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Bazaar Workers Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks (left) and Bebe
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bazaar for the National Girls' and Mixed clubs fund.
Where Does Census Bureau
Get Right to Ask Questions?
Washington, Dec. 14 W) The government, which has been tak
ing a national census every 10 years since 1790, starts the 1950
census April 1.
At that time 140,000 census-lakers will start knocking on all
American doors, asking a number of questions. Of every fifth
person they 11 ask this:
How much is your income a
year? For refusing to answer,
you can be fined $100 or jailed
for 60 days, or both. For giving
false information, you can be
jailed for one year or fined $500,
or both.
If the census-taker or any
one else rveals the information
you give, it's a felony and he
can be fined $1,000 or jailed for
two years, or both.
And, census bureau officials
say, the bureau cannot reveal in
formation about you to any oth
er government agency, such as
the FBI or the internal revenue
bureau which collects income
taxes.
This same question about in
come was asked in the 1940 cen
sus. Then, if your income was
over $5,000 you could say simply
"over $5,000" and give no exact
amount. If it was under $5,000,
you were expected to say pre
cisely how much.
In 1950, if your income is over
$10,000, you can say "over $10,
000" but if it's less, you're ex
pected to say exactly how much.
. In 1940, if you didn't wish to
give your personal income fig'
ure to the census-taker per
haps because you feared he'd
tell the neighbors he provid
ed you with a printed form and
stamped envelope. In that way
you could send the information
directly to the bureau.
About 130,000,000 people
were involved in the 1940 cen
sus. Only about 115,000 mailed
in their income information. Can
people answer by mail in 1950 if
they don't want to tell the cen-us-taker?
Census bureau officials say:
They hadn't planned on it, be
cause such a comparatively
small number wanted to answer
by mail in 1940 and printing the
forms and envelopes is expen
sive. But
They said that, because of the
storm kicked up about the in
come question by republican
congressmen, they'll probably
provide for mail answers in
1950.
Twenty -three republicans
blasted the census bureau. They
said the Truman administration
"is perpetrating an outrageous
discrimination against small-in-
t-come people in the 1950 census."
One of them, Rep. . Clarence
Brown of Ohio, has demanded of
Philip Hauser, acting director of
the bureau, where he gets "le
gal authority" for the income
question.
So far Hauser has not answer
ed him. I could not reach Haus
er. But I did talk to a number
tt epncns htirpan nffirialft. This
is their explanation:
V Q. Where does the census bu
reau get the right to ask the
questions?
A. In 19.9 the republican
congress, under President Her
bert Hoover, passed a census
law. While it did not specifically
say census takers should ask
such a question about income, it
said:
"The number, form and sub
divisions of the . inquiries used
to take the census shall be de
termined by the director of the
census, with the approval of the
secretary of commerce." Hauser
decided the question should be
asked.
Q. Did Hauser decide that all
by himself, on his own?
A. No. This question about
income was asked in 1940 before
Hauser was in his present posi
tion. It is being asked again
now, say the officials, because
income information is important
in a number of ways: or a know
ledge of the American economy;
so businessmen can learn where
their best markets lie; and so
on.
The bureau was asked to ask
it by a number of business
groups which include the Na
tional Industrial Conference
board, the National Association
of Motor Bus Operators, the U.
S. Savings and Loan league, the
Institute of Life Insurance. I
Q. Why was the question
about income first asked in
1940?
A. It wasn't. That was just
one kind of question about in
come. Questions about it for
example, on property value,
mortgages, and others have
been asked in every census for
100 years, or since 1850.
And, the officials say, ques
tions on income have been an
important part of the census
taken every five years among
farmers for 30 years.
Q. Will the census takers be
the neighbors of people they
question?
A. In many cases they prob
ably will be. For this work,
which lasts only until the census
is complete, each census-inker
will interview between 600 and
1,000 people in all and average
about $8 a day in pay.
Silverton Mr. and Mrs. Reu
ben Holstrom returned this week
end from a trip to Seattle and
Bremerton, Wash., to be with
friends. Joining the Holstroms in
Portland were a sister and niece
of Mrs. Holstrom, Mrs. Viola
Nagel and Sharon Ann, who re
cently left Omaha, Neb., via
streamliner to the west and con
tinued on north with the Hol
stroms.
Reveal 'Confession Forced
By Reds to Involve Ward
By RUTHERFORD POATS
Aboard Lakeland Victory off Taku Bar, Dec. 14 (U.R1 A mem
ber of the American consulate party from Mukden said today a
"confession" incriminating Angus Ward was extorted from him
by hours-long questioning in an unheated jail while he was cri
tically ill.
The account of the confession
was given by Franco Cicogna,
31, former Italian marine in the
Tientsin Italian concession, who
was arrested by the communists
their sweeping campaign
against westerners in Mukden.
The trial in which the comes-.
sion was used was that of nine
Japanese and Chinese accused
of serving with an American spy
ring in Manchuria. It was sep
arate from the main trial of
Ward on charges of assulting a
Chinese employe of the con
sulate. Vice Consul William N.
Stokes, 27, Staten Island, N.Y.,
said the spy trial last month fol
lowed a pre-arranged plan. He
was an enforced witness at the
trial.
Cicogna's confession accused
Ward and others of guilt in the
spy case. He said the use of
the public confession device fa
miliar in other communist trials
was the basic part of the pro
ceedings. "I began suffering chills and
fever October 28 the fourth
day of solitary confinement,"
Cicogna said. "That day, a series
of two to seven hours grillings
began.
