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Capital A Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor end Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Auistont Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively, entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 55c; Monthly, S1.00; One Year. $12 00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly. 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year $8 00. V. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos.. $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, Nov. 21, 1949 The Two Candelarias One of the most interesting books recently published is "U.S. We.st the Saga of Wells Fargo" by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. It is a colorful and profusely illustrated cavalcade of the "golden west," from the discovery of gold in California, silver in Nevada and the tumultuous history of the boom mining camps, now mostly ghost towns. It is the story of the fabulous bonanzas and the "hell and high water" frontier as well as the history of the pioneer express company that transported the treasure-chests to safety, in a setting of violence, powder smoke, and whiskey. The story ie replete with glittering headlights, of stage holdups, murder, plots, battles and bandits, of the rough and boisterous scenes that featured the gold-rush days from the first discoveries a century ago until the final wind-up of the mining craze in the yesterdays of Gold field, a colorful and picturesque account of the exciting days of an historic epoch. Among the Nevada bonanza towns is listed "Candelaria" which interests Salemites because one of our most scenic suburbs, in the hills south of the city, but now included in it, bears the name, and makes one wonder how it got its name. In the "Candelaria Chronicle" chapter, the authors say: "Next to Bodie and Panamlnt, perhaps the shootingest min ing town in the southern diggings was Candelaria, seven miles by dirt road off the main road from Tonopah Junction to the south. The tense for Candelaria is strictly past, for although it was mined at recurrent periods, its tailings as recently as the '30's, in it; early days it produced a cool $50 million. "Candelaria today is as ghostly as they come and in the Nevada desert, that is very ghostly indeed. It disappeared from the Wells Farpo roster of agencies in 1904 but until that time the bank and expressing business was brisk and lucrative, and considering the freedom with which powder was burned In private feuds tolerably immune from armed molestation." Candelaria was originally a Mexican town named for one of the festival days of the Catholic church, the authors say, and its mines bore Spanish names, which when the Yankees took over were rechristened as "Bully Boy, Home Ticket, Northern Belle," etc. But Spanish survived longer than anywhere else in Nevada. There were lively times amid the saloons, gambling palaces and bawdy houses, even between street shootings, but by 1949 "Candelaria was completely abandoned to the rattlesnakes which had in habited it for several thousand years before the coming of the Spaniards. No human being appeared. It is depress ing past all descriptions." George Grabenhorst, who platted Salem's Candelaria, says that the name was given to the land purchased by his father from Sam A. Clarke, pioneer, who so named the donation land claim he acquired in 1850. As Clarke was born in Cuba and spoke Spanish, he probably chose the name Candelaria because of its euphony, not for its Nevada namesake, which however, was also located on the hills, or for a religious festival. Incidentally, after the burning of the old Oregon capitol, Governor Martin, quoting from the scriptures, "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from which cometh my help," strongly urged on the legislature the purchase of Can delaria as a site for the new capitol, stressing the fact that it was the most scenic and picturesque site for a capi tol setting possible, could be seen for miles in every direc tion, would furnish ample area for future expansion and could be purchased for a fraction of the cost of a single one of the many city blocks required for the capitol group. But neither the legislature nor the people had the vision of the executive. We are all paying for their folly and will continue to for years . , . In George S. Turnbtill's History of