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Salem Orejfon, Monday, September 19, 1949
fore"
ed h
Wan
the
retrirain Slashes Pound Sterling Value
J'ml Britain's labor government in a desperate effort to save
on he nation from threatened bankruptcy with its attendant
tjmtunger and misery has reversed its previous stand and
plevalued the worth of the pound sterling 30 percent, from
stat;4.03 to $2.30, and the effect is world wide. The action,
as ,hough announced Sunday, has already resulted in devalu
atioitions of their currency by 11 nations in Europe, Africa
comnd Asia and cabinets in other countries are in emergency
possessions as to their course, meanwhile having temporarily
tectuspended foreign exchange dealings.
Ion British devaluation has caused the biggest financial tur
thenoil the world has seen since Great Britain went off the
chold standard 18 years ago this month. As explained by
Mir Stafford Cripps, Britain's economic czar, Britain hopes
tf'he can get increased dollar earnings underway before the
a"a:ull effect of price increases at home are felt, and increase
remports and become economically independent when the
192-VIarshall plan ends in 1952. By making British goods
of "Jieaper in other countries, exports should increase and
stu;hus provide dollars to pay for imports.
Edt '
Wa Threats of inflation, unemployment, a lower standard
t'oif living and increased labor unrest hung over the British
to isles. Whether they would materialize depended on
whiumerous intangibles. Cripps in his broadcast revealing
devaluation, admitted that devaluation was a desperate
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Johnson's Use of Planes
Leads to News Ban on Rides
By DREW PEARSON
Washington More information has leaked out of the national
defense department which makes It as plain as the nose on your
face as to why usually forthright Secretary Louie Johnson back
tracked so suddenly on banning those private airplane junkets
at the taxpayers' expense.
musical show at the Bohemian
Grove involve military secur
ity?" Spokesman: "No."
Columnist: "In that case, if
the information is available, if
it is not a military secret, and
if you are not supposed to censor
anything except military secrets,
why can't you tell the public
what it's entitlel to know?"
Spokesman: (Fumbling for
words): "There you get into a
very personal thing. In govern
ment, you should get an honest
answer while it will not embar
rass ..." (his voice trailed
off.)
gy GUILD
Wizard of Odds
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Right Man-Right Place
By DON UPJOHN
The state bar association meeting at Gearhart did a pretty neat
trick for itself when its named Wallace P. Carson, Salem attorney,
as its president for the coming year. Incidentally, it's a pretty neat
trick for us to refer to our "Wally" as Wallace P. Carson, but we
presume with this new dignity thrust upon him It's essential, as
well as Dolite.
This selection ' xrfT-w J Ruin, the elephant, a birthday
For Johnson's
face would have
been a lot red
der than those
of senators and
congressm e n if
all the facts
about airplane
rides by bigwigs
were aired to
the public.
in late juiy.j
for instance. the Br
Dewdrop, built '',
by the air force for "President"
Dewey, made a special trip to
the annual Jubilee at the Bohe
mian Grove, California, with a
cargo of special friends of Sec
retary of Defense Johnson and
Undersecretary Steve Early.
Johnson's friends were New
,1 fT I
Columnist: "That is an Im
portant point. The question is
whether government officials.
YOU ATE A PIECE OF CANDY
WEEK. ODDS ARE 1 IN 10
YOU BOUGHT IT AT THE
MOVIES
J i i . .X
noiviNd INTO a AC CTATION?
ODDS APE 1 IN 5 YOU WONT
BUY3A, BUT JUST SET
INFORMATION. AIP OR WATER
EVEN THOUSM
IN OUICKSAND
TO THE WAIST,
YOU HAVE A
7 TO 1 CHANCE
OF SURVIVAL IF
YOU SWIM
THROUGH THE
MOPAS4
ta.wiMss
CAUGHT
York businessmen, while Early's i paid by the taxpayer,,
,irf. wr nffiHals of the !n?uld be allowed to suppress
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Pullman-Standard Car Manufac
turing company, of which Early
was once vice president.
The passengers included
information just because it
may be embarrassing to them."
Spokesman: "I didn t say this
would be embarrassing to them.
