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4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 8, 1949
For a United States of Europe
Statesmen of 10 western European states are meeting
in historic Strasbourg to found the first European cabinet
and parliament and further the centuries-old dream of
European unity. It will be called the Council of Europe
and will have no other powers than those of debate and
recommendations, hence it is only a preliminary in the
seemingly hopeless task of welding unity in the discordant,
strife-ridden continent, with its ancient racial, religious
and national prejudices and enmities.
But the foreign ministers and members of parliament
comprising the gathering are hopeful that in the course
of time a real European union will emerge, despite the
failure of past efforts, such as that attempted by Aristide
Briand, 11 times premier of France and long its foreign
minister, a leader of the old League of Nations, and whose
Locarno treaties won him the Nobel peace prize in 1926
Briand, it was, who welcomed Germany into the League
of Nations, who originated the Kellogg peace pact. In
1930 he proposed a United States of Europe.
He died in 1932 and has plan was nullified by the estab
lishment of dictatorships based on fascist or communist
ideologies, which disrupted democracy.
The 10 founder nations are Britain, France, Belgium,
Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands,
Norway and Sweden. For the first time they have ordered
their deputies to sit together in a parliament, or assem
bly, and thrash out in public the problems on the minds
of 170,000,000 war-tired western Europeans.
The Council of Europe will be made up of two separate
bodies. The first is the cabinet or council of ministers
which holds its first meeting in the ancient city hall at
Strasbourg. It is made up of the foreign ministers of
the member nations.
The second body is the European assembly of 87 mem
bers picked by the parliaments of the member nations.
This body takes its guidance from the council of ministers
and has only advisory powers. It will meet once a year in
Strasbourg for not more than one month.
Strasbourg, an important industrial city, population
175,000, is situated on the French frontier, 350 miles south
west of Paris. It is famous for its Gothic cathedral. The
city was first built by the Celts, then occupied by the Ro
mans, subsequently by the Teutons, and in the sixth cen
tury became a Frankish possession. It was fortified by
the Romans and still ranks as a fortess of the first class.
Strasbourg remained a part of the Italian Roman Em
pire until 1648, but it was seized and annexed by Louis
XIV in 1681. It surrendered to the Prussians in 1870 and
was joined to Germany, remaining the seat of government
of Alsace Lorraine until 1918, when it was restored to
France.
Navy Planes Overhead
Navy planes will soon become familiar sights in the
skies above Salem.
The Navy's air reserve facility at McNary field was
dedicated Friday. That was the second step in a series of
three in which Salem will become the naval air center for
Oregon. The third step will come when pilots in the area
qualify their applications for reserve training. How soon
that happens depends on how quickly the officers and men
get their applications in.
The first step in this series of three was as significant
to the city as any of the other two already mentioned. The
first explains how the air base happens to have been
located in Salem. As the Navy's top flying officer in the
Pacific Northwest said at the dedication, Salem was select
ed for only one reason.
McNary field perhaps had better facilities than several
other airports in Oregon but not enough better to make
the difference. Several other airports would have been
equally as convenient as to location, also. But what Salem
did that Portland and other cities didn't do was to work as
a community to bring the navy here.
After Salem heard about the Navy's seeking a flying
field somewhere in the state for training purposes, the
city asked service authorities to inspect what the capital
had to offer. The Navy quickly accepted the inspection
invitation. Then, after local differences over location on
the field were settled, the city offered the big hangar on
the east side of the field at a nominal rental. The Navy
approved.
It wasn't quite as simple as that, but generally speaking,
that was the way it came about. It was the story again,
as old as time, that cooperation among people can do won
ders. Athletic coaches call it teamwork.
Whatever may be the word to describe the effect of
people working together to better their city and them
selves, its meaning should not be lost to the future. Salem
will grow and develop by the same constructive forces
working together as they did in bringing the Navy air
reserve base here. The Navy's planes flying overhead will
be a constant reminder of that fact.
Dog Days Over for Bartlesville
Rartlesville, Okla. W) Bartlesville, which went to the dogs
earlier this neck, was normal again today.
