8 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Saturday, August 20, 1949
ill
'GODMOTHER TO LITTLE YANKS'
Mary Offers Helping Hand
To Ex-GIs Hunting Kids
By HARMON W. NICHOLS
Washington, Aug. 20 (U.R) In desperation, a marine from the
Carolinas dropped a note to Mary Kizzotio, head of the world
...... -children's foundation.
He put a pathetic story be
fore the little dark-skinned wo
man who calls herself "God
mother to little Yanks."
He was single, he said, but
had become attached to a small
Chinese boy while fighting in
the Pacific. A kid named Liu
He finally managed to adopt the
boy legally through Chinese
channels. But the American con
sul was not able to help him get
his charge home.
The marine was patient, while
waiting for the red tape to un
tangle. He taught the youngster
the three R's and stuffed him
with a lot of American history
In all he spent $1,100 and at
length got the boy as far as
Guam. There he had to leave
him with a buddy.
He wrote to Miss Rizzotto to
ask her to help him put the arm
on some kind American for the
$500 necesary to bring in an
alien dependent.
Mary, a pleasant person,
whose foundation is aimed at
offering a helping hand to any
abandoned waif of World War II,
is doing what she can for the
marine and Liu.
"That," she said, fingering a
stack of similar letters on her
desk, "is but one of the hun
dreds of cases we are asked to
handle"
She fished out another letter
from a boy in Massachusetts. His
name was Joe Temalto.
Joe also was single. While
fighting on Okinawa, he saved
the life of a native child. The
law over there, he wrote, is that
an outlandcr cannot adopt a
child until the youngster reaches
four years of age. Joe stuck
around for almost a year, at his
own expense, but couldn't get
final sailing orders for the boy.
This GI also got his foot
tangled in red tape. Finally, he
returned home. He saved up his
money and took a civilian job
with the army to return to
Okinawa. He and the adopted
are together abroad.
We re doing everything we
can to help them return," Miss
Rizzotto said.
itiiss iimguiie jjent
Pacific Coast regional direc
tor of home economics, West
lnghouse Electric Corpora
tion. Homemakers
Here Tuesday
Prizes, entertainment and de
monstrations of the very latest
in electrical home appliances
will be the order of the day here
Tuesday, August 23, when Miss
Christine Dent, Pacific Coast re
gional director of home econom
ics for the Westinghouse Elec
tric corporation, arrives to stage
a gala Homemakers' Party, free
to the public, at the Yeater Ap
pllance company's store.
The party, scheduled to start
in the early afternoon, promises
to attract a great many home
makers of this area. It's being
sponsored by the Yeater Appli
ance company local headquar
ters for major Westinghouse ap
pliances as part of its program
of showing local housewives
how to get maximum benefits
from their electric appliances by
putting them to work to per
form the duties for which they
were intended easing house
hold burdens and allowing
housewives time to spare for
their fuller enjoyment of homes
and families.
Miss Dent will present a lecture-demonstration
of modern
household equipment, featuring
the new electric ranges with the
miracle ovens, and the new re
frigerators. An unusual feature
of the refrigerator demonstra
tion will be the making of ice
cream in the freeze chest while
at the same time, a cake is baked
in an electric roaster which has
been placed inside the refrigerator.
Marine Reserve
Leaves Sunday
Thirty-nine enlisted men and
four officers from Salem's or
ganized Marine Corps Reserve
unit Sunday morning at 7
o'clock will board two Marine
Corps transport plane and leave
for summer training at Camp
Pendleton, Calif.
The planes, from the VMR252
unit at El Toro, Calif., air base,
are arriving in Salem today. At
S a.m. Sunday the men going to
summer training are to report
to the Naval and Marine Corps
Reserve training center and pre
pare for the trip south.
Officers going with the unit
are MaJ. Leonard Hicks, com
mander of the unit; Capt. Wil
liam E. Ryan, artillery officer;
First Lt. Carl J. McLeod, re
cruiting officer for the unit; and
Capt. Gordon H. Moore, who has
an associate billet with the unit.
The inspector-instructor for
the unit, Master Sgt. Lloyd Bar
ker, preceded the men to the
California camp, going as part
of the advance echelon. Barker
left Salem last week and plans
to return September .
Paving
By
Bids Asked
Lebanon Council
Lebanon The city is calling
for bids to pave Fifth street
from Oak to C, a distance of
three blocks, as part of the city's
summer paving program that in
cludes approximately SO blocks
this year.
Paving will be started on other
streets as soon as needed storm
drainage lines are installed.
Many of the letters she re
ceived come from foreign girls
wno met American servicemen
fell in love with them married
them and then lost them in the
scramble that is war.
Many of the girls have half.
American babies. They want
help in finding the fathers.
