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Outside Oregon- Monthly, $1 00: Mos.. $8.00: Tear. $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, October 26, 1949 Anniversary of the 1929 Panic Monday was the 20th anniversary of the worse peace time disaster to strike this country the 1929 stock mar ket crash, which pricked the bubble of inflation and wiped out f.55 billion in paper values on the New York stock ex change. Stocks had been built up to absurd valuations through nation-wide stock gambling on margins borrowed money. The panic started when 6000 shares of Montgomery Ward changed handR at 83 against a year's high of 156. Other stocks also hit the toboggan all along the line. The selling conflagration spread like wildfire across the nation and kept the ticker far behind so far that it took four hours and eight minutes after the market closed before the final sale of the day was recorded. There were three principal causes. First, stock prices had been allowed to soar out of all sane relation to their actual value. The credit for buying them had become tre mendously over-extended. Second, the heavy selling of American securities when the Bank of England felt the financial pinch following the failure of Clarence Hatry in England, and third, the frolicing of the bulls and bears in pools and rigged sales with "wanton disregard of the public interest." There are many differences of opinion as to what pro longed the ensuing depression to record lengths, mostly political. There had always been a comparatively quick recovery from our many other depressions, but none of them had ever tried the New Deal remedies which effected no cure until World War II brought recovery, and it was the long depression which caused the craze for security and stability even if it meant regimentation and loss of free dom. Another such financial calamity as that of 1929 is im probable. Banks are policed and deposits insured, mar kets are watched by the SEC, credit by the Federal Reserve bank, investors nowadays are wary, excessive profits heavily taxed, and Wall Street on good behavior. Why Dr. Nourse Resigned The resignation of Dr. Edwin G. Nourse from the presi dent's Council of Economic Advisers, of which he is chair man, is evidently because the council was expected to make a set of facta fit a political policy or a preconceived eco nomic theory instead of the neutral concept found in the law creating the council. Differences in conclusions be tween members of the council have been minimized, instead of supporting one set of conclusions, so as not to arouse partisan criticism of proposals. Mr. Truman, apparently like his predecessor, the late FDR, wants his advisers to tell him how to carry out the pledges he has made in his campaign to activate his social economic theories. He does not want to be given a num ber of reasons why the economy will react adversely in Btead of beneficially. In other words, the presidential advisers are not to furn ish honest opinions but to find basis to support any policy determined upon before the advice was asked, and then expand this advocacy before congress and elsewhere. An Impartial and unpliant economist is not wanted as an adviser, for a conflict between the economist and the politicians is inevitable. What the executive wants is a group of yes men to secure a scientific window dressing for the administration. And there are plenty of such to replace Nourse. i Dr. Nourse first offered his resignation last December, after the election, probably realizing that he would be ex pected to try and find a sound economic base for carrying out the Truman campaign promises. Being both non-political and non-partisan, Dr. Nourse was not interested in sacrificing his honest professional opinions and made ac ceptance of his resignation mandatory when opportunity offered. City's Thanks to the Eagles - Salem now has an iron lung on ready call for any needy polio victim. To the local nerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, go the thanks of the city and area for spearhead ing the drive that made the iron lung and portable respira tor possible. ' The drive is a tribute, too, to local initiative, which sup posedly does not exist any more, according to the federal government. When the Eagles first put out the call for donations for the equipment to help polio