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BY BECK
Popular People!
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Salem. Oregon, Monday, December 5, 1949
Smoking Them Out .
Only an official investigation can prove or disprove the
charges made by G. Racey Jordan, former air force major,
that atomic secrets and materials were sent to the Rus
sians through the lend-lease air route during the war at
the instance if the late Harry Hopkins and two state de
partment officials who "gave Russia the A-bomb on a
platter."
Jordan has challenged the experts to dig into musty
lend-lease records and "disprove" his charges. He said
that investigators who compare his diary entries with data
on wartime aid to Russia will find that "they fit a well-cut
picture puzzle." Hopkins relatives and friends brand the
charges as "completely incredible."
The charges have touched off two congressional investi
gations with promises from the air force and Atomic En
ergy commission to give their "full cooperation." Jordan
welcomes the inquiries saying that "a lot of big-wigs who
knew about this are going to be smoked out."
The story told by the former air force liaison officer
rivals the other communist spy-thrillers that have been
unfolded since the war. He said some 1,650 pounds of raw
uranium the stuff from which atomic bombs are made
and literally tons of secret papers were jammed into black
suitcases and flown to Russia in lend-lease planes.
Hopkins, Jordan said, once told him by long distance tele
phone, to "rush two shipments through as speedily as pos
sbile" and say nothing about them. Once, he added, the
air force tried to stop the shipments but got a blunt "hands
off" warning from the state department. He said he dis
covered the shipments while stationed as a liaison officer
at the Great Falls, Mont., air base on the Alaska lend-lease
supply route to Russia.
Harry Hopkins was right hand man to the late President
Roosevelt and edged out the other members of the New
Deal "palace guard" by his superior sycophancy as a
Roosevelt worshipper. He lived in the White House. He
probably spent more millions of government money both
before and during the war, than anyone on record. Like
. Henry Wallace he wa3 ardent pro-Russia though not a
communist. The state department has been full of friends
of Russia.
Jobs to Offset Unemployment
President Truman has tossed the unemployment prob
lem into the laps of the communities of the nation. This
is the effect of his endorsement of John R. Steelman's rec
ommendation that local improvement programs be encour
aged so as to relieve distress in communities suffering
from unemployment.
' For those who had hoped the president would come up
with special federal construction projects to offset the
jobless threat, Truman's reliance on local initiative will
be disappointing. As a matter of fact, the president sur
prised many by his stand.
The next question to follow is: What will communities
do on their own to encourage employment?
Ever since the New Deal started spending recklessly,
states and localities have been depending more and more
on the federal government to take over such responsibili
ties, like unemployment. But now Truman ignores that
New Deal-sponsored dependency on Washington. He sud
denly reverses the trend.
Jobless payments in Oregon are as high as they have ever
been. That means the cities and areas for the state are
not offsetting the growth in population with enough new
jobs. That also means that the responsibility, neverthe
less, rests with the individual communities to care for
those jobless.
In the case of Salem, for instance, what will be the re
action ?
The obvious reaction is one that calls for the encourage
ment of new businesses to locate here. New industries,
selected because they would fit into the community and
economy of the area, are needed in Oregon's capital.
More industries and businesses mean more jobs. And
jobs aro the only real constructive answer to unemploy
ment not the dole.
A month ago the Capital Journal suggested that the
Chamber of Commerce place the bringing to the city of
new industries as one of the three major projects for 1950.
The call of the president for local handling of unemploy
ment seems to emphasize how important such a project is
for the immediate future.
Tito Subsidizing Cannon Fodder
Dispatches state that Marshal Tito, dictator of Yugo
slavia has decreed a bonus of 2000 dinars (?40) to cloth
each new-born baby, and that women workers as well as
unemployed workers' wives are to get a special bonus of
600 dinars ($12) per month during the six months before
and after childbirth, the money to be used for food.
This is the familiar practice of totalitarian dictators,
communist or fascist, to encourage an increase in popula
tion no matter how over-crowded the country. This is
intended to increase the supply of cannon fodder for the
next war.
Tito is following in the steps of Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler
and Hirohito, all of whom encouraged population increase
at taxpayers' expense. Most of the wars of history have
been caused by a surplus of population over what the coun
try could support, and so war follows to plunder and deci
mate neighboring nations and seize their land to secure
needed room for expansion.