But it might embarrass other
Too Many People in Britain
Doesn't Bother Her in Crisis
Champ Carry, president of Pull- people."
man-Standard; D. A. Crawlord, Columnist: "Now, let's not be
a director of Pullman-Standard: naiu Whr.aA
Robert Lea, president of Johns- rjde m an air force pIane might to devise ways of relieving Britain's economic crisis, along comes
Manville; and James A. Jackson, De embarrassed if his name were the Population Reference Bureau, a private research agency in the
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(OP) Portlfo Affaire AofclMt)
Coincident with the Anglo-American conference in Washington
Ml
Hid
3rnment had foueht desperately against takinir this step
in but had been forced to it by a steady drop in exports and
fojbreath-taking losses in Britain's remaining gold and dol
ac'ar reserves. He warned :
se 1. Inflation was possible if wages were not held in line.
in 2. Unemployment was the alternative to devaluation, and
ththis may still develop if devaluation does not work.
ar 3. Rising prices and frozen wages mean a lower standard of
living. Wage increases must be stopped for the time being.
Vi
A: British devaluation of its currency has long been urged
arby financiers of all nations who pointed out that in every
sinstance countries suffering from dollar scarcities have
arcurrencies that are over-valued in terms of the dollar.
"The false currency ratio constituted magnets repelling the
'over-valued cuirency and attracting the under-valued cur
rency the dollar. ,
dj They point out the application of "Gresham's law" on
ralnternational trade. The essence of this "law" is that
arPoor currency drives good currency out of circulation. Good
sccurrency becomes scarce and is eagerly sought. Poor cur
terency is plentiful and is offered everywhere. This is due
to the fact that governments insist on values in terms of
ira better currency, in this case the dollar, which the do
'mestic buying power of the respective currencies and the
'open market in which they are traded will not sustain.
Joseph Stagg Lawrence of the Empire Trust company,
p'New York, sized up Britain's situation last week:
It "The villain In this piece Is the international monetary fund,
pi The same passion for security and stability, the same fear of
j, adverse verdicts in an open market which brought about the
e "organization" of British industry, the fixing of prices, the
allocation of teriitories the prevention of fluctuations, the pro
tection of the weak and incompetent, the shackling of ruthless
competitive forces, all of which are responsible for England's
present impotence and poverty, were likewise responsible for
a the organization of the international monetary fund.
"The member countries did not wish to expose their curren
e cles to the objective evaluations of open markets. They accord
I ingly contrived an involved illusion sustained by American
S doll.ifs and gold under which the currencies of 44 member
a countries would be maintained indefinitely at ratios with the
r dollar, and in turn with gold, which prevailed in July, 1944,
in the midst of a great war. This official certification of cur
- rency values, however remote from realities, was a salve for
the tender skins of finance ministers who were forced to meet
bills with print dcurrency. The effects of inflation at home
could be concealed by rationing and price control, prohibitions
against trading in gold, the prevention of capital flight. Abroad,
Inflation could be masked by the false value scales of the fund."
All these devices to stabilize the currency were pallia
tives, treating the symptoms, not the cause, of the malady.
The open market, the free matching of bids and offers by
buyers and sellers, is the real test of values, and the Brit
ish government has been forced by experience to recog
nize it.
All the planned economy of "statism" that violates the
natural law of supply and demand, in the long run, proves
another essay in futility and unusually a preface to totali
tarianism. A Man and His Trees
A logger, who loved trees, saw in his younger days that
the great forests of Oregon would become mere mention in
history books unless udequate conservation steps were
taken.
That man was Nelson S. Rogers.
When he became state forester nine years ago, he found
himself in position to put into effect those ideas he had
had when working in the great timber areas. Through
his leadership, he brought Oregon to the foremost position
in the nation in conservation measures. The state today
has the greatest timber reserves in the United States.
It was his leadership, too, that won approval by the
voters and the legislature of the Tillamook burn rehabili
tation program. This rehabilitation will cover all forests
in the state.
Though Neli Rogers has died, his vision will live in the
continued conservation of the great forests of the state.
No man could have a more majestic monument than the
stately trees of those forests trees he loved so well and
that he helped to preserve.
comes from the
lawyers of the m$,y
oldie as a ictus-
nition of a real
"lawyers' 1 a W- tXi '"
vpr " n deeo stu- i-E.
dent of legal
lore, a most me
ticulous practi
t i o n e r and a
man who could
sit down with
the late Mr.
lunch and have
time of it between the two. In
fact we're inclined to think that
Wally could back the late Mr.
Blackstone up to the wall on
occasions. We'll probably fall
In what good graces we may has what might
have with Wally by these few two-way toe. It
factual statements, as among his
more pronounced qualifications
is one of modesty, but the boy's
entitled to whatever we've said
and much more, and the lawyers
of the state said it when they
Don Dpjoha
Blackstone at
a real chatty
party. Ruth was permitted to 120 Broadway, New York. teve published, but his embarrass
go off her strict diet to taste Early and Undersecretary of ment wouldn't be as great as the
the first piece of cake eight by State John Peurifoy were the official who invited him Sec
seven feet square, five feet tall only government passengers retary of Defense Johnson, in
and weighing about 800 pounds, aboard. this case."
