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Salem, Oregon, Friday, September 23, 1949
Morse Joins Forces Against a CVA
Battle lines over the Columbia Valley Administration
Issue were drawn clearly for Oregon in the course of the
past 10 days.
Early last week Senator Morse called for projects for
the Columbia valley first "so we can have something to
administer." A few days later President Truman bluntly
demanded his pet CVA be adopted before he would go for
any funds for the Columbia river basin. Morse, who had
asked that development of the valley be kept out of poli
tics, came back with his prediction that the President's
course of action would become a political boomerang to
the administration.
Those events of last week plainly led to the clearing of
the political ring for the battle over the administration
Inspired proposal for a CVA bureaucracy, ruled by three
directors, for the Pacific Northwest
Other devalopments followed those. At the democratic
western states conference in San Francisco, the Oregon
delegation went all out for the CVA early this week. Dele
gates from this state wore red loggers' hats with wide
bands reading "Oregon for CVA." Significant, too, was
the man who presided at the special breakfast sessions
pushing the CVA. He was C. Girard Davidson, assistant
secretary of the interior and oft-times mentioned as a
possible appointment for one of the three CVA directors.
Then Thursday the shadow boxing over the issue gave
way to political slugging.
Wayne Morse came out flatly against the CVA as an
"administrative straight-jacket." He accused the admin
istration of trying "political blackmail" to insure enact
ment of its Northwest river authority program.
His counter-proposal was this: Coordinate agencies, fed
eral and state, "without sacrificing local rights and local
responsibilities of government." He outlined for the re
publicans "a constructive program for administering river
development projects which will give the people cheap
power, complete flood control, sound soil conservation and
reclamation programs and industrial expansion." His
plan was to insist that the Hoover commission report rec
ommendations in regard to development and administra
tion of river resources be adopted.
While Morse was making certain his position on a CVA,
C. Girard Davidson came out in Portland with promises to
make the Pacific Northwest a land of plenty "with good
jobs and high-living standards for everyone." All that
would have to be done to achieve this dream was to adopt
a Columbia Vnlley Administration. In a talk dripping
with New Dealish promises, Davidson tried to get his
listeners to believe that a CVA bureaucracy would be the
answer to all the region's troubles. Hanging over the
head of Davidson's audience was the threat posed by the
democratic administration: These dreams could not be
realized unless the superstructure of a CVA government
was established first. The land of milk and honey was
beyond that.
This taking of definite, opposing sides by Morse and
Davidson has drawn a clean line between the two parties
on the CVA issue in Oregon.
Morse has gone along with Governor McKay In putting
the republicans in opposition to a CVA. Davidson has
just as certainly taken up the leadership of those favor
ing a CVA for the democrats.
These latest developments also lend substance to the
talk that Davidson may run on the democratic ticket for
cenator next year against Morse.
Regardless of that, the CVA will be one of the major
issues in the Pacific Northwest next year.
MtM2 MAMMA I NANCY'S OOIMS IT W3B MM7
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Murray, Steel Executives
Strain Old Friendships
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Phil Murray, head of the CIO, and Ben Fairleis,
head ot U. S. Steel, are both old friends and old sparring partners
They have sat through many difficult wage negotiations to
gether and hitherto have always come to an agreement.
This time it was apparent from almost the start of the strike
negotia t 1 o n
BV GUILD
Wizard of Odds
P. ' ll r THAT A CHILD WITH NORMAL
- W ' I feet WONT HAVE FOOT
yTOUBLE LATER ON
SIPS FOR SUPPER
LA Law
By DON UPJOHN
Maybe it was the strangest legal argument on record but at any
rate it won freedom for alleged gangster Mickey Cohen in Los
Angeles from a charge of having cussed out a Los Angeles cop.
Yea, Cohen's attorney argued that if Mr. Truman can call a news
paperman an SOB then who is Mickey Cohen to be convicted
for hurling a -
that both men
had their backs
up.
