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Salem, Oregon, Friday, August 5, 1949
' U. S. Concedes China Lost to Keds
The United States "white paper" on China, reviewing
. America's policy in the Orient, tracing events leading to
the collapse of Nationalist China, revealing hitherto secret
documents, including the long suppressed Wedermeyer re
port, practically conceded that China is lost to the com
munists but warned Russia and her Chinese puppets not
to carry the Red aggression in the Far East beyond China's
borders.
This government expressed the belief that the Chinese
people will rise up in revolt and "throw off the foreign
yoke." And it promised "to encourage all developments in
China which now and in the future work toward this end,"
but it offered no specifications.
In a foreword to the 1054-page document, Secretary of
State Dean Acheson said of the communist victory in
China:
"Nothing that this country did or could have done within the
reasonable limit of its capabilities could have changed that
result; nothing that was left undone by this country has con
tributed to it."
This apparently was in answer to repeated charges that
the administration's wait-and-see policy hastened the com
munist conquest in China.
Acheson maintained that the China crisis resulted from
Russian intrigue, plus "decay, disintegration and default"
of the Chinese Nationalist regime headed by Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek.
The communists succeeded in part because Russia mask
ed her domination "behind the facade of a vast crusading
movement" which many Chinese thought to be a National
ist movement. Actually, he said, communist leaders in
China were acting as tools of Russia, "which during the
last 50 years, under czars and communists alike, has been
most assiduous in its effort to extend its control in the
Far East."
Warning against any further communist expansion in
the Far East, Acheson said :
"Should the (Chinese) communist regime lend Itself to the
alms of Soviet Russian imperialism and attempt to engage in
aggression against China's neighbors, we and the other mem
bers of the United Nations would be confronted by a situation
violative of the principles of the United Nations charter and
threatening international peace and security."
Acheson said U.S. policy "will continue to be based upon our
own respect for the charter, our friendship for China, and our
traditional support for the open door and for China's indepen
dence and administrative and territorial integrity."
Highway Commission Wrongly Criticized
Oregon b highway commission is being punished verbally
for "delaying" action on a new bridge across the Willam
ette at Salem.
Some local blasts have been aimed at the commission
for trying to "force" the city council into accepting the
the commission is supposedly using the bridge construc
tion as a weapon to "force" the Baldock plan.
This kind of talk is ridiculous. It has no basis in fact.
At the May meeting of the highway commission, it be
came obvious that the exact location of the new bridge
was a matter for the highway commission and engineer
to decide. It was a state consideration because of the.
highway routes. That was correct.
However, the state can't go ahead with one-way bridges
until Salem cooperates and designates the respective
streets in the necessary area as one-way streets.
As in such cases, cooperation between the state and city
is essential. The state can't act without the cooperation
and agreement of the city.
And to the credit of the highway commission, that body
has been bending over backwards to avoid any accusation
of trying to bring pressure on the city council to act. It
was that way before even the May meeting when a deci
sion in the form of a resolution on the Baldock plan was
given the commission by the Snlcm council. That came
just under the wire only in time to be included in the
fiscal program for the next two years.
But the move is now up to Salem as to when it will ac
cept in writing, the outline of the Baldock plan which calls,
in part, for one-way streets. If the city council acts favor
ably within the month, then the commission will have
time to get plans underway on the bridge and completed
in time to have pourings made next summer when the
river is low.
The only pressure on the council is the pressure of the
city's own interests, and the passing months which per
mit pourings on the bridge during only the summer period.
To put in those foundations then, the necessary prelimin
ary work will take care of the intervening period.
Any criticism of the highway commission trying to pres
sure through the Baldock plan is unfounded and unjust.
A New GOP Leader
The republican national committee has elected in a close
contest, Guy C. Gabrielson as committee chairman to suc
ceed Hugh D. Scott, Jr., culminating a bitter eight-months'
fight against the latter which ended in firing him. It
puts the party under new management for a fight for the
party's life, as a political force in the test of the 1950 con
gressional elections, but whether it restores harmony re
mains to be seen.
Gabrielson is an Iowa born New York lawyer, industrial
ist and author, editor of the 15 volume "Pageant of Amer
ica," who lives in New Jersey, where he served several
terms in the legislature and was speaker of the house. He
is republican national committeeman from New Jersey.
He is a successful and wealthy business man, long on ad
ministrative and money raising ability.
