Capital Adjournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1 888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited In this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, Z5o; Monthly, J1.00; One Tear, 112.00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos.. $4.00: One Vear. $8.00. V. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos.. $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 22, 1949 An Appeal to the City Council There need be no delay in the city council's final and binding action on the Baldock traffic plan. Approval of the general outlines of the plan should come at Monday night's meeting. The latest reason given for a delay is to study effects of proposals made by the capital planning commission. The commission, created by the last legislature, has suggested the closing of street sections in the capitol group area. This would call for a minor adjustment in one of the phases of the Baldock plan. The commission's power, however, is limited to suggesting only. But a delay over this is not necessary. The Baldock nlan is a broad, basic program, backed by state funds, to "alleviate congestion, decrease hazard and expedite traffic flow" in Salem. It is a long-range pro gram, calling for the eventual expenditure by the state of $7,600,000. Any such program that will take many years to bring about will inevitably call for minor adjustments from time to time. The suggestions of the capitol planning commis sion, if accepted, call for a slight adjustment in the traffic plan. They don't amount to anything more than minor rerouting in the capitol group area. A check with the highway department shows that the suggestions could be easily reconciled with the traffic pattern of the Baldock plan. The city has delayed long enough -in coming to a final decision on this plan which Salem itself asked the state highway commission for several years ago. If the council shies away from a decision now because of some adjustments suggested by the capitol planning commission, there will be other reasons that might be found for delay in the future. Other minor adjustments are bound to be suggested from time to time as the years roll by. But that's assuming that adjustments in the traffic plan cannot be made. And that is not true. The Bal dock plan is open to adjustment between the city and the highway department when and if necessary. And the highway department is right in Salem within easy call. The basic facts look like this : First, Salem wants and needs a traffic plan. It has been offered an excellent one in the Baldock report, drawn up after years of study by trained highway engineers who live and work in Salem. The men who drew up the plan know Salem well. Secondly, where other cities gladly pay $60,000 or more for such a plan, Salem is offered one without charge. And with the plan are millions in funds of the highway com mission to back up the plan commitments. Thirdly, West Salem voted to merge with Salem partly on the strength of this city's previous endorsement of the general outline of the Baldock plan which calls for a new bridge across the Willamette between the two cities at Marion street. A new road will parallel Edgewater street in West Salem, according to the plan. Fourth, when the pattern for traffic flow is thus de cided, then the highway commission can go ahead and make commitments for a four-lnne highway north of the city toward Portland. But the commission can't act until Salem itself decides how it will handle its own traffic. And so Salem can no longer put off a decision on the Bnldock plan. If the bridge across the Willamette Is to become a real ity in any reasonable length of time, the plans must go on the drawing boards soon or next year will pass by without any action taken on that bridge. Under the circumstances how can the council not act Monday night? The adjustments in the plan, as they arise, can and will be worked out satisfactorily between both the highway department and the city. The people of Salem and West Salem appeal strenuously to the council to act favorably on the traffic plan tonight for the good of the Greater Salem area. If Salem can't come to a decision now on the Baldock plan, the best program yet suggested to ease traffic con gestion, the city won't come to a decision for so many years to come that a plan at that time will be too late. Let Machines Do Our Thinking Details of a giant brain machine that "does everything but think" have been made public in Philadelphia by its scientist inventors, J. Prosper Eckert, Jr., and John W. Mauchly, who have named it "Binac" because it is an automatic computer that uses the Binary numbering sys tem. It is described as an intricate network of wires, vac uum tubes, coils and electric devices that use electric im- ?ulses to add, subtract, play chess and even write music, ts key part is a memory unit, mercury filled tubes that store as many as 512 numbers translated into electrical Impulses and use them in all kinds of mathematical exer cises. Binac is the second such device to be produced by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. The first, known as the Eniac, was designed to help the U. S. government solve en gineering and production