV defines the
"seat of government." The attorney genera, interpreted
the seat of government to be in the city of Saicm, not gen
erally the county of Marion, when it was suggested a new
capitol group site be located on Candalaria Heights.
Because Norblad brings up a question as to the meaning
of the wording of the constitution, why should he be criti
cized? , After all, he could recall the difficulties Oregon
had in interpreting the meaning of the wording regarding
the "seat of government" here.
Perhaps the federal constitution wording in question
was meant to cover a move from one city to another. The
courts would have to decide the interpretation.
Meanwhile, Norblad has raised a question, which, if it
has real basis, would raise havoc with the normal functions
of government, as he said. Some one might later try to
tie up in- the courts some legislation passed since July 1
on the point Norblad raises. It certainly seems worthy of
an opinion from the United States attorney general's
office. ' '
Military Strength Compared
United States chiefs of staff are conferring with army
officers in western Europe to find out manpower available
for use in carrying out plans for defense by partners in the
Atlantic pact. On paper, at least, they have more than
2,000,000 men in all their armed force and hope that the
United States will supply some of the arms and equipment
needed. Most of it can probably be supplied from surplus
carried over from World War II.
If the full mobilization of manpower of the Atlantic pact
nations, including the United States and Britain, their
armed strength would total nearly 600,000 more than that
of the present Soviet bloc. Their figures, not counting re
serves, compare about like this according to estimates:
Atlantic pact countries, 5,758,000; Russia and satellite
countries, 5,171,000.
In naval power, the Atlantic pact countries are far
ahead. In air power, the balance might be close in num
bers of planes but the western powers probably have farther-flying
and harder-hitting bombers. (The A-bomb
figures in here, too).
These comparisons are all based on official and unoffi
cial estimates; some of the estimates in the cases of the
Soviet countries are admittedly little more than a guess.
In industrial strength, the Atlantic pact countries are
far ahead, too. They top the Soviet-dominated countries
four to one in 1950 steel production goals, over three to
one in pig iron, two to one in coal. In 1946 the last year
for which oil comparisons are possible the west's lead was
10 to one.
Communist Inspired Strikes
It has been repeatedly charged in congress that the
simultaneous prolonged dock strikes in Hawaii, Britain
and Australia were instigated by communists and part of
Moscow's cold war strategy to demonstrate how powerless
the democracies would be in case of a war with Russia with
their shipping ticd-up by communist controlled unions.
. These congressional charges have been voiced, not only
in the American congress, but by top British and Austra
lian officials. Pitched battles have taken place in all three
countries with the strikers. The British army has had to
be utilized to break the wild-cat strike in London, fighting
is still in progress at Sydney, while Hawaii has had its life
stream cut-off for three months, under the leadership of
Harry Bridges, whose communist proclivities are too well
established to need comment.
The territorial legislature has agreed on legislation to
put the government in the stevedoring business on the
open shop plan, the government already owning the docks.
Bridges threatens to declare vessels so loaded as "hot car
goes" which American longshoremen would refuse to han
dle in American ports. But his union does not have juris
diction in the east or south.
As all unions are sacred cows with the American admin
istration, whether communist controlled or not, Hawaiian
appeals for assistance fall on deaf ears, although the
Hawaiian employers have agreed to accept the recommen
dation of the territorial fact-finding board for a 14 cents
an hour wage increase, the union rejected it and demands
arbitration as an entering wedge to secure wage scales
patterns in sugar, pineapple and other industries on the
mainland scale, despite lower cost of living.
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NOW WE'D KEPT OUR "SfciV,:
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WE COULD BE COMFORTABLE,
IN SOME OLD PAJAMAS
WITHOUT WORRYING
ABOUT PEOPLE
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Mundt Proposes Bureau
To Avoid Inside Lobbying
' By DREW PEARSON
Washington Those who have long watched the Washington
run-around feel that. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt has
come up with the best proposal yet to avoid inside lobbying and
help the little business man.
Mundt, who knows his Washington well, proposed to establish
information bu-
BYGWLD
Wizard of Odds
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Consider the Frog
frogs the process should at least
be tempered with a little mercy.
By DON UPJOHN
There seem to be some delicate questions of the humanities
mixed up in a story coming out of Florence that a man was
arrested there on a -charge of killing bullfrogs via of shooting
them. Accord
ing to our laws,
which are pre-
sumed to be de-t:
signed along
humane lines, if
he'd caught the
bull frogs on
hook and line
he'd have been
perfectly within
his legal rights
and the cops
couldn't touch
a government
reau to give businessmen all
data regarding government con
tracts.