Gabrielson's election was a reverse for the Governor
Thomas E. Dewey of New York faction to whom Scott
owed his appointment as chairman last year. Gabrielson
was the candidate of anti-Dewey committee elements, who
rejected compromise proposals which would have saved
face for both Scott and Dewey and spell party harmony.
Gabrielson was a Taft supported candidate in the 1948
convention, but he assured the committee that he will
make it his job to win the 1950 election without consider
ation of the 1952 nomination. Whether he can unite the
party remains to be seen.
Gabrielson got 52 votes to 47 for Axel J. Beck of South
Dakota and one for A. T. (Bert) Howard of Nebraska,
Beck was the entry of the Dewey-Scott forces with the
backing of many western committee members who sought
recognition for their region. They argued that Beck wa3
the man to win farmers back to the GOP.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Vaughan Goes to Bat
For Tanforan Track
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Gen. Harry Vaughan, the president's jovial,
back-slapping, poker-playing military aide, holds the official
title of "coordinator of veterans affairs." As such he is supposed
to help veterans.
But yesterday this column showed how, when the Tanforan
race track in California violated
iV nl V : illl I building regulations aimed to ment's policy was to grant build-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
speed veterans' housing, Gen
eral Vaughan
used his influ
ence not to help
the veterans,
but to help the
race track. .
His known in
f l u e n c e was
brought to bear
in the fall of
1947.
Here is what
happened.
After Guy
Standifer and the other Tanforan unless cleaned up.
omciais were janea in uanior-
nia for violating housing regu-
Drew Peareon
ing permits to clean up fire haz
ards.
Tighe Woods had then been
In office only six days, and the
influence of the White House
was potent.
He sent a memo to the justice
department stating that the in
junction against Tanforan could
be lifted. Simultaneously Tan
foran submitted notices from
the obliging city of San Bruno
claiming that the race track
was a fire and health hazard
So, at long last, the ban on
Tanforan was lifted chiefly on
SIPS FOR SUPPER
What Next
By DON UPJOHN
Local officers have under arrest the man they say has con
fessed to stealing a hearse the other night from a local mortuary
eventually winding up with the vehicle smashed. This would
seem to be an
ter in Washington in October,
1H47.
interesting study
for psych olo
gists, psychiat
rists or what
ever might be
appropriate to
the set of facts,
as to just why a
man would steal
a hearse in the
first place and
after having run
it into a tree or
Don Upjohn
were all eating and living nor
mally on the farm of Mrs. Enos
Brown. The three-month old
porker is normal in every other
respect. The dwarf ducklings
haven't grown any since they
were two weeks old, Mrs. Brown
said. The creatures are now
three months old, the same as the
pig. The Browns said they were
trying to keep the pig's weight
under 100 pounds. With a high
er weight, they said they were
afraid the animal would have
trouble walking.
f TSl ??gene M ' "eW, ?leSi General Vaughan's plea that its
dent of the race track, called on ..-j,. uh h,n
the office of the housing expedi- . , ... . '
justice department officials,
With him came the fabulous evidence that" the ownership of
Greek friend of General Vau- tne raee track had reall
ghan's, John Maragon, who had changed
accompanied President Truman ,. l
to Potsdam, caused the demotion T Therefore it may still be that
of an air force general, once held 3e R?ln'eld,' w,ho nc? ra" th
a White House pass and a special b'ggeTst fleet f, rum, bats off
White House parking reserva- ",c ?"u w
jjon once indicted for the murder of
a prohibition agent, is still the
This is the same Maragon who real owner of Tanforan and the
has demanded that this colum- man wno reall profited from
nist be called before a senate General Vaughan's lobbying
....Bl,6 tu.,.,.lc. against tne veterans.
