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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 30, 1949
War Contract Frauds
The senate five-percenter investigating committee has
turned up some interesting facts regarding methods uti
lized to secure government contracts through the conniv
ance of officials in exalted positions who were silent bene
ficiaries in the form of rake-offs for the use of their in
fluence with those in the seats of the mighty.
At the most the committee can only scratch the surface
of what is and has been going on in our spendthrift govern
ment. Only petty deals can be publicly exposed, for the
big profiteers and grafters are too clever to be caught with
out long, secret investigations.
Such investigations as those by the intelligence and law
enforcement division of the treasury department, such as
sent Capone, Pendergast and other super-crooks to prison
for income tax violations, are necessary, for great crimi
nals are too smart to be caught otherwise.
Quizzing of principals while exposing petty vicious prac
tices for lining pockets through moral turpitude do not
touch the big boys, though they are beneficial in exposures
of the system employed. There is a big field that cannot
be reached by public hearings.
For instance, in a recent report to congress, Lindsey C.
Warren, controller general of the United States, charged
that more than $11.5 million has been overpaid to govern
ment war contractors through fraud and waste.
"Improper payments' of more than $6,280,000 were "Induced
by fraud," and of this only the insignificant sum of $107,882
had been recovered so far, Mr. Warren also stated. Further,
he added, it was "unlikely that any substantially approximate
amount will ever be recovered."
An additional $2,340,000 was paid out to the contractors
through "improper or excessive payments not involving fraud,"
he reported. In sharp language he told how he had endeavored
to recover some of this by voluntary refunds. In most in
stances, government agencies that made the overpayments "de
voted their efforts to defending the excessive settlements in
stead of attempting to recover them. Voluntary refunds had
reached $474,717. ,
The Warren report was based on a study of 9,195 settle-
TYipnto pnvprintr Tuivmpnta nf 9. P.1K rnntrnptnrs nf n tntnl nf
$1,165,000,000 for the termination of 26,484 contracts. It
was in "at least" 472 of these settlements that the $6,280,
000 was overpaid as the result of fraud, the report said.
This excluded over-payments through "error or careless
ness." Mr. Warren blamed the situation on the contract set
tlement act of 1944, which permitted government agencies
to settle contracts in full before they had been audited
by any outside agencies a law that invited collusion and
fraud. It "paved the way for improper payment of many
millions of public funds through fraud, collusion, ignor
ance, inadvertence or over-liberality in effecting termina
tion settlement."
The facts have been turned over to the department of
justice, which faces "a herculean problem" in prosecuting
frauds at this late day, "all but impossible." Warren con
cludes: "There were 'numerous instances' where government
employes were supposed to have accepted 'entertainment,
lunches, dinners, liquors, etc, from contractors who, in
return, seem to have been favored with government con
tracts and liberal termination settlements.' "
Mayor Should Act to Avoid Time Mess
Salem will become time-happy next Monday unless
Mayor Elfstrom acts in advance to put the city clocks on a
unified basis.
The trouble lies with the shift back from daylight sav
ing time, effective since May 16, to standard time. A coun
cil ordinance calls for the ending of daylight time early
Sunday morning. However, already pending is an ordi
nance, sponsored by Alderman Gille, to extend daylight
saving time so as to return to standard time when Port
land docs.
Alderman Gille's bill to extend daylight saving time to
conform to Portland can not be acted on until Monday
night. Portland and some other Oregon cities will not
go back on standard time until September 25.
So, from early Sunday to Monday night, Salem will be
in complete confusion over the kind of time the city has.
The Capital Journal has not favored daylight time for
individual areas, because of the constant confusion that
results. However, under the circumstances a special two
day continuation seems in order. The most logical way to
correct the mess that is bound to result for the two days
starting this coming Sunday morning is for the Mayor to
act.
He can issue a proclamation asking city officials to re
main on daylight time during the two-day period until the
council decides, Although the proclamation would have no
legal effect, it would set the schedule for city officials and
this in turn would be followed by the city generally.
