Ml tAY, '.ill U a 3 mi BY BECK Recollections Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Aiiiitant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che- meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly, $1.00; One Tear, $12.00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year, $8.00. II. 8. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem, Ore., Friday, December 23, 1919 A Cold War Maneuver UMM President Truman has warned Russia to keep hands off SIPS FOR SUPPER Yugoslavia, a major target of boviet threats, and instruct ed George V. Allen, ambassador to Yugoslavia, to so in form the Tito government. He leaves December 28 for that country. When asked after a farewell call on Mr. Truman, wheth er he had received any special instructions, Allen replied : "Yes, the president confirmed that the United States is unalterably opposed to aggression wherever it occurs or threat ens to occur, and iurthermore that the United States supports the principle of the sovereign independence of nations. As regards Yugoslavia we are just as opposed to aggression against that country as to any other country and just as favor able to the retention of Yugoslavia's sovereignty." S HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS, MEHTOW. ViffifjmS?SJ I I'M SURE VOO WILL BECAUSE VOO WONT ll lMHill)lMlllflITrrril V HAVE TO COME BACK TO SCHOOL FOR jf.!!! II N ANOTHER YEAR...HA-HAHA..rA JUST KtZSSumX -l J0KIN6.. I MEAN UNTIL AFTER mrt "! ItSuaTN NNEW YEARS, OF COURSE.yil3 J fV-T? ?J E.wg? , S S STALE GA6. MY YjSS2E) ( OLDER BROTHER TOLD ) $,.f1i --. I ME ABOUT IT WHEN 2i mm 'j Now in Reverse WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Mystery Behind Gen. Groves' Change on A-Material Loads By DREW PEARSON Washington Friends of Gen. Leslie Groves planted a story in Newsweek that Groves was all set "to give credence by innuendo to Fulton Lewis's' charges" that Henry Wallace urged shipfnents of atom materials to Russia. Groves was planning, according to Newsweek, to say that he was barred from discussing the matter by a presidential di rective, and he had "actually brought the text of an FDR war time order into the committee hearing "But tinued News week, "what made him change his mind and completely absolve not only , i . . Wallace but Hopkins is a mys- fered tne chairmanship of the long-unbossed national security BY CLARE BARNES, JR. White Collar Zoo committee ' tT? W. groom." lV 'l l t," con-M "'A 1 1 r , . BC1- J IMiwJ Drew Peftnon stores. Commerce department records show that 229,000,000 pounds of green coffee were roasted for sale in October and 238,000,000 pounds in Novem ber, compared with a monthly average of 182,000,000 pounds in July, August and September. Most of this excess is on the pantry shelf. CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES Unbossed Board Averell Harriman, top ECA representa- tery." By DON UPJOHN "Dan" Danielson, the well known real estater, who the other day told us about the squirrels digging up the burned nuts and carrying them into the trees which he hailed as a sure sign of a white Christmas, was looking a little chagrined, disgruntled and put out this a.m., when we happened to encounter him on the street kn o w w happenini "You -tv h a t's F ,X."v faelfn asked us, as he if, they just came up to get wash ed off by the flood. At a press conference later the president confirmed the dragged policy statement maae to Alien, tie aeciarea xnat xnis a nearby stair does not mean any change in American foreign policy way out of a for the United States has always been opposed to aggres- gale-like wind, sion against any nation, no matter where situated. "You know Tito has been under heavy pressure from the Kremlin wnat those dog since his break with the Soviet over a year ago and a soned squirrels, nitrra nf Vli 0IW0H fnltnwora ia ImfW wn,r in outolliro are doing now? states. He is now locked in a death struggle with Mos- Ksbdo cow, which is apparently stirring up guerrilla warfare . . mu tt j oi i j i- v. rrvi them again. Now tell me how's up, probably many of them after The United States and other nations have given Tito a Chap going to trust anybody funds needed for this particular economic and political assistance since, but heretofore or anything again after getting time of year As they entered there has never been any official