Oregon Newspapers. Is the following sketch of Sam A. Clarke's career, whose accomplishments rank high among pioneer developers of Oregon : "Sam A. Clarke, in a lesser way than Sam Simpson, was him nrlf a poet of considerable repute, besides being a capable newspaper nan and highly versatile. Born in 1827, in Cuba, where his father was a merchant, and educated in New York City, he was a gold-hunting forty-niner in California, coming to Oregon in 18ft0. "A year later he drew the plan of the new city of Portland on the occasion of its incorporation. Buying a donation claim near Salem, he resided there for several years, in fact came to regard Salem as his settled home. In 1862 he became first clerk of the new Baker county. Running a sawmill in Portland was another ot his many activities. "In 1864 he was back in Portland as editor of the Oregonian. Two years later he was one of the incorporators of the Oregon Central Hailrnad. which was taken over by Ben Holladay in 1868. In tlte Jvlndoc Indian war he made a fine record as corre spondent for the New York Times. After a short time on the Salem Daily Pecord in 1867 he purchased the Unionist. Chang ing the name back to the Statesman, he conducted the paper as a daily fir a time. With D. W. Craig he purchased the Willamette Farmer in 1872 buying his partner out eight years later. In 18P7 the paper was merged with the North Pacific Rural Spirit. Clarke now spent several years at the national rapitol as librarian in the United States general land office. He died In Salem August 10. 1!)09. A son, William J. Clarke, has been an Oregon publisher for many years. .Sam Clarke left one book, a history entitled "Pioneer Days in Oregon." He was the father of the late Mrs. Sally Dyer." When a Guy Goes Fishing, Almost Anything Can Happen Wllne, Eng., Nov. 11 (Jl Samuel William Rose, IV saw an ' airplane crash on the opposite side of the river Derwent while he was fishing. This Is what he dhl: Stripped and swam 100 yards across the flooded river; Ripped off a wing of the wrecked plane to lelrase the pilot and passenger. Made first-air splints from pieces ot a fenre: Trotted one-and-a-half miles In his underwear lo get an am bulance; Helped tha ambulance men gel the two Injured men Geoffrey Smith and Gerald Barnett off to a hospital. Then he went bark to his fishing and taught three perch. To Insure Opponents Are Buried? Prague, ,Nov. tl (P Ctechoslovakia now requires that ven It grave digger prove thrmselve politically reliable toward the communist. controlled government, th official faietta disclosed today. BY BECK Recollections WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND BY GUILD I TME IPEAI USINfl MV BEST 'JSt-J IMPORTED TURKISH TOWELS 1 f N fl iaag.4.TO STUFF INSIDE THAT OLO ) LO0K..MIS WSST" tiJTl FOOTBALL SUIT. DON'T J( BIS BROAD ANOV Wl- T vEVER LET ML CATCH r.tjr-3 SHOULDERS 1 LOOK, Europe Officialdom Kowtows Wizard of Odds To Junketing Senators By DREW PEARSON Washington When the Swede failed to roll out the royal carpet for a party of junketing senators, two of the snubbed solona Elmer Thomas, the Oklahoma speculator, and John McClellan, the Arkansas Dixiecrat actually threatend to cut off Marshall plan aid to Sweden. This served as a none - too subtle hint to other countries that t h e best way to stay on the M a r a h a 1 1 gravy train was to butter up the wandering sen ators. As a re- u': suit, the senators r.' and their wives are now having the vacation of their lives. This has been revealed in WD Experts can determine the sex of a. complete adult skeleton, by odds of 9td1. (fatumine, n. hou vuxci (ur) Drew Ptanoa SIPS FOR SUPPER Fog Mystery By DON UPJOHN . The weather program for the year seems to be pretty well mapping itself out. We had bright sunny days during October, so far have had fog all during November and this probably pre sages rain during December, snow during January, rain during February and a sort of ashy colored mixture of all three, rain, nd fog in their stew. The previous ket tle was a 74-year-old wooden one installed when the jail was built. ae- " l Is MERCHANT'S, BY ODDS OF 19 TO Ifl MAk-IT MOPE PBOFITON CANNED MEAT THMJ ON FRESH.' MADAM. THE NATIONAL COPSET MANUFACTURERS CLAIM ODC3 APE 12 TO 1 YOU OONT HAVE A PBRFRT SHAPE snow during March. This would make quite an ambitious w e at h e r pro gram with plen ty of varia tion and this is a land of weath er variation