The legislature at this year's session authorized the
governor to keep the state on standard time unless the
bordering states of Washington and California changed
to daylight saving time during the summer. However, a
referendum has held up operation of this law. Further
more, the law has been interpreted by some as only a dec
laration of state policy. This particular law will be voted
on at the general election in November, 1950.
So there appears no other alternative locally, at the
moment, except for the mayor to issue the kind of pro
clamation as suggested. Then the council can decide Mon
day night on the extension question, and the city generally
will be spared additional headaches on juggling of clocks.
Gets Stolen Car Back Easy Way
Potsdam, N. Y. yP) Gerald Smith got back his stolen auto
mobile the easy way.
One hour after the car disappeared from a parking lot, a
man drove It to a garage where Smith was working and asked
him to put some air in the tires.
' The thief beat it when Smith started firing questions.
BY BECK
A Dog's Life
:.""''" wSlMfo THAT'S THE SECOND BOTTLE OF
.): ZAi-'stty mmfflm. SCOTCH IT'S COST VOU FOR THAT fiil
l&ti'. - T$$m8 FREE A0VICE FROM YOUR EXPERT WM
DOS-TRAINING FRIENDS. IT WMk
iW$fe?& iaa: VOULD'VE BEEN CHEAPER TO SEND JWa?ft'
1 HIM TO A KENNEL" AND LOOK ,;,,,
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Marine General's Order
Starts Rumpus on School
(Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Wash
ington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old Part
ner, Robert S. Allen.)
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
By ROBERTS. ALLEN
Washington Now the marines seem to have caught the public
furor fever.
The famed fighting corps has been serenely out of the lime
light while army, navy and air force brasshats have starred ner
vously before sensational congressional probes. But Marine Maj.
Gen. Graves B.i
E r s k i n e has
changed all that
down in San
Diego.
He has suc
ceeded in stir
ring up a furi
ous tumult in
the area.
The scrappy
San Diego Jour
nal is gnashing
M 1 '"'I
I? -- r?
0KJ
Bobert S. Allen
SIPS FOR SUPPER
The Pioneers
Young, who controls Chesa
peake & Ohio and the Federa
tion for Railway Progress, has
had a number of cordial talks
with heads of the Pennsylvania
and New York Central railroads.
Peacemaking bond between
them is their common opposi
tion to the increasingly compet
ing trucking systems.
Significant indication of the
new harmony was the appoint
ment of two of young's top lieu
tenants to key jobs in the east-
By DON UPJOHN
There's a nostalgic note in a release Just issued by Ralph
Watson, public relations consultant of the state highway depart
ment, in which he briefly recounts the history of the "Century
club," an organization of cyclists around1 the turn of the cen
tury who had to do 100 miles in a day pedalling on their bikes
to be eligible
its teeth at Er-
k i n e in boxcar headlines.
-. 4.. 1 4 4 a nffini'ilc If a
Slbta'-i highhanded ern railroads .presidents' confer-
martinet. Congressman Clinton ,
D. McKinnon is demanding a
public investigation.
Alarmed Defense secretary
l( rT 9
Suva book this year? odds are
3 to i you b0u6ht it in a store
rather than thr0u6h the mail.
(60CC RWVUd, H.H.IMUS,
6IRLS
AROUND 30, ODDS ARE
I IN 5 YOU U MARRY A
AUN Y0UN6ER THAN YOU.
FOUR MILK BOTTLES ARE
USED FOR EVERY BOTTLE W
6ET- ONE DELIVERED, ONE
AWAITINo DELIVERY, ONE BEIN6
CLEANED, ONE IN RESERVE.
They are C&O President
Walter Touhy and Federation
President Thomas J. Deegan.
Despite the current good will,
for membership
and he mentions
Fred Merrill of
P o r tland and
Watt Shipp of
Salem as two of
the foremost of
such heroic ped
allers. Ralph
points out that
this club became
so strong that in
1901 the legisla
Lki
Probably wasting their efforts.
From the looks of things it's
apt to be washed off by state
fair time.