A little birth control would solve their problems but dic
tators always prefer the "glory" of sadistic conquest.
'Plump' Woman Gets Stuck
In Pint-Sized Bathtub
Council Bluffs, la., Dee. S U.R Mrs. Arie Runquist, 65, who
decided to take a bath in the home of a midget friend and
spent the next 60 hours stuck in the tub, admitted today
that the whole thing was rather funny.
Mrs. Runquist, a "plump" woman had been staying at the
house while the midget wintered In Florida.
Last Thursday she decided to take a bath. She lowered
herself into the pint-sized tub and there she stayed for two
and a half days.
She finally was released Saturday by neighbors who be
came worried when she failed to answer the telephone.
When they found her, she was weak from hunger and
her hands were covered with blisters from her frantia
efforts to frea herself.
XTnS? FIFTV CENTS FOR RAKING UP
v W P THE LEAVES f THIS TEN-DOLLAR iff
j&h Bill is all I have, if you cant W
IwiflFM II 1WWlfcl1SLCHANe6 IT YOU'LL have to collect5
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Senators Take a Holiday
In Spain; Recommend Loan
- By DREW PEARSON
Washington Here is a contrast between what two groups
of Americans have done to influence their country's standing
abroad.
One is the Junior Chamber of Commerce in Texas. The other
is the half-inebriated senate appropriations subcommittee trav
el i n g through
fact that the U.N., in a very im
portant debate, has voted against
ambassadors to Spain. "He,"
continued Thomas, "will then
convey it to the state depart
ment well-informed."
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Dire Outlook
By DON UPJOHN
One of our special operatives who took a ride around the
eastern edge of the county yesterday and from an eminence got
a good first hand view of Table rock returned with the report
there is just a scattering of snow over the top of that famous
hunk. If a slight scattering of snow can stir up all the water
we've had since , ..
the water stir- worked themselves up to the
ring up process" k ! eminent position of national law
started this fall.tC C. , . makers and then have disre
it may be an ark 'J 1 Sardcd their trust for their own
will be in order C ifflWK financial gain and to the detri
by the time the , '&&jT ment of the national interest,
old dome really V 42SJ i If there's any place an example
gets covered. should be set for probity and
I "TT 1 honor it seems one of the best
James Roose-I CJ I Places 0 start is in the halls oI
velt, who haslwWrJ congress. Playing fast and loose
announced h e with the laws they make is a
will be a candi- vl,h dangerous and unwholesome
date for governor of California, game for congressmen,
is making himself good with his a--months M
ing Tut in the open and deny- baby back east who J-JotataJ
Spain.
First, the an
tics of the sena
tors. The sub-com-
mittee, headed
by Sen. Elmer I
Thomas of Okla
homa, traveled
in a special air
force plane, in-
eluding six
crew members,
two stenographers, three clerks,
three wives and a doctor Dr.
William E. Lovelace of Albu
querque to look . after the
health of New Mexico's sena
tor Dennis Chavez.
"They call this a junket,"
Drew Pearaon
In other words, if the senators
were going to get their report
from the state department any
way, they might just as well
have saved the taxpayers' money
and stayed at home.
Finally, one American asked
Senator Thye of Minnesota:
"Why did you come here at
all? It's obvious that you can't
see anything during this brief
week-end."
"Well," replied Thye, who at
fi i
ing that Califronians are a
"wacky" sort of folk, we ap
the FT & BA. He was endowed
with a front tooth that not only
prehend that this statement may u his tongue but also kept the
be one of the wackiest in what m"y Pot ' ""v"'
presages to be as wacky a cam- Jtantly buy ew fubber nipples
paign as ever has been staged his milk bottle. Maybe the
in that wacky state. organization will send him a
membership card.
One congressman starts a pris
on term and another one well
on his way there, one for bribery
and conspiraey and the other for
padding his payroll for his own
benefit. It's encouraging that
at least one of them is in prison
for seemingly there can be no
place for pardon, parole or pro
bation for citizens who have
Coach Jim Aiken of the Uni
versity of Oregon football team
has had hard luck. Somebody
stole his automobile and sold it
in Nevada. At any rate, it could
not have been some of the alum
ni we've heard grumbling that
swiped it. Those boys would
like to have him keep transpor
tation out of the state available
for quick use.