All of this is a problem for
Mary Rizzotto. Her offices are
not pretentious. She keeps most
of her files right in her tiny
hotel room, which she pays for
out of her modest means.
Whatever she gets for postage
and travel expenses comes from
contribution most of it from
GI's themselves, who have heard
of her work.
Before the war ended she re
ceived several thousand dollars
from soldiers and sailors who
had heard about her when she
worked for the Red Cross.
I returned ever cent because
at that time we were not incor
porated. Now it all helps," she
said.
So far as she can find out. at
least 100,000 chilrend of Ameri
can servicemen were born in
Europe and an equal number in
the Pacific area.
Her mail runs a dizzy gamut.
Like the one that came in yes
terday. It began:
"I am a little French Birl. I
married my Joe and I love him.
I cannot find him. I hope you
understand."
Miss Rizzotto understands all
right. But, as she puts lt, some
times she is a little helpless.
Captain Convicted
For 'Kickbacks'
Seattle, Aug. 20 (P) A Fort
Lawton court martial convicted
Capt. William C. Marooney yes-
xeraay of receiving "Kickbacks"
from Seattle merchants. It de
creed three years in prison and
dismissal from the army. He
said he would appeal to the com
manding general of the Seattle
port of embarkation for a new
trial.
He is charged with defraud
ing the post fund of $2,712 while
special service officer at the
post. Another count alleger lie
took a $1,100 soda fountain from
the officers' club.
Polk County Is
Not Satisfied
Dallas, Ore. Aug. 20 Passage
of the supplemental appropria
tion bill in the house Of repre
sentatives of congress including
3104,060 as payment for Polk
county's court claim for road
damage in the Camp Adair area
during the time that section was
military reservation, does not
nean that the county will aban
1on its plans for the collection
if the full request for $180,000
bounty Judge Jack Hayes said
oday. Word that the money had
een Included in the measure
massing the lower house of con
'ress was received Friday from
Tongrrssman Walter Norblad.
Wlien the government took
iver the Camp Adair area it in
cluded all roads except two mar
ket roads, for which the govern
ment was issued a quit claim
deed by the state. It Is these the
county now takes over, described
as the section from Bunny Burn3
corner to Lewlsville and from
Lewisvllle to the old Monmouth
highway.
The county originally refused
the federal offer and appealed
to the judge advocate general
but the claim for the full $150,
000 was not allowed. County
Judge Hayes said today that the
entire matter will be kept open
and that the county might In the
future press for the additional
$46,000 asked in the original
claim.
Because the federal money is
limited exclusively to the des
ignated area, the county court
will probably set up a special
funds for this purpose, judge
Hayes states.
Resurvey of
McNary Airfield
Re-survey of Salem's McNary
field by the bureau of U.S. coast
geodetic survey of the depart
ment of interior got under way
this week with the surveying of
the runway at the field Friday.
The group, headed by H. J.
Bozzo, estimate that the survey,
which is made by the bureau to
determine any obstacles in the
approach or turning areas, will
require approximat e 1 y three
weeks. The last survey was
made four or five years ago.
Usually made, whenever, the
airport standards of the bureau
are changed, this survey has no
connection with the securing of
an instrument landing system
for McNary field.
However, according to Donald
Harper, district airport engineer
for the CAA here, the informa
tion obtained through the sur
vey will be made available to
the CAA, which is with the de
partment of commerce, if need'
ed in connection with the in
strument landing system.
East Enjoying
Cool Weather
Chicago, Aug. 20 VP) New
York, Chicago, and other mid
west and eastern cities experi
enced record low temperatures
today.
A widespread mass of cool air
pushed the mercury to 58 de
grees at New York, the coolest
Aug. 20 reading on record and
only 10 days after a record
three-day August heat wave.
From August 9 to 11, New
York had consecutive daily
highs of 07.6, 08.7 and 98.1. To
day's low shattered the previous
minimum record for the date
56.8, set in 1856.
Resort Purchased
In Eastern Oregon
Amity Mayor Jack Vande
laar has sold the stock of his
store, the Amity Furniture Ex
change, at public auction and
the building lo a Mr. Stubble
field of Pendleton. Vandelaar
has purchased Lehman's Hot
Springs Resort, in the Blue
Mountain area 16 miles from
Ukiah. He will move there Sep
tember 1st. Associated with him
in this venture will be his son
Jack Jr., and George DeReave,
a son-in-law.
What is believed to have been
the earliest surviving piece of
glass was produced about 5,000
years ago.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
1230 SOUTH LIBERTY STREET
invites you to hear
DR. VICTOR HUGO SWORD
11:00 A.M.
"LIFE BEGINS NOW!"
1:30 P. M.