Louis Johnson has rushed an as- however, insiders still expect
sistant to the city to check on Young to make another try to
the matter. sain control of New York cen-
tral. He is the largest single
Cause of the uproar was Er- stockholder, but was barred
skineis order to use navy funds from taking over by the inter
to set up a private grade school slate commerce commission last
in Camp Pendleton, which he year.
commands. Local and state edu-
Oon Uplohn
Nobody's Complaining
Beverly Hills, Calif., - VP)
"The bared bosom is here to stay
says Designer Merideth Peterson,
whose fall and winter collection
of plunging necklines is evidence
of her belief.
cational authorities hotly con
tend this is contrary to Califor
nia law. They also charge Er
skine with being rude and auto
cratic.
POWER FIGHT
There was some dizzy voting
when the senate restored the
president's public power pro
gram that the appropriations
We note it's planned to try to
ture enacted a dui providing iur eep this fantastic nonsense
bicycle paths along the high- about daylight savings in effect
ways to be financed by an an- on another prolonged spree of it
nual tax of a dollar on each after it is supposed to die Sep-
bike. Each cyclist was given a tember 12. Why not forget that
tag to be securely fastened to and go in for something sensi-
his bicycle and anyone riding ble, like an ordinance providing
his bike after April 1 of that for dollar saving time, such as
year without such a tag on it between now and Christmas
was subject to having his wheel making a dollar worth a dollar
seized and sold for the amount and a half, or some such thing,
of the tax and costs. So, it This no doubt would meet with
was these old boys who were universal approval.
responsible for the numerous
imposts and taxes, operator's Hold Your Breath
license, motor vehicle license, Los Angeles P) Longshore
gasoline tax, et cetera, which men Jose Venegas, 48, was only
we all have to dig up these days, smoking a cigaret, but the judge
The simple idea of a buck a gave him 180 days in jail. The
bike to build narrow paths along reason: He was smoking aboard
the roadsides has grown into a ship, the Grace Line freighter
quite a fat baby. We don't know Santa Juana, loaded with 7660
how many contributed a dollar cases of dynamite, 2000 kegs of
each for bicycle tags but last blasting powder and 14 cases of
year motorists dug up well over dynamite caps.
nnin V?Mi1X ot in The lmme"rS5T"wealthy ma
nance the bicycle paths of to- haaja of JodhpuJ has taken on
ay- another wife, a Scottish blond,
he has advised the world. May
Notice some workmen today be he got this one so he'd save
brushing the dust off the streets, some of his dough.
He argues he has acted within committee ripped out of the in-
his rights. terior department's budget bill.
To this, Dr. John S. Carroll, One instance was Sen. Harry
county superi ntendent of Cain (R-Wash) who went firm
schools, retorted, "General Er- iy down the line against the
skine is nicking the public purse projects. He is the first senator
to set up an independent school from j,is state in 21 years to op
system in a state whose consti- pose public power develop
tution already provides a public ments. The last was Sen. Miles
school system. His action is ba- Poindexter, defeated in 1928.
sically un-American. The gen- . , , j:
eral apparently carries too much zy VQtes Qf Sens ZaUs Ecton (R
Uiana hj wuaic mo unit un iii
civilians.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Dog Lovers Attack Ed
For Piece on Pooches
By ED CREAGH
(Substituting tor coiumnlit Hal Boyla)
New York, Aug. 30 W) Some day, I do not guarantee when,
this reporter is going to learn to keep his big yap shut.
About dogs, anyway.
A few days ago I committed' a piece for the papers to the
effect that dogs are not what they used to be. I said they were
somewhat
ty decides Mrs. Ingram hasn't
heard it and starts barking like
crazy.
Mrs. Ingram can hear Jetty
barking and she can hear on the
A phone. What she can't hear is
J5 4U (.l.knn. T..44.. 1
that. How? The man from
Tampa doesn't say.
Adding fuel to the noisy clash
is the fact that this is not the
first time Erskine has rowed
with local authorities.
Mont) and Richard Russell (D-
Ga). Their balloting cleared up
a long-standing mystery.
Last winter, during the civil-
rights fight, Ecton bolted his fel-
ln... ..V.linnv. iAA ...ilk
, . . , . iww icuuuntnua aim aiucu wim
They crossed swords last year the Dlxvlecrat- Hls action eaud
over a bus franchise lot f eyebrow-raising. Rus-
Oceanside, which adjoins ... ,,,',. 4Vl
Camp Pendleton, established a Horse power project in Montana
bus line to serve families of the revealed it was in payment ior
post living in the town. Under ,.
arrangements imposed by Er-
o n
the sissy side
nowadays, that
they weren't
getting in the
headlines much,
that the cats
seemed to be
taking over.
