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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, December 27, 1949
With Six Weeks to Go
It was back early last summer that Salem first heard
that the Civil Aeronautics Board wanted to know why
West Coast Airlines shouldn't be substituted here for
United Air Lines. Immediately a few in the city acted to
throw the question back in the face of the CAB: Why
shouluVt United continue to serve Oregon's capital and
second city as the Mainliner service had since 1942?
In the intervening months, the city's position has been
proved sound.
United Airlines first had to be shown the real value of
serving Salem. The facts and figures left no doubts in
the mind of anyone as to the growing importance, aviation
wise, of this city.
In air-freight alone, Salem does more than some much
larger cities. Typical was the air-freight category in which
the city found it needed continued large-scale air freight
transportation so that certain local industries could con
tinue to operate. West Coast Airlines, until the middle
of this year, did not handle air freight. Then apparently
sensing the demand here for such service, West Coast re
modeled its planes to handle air-freight shipments. The
resulting changes in the lines' planes provided a certain
freight capacity but still not enough for shipments out of
Salem itself, let alone other cities besides, served by the
feeder-line.
The formal CAB hearing in February in Washington,
D.C, will give both the city administration and the Cham
ber of Commerce a chance to make a presentation of the
impressive case for Salem. Indicative of the feeling of the
dtrength of that case has been the progress made at the
airport since the CAB first threatened to remove United.
Steps have been made to start the first unit of the new
administration building on the west side of the field. Also,
development of the west side for commercial and private
flying has gone ahead. The cast side has been left for
military operations. The control tower has been put into
full operation. And landing devices to aid incoming pilots
have been established, with more to come.
In other words, Salem has established the faith in its
position that a transcontinental airline service is essential
to the city's well-being. Salem has done everything pos
sible to improve the airport to handle the air traffic.
The six-months' developments in the city's position
haven't changed Salem's position at all: Salem needs Unit
ed Air Lines. United needs Salem. As for West Coast
Airlines, Salem has never fought to keep that airline out.
The city's position has been based on the importance of
maintaining United service. If West Coast wants to serve
the city also, that is another matter.
That's the way the case looks with the hearing but a
month and a half away.
Draining the Reservoirs
New York City is up against a water shortage due to
lack of normal rainfall, the various reservoirs are already
below the safety mark and it will require several yeavs of
average precipitation to fill them up again. In the mean
time rationing of water users and police regimentation of
water consumption must be resorted to while the city de
velops an auxiliary supply, presumably from the upper
Hudson river.
Increased population is as much to blame for the short
age as lack of rainfall, also the failure of the city to develop
additional supply, the necessity of which was foreseen and
stressed by engineers and city officials 10 years ago.
There is a certain similarity between New York's deficit
spending of water and the national administration's deficit
spending of the national income. The national treasury,
filled only by taxpayers, is the nation's financial reservoir
for national expenditures and while deficit spending is jus
tifiable in wr.r emergency, it has long since drained the
treasury below the safety mark. And of course, it has a
disastrous reaction on the nation's business and industry
already paying the highest peacetime taxes in history, en
dangering oil' economic progress.
All this is blithly passed over by the administration by
lis government planning for security from cradle to the
grave with $100 monthly pensions for every one, higher
wages, higher prices, a $1,000 minimum income for every
family, an increase of $12 billion in social welfare care,
subsidized housing, free medical service, more TVA's, etc.,
etc., etc., all paid by the taxpayers.
By 1955 social security costs will he over $12 billion a
year, taxes at 11 percent of the payroll, in addition to other
taxes. And whatever the government taxes take from the
individual, lessens the ability of the individual to take care
of himself, his family, or his investments in business.
And yc( at a time when business is booming we have a
deficit of from $5 billion to $10 billion on a budget of $40
to $50 billion, fall of which comes from the taxpayers. In
less than five years of the Truman administration, from
the fiscal year of 1916 to September 30, 1949, the expendi
tures, in peace time have totaled $191,086,394,19 1, whereas
under the .32 preceding presidents, over a total of 156
years, only a total of $179,620,118,645 was spent.