When Mur
ray arrived for
the first meet
ing with Fed
eral Mediator
Cyrus Chlng,
Fairless greeted!
him like a long
lost brother. i
"Hello, Phil. "
I haven't seen you in a long
time. You're looking very well."
Fairless didn't say so, but the
real reason he hadn't seen Mur
ray was because Fairless' boss,
Enders Voorhees, the real
dictator of U. S. Steel, wasn't
anxious to have Fairless attend
meetings of the fact - finding
board. He was afraid Fairless
wouldn't be tough enough.
"I've been missing your tele
grams lately, Phil," added Fair
less, and there was a little sar
casm in his voice this time, as
he referred to Murray's tough
telegraphic ultimatum that U.S.
vertising in the morning papers
and wanted to know what he
meant by dissipating the assets
of his corporation in such a
wanton manner.
"It would have been far bet
ter to use the money to pay
pensions," chided Murray, "rath
er than pull the wool over the
public's eyes."
Murray also criticized Adm.
Ben Moreell, former chief of
navy supply, now head of the
Jones and Laughlin Steel com
pany, and hitherto friendly to
ward the steelworkers. Moreell
had appeared ready to accept the
fact-finding board's recommen
dations, but, Just before the ne
gotiations began, Morreell was
reported to have received in
structions from the Mellon in
terests In Pittsburgh, who con
trol Jones and Laughlin, to back
track. Murray, therefore accused
Moreell of vacillating, not being
a free man, and he quoted state
ments by the admiral indicating
his earlier willingness to accept.
Operations for cataract
on eyes abe successful 9y..
1 9 TO I ODDS.'
A symptom op Business slow
down IS FEWEP MARPI09E4...B0TH
BUSINESS AND MAQPIAGES A(?E
DECLINING SLIGHTLY NOW
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wiiard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
few mild epi
thets at a cop?
It's enough to
make an ordi
nary citizen
want to trot out ,lVJf
in the street and V T'3 i
cuss out a cop I w
just for the funl
of it. Doggone It. I I
if it wasn't for""",WI
well known Joe DIMaggio. We
understand it's got him to a point
where he even has to ride to the
the fact that all cn.n
thecopswe ,
know in Salem we like we
might try it just to see how
a jury here would react. So
in lieu of same maybe we'll
go out and hunt up some cop and
take him out for a cup of coffee.
Ants in Her Pants
Bartow. Fla. M" A suspended
Haines City schoolteacher told
the Polk county school board
yesterday she lowered her shorts
to brush off some ants. That was
at a fishing camp, where three
witnesses testified they saw the
44-year-old teacher Mrs. Aline
Sl.al .mlH hau. tn naontiai. wumil pun.i.-
.... , t. D,v. blank why he didn t accept the
on the basis of the Presidents . , ,. '
fact-finding board's recommen- i'nd'J'i r , i Tn h.H TL.
dationi. "We haven't had many . e dm'!', h had- ' t'n5
... (10rsmi In tha la.t fpu, livi ' ' . J
bank instead of walk as has been ' not quoted him correctly.
his long custom. But maybe a "Well, you may get another After these fireworks. Medl
spur on Bill's heel is appropriate. jffore the day ' over" rePled ator Ching decided that separate
He's always had a very high bat- Murray. meetings might be more con
ting average around these parts, John Stephens, vice president ducive to harmony and went in
the same as Joe. of U. S. Steel in charge of labor to a series of huddles first with
relations, did much of the talk- union leaders, then with the
Also Doc Blatchford the well in 'or the steel executives. For steel executives. They got no
known dentist, has been taking a many ,y,ear, Ste?.huen' has been Wh'rf ',u
quite friendly with Murray and But the negotiations made one
forced vacation as he had both leaders of the Steelworkers Un- point reasonably clear: The steel
of his hands pretty badly chewed ion, but lately relations have industry had decided that any
However, he disavows the been strained. settlement must come under the
Madame Chiang Has Faith
Nationalist China Will Win
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
if Porelfn Aflalr Aatiml
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek still has faith in nationalist China's
ability to cope with the life-and-death crisis created by the south
ward sweep of the victorious communist war machine.