statement of what Ameri- that treatment from a bunch the lobby they were greeted ca's policy would be in the event of a Soviet communist of squirrels. If you can't find with the strains of that grand attack on Yugoslavia. honesty among a lot of inno- old hymn, "Come All Ye Faith Allen, who has been American ambassador tn Iran, saps cont looking little squirrels, ful." wiieie urtii yuu iiuu it: wnen I saw those squirrels retrieving nis should be one of the the nuts the other day I was busiest nights of the year down- as sure as anything it meant lown 83 10IK surge around on The Timely Hymn Over at Ladd & Bush branch of United States National bank the holiday customers have been regaled by organ music from the interior of the bank, a constant concert as it were of Christmas carols, hymns and other mu sic appropriate to the season. The other morning there was an unusually large rush of folk into and burying the lobby as the doors opened Newsweek s mystery, howev- resources board. He declined. er, is not really a mystery at all. This board, one of the most im Astute Congressman Francis portant in Washington, has Walter of Pennsylvania heard been without a director for more what was afoot and called the than a year part of the time general's bluff. Learning that because of the row over the ap Groves was planning to wave pointment of Truman's friend, an FDR directive as a blind for ex-Governor Mon Wallgren of his innuendo attack, Walter put Washington, in a phone call to the department British Labor Jittery Am of defense with highly interest- bassador Douglas reports from tag results. London that the defeat of the When Groves tnnk thp fitnnri labor governments in Australia his first words were about the and New Zealand has given the PQQR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER directive," wnicn, ne said, en- sritisn government a Daa case joined him from discussing per- of the jitters. This affects their sonnel before a congressional entire foreign policy and will committee. make Britain an unpredictable "Oh, that's been rescinded," alIv until elections are held next interrupted Walter. "I just talk- spring. ed with one of the assistant sec- More Money to Britain? retaries in the defense depart- Treasury Secretary Snyder has ment and was assured that vnu warned President Truman that 'Mi mi Mil "I really shouldn't wear It to work, but on a party tonight" m goin 3 Christmases When Yanks Were Strangers in the Land By HAL BOYLE New York VPl The heart turns back at Christmastide. ti a a -1.1 -ni :a onnnt in nthaii nlaroa nmnn ft could speak out freely about Britain is heading for another Zv h us these alleged shipments. You're disastrous financial crisis. Sny- Iace cjg tnat most grownups remember best is some at iberty to tell us all you know, J" t Christmas as a child at home! when our faith was a, bright as xo neiu us Clear un thii mnttpp " ful 1 aindiaa uuuuun, witiuu , , , , ncip us up mis maner. " ,.. ' , . Santa's beard. TOMWMimMMnaigm Groves looked like he had warns n Pouno. is - bright! , ... . nnw RpTlinff fnr lpcs than wn anu u u 1 11 ""if oeen mi witn n np nvmd n n - j 0 f . . . . . The directive is a similarity in the Kremlin policy of aggression of Yugo slavia with that attempted against Iran and probably thinks a firm attitude in Yugoslavia will bring the same results as it did in Iran and at least delay if not halt aggression. applicable?" lously. Hnii,r. uiol- ,oa new sled under no longer that a new loan of two billion P"" he asked, incredu- dollars may be necessary to keep ? tre.e filed the British from going under. "No, you can testify fully re- In brief, devaluation ureed on almost too tre- EardinK this case." advised Wal- tho Rritih h s.vd. of Mt mendous to ter. Work. bear- , t . mui uuiiB(uiuii vi Ariuiciai mica scientists at :. . testifvinff on thp rnnnrrt U u.. e j maS Wasn t jUSt Allen sees in the more than 600 border incidents foment- And now to have 'cm bring 'em tapplnS folks on th arm- Be" ing cold facts, the general gave ards, working with the navy, fun w h e n you iiopnins ana Wallace a clean have just discovered a method """0 snow by Christmas, or why did that last minute shopping spree, they go to all that trouble? as wel1 as going round and round ed by Russia against Yugoslavia, as "attempts to back, what can anybody believe tween the two there's promise