"P.a.nea e"alr home is a serious, hard-working
Thomas to newsmen, "but that's senator, "we have a military at-
a misnomer. The country's tache here And we have a
spending seven billions of the naval attache here. And we have
taxpayers' money, and the tax- consuiates. And its our duty to
payer is entitled to know how see that th are properl rep.
the money ,s ; being spent. That's rescnting the United states."
what we're looking after.' . , i '
a . . , , "But you arrived on a Satur-
. ?ll f.n,atSed 0Ver day afternoon when these offi
ce fact that the U.S.A. is spend- CJ aren,t , remonstrated
g- .ne llu m(onevum the American, "and you leave
Spain One of the senators had Mond morning beore they
a relative in Spam he wanted Den
SL? TfhS fxPlainfd- "You've seen a fiesta, you've
ChaveT refemng t0 Senatr had a siesta, and you've danced
a flamenca," added an American
lady, "but what have you seen
Arriving in Madrid at 3:30 of Spain?"
p.m. Saturday, the committee Undaunted, the senators flew
was received by Foreign Minis- to Paris in their special air force
ter Martin Artajo, then attend- plane Monday morning. And out
ed a reception at the American of their vast week-end knowl
embassy, then drove the next edge about Spain, they announc
day to Toledo, attended a fies- ed that Dictator Franco should
ta, witnessed the training man- receive an American loan of
euvers of some young bulls for $100,000,000.
a bull-fight and saw a gypsy NOTE Maybe the Swedes
"flamenca" dance. were wise in not rolling out the
During the latter part of this red carpet for the Thomas corn
fast moving entertainment, sev- mittee.
eral of the senators obviously
were in no condition to report in contrast, here is what the
intelligently on what they were Junior Chamber of Commerce
seeing. js doing in Texas:
This column is not interested The j program is call.
HriX Hr a.UbliCJ,;Clal e "Universal Understanding,"
drinks or doesn't drink We have and since th have n0 air force
no great concern even if he gets ai iane and ca,t use the tax.
blootto as long as it's in pri- , m to tour Eu
vate. liut wnen a group of U.S. their pl
ans are not so ambitious
senators spend the taxpayers' as the senators', though probably
supported gen
eral strike in
France.
The two set
backs are parti
cularly signifi
cant in that Ita
ly and France
have been the
chief commu-
nist strong
holds In West
ern Europe.
Moscow has D'wl" "
sezAJL i
where they represent the United
States government, then they , (. u :, ...Th, ,
have an obligation to keep sober o young men'in Europe jn order
Man, 90, Decides New Baby
Will Be His Last; Has 11 Kids
Des Moines, la., Dec. S (U.R) A 90-year-old man decided
today that 11 children was enough.
Luis Carrozales said, "I guess I'll give up now."
His latest, a daughter, was born Saturday. She and Car
rozales' wife were reported "doing well." -
"I know a lot of youngsters in their 60's who envy me," he
said, "but I guess they just don't live right."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
What to Do With Nectkies
Received as Xmas Gifts?
By HAL BOYLE
New York () There ought to be a society to prevent the
presentation of neckties as Christmas gifts.
But there isn't. So again this year some 50.000,000 or more
writhing American males will be showered with an unwelcome
collection of tonsil mufflers.
Women insist;
on giving men
ties, and thcyf
pick them on
one of two prin
ciples: 1. As if they
were buying
draperies, or
at least in public.
to exchange letters and get bet-
The United States has great '",. j vi- T,fM.. Xt
prestige in Spain. Americans Amari0 T ' fnr .(.
are considered sober, hard-work-
writing to young men in Salz-
ing people. Therefore, it does b Austr? whicn is about a
not help us as a nation when two-hour drive from the iron
a group of senators act as if curtain
nicy were on a weeK-ena oinge.
Senator Maybank of South at first formed the Austrian
ginia were abstentious. But in
In Salzburg, Austrian youth
2. As if theyJ
were selecting a
lining for their
husband's coffin.
ST 11
111 BorU
my closet," he said, "and I
frame the bright ones and hang
them up as pictures. You should
see them nudes, landscapes,
hunting scenes. You have no
idea what fine art is put on
those tics."