problems during World War II. It was a top secret. It weighs 80 tons and costs $ 500,00y Binac weighs less than a ton and the inventors say it is faster, more accmurate and more versatile than Eniac. The Binac inventors are hopeful of developing a machine that can think. That will soon be a necessity if civilization is to be preserved. The present trend is to make humans Into machines that do everything but think. This process Is already in mass production from the cradle to the grave. It starts in both homes and schools that teach every thing but thinking, is carried on In assembly line industry and business, in labor organizations, threatens the profes sions, the electorate in politics, and permeates government with its demagoguery, and bureaucracy, welfare police slates, deficit spending, regimentation and totalitarianism nd its inevitable slavery, starvation and war. When a machine that can think that is, think rightly In solving human problems, we can install it safely as ruler of the world Utopia and go back to the animal existence so many are desirous for. When we cease to think, ma chines are the answer. gy BECK Life at Its Lowest Ebb WEWWMf X YOU AND MERTON TO DROP MWW'wA WMmmwM AND bring me ice cream. SIiMp vWMMMMm, i'VE JUST TAKEN SOME PILLS W, VS0 I'LL HAVE TO EAT IT 4' mWMWM0'if LATER 0N- would you aW; fwJMM A MIN0 puTTiNe ,T ,N fi Jt&hbL jNsjN-'' ! Y AND MERTON ONLY CAME fe5;'' 11 AL0N6 TO 6ET IN ON jjft kWBl I' eiCIWM.. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Seek to Try Vaughan On Military Charges (Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Wash ington Merry-Go-Round will be written by his old partner, Robert S. Allen.) gy GUILD Wizard of Odds By ROBERT S.ALLEN Washington Members of the senate "5-percenter" investiga ting committee are considering demanding that MaJ. Gen. Harry Vaughan be tried on military charges. The senators have discussed the matter with authorities on military law. SIPS FOR SUPPER Reason to Be Mad ing a quorum until the "trust t ees" get back. By DON UPJOHN We've been a little worried about our old friend Leo Spitzbart who, from all we can find out, hasn't started his whispering cam paign to the effect that the fair which starts two weeks from today will be the greatest fair in the history of the Institution. In fact, we've missed Leo altogether the past few weeks, but drew a sigh of relief when we saw his picture in our favorite pa per the other evening stand ing mighty nigh waist deep in a garden of posies out at the fair grounds. Then when we read the caption that he was standing in a petunia patch and the pe tunias were the zinniacst look Miss Renska Swart advises that her efforts to circulate pe titions to save the old courthouse building for a county museum aren't getting the proper recog nition they deserve in signatures. She filed her original petitions with the court carrying 35 names and has 10 more such petitions out. So she asks that anyone interested in her plan get busy with the fountain pen so she Ing petunias that have ever been can ct more backing. set down in print, maybe that Dot OpJobD explains it and he has his mad Not much time left in the up. The fact that he was re- b,feb,a " seasn around h"e' ut ferred to as a lonely little onion jl s S',U "ot h,oples.a ,fr e Sa" we're sure wouldn't cause him em,S e"ator,s to get ?he ?el" much concern, but to refer to ar " ihe keePn l"rm"g em. one of his prize zinnia patches in lik,e thcy d'd y"?- " as inhabitatcd by petunias is ay be a superhuman effort wi mnvh ihn rr.L h do Ad as long as they can't showed up to do his annual be at the top of the league they'll whisperings. We don't blame him for being sore. get more publicity at the bottom than dawdling around some where in between. In other words, this middle-of-the-road Saw a sign on a downtown stuff seems to get nobody any wlndow reading "Ladies Ready where these days. 10 wear uioming. we nustlcd In as fast as we could but got there too late they were al ready wearing it. "Two Pen Trustees" escape, says headline in the morning Another earthquake reported for the Pacific northwest but as far as our inquiries have gone nobody felt same around here. We're perfectly satisfied if Sa lem decided to stay outside the earthquake belt and don't care paper, we nope mis won't Keep if the citv council nasses an the board of directors from hav- ordinance to that effect. Clotheless Blonde Stops Traffic Boston, Aug. 22 OT A pretty blonde nude except for white panties stopped traffic at Beacon street and Massa chusetts avenue. Horns sounded and motorists whistled. Then Traffic Officer Joseph Ahearn took her to the Back Bay police station. There she explained after much prompting that her name was Brigid McIIugh of Cambridge, daughter of a Massachus etts Institute of Technology student. She was hustled home some distance from the scene of her traffic conquest. Oh, yes, her age five years old. Her mother said she'd done it many times before. