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4 Salem. Oregon, Tuesday, Deeember 20, 1949
Apotheosis of Stalin
Dispatches describe the elaborate and fantastic prepara
tions for the 70th birthday of Stalin on December 21 as
"the greatest give-away jackpot program in history, with
the Russian overlord of world communism on the receiving
end," the satellite states behind the iron curtain being
forced to outdo the Russians. Tons and tons of gifts have
descended on Moscow from the communist world.
An Associated Press dispatch states :
Reports reaching London through the Soviet monitor and
other channels indicate that here will be more than 1,000,000
narcels bearina the tae: "Hannv Birthday Dear Comrade."
Besides, there is a veritable flood of big crates containing the Salem (Chamber of Commerce figures) who woke this morning
more unwieldly gifts all the way from motorcycles to air- without finding snow on the ground were surprised, for there
Dlanes. Even whole factories are among the many carloads A , , , , , ,.
converging on the Kremlin from satellite states and far terri- were nearly that many told us personally yesterday they were
tories of the USSR. sure it was going to snow during the night and a lot of them
With the gifts come all sorts of honors, pledges of special went home last night and put ski grease or something on the run
work, affirmation of loyalty and devotion, endearing greetings ners of the sleds
in the familiar communist pattern. Long freight trains hauled which have been ?
gifts into Moscow. There were 70 cars One for each birthday ..: i h i
num cummiuum east wei many, rx licigiu nam ui i va.n ments Others
left Warsaw with presents from Poland. The locomotive of hll(j -rnn,i
the train was almost hidden by the huge portrait of Stalin it , "
bore as it pulled out. basements or at-
t t t t , tics to find their
3k3t.es 3tid a few
Numerous cities have held public displays of Stalin's 3f triem had the
presents. In impoverished Warsaw, six halls were needed snow shovels
to hold all the gifts, eight in unwilling Latvia, probably ready on the
compulsory donations. Poets and playwrights have turned ,ney CouA sho
out special birthday works in many languages. Paintings Vel their way
NO WONDER YOU HATE pjjffiBi lji
WftMffl NOTTELLVOUR FOLKS J ' I'y!
l!WW ABOUT THE RUSSIAN ?5r Wlhlm J fu
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND '
Treasury Agents Stumble on
Petroleum Tax Fraud Case
(Ed. Note This Is the third in Drew Pearson's series of
columns on tax evasion a question of importance to every
taxpayer who has to pay more as a result of deficiencies
by others.)
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It is not often that treasury agents turn up a
tax fraud case against a big corporation. This is partly because
most big corporations have their books audited by reputable
firms, but also because it is almost impossible for the T-men to
scrutinize carefully the complicated books of the big corporations.
The internal
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
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Still Time
By DON UPJOHN
revenue bureau
is so understaff
ed thanks
largely to the
recent GOP
80th congress
that it is impos
s i b 1 e for its
agents to take
enough time to
go through all i
Drew Pearson
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however, treasury agents stum- Mid-Continent is headed by
bled into what they considered Jacob Francei republican com
an airtight tax fraud case against mitteeman from Maryland, and
the Mid-Cont i n e n t Petroleum chairman of the Equitable Trust
corporation in Tulsa, Okla. Co o Baltimore, a director of
The case was considered so Maryland Title Guarantee Co.,
airtight that there was not the and of tne Commercial Nation
slightest doubt, they thought, al bank of New York.
about criminal prosecution. ..
was former head of internal re
venue intelligence in New York,
at which time he was close to
many Tammany leaders. He was
sent to his present key spot in
Washington by Joe Nunan, an
other Tammany man, who once
served as commissioner of inter
nal revenue. Since resigning,
Nunan has been one of the
most prosperous tax lawyers in
the country.
In the neighborhood of the 62,847 or thereabouts residents of V V , ."'J V & secretary is E. McClure Rou-
busy and the crimi
the Mid-Continent case are now
on ice.
zer, who is France's law part
ner, and' a director of various
4 Kin - c o nnn nnn. tors include Russell Faris, (chair
man of the Ward Baking Co., ., . ,. ....