of feel out Tito's defenses." He also recalls the Comin- in any more?" Dan seemed to 9ul'e an actiyevening. form's recent order to Iron Curtain countries to wage feel so badly about this de- The Reluctant Robber all-out war aginst Yugoslavia. nouncement of his weather Liverpool, England (P Evidently this is another attempt to call Russia's cold ProPhecv we didn't have the George Clithero'w, a Liverpool war bluff, for when called Moscow backs down with a ,1 -m hat,t?le hJu" 3eweler ls 70 years oId- Last policy change as it did in Berlin, for the Kremlin is not tlVort tTl" remelo er Top' pind" .1t him and stoos iust short'of warW d " aggression also gave as another sure sign Pd uath.m and stops just shoit of war. of a white christmas the lact thesafc .Tm an 0ld man, any- the hyacinths are up out of way," Clitherow said thought- AW..:..J Tki-icfmnc Pr,rAnn ,he eround a few incl:s and fully. "Go ahead and shoot." The Merited Christmas Pardon they wouldn't do that unless they robber's jaw dropped. So did Governor Dewey has released from Sing Sing prison Jigr.ld thf e'd ,be s"ow t,0 pru" his gun- And he ran outside Italian-born Louis Boy who has served 18 years of a life tcct them from freezln' MaVbe and rode away on a bicycle, sentence for murder because he risked his life for a little girl doomed by leukemia. In a traditional Christmas-time MacKENZIE'S COLUMN gesture we governor commuted isoy s sentence to time already served and he will be on parole for the rest of his life. Boy was the first person who ever knowingly took Into his veins the taint of leukemia, a cancerous blood disease. It did not save the girl's life but it won him freedom. The transfusion experiment to help an eight year old girl, was not Roy's first participation in life endangering medical tests at Sing Sing, but only one of several "excep tional contributions," Dewey states. These included war time experiments involving alabrinc, used later by the army for treating malaria, and also influenza vaccine. Boy volunteered as a human guinea nitr "with knowl edge of the dangers involved and with no promise of general along reward. " t.h mwornnr'a shitpmmit in Alhnnv anid Rnfor- the line that ring to the leukemia experiment, Dewey said: "Again ne was aware or the danger that he might contract chor, and that a fatal disease. Although the child's life was not saved by the atheistic com experiment, Boy's service is considered an important contri- ,: (v,r bution to the fit Id of medicine." munism mcro- fore is deifying Boy was one of 10 convicts who volunteered for the Stnlin. That the- leukemia experiment. He was chosen because his blood ory has a spe-Ff)p type was the same of the girl's. Leukemia is an excess of c'l interest for " mwim of Christmases-in-exile to member or forget. bill of health. got what asked for- you HaI Boylt -it was ecstasy. Re- for producing artificial mica WINCHELL GETS SHAVED rials in the world. The United member? Down at Miami the other day states used 10'000 tons of mica honevmnnninff Vi PrcMt Iast year and all but 135 tons 0 pomo tmm ohrnsrl It', ah mg DaCK TO CnilCtnOOCl tnriSI- "'""a"' " ??LL y-a4enI s1lute?vTsSiXiaibrn nSHf": .?. at home. If. ranging in too much gum. he needed a haircut - Rifflo ro. "on of all radio and radar de- plied that it was mutual; so next ces- The bureau of standards dav both men drnnnpH in .i has now made this important m.llions OI mer can men aim " -. the Honey-Plaza hotel barber- contributionjo national defense. Sta oner of his people.'-wa. even Stalin's Amazing Birthday Points to Worship of System By DeWITT MacKENZIE ( Forelsn Aflntrs AnnlyM) A new and startling viewpoint of Marshal Stalin's amazing birthday is being discussed editorially by newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic an angle which is summed up by the New York Herald Tribune under the heading of "The Soviet Deification." This theme is. dove loped in mankind needs a spiritual an- as no living man has ever been accorded. "Why? "It is a fascinting and baffl ing event, in parts, perhaps, re flecting the inability of any hu man society to exist on a plane of pure materialism, without some kind of faith and adoration. But in part it must also reflect the weakness of any political structure balanced on its apex, forced to shoot or hnne its ahlpst white blood ceils. The doctors honed to kill