It seems some
dog-doters-on in
Jackman Sta
tion, Mr., Chula
Vista, Calif.,
and points between disagree.
Also, they write letters. Nice
F,d Creain
Then there is Pat, a collie.
Pat came to live with Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Douthitt of Dar
lington, Pa., as a pup. Fine pup,
too. His favorite job was wak-
Jetters Suggesting a friendly ing Douthitt each morning, and
u. w, u. w he ,ulked ,f hia master got up
my piece I was probably drunk
under ether, or in the pay of
the international association of
dog-catchers.
Some newspapers also reacted.
The Utica, N.Y., Observer-Dis-
unassisted.
Well, one day Pat was miss
ing. No one knew why. No
domestic trouble. Accounts all
in order. Just another case for
the bureau of missing dogs.
Seven years later a dog turn-
skine, the bus line operated in
the red for months. Then,
abruptly, he barred the munici
pal buses entirely and granted
an exclusive franchise to an out
side private company.
Erskine's legal officer at the
time was Marine Capt. William
H. Daubney. Two weeks later,
Daubney appeared before the
Oceanside city council as the ci-
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
vilian attorney
company.
In this capacity, he offered to
Ecton's earlier support.
A strong private utility adher
ent, Ecton opposed the Hungry
Horse public power program.
Russell voted for all the other
disputed projects. But on Hun
gry Horse, he lined up with the
Montana Power & Light com
pany as his part of the deal with
Ecton.
NOTE Chief credit for the
administration's smashing v i c -
tory on the power issue belongs
oi we private . c T -j,,, r ai
ucui ujoici urn j-mat wiiu
masterminded the smart parlia
mentary strategy, and Sens. Ro-
on
English Channel Presents
Challenge of Conquest
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
'i.P! Forfflsn Aflilr. nslTRti
The annual parade of aspiring English channel swimmers is
under way, demonstraling again that mankind's spirit of conquest
especially ngninst the forces of nature never dies.
The difficulties of this channel feat are staggering.
One can understand Leander's desire to swim the Hellespont.
I've sailed those
buy out the municipal system on . . v ,f, "j t Z'a
. i,,i ;i,i Johnson (D-Tex) who led the
year exclusive franchise.
RENOVATED CAPITOL
Despite a protracted
building workers' strike.
local
floor battle.
"POINT FOUR" AID
One important segment of
vation of the senate and house American industry is putting
relatively plac
id Hello s p o n t
waters on a star
light night, and
they were en
trancing. They
would have
been doubly ro
mantic to Lean
der, with a
lovely girl
awaiting him on
the far shore..
But deliver us from the Eng
lish channel!
&2i
chambers will be completed by
December 15, the deadline date.
Under spurring of capitol archi
tects, the lost time has already
been made up.
Also, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
(R-Mass) who was critical of
President Truman's "point four'
foreign-aid program into effect
without government financing.
The innovators are the United
Hybrid Growers of Iowa.
Consisting of 31 concerns op
erating plant-breeding farms and
UftVItt MarkemU
turies has made great explorers.
And this spirit isn't charac
teristic of the "tough guy" alone.
As often as not you will find
it hidden beneath the mildest of
surfaces.
Such a one was my friend and
late C. E. Montague, distin
guished British writer. He was
a mild mannered, gentle indi
vidual and yet he was one of
the few men I ever have known
who appeared to be utterly fear
less in the face of physical dan-
proposed changes in the senate seed-processing plants in the
chamber, has become convinced
everything will be all right.
Capitol architects explained
the chamber has been remodeled
four times since it was com-
corn-belt states, the group has
been asked by European govern
ments to advise them on how to
develop hybrid corn and disease-
resistant grains in order to in-
Inlo,1 in anrf oonh time CreaSB gOOd CrOpS.
head, has been active for sev-
there were far-reaching changes.