Maurice Newton, . a partner of MdCKtNZIE 5 COLUMN
1
i CWm
"Can anybody let me have five bucks till payday?"
and found: 108 pieces of chicken XHTp the difference.
to pay a tax bill of $8,000,000
plus 50 percent penalty, as re-
. , U.. 4U T , T
stead honest taxpayers will have HallSarten and Co., and a di
t Lll ZfZZl r Adams Express, Ana-
wire, some three inches long;
piece of copper wire, bits of against Mid-Continent was con
conda Copper, Paramount Pic-
The reason the treasury's case ,,, ' .
ai,t MiH.fntint J ?ures, Gotham Hosiery and the
chewed up wood, grass, leaves sidered so airtight .was that a tock head o ,h'e Fjrst NationaJ
and pupply worms. "I've been lTL" bank and trust of Tulsa and di-
practicing 22 years and I've for 'the government rector 'he Frisco RR.
never seen anything like this," while workine for the com- Mid-Continent owns or loas-
Dr. Hawley said.
pany, he had caught it making es fi5.427 acres of oil and gas
capital expenditures for plant
Winter Months Will Go Far
Toward Settling China's Fate
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
((PJ ForclBn AUalra Analyst)
The winter months which now have most of China in their
leases' in Oklahoma, Kansas, icy SriP are liko'y to g0 ar toward determining whether the
Don Upjohn
We note in foregoing para- vDansion durine the war veari Texas, Arkansas and New Mexi- Chinese communists can consolidate their sweeping military vio
graph that the dog in question and then charging them lip as e0' on which it operates a total tory over the nationalist regime.
is of the English type. That stub- "repairs." ot 1830 oil wells and 50 gas The Droblem has ceased to be primarily a military one. thoueh
Have come from communists in Britain, f'rance and Swe- oui 01 me nouse ana 10 xne ga- Dorn sireaK wnicn ieis mem Though the lower offices of , V,X., ' c -"""y Chiang Kai
den. Czech communists have besides thousands of Rifts "!""""?' """,y ",uutue "U"UB" ",UI" Mid-Continent showed the real " Shek is prepar-
folks were surprised, but we
attempted to secure 9,000,000 signatures on a birthday doubt very much if a darned Lights on the courthouse there improvement 1592 tank cars, and operates 1.- mlla war
orrjaofinir nnrl nro iinvpilinar t.wn hucrft stHtiifps in him nnd one of them was disanDointeri Phristmas Irpp will shinp ayain j i t: ,i i 36 miles of pipelines through ,.... u
w 0 o . . D Cu iu JlCCIt ICfdllS, WIlCll LUC ifr ei h ' rl ' TliT'ri f t- laI" 11I1ULIK1I-
renamed its highest mountain, Geolachova, "Mount Stalin." when they found i the weather tonight putting to shame all of books went up to the top office. "? V ' " ' ' Mld'Contlnent out the length
j-""s "'" muse ram wuu j iu uicii repairs, ol course, are tax de- . : ,
ing to continue
ter.
kids there's no Santa Claus.
From what reports we could deductible,
'i.,. J!4: refmery i Vest Tulsa Okla f" TZ "
:hiefly politico-
Z,ilalinVeStmentandn0t th a storage facility of lTssI,-
It is the same story all along behind the iron curtain
clear to Red China. And the day is consecrated as a holi-
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terminology has become czarism and its old program of Portland, Ore. m Dr. R. L. Saljer today there were more Mid-Continent officials gave percent of the Great Lakes Pipe- s c o n o m 1 c
world conquest, inaugurated by Ivan the Terrible and Hawley and two assistants today rL'thTn goTshot bu"t it SlJm tor'tt." iml "Zr'TtT d'ecidedonThe1
Peter the Great, with a new aristocracy, a caste system said they operated on an Eng- i.( was th. norismpn did "f f L I L. aso""? to Kansas City, Omaha. ;"f
and alaver nrl 5?tnlm t.h. o-lnrified anH deified czar n.h , "i t yV : .""yl"l""1 Moln. Minneapolis and "r.
UeWltl Uackenala
and slavery and Stalin the glorified and deified czar.
As the New York Times remarks :
The celebration marki the communist apotheosis of Stalin as
all-around genius and demigod, in a manner alien to western
thought and feeling. Already hailed by the head of the sub
jugated Russian Orthodox church as the leader who is piloting
Russia "along the ancient, sanctified road of power, greatness
and glory," Stalin is now being celebrated as the "father and
teacher, the eagle's glory of the centuries" as the "military
genius of our time," the "theoretician and initiator of the trans
formation of nature," the author of great vicorieir in all branches
of the national economy, science and culture, the "coryphaeus
of world science," the "inexhaustible source of creative inspira
tion in all the arts," the "inspired leader of the world proletar
iat" and the "genius-creator of the friendship of the Soviet
peoples," before whom the world bows down (or should).