the excess this column, men because it has no place for in the child's blood. A total of ISO quarts of blood were which many times has Pointed them in the slavish conformity traded between the child and Ihe convict in four-hour ,ollt, .virtually all peoples, which it demands, forced to find sessions on each of four days. The girl died two weeks 1 b' we also are reminded that one frequently hears communism re- Johnson's Worst Blow ferd ! "a rcliBi,"., m?an; nig ii hi i it, is a way ui me which shop Two chairs were occupied, but a third chair was vacant, and the vice president of the United States started to enthrone him self. "Oh no, you can't use that," protested the barber. "That chair's reserved." Barkley said nothing, picked up a paper and waited until an other chair was vacant, then proceeded to get his haircut. Bif fle also waited until the next barber was free. Meanwhile, the third chair still remained va cant. The man for whom it was reserved did not show up. Finally Biffle remarked in an undertone to his barber: "Do you know who that is in the next chair? That's the vice pre sident of the United States." Biffle's barber went over and whispered to the other barber who stood, still idle, beside the empty chair. There was a buzz of consternation. Then suddenly the customer who outranked the vice president bounced into the barbershop. It was Walter Winchell. Johnny, There Is a Santa Claus! Medford, Mass., Dec. 23 UP) The voice of Santa Claus boomed from a rooftop, "What do you mean I'm not real?" A little tyke in the crowd gazing up at the spotlighted Santa winced. He had been telling his little friends "He ain't real all he does is stand there." The voice called out again: "Johnny Williams, why do you tell your little friends such things. Of course Santa is real and he'll come to visit good boys." That was the clincher. Johnny Williams now ls a firm be liever. The voice was that of Alderman George F. Callahan thrown from his living room through a loud speaker rigged to Santa. "My biggest problem now," says Santa, "Is getting the kids to go home to bed." Christmas Remembered Best Recalled by Hollywood Stars Rv RAR THOMAS 1 Hollywood. Dec. 23 W-Wtat Christmas do you remember Itt,dZv COFFEE PRICE FINAGLING Sen. Guy Gillette of can no longer be sure of other wise from the proconsuls of its sprawling empire. "The Kremlin has impressive- The'Orcgoniiin in Portland is disturbed about the news is calculated to take the place lv d?lf'ed Stalin; but the im who has been doing a good job of probing the zoom in coffee prices, is also checking on some This is a sentimental question. Being sentimentalists, movie stars were quick to respond to it. Here are their answers to the AP Hollywood Forum auestion iowa, of the day: filenn Fnrd "It was In 1938. the greatest performance of my and I had just opened and closed career trying to act surprised." uM" Vwa Christmas I saw snow was in that Russia is hoping to have from 750 to 1000 sub- of religion marines by 1!)51. The United Slates has nbout 300 subs. The paper admits that Moscow's threat on the seas is reason enough for the battered top command of the navy to resist "efforts by the air force or anyone else to de emphasize the naval air arm." Resistance was granted, pression may not what was intended.' be exactly coffee exchange, apparently -- 1M8. My parents invited me up aimed at keeping prices pegged nePr0UdT JZ nnl to a winter lodge. I had my pic- ot .. ... ..., rhri,imn, PVp ii,. ture taken there, and Norma normally, Brazilian producers r " i-; , ' , j Shearer saw it and sent it tn Iu"' " imP"' woman, and exporters, which snnnlv tened to the chimes and looked "??r ?w " a smt " family. The place was Bht hlf n,,r Vnffp. p at the windows. I walked into with jitterbueeine chili . , , aooui nan our conee needs, are - : Df mv w'" j""ue5"is But let the editorials tell their T . . , ... sellers on the exchange. How- an automat and treated myself ol i" r- ,,,., yelping dogs, and we ate plate stonr. The Herald Tribune savs ever. Gillette hn Infm-mMim. to coffee and pie a la mode witn ""?"T "r" ..a after plateful of soup, chicken nr inn pnmm n cr pint nr va n ' .11 ftu i. worshiD havint! came near rvari marx woum oe more deification at this stage.' I got my bicycle. That was the to would De more deification at thl staffs " too, to "too much dependence on