Lodge visits the chamber fre
quently to check on the progress
of the work.
RAILROAD PEACE
Robert R. Young, perennial
gadfly of his fellow railroad mo-
It is Isn't merely a question ger.
of swimming the approximate- At the outbreak of World War
Iy 18 bee-line miles between j thc famous Montague was over
France s Cap Gns Nez and Brit- the Brilish eniistment age but
aln s Dover. Thc cold and in- he dved his hair black pil( on a
hospitable waters of the chan- sportv suit and told the allthori.
ncl are filled with wicked cross- ties he was 35whicn was true,
currents and tides which tear only hc forgot ,0 sav how much
at the unhappy swimmer until more ,nan 35 vears ne was. Any
he or she is compelled to cover way thev blinked and passed
him, and he went into the front
line trenches as a private. ,
Later he was given a com
mission and was attached to
eral years in spreading the gos
pel abroad of American techni
que in scientific seed culture.
In 1946, his group sent 66 va
rieties of hybrid sorn to Italy.
As a result, Italian corn pro
duction on the experimental
.Irrlf"! l has"soad to 120 bushels
auiiuuc. lie ia uu iicimijr itrniia
again with his one-time rivals,
the Association of American
Railroads.
per acre, as against a previous
high of 30 bushels and a Euro
pean average of 12 bushels.
(Copyrlfht lt4
OPEN FORUM
not 18 but some 40 miles.
But that isn't all.
Frequently seasickness set
tles over the wretched contest-
weary" but chlued o the" 'none fish K-era. headquarter, as
despite thc heavy coating of T u' . j -A. i."
grease used to keep out the cold. 1 ecame w"h him.
Civil War Boys' Last Camp
That seasickness is nature's last
Montague used to seek out the
trick to defeat the swim, and most dangerous places he could
often It works. flnd along thc fighting front, not
because of necessity but because
All of Its hazards are known he lovcd the thriH.
by aspiring swimmers, but still He was impelled by the same
they keep coming, though few urge which In peace times sent
win through. him out to scale precipitous
It Isn't so much a test of skill mountain faces, or work his way
in swimming as a trial of up and down rocky clefts with
strength and ability to with- his back against one wall and
stand cold and seasickness. A his feet against the other. He
person who is well padded with would have been a channel
healthy fat has a better chance swimmer if he hadn't got a
than does a skinny contestant greater kick out of something
who Is likely to succumb to cold. else.
Of course, it's because the
channel presents such a dial- That's the spirit of private inl
lenge that swimmers of both tiative and free enterprise which
sexes keep on picking up the keeps the world turning,
gauntlet. They arc impelled by It's the. spirit on which great
the same urge that sends advon- nations have been built,
turers out to scale dangerous When sturdy souls stop trying
mountain heights, or to hunt to conquer the English channel
fierce beasts in the junRle. this will be a dull old world to
It's what through the cen- live in.
To the Editor: I am enclosing a poem I wrote several years ago
In anticipation of the day when the Civil War boys would hold
their last camp.
This was written In memory of my grandfather, who was a cap
tain In that war . . , .
LAST CAMP
They sat before the open fire together.
Two life-long comrades, utterly at peace
While fragrant smoke from logs of oak and maple
Was wafted up the chimney without cease.
Once upon a time these friends had parted
When one had chosen the blue and one the gray,
But difference of opinions was forgotten
As they sat before the open fire this day.
It didn't matter now that In the 'sixties
One had fought for Sherman, one for Lee,
For faded eyes no longer saw the visions
Of falling men and charging cavalry.
They sat there, side by side, their dreams forgotten,
For, as a gust of wind blows out a lamp,
An angel came and stood between them,
And bade them pitch that last and final camp.
It must have been just my imagination
As they sat there, old hands folded in their laps
I thought I heard from far off in the heavens
The angel Gabriel softly blowing, taps.
ROBERT L. GREER
47J Ratcliff Dr., Salem.
patch squandered half a page of d up in the Douthitt neighbor-
jjciietuy kuou newsprint, witn ftood, all pooped out. Dog tired,
pictures, to demonstrate that in fact
Well, horrible as the thought Douthltts said,
maybe, I could be wrong. Experimentally, they took
... him home. He ran all around
A couple of the more con- the Place- sniffing, as if he
structive letters lead toward that weren't sure, either, but:
conclusion. "Tne next morning," Mrs. D.