Of course all this has nothing to do with communism
except as a means to an end, but a recrudescence of the
"little father" oriental concept of the czars and their
tyranny which deifies its rulers and forces their subjects to
seek safety in flattery, servicity and sycophancy "to blend
the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow
fawning."
lish bull terrier pup for worms not try,
Poker Game Proves Costly
San Pedro, Calif., Dec. 20 VP) You never know what a
friendly little poker game may lead to.
George Waters told police yesterday that:
He won $1,600 from one Frank Billings in an impromtpu
poker session. Billings paid him with a $2,400 check, for
which Waters forked over $400 in cash and a $400 check.
But Billings' check bounced.
Waters went looking for Billings, found him on a street
and asked what he was going to do about the check. Said
Billings:
"Why, there's nothing wrong with that check. Lemme
borrow your car and I'll go to the bank right now and get
your money."
Reported Waters to police: He'd now like to find his
$400, the $400 check, his new automobile and Billings.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
one of its bookkeepers just as Chicapn
carefully retained them and (Copyright 194s)
turned them over to the treas- BP.f . .
ury. As a result the case was OPEN FORUM
considered ironclad.
Communist Leader Mao Tze-
umental task of providing the
sinews of life for approximately
one-fourth of the world's popu
lation. These millions are scat
tered over a land which is one
third greater than continental
United States; a vast area that
has been impoverished by long
years of war.
. Many parts of China are hun
gry and ill equipped to meet the
winds of winter. And the Chi
nese, like tlie rest of humanity,
think with their bellies when
Tung now is faced with the mon- hunger overtakes them.
The Chinese communists have
led the horse to water, and now
have to make it drink.
They realize what they are
Set of 'Do's' for Babv-Sittina
The agent who first handled
mis case was iranK w. uotm, . ,."":u" ' ,' S ... . J (h,h"t up against, for the Red new Chi-
cnier 01 intelligence ior tne js.an- "'w"5 "cw.ihow " - na news aeencv in a HUratph
sas City district. He recommend- was worth printing for the benefit of others in Salem, like my- rom a lspatn"
ed criminal prosecution and sent self, who may not have seen just this concise set of "do s con- communis re , sedous ecQ.
trie case on to mute oenzer, ,6. 1 " " """" nomic and financial difficulties.
cniei 01 tne penal Division 01 ""j ouuu, u u vm . ,u
the Kansas City office. give this letter space in your
But while the case was still daily,
pending in Kansas City, Daniel These instructions on "What
Bolich, deputy commissioner of to do in case of fire" came from
internal revenue in Washington, the welfare division of the State
requested a conference at Okla- of Minnesota,
homa City. This was held, and
Bolich. for reasons best known or tne oaDy-sitter.
d. the fire department tele- s mes quoted General
phone number Ma0 as sa '"S:
e. where the nearest neigh- 'ur situation can be gener
bor is alized as follows: There are dif-
f. where the parents can be Acuities, but there are ways and
reached means, and there is hope."
(2) Forbid smoking or han- Fred Hampson, veteran AP
dling of fire or doing any un- correspondent in China, reports:
City Life Doesn't Interest
King of Jr. Vegetable Growers
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) When the good earth will pay a fellow $10 an
hour, should he leave the farm for a career in the city?
The new king of the nation's junior vegetable growers has de
cided there is only one answer to that one:
"I'm staying on the farm."
Passing the 50,000 Mark
Salem is feeling quite chesty over the prospects of the
census figure return expected next year. All estimates
have suggested the population count should show over 50,
000 persons in the city. That would put Salem in the met
ropolitan center class.
Besides indicating that Salem will have entered the
medium-sized city category, what would the 50,000 figure
mean otherwise?
With a population of that extent, Salem will assume the
responsibilities that go with size.
Ihe city has experienced an almost steady, vigorous holds no atlrac
growth since the first of the century. Only during the lions for 20
depression years did Salem show but a small percent age year-old Russel
increase. But there comes a time when an expanding L- Sears, Jr., of
population more than uses up the tacilities and program of -""iiiiin g i o n,
the basic community. That is the time when the prcvi- Mass- wl, was
ously-considered plans for the city have reached their 3of the n"
limit in scope, under the circumstances. It is then that (jonai j u n
adjustments take place. Vegetable
t'or instance, in the case or the downtown business Growers' asso
section, the effect is obvious now, regardless of what the ciation in Wash
census takers find out next year. The city's population ing ton last
has increased to the point where parking facilities and week.
traffic control as heretofore practiced are inadequate. He won the $500 first prize the soil by checking erosion.
lhat is why the RaldoCk traffic plan was essential not only by raising and marketing $1,300
to the downiown section but to the entire metropolitan worth of vegetables on a two- times you can gross $10,000 or who expertly handled the in
City life
KT.nuawM
ferred to Washington
When the case reached Wash
ington, a conference was held
on Bolich's office, at which
General Counsel Charles Oli
phant was not represented. This
is highly unusual. For, ordinar-
our freezer and about 300 jars of i'y, a criminal case must go to
canned vegetables." the hl counsel's office for dis-
. . . posal. It does not go to the of-
. , ., , fice of a deputy commissioner.