The first lady of China made this statement to me in the course
of a long conversation I had with her in New York.
While this.
up
rumor that this chewing up was Stephens charges that Murray - ""'" " ," o " ?
done by a customer during the reed last year not to raise the
course of making dental repairs iMue of increased wages this
on same. Doc got the chewing year- Murray in turn is indig-
up when he was fishing over at n,nt over the 'act that the rooms
Yachats and fell on a bevy of ln wnicn negotiations were held
meeting wasn't
a newspaper in
terview in the
accepted sense
of the term, it
is permitted to
give my impres
sions.
Madame Chi
n o
the
has
bring this about the inrinstrv doubt that
Nationalist for-1
trike. cs will defeat D,wl" "'
(Coprriiht ! the communist armies in
ft rt
P B I
sn i
pebbles.
on a previous occasion were
wired with hidden microphones,
and now steel executives allude
to statements which were secret
ly recorded.
FIRST CASE OF ITS KIND
Honoring Marshall Plan, Maybe
Bolton-Upon-Dearne, Eng. (f)
The 900 -year -old parish
church here is being repainted
Overstreet intoxicated. Two re?' wh,'e a"d blue; AJc0,t, f week. Stephens bluntly inform
other witnesses said they saw her "imsn ha' been ordered by the ed Medlator ching and phil
take off part of her clothes in
As negotiations opened this
Ohio Newspaper Monopoly
Charged in Federal Suit
Washington, Sept. 23 W) The government Thursday filed a
civil action charging the Lorain (Ohio) Journal Co. and four of
its officers with conspiracy to monopolize the spread of news, sume her place besides her hus-
was not drunk, they said, and
she lowered her shorts to whisk
off the ants.
advertising and other information.
Attorney General McGrath announced the suit was filed in fed-
ncv. uunaiu ojMiwi iur eigui an- Murrnv thaf tha 4annan-n
public. But three witnesses k 'T ''7 7 hour incase for pensions and
agreed with Mrs. Overstreet. She "V"V, , J T"1" social - security benefits recom-
piuuoujj win m inaigo oiue. menrieH hv the Whlt Hmi fart.
Sheffield's diocesan advisory finding board was out of the eral district court at Cleveland
board gave its blessing to the question. He said it was the first case in A justice department state
experiment. "The idea." Mr. c,.t. u ,.j ,u. .t- which a newspaper has been ment said the comDanv and it
Our old friend Bill Phillips has Sparks explained, "is to get rid ,... ,-. ,..j , charged with conspiring to in- officers are charged with acauir-
.nil, ah b haal all U ,U. nt th wnrlfliAii.a 4mn,nhaH - ' 3 " " V"- ' I-- u: .1 :
southern theatre and ultimately
will reclaim the territories lost
in the north.
How long will this great op
eration require? She doesn't
know; she is only sure that it
will be achieved.
In support of this belief she
recalled that during the war
with Japan the Chinese armies
were forced back to approxi
mately the same line they now
hold and flung the invaders
the back.
She feels certain that the peo
ple of China as a whole do not
believe in communism or trust
it, though many are submissive
to it now because of circum
stances over which they have no
control.
She envisages a new China
which will come through moral
and spiritual rehabilitation.
She is returning home to re-
Support for Mayor Dottie
Portland, Ore. AJ.R) Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee, faced
with a recall movement, got some unexpected support.
Investment sales representative Frederick G. White sent
Mrs. Lee a copy of the sheet music, "You May Not Be an
Angel, Bnt I'll String Along With You."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
four cents an hour toward work- Jure a Peting radio station.
men's pensions provided the Tn uit names as defendants,
steelworkers themselves contri- 1" addition to the company, these
buted an additional two cents officers:
but would go no further. Samuel A. Horviti of Cleve-
Noncontributory pensions land- viee president, secretary
borne entirely by management nd director of the Lorain Jour
were too great a tax on industry rial Co.
and eventually on the consuming Isadore Horvitz of Cleveland,
public, the steel spokesman de- president, treasurer and diree
clared. tor of the company.
band in the attempt to make
these things come true.
