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Reunion In Seoul Albert E. Willis (left), economic cooper
tlon administration adviser, is reunited with his wife, Beatrice,
on arrival at Seoul, Korea, along with Alfred T. Meschter
(second from right), also an EC A adviser. The two men
had been held in North Korea by communists since last Sep
tember when a ship on which they were traveling was taken
to communist territory by its Korean crew. At right is O. H.
Ritchie, chief of the ECA Marine Transportation branch in
which the other two men are staff members. (AP Wirephoto
via radio from Tokyo)
Coffee Once Was Considered
A Cure for All Ailments
By ARTHUR EDSON
Washington, Dec. 16 W) Coffee, so much in the news now,
once was considered something more than a fine drink. Back in
the 1700's it was looked on as a cure for almost all that ails you.
Richard Bradley turned out a fascinating little book in 1721
called: "The Virtue and Use of Coffee with Regard to the Plague
and other infectious distempers."
Bradley, a Londoner, contend
ed that if coffee had been known
during the great plague, the dis
ease never would have been so
disastrous. And he advanced
this as proof:
"In some parts of Turkey
where the plague is almost con
stant, it is seldom mortal in
whole families, who are rich
enough to enjoy the free use of
coffee; but the poor sort, who
want that benefit, seldom escape."
Nor was that all, in Bradley's
opinion.
"If a mother drinks frequent
ly of it when she is with child,
the infant will not be troubled
with worms, during its first
years," he wrote.
"Other authors assert, it cures
consumptives, swooning fits, and
the rickets, and that it helps
digestion, rarefies the blood, sup
presses vapours, gives life and
gayety to the spirits."
But even Bradley conceded
that you can't have everything.
"Mr. Ray," he observed, "dis
allows the use of It to such as
are paralytick, and likewise such
as are troubled with melancholy
vapours, or have hot brains."
So if your brains are hot, don't
turn to coffee for solace. Still,
doesn't it look as if you get
lot, even at 83 cents a pound?
The whole history of coffee
Is wonderful, especially the le
gend of how man first learned
of Its value.
Kaldi, an Arabian goatherd,
noticed in the year of 850 that
his goats "not only kept awake
all night long, but spent it in
frisking and dancing in an un
usual manner."
Turned out, the gay things
had been on a coffee jag.
In spite of the popularity of
coffee, man always has had a
difficulty getting a decent cup
of it. Back in 1721 Bradley
wrote of a traveller to Con
stantinople who reported on coffee:
"It was sold in many public
places there, which he calls
coffa houses, where the Turks
sit chatting most of the day, and
sip of a drink called coffa, in
little China dishes, as hot as they
can suffer it; black as soot and
tasting not much unlike it."
The description was so apt
that I dropped around to my fa
vorite restaurant for a check.
Sure enough, it still tastes like
soot.
Head of Letter Carrier
Auxiliary Passes
Portland, Dec. 16 ( Mrs.
Margaret Emma Spady, 51,
president of the women s auxil
iary of the National Association
of Letter Carriers, died in a hos
pital here Wednesday.
She had served three years as
auxiliary president and helped
lead the successful campaign
for pay increases for mail car
riers and widows' annuities. She
had lived in Portland 47 years.
Gale of Rumors
Sweep Balkans
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Dec. 15
iP) Across the Balkans today
sweeps a gale of rumors mixed
with well-based reports ol dis
sension among the satellite coun
tries of Soviet Russia.
Aside from the open rebellion
against Moscow rule by Marshal
Tito's Yugoslavia, there is still
far more talk than action, more
passive resistance and whispered
resentment than positive steps
toward regaining independence.
Some of the reports come
from refugees from Russia rule,
which is exacting a tribute from
the satellite nations often com
pared with that levied by the
Roman empire. Some of the re
ports come from supporters of
Tito's campaign for equal rights
with Russia among the commun
ist states. Some come from di
plomatic sources.
All these reports must be
weighed with caution against
the propaganda on both sides of
the cold war.
Here are some of the reports:
1. That Russia will incorpor
ate the satellite states eventual
ly into the U.S.S.R., through
rigged voting, with Romania
first on the list.
2. That the economic subju
gation of the satellites, which
already has gone far, will be
stepped up. It was this sort of
subjugation which helped speed
the Tito break.