Jt is true that track President
Guy Standifer was out, having
gone to jail; and that Eugene
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The Statesman editorially this
refers to the next national
American Legion convention
which it says is to be held in
"Boston in October." Aside from
the fact the next national con
vention is to be held in Phila-
a ditch. It might
be he figured he'd end It all in
grand style, or maybe it is just
one man's idea of having a little
fun. The nearest clue to the am
mystery behind his picking out
a hearse to swipe is his state
ment he'd had a few beers be
fore hand and he identified his
lrnnu1fH0n nt Iho hparen nc "nnltr
a large car- which in some man- delPhia, in August the statement
ner he'd gotten into and driven secms to be quite dependable,
away when he noticed a tree Accessory
loom up ahead and the next Fu" 85 "n t .
thing he knew the car hit a Sealtle UR) Robert Bab8v.
ditch. The whole thing still 18 todav was accused of driv
leaves up a little unnerved and down a busy highway at 35
surcharged with wonder as to mlles Per hour whlle "engaged
what they'll take next. in a Prolonged kiss." He faces
charges of negligent driving. His
Nature Cuts Up Again girl friend, Marilyn Meyers, 18,
Everett, Wash. IU.P.) A pig also was arrested on charges of
with seven feet and three vest "aiding and abetting a negll
pocket editions o ducks today gent driver." ;
Florida Laughs at L.A. Smells
Miami, Fla. (U.R) The Miami Herald headlined a news dis
patch describing the pungent odor which swept over Los
Angeles:
"Looky Los Angels smells!
Even the natives notice it."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
A War that Hasn't Ended
Even After Four Years
By HAL BOYLE
New York, The cold war is a bore. A third world war
is something few even wish to think about.
But the second world war is still of tremendous public interest.
Politically, that war is still
continuing, but its combat phase sometimes fatal, of a group of
has been over for four years. B-26 bomber gunners who knew
And it is the period of actual tlfby had one chance in four of
fighting that people want to getting home. It is the best
know more about. story yet on the boys who rode
less to say I should be happy
to appear.
Mori and Maragon informed
I!?6. .hwUing, exPfditer's office Mori was the new president.
...uc..wuwiw But according to a Federal
under new ownership, though Court deposition pubijshed by
how they offered any proof re- the Newark star -Ledger on
mains a mystery, since the war- Jan 15 1949 Reinfeld was the
time owner, Joe Rcinfe d, never chief owner of the track
was known to the public. Rein- . .
erTSf bit.onX. PARAGON'S INCOME TAX
the chief secret owner, and his 11 now looks as if John Mara
name only leaked out on Jan- Son was in serious trouble over
uary 15, 1949, when he was Dotn ms income lax and perjury
sued in Federal Court.
Fifteen months earlier, how-
Senate investigators have now
established the fact that the lob
byist who long had the inside
run of the White House main-
ever in October, 1947 Eugene tained a secret bank account in
Mori had told government offi- the National Bank of Commerce
cials that he was Tanforan's new in San Antonio in 1945 and 1946.
owner. Approximately $40,000 was de-
It was at about this point that posited there.
General Vaughan first interven- Despite this, Maragon inform
ed. Apparently he didn't like ed the senate investigating com
the way the housing expediter mittee that he had only a small
treated his bosom pal, Maragon, income in 1945, '46 and '47 and
for he complained about it to he failed to reveal his San An
his other pal, Lobbyist James tonio bank account. All this
Hunt, and a few days later Hunt was sworn under oath.
snowea up at me nousing ex
pediter's office xalone.
Hunt told housing officials
Astute "William Rogers, coun
sel of the committee, produced
a copy of Maragon's 1945 in-
mat nis irienas irom the Tan- come - tax return and asked
loran track nadn t been treated whether it was a correct copy
courteously. He also warned
that Housing Chief Frank
Creedon could not afford to get
in wrong with his "friends,"
Housing officials blew up,
said there had been no lack of
"That is right," nodded Maragon.
'And that shows," pointed out
"that your total income
Is
that right?"
"That is right," agreed Mara-
courtesy and did not change the g0.n'
It shows," continued Rogers,
"$1,740 from the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad and $6,000 from
the Albert Verley Company,
V!illld I show
injunction which banned the use
of building materials by Tanforan.
nuiu aim mill iiguil vieu Willi , . . .
uu a i. ,jj come-tax return a copy of it
each other to see who could do . ,, 7t . . tlrnn .
you your in-
the most for Tanforan. At one
point, Lobbyist Hunt complain
ed to housing officials that he
was being pestered by Maragon,
that Maragon telephoned at all
hours of the day and night, even
insulted Mrs. Hunt.
the Albert Verley Company and
$1,889 from the U.S. State De
partment. Is that a correct copy
of your 1946 income return?"
"That's right," Maragon admitted.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Who Were Zaibatsus
That MacArthur Broke?
