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4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, December 19, 1949
One Battleship on Duty
So the Russians are supposed to be building three biff
battleships and a fleet of 1000 submarines. But the Rus
sians can't be doing that. The top brass in Washington,
D.C., has figured that navies won't be important in another
war.
Secretary of Defense Johnson has been won over to the
idea that Major Seversky was right: Airpower can win a
war alone, with the help of the atom bomb. So the United
States fleet has become a nice little, unobtrusive section of
the defense forces, kept for sentimental and historical
reasons.
The United States and Britain together have but one
battleship on duty. That is the U.S.S. Missouri. Perhaps
if the Navy department changed all the names of its bat
tleships to the U.S.S. Missouri I, U.S.S. Missouri II, U.S.S.
Missouri III, and so on, President Truman might think the
nation ought to keep its battle wagons from becoming mu
seum pieces. Then the names of cruisers could be changed
to carry the names of Missouri cities. One could even be
called the U.S.S. Independence. Destroyers could be re
named for Missouri heroes. Submarines could carry the
names of Missouri fish. And so on in the tradition of
name selection for various types of ships all to make it
so Truman wouldn't dare get rid of the fleet.
Russia is madly constructing subs and battleships. But
apparently Moscow hasn't gotten the word. There's no
use for such oddities on the sea anymore. Truman and
Johnson have decided otherwise.
Of course, the history books still recall how German
U-boats almost won World War I for the central Euro
pean powers, and Hitler almost killed off the American
flow of goods to Europe in World War II. In both cases,
the Germans missed because they didn't have enough sub
marines. Apparently Stalin has read the history books. Someone
ought to send a couple of copies of those books to the top
brass in Washington, D.C.
Kostov Reaped as He Had Sown
Former Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov of Bulgaria
was hanged Saturday at Sofia though his fellow alleged ac
complices escaped with imprisonment, by the Russian pup
pet regime because he had committed the supreme crime of
communism, repudiated an extorted confession of working
for a Bulgarian communist control instead of Kremlin con
trol of his native country, as Tito has successfully done in
Yugoslavia.
There was no question of his communism and no sym
pathy needta be wasted on him, for he was as merciless
and barbarous in his atrocities against his fellow country
men as Stalin is to the Russians, but was a traitor to Rus
sian communism not only because of his nationalism but
because he refused to follow the party line in staged trials,
and therefore paid with his life.
Opposition to Russian domination of their country, as
the Kostov prosecution said, is the supreme crime and
there can be no mercy for such "traitors." But having
risen to powei by terrorism, his fate is one that can be
expected by any communist who offends the Kremlin, and
most of them take it as a matter of course.
The Bulgarian trial was similar in all respects to that
against Hungarian nationalist communists, and those pend
ing in Czechoslovakia, Poland and other satellite lands be
hind the iron curtain. The procedure followed is the same
that Hitler followed all are accused of being spies and
agents of "Anglo-American imperialists."
As former American Ambassador to Russia Bedell Smith
says in his articles being printed in the Saturday Evening
Post, it is part of Russian propaganda to always accuse
other nations of what they are doing themselves and the
only imperialism is the combination of the revived czarist
imperialism and communist ideology for a messianically
conceived mission of world conquest.
BY BECK
A Dog's Life
SOOO HEAVENS! ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL
CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATIONS WE'VE
HAD IN THE FAMILY FOR YEARS.. .AND
THEY CAN'T BE REPLACED ANY MORE..
W7... T TOLD VQI TO LOT THAT
V- ' t - -Tt Dl IO I ID iLJ.
,.( Al OH-OH..
S:-X.-?Y.
for
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Truman Still Broods Over
Failure to Reappoint Olds
By DREW PEARSON
Washington President Truman is still brooding over the
licking he took trying to reappoint Leland Olds to the federal
power commission.
Though it's too late to change the results, the President found
another letter endorsing Olds and sent it right up to the senate
the other day.