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Don't Laugh at Brooklyn Shed a Tear for Big City By EDCREAGH rSubittltuttng for Columnist Hal Boylcl New York, Aug. 22 OT Poor old Brooklyn. Nobody loves her. Except, of course, her 2,910,000 sons and daughters. And sometimes you can't help wondering about them. Does that chest-thumping local pride mean that they really love Brooklyn? Or are they merely going through the motions of cherishing a Basis for the proposed action are two factors: (1) Vaughan is not a civilian employe of the White House. He is a reserve officer on active duty and draws pay (over $12, 000) from army funds. He is therefore subject to army reg ulations and rules of conduct the same as any other active officer. (2) By his own admission, Vaughan has accepted gratuities and gifts. This is in direct vio lation of specific prohibitory army regulation. In addition, other charges made before the senate committee lay him open to disciplinary action on the ground of "conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman." What the senate investigators have in mind is a formal de mand that Vaughan be hailed before a court-martial. Such a demand, would put President Truman on the spot. It would be wholly up to him to decide whether Vaughan is tried. The president has im mediate jurisdiction over Vaughan, and no one in the army would risk ordering him court-martialed without presi dential approval. The senators are fully aware of this. That's why their plan has such a strong appeal for them. Putting the president on the spot is one of the primary objectives. However, other republican senators are less enthusiastic. One proposed a modification. He suggested dropping the court-martial demand and sub stituting instead removal of Vaughan as coordinator of vet erans' affairs. The senator pointed out that the claim could be that Vaughan is "unfit" to handle veteran affairs and the president could be put directly on the spot with millions of ex servicemen. Another republican senator, a party leader, was opposed to the whole idea of taking any action against Vaughan, unless the de mocrats took the initiative. His view was that it would be bet ter G.O.P. strategy for Vaughan to continue as a prominent mem ber of the president's entourage. In that position, he would be a vulnerable target in next year's elections. "We could plaster the coun try with billboards reading 'Have you got your freezer yet!' " The republican leader pointed out. "If we give Truman the chance to get rid of Vaughan he might take us up. I would if I were in his place. We don't want to outsmart ourselves in this matter." Note Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R., Me., has sharply chided her investigating col leagues in closed-door sessions for talking out of turn. "If we M iSmv oil wells drilled AU?lJr Wk LAST YEAR WERE. TOP PRI2ES ON ENGLAND'S iTjn. A trims' MOST POPULAR QUIZ s32LjfaJ Sooom-i SHOWS JAPANESE WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO COMMIT SUICIDE THAN AMERICAN WOMEN, BY ODDS OF 5102., sident's low-cost housing pro gram. Charles Abrams, New York lawyer and author of the take off, sang it as follows: Oh, Mr. Brlcker Oh, Mr. Cain How can we kill off housing without pain? With Sparkman, Taft and Doug las Our slums may soon be bugless,' And liberals like Morse will never wane. Oh, Mr. Bricker Oh, Mr. Bricker Oh, Mr. Cain Oh, Mr. Cain- Senators Bricker, R., Ohio, and Cain, R., Wash., were lead- i,rn-rirp ...,... ing foes of the measure. Among MacKENZIE 5 COLUMN those at the banquet who laughed heartily at the ditty were Sens. Robert Taft, R., OhiOj Wayne Morse, R., Ore., John Sparkman, D., Ala., and Rep. Helen Douglas, D., Calif. SHORTS Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, head of the central intelligence agency is making strenuous ef forts to hold on to the job. Pre sident Truman has said he will name a civilian to this key agency. The probe of Michigan's sen atorial election last year may be reopened. Sen. Theodore Green, D., R.I., Is considering offering a resolution for a new investiga tion of the election of Sen. Hd mer Ferguson, R., Mich. Harvey Brown, former head of the International Association of Machinists, will be made la bor adviser to U. S. High Com- War in China Rapidly Approaches Grim Crisis By DeWITT MacKENZIE Poreinn Mtnlr. 4uaiyM China's bloody civil war is rapidly approaching the grim crisis of a last-ditch stand by the nationalists against the onrush ing communist forces. The Red steam roller from the north is moving steadily down against the great southern seaport of Canton, emergency capital of the nation alists. The com munist army aiming at Can ton already has captured the militarily im portant city of Tayu, 170 miles to the north east. The serious ness of Canton's i tK. k:i ony of Hong Kong, to the south. Report has it that the com munists plan to proclaim a gov ernment of China on October 10. That is China's Indepen dence day, anniversary of the 1911 revolution which over threw the Manchu dynasty. Every Chinese knows it as "double tenth" the tenth day of the tenth month. Speculation has it in Canton position Is seen d.whi M.ckrmi. missloner John McCloy in Ger- in , tl,e announcement of the that when a Recj government is many. u..,.Cu "" " proclaimed it will receive imme- (oopkum 194 moving to the British crown col- diate Russian recognition. TIip nnsitinn nf h vitnllv -In- she flanfed Seeds of Trouble Pasadena, Calif. OT Eight months ago, a friend gave