Then youngsters and adults alike Upon reaching San Francisco, Columnist (continuing): "Does
filed by for their pieces. Kuth me piane new oacs 10 nasning
whn had been eiven a SDecial ton at a cost of $130 an hour.
bath, pedicure (polished toenails) men it toon jonnson ana oec- to know how their money is
country, in
world is so
crowded as the
United King-
the defense department consider dom with the
that the taxpayers are entitled e x c e p tion of
eanital. and tosses this bomb shell
Britain has 15,000,000 too many people to support. No other
the,
Japan.
and singe for the occasion pro- retary ot state Acneson on a spent as long as military secur- John Bull's
vided the entertainment. She separate and special trip to the ity j, not involved?" crisis will con
went through a routine of tricks jamboree at the Bohemian The spokesman refused to tinue so long as
she learned in a circus years ago. Grove again at a cost of $130 answer. he tries to sup
Ruth is 36 years old. an nour- When an attempt was made Prt so many
a me aoove passengers nau to auerv Johnson nprennnllv it folks On SO tew
herself secured free passes on the rail- was found he had flown to acres. Bureau
roads with the exception of Clarksburg, W. Va., in a special experts advocate spreading this
uie x-uumaii uintiaia 11 wuuiu government nlane tn nlav unlf .... ... .
" . excess popuiaiiuii wvci mc iu.-
oicc cai ijr, nisu queried, was
startling estimate of the situa
tion? Well, it's true that the United
Kingdom has an area of only
94.279 square miles on which
to support a population of SO,
000,000. Nine of America'' 48
states are bigger than the United
Kingdom.
Ruthie would enjoy
some time over at Lebanon
strawberry festival.
DWltl Mackenslt
Our district judge, Joe Felton,
be termed a
seems not to
know whether it's coming or go-
have been against the law. For
long ago the railroad pass out of town.
scandal got so bad that congress tcopyriibt 194
passed legislation forbidding it.
Meanwhile, the free airplane
monwealth.
picked him. We'll make a small donned a shoe, the nail had shift-
bet that the state bar association ed gears and started growing
will enjoy one of it's best and out again. Today he was wear
ing. For some weeks Judge Joe ride scandal has become worse,
was wearing a slipper nursing . . .
this toenail which had started Believing the public is entitled
in reverse and had become in- to know who USes up their tax
growing. Then the other day he money on these free rides, this
columnist queried the official
This Made Cops See Red
most
years.
intellectually profitable
World's Biggest Cakeeater
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 19 (Pi
An elephant and an estimated
$12,000 persons ate cake togeth-
ing the slipper as the toe had
gone into reverse. Maybe Joe
needs the hydramatic drive.
It used to be considered that a
pint was a pound the whole
world around. But it seems now
that the English pound is only
er yesterday. The throng showed about three-fourths of a pint or
up at the Little Rock zoo to give so.
NOT A SNORT FROM MAMMY
Pinky's Newest Little Hippo
Loses Fight to Live
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Sept. 19 U.R Sitting up with sick hippototami
(plural for hippopotatmus) isn't much fun. They growl, grunt and
groan. And they snort.
One of them finally died.
It was a boy hippo, weighing 120 pounds. It was born at 2 p.m.
on Tuesday. He
air force spokesman, Steve Leo.
He replied that all flights of
"executive planes" were handled
direct by Secretary Johnson's
office and referred the query to
Col. Kenneth Kreps in Johnson's
office.
Col. Kreps, polite but jittery,
admitted he knew something
about these flights, but referred
the query to his chief, Gen.
Leven C. Allen. Gen. Allen, in
turn, referred the query to an
official defense department
spokesman who squirmed, hedg
ed, blushed and said absolutely
nothing.
Bakersfield, Calif. Police while not exactly eye to eye
with Mrs. Gladys Stramler nonetheless saw red. Mrs. Stram
ler, prominent clubwoman, was arrested recently on a speed
ing charge by Officer H. L. Benfield.
When the case came to trial, her attorney asked dismissal
on grounds Benfield's motorcycle was painted red. The state
motor vehicle department, argued the lawyer, specifies black
and white as the distinctive color for law enforcement motor
cycles in California.
The Judge gave the city attorney 48 hours to answer Mrs.
Stramler's contention.