"PROFITABLE EXAMINATIONS"
Friend of Gandhi
Student pastor
Assam University
Government adviser
A quiet place to worship and learn -
Missionary
Author
Lecturer
World traveler
EVANGELISTIC
TABERNACLE
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
13th and Ferry
Rev. Walter I.
Frederick, Fastor
SUNDAY
August 21
9:45 A.M. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Sermon
"THE INEVITABLE"
7:45 P.M. Evangelistic Rally
Sermon
"REVIVAL IN OUR DAY"
Sat., 7:15 p.m. Program
Over KSLM
WE WELCOME YOUI
Wi -Jfi
Spurned Suitor Slain In Gun Battle Sobbing Doris Pol-,
lock (left), 22, Inglewood, Calif., carhop, views body of Ernest
O'Bryant, 41, formerly of Salt Lake City, who was slain in a
gun battle with Los Angeles police. Leaning over O'Bryant's
body at right is Det. Sgt. A. H. Burgess, who emptied his re
volver Into Bryant's body when the latter refused to halt
during a wild chase. Miss Pollock reported to police that
O'Bryant, her former boy friend, had forced his way into her
car and threatened her with a gun unless she patched up their
broken romance. (AP Wirephoto)
Apartments Improved
Amity The Kllkes Apart
ment house is undergoing ex
tensive repairs, this week. Put
ting in a new foundation is a
major part of the job. Ed
Cochran is supervising the
work.
Library Quits
Prize Awards
Washington, Aug. 20 OT The:
Library ol congress is ciutuuus
ii i.n. 4it civlnff Drizes and I
ail I'iniio o - a -
awards because congress didn t
like the selection of Ezra Pound
for a poetry prize in 1948.
Pound was accused to treason
after he broadcast for the Ital
ians during the war. The Pisan
Cantos, for which he got the
prize, were written while he was
held in an American prisoner of
war camp. Now he is a patient
in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital
here.
Loud protests arose after he
was selected for the prize last
spring by the 14 men and women
of letters who form the "Com
mittee of the Fellows of the Li
brary of Congress." They gave
him the Bollengen Foundation
prize for "the highest achieve
ment of American poetry in
1948."
The Pound award came up at
a meeting of the senate-house
library committee yesterday.
Afterward, Senator Green (D.,
R.I.), the chairman said:
"We've decided that from now
on the policy of the library shall
be to give no prizes or awards."
Luther H. Evans, the librarian
of congress, quickly moved to
comply. He said all arrange
ments for awards would be can
celled.
One Day Old Baby
Flown to Hospital
Seattle, Aug. 20 U.R A one-day-old
baby girl, critically ill
with an intestinal ailment, was
flown from Port Angeles, Wash.,
last night by a coast guard PBY
plane.
The infant was transferred to
an ambulance at Boeing Field
and rushed to the Children's Or
thopedic hospital here where at
tendants today said her condi
tion was unchanged.
The baby is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Gray of
Port Angeles.
A physician, who accompan
ied the baby, administered oxy
gen to her throughout the flight.
Cut Flowers
Asters, Snaps, Zinnias,
Marigolds, Delphs
Very Reasonable
D-VISTA GARDENS
3225 D St.
Great crises in the lives of men call for
strength of mind and soul which no earthly
power can give. When his own efforts and re
sources fail, man's help must come from God.
This troubled woman has learned the secret
of faith and is putting her case in the hands of
God. There she will find strength and comfort
sufficient to her needs and will see clearly
through the shadows that surround her.
Faith is a key that will unlock most of our
human problems and resolve most of our diffi
culties if we will only develop it. It is a light
in human darkness, comfort in man's distress,
strength in his weakness, and hope in his
despair.
People should know more about the power of
faith and the wonders it can work in human
life. The story is written in the Bible, embodied
: in the teachings of the Church, and graved upon
the hearts of believers.
h - " , r' -
!i r """""
111 1 - - - a
I- " if' iucSR CHURCH I
earth for I
I can surviv. Tt nor dmocracy nor . a I
I B(",k ri. I
1 V" i I Tu"dr fuimi " Me I
tZ I I T""-ir... !' ; '-lo i
8 f I friUy .. 1 Srail : i-s I
Is ? I iturltr... : I
i iw' ii " Cww m. a. aiiiin. min.r
! This Series of Ads I Belnj Published Each Week Under the Ampieet of the American Bible Society and the Salem Ministerial Association, and It
Being Sponsored by the 'allowing Individuals and Business Establishments:
CAPITAL DRUG STORE R. L. ELFSTROM CO
Prescriptions, Drugs, Sundries Furniture and Paint
BISHOP S SALEM HOME FURNITURE CO.
j Men's h Boys' Clothing It? South Commercial
SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO.
ROBERTS BROS.
Department Store