"They used threats, mainly.
No physical violence.
"They said 'you are a prisoner.
If you don't cooperate, we'll
never let you out. We know
your wife (a white Russian) is
anti-Soviet. China is the most
powerful country in the world
with 460,000,000 people. We are
afraid of nobody.'
"They tried to get me to write
an accusation of Ward," Cicog
na said.
The second day the same gril
ling continued, Cicogna said,
without food or medical atten
tion, and in a cold room.
cocagna saw tie finally was
persuaded to sign a "mild critic
ism" of Ward's conduct.
The next day, Cicogna said he
learned the paper was destroyed
and a strong accusation of Ward
and others of the Mukden con
sulate staff was substituted.
On December 1st, Cicogna
said he broke down and copied
the statement in his own handi-
wnting and signed it.
Cicogna and Ward both :
ported they were not allowed to
speak in their defense or have
counsel.
The federal government's tele
phone bill for calls in the city of
Washington alone amounts to
more than $3,500,000 a year.
Bug Chasers
Study Insects
Six different kinds of insects
were identified by the newly or
ganized Salem 4-H "Bug Chas
ers" entomology club Saturday
morning, according to Jim
Bishop, city 4-H extension agent.
The group met under the lead
ership of state entomologist F.
P. Larson, in the agricultural
building annex in Salem. Offi
cers elected were president Bill
Reaney; vice president, Layton
Webb; secretary, Richard Grim;
news reporter, Douglas Gallo
way; song and yell leader, Max
Reaney. Bill Durig is also a mem
ber. Johnny Morris and Homer
Ding members of a second en
tomology club lead by J. E.
uavis, state entomologist, were
also present.
The "Bug Chasers" plan to
hold their next meeting at 10
a. m. Saturday, January 7. The
second club led by Mr Davis and
consisting of Lee Golden Jerry
and Ronnie Simmons, Johnny
Morris and Homer Ding plan to
meet at 10 o'clock Saturday
morning, December 17. Both
meetings will be held in the state
agricultural building annex.
Boys and girls in Salem be
tween ages of 9 and 21 and in
terested in entomology are cor
dially invited to attend these
meetings and become members,
Bishop said.
Pegler Tags Claim
As 'Preposterous'
New York, Dec. 14 OP) West-
brook Pegler described as "pre
posterous today Drew Pearson's
claim that the two columnists
once agreed not to talk against
each other in public.
No newspaperman . . .ever
made such an agreement with
anybody," Pegler said in an affi
davit answering Pearson's libel
suit.
Pearson said last week, in
moving to increase his suit from
$500,000 to $1,200,000, that he
and Pegler agreed in 1946 "to
make no public statements, oral
or written, commenting adverse
ly upon the other."
In his motion, Pearson said
Pegler violated the agreement
by attacking mm in several re
cent columns.
State Supreme Court Justice
Thomas A. Aurclio reserved de
ISO T HrlPpm
democrat charged Tuesday the
Russians have cracked down on
any east zone mention of the re
turn of German prisoners of war
from the Soviet Union.
Sozialdemocrat said Soviet
Ambassador Pushkin had warn
ed east zone "bourgeois parties"
that the prisoner of war ques
tion is one that concerns Rus
sia alone.
Pushkin apparently referred
to the Christian Democratic
union and the liberal Democrats
Claude Jarman Jr., as Chick Mallison, and David Brian, in
the role of Lawyer John Stevens, in "Intruder in the Dust."
at the Elsinore Theatre today.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1949 13
in the east zone. These parties
collaborate, but are not synony
mous with the communist party,
as is the Socialist unity party.
Western Germans claim the
Russians still hold about 400,
000 prisoners of war.
icegtthathn-. . ctaoin shrdl cmf
St. John Re-elected
Gervais David L. St. John
has been reelected to serve an
other five-year term as director
of the Woodburn rural fire pro
tection district.
Illness of East German Premier
Said to Have Political Tinge
Berlin, Dec 14 VP) East German Prime Minister Olto Grole
wohl's illness has a political tinge, a western-licensed newspaper
reported today.
The American-licensed Tagesspiegel said Grotcwohl is under
a strict police guard in a Russian military hospital, and that a
Russian secret police agent
supervising the guard detail.
Last week the east zone gov
ernment said Grotewohl was in
a Soviet hospital for treatment
of a "light case of influenzt."
Tagesspiegel said Tuesday
that Grotewohl had declined a
suggestion by the Russians that
he go to the Soviet Union for
treatment.
Rumors which have filtered
out of the east zone since Gro
tewohl's illness was made known
pictured Grotewohl's sickness as
a combination of a heart condi
tion and a nervous breakdown
cision on Pearson's motion. De
fendants, in addition to Pegler,
are King Features Syndicate and
Hearst Consolidated Publica
tions, Inc.
caused by long dissension with
his first deputy, veteran com
munist Walter Ulbricht.
According to the reports, Gro
tewohl, an old-socialist-turned-communist,
is opposed to the
planned great expansion of the
communist people's police. In
addition, he has sometimes raised
his voice in opposition to a too
tight control ot East Germany
by Moscow.
These reports said Grotewohl
may be preparing to resign with
ill health as an excuse. Amer
ican sources have speculated)
that Grotewohl may be high on
the list when expected purge
trials begin under the recently
established east zone supreme
court.
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