Mrs. Jean Tharp some seeds. The seeds sprouted quickly into a high ornamental hedge. Slips of the plants soon did the same for neighbors. Then Neighbor Mrs. H. B. Ramage took a sprig to a nurs eryman and asked for some seeds of the "what-you-call-it." The nurseryman whispered when he told her what it was. Police soon harvested and burned the neighborhood shrub bery. It was marijuana. DESPITE FEDERAL RULING Radio Give-Away Shows Likely to Stay After Oct. 1 ' By JAMES MARLOW . Washington, Aug. 22 OT Your favorite radio and television give-away programs probably will stay on the air long after October 1. That's the date when a federal communications commission order would bar all, or most, of them from further broadcasts. The FCC issued the order yes- terday on these grounds: and to be at home available for Kai-Shek terested American and Brtlsh governments hasn't been declar ed. Many observers have been expecting that they would act in concert. So far as Washington is con cerned, I understand the posi tion is that if and when a com munist government is formed In China, and it asks for recogni tion, the request will be consid ered. Although the nationalists soon will be battling with backs to the wall, there is no Indication that they are weakening in their determination to fight it out to the bitter end. The communists themselves have estimated that their oppon ents still have a million and a half troops in the field. Nation alist sources say that these forces are well equipped with small arms the weapons main ly used in the war. The key nationalist figure re mains Generalissimo Chiang despite the fact that That the give-away or jackpot selectign as a winner or possi- he was withdrawn from the are going to permit testimony programs are lotteries or "Gift ble winner, there results detn- presidency and now holds only Enterprises and so are con- mem 10 mose who are so mauc- me position 01 icaaer 01 me ma- trary to a law governing radio, ed to listen when they are un- jority political party. Chiang The radio people say this FCC der n0 dutv to do s0 " ' has h'ls headquarters on the big interpretation is wrong. They'll This interpretation of "con- 'sla"d of Forsa' which. is de; fight it in court so federal judg- sideration" has never been es- tended by 300,000 nationalist es can decide who's right. tablished in a court, government troPs- And the radio people almost aorneys say here And one Jnus. "i a sense Formosa is surely will get a court order per- ITOM lCPl "Lll to leak," she said, "we might as well save time by giving every thing directly to the press. That is not my idea of a fair inves tigation." So far, Mrs. Smith's admoni tions have had no effect. ALL SET Rhode Island democratic .m : mi . with the majority of her fellow- are two capitals, the official seat . - , ,, 1111 Mieie la d luui t ucuaiuu. inai - - v.oir, i . , ut'"B ... hamuli lui me HlUIIieilL. The guiding voice is that of the generalissimo. I understand, by the way. that Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, who for some time has been in Amer ica, is likely to return shortly to Formosa to join her husband. That would not be surprising, for throughout the long years II lost cause? Ever ybod who doesn't live in Brook lyn laughs atl the old girl And n o b o d I knows why. lt one of those cu rious facts of life "Brooklyn" oul loud and people cd crmib guffaw. This, by darn, is not fair. Brooklyn is not a funny place. It Is a sad place. Consider its melancholy rows of somber brick houses, its sil ently weeping little Ailanthus ("A Tree Grows in Brooklyn") shrubs. It can't le Just my imagina tion that the whistle on the Brighton local drifts wearily into a minor key when the point of no return is reached on the or an antique pool table straight from the factory. You also can get assassinated some nervous fingered alumni of Murder, Inc., are still around. You can praise Brooklyn's people to the skies, and I'll praise them with you. They're warm-hearted, witty, unconquerable, sentimental in the good sense of the word and kind to stray animals, in cluding visiting New Yorkers. But Brooklyn is still a Take, for example, the story about the soda jerk. All soda jerks have a hard time, but in Brooklyn: A little guy breezes into the soda fountain and says, "gimme a Flatbush special." "A what!" says the soda jerk. (He's sad already, see?) "You hold me," says the little guy. "So I gotta tell ya how to make it? Okay, put in three scoops ice cream one each chocolate, raspberry, pistachio. subway voyage from Manhattan. Sprinkle wit powdered walnuts. And there s no sadder sound Then lotsa maple syrup. It s got in all the world than the keen- ta be gooev. chiefs have it all set on who will get what as a result of the oljer j elevation of Senator Howard McGrath to attorney general. This is the deal: McGrath's seat will be filled with a temporary appointee, who will not run next year. He will merely keep the place warm for Governor John Pas- tore, who will be a candidate scheme, next year for the remainder of McGrath's term which expires in 1952. As Pastore's successor in the governorship, the leaders have selected Rep. John E. Fo garty. Botli Pastore and Fogarty are new deal democrats. The re shuffling