Small wonder our financial reservoir is being drained
below the safety mark just as New York City's water res
ervoirs arc, and all for the benefit of a minority of the
people in the country, regardless of the fact that people
can't have more without producing more and that every
dollar by taxation decreases the purchasing power of the
person from whom it was taken, and eventually results in
an empty treasury which threatens bankruptcy.
Who Watches the Watch-Dogs?
Hammond, Ind. UR John Hill bought two bloodhounds to
serve as watchdogs In his motor sales company.
He thought they were doing a good Job until one night
burglars broke in and stole them.
His Seeing-Eye Dog Goes Blind
Los Angeles, Dec. 27 W It was a real tragedy for John T.
Donahue, 78, when his eight-year-old dog. King went blind.
Donahue, who lives alone with the pet, also is blind and
King Is a seeing-eye dog.
Now Ihey both help each other In their land of darkness.
And the philosophic old man Is cheerful about his new loss.
"Could be a lot worse," he says. "Suppose 1 had lost my
legs or my hand?"
BY BECK
A Dog's Life
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Navy Kept Busy Matching
Russian Submarine Strength
By DREW PEARSON
Washington To make it tougher for senators to conceal kick
backs, Secretary of the Senate Les Biffle has ordered to be
published the names and salaries of everyone on senator's payrolls.
had always been available to the public
BY CLARE BARNES, JR. ''mzFT'
White Collar Zoo
This information
until the repub-
licans took
charge of con
gress in 1946.
Then GOP Sec
retary of the
senate Carl
Loeffler issued a
blackout order,
suppressing in
formation about-
e n a tors' em-.?
Ployes. Drew Pe.no.
This was
about the same time this column
was investigating Congressman
J. Parnell Thomas for accepting
kickbacks from his employes.
Loeffler admitted to this col-
bomb 1000 times more powerful.
He added that our scientists hope
to devise means of prematurely
exploding bombs headed our
way.
Second, Curtis Mitchell, for
mer deputy director of informa
tion at the Pentagon, recently re
vealed that the U. S. stockpiles of
atom bombs are located in the
caves in the southwest.
The latter was a secret, known
to this columnist and others, but
never before revealed until
Mitchell burst into print.
Much as the AEC worries
about the safekeeping of its se-
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Old Stuff
By DON UPJOHN
Albert Einstein, who evolved the theory of relativity, has now
come up with an explanation of what gravity is. It seems he's
been working on this matter for 30 years and his answer is sup
posed to maybe be the key which unlocks the mysteries of the uni
verse. As far as the average layman is concerned it is likely Mr.
Einstein's
as behind the wheel you sit,
And you'll never lose a fender,
and a child you'll never hit.
planation 'jftfi?! 1
of gravity Willi.
be as mystcri-l fW
ous as the lawJ fl
of gravity itself
or his theory of:
relativity. W pi
can remember
way back i n
school days the
boy running
around the
grounds h e a v-
ing a rock high in the air and as
he did so yelled "What goes up,
must come down." It seems to
us that the boy may have beat
Mr. Einstein to it by nearly half
a century.
creis, its experts have reluctant-
uiiiu mat ,ic uau dtiKu ujaju mc jy conciuaea mat noining can De irk'yfC'C frl IlkAKI
orders of a mysterious senator done to button the lips of high rAOCKtNZ.lt J lULUmlx
wnom ne refused to identity. La- officials.
tor, when this column exposed The basis for this decision, in
what Loeffler was up to, Sen. the case of Senator Johnson, is
Burnet Maybank, South Carolina two-fold:
democrat, introduced a bill to 1. Legal action against a high
force Loeffler to publish the ranking senator on the congres
names and salaries of all senate sional atomic committee might
employes. But Maybank's bill result in severe senate retalia
was suppressed by republicans, tion in the form of reduced ap
didn't even get a hearing. propriations, blocking of confir
Now, conscientious Les Biffle mations and time-consuming in
has countermanded Loeffler's or- vestigations:
2. To take action against John
son would, in effect, tell the
world that Johnson's story was
true.
in charge of sales
dcr and directed that all names
and salaries must be published.