Another fellow weaves them
into skipping ropes for his
daughters. One father I know
saves the cheaper tics and uses
them to dye eggs for his kids at
Easter.
And a television fan sug
What can be done about this gested:
annual misery? "I get so tired of seeing those
Well, the cowardly way out flickering between herringbone
is to go ahead and wear the lines on my set I hang Christ
things, slinking about like a self- mas ties in front of my TV
conscious version of a marriage screen just to change the pat
between a rainbow and the tern."
Northern lights. An old friend said that for
years he had found the most
But there are bolder wavs out satisfactory system for getting
for men who still pride them- rid of unwanted ties was to leave
selves on rugged individualism. lhem wi,h the neighborhood fish
A simple exit for the problem rnarket.
is merclv to stuff the tics down . Then "V Wlfe came home
the nearest incinerator. Or bribe wlth, flounder wrapped in a
the ianitor to take them. "e sne naa given me me weeK
American youth bridge in order
f. Innn TT C A
varying degrees, their colleagues u ,o(
were not. chamber of commerce of their
... , own. Next year the Amarillo
t the festivities wore on at Ja are sending a Texa t0
Toledo the Spanish hosts tried Austria s0 th can all t bet.
hard to get food into their ter intedi
friend. Senator Chavez of New
Mexico, who kept mumbling: . " , . . .
"I'm a Catholic, a Spaniard Th,,s ""fPectacular, people-to-and
a Yankee gentleman, and Peoplf ndship bX 1 f
I don't give a .... who knows Ame"can er.uP a" ver ,ln
it country is doing more to plant
Finally, Senator Thomas, afond iounaation lor peace than
ail me juuivciitig acudiuia i:uni-
bincd. Eventually, and if prac
ticed widely enough, it may
build a more solid understand-
Wotching the new stenographer walk down the hall
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Western Allies Gain
In European Cold War
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(UP) Foreign Affairs Analyst)
The failure of the communist-instigated general strike in Italy
is another forceful indication that the western democracies have
contained the Red offensive and are gaining in Europe's cold war.
This was the second serious defeat of its kind the Bolshevists
had suffered in a week, the other being the flop of a communist-
by a long shotj, for there is bit
ter discontent among the Rus
sian satellite states. Wholesale
purges and liquidations are be
ing carried out in most of these
eastern European countries. The
situation is particularly tense in
Poland and Czechoslovakia, bui
Hungary, Romania and Bulgar
ia also are having their troubles
with disaffection.
As a complement to these de
velopments, the defense minis-
leaned heavily on the Red organ- ters and chiefs of staff of the
izations of these two important twelve Atlantic - pact nations
countries. have met in Paris and without
The Italian strike was called fuss or feathers have agreed to
by communist leaders ostensibly a general defense plan involv
to protest the death of two peas- ing western Europe and Amer
ants in fights with police grow- ica.
ing out of invasions of farm- .
lands by squatters. However, Definitely the tide has turned
the proclaimed purpose of the in the European cold war.
move was of small moment. However, while that is a mat-
The real importance rested in ter of extreme gratification it
the demonstration that the Ital- needn't encourage complacence,
ian public no longer runs for One of Moscow's chief aims has
cover when the Reds crack the been to produce economic chaos
whip. This transformation has among the democratic nations,
taken place under Premier De and she has succeeded to an ex
Gasperi since his Christian Dem- tent which likely far exceeds
ocrats defeated the communists her expectations,
in the 1948 election. still Bolshevism hasn't profit-
....? ed politically. For while the
Coincident with this, of course, Red ism theoretically thrives on
has been the development of economic distress, the peoples of
the grave conflict between the the western world have recog
Kremlin and Marshal Tito of "'zed Moscow's scheme with the
Yugoslavia. That fiery Balkan result that they have turned
state had been another strong- even more firmly against com
hold of communism, and Tito munism in most cases,
was one of Moscow's pets. Possibly Bolshevism has gain-
So we find the communist of- ed some time which we shall
fensive held along a line from see reflected in the far eastern
north to south through central offensive.
Europe. But democracy is doing well
But that isn't the whole story in the West.
whom the Spanish press refer
red to as "Cotton" Thomas cor
ralled most of his committee plus
the Snnnich hn.1. a-n. 4
hio e if ,o - ing than the Marshal plan.,
ble as if he were presiding over w. . .
his senate agriculture commit-
tried to hold a hearing. But
everybody wanted to talk at
once.