in :he winter lime, it least. But what worries us no end is t n l s m Don IToloba constant fog The annua! copy of the Old Farmers Almanac for 1950 has come to hand, as it were, this being the 158th continuous year of publication. Glancing through it we note, among other things, that Robin Hood died on No vember 24, 1247, which will be an interesting thought for have used some of that $1,420, 000 to feed their families. Furthermore, several UMW locals already had returned to work before Lewis declared the current "truce," while other defiant locals were preparing to do so on the very day he ordered them back. Finally, the solid front pre sented by all the operators has dashed Lewis's efforts to make a separate contract with one group to be used as a lever on the others. In past coal strikes, it was the operators who usually personal letter from a feminine were divided, while Lewis s member of the troupe McClcl- union was strongly united be lan's wife. Norma. hind him. Though the senators are sup- All of which explains why Dosed to be studvine how to save John L. Lewis has lost this the taxpayers' money, Mrs. Mc- strike the first one lost since MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Liciian writes: "John is truly rranmin u. Koosevelt came to relaxing and having the time of his rescue and saved the UMW his life, and he and I are having from folding up in 1933. a long-delayed honeymoon." Big John can't possibly salvage To help the McClellans enjoy enough in increases in a new their second honeymoon and the contract to make up for the lost other senators to take a round- pay of the miners in their 52 p rWITT JUnrk FKIZIE the-world vacation, the taxpay- days of idleness. Z, , ers are furnishing an air force , The western powers having at least temporarily contained the plane and crew, plus five army CAPITOL CHAFF bolshevist drive in Europe, America is making energetic moves and state department officials. Congressman Wayne Hays of to strengthen her position in the far east where communism's There is even a special doctor Ohio discovered a microphone mounting success threatens to turn that part of the globe into the 8 . , ... hidden in the telephone base in political armageddon of the isms. The senators wife also gives hie ,, u -j win, hi. ; ... .u i mow umer uropean tee cierk Tom Kennedy jabbered view, Uncle countries anxious for Marshall int0 it, gave the eavesdroppers Sam.s head dip plan dollars are bowing and an earful of gobbledegook lomats in east- " DeIore me J"nK.ng u S. intPlllCenne .. em Asia have senators. U. S. Diplomats to Try Piecing Asia Puzzle r 1 1 I 4 ueeu uiucicu iu "These people over here stand " mterious anti-Russian under- JJ oraerei awe of us," writes Mrs. Mc- fround has sprung up in East- hld a reg, ellan hreathtakinplv "Vani, ern Germany. It has Moscow ionfe.ren onal rence in during November about which Thanksgiving day. some of even the oldest ana passi o Gus Moisan for most innured Oregonians are be- mer mayor of Gervai removes ginning to protest. If, under the g familiar figure from the coun. Hedda Swart formula of weath- ,y pernaps nis 42 years of serv. er predictions based on Table jce wh (he Gervais city gov. Rock, snow on Table Rock means ernrmenti 32 years o( which rainy weather and no snow on were spent mayor have Table Rock means dry weather, set , record and undoubtedIy then just what sort of stuff has dj(, fQr thj $,ate This probab. been on Table Rock during the ,y m Usclf denotes Gus tne current month to drum up all of cjti2en and business man that fog. Even Hedda himself couldn't answer that question Their Favorite Citizen today when we propounded it Hemel Hempstead, Eng. (Pi to him, but we imagine he'll Trustees in charge of 158 acres sneak home and get out the old 0f iocai pastureland object to a telescope to take a look today town development plan because just to see if he can find out. it wouia involve cutting a road Principal topic of conversa- hrouB" rave , of ,W"liam tion around town these days, Snooks '"The people of Hemel aside from the fog seems to be Hempstead are jealous of this taxicabs and the discussion does unlflu Possession " said a not revolve around the cost of spokesman for the trustees, who the fares, either. control the land given the town ice with the Gervais city gov- Ready-Made Toothpicks 1594. Who was William Snooks? Wheeling, W. Va. U.R) The He was the last highway