Don CBjohB
Oh, the worst of phrases ringing
all through motordom today
Is that selfish bit of wording
that is known as "right of
way."
It has filled the graves of many
who have sped some road
along
Since Death never asks the
question,
is the driver right or wrong.
RUSSSIAN SUBMARINES
It hasn't been getting the
headlines of the unification row,
Somebody also used (he law
of gravity last night when they
dumped a dead polecat in front
of the police station. But the
aroma floated out and round
about.
For some reason or other most
of the folks we met in their of
fice and places of business this
a.m., didn't seem any too en
thusiastic about being at work.
We don't quite understand this
but it seemed very apparent.
Who Will Succeed Stalin Is
$64 Question Around World
ByDeWITT MacKENZIE
(W) Foreign Afftlri Analyst)
They tell us that Methuselah lived 969 years, during which he
appears to have been exceedingly active. Then he passed to his
reward.
Those were the good old days. Since then, with the speeding
up of life, a new limit has been set on mankind's activities. Now
when folks reach three score and :
ten they begin to think about Stalin in command. He replied
easing up on work and doing a that it was because Stalin's judg-
The AEC fully realizes that spot of f ishin', or w hatever ment always was right. By
failure to take action against pleases their fancy. "right" my informant of course
but the navy has been quietly such violations may lead to the Thus it isn't stranse that So- meant that Stalin was correct
speeding up preparations for sub- revelation of further details of vjet Russia and the outside world in his desisions of what was
marine warfare. our most secret program. Caught should be speculating on what best to further Russian interests.
Probably there's a lot In that,
for Stalin is a shrewd leader
political and military. To this
quality must be added that he
knows how to handle men, and
that he is ruthless in carrying
out his Red program. He is one
of the powerful leaders of his
tory. Well, who of the communist
heads is capable of stepping In
to Stalin's place and handling
the battle royal which will be
fought for the dictatorship? A
lot of heads are likely to fall
before that is ironed out.
Russia is now reported to be in this unhappy predicament, the Marshal Stalin,,
building 1,000 submarines all
of them the latest nazi - design
schnorkel U-boat, capable of
staying under the water for sev
eral days without coming up to
breathe. This is the type which
began to wreck American ship
ping again during the last few that was supposed to make test
AEC has decided to keep its
fingers crossed and do nothing.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Civil Aeronautics Administra
tor Del Rentzel has grounded an
air force experimental balloon
Suggestion to Motorists
(Exchange)
Not the "right of way" when
driving,
but the simple way of right,
And never once forgetting to be
courteous and polite.
A little bit of patience
In fact, it may be that double
holiday in mid-winter has al
most as deleterious effect on the
working morale of the average
citizen as a two weeks' vacation
has in the summer time.
months of World War II
The navy's present problem is
to outguess the Russians, since a
sub's characteristics must be
known before a sub killler can
be designed to combat it. How
ever, the undersea admirals be
lieve they can keep abreast of
Russian submarine design, and
are even working on a subma
rine to intercept other subma
rines under the sea.
At the start of the late war.
the navy was caught completely day.
unprepared for submarine war- Conrad Adenauer,
flights over Syracuse university.
Rentzel overruled a committee
of air force, airlines, and CAA
representatives, because Syra
cuse U. is less than a mile from
the approach to the congested
Syracuse airport.
The state department can't
make up its mind whether to
ship arms to Europe in a blaze
of publicity or under strict mili
tary secrecy. The army says
they change plans every other
unprepared lor suomarine war- -u...u nuomucr, cnanceuor h k mntrnl nf the host nf ,u 7 ""-
fare and the losses were stagger- of West Germany, has privately ' C ieLnts anv lHat the W,T , thln!,? ,-'and the
having celebra
ted his 7 0th
birthday amidst
the adulation of
h i s followers,
has in mind for
the future. Will
he keep on as
the generalissi
mo of commun
ism, or will he
ease off a bit?
That's a migh
ty vital question, for Stalin is
the mind of Red Russia. His nod
is law. If he withdraws, who
takes his place?