There is, for instance, the case wrie?' "l id J01' 'P,at'
of Jetty, reported by Dick John- up,lrg and, Di?k UP- tu
son of Tampa, Fla. 4 "He 1we"t charging up the
T , - ,,. stairs, barking his head off.
JZ Fin,M T";'ihl " T,8" "He lumped right Into the mid-
from Florida should be boosting dle o the bed , hl exclt.ment.
a dog from Texas .puzzles me, ..We have never doubted for
TO0-' a minute after that that he it
Anyway, Jetty, a black mon- our pup, Pat."
grel, is one leap beyond a see- AU right. I'm convinced. Dogs
ing eye dog. She's a hearing-ear are still wonderful,
dog. She telephone-listens for Nice doggie. Have a lamb
Mrs. J. D. Ingram of Dallas, chop. Have a piece of thigh,
who is hard of hearing. But If you have a dog which
When Mrs. Ingram's phone plays Rachmaninoff s prelude in
rings, Jetty cocks her head to C sharp minor, while conducting
the right. When it rings a sec- the band with his tall, do me a
ond time, Jetty ocks her head favor, will you?
to the left. The third time, Jet- Don't let me hear about him.
Student Crashes Teacher's Door
San Jose, Calif. (Pi Ernest Galindo, a student pilot, missed
school by a city block and went calling, instead, on a teacher.
He knocked her front door In wtih his airplane.
Galindo, 23, was soloing over San Jose when his motor
went dead. He picked the Roosevelt junior high school yard
for a forced landing but overshot.
His light monoplane went through Miss Thel Boyd's front
door. The teacher was In the rear of the house and escaped
Injury. O'Connor has head wounds. .
SPANISH BROUGHT ANIMALS TO INDIES
The Coming of the Horse
By OSWALD WEST
A' definite link in the equine family tree that
earliest true horse with his North American ancestors, which
lived just before the last ice ages, has been reconstructed by
Dr. C. Lewis Gazin, a Smithsonian Institution paleontologist.
His findings (1936) were based upon his examination of a
great many fossilized skulls ob-
tained by a number of Smith- ride, such animals while in use
sonlan expeditions to the Snake on exploring expeditions, and
?iVr SI near H,afrman. many no doubt rode to freedom
. wV "C Cf "IT"8' W" atP naBs that captured their
scientifically at Plesippus sho- fancy. And many animals be
snonensis. came so foot sor6 due tQ lucn
As Dr. Gazin points out, long journeys, that they had to
Plesippus was not actually a be abandoned,
horse, but represented a dis- ,
tinct genus of the equine family, ... .
no member of which is still ex- . As " was no Spanish cus-
tant. His bones are almost in- om to, ,geld MUons in those
distinguishable from those of d.ays' was ?9 lon loT'
the large African zebra of today. Pra'rl j southwest
tk. m..i - 4- 4i. fed 8reat herds of the descend-
iJ. iJiT 6c ""I b' ants of these Spanish importa-
fore the coming of the Spaniards, tions. The Indians drew freely
" on such bands, also upon those
The early Spanish conquisa- owned by the missions, to sup-
dores and explorers brought Ply their needs.
horses to the West Indies, where In the southwest such horses,
they thrived and multiplied. in time, were to be called mus
This island stock was drawn tangs, and in the northwest,
upon freely for the exploring cayuses.
expeditions later carried on on Inbreeding and a constant
the mainland. Cortez, Cordova, battle against the elements did
Narvaez, DeVaca, DeSoto and not make for an increase in size,
Coronado all looked to the is- but they were a hardy lot and
land for horse flesh. supplied needed transportation
These Spanish horses, while for the Indians, explorers and
small in size, carried the blood trappers
the BarbA"bia, The earIy kmen "d
tne earn. am Qf h(, weJt found them
Indians impressed Into serv- useful for saddle and light har
Ice soon learned to care for, and ness purposes.