His father wants him to take However, Bolich ordered it to
over the family farm in time, his office, and although the gen
and the youth has agreed. He is eral counsel was not represent
already employing scientific ed- ,he defaulting oil company
farming techniques learned in was "presented by Benjamin
school. Saun, dors of the law firm of
Charley Hamel.
I had to twist dad s arm a Hamel, former head of the
little at first," he grinned, "but board of tax appeals, and for
now he's all for them. mcrlv in the internal revenue
"We've airphotoed the farm bureau, is a republican who
to find the best way to conserve sometimes has been retained by
leading democrats suffering
By keeping up with the from tax troubles. It was Hamel
to himself, came all the way to t1' 1,81 811 children out iirsi necessary cooking. "Inflation is rampant again,
Oklahoma from Washington to oeiore aoing anyining eise. (3) prepare the heating sys- Price controls have broken
participate in the conference. 2 Call the fire department, tern so that the sitter need not down. Discontent is widespread
Lohn and Seltzer, who also, par- 3 Don't let children try touch it; otherwise give instruc- in both cities and countryside,
ticipated, informed him that the to rescue toys, pets, clothing, or jions on how to tend it safely. Unemployment is at dangerously
Mid-Continent case was fraud other property. (4) Remind sitter not to step high levels. Taxes are high and
and should be prosecuted. For the parents: outside an automatically lock- getting higher. There are re-
Despite this, Commissioner (1) Carefully instruct sitter ing door. ports already of food shortages
Bolich ordered the investigation what to do in an emergency in- (5) Provide sitter with a in some districts. There still is
stopped and had the case trans- eluding: flashlight. enough food in the cities."
a. how many children and
where they are sleeping
b. where the exits are
c. where the phone is
MRS. R. R. BOARDMAN, Hampson says that 60 to 90
Chairman Public Safety percent of the Chinese he has
Section, Education Dept. Polled who were opposed to
Salem Woman's Club
and one-half acre plot. Several more 'r n a New England me-i!,x cases of Boss Frank
Sewage disposa . is another case in po nt. Leaving aside thousand farm youth competed tTtte"? Tn' $5 ?00 -X or Ed Kelfv of Chicago, both
w " ?,;. LTlCt!T " t0 dw.P0""' "i'1?- th? nVC!r' in ,ne cont,st' Pon.ored by the hing vou need to eat ex! during the Hoover administra
c.ty still fmdf hat the increase in population taxes fac.h- A and p. Food stores- J ufrnm tl e tore " Hon.
These indications of erowth ar
accompanying expansion of the city
At the noint. however, when the itonnlHtion rmssps the
K0.000.mark. new vistas nf Pxnnnsinn and Hnvelnnmenr. will e"use"- '"P'a'" " cows-they just take up
be open. Salem will need the vision and determination grTt"V lLZPZl Zl m "' 1,m;
to meet the challenge of that future.
This Hunter's Good Luck
Turned Out to Be Bad Luck
Bound Brook, N. J., Dec. 20 VP) John Wojnar is a crest
fallen hunter today.
Wojnar has been hunting deer in season for more than
five years. This year he bagged a nine-point buck, and en
tered it in the 21st annual buck deer contest run by Frank
Efinger, owner of a Bound Brook sporting goods store.
Wojnar brought his kill in first. The buck, along with
eight others, was hung on a rack outside Efinger's store
to await the judging.
During the night thieves made off with Wojnar's buck.
The hunter still was indisputably eligible for the prize
for bringing in the first buck of the season.
That's just the trouble the prize for the first deer is a
free mounting of the head.
Red Tape Ties Up Phone Call
Ask inn About Water Shortaae
& s a full-time inh. hut it Wi-iMv
San Francisco, Dec. 20 (U.R) The San Francisco Chronicle complicated by the fact that the
Generalissimo C h i a n e Kai-
Shek's Kuominlang are opposed
also to the communists.
What is the significance of
that?
. Well I should say it fits in
with our idea that the masses
think with their bellies when
times are hard.
The Chinese masses aren't po
litically conscious, but they are
economically conscious. They
gauge a government by what life
gives them in the way of neces;-
sities under that regime, and
by the amount of taxation sad
dled onto them.