I f properly
organized, this
could be a great
boon to all busi
ness. The average-
firm cannot
afford to em
ploy' a special
representat i v e
to sit in Wash
ington, there
fore loses out to
big firms that
do.
General Motors long has op
erated one of the most efficient
offices in Washington, enter
tains army-navy officers, knows
pretty much what the govern
ment is buying. Studebaker,
Douglas Aircraft, Pan American social security extension bill
Airways, TWA, and many other this session. The house will pass
big firms have done the same, legislation calling for extension
Furthermore, they deduct their of social - security benefits to
costs from income taxes, so about 10,000,000 additional em
Uncle Sam foots much of the ployees, plus increased old-age
Drew Pemrion
ODDS ARE.
YOU'RE EATIN6 TWICE
AS MUCH ICE CREAM
AS YOU DID IN 1939.
dignified Clyde Hoey. He
wouldn't have a chance.
Sen. Bert Miller, Idaho dem
ocrat, has hired a republican to
run his office his brother, John
Miller. John has been on Capi
to Hill for several years, has
worked for three republican
congressmen, is an efficient ad
ministrator. Senators have a secret agree
ment with the official reporters
to cut down on dull, windy
speeches. A copy of the speech
is sent to the reporters in ad
vance, then the senator quietly
skips inside pages in reading
the speech. But the reporters,
who have the full text, duti
fully record the whole thing.
Congressional leaders have in
formed the President there is no fQQj MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
hope for the enactment of the
BASEBALL IS THE FIFTH MOST POPULAR
OFF-HOURS SPORT- B0WLIN6 IS FIRST.
(FOR YOU, GRE60W WOLF, TOLCPO.)
no vm i "
HAVE 15,000? you
WOULD HAVE-IF ALL
THE 60LD IN THE OCEANS
WERE DIVIDED EQUALLY'
Tough Break for Europe
New York VP) None of those
scanty French bathing outfits
will ever reveal the charms of
Miss America of 1948. "They
are not decent and I don't think
American girls should wear
them," says the 18-year-old
beauty queen, Bebe Shopp of
Hopkins, Minn. She gave her
veto when questioned by pho-
bill.
That's why the average busi
ness firm is left out in the cold,
partly why only six American
firms got 60 per cent of the
government's war contracts.
Senator Mundt, realizing this,
has proposed an information bu
reau which could usher in a new
era for little business.
HOW McGRATH STARTED
Small incidents in the lives
him. But because he insisted on tographers yesterday as she left
shooting them he violated the by. plane for a trip to Europe.
, . . . . ,, Paris and French shore resorts
law. Never having been a bull- ar among her por(s of but
frog, of course we can't testify i she makes anv bathing suit
with authority, but it would be appearances it will be U.S. style,
our informal opinion that if a We unders15Trom the boys
bullfrog had to choose his own who navc been 00king over the
manner of obliteration he'd pre- place lately that George Alex-
fcr to be shot off a lily pad ander, out at his community
rather than to be jerked from house, has a special department
one on the end of a line with with some extra workers who
a hook jabbed through his do a first class job of turning
mouth. As we've been often told out false clackers and have
a fish isn't supposed to have quite a demand for their work,
any finer sensibilities, so it's all So if any of the members of our
right to yank such around by FT & BA are planning on kit-
a hook until it succumbs. But ing a check or indulging them-
we can't be convinced a bullfrog selves in some similar pastime,
has the same nerveless makeup, they may do so without much
If one must be lethal with bull- worry.
Financial Troubles of 8-Year-Old
Boise, Ida. VP) A boy from Midvalc today appealed to Gov.
C. A. Rollins for help in getting out of a financial difficulty.
His printed letter to the governor read:
"I am in serious trouble. I caught and delivered $7 worth
of magpie heads, thinking this promised money was good,
backed by the state of Idaho.
"I mortgaged this expected money to buy a hunting knife.
I can't pay for this knife, which I need every day. What can
I do in this matter. I am 8 years old.
"Yours Truly
BILLY YOUNGE."
The governor passed the letter on to the fish and game de
partment which handles the state bounty on magpies.
A Hot Foot for This Burglar
Cleveland VP) The thief who stole 35 boxes of shoes from
the automobile of salesman Allen Burchfield doubtless was
burned up when he examined the loot. The shoes all were for
the right foot.