In order , to answer that we
must know what qualities have
made Stalin dictator. How does
ueVl.tl Mackentle
Western observers note that
Stalin appears in good health
and may be able to continue ai
head for some years However.
looking a bit further they figure
told the state department that his
powerful Red lieutenants,
At any rate, they didn't have
to get back to work today under
daylight savings time.
,..s ..... ':h- -"7 one of whom would give
arauons are ueing maae, even in qkoio .u. mi vrei-
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
The Singing Christmas Tree
That a Poor Couple Had
By HAL BOYLE
New York W1 Once upon a Christmas eve there was a young
couple so poor they couldn't even afford a chimney for Santa
Claus to come down.
But they were so in love they didn't really mind too much.
"Let's see what's left in the piggy bank," said the husband. He
shook 'it, and,
out dropped a?
quarter.
i ii uuy yuu
a handkerchief!
with it," he
said.
"No, I'll buy
you some pipe
tobnee o , " she
said.
F 1 1
So they had1
a fun quarrel n RJl0
for a few moments on how they
should spend their last two bits.
Finally they agreed it should go
for a Christmas tree.
They went to a grocery store,
and the owner said, "Oh, I sold
The next day the couple went
to a rich relative's home for
Christmas dinner. Against the
wife's wishes, the husband took
along their magic tree.
After dinner he put it on the
tabic and said, "Listen!"
There was a pause, and then
the tree began to sing:
"Jingle bells, jingle bells . . ."
Well, at first everybody
thought it was a trick .there
must be a music box hidden
somewhere. But at last they
were convinced the tree could
really sing.
And the rich relative pulled
the young man aside and said,
all my Christmas trees hours r'"g '"' i"-e around 10 my
ago all except that runty one 'ce tomorrow. I'll sign you
on the floor there. You can have "P together on a 10-year con-
... - i t"lnl nilln i.ml n CI D fifti! Umnis
t for noting if you 11 tusi .
take it away."
11 Mt-.c n Ihin Kfrnwnv tree
with knobby branches, but the the young man
i.nnni nitimla tnnlr it PPTlv.
Thcv spent the quarter on some out of a singing Christmas tree
cranberries and popcorn. 1 11 admit it s no Lily Pons but
When they got home, they w" vull;e """"-"""
strung the cranberries and pop- what Hollywood or a television
corn on some thread and hung sponsor would pay for it '
them in garlands on the little The young couple went home
tree. And to the top branch they very cheerful, but the little tree
pinned a star made from tinfoil, was sad. It knew it was no Bing
"Our first Christmas tree to- Crosby. Long after the two it
gclhcr isn't it beautiful!" they had made happy were wrapped
said-and kissed. slePP' " sf lf in
tt vune . . , uitib Kiiw u.wci . . .
and lower . . . and more mourn
ful ... as if in goodbye . . .
"Jingle bells . . . jingle bells
. . . jingle . . . bells . . ."
peacetime, for submarine at
tacks. Some of the navy's plans
remain secret, but it is permissi
ble to outline the following
plan for sub defense:
The seacoast will be sown with
mines, harbor entrances screened
with submarine nets, and harbor
bottoms driven with spikes. Pa
trol planes and blimps will
prowl for subs along the coast.
Spearheading the air patrol
will be the navy's twin-engine
P2V, which can fire machine
guns, rockets, depth charges and
bombs all at once. For long
range scouting trips, the navy
will start production soon on a
four-engine, armed-to-the-teeth
seaplane the PB2Y. Blimps,
which can now be refueled at sea
from tankers, willl also play an
important part in antisubmarine
warfare.
Most potent weapon against
the submarine may be the sub
marine itself. The navy is build
ing small interceptor subs to lurk
along the submarine lanes and
engage the enemy in undersea
battle. An advantage is that
these subs make no noise as they
lie in wait.
man army were strictly ior home
consumption.
ICopyricht 1949)
right arm for Stalin's job?
Some years ago I asked an in
formed communist what kept
a"7 succession likely will lie among
three men all members of the
powerful politburo, or policy
making committee, and all aa
tough as tripe.