victims, the re sponse was immediate. At the time, the Capital Journal commented on this excellent instance of a group of people in the community taking the initiative on its own to meet a need that was so obvious. ; Donations came from all kinds of sources individuals, organizations, and groups of people. For instance, a few women working in one of the local canneries pooled some of their earnings to help the drive. Proceeds from a box ing card will add to the sum. ' The city is fortunate now to have this iron lung handy at all times. And the fund-raising campaign, sparked by the Eagles, is indicative of what local people can still do. Puzzler: Couple's Daughter To Become Daughter-in-Law North Bend, Wash., Oct 26 W It sounds like a punier, but It's no puiile to Mr. and Mrs. William C. Williams: their daughter Is about to become their daughter-in-law. Kathryn, It, will become the bride ot their adopted son, Fred, 20, Thursday night. Kathryn's father, a lumber mill employe, forbade the mar riage until she was 17. Thursday li her 17th birthday. The Williams adopted Fred In 194$. lie la an air force prl- ' Tate, stationed at Spokane. The young pair think the household relationship baa Ita ad vantage In assuring a atable marriage. "After all," commented Kathryn, "Fred's eaten my cook ing; we know how the other looks In the morning, how we et when we're sick and each other's likes and dislikes." But If something should go wrong who'll go home to toolbar? by BECK Recollections MumbOT 14 HSV VOW OCTOtiH t. HQS trie f Cnt . 'OESIST, YOU HEARTLESS MISER. I HAVE ACHIEVED SUCCESS IH THE BIG CITY AND WILL fWf OFF HER MORTGAGE. 1 HAVE HOT FORGOTTEN SHE LET ME SLEEP IN HER HENHOUSE WHEN I WAS A HOMELESS WAIF." WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Some Big Tax-Fraud Cases Are Delayed or Sidetracked By DREW PEARSON Washington President Truman's warning that there must be a tax Increase recalls the fact that bureau of internal revenue experts estimate they could collect close to a billion dollars mora annually without increasing taxes if they had better income-tax enforcement. " " " At the subsequent trial, U. S. Attorney Lee Spillers not only bungled the case, but was put in an extremely bad light when It was disclosed that he had once received a large political con tribution from Lias. Incident ally, the justice department had wanted to try the case with a special prosecutor, but Spillers Insisted on handling it himself. In the end, Lias was acquitted, even though he once had plead ed guilty. BY GUILD Wizard of Odds Two years ago the 80th con gress chopped off a huge army of income tax e x a m 1 n ers, a group of hard working, under paid public ser vants who have the unpleasant1 but necessary Job of checking on people's In come taxes. While part of this cut per sonnel has been reinstated, the KA.JA ilJ Drew PeraoB Latest tax fraud case which . , tilt ..Tneii..v has come to the attention of tax examiners are sua woefully ,,, . . , . ... j hud tuiuuui im mai. ui ti. naray ana r . mcrvenzie wbvi- understaffed and able to spect only a fraction of the re turns. SIPS FOR SUPPER Mystery Solved son, the Arlington, Va., asphalt Irf nff tvhn U7rt rvnmnnnHH On top of this has developed lor crimini prosecution by the another tax-payment deterrent justjce department last July. namely, delays and wire-pull- .. . . . . . , ,, ,. . . xu uruBimi iv uiuKvuic tame ing in the prosecution of tax , .,.!.. , . . wii.j wiw wire J -ul uc.aj, uu california iems all stctes in books written about it. runner up last year, by 23 to 21, new york It's only ttoI "your state HaS AT LEAST 1 TELEVISION SET NEVADA, IDAHO, MONTANA, WVOMINS, ARIZONA AND FLORIDA ARE TV-BAKE BY DON UPJOHN Ed Amo and wife sitting in the quiet of their home out on route 8 the other night solved the mystery of what sounded like a ghost plane which hovered over the airport in the dense fog of Sunday evening and zoomed away in the mist and oblivion. Ed says they figured out what happened was that some young chap of . various discussions with attor- in a burst speed with too I heavy an out board motor for his boat on the Willamette slith ered ud Into the air on the heavy 1 fog, did a turn over town and the airport, turned back and took to the riv- Don Cpjohn abroad In the land. As evidenced by a big hunky of jerky left on our desk by W. A. Bevier and a dozen