NOTE When the Salzburg
tee back in Washington, and u" '
tinj lu . i .7 tj. i Junior Chamber of Commerce,
Eric Geiger of Salzburg wrote
the Amarillo Jaycees about their
Finally the senator from Okla- fuu";"' if
homa concluded: ' !;om the government to change
"I move that the foreign min- "jt" 5.0n?,.tutlon: KImag'ne the
isters convey this information to lk.s' he dt"' Hotary ?r
this young man, the ambassa- 'fZm 2"
j h i.j 4 r., get permission from the govern-
D'Affaires Paul Culbertson, who TJLZ?
is not an ambassador, due to the
change their constitution!
(Coprrig-ht 1049)
snuw lime iiiiHKiiiciuuii.
know what to do this year.'
A little survey I made dis- With me it is no trouble at
closed several more original an anymore
methods of dealing with this For a iong time x had diffi.
Plosuc. culty in jettisoning old razor
"I'm saving mine up until I blades. Then I lit on the happy
have enough to hang Santa idea of simply dropping them
Claus," one angry gentleman re- In an envelope and addressing
ported. it to the company that made
Another man said he had them. This worked fine some
found it easy to cure his wife times I even got a new blade
of giving him neckties. blade back.
"I just started wearing them But now, whenever anyone
with my tuxedo," he said. "She gives me a Christmas necktie,
didn't talk to me for a week (is I kill two birds with one stone,
that bad?) But she hasn't given I simply send him a used razor
me a tie since." blade by return mail with a
A bachelor of my acquaint- suggestion that he may find it
ance, on the other hand, stoutly of some use.
insists he wouldn't give up the And whether he cuts his throat
pleasure of Christmas neckties with it or not well, at least he
for anything. wont send me any more Christ-
"I use the drab ones to line mat neckties.
Black Market Flourishes
In Russia, Author States
Despite the fear of heavy penalties the black market today
is a flourishing business in Russia.
Without it, 200 million Soviet citizens could not survive in
an economy where the average monthly wage of a worker is
not enough to buy a pair of shoes, states David J. Dallin in the
December American Mercury.
Mr. Dallin. author of numer- human desire a man has to make
ous authoritative books on So- things a little better for himself
viet economy, points out that and his family,
there are two types of black "When economic conditions
market operations, the legalized are universally bad, the temp
known as "rynok" and the ille- tation to break the law is great."
gal called "Blat". ...
Communism in the textbooks
The "rynok" sells goods at is one thing, points out Mr. Dal
prices higher than those set by lin, but Communism as practic
government and in the larger ed by the Russian peasant, work
towns almost anything can be er and government is quite often
found in the "rynok" stalls while another.
government store shelves are To the average Russian today
often bare. ' the Soviet State is a powerful,
"Blat" is the black market op- impersonal giant. Poverty and
eration which siphons goods economic pinches have brought
from regular government distri- about the attitude that State
bution channels into the homes property is "fair game". Even
of semi-officials and into the the secret police are involved,
"rynok" stalls. Except in political matters
"Blat", says Mr. Dallin, "was they are not as severe and un
born in poverty and shortages relenting as one might think;
existing inside the Soviet Union. MVD policemen are human be
lt grew as a result of the eternal, ings with human problems.
f I CHILDREN!
, Here Is Your
CHRISTMAS STORY
5 r
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7 - I
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AND
THE
SANTA
MAGICIAN
Mr. Dilly, the magician, cari do many fine
tricks. But, alas, try as hard as he will, he
cannot pull a- rabbit out of his hat. What to
do! What to do! His good friends, Henry
and Serena, the talking duck, try to help him.
But it is no use. He cannot pull a rabbit out
of his hat! Only one man can help him
SANTA CLAUS. So off to Santa Land they
go. And what a time they have when they
meet the wicked Wiggle Waggles, witches and
ithunderbirds and Peter Pan, Jack Frost, Father
Time, the Sand Man and all the other Santa
Land folks! And what a time you'll have
when you read it!
STARTS TODAY ON PAGE 14
DECEMBER 5
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