3. That, with the exception of
industrial-minded Czechoslova
kia, eastern European countries
will be reduced to the status of
agricultural supply bins for Rus
sia, a throwback to the dreams
of Russian czars.
Plunging Necklines Aren't for
The' Junior Miss America
By HAR.MAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Dec. 16 (U.R) The "Junior Miss America" thinks
a heap more of hogs and tomatoes than she does of plunging neck
lines and mink coats.
She showed up for the picture fellows wearing bobby sox, blue
jeans and a pair of low-heeled shoes.
Carolyn Rudy, aged 17, of
Bluffton, Ind., was right in
character. The daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl F. Rudy, she was
here to attend the 15th annual
convention of the National Jun
ior Vegetable Growers associa
If you ask the pretty brunette,
she'd rather be a farmers
daughter, than a step-child of
Broadway. She's pretty enough
to have her choice.
Carolyn has what it takes to
make a senior "Miss America"
at the annual contest In Atlantic
City, N.J. She doesn't care much
whether she gets the nod next
year as "Miss Indiana," but
there is some talk that maybe
she might when she comes of
age.
In the big time, the score card
is rated on talent, beauty, and
how a gal looks in an evening
gown.
Talent? Carolyn's got it. She
plays the piano and can sing
"Always" like it always should
be sung. And, although she is a
little country girl, she's not
afraid of people. She and her
brother have been appearing in
public for years.
Beauty? She's got it.
Evening gowns? She doesn't
own one, she says, but if she
looks as cute in one as she does
in blue jeans she couldn't
miss.
Carolyn is the kind of a kid
you hope your own daughter
will grow up to be. Wholesome,
she was raised out among the
bees and clover in Indiana. She's
a 4-H-er. Her specialty is rais
ing tomatoes. She also is a fair
hand behind the serving ma
chine and she can cook. Her
mother, who is pretty enough to
be a "Mrs. America," said that
her daughter has taught her a
thing or two about how to broil
a steak.
The youngster doesn't know
exactly what she wants to do.
All of this fuss about the
"Miss Junior America" title,
which she won in Pittsburgh
last August has posed a lot of
problems. There are offers to
model for magazine covers. The
photographers are after her all
of the time.
She maybe wants to be an air
line hostess. Or perhaps do fa
shion modeling. Or go to college
at DePauw at Greencastle, Ind.
Study music, of course.
But with all of that, the kid
isn't spoiled. She has learned a
few things like putting on the
grin when you don't feel like it
and to give her best when there
are a few handicaps available.
O'MahoneyAsks
Revise All Taxes
Washington, Dec. 16 (US) Sen.
Joseph C. O'Mahoney, D., Wyo.
called for a complete revision
of the tax system to stimulate
investments.
unairman ot the joint con
gressional economic committee.
he said the federal government
must provide "tax incentives
if it would solve the problem of
using" investment capital
The present tax system, based
upon wartime needs, is acting as
brake on small business ex
pansion, he said.
"It is my personal judgment
he said, "that the time has come
to revise the law for the express
purpose of promoting competi
tive enterprise."
O'Mahoney declined to conv
mit himself on any specific tax
change, pointing out that his
subcommittee is studying invest
ment problems.
"We have heard a number of
suggestions for amortization
privileges and special exemp
tions, all of which should be ex
plored thoroughly," he said.
The guide in writing incentive
taxes, he said, "should be the
promotion of business and the
promotion of federal revenue.
held In New York Dee. 4. The
reports stated the leaders of the
group urged their followers to
join the Elks and other organi
zations to "work for peace."
Roads in Good Shape
Road conditions over Oregon
were good today except on the
Warm Springs highway, where
chains are needed because of
packed snow. There was packed
snow in other passes but it had
been sanded. Icy spots were re
ported on the pavement at most
eastern Oregon points.
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Elks Lodge on Guard
Against Communists
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 16 (U.R)
The communist party line will
not be heard in any of the 1535
Elks lodges in the United States,
according to Emmett T. Ander
son, grand exalted ruler of the
Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks.
Anderson said here today he
is alerting every lodge to the
communist threat to infiltrate
the order of Elks, requesting
that they exercise great vigi
lance to route from membership
anyone who follows the Moscow
party line, and to expel any who
may have succeeded in obtain
ing membership in violation of
the oath they took.
The statement came as an out
growth of press reports of the
meeting of the National Council
of American - Soviet Friendship
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