arrangement was chiefly in accordance with Pas tore's views. He is the real de mocratic boss of the state. will be a good while after Oct- The case revolves around this part of the law: There can be no broadcasting of "any advertisement of or in formation concerning any lot- commissioners, said: "This is the first instance in which a scheme has been called a lottery when the sole consid eration supporting it is nominal or other than the payment of something of value." But the FCC order, going be- UNEASY ECA authorities are uneasy about the situation in France. Currently, political and eco nomic conditions are quiet there. Inflation had been stopped, and the Dc Gaullist and communist threats have subsided. Also, the chamber of deputies is in recess and a large portion of the popu lation is enjoying the first quiet vacation period since the war. But behind this peaceful sur- " 11?!" - ynd just the word "lottery,' ent in whole or in part upon lot Z'Turl J l li eralissimo's right hand. He is or chance, or any list of the Th s br?ad enough to cover a said to have leaned heavily on wind VarlPIu nr Bn;o.auf!iif nrr.- . . " j j ner guiaancei grams. , . . c . as tne result of the Red threat Suppose you do answer the to canton, the nationalist gov question when the radio pro- pmmont .ir. h The FCC said a radio lottery I'T'J ! . I move t0 the world-war capital is generally one involving a ""?' SS' " the Phone- of Chungking, prize awarded as a result of lot ?' " T"? That ancient, wall-encircled chance, where the contestant city of half a million population , ... ls 'he commercial center of Not according to the FCC. And Szechwan province, an isolated not according to the internal agricultural area in west cen- icveuue Dureau wnicn collects tral China. It perches prizes drawn or awarded by means of any such lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme, whether said list contains any part or all of such prizes, contributes something of value or is required to be listening or viewing the program over a re- Legal definitions of a lottery T"1 " vy. m,Unt beside the great ...5- .1 tax lBW' 11 yu receive a gift Yangtze river. include three points: A prize. chance and a "consideration." If you bought a ticket in some neighborhood lottery from a ped dler on the street, the three le gal points of a lottery would be fulfilled: You were buying the for which you've done nothing rh,,nnn i. . i u i . at all it's trw froo . '""S"""B " " luuS "I abode, as I know from personal ticket to win a prize; there was a chance of winning it: and the easv to fimirp fan) dm a nurnW nf riiennintmn mntlPV VOll nSld WBS VOlir fOn- ! , . ' "' iwprMinn 5...,.!:,.u ."ar.e 10 .pay a. ,ax caPital d-ing the World War, . tuuivoicui lu iiie vaiue nf tun nnst j il. v auu SUUUIU UU wie wifh .h 2,7 ,ph0.ne experience. However, it has the Jhi Ji (lB er that,wins double virtue of being isolated the prize, the revenue people say from easy attack while at the you ye earned it and you must same time having quick commu- pay tax on the prize you get. nication by air with the outside - vnt, uie iax is world. If it's a prize in It served the country well as ing at Ebbetts field when the Dodgers boot one. You can sa.v many nice things about Brooklyn. It's New York's boomingest borough, population-wise. It's bigger (honest, it Is) than Philadelphia, Los An geles or Detroit. It's the borough of churches, of homes. Brooklyn i; still a sad place. You can get almost anything in Brooklyn. You can get a bathtub, a vitamin pill, a wig "Then make wit' the whipped cream. Heavy. Then one layer chopped almonds. They gotta be chopped fine. Then crushed strawberries. Then some more whipped cream. Then three cherries. Then " "Look," screams the soda jerk, "this is Thursday you got time to come in Saturday for a fitting?" See what I mean about Brooklyn? Chief of them is the wide dis parity between prices and wages and tiie known preparations of major unions for a new round of pay demands. These are ex pected early in the fall, with the communist unions taking the lead. HOUSING D.VTY A take-off on the famed lyric of the late Gallagher and Shean featured the banquet the Nation al Housing Conference gave congressional supporters to cel ebrate the enactment of the pre- But is it a "consideration" prize, when all you do is listen to a radio, without spending a penny, in the hope you can answer a question if the master of cere monies calls your telephone number? The FCC thinks it ls. It be lieves the time you give to list ening, in order to win a prize, ls a "consideration." nationalists. same for the The FCC said: "Where such a scheme is de signed to induce members of the public to listen to the program Patience Pays Off for Gunmen Minneapolis U.R)Three gunmen showed a lot of patience when they robbed a saloon here. The robbers held the tavern up, but were disappointed brieflyto learn that the manager was at the bank. h.I y,!Tae,dJ5JniI!utes for him t0 return- then relieved ?h J S4 000,he withdrawn and forced him to give them So00 more from the safe. iy! the ,band,itfI.wai'ed 'or the manager, about a dozen customers entered the saloon. As each came to the bar, the Sn ihi W"h their suns and f0 him to sit on Ihe floor in a side room.