SMART-CRACKS THE ANNOUNCER
Vacation Spent on Giveaway Shows
Brings Man More Than His Job
By PATRICIA CLARY
Hollywood, Aug. 2 (U.R) An insurance man spent his vacation
going to giveaway shows and went back to his job Monday with
more money than he would have earned by working.
Frank B. St. John, a middle-
aged former Chicagoan, collect- cago until two years ago, said
ed a total of $150 in mcrchan- he'd never seen a radio show or
dise in five days of sitting at won anything before,
radio shows. "As long as they were pass-
"I always thought I could be ing out everything but the radio
smarter than the people I heard station," he said, "I thought I'd
on giveaway shows," he said, get my share."
assistance and retirement bene
fits, but the senate won't have
the time to consider it.
Some house members already
are' jumping the adjournment
gun and stealing back to their
districts.
The house will begin three-
day recesses (virtual adjourn
ment) about the third week in
August.
House leaders are sticking to
their private agreement to post-
nnnn artinn r n ilio nnntpAHAT'ciTl
of men sometimes become turn- aid.to.eduCation bill until next
ing points in history. winter, when thev hone Cathn-
One incident that turned the ijc opposition will have cooled u
c e t tt 1 lvr..-, .u . ...... xti
me ui ouii. u. nuwmu rawnui, down . . . The Harden bill is
newly designated attorney gen- hopelessly stymied in the house
eral, was a torchlight parade iabor committee and leaders
in Rhode Island 20 years ago. doubt they have the votes to
The parade was staged by dislodge compromise legislation
Harry Storin of Keith's Theatre already passed by the senate.
If Ain't the Humanity
InN.Y.-lt's the Heat
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) The big news Monday was it's cooler."
Those two maeic words were of more interest along the heat-
hit eastern seaboard than the standings of the major league base-
ball teams or
the question of
arming friendly
nations under
the Atlantic
pact.
"It's cooler!"
"It's cooler!!"
"It's cooler!!!"
Every body
saia it and
everybody felt
it. Everybody
was on relief
4
throat gasping, here
Hades-by-the-Hudson.
in this
Hal Boyle
on relief from the weather. And
glad to be!
Because the weather has
Never in history has so much
humanity been wedded to so
much humidity, nor longed so
hard for a divorce.
The month of July was the
hottest ever recorded here, but
the heat started long before that.
Since the first of January the
weather bureau reports that
metropolitan New York has had
a temperature excess of 1,043
degrees above normal.
When you have 1,043 degrees
n honor of actor Eddie Dowling,
a native son who was returning
to Rhode Island to play "Honey
moon Lane." Young McGrath,
a budding politican, was in the
parade, got to know Dowling.
Later when Roosevelt entered
the White House, he bitterly dis
liked Rhode Island's Senator
Peter Gerry, handed the state's
patronage over to his old friend,
Eddie Dowling. Dowling, un
familiar with politics, passed it
on to Howard McGrath.
That gave McGrath his big
political start. He ran for state
attorney general, then for gov
ernor, and while serving as gov
ernor was offered the post of
solicitor general in the justice
department.
Truman had first offered this
office which presents govern
ment cases to the supreme court
to Gov. Ellis Arnall of Geor
gia. Arnall turned it down.
At that time, Turman's
chances of being re-elected were
considered nil. However, Gov
ernor McGrath accepted the job
(Copyright 19491
More Gray Hair for Bob Sayre
New York VP) Bob Sayre, a press agent, is prematurely
gray anyway. Ootherwise results of one of his latest gags
might have made him so.
Bob drew the chore of publicizing the movie "Rope of Sand"
which is laid in South Africa's diamond fields. He and his
red headed wife spent several evenings putting glass diamonds
into envelopes. The envelopes were distributed where they
would do the most good. The stunt was a grand success. Bob's
boss was happy, gave Bob a bonus.
Then his wife found the half-carat diamond in her engage
ment ring was missing. As nearly as they can figure someone
who got a "glass" diamond in the publicity stunt has the real
thing. Bob says his bonus will just about pay for a half-carat
diamond. '
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Will Defense Arc Block
Red Advances in Asia?
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
iUP) ForelKD Affair Analyst)
The Question of what, if any, further material aid America can
on tie second bounce even left usefully give to hard-pressed nationalist China in her fight for
Oil uie SLCUIia DOUnce, even leil :- , Pl,mnra nr,mmn it roimlntinnirf.! hoc cr,in
been on every mind all summer above normal, there are only
long. It's had everybody by the two things the average citizen
can do about them. That is to
feel them and to complain
about them.