of what Jim Uebelman, the shoe and poultry expert, des ignates as "pullet" eggs from the Edwards Hatchery and Poultry farm. These "pullet" eggs weigh an average of three ounces each or over, about five to a pound and tapping a sample indicates they are all double yolked. Gosh, pullets that mother twins. At When the average taxpayer n.v. ,hlph inrlnHed nn eon. sees certain big shots getting terenct with Senator Byrd, plus away with spectacular tax viola- talks witn other Virginia poll- tions, naturally he figures he is ticians entitled to do the same. Four mmlht haye now paMed since the justice department's This Is not the fault of the recommendation for criminal treasury tax examiners nor the Prosecution reached U. S. Attor- , . ney George Humrickhouse at prosecution officers of the jus- Richmond and no prosecution tlce department, most of whom has begun. are diligent public servants. However, when this column er again. The fact that no plane anv rate, lf this is what the Christmas spirit does It's too doggone bad it comes around only once a year. has been reported missing, says Ed, gives credence to their theory. So let's let the matter rest that way. Paradise Regained Ed Gets His Orders Little four-year-old "Butch" Aurora Springtime fruits and Rogers, grandson of County flowers have been harvested for Commissioner Ed Rogers, want- the past six weeks in Aurora ed h? .mther dur.ive him , . , from Quinaby over to his grand- gardens. Fresh raspberries 1 n house lhe other moTnin. the Robert Powell and Harvey Hi, mother w so but she Everhart Patches strawberries told Butch ,he couldn.t take him from the Miss Hilda Beiser and George Atkins places. A rhodo dendron is blooming in the same on account of a heavy fog and there being no yellow stripe on the road. "And that's your block, dogwood in bloom are Grandpa" Ed., faulti.. ahe told But when tax frauds are sent recently raised a question as to to U. S. district attorneys for the reasons for the delay, Sen criminal prosecution, intermin- ator Byrd issued the following able delays sometimes develop, statement: Some district attorneys just do "Drew Pearson has by false not want to prosecute. statement attempted to involve Sometimes local politics are me in a tax-fraud case. He is involved, and since U. S. district a master of the technique of attorneys are appointed under smearing public men by lying a political spoils system on the innuendo . . ." recommendation of local sena- After denying that he had in ters and congressmen, they are tervened on behalf of Hardy and sometimes more Inclined to take Davidson, Byrd continued: orders from congressmen rather "Pearson has made other false than from the justice depart- charges against me and too fre ment. quently has made me a target of insidious innuendos. But I do not intend to have him malici- But whatever the reasons, ously create in the public mind here are some tax-fraud cases the impression that I am in- which have been delayed or side- volved in a tax-fraud case, tracked between the justice de- "if Pearson does not adequate- partment and the district at- ly correct these lies, insinuations torneys in the field. In some and innuendos, I intend to sue cases no politics may be involv- him for libel." ed; but in any case the effect on POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Recall the Gunnysack Look? Is It on the Way Back? By HAL BOYLI New York Of) Lady, say it isn't so. Please, say H lent to, lady. Say it isn't true this report that female fashions an going back to the 1820's for inspiration. No, no, no! Not that!! Anything else not that. What have we done to ''"-i i i a , i serve such eye-gNj I'l shelf for fear the children will ball p u n 1 s h-f f 4 Y turn to the pages pasted In dur- ment? f 1 '.t ing the 1920's and be fright ened into fits. Remember nowT Remember how the girls drove men out of their last refuge the barber shop to ,get those close cropped boyish bobs? Remem ber the short, shapeless dresses, the hats that fitted like a shield? It was the fond ambition of every fashionable lass then to 1 11 look like a soda straw, but nat- And it isn't f I even ourselves , we're so wor- ried about. It's j you, lady, wny should you do i it to yourself I again? Don't trade the "new look" for the "gunnysack look." numerous, to say nothing of Butch "He could have a vel- tne rest tne tax-paying public violet and camellia buds show- ,, llf fh. r.nri h. is bad. in rMnu.. H.t. ' Butch. "He could have a yel- in uanoy nearoy wanted to. So Butch hunted up Miuuiiuiig in viiv firanrtna va flnd irnve his or ders. 