By JAMES. D.WJ4ITE
(Surwtltutlni for DeWItt Mc Kmilt. AP ForeUn Newi Amlyit)
There's bound to be a lot of arguments over this:
Gen. MacArthur announces that he has broken up the Zalbatsu
the economic giants of pre-war Japan.
These tight family trusts were
a fundamental part of Japan's tary aggression when they
economic and political fabric, thought it likely to succeed, ad
They made and sold everything vised against it when they
from needles to battleships, thought it wouldn't.
They bought everything from Control of Japan was a mat
Malayan rubber to American ter of balance struck among
scrap iron. the relative strengths of the Zai-
In their heyday most of Ja- balsu, the politicians, and the
pan's banking, heavy industry, military.
and big business both at home The Zaibatsu intermarried
and abroad could be traced to with all these other elements
some 11 families through their as a matter of policy, as well
network of holding companies as with the imperial family un
and subsidiaries. They were der whose figurehead rule Ja
meat and drink to the two great pan was secretly governed.
Japanese political parties. The Zaibatsu fought among
The Zaibatsu (the name themselves over spoils, and with
means "finance clique") were a the army and navy, and with the
latter day expression of Japan's government. But the quarrel
innate feudalism. Instead of ling never was allowed to in
splitting each other's skull's terfere too long with really big
open with big swords, the family business.
warriors engaged first in cut- At home, the Zaibatsu usual
throat competition, later in mu- ly went along with measures to
tual tolerance and cooperation control labor and regiment the
as they skimmed the cream off people. Sometimes they claim
the business of 70,000,000 Jap- ed they couldn't help them
anese. selves, and it's true some Zai-
batsu folks got pushed around
One of the oldest Zaibatsu by churlish army characters.,
families, Mitsui, dates back to But as late as 1943 after the
the 1600's. It was founded by tide had turned against Japan
a professional warrior who and Tojo was trying to take over
turned winemaker. the nation's economy for a
Japan has always been run greater war effort the Zaibatsu
by powerful families, so her peo- stopped cold the mightiest man
pie found it not too strange to in Japan. They made money
be run by family monopolies, even out of World War II.
wnen japan was opened to ...
the outside world about 80 Personally, most Zaibatsu
years ago, the Zaibatsu began people are well-educated and
pushing their own economic ho- very charming individuals,
rizons up to and beyond Japan's As family firms, however,
new frontiers. they stood for one of the most
They made money out of primitive things about Japan
World War I and were ready regimentation of the nation's-
and willing to arm the greater wealth for the benefit of the
Japan. They encouraged mili- few.
Squire Finally Got Around to It
Mahanoy City, Pa. (U.R) "Squire" John Wicks, 93, isn't the
visiting kind. But every 90 years or so he stops in to see his
relatives.
Wicks has lived at South Fork, Pa., for many years. The
other day he finally visited his cousin, Mrs. Harriett Harper,
99, Mahanoy City's oldest resident.
It was the first time the two met since 1859, when they were
Children in England.
What was it
really like?
What really
happened at
places like Iwo
J 1 m a, Salerno,
Anzio, Bastog
ne? Year by year,
as 'he memoirs
and t h e novels
pile up, the real
story of man
kind's greatest ni noil,
tcst-at-arms is filtering through.
For war is a kind of huge )ig-
the medium bombers.
In the pictorial field, the most
ambitious presentation of the
second world war is the series
of 26 television films prepared
by March of Time and based
on Gen. Eisenhower's book,
"Crusade in Europe." To com
pile the series, currently being
aired over the ABC-TV network,
the editors had to scan 165,000,
000 feet of official service films
and ncwsreels . some 31,060
miles.
This scries, covering the Eu-
At another time Maragon """A ,,i
phoned Jack O'Brien of the i"'" 1"' ZT"
Srr..rXP'r:f.V?',Sd of $4,860-$4200 from Charles
he was "Drew Pearson" and de
manded to know what was
"going on around there." The
call insinuated skulduggery and
was aimed to upset Hunt's lob
bying efforts.
After more than a month of
this, General Vaughan apparent
ly concluded that his boy
friends weren't equal to the job.
So he telephoned Housing Ex
pediter Tighe Woods himself Dert Verley.
M. Ingersoll and $660 interest
on B. & O. bonds. Is that a
correct copy of your 1947 income-tax
return?"
