Dramatic Moment on Stand
Offered by Alger Hiss
By CHARLES MERCER
New York, Dec. 22 W) Alger Hiss took the slack of papers,
examined them closely and then waved them alolt.
r "I have never had these papers in my hand until just now,"
he declared.
That was the former state department official's response when
questioned yesterday a b o u 1
typewritten copies of secret gov
ernment papers that got into the
hands of ex-communist spy
courier Whittaker Chambers.
Chambers has sworn that Hiss
gave him the copies for relay to
prewar Russian agents.
: On trial for perjury for the
second time, 45-year-old Hiss is
accused of lying to a federal
grand jury when he denied slip
ping U.S. secrets to Chambers.
In Own Defense
Taking the stand In his own
defense, Hiss yesterday repeated
this denial, as he had done at
the first trial last summer. That
trial ended in a hung jury.
Asked by his attorney about
Chambers' claims that the cop
ied documents were typewritten
in Hiss' home, by his wife, Pris
cilla, Hiss said:
"They were not typed in my
house, nor by Mrs. Hiss, and I
have no idea where they came
fro.n."
Hiss admitted that four hand
written summaries of state de
, partment documents were in his
handwriting, but he swore he
didn't give them to Chambers.
"Did you give them to any un
authorized persons," asked De
fense Counsel Claude B. Cross.
"I did not," Hiss replied.
Hiss gave similar answers con
cerning a third batch of gov
ernment exhibits, the micro
films of documents which Cham
bers produced last year from a
hiding place in a hollowed-out
pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
In a calm, low voice, Hiss
traced his career that led him
from Harvard law school into
numerous high government
posts. He said, his duties includ
ed guaranteeing the security of
persons and documents.
Charge Refuted
Throughout this period, he
said, he never had heard any
suggestion that he had violated
the "trust and confidence" re
posed in him.
To refute Chambers' charge
that Hiss had been a communist
adhering to the red party line,
the defense put in evidence
memorandum that Hiss wrote
while he was an assistant in the
state department.
The memorandum, written on
Sept. 28, 1939 a month after
the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression
pact and while party-liners were
calling for peace with Hitler
argued that there was nothing
in international law to prevent
the U.S. from aiding the allies
against the Nazis.
With occasional promptings
irom nis attorney, Hiss describ
ed his work in the agriculture
department, the state depart
ment and as a legal aide to
senate committee. He told of
being picked as an adviser to
President Roosevelt to the Yalta
conference in 1945, and of serv
ing as executive secretary a
both the Dumbarton Oaks con
lerence in 1944 and the San
Francisco conference at which
the United Nations was found
ed in 1945.
Baby Thrown
Info Incinerator
Newark, N. J., Dec. 22 P
Mrs. Louise Beauchamp, mother
of six children, threw her new
born baby into a burning apart
ment house incinerator, police
said last night.
Police Lt. William Wangner
of the homicide squad quoted
the 37-year-old woman, as say
ing things were tough enough in
her household at Christmas time
without another mouth to feed
Wangner said the baby was born
alive.
Wangner said there was not
way of telling before an autopsy
whether the child was alive
when it was put into the incin
erator. It was born about
p.m. yesterday and found dead
about 2:30 p.m., he said.
Mrs. Beauchamp was placed
under protective custody in City
hospital 'ast night. No charges
were placed against her immedi
ately, pending an outcome of an
autopsy on the dead child.
Parts of the baby's charred
body were found in the incinera
tor of the apartment house by a
janitor.
Mrs. Beauchamp has six living
children, ranging in age from
five to IV. Police said she has
been on relief since her husband
left her six months ago.
Detectives said she told them
she had delivered the baby un
attended in the bathroom of her
apartment.
SnowSforms Half
Travel in Midwest
(Br the Asgocl&ted Presst
The western and central parts
of the country had more cold
, weamer loaay. ice and snow
storms hampered travel and Im
paired power and communica
tions in many midwestern areas.
Temperatures again today dip
ped into sub-zero levels in parts
of the Dakotas and Minnesota as
a new mass of cold air moved
in from northwestern Canada
and pushed across the central
states. Sharp drops in temper
ature were forecast for most of
the north central region by to
night. V Long Safety Record
' Broken at Lebanon
Lebanon A record of 434
consecutive days without a lost
time accident at the local Crown
Zellerbach paper mill ended
when Don Phelps fell from a
paper machine platform, suffer
ing an injury to his back.
Phelps was taken to the com
munity hospital for treatment
and was removed to his home
the following day.
in the United States, B7 per
cent of the farmers have auto
mobiles and 36.5 per cent have
trucks.