The normalcy followed a brisk round-up of dogs freed from
the pound by a pair of 13-year-olds who, Foundmaster Claude
Smith said, "wanted to see them go home."
South found the boys when 14 of the SO dogs treed wer
seen tagging along behind them.
Smith and the youths finally eaught 20 of them.
But today the pound's population was back to 30.
"Those extra 16 are new dogs," Smith said, "but I'm satisfied."
Weirdest Theft of the Year
Portland u.R Perhaps (he weirdest theft of the year:
The wag from a calf's tail.
John D. Goss, who owns a frozen food locker here, told
police that his electrical sign a calf atop his plant no
longer wagged his tall. Someone had stolen the gear and
drlveshaft for the sign.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Maragon Had Influence
Despite His Police Record
By DREW PEARSON
Washington One thing the senate investigating committee is
likely to avoid in its probe of Messrs. Vaughan and Maragon
which opens today is the part they may have played in influenc
ing the Truman doctrine for Greece.
It seems inconceivable that an ex-Greek federal narcotics agent
from Kansas City should have '
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
had anything to do with U,
foreign relations.
Yet it happens
that members of
the Greek em
bassy in Wash
ington are now
as jittery as sun
flowers in a
Kansas cyclone
for fear their re
lations with
John Maragon
will be probed
by the senate.
Every admin-
Drew Peftrion
In 1922 Daniel was charged
with grand larceny in the theft
of jewels and clothing valued at
$650 at Atlantic City, N.J., but
was dismissed for lack of evi
dence. (Case 57262 Atlantic
City Criminal Court, Aug. 29,
1922, Magistrate Paxson).
In 1925 Daniel was again
cited for adultery in the divorce
of Harry and Catherine Coro
neos. (Court of Common Pleas,
Philadelphia). Again on July
22, 1930, Rev. Daniels was ar
rested for drunkenness in the
. District of Columbia and forfeit
ed
nn von relieve in
LOVE AT FIRST SI6HT? IF WU'REAVWMMN,
ODDS ARE EVEN YOU DO i IF YOU'RE A MAN,
IT'S 2 TO I YOU DON'T.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Buried Treasure
i,trImn h it hnnoers-nn who ed security (District of Colum
love to bask in the limelight of a?Uce Court Case No'
the White House. But no ad- 5IM).
: iir ti,.4 This is one of the Greek ad-
mimsuaiiuu suite tiaucii ixaiu- i mili
ing's day has had the benefit visers whom General Vaughan MacKENZIES COLUMN
of such a weird and apparently B
influential character as General steered into the White House
ARE YOU LUCKY?
POLLS SHOW THE ODDS
ARE 2 TO I VOL)
THINK SO.
lucky iou, rep amomiKs,
TOLtDO)
By DON UPJOHN
It had to happen some time, certainly, but still it comes quite
as a shock to hear that Miss Mirpah Blair, reference librarian at
the Oregon state library, plans to retire with the first of the year
after 36 years of service with that institution. Miss Blair,
Vaughan's so-called "Greek Ad
viser," John Maragon.
w
District of Columbia police
records show that Maragon once
pled guilty of transporting liq-
for talks with the unsuspecting
and trusting Mr. Truman while
the vitally important "Truman
Doctrine" for Greece was being
formulated.
Meanwhile, Maragon stood so
possibly, may be
classed among
Oregon's most
priceless "bur
ied treasures."
For her work
has been done
pretty much be
hind the scenes
without any
blowing of
trumpets and
entirely lacking
in sound or fury.
But it has been
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arrfawo he had had himself appointed L ",e 111 "t, """" " "
Is World War III in
The Making in Korea?