land-based aircraft and "'""""-". "j ine mancnester uuardian, an- the atomic bomb " stupified if he could witness the other outstanding English news- . . a'j i -r ii , . . ,. scenes today being enacted papcr, refers to the "devotional At this rate, Admiral Denfeld and Captain Crommehn ar0und one-half the globe in note" and says that never be will end up as martyrs to the cause of their nation's idolatrous adulation of a creed fore has this religious side of defense as did General Billy Mitchell on another aspect supposed to be his and of its communism been so plainly in of defense in the 'twenties. principal present representative view. Release of the news about the size of the Russian sub- on eartn- The Guardian continues: marine fleet is the worst blow Secretary of Defense "... The iconoclast scholar "The Poviet peoples have less Johnson has had n i s batt n to llliba nnce the defense w" grum-iy announced m.-u access man mosi io ine normal that certain Brazilians also have the last 15 cents to my name. 1 !,, !,,, It t ,.. ......... . & s " on so they can be in a controll- never forget Christmas in Ger- . . that if T HiHiVt fam"y- Holding up two mall- - - nrnpr catflmus cno neiroi ma ceria n Brazilians also nave t wa mv Christmas feast " Vear I fond out about Santa been buying up all the coffee That was my Christmas feast ,ausbut my foJks dldn,t "-" r know about it. futures they can get their hands ing position to maintain inflated many in 1944. We had nothing , -,,., t riirin.t w.nt prices- but K rations to eat and no hi 'olks had . ' Some American brokers don't Christmas cards to cheer us up. b . , thinks thpv hnneht like the smell of the foreign in- Fortunately, we found three J.. uiii .. y b 8 trncinn tn th. ntfa AVAV.nnnA . M 1 1.. K w.c. and have refused to handle the py before we started crying." accounts 01 Brazilian traders, ... numbering 40 or 50 in all. How- Ginger Rogers "I forces of the country. Smudge Takes Skippy's Place Philadelphia, Dec. 23 June and Virginia Graham, six and 12, were heartbroken. Their dog, Skippy, had skipped just when they had finished stuffing his Christmas stocking with rubber bones, dumbbells and other dog delicacirs. Margaret West also was heartbroken. She's leaving the city and wanted to find a good home for Smudge, the dog she adopted after finding the pooch wan daring homeless in the rain. The father of June and Virginia came into the Evening Bulletin office to tell columnist Earl Selhy about the stock ings ready for the missing Skippy. Miss West telephoned her problem at the same time. The result Smudge now bolngs to June and Virginia and ths stockings will be his first present in his new home. 'religion is the opium of the peo- religions; they have no royal pie' could not have conceived family; they are insulated from that the unpredictable and un- the Hollywood stars and the fathomable human spirit would supermen of the comic strips, have constructed out of his own Those feelings of love, worship, writings, a bare hundred years gratitude or admiration which later, an amazing parody of all in other societies flow along the great religious ideas, ap- such comparatively non-political pointing Marx himself as a kind channels, find, under commu of remote God, with the child of nism, no outlet but the figures a humble cobbler as his son on of the party leaders, earth and even with a Lenin "It is not surprising, there to complete the materialistic fore, that this occasion should be trinity. so seized on, and Stalin himself "The celebration of Djugash- could probably do little to pre-vili-Stalin's seventieth birthday vent it. is surely one of the most amaz- "Yet here precisely is the dan lng phenomena of our times. . . . ger. A political system which 'Glory to Stalin' arises in a sets out to make all religions hosannah from the brazen unnecessary can only end by throats of the loudspeakers and taking many of the features of the propaganda machines such a religion itself." ever, others, including Ruffner, years old. My grandmother tag- ,, t ' v.!mn n, . i ?"tside firecrackers popp Burch and company, Leon Is- ged me and put me on the train fam'ly "P to Vermont for a real and the Gecko lizards sang rael and Brothers and Schwa- E 'kJL vrk Tnt Z ""them holiday. I rented a serenade. A famous lithogra with mv mother nouse' got a norse ana !lelgn ot Jesus