And Police Chief H. V. Grayson ordered all motorcycle
officers to issue no more tickets until their steeds are painted
black and white.
'ALLERGY" DIVORCE CASE
and
the
Careful notes were taken,
here is the transcript of
conversation:
Spokesman: "I don't think you
are going to get any information
from us. Secretary of Defense
Brunette Professes Love
For Man She Can't Live With
England is a sweet country
with its lovely flower-gardens
and green lawns and tndlesa
miles of hedges. However, the
fact remains that she can't be
gin to provide food for her big
population and has to import
And what's the answer to this some 60 per cent of her foodstuffs.
This was harshly impresses'
on her in the two world wan
when she ran short of ration!
because of enemy blockades.
Quite likely that had some
thing to do with causing a heavy
emigration of Britons to the
dominions right after 'the late
war.
However, part of the exodus
was due to the fact that British
soldiers had seen fresh oppor
tunities while they were over
seas, and were moved by ths
spirit of adventure to emigrate.
It impelled Winston Churchill
on August 16, 1947, to appeal to
his countrymen in a broadcast
not to go away. He said he was
shocked to learn of the project
ed heavy voluntary emigration
of Britons at a time when the
ountry needed labor.
"I say to them," he begged,
"stay here and fight it out. Do
not desert the old land."
The British government has
Los Angeles, Sept. 19 (U.R) Joyce Holdridge, a pretty brunette,
was free today from the husband she loves deeply but cannot live studied this question of emigra
with because she is allergic to him. tion, and while it isn't blocking
The strange case was expected to set a legal precedent. departure from the home land,
"He was the finest husband a woman could ask for," the 27- all the indications are that it
Johnson would like to consider year-old ex-Wac said after win- doesn't believe heavy
the incident closed, as to who is ning an annulment Friday from no
going to ride in military aircraft,
emigra-
complaint about her hus- tion is for the good of the coun-
San Francisco watchmaker No- band s conduct, but that doctors try.
put up a fine
fight while we
waited and
watcnea. duii
d e I o r e me
"press inter
view' 'he sighed
and rolled over
at 1 p.m.
(EDT) on Fri
day. It was a sad
passing, al-""
mftB IV. Nlrholfi
and he doesn't want to furnish a lan H. Holdridge, 26. had finally convinced her she
list of names to anyone. A de- "I love him deeply. If it was- could not remain married to
cision has been reached as to n't for my allergy to him, we him. Superior Judge Ray Broc
who can ride and under what would be living together hap- kman granted the annulment on
physical incompatab llity"
grounds to Holdridge, who stay-
death and the doctor was prac
tically in tears. I saw that
scene, too.
"But. it's a funny thing," he circumstances, and this will be pily now."
said. "Both Hannah and Susan rieidlv adhered to."
had other babies and both turn- Columnist: "Is the information She testified that every time ed in San Francisco.
ea out to be good mothers. we want available?" she was near Holdridge or even The same judge turned down
Maybe Pinky will turn out the Spokesman: "I should think heard his name, she broke out Mrs. Holdridge when she sought
same way." so," jn a seVere rash all over. She a divorce recently because he
Columnist: "Is it classified in- said that during their two-year said that there was no evidence
Pinky, when we went to visit formation; that is, is it a mill- marriage she spent a year and a of cruelty in her husband's Con
ner, didn't seem to give a snort tary secret?" half in hospitals trying to get a duct. She contended that the
one way or another. She was SDokesman: "There couldn't permanent cure. allersv was cruelty hut hp
though his mammy. Pinky, and wallowing in her pool and giv- be any military secret about it. Mrs. Holdridge produced a agreed, and suggested Holdridge
his pappy. Bongo, didn't seem ing a pleasant snort to the . . . It is no more a military medical report from Dr. Gordon try for annulment,
to give a grunt. Between them few visitors who came out on secret than a Jack rabbit running A. Dayton of Arcadia, Cal., who "As a tribute to Mrs Hold-
they weigh some eight tons and that cool day. across the street." treated her at a San Francisco rldee " the 1iiri. irt t
Back behind the reptile house. veterans' hospital. He noticed to stress her refusal to stretch
Frank Lowe and his assistant. Columnist: "As I understand that her condition grew worse the facts so as to trump up
Malcolm Davis, were running in it. your office is supposed to when she left the hospital to charges of cruelty. To the con-
ana out of the sick room shak- turnisn information to the pub- visit her husband on week-ends, trary, she appraised her hus
ing tneir heads, over the baby lie Are you also supposed to
hippo case. censor information?"