By JAMES. D. WHITE
(Substituting for DeWItt MacKenzle, AP Foreign News Analyst)
Korea last week upheld its growing reputation as a likely spot
but never prosecuted, and once
Jill
as a special observer for the
In southern Korea, officials of the American-sponsored govern-
At any rate, as folks went to
Don Upjohn their respective tasks this a.m.,
. they found the town still in one
a marvelous piece regardless of the invasion
got into a brawl in the locker Greek electionSi though he was ment reached the stage of talk-
luuin ui urc r.aoiiiiiBiwn uwib- finally fired from the inh hv lne openiy auuut, invaums m.u . . . .
tors where some of the ball play- t, s Envov Henrv Grariv (W Soviet - sponsored north before the time must come soon when
ers threatened to beat him up. a row in Athens the north ats them to the this infant republic must invade
Maragon also got into a fist No wonder Greek embassy P"- the, communist-ruled north as a
fight with Don Watson, chief of officials aro worrit sink inr These officials still would not self-defense measure.
the state department's trans- fear the senate investigating let correspondents attribute Moore said moderate Koreans
portation section at the United subcommittee may get too in- sucn statements to them person- advised against this. But the
Nations convention at San Fran- quisitive regarding the opera- allv- but Ap Correspondent talk of beating the north to the
Cisco; was fired by the Balti- tions of the amazing Maragon William R. Moore radioed from, punch obviously has increased
more and Ohio Railroad; got in- in reeard to Greece Seoul: recently. A few months ago in
work over the years as any- of the Legionnaires last week
one can resuiy win, . . and we rather suspect a lot bet-
occasion to come in contact with ter of for tneir having been
it or to try to sound or plum nere-
the depths of her information. '
It has been invaluable, certainly, The Marion county jail must
in the development of what has have been quite a boon to hack
become an invaluable adjunct saw manufacturers the past year
to the state's service. To those or two. The old crate is an
who have it all followed the ideal place for the secretive dis
workings of the state library position of hacksaws. John
over that long period Miss Blair Hargcr, deputy sheriff after a
has seemed so much a part of it, long stint in the navy, has hap
her work so woven into it, that pencd to be on hand at the
in a way she has been pretty sheriff's office at four occasions
much the soul if it. While her in less than two years when at
separation from her life's work tempts were made by prisoners
will be a loss to the state of tre- to hacksaw their way out of the
mendous proportions, Oregon is jail. Every one of the attempts
exceedingly fortunate in having was foiled. John should have
the capable hands and mind of brought with him to his present
Miss Josephine Baumgarlner to job one of those big navy mag
take it up where Miss Blair nets. Chances are if it was ap-
leaves off. Miss Baumgartner,
too, has years, of experience in
reference work at the library
and her capabilities are great.
The best of fortune to both.
plied around the walls of the jail
the hacksaws would fall out of
the crannies, nooks and crevices
of the ancient bricks like hail
in a Kansas storm.
to a street scuffle with Brig. Gen
Wm. L. Lee in Rome, Italy; was
found to be disturbing anti-Semitic
literature 5"t the Demo
cratic convention in Philadel
phia; and was questioned in the
death of Police Detective Arth
ur Scriviner in 1926, one of
Washington's most mysterious
homicide cases. Maragon es
tablished an alibi and later mar
ried the girl whom Scriviner
was scheduled to marry one day
after his death.
Yet, on top of all this, the
amazing Maragon turned up at
the White House 30 minutes
after President Roosevelt died,
to console President Truman,
accompanied the Roosevelt fu
neral train to Hyde Park; show
ed up at the Stalin-Churchill
conference in Potsdam, was the
proud possessor of a White
House pass, flabbergasted the
admirals by accompanying Tru
man on the presidential destroy
er during the Navy Day fleet
review in New York, sat next
to the president's box with Gen-
(Copyrltht 1949)
Sandy, 9, Loses Both Feet;
Faces Future With Smile
Seattle, Aug. 8 (U.R) The parents of nine-year-old George
"Sandy" Jodry, Jr., were not worried about their son today.
They agreed he is brave enough to face the world even with
out feet.
Sandy's legs were cut off above the ankles when he fell
beneath a freight train Wednesday night.
The parents, who are divorced, met at the hospital and
decided to tell Sandy his feet had been cut off.
They were ushered into the quiet hospital room. Sandy,
propped up by a large white pillow, smiled at them. The
father braced himself to speak, but young Sandy spoke
up first.
"Guess what? The doctor told me I'm going to get two
wooden feet."