hun8 In the living room, , I rpmpmhpr I and stayed tw0 and a nalf and a flickering light beneath it a rememDer 1 months. It was the first time 1 lit these words: bach and company all of New first Christmas York haven t balked at ac- m several years cepting the foreign accounts. got a tea set and made every This partly explains why body have tea Wuh me." nulling un tne tuiii-c ctuutiliKt: has doubled since speculators started rumors about the "cof fee shortage" scare rumors that have been proved ground less. It is one reason, also, why coffee continues to sell from 25 Mther cited an instance when was held around my bed and I a iree naa ouri.eu u.u: 01 got a.doli and doll buggy. Be- Dear Mrs. Siaron, Dear Ma a short circuit, so she won out. ijeVe it or not. I still believe in dm na,.Pn d.i mil to 30 cents a pound more than it should. For the more coffee There are three I like to re member in Algiers, in Belgium, In Manila. It was in Algiers in 1942 that I learned how the war had di vided the loyalties of country men as well as countries. A fel low correspondent and I were invited to have Christmas din ner with a young Frenchman, Paul Million, his wife and their two children. It was a wonder- Rut manv a land-Incked heart ful family meal and the kids this season isn't merely voyag- forgave us our bad French. They ing back to childhood Christ- thought it came from chewing memory overseas to wartime " "a Christmases abroad. There were wall was a portrait of Marshal millions of American men and Petain. This seemed odd as the then widely regarded as a Ger man puppet. But Paul wouldn't take the picture down. "We simply cannot believe all they say about the old marshal," he said. And you couldn't help but admire him for his faith, however misplaced. The spookiest Christmas I ev er spent was in Spa, Belgium, in 1944. - The little town had been eva cuated by the American first army headquarters in the first days of the Battle of the Bulge. It looked like a drab Christmas for a few correspondents who had elected to remain in the Ho tel Portugal. Then a strange Santa Claus indeed a begrimed, stubble bearded supply sergeant for an anti-tank company came to our rescue. He dug up three tur keys, cranberries, potatoes and the hotel provided wine, cognac and the other trimmings. While German guns boomed across the dame Beaucoup, the hotel pro prietor. We called her "Madame Beaucoup" because her bills for cognac were always "beaucoup big." I remember a 1945 Christmas Eve dinner in Manila because it was the first Christmas season peace. We were guests of Mrs. Sia ron, a Filipino woman, and her overrun with jitterbugging children and after plateful of soup, chicken and rice, and lush fruit salad. One daughter wanted us to settle a big argument In the order catalogs, she asked: "Which American company has the best women's styles?" We said that, as far as we knew, Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck both claimed Dana Andrews "I was On that honor and wo wprpn't the . location in Connecticut two years one t0 decide. SIX t T tnAi. .un A ..... ' . ' i" wiimiuida. luun mc uutsioe iirecracKers DODDed had seen it snow." "1 will bless the homes in Linda Darnell "Mv favorite whirh thp imnpp nf mv Montgomery Cliff "I remem- was iast year, the first Christ- heart shall be honored and ex- ber the year the tree burned mas w,th my daughter, Lola." posed." down. My mother wanted white irene Dunne "I remember Somehow it seemed like a candles on the tree and my when I was nine and had the message of a peace that would father wanted electric lights. mUmDS. The whole Christmas be lastine. futures are bought in by the i"c ,,K ,, ' &anIa a"s." lion to you and the millions speculators, the more they are our Presents with It. Joseph Cotton "I guess my like you in many lands who able to control prices. Jack Carson "I was eight favorite was the year I got my took American strangers into Another factor in the ririce years old and wanted an electric wagon. My cousin had a goat, your homes and made them rise, of course, has been hoard- train. Four days before Christ- and I let it' be known that I happy a merry, merry Christ- ing by Jittery housewives, which mas. I found it. So on my wouldn't be happy unless 1 got a mas, in remembrance of things has reduced stocks in retail Christmas Day I gave perhaps wagon." pastl 4 4 Y