The heat wave has had more
impact on Mr. New Yorker than
the ten-cent subway fare. But
even the Chamber of Commerce
is tired of admitting that "we
have more of everything than
anybody including more
weather."
the governorship to take it.
From there, he went on to the
senate, now to the cabinet. If
he had declined the solicitor
generalship, he would never be
where he is today.
BITTER BYRD BATTLE
for China.
Philip C.
Out in Phoenix, Ariz., or Kan
sas City, Mo., boastful denizens
sometimes prove how hot it gets
there by frying an egg on the
street.
That is unnecessary braggado
cio here. You simply break, the .
egg on your forehead, and by
the time it rolls down to your!
mouth it has been poached in
the perspiration.
The streets have been so sear
ing that even the pigeons refuse
to land in them until two hours
after sundown. There is a move
ment underway to get the
ASPCA to equip them with san
dals. The weather has played all
kinds of strange pranks on peo
ple. In the ordinary television pro
gram you see two of everything,
even if you have 20-20 vision.
This is normal, and the second
figure is known as the "ghost."
But in the current heat wave
survival against the Chinese communist revolutionists has again
become a burn- Pf7ai,"
ing subject of JT" lies can build a dam to prevent
public debate Wr?' ne sPread of communism in the
Meanw h i 1 e, f ? h orient,
the Washington y35j4-.jf In considering this problejn,
state depart- one envisages the creation of a
ment is engag- I H ..v ? ! series of positions which would
ed in creating a f 1 form a huge arc about western eVerv oharant.,r on tiii
and southern China, from Japan program looks like the Dionne
to India. n,,ifr,iD.o
?1-mh- L-4T I Please t?ke a l00k at yur At the beach you can't see the
" w- mxM. .J map oi Asia and see what this sands for rwmle.
Dewm Uaokentii "'" i ne reingeratea movie palaces
YOn Will SPP that thlc hnuo rlnna o Ui..J 1 i
sup ambassador at large, is includes Japan, the Phillippines, Some folks have simply moved
heading a group of experts who Frencn mdo-China, Slam. Mai into them for the duration
are preparing an exhaustive re- iaya. the Dutch Fast TnHi. wu ..,.. " ..?"
port on past policies toward Burma and India. air fr r " u "? - "t. u-
One would expect that the new most welcome thing that's come
re- 10 town since Jennv Lind.
Ana Mayor Bill O'Dwyer had
Jes-
One of the most important new pattern for
primary elections of the year far eastern di-
takes place in Virginia today.
Its importance lies in the pos
sibility that, following the de
feat of Boss Hague in Jersey
City and Tammany by FDR, Jr.,
today may see the downfall of
another machine that of Sen.
Harry E. Byrd.
So serious is the fight that China, supposedly to clear the
Byrd's colleague in the senate, way for a fresh policy. This Asiatic m-oeram nnio: it
Willis Kobertson, tactfully ob- report is expected to be pub- presents a great change, would
..r. J T ?. i ,, u LI,e tunsoiraaiion ot this better keep it here or the
the ''Byrd Machine." He is Thus far. there has been no vast arc against the Red ad- democrats are going toTave a
afraid that eventually he micht . nee;ii infi;,Qi nn nf tu tiar4 vanna . . . . 6ui"B iu nave a
"Now I've proved it."
St. John started his one-week
vacation witli about 70 tickets
he had rounded up from friends.
It turned out however that lie
couldn't stand the strain of more
than 20 shows, four a day.
"It's much more work than
working," he said. "The ques
tions are easy, but the nervous
strain is terrific. It's too hard
on me to do it more than one
week a year."
By Friday, he was so tuckered
out he had to stay home from
the week-end gold mines to get
a rest.
St. John made his killing on
only one program.
"They asked me to tell a girl
how her husband would feel
about her having a baby," he
said. "I said things were very
convenient for fathers these
days.
"For that they gave me a floor
lamp, a pair of $18.75 shoes and
12 pairs of nylons. It all was
worth about $150."
He was picked for "Take it
or Leave It" too, but time ran
out before they got to him. They
gave him a case of beans any
way. "I sit on the aisle and make
some smart crack when the an
nouncer goes by," he confided.
"That's the way to get picked."
St. John, who lived in Chi-
He added that he's already de
cided to spend his next vacation
in the giveaway audiences.