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
He scribbled an
accompanyi n g
note to Vice
President Bark
ley, asking him
to insert it in
the congression
al record. -The
letter in A
favor of the lost 'A
cause was writ-tei
Ion hv Spnatn,."-'''
elect Lehman of
New York to Ed Johnson of
Colorado, chairman of the sen
ate commerce committee which
finally vetoed the Olds appoint-
' t'fut
tighter restrictions on informa
tion. So many loopholes have been
written into the proposed new
directive that the military could
cut off contract information to
newspapers almost at will. For
example, before a newspaper
would be eligible to receive pro
curement information, it must
not only agree to publish all
"synopses of bid invitation" but
also publish them "in the same
detail in which they are receiv
ed." This is a condition few
newspapers would accept.
Another loophole would per-
-
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14-
Kill
mim
f'(i , ft
ment. Johnson, whowas against mit ,he Pentagon t0 rule any
Olds, never made the letter public.
newspaper in or out of the pic
ture. In very small print it is
f W v & t
F rr?r 8rfri vrt p-Aifi in' im i h m
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M 4 W J
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Keep It a Quiet One
By DON UPJOHN
Snowflakes falling this morning with ice on the streets and
sidewalks and a chill in the air which penetrated the thickest
overcoat was quite a rude shock to us folks who expect it to be
springtime the year around in our good old valley and presaged
possibilities of a white Christmas for the coming week-end. But
even the shiv-
But when the President got ..-ri,. nhiirainn ..t
hold of a copy, he sent to to eater primarily t0 manufacturers
Barkley with a note ' to the and producers o actua, or p0.
Vice President scribbled on nooj. 41, moj
yellow scratch paper.
"This is a copy of a letter
Governor Lehman wrote Ed
Johnson about Olds," wrote the
forces."
This tentative directive was
ery, s h u d dery jr
thoughts of a
white Christmas
wouldn't be so
bad if they don't
sing about it
over the radio
about every 15
minutes for the
week coming up
Nostaglic Gift
S u r v i v i ng
members of the class of 1888-89
in old east school of Salem are
each receiving a gift from Dr.
Burt Brown Barker in shape of
a copy of his book "The Letters
of Dr. John McLoughlin, 1829
gayest of the lot back in the
oia E.a?i aaiem scnooi aays
The Office Wolf
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Red Cent in Weight Machine
D Li A t D LI
uruugni Answers iu rruuieno
By HAL BOYLE
New York Wi Once upon a time there was a young man
who was a tower of strength.
He had the stride of a panther, his cheeks were ruddy with
Don L'plohn
Saturday when rain was fall
ing in torrents around here we
were hailed half a dozen times
with the worn expression about
it's being a good day for ducks.
But the happy, care free time
for the ducks didn't last very
long as today may be considered
quite a bad day for same the
open season on them starting at
noon, December 19, which the
calendar indicated is today. We
hope they enjoy Saturday's rain
to the fullest extent.
An eastern shoe designer in
an article in a rurrent maeazin
is.il. inscrmea on me ny icai comes forth with the startling
over Dr. Barker's signature are statement that the feet of Amer
grcetings and best wishes for jcan wornen are getting bigger
President. "I don't think it saw ?ran UP Rear Adm- Morton
daylight. Will you see that it u- lne Dara'
goes in the record? We must now in charge of Pen agon "pro
have a complete record on this curement policy." When asked
even( HgT how the brass hats got away
NOTE: Since his appointment w"h violating the law by nego-
i .!, rfr0i ii tioting 90 per cent of all con-
renlacinB Olds Truman's old tracts, Admiral Ring's only health, his grip was firm. He never got upset over trifles,
friend ex-senator Mon Wallgren answer was:: That depends up- When his acquaintances became disturbed by the weight of
has gone back on him. Recently on Y, interpretation oi tne their private
Wallgren voted to give electric law' worlds and
power from Kingman's Canyon, NOTE Last summer, the sen- sought the balm
in the central valley of Califor- ate expenditures committee stag- 0f the psychla-
nia, to Pacific Gas and Electric, ed a healthy probe of "five per- trist's couch, this
despite the fact that it is Tru- centers," the influence boys who gent jeered:
man's fixed policy to favor pub- try to swing government con- "What a waste
lie power in this area. tracts. As a result, Maj. Gen. cf dough. Why
Alden Waitt was eased out as don't you solve
Brass Hats, Business head of chemical warfare and your own prob-
Secretary of Commerce Saw- Maj- Gen. Herman Feldman, the iems?"