This trio comprises Vice
Premier V. M. Molotov, aged 59;
Lavrenti P. Baria, SO, head of the
dread secret police; Georgi M.
Malenkov, 47, who is virtual
ruler of the communist party's
political machine in Russia. The
three are named in the present
order of their political strength
Molotov is, perhaps, best
known to the outside world in
his previous role of foreign min
ister. In recent months he ha
had a mysterious assignment
which is supposed to be super
vision of the Red offensive to
By BOB THOMAS TTZ il J- . w?1"
cap N..ieatur) ly. that llnks him In speculation
Hollywood What will the next half-century bring in the way Wlth the Cnilese communist suc-
of movie glamor girls? cesses.
Being no seer, I can't say for sure. But after a study of the Molotov is an "old bolshevist"
first 50 years of the movie industry, I can predict that its glamor who was a boy-rebel against the
queens will be patterned after the national sentiment. czars with Stalin. His outstand
Las Vegas Male Dogs to Carry
Their Own Fire Hydrants in '50
Las Vegas, Dec. 27 If) Next year's dog tags in Las Vegas
will be ni the shape of fire hydrants, for males, and hearts,
for females.
Dogcatcher Bill Burke says he hopes, by "glamorizing" the
licenses, to triple this year's sale of 1300 tags,
Glamor Queens Patterned
After National Sentiment
As the nation goes, so go its
film heroines. This trend can be
traced back tw filmdom's begin
nings in the first decade of this
century.
The most popular of the early
The navy also plans to carry film actresses was the Pollyan-
-and we'll split the income.
"What do you mean?" asked
"Why, we can make millions
The heart of the little Christ
mas tree almost burst with
pride.
"Oh. if I could do something
to repay them," it thought. And
then it remembered the carols When morning came, the
it had heard over the radio in young couple found the little
the grocery store. "Oh, if I only tree had withered overnight,
had a voice I could sing to It's star had fallen to the floor
them." among all its needles. The
It decided to try. Its little branches were bare,
needles stirred mightily, and "Sing!" said the young man,
then just at the stroke of mid- angrily shaking it. "Sing!" but
night a merry tinkle came the little tree was silent. It had
from its branches: sung out its song.
"Jingle bells, jingle bells . . ." And the young wife, wise for
The startled couple ran to it. her years, put the tinfoil star
"Why our tree is singing to away in a drawer, and slipped
the attack against submarines
straight to their base, is training
special raider amphibious units
to demolish submarine bases.
Rocket-firing submarines that
can surface, fire a broadside of
guided missiles and quickly sub
merge, will also be used. How
ever, the admirals are worried
that liie same strategy may be
turned against us and used by an
enemy to attack American coast
al cities.
Because Russia is concentrat
ing on a submarine fleet which
already numbers 300, Chief of
Naval Operations Forrest Sher
man has assigned the navy's No.
1 submarine expert, Vice Adm.
Francis S. Low, to make a spe
cial survey el our undui seas de
fenses. This project has been
given top priority.
ATOMIC SECRETS
The security-conscious atomic
energy commission is quietly
na type. This reflected the na
tional feeling of optimism. Am
ericans believed that the nations
of the world wouldn't be foolish
enough to fight a war among
themselves, and if they did, the
U. S. certainly wouldn't be
drawn into it.
Biggest star of those early
days was "Everybody's Sweet
heart," Mary Pickford, who even
played the lead in "Pollyanna."
Groomed along the same lines
were such dainty heroines as Lil
lian and Dorothy Gish, Mae
Marsh, Marguerite Clark and
Mary McAllister.
As the nation began to realize
its strength, a new crop of
femme stars came along. These
were the action queens who
could dive off cliffs and chase
after trains in roadsters Ruth
Roland, Pearl - White, Helen
Holmes, Kathlyn Williams, An
nette Kelierman.