The parents, George Jodry of Bremerton, Wash., and Mrs.
Jean Gorman, Seattle, sighed with relief.
"That's going to make it easy to take a bath," joked 'the
father. "Now you won't have to scrub you feet."
They all laughed, Sandy more heartily than his parents.
"It's funny," said the plucky lad, "but my toes hurt only I
don't have any toes." .
Some very significant figures Tokyo, American army officers
back from Korea told me it ex
isted, but was not very open.
hat '
ith- '
35-Mile-an-Hour Kiss
Seattle (U.R) Robert Bagby, 18, was accused of driving
down a busy highway at 35 miles per hour while "engaged in
s prolonged kiss." He faces charges of negligent driving.
His girl friend, Marilyn Meyers, 18, also was arrested on
charges of "aiding and abetting a negligent driver."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Going to the Beach These Days
Not Like the Ole Swimmin' Hole
By HAL BOYLE
New York (P When you grow from a boy into a man, you are
short-changed in many ways.
You trade the simple life for the complicated life. And one of
the things you trade is the "ole swimming hole" for the beach.
It is a poor swap. It turns the carefree barefoot boy of yore into a
groaning, rtwMwsa
nive oy Adam into the Garden
of Eden's pool.
Co-educational swimming has
ruined all that.
After a1 man marries, he finds
that going to the beach is a ritu
al and an industry. Getting
properly undressed for the
ocean's foamy touch takes more
trouble and clothing than dress
ing for a fancy dress ball. It
is more like going on an African
safari than going for a swim.
I spent a week-end at the
eral Vaughan during the army
navy game, and even had a pri- ARE YOU SURPRISED?
vate compartment on the spe
cial train that carried the Pres
ident to the game.
'Perfect' Gambling System
Failed to Pay Off in Vegas
(Editor's Note: Some weeks ago the Capital Journal printed
an article by Leo Guild, author of "The Wizard of Odds," on
what looked to him like a "perfect" gambling system.
Guild went with the system's "master mind," Francis Mc
Gowan, to test it out in Las Vegas on the roulette tables.
Here's what Guild found about how the system worked.)
By LEO GUILD
(Author ot "The Wizard of odds")
Las Vegas, Aug. 8 Einstein is right. McGowan is wrong. The
roulette system alas didn't work! The excitement is over.
Maragon s influence was near and there is no joy in Las Vegas now.
its zenith in the winter of 1947 Although Francis McGowan
Maragon's influence with his
old friend, Harry Truman, has
been on the wane since first
exposed in this column two
years ago. But his influence
with Harry Vaughan appears
just as strong as ever.
When Maragon wants to see
the President's military aide,
he goes to the east wing of the
White House, tells the guard
that Vaughan wants him, and
usually gets in.
Later this week Moore cabled
that the northerners had in
vaded the soutern part of v.ie
Obgjin peninsula, which is in
tersected by the 38th parallel
that divides Korea into two sepa
rate countries.
Each is recognized by its re
spective sponsor in the cold war
and by some of each sponsor's
' allies.
This little war -at Obgjin has
been going on since late May,
when a southern expedition by
sea drove the northerners out.
The northerners kept coming
back, however, and did so in
force this week.
The question of who actual
ly invaded whom may not be as
important as this question:
Whether the situation that
makes invasion attractive
both sides can be ended with
out a bloodly civil war, and
whether that could be kept from
expanding into something big
ger. Russia and America both have
vital strategic interest in Korea.
In any case, the renewal of
fighting at the Obgjin helped to
spotlight the meeting scheduled
late last week between southern
President Syngman Rhee and
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
of China, to promote a Pacific
union against communism.
American help would be asked.
Ther long seems to have been
sentiment in the north to "re
unify" Korea (which all Ko
reans want, one way or another)
but to do it by conquering the
south.
The growth of a rival senti
ment in the south has speeded
up since the southern army ac-
grumbling
grownup benst
of burden.
When I was
a boy and sum
mered in the
country, going
swimming was
no p r o b 1 c in.