robber county jail had to get a new in England to be hanged and soup kettle because prisoners buried at the scene of his crime complained of getting splinters more than 100 years ago. in f orealnlaK.ngiy. r.acn , worried The leaders are Bangkok, Thai country that we visit seems to be i t, Ieaaers are lantiB in' Tan... trying to outdo the one we have ed to. Russlan f" to conSdS just left in entertaining us. Noth- . du..i" S 1 n1"?S uiiutiBiuunu ii3 uerciuea trains . and shot manv nf tho uation. J v -Kit : ik. DWltl Mirkrnilt iviediiiuiit;, me ing that can be done is left un done. 3 will make a survey of the situ ation and then meet with his colleagues in the Siamese capi tal. That will be a major policy conference. fairly ; This whole vast area ; bristles with problems. Foremost among these are the question of a Japanese peace treaty; the position of strategi cally located Korea, which is a , .. . ... . Mmntimn (ha UCWH1 miCKeniW 1 1 1 : i 1 1 Just as an examDle When "'"'"" " oes y me initials , "7T '"" " . . . ., , . ",,u "B"'!i iwen uuai dii cAdmiiw , . , wnen tiKrrM . .. , Washington administration's ton r.f,mmiinicl in ih0 nn-tU a,, auUJCVJilUUn lOr - i- .viiiutuuio, a.. mv iiunu anu "death to the tyrants." diplomatic trouble-shooter, Am- democratic in the south; the com- (Copyright i94 bassador Philip C. Jessup, also plex Chinese situation where Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's OPEN FORUM we arived in Nor vay, we were met at the plane by our ambas sador and many of his top offi cials, and the king's top officials, army, navy, etc . . . "A spectacular air show was planned as a greeting to us, and then a luncheon by the minister of defense. Every minute of the afternoon was filled with inter esting and exciting things to do Food Stamps for Slim Thanksgiving? (Editor's Note: Letters to the Open Forum must be limited to 300 words and must be signed by the writer.) "That evening," continued the wife of the senator from Arkan- nationalist government has all but been knocked out in the mili tary sense. From the American stand point, the Chinese situation has been seriously complicated through the imprisonment of U. S. Consul General Angus Ward and four of his staff by the corn- To the Editor: Reading your editorial about the surplus gov ernment food, why can't government or state officials secure government food stamps and give the food they're wastine to munists in Mukden. sas "the Prime Minister of Nor- pe0Ple who are Soing to have a slim thanksgiving r Christmas? President Truman has de way opened one of the oldest There ace hundreds out of work who don't draw any unem- nounced this as an outrage. The castles in Europe and gave a Payment insurance, and, if they "ds charge Ward with having state dinner in our honor . . . dld- would not keeP them only right here in Salem there are lots Patcn 8 Vhines ePlye and "Our way to the castle after naif-starved. . of families just existing that ?hey bave WW" official Amer enterintf the tralp . . . was licrht- Oregon is blessed with food never get their name in the lcan in(Juiries regarding the ed by flaming torches like those aP'emy- we give turkeys to paper, used in ancient times and sen- f? state in ,ne union- includ tries stationed every few feet. I mg Turkey "self. We give food mm Cuming iu Europe, i in sure POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Girls Have Odds in Finding Good Strong Man in Alaska By HAL BOYLE New York iP) Looking for a good strong man to build your life around, sister?. Well, if you're a robust, warm-blooded girl, don't overlook Alaska. The odds are in your favor there. "It's a great place for a girl to find a husband," said Maurice T. Johnson, jt mayor 01 rair-' banks, which he says is the third largest city in Alaska and "the largest one farthest north." It has 12.000 people, count ing its farflung suburbs. "There are about three men life. "It now has a population of only 100,000," he said. "But I don't see why it couldn't sup port 500,000. That would be less than one person to a square i mile. It's a pretty sizeable ; chunk of ground up there." I The call of the Alaskan wild has tamed down since the day ot Jack London and Robert Serv ice. "We probably use more planes to every woman maybe more than you do here." said John- throughout the territory." said son. "Dog teams, around the Johnson, adding this note of cities at least, arc Just