A star who reflected the com-
ing characteristics are unswerv-
bo, Norma Shearer. They ing devotion to the party and to
brought a sleek new style to the Stalin, and self effacement. He
screen. is a colorless personality, but he
The bitter disappointment of commands respect in all ranks
the depression years spawned and thus far he has had the
the popularity of Mae West and confidence of the generalissimo.
Jean Harlow. They played hard,
unsentimental women who lov
ed men and dollars with equal Next in line is Russia's super
fervor, policeman, Baria. His rise to
The war years favored the Power was based on his work as
glamor girls whose faces and head of the secret police. He dir
figures could gracefully adorn ec'ed several hundred thousand
the walls of barracks and the secret agents, and administrated
bulkheads of ships. Among the concentration camps and pris- j
stars who could evoke a quick oris reportedly containing sever-
al million prisoners. His office
in the old Lubianka prison has
been the most feared place in .
Russia.
Baria is ruthless In carrvine
out duties. Like Stalin he is a
Georgian peasant, and he wrote
wrestiing with one of the most ing worldliness of the U. S. was Dru.
whistle were Lana Turner, Bet
ty Grable, Rita Hayworlh, Dor
othy DeCarlo.
We are now in the postwar
years. What will the glamour
girl of the future be like? I
predict she'll be the kind of a
gin wno can maKe a man a good thc Soviet', mt m.i v.
wife the simple but brainy K,0ni, , c, ,. y"""
type who could look at home in ?S7n i m?-- -T?
a kitchen aDout in an American-made bul-
JuneAl'lyson is the epitome of J? J' C"' heavily guarded
the postwar glamor girl. Among by Tplaln cIothes men-
others who may share her popu- t-as' an theoretically least
larity are Ruth Roman, Sally though powerful comes Mai-
Forrest, Colleen Townsend, Sal- enkov, also a ruthless realist. He
tv Olson. Terry Moore. Betsy early became a member of Stal-
Drake, Coleen Gray and Joanne 'ns personal secretariat and
difficult secrecy problems in its sultrv heda Ba- the s"een,'s
brief and turbulent history. It's
the problem of what action, if
any, should be taken against high
officials who casually pass out,
for all the world to read, our
most jealously guarded atomic
secrets.
Two recent examples of irre
sponsible talking on the part of
modeled himself after Stalin,
greatest vamp. Her publicity
even alleged that other kids
shunned her as a child, thinking
her a witch.
The era after World War I
brought a whole new bunch of
stars. There were two distinct
types:
1. The flapper, symbol of
Beyond that, I cannot predict. even to clothing and manner-
In fact, the thought of the atomic isms. He rose rapidly, and he
glamor girl of the jet-propelled profited much by the great purge
future makes me shudder. of old bolshevists in the thirties.
Love Finally Wins Out
us!" said thc husband.
"Jingle bells, jingle bells
sang the proud tree.
The young wife knelt
kissed the tinfoil star . . .
Vie tree sang on and on.
her arm around her husband.
, ." "Never mind, dear." she said.
"We have had our miracle."
and Moral: You can't expect San
and ta Claus to earn you a living
especially on Dec. 26th.
responsible officials" have roaring '20s. Most famous was
the "it girt,'' uiara bow. timers
were Joan Craword, Sue Carol,
Colleen Moore, Madge Bellamy.
2. The woman of the world,
who depicted the growing un
dercurrent toward sophistica
tion. These included Gloria
Swanson, Pola Negri, Greta Gar-
brought the whole problem to a
head.
First, Sen. Edwin Johnson, (D.,
Colo.) a member of the congres
sional atomic energy committee,
blurted out details on the power
of our present A-bomb and the
news that we are working on a
Hull, England, Dec. 27 Love laughs at Locksmith's eh?
Robert Williams, 29, and Jonn Hancock, 17, went to the
Boulevard Methodist church to be married.
The Rev. E. B. Greetham started to open the church safe,
where he keeps his marriage register. The lock Jammed.
For an hour the minister wrestled with it, assisted by the
bridegroom, the best man and the drivers of the wedding
party's fleet of taxis. They called a locksmith. He couldn't
open it either.
Finally it occurred to somebody that they could use the Hull
municipal register. City officials hustled It over by car.