'I want you to see there's vnllnur tririA mil nn mil rnarl dron is in bloom at the Toby . T ... .nri. IIUIIIC, ing color. azaleas are yard of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bailey and a purplish rhododen C, the T-men found that the e a d ut him, Senator Byrd sheriff of Prince Georges county, "Iways stood for honesty in Md., Earl Sheriff, had collected government Therefore a state about $49,000 from gamblers ment. f.rom th! 'eto thf' h -i,,.- . ,.. i,k v.. has intervened with the U. S. reported a total income of only """" hsten P""". a Ann .v.. .v.. rather t h a n a negative state- pu,-zw. iju, wncn tne juautc de partment sent this case to U. S. Attorney Bernard Flynn in Bal timore, he sent it back with ad vice that it was a difficult case to prosecute. Again out in Kansas City, Kansas, the T-men caught an to avoid higher taxes next year. failing to report as income 1,000 fees received from patients dur- CAPSULES ing three years. The justice department sent the case to U, S. Attorney Lester Luther In Topeka for criminal prosecution, but Luther wrote back that he did not want to prosecute, be cause Dr. Hessler was too prom inent in the community. The justice department instructed This columnist has believed that, no matter what else might Christmas Spirit The Christmas spirit is getting low stripe, ma." So d took the matter up with the court this morning and maybe Butch will get his yel- Strange Ways of the Orient Bangkok OT At the post office there are special boxes for posting mail marked "Foreign," "Inland" and "Air Mail." Every few hours a postman comes with a huge bag. He empties each box and drops all the letters Into the big bag. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Fierce Moscow-Tito Quarrel Seems Mounting to a Crisis By DeWITT MacKENZIE On Forelin AUtlri Aiialmi The fierce quarrel between Moscow and the politically rebel lious Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia seems to be mounting to a crisis. Precisely how the Kremlin intends to apply the screws is still a matter of conjecture. However, Mosha Pijade, member of the Yugoslav politburo, appears to have summed the matter up in moderate ment that he has not intervened on behalf of the tax violators would be much more welcome from him. A mere neutral attitude re garding tax collection and tax evasion is not enough if we are Moscow Wants Showdown Intelligence reports from the Balkans Indicate that Russia plans to infiltrate Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Rumanian troops into Yugoslavia to start a revolution against Tito. Moscow would then trumpet him to proceed anyway, how- hi,J f th world . revolution ever, and he is now doing so. Another significant case, re- by Yugoslav patriots and would march across the border. A top American diplomat Just returned from the Balkans reports that Moscow is determined to force very terms indeed when he told his people Sun day that "we are steadily sailing in dan ger." Actlvitlrs of Russia and her satellites seem to support un- conrirmea rt- D,wm M.rkrnl. ports reaching obviously pleased with success, declared to his Tito, their men: "We are prepared to defend this country until the last breath, regardless of whence the attack comes. No one has the right, regardless of wlio he may be, to endanger a small people." The middle of this month the Yugoslav government accused neighboring Romania of fre quent violations of the Yugo ported in this column as early 2,,, ..ti Z . iaii ..,. ,. . m,.. pi.. th's showdown soon partly oo- rn;p.L. .nj k , cause it now has the atomic nor Patenotre and her son oyer bomb u , concealed profits made from the vinced "the United State. wiU attic ui i lie nuiuueiimia inquir er, whereby the Patenotres paid not fight to defend Yugoslavia. a tax of only $1,567 in 1930 when on why all American ambassa. 