local color caution: now." "But a lot of young girls who The lady that was known as came up there and saw our Lou doesn't live there any more, rough-hewn old miners might The districts haunted by shady feel disappointed. They might women have broken up at the even want to turn around and request of commanders of army come back." airforce bases. Prospectors are more Interested in finding oil However, though the men are than gold. as rugged as the scenery, a girl And shades of the faded needn't worry about there being past! the mighty game of poker any lack of heat in the long now is secondary to another Alaskan winter. pastime, an Arctic bingo called Mayor Johnson and City Clerk pagini or "pan." E. A. Tonseth came to Manhat- "It's kind of cold weather tan to fix that. They had the gin rummy," explained the may chore of signing a $4,500,000 or. "The game is very popular bond issue to build Fairbanks a you can only win or loe a new municipally owned power little if you play all night." plan and water treatment ys- tern. Johnson said Times Square "It was the first revenue bond failed to come up to the North Issue ever floated in Alaska," ern lights in splendor, and said the mayor. opined the climate here didn't They had expected to have equal that of Alaska, sore arms and spend two days "In June we can play base signing the 4.500 bonds each ball at midnight without arti fnr $1,000. But it took them ficial lights," he remarked. "It only an hour. ' never gets dark In summer." "It was amazingly simple," The mayor, before taking off said Johnson! "They have sign- for Fairbanks, expressed relief Ing machines. You press down he had been able to complete on one pen and IB other pen his business In New York De sign, too." fore winter trapped him here. "I understand you had a 25 Tbe mayor, a lawyer from inch snowfall in one day a cou- Woodstock, III., who took his pie of years ago," he said. "Why, family to Alaska during the last we never had a snow like that up depression, believes the territory home. Only 31 Inches all told has a future for young people last year. Don't ee how you with courage to fact a rugged handle it ill." wore a silver satin dinner gown with train, . . . (but) it broke my heart to get my train so dirty on those stone floors. "When we left our hotel to enter the limousine that took us to the castle," Mrs. McClellan continued, "The police had to keep the crowds back that had gathered to see us . . . part of Norway borders Russia, and we have to be well guarded over here. "I have to pinch myself to be lieve all this could be happen ing to 'Little ole me'." All at the taxpayers' expense. IKE LOSES PRIORITY General Eisenhower, who once had the best view out of the Pentagon building, has been crowded out of his plush office overlooking the Potomac. As a five-star 'general, he is entitled to a permanent office in the Pentagon. But the exclusive. outer ring of offices reserved JOHN HEALY, Salem. prisoners. One of the immediate results of this ugly controversy has been the declaration by Secretary of Slate Acheson that the United States won't even think about recognizing the red Chinese re gime in Peiping until Ward is released. What effect this will have on the communists remains to be seen, but it undoubtedly will hurt, because they want and need recognition by the western powers. Moreover, they need material assistance, especially of the sort which only America could supply. There now arises the ticklish question of just who is boss in Peiping the red leader, Gen eral Mao Tsc-Tung, or Moscow? The Chinese communists, of course, have bouad themselves to Moscow and diplomatic quarters in Washington are uncertain whether Mao has full freedom of action. Russia is suspected of inn kiHc wa "Th Pnint " tirrncs he river nearlv ni.nnsilo fho """S ot.tfi uuiuence Wlin for big shots only is so crowded rn,1ai i.nmhorin. v' nlant ,he communists in Mukden and with brass hats that Eisenhower The better swimmers undressed in the lumber yard hiding elswneTe ,n Manchuria. has been squeezed out. their clothes in the lumber piles and swimming over to or ,h,s reason. one Possible An attempt was made the Minto's island, walked up the mve by the state department ta other day to find a room for west shore, until far up-stream, yard. He came up and brazenly R"5?la t0 "'ervene with Eisenhower, but Lieut. Gen. Wil- and then struck across for lhe asked when I