yer published shocking figures quartermaster general, was also But ne never
recently about the growth of caugnt aaDDiing in iavontism. toid them tne
monopoly in the U. S. A. Yet Though Maj. Gen. Harry source 0f his
not far away, in another govern- vaugnan was revealed as a po- own jnner serenity which was
ment building. Secretary Saw- tent wire-puller, it is only fair a weignt maehine in a drug
yer could find one reason for to point out that his influence store near nis 0ffjce. This
mononolv. was u&eu uii me blue 01 small
Hal B07U
circumstances." That restored
his confidence at once.
Did he feel a little jaded and
weary? The mechanical diplo
mat gave him its penny answer:
"A proper selection of food
will help you physically."
Whatever the machine told
him to do, he did. He had ab
solute faith in it. And he was
as happy as a flea in a dog
pound.
the holiday with the following
little verse:
Boys and girls together,
Frisky and happy and gay,
a little work
but a lot of play,
Tis even so today.
'n bigger and that the average
has grown about two sizes in a
generation. He says now more
than 40 in 100 of our women
wear size eight or larger while
fewer than four women in a hun
dred wear size five or smaller.
It is the incorrigible, at times companies.
illegal, determination of the Since September the commit- for one red ccnt
And then a number of things
happened to him in a row. He
met a nrettv eirl nn a blind
machine-age oracle told him all date and wondered whether he
he felt he needed to know nneht to marrv her. He nut it
armed forces to nlace their tee has rested on its oars, but if
orders only with their old it really goes into government
Did some small trouble vex
up to the machine.
You have a strong intuition
oraers oniy wun tneir oia " b" suveimueni him' He steDoed on the scales "vc "u..s ...... i.u..
friends, the big corporations. procurement next January, the . ' , . ennv and out which. often ayses yu to form
We understand there are about But, after all, maybe that isn't
a dozen of the old beys and girjs so starling when it is considered
who will get these books and how the women have been put-
we're told that the now staid ting their feet down on us men
historian and instructor at the harder and harder as time goes
University of Oregon was about by. No wonder they've spread
the friskiest and happiest and the tootsies out.
(Copyright 1949)
A Most Paneful Sneeze
Hollywood, Dec. 19 fvP) Sound technicfal Leon Leon
sneezes most "panefully."
He was making a record inside his sound truck yesterday
when he felt one of those monumental sneezes coming on.
Rather than risk spoiling the recording, he stuck his head
toward what he thought was an open window and let go.
The window was closed and the sneeze or maybe it was
his head broke the window and showered him with glass.
Hollywood receiving hospital medicos stitched him up again.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Still Loyed but Not Forgiven
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
ur-l Forflmn Arlalr Analyst I
Thirteen years, almost to the day, have elapsed since youthful
King Edward VIII broadcast the fateful announcement of his ab
dication for love of Mrs. Wallis Simpson, and still this event
is ever present in the thoughts of the subjects who had idolized
him. boy and man.
All you need do is examine the senators can perform a real ser-
published figures of the armed vice, not only for business but
forces to see that the average for the taxpayers who pay high
businessman has no more chance er prices as a result of no com-
of getting a government contract petitive bidding.
than he has of making an atomic
bomb.
When you consider that mili
tary orders comprise the great
bulk of our gigantic federal bud
get, you can understand how the
company which gets on the in
side with the brass hats, also
gets the inside on monopoly.
Most amazing thing is that the
military appear to be violating
not only the spirit but the letter
of the law regarding government
purchases.