1 huld have paid around dor. from the Iron Curtain , $200,000 tries have been summoned to Thanks to the diligence of one meet In London. or two treasury agents and a ser column lally in the American state department gIav bordeT and air!,pace, and that the satellites, with Soviet of attempts to "provoke armed backing, are planning a guerril- ,ncidents and unrest Similar la campaign against Tito. noteJ were wnt about the Mrne This would be patterned after time to Russia, Bulgaria and the communist war which was Hungary. waged against Greece so long Then on October 19 the Yugo but now has been suspended, giav official press reported that perhaps because of impending Russia had moved Red army action against Yugoslavia. troops into neighboring coni- form countries as part of a war The Idea of such a guerrilla mongering campaign against offensive would be to establish Tito's government, a base Inside Yugoslavia and in- The official press further spire a revolt among Yugoslavs, charged that satellite countries, This base would serve as the with Soviet help, were strength capital of a new Red republic, enlng their border guards and In ahort, Tito ostensibly would were building trenches all along be overthrown by a rebellion their frontiers with Yugoslavia, from within his own country. Once his regime was disposed of In the face of these develop Yugoslavia would again become menta, Tito thus far has main- loyal follower of Moscow. tained a rugged front. So far as Moscow is concern- This Is not without reason, for ed it has made no secret of Its he is a soldier of wide experl Intentlon to crack down on Tito ence and has been preparing for in due course. Many of its move, contingencies. He is credited by have been made quite openly. informed American official. with having sufficient military As far back as October S th strength to handle any border Marshal told hi. army officer, fighting that might develop, that Russia had been "forging His army is said to total about Ita irons" against Yugoslavia. 60,000 and it is comprised ot This was at the conclusion of some of tht world', finest fight Yugoalav ana moMtivon tad tax man. dieted in August, 1948. However, the significant fact W.ll C ..! C .. irs of exposes by this column, ' " , ,7, , j . ' .1 ,,. , secret talks aimed at ending the the Patenotres were finally in- , 4 . , , . bicci smite arc inning place in Wall Street. Ti nmVaKtu ill U. K..4 u h .1 l I departme.nt Ben Moreell of the Jones-Laugh- had all Its information available h gteel companv ,ogether J-t in 1943, and that Raymond Pat- inUnd and Bethlehem Steel, are enotre was In this country from not nappy about the ,trike ' Au 194S on Yet thanks to Pa eno- three companie, had io tres ability to hire one of the planf Mote the rik and t , recent secret meeting in New shrewdest tax attorneys in Washington, Ellsworth Alvord, York. Bethlehem, Jones-Laugh. no inoicimem was orougnt umu iin ind jnUnd all preMUred 1948. Meanwhile, there were jt s. Steel to vielrl uoei inreais against inis column. Even after the Indictment, however another year dragged by, with much legal haggling over a compromise. Finally it MERRY-GO-ROUND was arranged trial Madame fat' enotre would plead guilty and Enders Voorhees, who really runs U. S. Steel, wouldn't budge. Tht vl.it of India', prime min- pay a $2,000,000 cash settlement 'ster Jawaharlal Nehru to Wash ington win neip the state depart ment decide whether or not the U.S.A. recognizes communist China. Nehru is considered the wisest top official in the far east, with the exception of Australia Herbert Evatt. The American embassy has ca bled the state department that If she didn't have to go to jail, Most folks, of course, can t af ford top lawyers or such big cash settlements. Another Interesting tax-fraud case was that of Bill Lias, well- known Wheeling, W. Va., gam bler who oriainallv oleaded ,lvin iiKt hav nw been wen guilty to cheating the govern- ln.th" ,kv over Rumania. It U ment out of nearly $1,000,000. not "nown whether they ire e. After he entered hi. guilty plea, cr" """'"n rockets or Just however, a considerate Judge al- omeone s imagination. U. S. lowed Lias to withdraw hi. plea genU ,re checking, and faca a Jury. ., , icwiwi uui admit there was a lot of foolish ural feminine architecture too male yammering against the often decreed that the result "new look" a couple of seasons should resemble a gunnysack back just because it was novel, full of sugar on stilts or piano Every man was surprised to see legs. it turn out better than he had Never have lovely ladie. feared. looked so awful, not even since they took up slacks. No wonder But going back to