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Egg Price Support at
Average of 37 Cents
Washington, Dee. 22 P) The
government announced Wednes
day that it will support produ
cer prices of eggs in 1950 at :
national average of 37 cents a
dozen. This is about 8 cents
less than this year's average
farm prices.
This means, agriculture de
partment officials said, that con
sumer prices next year may av
erage 8 to 10 cents a dozen be
low this year s prices.
Actual prices will depend up
on production. A sharp cut in
output might prevent prices
from dropping as much as the
reduction in the support price.
Franco Daughter to Wed
Senorita Carmen Franco Polo
(above), 23-year-old daugh
ter of the Spanish dictator, has
become engaged to Cristobal
Martinez Y Bordiu, Marquis
of Villaverde. The announce
ment was made by General
issimo Francisco Franco over
the Spanish National radio
from Madrid. The 29-year-old
marquis is a doctor attached
to the Spanish Red Cross. The
above picture of his fiancee
was made last year. (AP Wire-photo.)
Although asbestos is known
to have been used many cen
turies ago, there were no as
bestos mines in operation until
about 100 years ago.
FOR GOOD OR EVIL
Religious Thinker Lists 10
Big Events of Half Century
New York, Dec. 22 U.B The scrapping of American isolation
ism and the rise of Russian power with its world-wide com
munist policy were among the events which had the greatest
impact on mankind in the first half of the 20th century, Harry
Emerson Fosdick said today. -
He included in his list the
founding of the World Council
of Churches.
Dr. Fosdick, one of the coun
try's outstanding religious lead
ers and authors, is pastor emeri
tus of the Riverside church in
New York. His career spans the
half-century.
Dr. Fosdick was one of several
leading citizens who replied to a
United Press poll requesting
them to pick the 10 events since
1900 which they considered most
important, for good or for evil.
In his listing, Dr. Fosdick re
frained from setting down the
events in any order of impor
tance. He said he could not sin
gle out any one event as most
important because "my thinking
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listed them:
The first World war.
The rise (and failure) of the
League of Nations.
The economic depression.
The second World war.
The abandonment of isola
tionism in the U.S.A.
The fission of the atom, '
The United Nations.
Russian power and its world
wide communist policy.
The founding of the World
Council of Churches.
The breakdown of the old co
lonial system.
Stassen Warns United States
Against Socialized Medicine
Seeing a lesson to the United States in the results of Brliish
socialized medicine to date, Harold E. Stassen, in an exclusive
article in the January Reader's Digest, warns against the1 adop
tion of a similar system in this country.
It is my considered opinion," he states, that tne British
oroeram has resulted in more
medical care of lower quality for)
more people at higher cost."
Stassen, president of tne uni
versity of Pennsylvania, bases
his article on his recently com
pleted ' study of the British
health program, now in effect
for 18 months.
Britain's plan provides lor
"free" medical and dental care
or all who ask it.
By enrolling on a physician's
"panel" a patient is thereafter
entitled to treatment, including
medicines, glasses, trusses and
other health equipment, without
charge. The doctor renders the
patient no bill but is paid by the
government for his services.
General practitioners get $2.50
governmental pay per patient
per year; surgeons and special
ists are paid by the government
on a higher scale.
How this works out in prac
tice, to the detriment of former
high standards of medical care,
was expressed by one British
physician:
The people who exaggerate
their aches, or who are hypo
chondriacs and imagine they are
ill, continually clog our offices
and take our time by constantly
asking for unneeded service.
They get in the way of those
who really need medical care
Before the National Health
act, this doctor added, he could
keep abreast with latest medical
developments, had time to ad
vise school officials on prevent
ive and sanitary measures, and
to discuss with specialists new
problems in disease and new ad
vances in drugs and treatment.
Now he complains that he must
waste hours making out forms
and reports and meeting with
committees on problems in the
mere administration of the law
Citing the "tragic effect" on
preventive medicine, Stassen
says, "Public health work and
measures for the prevention of
diseases have been retarded and
even abandoned.
The people who jam doctor's
offices and hospitals, and the
program's cumbersome adminis
trative machinery, have aosorD-
ed the financial resources and
energy of all concerned."
Industrial absenteeism be
cause of illness is higher under
socialized medicine, the author
reports, and the death rate in the
program first year advanced
sharply.
Infant mortality is down, but
Stassen attributes this to recent
advances in treatments and
drugs. Britain's improvement in
her infant death rate is marked
ly less than that recorded in the
U. S. and throughout the west
ern world.