There wasn't a chance. Spokesman: "We are not set
Dr. Mann, realizing the cause up to censor information. The
was lost, blamed it all on Pinky, only censorship is that which in
"Maybe she wasn't meant to volves military security."
be a good mother," he said. Columnist: "Does a trip to a
could turn loose quite a
if they felt like it
grunt
Dr. William Mann, director
of the National Zoological so
ciety known as the Washington
Zoo, had called to announce
that Pinky and Bongo had pro
duced a winner at last. Their
previous offspring were weak
lings, none of which had sur
vived more than 30 hours.
Pinky's newest little hippo
was born without fanfare or
midwife in the outdoor tank
which is big enough for only one
hippo. The birth was not dis
covered for awhile and the baby
almost was drowned when a
visitor called Frank Lowe, the
head keeper.
Frank, who is used to that
sort of emergency, stepped in,
and with a little help rescued
the baby.
Pinky was giving her young
one the
BLAZE HAS NEVER STOPPED
Three-and-Half Year Fire
Guards Tomb of 418
"She had been suffering from Dnd generously. This, to the
a severe generalized dermatitis court, was indeed a most unusual
mainfested by reddened, swol- aspect of the case."
len, itching and scaling areas Brockman called the case the
most marked over the hands, first of its kind ever brought in-
forearms, chest, neck, face and to court as far as he knew, and
thighs," the doctor reported. said it probably would become
"It soon became evident that a legal precedent. But he warn
there was something physical in ed others not to try to dis
the home or about the person solve their marriages on "al
of her husband to which she was lergy grounds" unless they could
sensitive." pass a "scrutinizing judicial
Mrs. Holdridge said she had eye."
By TOM REEDT
Kamen. Germany, Sept. 19 W) After three and one-half
years, a stubborn fire still guards the tomb of 418 German miners
in this tiny Ruhr valley coal town.
The men were entombed in February, 1946, by a mighty ex
plosion that never has been explained. It was one ot the worst
hippopotamus version mine disasters In history.
Boy's Search for Stamps
Brings Big City Fire Trucks
8t Louis UR Joy Barton, 17, fresh from Ontrevllle, Mo.,
found things In the big city even more exciting than he had
Imagined.
When he asked a druggist for stamps, ha was told to get
them from the machine "in the corner." The newly-arrived
visitor thought the man meant the strett corner.
Joy walked down the street until he spotted a little red
box on a pole. He opened the door and began tinkering with
the mechanism.
As he waited patiently for the stamps, five fire engines,
- the battalion fire chief and a carload of pollee drove up.
Joy wondered where the fire was.
He was still wondering when ht wound up In the holdover
for turning tn a false alarm.
of the brush-off, snouting him to The entire shaft was cut off. The effect never has worn off
one side. So Frank borrowed a Engineers flooded it in an ef- in a community of only 8.000
syringe and fed the little hippo fort to halt the raging fire that people. Trades union officials
10 quarts of milk a day, while followed the blast. Then It was said even now the young men of
he lasted. sealed off to protect other veins. Kamen are reluctant to become
Dr. Mann, who says he never The fire never has actually miners and risk such an expert
gets stirred up about his many Stopped, officials of the Essen ence.
charges, was as nervous as a Stelnkohle Werke said. Crews Werning said mine experts
new father himself. have dug steadily from another have examined every possibility
" direction ever since to reach to explain the blast that shook
I remember when a pygmy the area and remove the bodies, the Ruhr countryside. They fi-
hippo named Hannah had her Eventually the bodle will be nally blamed the weather,
first one and kicked it to death, extricated for burial in the vil- On that February night, the
Mann was about to erawl over lage cemetery. Ruhr valley experienced a pe-
the rail and take care of the The disaster cost the company culiar phenomenon. The air
ornery mother when attendants an estimated ten million marks suddenly became heavy and hot.
stopped him. ($3,000,000), without calculating Then it was split by a deafen-
A lioness named Susan once the unexplored coal veins which ing thunderstorm and a brilliant
pawed her first little one to were blocked off. display of lightning.
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The government takes the po
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troubles can't be solved by
heavy migration. It holds that
there is no unemployment but
that there is useful work for all.
FRANK LEAHY
HEAD COACH, NOTRE
DAME UNIVERSITY
will write twice each week
during the football season
for the
CapitaljJournal
The first part of each
week, he'll discuss the out
standing games played the
previous Saturday.
But on Friday he'll go
out on a limb and give you
his probable winners in the
important contests to be
played in all sections of the
country the following day.
To know football
Read
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