wa, going to let tne rCd Chinese government Great Grandchildren at Her Wedding Pittsburgh, Nov. 21 (IP) If the eight attendants at Mrs. Catherine Ginther's wedding today bear a family resemblance to the bride, that's all right. They're her great grandchil dren. The eight volunteered after Mrs. Ginther, who is 67, an nounced she would wed Charles Ward, 82, in the climax of a romance that started on a California-bound train last Sep tember. Mrs. Ginther met Ward while on her way to visit her son. Ward, a retired farmer of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., was on his way to visit a daughter on the west coast. MARION COUNTY RECOLLECTIONS When Salem Kids Used The Point' as '01' Swimmin' Hole' By OSWALD WEST (Governor of Orocon from ISI1 lo 19151 One of the favorite Willamette river swimming holes for Sa- "point." Thus the river current served him out. ever. I I told him never. How- felt obligated to do lis Crittenbcrger, a working general, got first priority. ;""'7,T.Sl"T n,S as a help to the swimmer. The something for him-having re it.inKv,u UI1IVC, UUI .191-11. IUWIT ,. ' . is out in the cold. Chinese nationalist fortunes continue to fall. LEWIS WONT AGAIN timorous and poorer swimmers lsed a number of my former -5" rnl?!?w ,m " ,he took a row boat or the old ferry school mates; made others, who ovl s'" ' Cap'ta' ' Chimg--and. later the new bridge. by clean and decent living, had '"' America , embassy . It's an odds-on bet that John J h.lWde above "The a wardens, I intended to do hedu'ed to lca", L. Lewis will not again defy m ,n ,ne. nuisiae aDove ine ,. . . Kong tomorrow. It's said this the law, as he did in the 1948 ?lnt" reslded no-count fam- something for n m. affcct di lomat,c relation, irike hv .nntinin. h. i ily that, with the assistance of I was going to see: That he hetween th n.,i;... a k. iiuiiuiionoia oiiu strike in opposition to the Taft- four ,ouf!h (and 1 mean touh got ,hree square meals each day Washington. Hartley act. ooys. was enabled to live pretty ana a oea 10 sleep m at night. So goes the story and this Those close to him sav that much off ,he country. The gath- That he was going to be taught whole complicated situation in Big John is certain to keep the erinlW of fruit and vegetables to work and to take a bath east Asia forms a jig-saw puzzle mine workers on the job when to be cooked by "The Point" thus to keep himself clean. That which the American conference the three-week strike "truce" ex- swimmers for their lunch had I, personally, would keep him of diplomats at Bangkok pre pires December 1. There are sev- o be carefully guarded. in smoking tobacco. That from sumably will endeavor to piece eral good reasons: When in office, I received a what I had noted of his activities together. That is to say, their One is that his union members letter from the oldest of the at the old "Point" swimming job will be to evaluate the vari wouldn't stand for another fine, four, compla'-.iing about condi- hole, I was satisfied that the ous complications and give them such as the $1,420,000 contempt- tions In the Grant county jail Oregon State pen was the proper the proper place in the defense of-court levy slapped on him for saying it was the dirtiest jail place for him. against bolshevism. refusing to obey a back-to-work he had ever been in. I advised injunction last year. him to ask the sheriff for the There has been considerable loan of a broom, and other ncc-rank-and-file grumbling among essary implements, to clean it the destitute miners, who have- up. n't received a full pay check He, in time, arrived at the since June 30 and no pay Pen as a four-time loser, checks at all in almost two -Upon a visit to that institu months. They say they could tion, I ran across him in tht Doctor's Fee vs. Cab Fare Ballston Spa.. N. Y., Nov. 1 iP Dr. Harry E. Hansen, a veterinarian, got a call from a downtown drugstore. A farmer there wanted him to look at a sick cow. Dr. Hansen picked up the farmer and drove him through winding, country roads. As the pair pulled up to the farmer's house, the farmer opened the car door and said: "You ran let me out here. Doc. t haven't got a sick cow. You see, yon charge only $1 for a visit while a taxi would havt cost me IJ." ......A wTart a savings account with us Vji ' that helps you climb to success easier . . , that earns you worthwhile profits in assured safety. t 1'II.HIlll'J V. V'"' J i i