We just peeled
off our overalls kX )
behind a bush,
and waded into
when the famous Truman Doc- lost only $9 of his original $200 times,
trine for aid to Greece was for- capital during the week, the Mathematically (on paper!) it
mulated. play proved beyond any doubt figures this way:
That the amazing Maragon di- that the flaw, which many sus- You should lose once every "1 , th" "L A V I- j 1
rectlv insDireri Greek Dolicv is noptprf nr-tnnllv was hor Sn 1fin somienfos o tui !, Sulrea me arms leu benina Dy
iithtfnl Thl ha anrl Vounhtin i J 'I III.. J! -1 IJ ' depai
uui.ut.ui. uu o.,u . ub.i.. UlUUgll 11 WCtBII I. UJ8" J-uu BlluUlu Will till average $2 ...I,, (hi, Cn..:A4.4
influenced it indirectly is more cernible. for each of those 160 sequences, tLf STTVu I P
than probable. Of course, few will forget the or $320 profit. In othe? words "Site- th,f ifrt iIi
The Truman Doctrine for tumultuous week's play at the for every $320 you gain, you tn ' b"lldlng
Greece, it will be recalled, was Flamingo Hotel's gaming rooms lose $143, making a net profit lmg a northern Korean
announced in raarcn, laif. m Las Vegas. ot $177. You allow the house
shortly after Jimmie Byrnes re,- When McGowan got there, one its 5 519 per cent profit, and
tired as secretary of state. One of the owners, Dave Berman, still have a nice bit of money
of the things Gen. Vaughan forthrightly said, "We have a for yourself.
constantly needled- Truman special house .psychiatrist for
about was tnat Byrnes was
the stream or pool, bare as a
hi, ,(,, ,) i I j i i"
u.uvinj iiuu imuuy a (1 ilullllU , ,. t,
0g ut'iicu i-ecunuy wun r ranees.
She packed two heavy suit-
The onlv tiling to fear was casos- A'tcr lugging them for
stepping on a crawdad s claw thrpe hours to reach the sea, via
or meeting up with a water subway, train, taxi and ferry,
snake. And, of course vou had 1 fiRured the suitcases must have
to keep an eve on the bush be- equipment against any emcrgen
hind which lav your overalls. cv except frostbite and being
If you didn't, 'some rural cousin hil b.v lightning. They did.
would sneak out, tie them in In the suitcases were two
knots and soak them in the bathrobes, enough towels to dry
stream. Then later, as you tried a batallinn of porpoises; two
to untie your sopping cloth- pairs of slippers, sunglasses.
ing, the gang would surround four bathing suits, socks, slacks,
you and scream: shirts, dresses, fountain pens,
"Chaw beef! Chaw beef!" pins, combs, books, magazines,
When the evening train pass- vitamin pills and an unanswer
ed by on the way to Kansas City, ed letter from a friend in Mon
most of the kids ducked down tana. There also was a battery
to their necks in the water. But of bottles loaded with lotions
there was always one who climb- and creams sufficient to grease
ed up on the grass and paraded Shirley May Frances for a swim
back and forth in view of the from Dover to Boston,
passengers. i dont want you to get sun
In those faraway days such a burned," explained Frances,
boy wasn't called a "showoff." That afternoon as we lay on
The Missouri phrase was: "Look the beach Frances mused:
at the bank strutter." And any- "Wouldn't it be nice if we
body, man or boy, who tried to had brought along the portable
keep in the public eye was radio?"
known as "that bank strutter.'
departing U.S. occupation troops
and ai
army.