She has absolute faith in Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
She is furious over aspersions
cast on him recently in this
country.
My meeting with Madame
lng ownership of their competi
(nrt anH rfncinir tn miKlial, 4 n
the journal advertisements of -" w i me nome or ner
business houses who advertise brother-in-law. H. H. Kung. the
over radio stations in Lorain Chinese statesman and interna
and Elyria, Ohia, or who adver- tlonal banker. She has been in
tise in the Lorain Sunday News, Ame.rl: 'or some months on a
a newspaper published every wmcn, i mm:, may De
Sunday.
They are accused also, the de
partment said, of inducing pub-
Stranger in the Land
Has Come to Town
"You
they're
never
going
know where D. P. Self of Lorain, business lishers of the Elyria Chronicle-
to stop," said manager of the journal.
described as that of unofficial
interpreter at this tragic moment
in her country's history.
In any event, she has had con
versations with many prominent
'The coal industry Frank Mallov of Lorain. eHltnr newspaper in Lorain.
bitter experience of the journal. The two cities are adjacent,
line with John L.
closed
The only oney
who saw him.'
arrive was the.
New War Crimes Trial for Use
Use Koch, 42, notorious "Witch of Buchenwald," who had
a fancy for lampshades made of tatooed human skins, for
whom the war trial judges leaned backward to save from
the callows, is to face another war time trial, this time by
Germany, in her release from Landsbersr prison on October milkman, as our
18, at the conclusion of her four years sentence lor atroci- "
i; Grover Whalen,
111 , rarely has his
German police will be waiting at the cates of Lands- orange Juice
berg to cart hor away to jail at Augsburg, to be tried on ready let alone
charges of committing the same atrocities against her a speech so
own countrymen tlint she committed against allied nation- early in the
als at Ruchenwnld. She need not worry about a death day.
sentence for the new West German constitution abolished
capital punishment.
In the sordid post-war revelations of the horrors in the
nazi concentration camps, the case of Use Koch became one
of the most infamous. A witness testified that he had
seen lampshades made of human skin in the Koch home.
Further, he claimed knowledge of a prisoner who was kill
ed and skinned at the prompting of Use Koch
She was sentenced to life imprisonment,
Stephens,
has had
along this
Lewll. T .PUii atartal Hamanri-
lng and getting five-cents-a-ton NATION AL DOG WEEK
By HAL BOYLE royalty lor the miner s welfare
By HAL BOYLE fund,'
New York, F) There's a stranger in the land today, and the 'Then he ot 10 ten's, then
stranger Is autumn. 20 cems an now he is reported
Welcome, stranger! He came to our town exactly at 4:04:06 ? be demanding 40 cents from
. ... ....... . . T n a ,(inl nnn(nr.
o clock (EST; tnis morning, an nour aner mo lasi saioon naa rv..,...
Telegram not to circulate their People, including President Tru
man and General George Mar
shall, and rather obviously has
been presenting the urgency of
what is happening in China.
Senator's Tribute to a Dog
Won Jury in Two Minutes
13!
Ching replied that he could
not understand this reasoning.
The fact-finding proposal for
Bit ari
But every
one knew an
tumn was here. The air felt like
a raise in snlary.
dance around ln its shaggy skel
eton. The squirrel begins his
annual thrift, and wonders if 10 cents was fair to both sides
the rest of the world is nuts. and had been made after a
This is the time for retired thorough study by conscientious
bachelor railroad men to be- men who were thinking of the
ware, for every widow has a national interest
mellow eye. She doesn't want ..Bllt this is more ,han . .
to bake pies just for herself tional issue ,. Ch, emphasi2ed.
through another long cold win- ..,t has very rious internation
,er' ... al implications. A steel strike
at this time would be disastrous,
Oh, it's a wonderful season not only to our own economy,
is. but to phter rhogmwvraaet-
The pisskins float through but to the Drosram we have un- perhaps when he needs it most.
a man s reputation may oe sac
rificed in a moment of ill-con-
Editor's Note: This eloquent tribute to a dog was made
during the trial ot a man who had shot a neighbor's fox
hound. Senator Vest asked $200 damages, but after two minutes'
deliberation the Jury awarded $500.