the 1920's men slept in bathtubs wet with again is another thing. We homemade gin or plunged on can't hope for anything but the the stock market. They had worst because we went through been made desperate by the that madness before. sight of what the women they Go back to the fig leaf of loved had done to their rulnou. Eve or the bustle of Victoria's beauty. day. Wear anything ever tried And now this fabric night- in the long forlorn history of mare is on the way back. A girl woman's struggle for style any- who should know tells me: thing but what you clothed "The new vogue Is no waist- yourself in during the mad, bad line, no bustline, no hips, no 1920's. nothing boyish." They call that the period of Don't do it, lady. Please! "The Lost Generation" and For if you do, the men will blame it on the disillusionment have to dress like the 1920'., too. of the first World War. But it Recall a thing called "the cake- wasn't the men who were lost; eater"? He was the drugstore it was the women. It was the cowboy of that vanished era. time when girls would be boys. Would you like to have to go No wonder the boys refused to out on dates again escorted by grow up and act like men. something like that, lady? Remember? If you don't, get No? Well, save us from your out the family album and take a 1920's look and we'll keep the look. I know some families cake-eater under glass. It's a that keep their album on a high fair bargain. Tommy's Beloved Calico Dog To Be Buried With Him Pittsburgh, Oct. 26 OT Tommy Arth's beloved eallco dog will stay with him even In death. The toy dog will be buried Wednesday with the three-year-old leukemia victim. Tommy died Sunday night, the calico dog clutched in his withered arms. The little boy had won the hearts of many sympathiser, while In Children', hospital when he pleaded for the dog. His parents hesitated to bring the toy to the hospital because of Its battered condition. Marion County Recollections When John Minto Was Sheriff By OSWALD WEST One of the outstanding early day sheriffs of Marlon county wa. John Minto. He stood out in the crowd, tall, straight as an arrow and well proportioned. He was a sight for sore eyes. He was always well dressed knew how to wear clothes and used the best of Judgment in their selection. " On a certain occasion, he held the lines and whip and we raced a warrant for the arrest of across the bridge, gambler Finley, who saw him Flnley saw us gaining on him coming and beat it for Polk and, knowing we would soon County on foot via the Willam- catch him, climbed over the ette River bridge. railing when he was beyond the It developed into a foot race water, and slid down a pile to between the sheriff and Finley, ?lid ground and headed for the but the latter had much the brush. best of the start, a couple of hun- He was Just about to make dred yards, and was due to cross cover when Minto, Jumping the Polk County line in advance ,rom the buckboard and pulling of the Sheriff of Marion Coun- his gun, fired a shot .0 close to ty the gambler's ear that he stop- wa. in progress, Frank Starr gambleri he ordered starr to and I, driving a team of cayuses sllde down the ,ame pUe ,nd to a buckboard, were on North free2e onto him. He then took Commercial street headed south. his turn .liding down the wet We reached the street, lead- and slimy pile (and what it ing to the bridge, at the same did to the fine brown broad time as Sheriff Minto who, bad- cloth suit he wa. wearing!) and ly winded, stopped us, and proceeded to the west (Polk pointed to Finley, then well up County) approach to the bridge on the bridge, and on his way to where I, with team and buck Polk County. board, picked then- up. "See that T Well, A little matter of jurisdiction catch him " didn't bother Sheriff Minto. If As we headed for the bridge, necessary he would have chased the sheriff jumped into the back hl ln Tillamook County and of the buckboard and, with m"dethe "J"1' ... . ... hands on our shoulders, urged We- e delivered the sheriff and his charge to the court house .' . , , ... .. and county Jail and each re We were driving with caution, ceived , blg fllver dolllir or for It was unlawful to show our services. AU dollars looked speed when crossing the bridge, big in those days. but we were moving too slow Starr, in time, adopted Fin- for the ahariff. So, he grabbed ley profession!