That law (public law 413) is
supposed to provide all business
men an equal chance, through
competitive bidding, to compete
lor government orders. However,
it specifies 17 minor exceptions
where competitive bids are not
the right opinion of people at
Latest West Europe Reports
Show Why Reds Are Losing
(Editor's Note: This dispatch by the general European
news manager of the United Press is based on reports filed
by UP correspondents in all the western European nations.
It shows that the west is winning a victory in the cold war
against Communism, but that the trend can be reversed
at any time the efforts of the democracies are relaxed.)
ZT -rf. first s'Sht " it said.
"You have an indomitable So he Popped the question,
will power enabling you to over- tne 8irl sald ves. and he Save
come in triumph many trying her a S1500 engagement ring.
The same day a middle-aged man
at the desk next to him put a
proposition to him:
"Look, I've got a chance to
make a real killing on a once-in-a-lifetime
investment.- Lend
me $1000 for a week and I'll
double it for yoU."
Out slipped our buddy and
relayed his problem to the ma
chine. It replied:
"You will stick to your friends
even if the whole world is
against them. A friend has a
real pal in you."
So he drew out his last $1000
from the bank and loaned it to
his friend.
The next week his girl ran
Last of Nazi War Criminals
A British military court has sentenced former German
Field Marshal Krich von Manstein to 18 years' imprison
ment for atrocities against Poles and Russian committed
by German troops durintr the war. He was the last of Hit
ler's jrcnerals to be tried by the allies. He declined to plead
for mercy.
Von Manstein was found Ruilty on nine charges and
acquitted on cijrht others. Ho has been imprisoned since
the war. Three other German war leaders were also to
have been tried by the Hritish but either died or were in
capacitated by illness and released, lie will join two other
German commanders-in-chief, Kesselrinir and Von Falken
horst, who are serving sentences at Werk.
Von Manstein was the O.'fHIh German to be tried by
British courts for war crimes and his trial ends war crimes
prosecutions.
All of which shows the contrast between Allied and Rus
sian justice. Every chance is given the accused by the
Allies to prove innocence, even attorneys are appointed
for their defense and tremendous volume of evidence is
produced. Only a comparatively few, despite their war
time jtuilt, are executed, whereas the Russians (rive the
accused short shrift on trumped up chai'Res and torture
forced confessions and death or Siberian slave camps
peedily follow.
LaGrande Cops Figure Laws
To Be Violated by Santa Claus
La Grande, Ore., Dec, 19 (U.Ri l.a Grande's police depart
ment, always on the alrrt for habitual lawbreakers, has
taken the trouble to catalogue city ordinances violated an
nually by Santa Claus.
Police Chief Lester J. Salrr listed the laws and maximum
fines Involved in the yearly visitation:
Tresspass $300.
Noise in hospital tone $300.
Whlp-rracking ordinance, $300.
No navigation lights $100.
Low flying Suspension of license. ,
"Heavy federal fines," said Chief Satcr, "also seem pos
sible on grounds of failure to declare goods entering the
United States, lack of passport and properly complete visas,
and the federal communications ban on giveaway programs."
Safer, however, announced that he will waive local prose
ution and pin th buck to iltti and federal authorities
The London
Sunday Pictor
ial has review
ed the matter
with the pun
gent declaration
that the now
Duke of Wind
sor is "virtually
an outcast from
the nation to
which he whole
heartedly dedi
cated so much
so much of his life
llrWItl Markrnrl
vorced. The same rule applies
in the diplomatic service. This
naturally doesn't mean that di
vorces never are tolerated in
these circles, but they are the
exception.
However, Edward knew all
that when he defied law and tra
dition in his marriage. Moreover
both the Archbishop of Canter
bury and the then Prime Minis
ter Baldwin (since dead) both
warned the King and begged him
not to take this step. Did Ed-
The paper ward think he could make the
says an unofficial ban by the church and government back
British royal family is respon- clown by threatening abdication?
siblo for ttiis situation, the boy- We probably never shall know
totting of the former king arising the answer to that. What seems
only "from the ostracism of his clear is that neither side was
wife", an American-born divor- bluffing. The King proved that
cec. he meant business by abandoning
"Sensible people." the Sunday his throne.