(This is reprinted in observance of the current National Dog
week.)
"Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in this world
may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter
that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those
who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our
happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith.
The money that a man has he :
may lose. It flies away from him,
Here it should be explained
that Madame Chiang has been
avoiding newspaper Interviews
because of the nature of her mis
sion, and that her exception in
my case was due to unusual
circumstances.
When I was in Chungking,
China's wartime capital, in early
'43, the Generalissimo and Mad
ame Chiang were away from
the city.
I visited her famous sister,
Madame Sun Yat-Sen, widow of
the father of the republic, and
her brother, the American-educated
T. V. Soong. who is one of
China's ranking statesmen.
The generalissimo sent word
to me that he was returning on
a certain day and would be glad
the air before the last baseball dertaken to insure world peace
'1""" , Knoc.Kea over me ier.ee. ..You all know wnat haJ hap.
.ii. .", -wt-v-n.. ..- j.ny,. pen.d ln Britain, and
aiiu amumn la uir liiirpi, i,-ai iiuciii aiuic win-
Evervbodv likes It except dov"- Th movies quit brag,
mavbe Dolillcians who have to 'n " 20 degrees cooler inside,
we can
not afford to allow anything to
happen to our own economy if
master's side. He will kiss the to see me, but unhappily I was
hand that has no food to offer; booked to fly over the hump
he will lick the wounds and sores into India and couldn't wait. So
that come in encounter with the Madame Chiang made up mv
sidered action. roughness of the world. He lost visit in Chungking by re-
"The people who are prone to guards the sleep of his pauper ceiving me in New York,
fall on their knees to do us honor ma'ter " " ne were a Prin-
"When riches take wines and niang s return to
r insult, sru trt nnnt inna a kaln n,n., ...
nt . ,..l.., rn for r...iin .nH ni.art and start showing "A" pictures . Z..a VL".u" .... wnen uccess is with us may oe , ,. , ,""""" China will be soon. Derhan- (h.
board held thrt evidence was insufficient to establish that that now is the time for all good mea- munism. A steel strike at this the i.,irst xhr the s(ne ,0' s constant in his love as the sun m?!.LJ F,m . ,
she had ordered the execution of inmates to get their skin m" ,0 come lhe aid lhe ' 1 6 cu,,ome" l"o" time would be the greatest boon malice when failure settles its In its Jqurney through the rIan edler. " sh Intended to
party. lhe stage comes to life, the we could give to Russia."
Man .nrf nai.,r nn . ia city wears a fresh glitter, and China's ton assistant. William
10 r years wen. mucins .. , my. men military governor J .11 gin, ,re beautiful to some- Margobs. broke in with the ob-
followed the recommendation. The commutation set off X 'n test. it. "' Vacation tan, fade, but servation: "Yes. the reporter,
a storm of protest and debate in the I nited Mates. fMlh,r, for th. Inn fli.ht uth. h"e s a bright new look in for Pravda will be having a won-
for lampshades. It recommended that her term b cut to
four years. Gen. Lucius 1). ("lay, then military governor.
cloud upon our heads." heavens."
"The one absolutely unselfish "I' fortune drives the master
Use's three children live with her sister in Ludwigs- and old folks begin thumbing very eye. people shed sum- derful time the next few weeks
burg. One was conceived while she was in prison, and Florida resort folders. mer weariness like a snake drop-
born after her trial. The identity of the father never was The farmer's crop is in, and pln threadbare skin.
established.
if our steel plants close down.'
At one point Murray unloosed
Front-Porch Traffic Court
Detroit Mrs. Louise Arndt, who Is SO, was unable to go
to traffic court to answer charges of harboring unlicensed
dogs. The neighbors complained hrr five dogs ran loose and
nipped at people.