Political designations don't
mean much. You can't eat 'em
or build a fire with 'em to
stave off the cold.
That's a rough outline of the
problem the victorious Reds
have to solve. This in itself is
-e typical of a routine, ,ix tool 200 ..,., Young Sears wants to get rid s'"" Bolich finally decided to wanted to find out about New York dtys bathless Friday so a civii war will continue in guer-
y services and facilities. , Sc!,rS', " .120 ,P" md of the farm's herd of, 36 dairy let Mid-Continent off for S3.- reporter called the information desk at Grand Central station rilla form.
e nnnulation naP tho 3umor Un,verslt' of Mas" cattle because "I don' care for 000.000-instead of $6,000,000 "This is San Francisco Chronicle calling, the reporter said. . . .
Fate Carves Own Penalty
New York, Dec, 20 (U.n Fate carved Its own penally for
two confessed holdup men.
During a Brooklyn holdup in November, 1947, George Del
Toro, 21, was shot in the spine by a policeman.
Pedro Hernandez, 31, was shot in the groin after a holdup
of a taxirab driver In September, 1048.
Yesterday, Kings county Judge Carmine J. Marasco held
temporary court in a hospital prison ward where both men
are paralysed from the bullet wounds, and will be confined
to wheel chairs for life.
The Judge told them:
"I am convinced that no matter how severe my sentence
might be, it could not compare to the punishment that is
already yours. You are facing a living death. My sentence
is the time yo have served here, lew m day."
I00 recommencico. oy tne r-men. He . now t jju u.u8 ........ ...... -p.... uniang Kai-Shek has set up
also decided against any appre- "This is a railroad station. licj(y department .1 his government on the big island
ciaoie iraua penalty. we con 1 give uul .lu....o..u.. ot Formosa, and proposes to di-
Only after this was decided like that." , Look, we don t want any in- t guemll activitics from
did Bolich send the case to "We know it's a railroad sta- lat'" P "Uroad. there. He also w 11 malntahE
General Counsel Oliphant with tion. What we want to know is We want "PP so far as possible, a blockade to
and I worked it during vaca- the tourists summer f!itives p , n,ow r".u. drink?" prevent me Keels from getting
o.u w. uil bnE til u.llir. WWUJ, HlUllg ..- .
drop criminal prosecution. age. Did you shave iriday
Deputy Commissioner Bolich "You'd better talk to our pub-
work on his fathers 3U0-acre His chief crops will be Dota
farm. toes, chickens and tourists. He
"My father gave me a small plans to modernize the 23-room
plot to encourage me," he said, old family farm house to attract
tion and on week-ends home from the city,
from college. "I don't want to live in a city
"My big crop was potatoes. I myself," he smiled. "I've seen
hired what help I needed, and a city. I don't like the pace.
sacked and sold the crop myself "There is more independence
to grocery stores. I put in only on a farm. It's easier to be
4S hours of my own time alto- your own boss.
gether. and the profit figures out " And VQU know you can t
at better than $10 an hour. a ,ot more thinf,s done on g farnli
In addition he won $100 in because you don't have to change
prizes at three local fairs. your clothes every time you turn
"I also got 3,000 servings for around. You can waste a lot of
our table from my garden," said time getting in and out of a
Sears, "and 150 pint boxes for dress suit."
outsirip Kitnnlipc K.r Wslur
"Who did you say this was?" The Nationalist n.,r.m..i 1.
Maybe the Letter Would Turn Up
Wichita, Kans., Dec. 20 (U PJ Wichita postal clerks smiled to
day as they sorted 400,000 pieces ot letter mail. Maybe that
letter would turn up.
The cause of the merriment was a note pushed through a
letter slot yesterday. The note writer explained that she had
mailed two Christmas cards In sealed envelopes, but had put
two-cent stamps on the envelopes Instead of three-centers.
The one-cent stamps were attached to the note. Would the
postal workers please put them on the letters?
'The San Francisco Chronicle authoritatively stated to be
in San Francisco. Did you have readv to make sweeping reforms
a bath or shower today?" on Formosa to win American
"We're not allowed to give economic and diplomatic assist
out information like that. We ance in defending the island
just give out train information." against Red attacks. .Should the
"Well, you live in New York, communists succeed in capturing
don't you?" this strategic island it would, of
"Yes." course, solve many of their in-N
"Where?" mediate difficulties. Y
"Brooklyn. But I'd better Comes next spring, and we
turn you over to the station shall know a lot more about the
manager." future of China.
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