Pictorial declares, "will ask Does Edward regret the course
'why cannot a slop be put to this he took? These who know him
long-drawn-out stupidity?"' wc" arc firnl the belief that
Its true that the Duchess of hp,is as much, in love with his
Windsor isn't received at the wl,c n ns ,lle day they were
royal court. For that matter no - 'as a real love
divorcee is received at the court, ma'cn-
i,rt,.r rio of lnn sl.mriinu However, it seems rather ob-
However, the matter probably us ,llat ne mus e terribly
cuts a good deal deeper than that, hl,rt ove1' ' attitude maintained
By R. H. SHACKFORD
London, Dec. 19 (U.R) The cold war is far from over, but at
the moment Communism is on the retreat in western Europe.
The western democracies have won a round against the Rus
sians in a two-vear struggle west of the Elbe river.
This does not mean Communism is a dead force in western " wun anotner lenow, taking
necessary, and the military have Europe. It is still a potent poll- " ; along his $1500 ring. And the
now stretched these exceptions 'actor in France, Italy and threats of expulsion were no "pal" he had advanced the $1000
to cover 90 percent of all pro- western Germany, and it could longer effective in maintaining to confessed he had lost it on
curement rise again in those three coun- interest and membership. a horserace and couldn't pay it
In other words, 90 per cent tries to the position of influence In Germany the third largest back,
of all army, navy and air force it held in the immediate post- stronghold of communism in.
contracts are now let by private war period. An economic col- western Europe, the West Ger- On his way to work the sad
negotiation with favored com- lapse would be its strongest ally. man elections, indicated a small young man decided he'd have
panics which have done business Two years ago communists droP m support. The commun- to ask for a raise to recoup his
with the Pentagon building in held a total of 28 cabinet posts lsts obtained 1.360,443 votes, finances. But should he? He
the past. Despite the law. com- in western European nations, whereas in previous local elec- dropped a penny in the drug-
petitive bidding is almost com- Today thev hold none. Two tlons ln the three western zones store scales, and got back a
pletcly out the window. vears ago there were 244 com- of Germany the communists card saying:
munists holding scats in west- vote totaled 1,568,984. "You are faithful to your em-
During the war, competitive em European parliaments. To- Tne most startling setback ployer and take pride in doing
bidding was abandoned on the day there are 217. Iur western communism occur- everything conscientiously and
excuse that speed was neces-
sary. Huge contracts were let
red in Norway where in 1945 to perfection.'
communists held two cabinet Relieved, he hit the boss up
sary. nuge contracts were let Reports from United Press """"""""- " iu i-u.nei nenevea, ne nit tne doss U(
overnight on a cost-plus basis nn : i. .i u..( .., posts.. Until this year the com- immediately, and the boss said
the plea that the 30-day period ern Europe show that thee are mun,sts held 11 seats Parlia- "You certainly are worth
to receive bids meant loss of the main reasons why com- ment They were striPPed of more money, son, but not here,
life. But today the government munjst influence has declined- ?U Parllamentary representation As a matter of fact you are
is on a humdrum peace-time x The Marshall Plan turned thls ycar's election. fired. Your check will be in
basis. Offices aren't open on Sat- )h'iinp in 1047 40 Dv demon- nly ln Austria has parlia- the mail this afternoon."
urday. The brass hats get off for ',rat "ff to D.OD, ' that the mentary representation increas- Trembling and miserable, the ,
golf an extra afternoon a week. 7 ""5... . ..?--!n .? . ed' from four to five seats. But young man ran back to the
He stepped on the
stenographers start powdering . . . . , .. ,,, . . m mis years election the com- drugstore.
tneir noses at 4:25 p.m., and .. ,, b T ... '. . munists comDined with other scales, feverishly searched his
there should be ample time for i'" extreme left wing groups to pockets and found one last '
competitive bidding. economically. form ,hc Jcft block ,, penny He d d . ,h
Nevertheless, it remains
2. Many persons who were
for the Dowager Queen Mary
and some other members of the
toward his Duchess. She must
feel the same. Who wouldn't?