But there's something else
worth noting about the southern
army. It contains thousands of
an special house psychiatrist for But unfortunately the wheel under JapaV Jus T how many
too anyone who thinks he has a svs- rinnn'i com 4 ,,uc mii. dusi now many
much his own boss, that people tern to beat any gambling game." mathematics and with any d n nown but 1 am told by
talked of the "Byrr.es Policy," If this were true, the psychi- m luck away fly vousilve? me ? the KreanS th? nthfi
not the "Truman Policy." and atrist would be a very busy eagles y mayk,be as ,many !s 30'T
that Truman should get more man. Everyone has a system in Lp Mr,n . )lughly a thrd f Presld?nt
credit for directing foreign af- Vegas, but the only one I had riir"J f',G "iST," V?y Rhee S Pr?Sent Ia.nd f,0rCe' whlch
ever seen that figures on paper tlJk Z " T, "l hean'! t0 1.uadruPle;
This was one reason there ig Mac's wee ne as the cen'er of at- The story is that there were
was so much emphasis on call- McGowan and his system tractlon .he was interviewed by about 100,000 young Koreans
ing the new move in Greece the fought a valiant battle The m a S f z 1 n e newspapers, and who joined or were drafted into
"Truman Doctrine" at the time fjrst dav as I reported he won eVen "ewsreel men. the Japanese army. After the
it was announced. $220 The second day he lost ut of this Publicity splurge, war thousands of them got into
$170 The third day 'he won hes been offered a partnership th southern Korean army,
That doctrine, which has now $20.' The fourth day, he lost in two gambling ventures, has where they naturally are in
cost us $1,000,000,000 plus, was $40. And the last day, he lost received proposals of marriage, terested in any situation which
precipiated when the British no- $39. and ha? bee" offered Part owner- might improve their lot. My
tified us they were pulling out McGowan explains that a fhlD ofa fru't store. He feels information is that their mam
of Greece. storm of repetitions (the same mal w"n more worK on this " now io oo mis is xo
But the manner in which the numbers over and over) was
doctrine favored certain Greek his downfall. But, of course,
political factions has been in- if you need luck .with a system,
fluenced by two Greek callers it's no good. (If you're lucky,
whom Maragon steered to the you can stick a fork in the rac-
White House A rchbishop ing form and win a parley.)
system and some refinements 'reunify the country" by
it may pay off. conquering the north.
I'm afraid, though, that Mr. They think it would make
Einstein, the Wizard of the them all heroes.
Fourth Dimension, is right. ne officer was asked recent-
You can't beat the house, for as ,v. what if that results in a long
Athonagoras and Rev. Thomas I have Mac's permission to gamDiers say, sometimes the waf lnal w.ola arag in Hussia
Hnnipl nf thi frpplr OrthnHrw uivo von (ho cvdm nnm h,i wins, sometimes the black and America and bring on
church. don't play it for money. You wins' but the green (the house wri wr HI?
Just whv Rev. Daniel should see. it's a sure-fire system on 0 and 00 always wins. What of it? was the gruff,
Vftlt lr llrwlf trh at T emt nut rt
It was a popular term among lhe week-end? A strained back
politicians.. and a bad sunburn. The ocean
Going home from the "ole took my lotion,
swimming hole" a boy might I'm through swimmin' with
get a thorn in his foot. But, women.. Send me to the show
all in all, his dunking had been ers, coach, or back to that ole
as artless and easy as the first swimming hole.
be admitted to the White House paper, but try it for dough, and
at all is hard to understand. o brother! Let me know where
Obviously a very close "friend" you think the flaw is.
of the President arranged the ap- You wait for one column (the
pointment, and obviously also 2 to 1 column) of 12 numbers
"Friend" Vaughan did not go not to appear for three times,
to any pains to scrutinize You then bet that column in
Daniel's record. this progression: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,
For in 1916 Rev. Daniel was 8, 13, 21, 34. 55.
found to have committed adul- If you lose 13 consecutive
tery in the divorce suit of Chris- times, you start again on the
tie and Marietta Hcris of New same column and play until you
Haven. Conn. (Superior Court win. taking the total $143 loss,
of New Haven, July 27, 1917, Each time you win, you start
Judge Donald T. Warner pre- over with a dollar on the col
siding, umn that hasn't hit for thret
(Copyright 1949)
Japanese-type reply.
Mrs. Brown's Freak Animal
Everett. Wash, U.R A pig with seven feet and three vest
pocket editions of ducks were all eating and living normally
on the farm of Mrs. Enos Brown.
The three-month old porker is normal in every other re
spect. 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 -L
under 100 pounds. With a higher weight, they said they were
afraid the animal would have trouble walking.
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