Britain's huge bill for medical
care, now about four percent of
the entire national income, is re
flected in the heaviest tax pro
gram of any major nation, Stas
sen says.
As one British worker re-
Father Spanks
Youth in Court
Portland, Dec. 22 VP) An 18-
year-old lad got a surprise pen
alty yesterday in court.
City Judge J, J. Quillin men
tioned a sample of "fireside jus
tice" might be in order for
Darryl Robert Lundquist after
the youth refused to tell the
source of alcoholic beverage
that sent him to jail.
Said the judge to the father,
"I'd give him a spanking if I
were you " To the amazement
and amusement of court of
ficials that's what the lad got
and quick. The court added a
30-day jail term.
Young Republicans
Believe Margaret
Los Angeles, Dec. 22 U.R
Young republicans of California
took President Truman's daugh
ter Margaret at her word when
she said youthful GOP members
East Salem Schools Give
Annual Christmas Programs
Auburn The school program was given Tuesday afternoon.
Choruses sang the carols, a cappella, with the story of the birth
of Christ presented in pantomime. All children in the school took
some part The readers were Michael Steed, Allen Pierce, David
BalCL f1d ill! X"' , r ziah; Joseph, Wayne Jerry;
net solo by David Baker and vo
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Dec. 22, 194915
Jimmy Doesn't Always Smile
TheW ay He Used to Do
Johnstown, Pa.. Dec. 22 m Although little Jimmy Beis-
wenger hasn't been told why he may not live long after Christ
mas, the nine-year-old boy doesn't smile all the time the way
he used to.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Beiswenger of nearby
Ashville, say Jimmy was always-
smiling even after he con
tracted Hodgkins disease two
years ago. Hodgkins disease is
a malady that enlarges the
lymph glands of the neck.
"Now, he doesn't smile any-
were as eligible as good demo
crats as her prospective beaux.
Joseph Holt, 25-year-old pres
ident of the group, announced
today he sent a telegraphic invi
tation to Miss Truman to sing at
a young republican meeting here
Jan. 15. He promised to intro
duce her to the cream of eligi
ble southern California young
republicans.
more," said his mother yester
day. The Beiswengers said they
fear Jimmy may suspect what
his doctors said he may not
live long after Christmas.
Last week, Guy Monick and
Ralph Albarino, teachers at
nearby Gallltzin high school,
loaded an automobile with gifts
and took them to Jimmy's horns
for an early Christmas.
When Jimmy saw the pres
ents, including an electric train
and a popgun, all he could say
was "Oh, oh, oh."
Jimmy's father is a soft coal
miner at Dysart, Pa.
cal numbers by Lamona Collins,
Carol Hoffman, Peggy Hoffman
and Joyce Burris. After the sto
ry hour the principal, Arthur V.
Myers, presented two moving
pictures, "Holy Child of Bethle
hem" and "The Night Before
Christmas."
The children were given their
annual treat which had been
provided by teachers and moth
ers w 1 1 h a special committee
from the Mothers club preparing
the sacks. Teachers were pre
paring the sacks. Teachers were
presented corsages by the mem
bers of the Mothers club and re
freshments were served by
three members, Mrs. Charles
Penny, Mrs. Pete Gossen and
Mrs. Melvin Harper.
shepherds, Clifford Yost, Norma
Straw, Gerald Carpenter, Jim
my Huckstep, Fred Fetsch and
Larry Jayne; wise men, Ronald
Roan, James Bryan and Walter
McGinnis; angels, Zettie Ruth
Patterson, Janice Isom, Lucille
Brewer and Caroline Alsman;
stage, John Harger. The reces
sional "Angels We Have Heard
on High." The accompanist for
the entire program was by Na
dine Gilman from Salem high
school.
House guests the past week in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Blanchard were his brother,
Perry Blanchard from Sonning
dale, Saskatchewan; his nephew,
Claude Blanchard; his niece and
husband, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Zie
bart from Kaniloops, British Columbia.
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Swegle The school program
was presented Tuesday night. It
was divided into three parts:
The primary, special numbers
and the intermediate. The pri
mary children as a group sang
two carols; a special quartet,
'Upon the Housetop" and John
Jayne, "If It Doesn t Snow On
Christmas.
Special numbers were Christ
mas songs by the sophomore
Melodettes from the Salem high
school, and piano numbers by
Sandra Everett. For the inter
mediates, 12 carols were sung,
the processional "O Come All
Ye Faithful," and the story of
the birth of Christ read by John
Kelly and Beverly Straw.
Cast of characters for the pan
tomime were Mary, Joann Kiz-
marked: "I don't pay the doctor,
but I pay!"
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