roval familv have been "thumbs .. 'rvcr. mc general assump-
down" on the Duchess from the tlon ls U,at ,np Dllkc and Duchess
outgpt remain away from England so
much because of this unhappv
To understand this unusual sit- situation. That must be a real
nation one must know that di- tragedv for the Duke for. after
vorcees arc banned irrespective all, Britain is his home and he
of any personal feelings the royal js as English as John Bull him-
family may have. Why? Well, seif
because the Church of England is u s touRh for the public, too,
against divorce. This is the es- because thev love him. Still, it
tablished (state) church and the should be recorded that a host of
King himself is head of it as those who love him feel he took
"Defender of the Faith." the wrong course. Whether he
And the ban on divorce doesn't will be forgiven is open to ques-
stop there. A member of one of tion. Certainly It would take
the crack guards brigades must some doing to get the court ban
offei hu resignation If he U dl- removed, .
Slot Nnll,mn 1, .,.,., J
. " , . . ... f .115 I1DUUL1ICU.
fact that the big companies still ready to swing euncr tor or The most dramatic loss of in- The young man shook the
have the inside track and get against the reds became dis- fluence has been in the elimina- machine. Then he began to
most of the contracts. gusted with communist-inspired tion of communists from all scream and to kick it Then
One way this is done is by strikes and obstructionist tactics western cabinets. In the years some cops came and held him
hiring top army-navy cxecu- in the hard winters of 1946-47- immediately after V-E day most And then two men in white
fives to work for the big com- 48. of the western countries formed came and put him in a strait
panics. Having been close to 3. The Catholic church's ex- coalition governments around jacket and trundled him off
procurement while in the arm- communication decree against wartime resistance movements, to a psychopathic ward, still
ed services, they know how to communism gave pause to many The communists had been key screaming,
swing contracts to the private persons who were moving to- leaders in the resistance. .
corporations they now work for. ward the extreme left. In the two years after the war The druggist went over to
f or instance, able Gen. Harry 4. Marshal Tito s split with ended, France had seven com- the machine and rapped on it
ingles, once in command of the the Kremlin indicated to mil- munist cabinet ministers, in- lightly. Out dropped a card
signal corps, now works for the lions that a man who could defy eluding a communist vice pre- It said:
whVrh m?n!"fra!10n Arjca: the Moscow lightning and still mier. Finland had six. Italy "You will soon have an op-
lZrr",r I sun'ivt' f0Ur- Austria one D-mark portunity to travel. If you do
corps oT Adm Andrpw p 5' Tne French v"mcnt tw0- Norway Iceland not go, you will miss a thrilling
rr'r Adm. Andrew F scored a sllccess against a gen- two. Belgium four. adventure."
Carter, once executive officer of
the army-navy petroleum board,
now is employed by a subsid
iary of the Arabian-American
eral strike in 1947.
Communism has had its tri-
None of them has any com- Moral: Advice is usually worth
munist ministers now. just what it costs.
Oil company which sells oil to P
the navy.
Europe.
Red regimes are firmly in-
Another way the big military stalled in all the satellite nations
orders are controlled is by cur- and any dissidents are promptly
tailing bid information. Natural- liquidated.
ly no company can get a mili- But the main battle ground
tary contract unless it knows of the cold war today is west-
what contracts are open, and this ern Europe and it is there that
information is not easy to get. the democracies are winning.
Furthermore, the procurement In France, the communist par
brass hats have just drafted a ty organ, L'Humanite. recently
new directive proposing even deplored the fact that even
Irrigation by Mail for N.Y.
Bloomington, Ind., Dec. (IP) A five-gallon can of this
city's surplus water was on its way today to Mayor William
O'Dwyer of water-short New York City.
Staff members of radio station WTTS and television station
WTTV noted water was flowing over the waterworks dam
here and decided to start what they called an irrigation-by-mail
plan.
With New York's bathless-shaveless Friday decree in mind,
they said in a letter to Mayor O'Dwyer, "hope this will be
good for a few shaves, anyway."
f.