"1 get two weeks next year,"
he said.
go down with it. 0( the projected diplomacy.
Byrd's candidate for gover- Still, as a matter of speculation
nor, John S. Battle, has the dis- one would expect that the Chi
tinction of co - authoring last nese policy would be made to
year's bill to deprive President fit into a general far eastern
Truman of Virginia's vote in the program for halting the spread
electoral college even if he won of communism in that vast area,
the popular vote. Three demo- So far as concerns China, the
crats are in the gubernatorial big question is whether the Na
racc against him. tionalists under Generalissimo
How desperate the Byrd Chiang Kai-Shek already have
forces are is indicated by their shot their bolt.
efforts to take one of the candi- On this point, there is a wide,
aaics, xtemmie Arnoia, out or an(j
me i-Hue. a piuperous pen ence of opin
niamuacturer, Arnoia nas just States
?im;tChd J"1501'"05, helif The Red avalanche has con-
Vnf.V h f l i tinued t0 sweeP southward until
merely complain about bad gov- t temporary Nationalist capi-
JSTnT in l t Sme: tal in "W great costal city of
thing to improve government. Can(on ,s threatened with cap
After speaking in Rocky ture
Mount. Va., not long ago, Ar- stm the imperturbable Chiang
nold dropped in at a restaurant, veteran of a lifetime of war
there met State Treasurer Jesse fare maintains that his follow
Dillon and Brady Almond, both ' ers are far from beaten and
ardent Byrd henchmen. still can win- with outside ma
"You fellows don't labor un- terial assistance.
der the illusion that any of you Is the Gimo, as they call Gen-
tough election in autmn.
Easy-lf You Can Do It!
Chicago UJPoiice surveyed the car that had just been hit
ny a train. It was badly battered.
thJdrh-er'01'6'1 "leir B"d l0kei1 at Albert llort' 22'
"nwu eV" get 0ut of ",cre?" they askei him.
- was easy,-, he said , jus, roUed
IbndiabWeernma:"U8h YU I m a Prof-a
sometimes vitriolic, differ- COMMENTATOR IGNORED WARNING
of opinion in the United " "'wmhj
Bill Didn't 'Shut Up'
In His Last Broadcast
By WILLIAM C.BARNARD
(,7T,','Tie ?,rd has been Passed me that
else! W. H. (Bill) Mason said in his last broad-
have a chance of winning, do eralissimo Chiang, gambling on funeral Sunday.
Alice, Tex., Aug.
1 better shut up, or
cast
The text of the final program was released today by the son
Of the Slain rari n rnm -,(-,,.. r,... . u lne
nun mason, 22,
mem uvei to me Associated
Press following his father's onti , .
j iiuaumju .
gave the docu-
Rcpubliran Chief? Guy
George Gabrielson (above),
Bernardsville, N. J., republi
can national committeeman,
was reported to have assur
ance that he would be elected
chairman of the national re
publican committee when it
meets In Washington to ac
cept the resignation of Hugh
D. Scott, Jr. (Acme Telepho-to.)
you?" challenged Dillon. "Be- the old adage that where there's
cause you haven't." life there's hope, or do condi-
"No, you haven't got a tions in China justify his judg
chance," continued Almond, ment?
waving a wad of greenbacks in That's one for American mili
front of Arnold's nose, "because tary chiefs to decide.
you haven t got this kind of
er'."
I is in dang-
stuff on election day."
Bill Mason was shot to death
here Friday, and Sam Smith
wick, 60-year-old deputy sheriff,
is charged with murdering him.
The last broadcast, delivered
Thursday, was a stinging broad
side at the sheriff's deDartment
But Mason also revealed that at the riarltonorf
dicated, the Chinese puzzle his family received a warning establishment.
wouici seem so oe a pari oi me rnuay, iwo nours before his "I am onin i , i n. i
general problem of containing father was fatally shot off toriv ?h t!"0-BlVf
communism in Asia as a whole. "A woman telephoned mv uation and pr,ostltutlon slt"
ine major question is how mother, ' Mason said. "anH inu at . . "'6"s.
... ltlc mai uiuau
However, as previously in-
According to the text of the
final broadcast, Mason was
sharply critical of Sheriff Sain
Friday nieht
with shotguns fired eight shots
and deserted
MKRRY-GO-ROtND
Bob Reynolds, noisy isolation
ist ex-senator from North Caro
lina, is talking about running
for the senate against quiet, America and her democratic al- her '1 just overheard a conver- cast