"That is right," agreed Mara
gon. "I have your 1948 return of
which you have supplied a
copy," Rogers continued. "It
shows $1,400 from J. Buncher
Company and $1,250 from Al
and asked for an appointment
.-.. i ii i. "
saw uu.ii'. -" ' h" ropean war from the rise of naz-
gcthcr and understand it all at ism to ,he signing o the Ger.
once because the pieces come to man surrender in the school-
you slowly. house at Rhelms, shows the im-
... pact of war its brutality and
The general pattern of the j.,.iinn mnr. or.hinn
war can best be found in the tnnn any novel merely because
memoirs of people who usually lt j, s0 terribly factual.
write memoirs-generals and x went to a preview of one of
statesmen. .... .... the films with two soldiers who
To get the real feel of battle had oyer
and the hurts It gave you have
to turn to books written by the described as
IllC'ii wiiu iuukiu me nfli auu
best knew its boredom and dan
ger the junior officers and en
listed men.
Two of the latest are "A Tent
on Corsica," by Martin Quigley,
an ex-sergeant in the 12th air
In other words, the close
Later that afternoon Vaughan tloj f .h. whito' Hnn foil.
appeared in Woods office, ex- ed to tell the income-tax col-
plained that he was personally iector or tne about the
interested in Tanforan, argued $40.000 on deposit in San An-
that the tracks ownership had tonio
changed, and that the govern- (copyruht am
"one of the most bitterly contest
ed battles of the entire cam
paign, "That's the way it was," said
Corp. Seals W. Knight, 29, a
bronze-star winner . who was
force, and "Dav Without End." wounded in the forest. "I don't
bv Van Van Praag. a former wnt anymore of things like that.
Infantry platoon leader. 11 was rouSh there."
Both explore new territory. "The public ought to know
Van Praag tells a one-day tale more "bout what war is like,"
of the life and death of a dough- said the other soldier, Corp. Oli-
boy platoon in the heart-break- ver G. Snow, 42. "But you can't
Ing hedgerows of Normandy. It Put it all in pictures. You can't
Is rough and bitter and true. P"t In the smell.
Quigley's book deals with the "If you could do that, there
adventures, sometimes hilarious, wouldn't be any more wars."
Farmer John Is on the Beam
Burlington, Vt. U.K Farmer John J. Wright used a powerful
blower to store 75 tons of chopped hay In his barn two months
ao.
When flames swept the barn yesterday, he saved the hay
by reversing the blower and sucking lt out of th building.
LOOK WHO'S TALKING
Two Nudists Denounce
'Sexy' French Bathing Suits
Morrison, Colo., Aug. 5 (U.R) Two young ladies completely
nude, themselves today denounced French bathing suits as "the
most sex-provocating things in existence."
The girls, both from Topeka,
Kan., were attending the nation
al nudist convention here. They
asked to be called simply Mil
dred and Mary.
different physicques," he said.
About 500 sun-lovers from all
parts of the nation hiked around
secluded Deer Creek Canyon in
Thev said the flimsv French their birthday suits as the Amer-
bathing suits were far more sexy ican Sunbathing association's
than no clothes at all.,
"Besides, they're absolutely
useless for swimming purposes,"
said Mary.
They said nobody at
gatherings as the nudists' con
vention ever noticed anyone
else's nakedness.
A tall Texan named
agreed.
four-day convention went into
its third day.
All of the nudists were care
ful to explain that they went
back to nature for health s sake
such alone.
But they admitted that sun
burn bothers them as much as
Ed other people.
We blondes have to take our
"When you're undressed and sun in small doses." said a sweet
everyone around is the same young thing from California,
way, you don't even notice th "See how I blister?"
What Causes
Your Cough?
By J. H. WILLETT
r tbi Capital Dm Slor
Smoking, nervousness, aller
gy, are all causes of an annoy
ing cough. But a cough may
also be an indication of a more
serious ailment such as sinus
itis, tuberculosis, chronic bron
chitis, heart trouble, lung ab
scess, lung or chest tumor.
Coughing spells are weaken
ing and embarrassing. When
you have a cough that persists
for more than a couple of weeks
you should see a doctor. Find
ing and curing the cause of your
cough is the only way to over
come it.
A doctor's prescription is the
most effective medicine. Have
it compounded of quality drugs
by a pharmacist with an estab
lished reputation in his profession.
CnBTrlfh
This l the With of a Krl of
Editorial adierllumrnli appearing In
thli paper each Trldar.
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