16 Capita Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, October 11, 1949
Studying Lay of the Land Gerhard Hornemann (seated,
center), Berlin schoolboy who won a prize of four weeks in
England and the U.S. in the European recovery program
euay contest, itudiei a map of America, surrounded by his
mother and five brothers and sisters.
LAND OF POLITICAL TERROR
Full-Scale Civil War
Said Sure in Colombia
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The chances of avoiding full-scale civil war in
Columbia are now estimated by those who know the situation
intimately to be about one in 20.
The wild shooting affray In the Columbian Chamber of Depu
ties on Sept. 8, during which one deputy was killed and three
others wounded, marked a new
climax in the political warfare
set off during the Pan-American
conference in April 1948 by the
assassination of Jorge E. Gaitan,
Liberal party leader.
Events of the 17 months since
then have tragically transformed
Colombia from a nation noted
for its peaceable, law-abiding
traditions into a land of con
tinuous violence and political
terror.
No fewer than 400 persons
have lost their lives in this
bloody feuding not counting
the 900-odd who died during the
fierce riots of that fateful April
9.
President Ospina Perez, who de
clared it unconstitutional. The
chamber of deputies was debat
ing his veto message when the
shootings occurred, and one
deputy was killed.
The reason no informed ob
server believes that open civil
war can be averted is that neith
er party will budge an iota in
their quarrel.
(Copyright. 1049)
States and Canadian
Highway Progresses
San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 11 W)
Progress was reported today
in the effort to form a highway
link between the United States
and Canada.
A hundred miles of the 300
miles between Fairbanks and the
Alaska-Canada border has been
paved, Col. John R. Noyes,
Alaska roads commissioner, told
the National Association of State
Highway Officials.
The project is part of a $100,
000,000 Alaska road program
also including a 365-mile gravel
road form Valdez to Fairbanks
and a road connecting Anchor
age and Seward and on to Hom
er. Between Alaska and the U. S.
Canada border, Col. Noyes said,
there are still 1700 miles north
of Edmonton to be paved. But
that section between the border
and Edmonton is paved.
Goofy Antics of Real-Life
Fathers Need No 'Make-Up'
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
Hollywood, Cal., Oct. 11 U.B If you think Hollywood exag
gerates the way proud papas rant over new-born babies, it just
shows you've never paced a hospital waiting room.
No movie actor'd dare go through the goofy antics real-life
fathers come up with when tfley see their child for the first
time.
This we have directly from
Arthur E. Carlson, assistant di
rector of personnel at the Cali
fornia hospital in Los Angeles.
He took a survey for Universal
International, which produced
"Yes, Sir, That's My Baby."
And he reassured the movie
makers they could let their ac
tors get as gaga as they dared.
"I rounded up a lot of fathers
as they came to peek through
the nursery windows at the new
children, Carlson explained
"And I asked them all kinds of
questions.
"Most of the men Insisted they
could spot their own child out
of 15 new-born babies without
even looking at name tags."
Plumber J. T. Mitchell, for
instance, said it was a cinch
"It's the prettiest one in
there," he boasted. "Looks just
like me and I'm nice looking
Mitchell allowed as how his
was the most intelligent in the
nursery, too.
"She's only a few hours old,"
he said. "But she has what it
takes."
Mechanic Harrell J. Hop
kins was a little more modest
Sure his baby was the prettiest,
he beamed, but he wouldn't say
it was the smartest. He guessed
it'd "take a few days" to find
that out.
The night we went along in
the survey the seventh floor
during visiting hours was jam
med with gents wearing silly
beams on their faces.
All except one.
He was Robert Ellis, a bus!
ness student at the University
of Southern California.
"That one over there's mine,
he said wearily. "In the back
row. I don't blame 'em for
sticking him way back. Look
at that head. Looks like an ice
cream cone."
Nurese tried to cheer him up
They said the baby's head would
probably be as round as a bil-
liarS ball by the time he took
The grimmest aspect of the
picture is that, despite best ef
forts of men of good will in both
major parties, matters have now
degenerated to the point where
compromise is apparently im
possible. The gun battle of the deputies
occurred just halfway through
what a citizens' committee, seek
ing an end to the protracted
violence, had hopefully desig
nated as "peace week."
It all started when the Lib
erals split during the 1946 cam
paign, putting up two candidates
and thus allowing the Conserv
atives to win the presidency with
less than 40 per cent of the
popular vote.
Jorge Gaitan, a Peron-style
demagogue who was feared and
despised by the old-line Liberal
bosses, swamped the party's
"orthodox" nominee and took
second place In the balloting.
From then on, flashy, spell
binding Gaitan was undisputed
chieftain of the Liberals. In
1947, he made a rabble-rousing
campaign that won him a senate
seat and the presidency of the
senate which the Liberals con
tinued to control, along with the
chamber of deputies.
His dramatic assassination ore
street corner at midday (the
most reliable version assigns
strictly nonpolitical motives for
this act, but Gaitan's fanatical
followers still believe he was
murdered by the Conservatives)
touched off a chain reaction that
has been exploding ever since.
The latest tragic outbreak, in
the legislature, was the direct
result of a dynamite-laden bill,
sponsored by the Liberals, to
move the date for the next
presidential elections forward
from April, 1930, to November,
1949.
Rammed through both houses
by the Liberal majorities, this
bill was vetoed by Conservative
Man Killed for Deer
Kooskla, Idaho, Oct. 11
An 18-year-old youth told au
thorities he shot and killed a
hunting companion yesterday
when he mistook his victim for
a deer. Alvin Renshaw, about
85, a Kooskla farmer, died al
most immediately after being
struck by the bullet fired by
Nell Erlewlne of Southwick,
Coroner Glenn Allor reported.
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be cheered.
"His name's Stephen," he said
sadly. "But I guess we'll have
to call him 'Gourd-head.' "
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flying and farming and set up for
himself one of the first aerial crop
dusting services in Delaware. Savings
from Army pay bought the first plane.
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Don's "Flying Flit-Gun Squadron" is
paying off ... at the age of 25 he's his
own boss . . . and he did it on his own!
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