So Judge John D. Watts went to hrr home to hold court.
Mrs. Arndt greeted him on tin front porrh as the dogs Inside
the house yapped loudly. Mm yapped louder than the others.
"That's the saucy one," Mrs. Arndt told the Judge. She said he
would have to hold court on th porch.
Hurriedly, th Judge placed her on year's probation,
ordered hrr to get dog licenses and keep the pooches on leash.
"Okay, sonny," Mrs. Arndt said as she waved the Judge good
bye and retired Into lha house.
Court was adjourned.
now he has time to wrile letters
to his congressman. The fish- Autumn is a fine thing every
erman casts a final fly. the where.
hunter oils his gun. And the It's spring with a wiser look, casm against U,
wary duck along the Canadian treasured because it passes so licity campaign,
border quarks, "Oh, hell, oh soon. The boss smileth. the He reminded
hell, oh hell," knowing he is workman glveth a full davth's TT s si..i h.H
a caustic blast which almost
equaled John L. Lewis's sar-
S. Steel's pub-
Fairless that
resume ner former active part
in the nationalist defense, hav-
Inff In minH that aha nnt hhIv
friend that man can have in this forth an outcast in the world, was a most important figure in
selfish world, the one that never friendless and homeless, the the council of war but actually
deserts him, the one that never faithful doe asks no hieher nrivi. created the air force and was
.Mi... iinar.l.ful Aa Iraanh. r
erous. is his dog.
JT. j.;", " j. u.. u, "ht KSinst his enemies. And
.:'n,"'' r;h when hia" . com.
. . , ' and death takes the master in
TJ 7 .v ""."I" h" b0dy " laid band- riht hand -hi, wisest
"He will sleep on the cold away In the cold ground, no mat- and most trusted adviser and
ground, where the wintry winds ter if all other friends pursue his be-t ambassador
lege than that of accompanying
him to guard against danger, to
its secretary general.
She replied that was her plan.
This means Madame Chiang
is. so to speak, going to get back
into military uniform. She long
has been known as- her hus-
spent several blow and the snow drives fierce-
the target or tomorrow. I mean day's toil and cometh hundred thousand dollars on ad- ly, if only he may be near his
At ninht IKa nrnn la a . . n 1 1 . . . V. ..... . . . , 1 1 . l 1 "
ant ..re .... a ji-iti.n (mmr a, fVCIllHIl IU CnrTriUl
She forgetteth to find
madness. The fox barks on the wife.
hill, the lonesome moose shakes fault.
his antlers and bellows in the Yes, it's a grand time, au
woods for a tall dark lady any tumn loo late for hay fever,
tall dark lady on four legs. The too early for pneumonia It's a
rabbits In the grass review their flood ln the blood, a high tide
multiplication tables. measured by the turning sun.
Ain't nature grand? There's no tax on It. kid. so
spend it while you have it. No
The maple turns again into a autumn lasts forever, and there
scarlet lass, blushing to see the is no real guarantee it will ever
staid oak shed its leaves and come again.
He Proves That People Are Honest
Minneapolis ium Frank V. Hemstreet. credit m.a for
Powers Dry Goods Co. here, operates an "On Your Honor"
vegetable market on the bsck of his car.
He opens up In a parking lot each morning with the vege
tables racked and wrapped In cellophane with the prices
marked. Then he goes to his department store job. Customers
are requested to drop money In a box.
"So far I haven't lost any money," Hemstreet says, "and it
proves my theory that Minneapolis people are honest."
tneir way. mere by his graveside Many times she has won over
will the noble dog be found, his hostile regimental commanders
head between his paw,, his eyes to his side. She even has gone
sad but open in alert watchful- into the war zone with money
ness, faithful and true even to to pay troops who were on the
death-" verge of mutiny.
The Horse That Came to Dinner
Seattle (UP The horse who came to dinner can't leave and
Is eating his hosts out of house snd home.
Oren Knight. 11. found a saddled buckskin gelding wan
dering down the street near his home. Now the Knights find
that the law won't allow them to turn the animal loose.
i