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New York, Jan. 3 W) The cold war abroad and the "welfare
state" issue at home were the two leading events dominating
1949 in the opinion of 14 top American newspaper editors and
publishers.
And they see the same line-up for 1950.
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Opponent Welburn Moy
ock (above), former chief
counsel for the democratic na
tional committee, announced
in Los Angeles, he will op
pose James Roosevelt, son of
the late president, for the
democratic nomination for
governor of California. (AP
Wirephoto)
Starlings Increase
In Portland Area
Portland, Jan. 3 W) Even the
bird lovers won't be happy about
this news for the European
starling is more of a pest than
lovable.
The Oregon Audubon society
reported a study by members in
the Portland area resulted in a
count of 43 starlings, the larg
est number ever reported here.
Starlings are troublesome in
eastern cities where they gather
in flocks of thousands, litter
buildings, and force more popu
lar species to seek food and
shelter elsewhere. They have
been noted in recent years in
southern Oregon cities.
The Audubon members re
ported spotting 89 other species
of birds among the 26,000
counted. The count, taken
within a 15-mile radius of
downtown Portland, indicated
the number of birds is not dimin
ishing, despite the city's growth.
LETTERS REVEALED
Booth Tarkington Described
Hugo as 'Terrible Fraud'
Indianapolic, Jan. 3 U.R Three unpublished letters, in which
the late novelist Booth Tarkington evaluated the world's literary
figures for a library committee, were made public today.
The letters were discovered by a librarian's secretary in an
old strong box. They were written from Tarkington's summer
home at Kennebunkport, Me., in-
1916.
Authorities believe Tarking
ton wrote the letters in response
to advice asked by Miss Eliza
G. Browning, who then was city
librarian. She was a member of
committee appointed to decide
what literary figures' names
would be carved on the exterior
walls of the central library then
under construction.
Apparently Miss Browning
had written Tarkington what
A names the committee was con
sidering, and Tarkington took
them one by one and told, partly
in serious and partly in humor
ous vein, why each should or
should not be included.
"I scratched that ignorant old
cuss Cooper (James Fenimore
Cooper), the rottenest writer
I we've produced," Tarkington
y wrote in one letter. "Also that
terrible fraud Hugo (Victor
Hugo).
"But ot course," he added
"you've got to have them. Their
crimes are so imbedded you can't
get away from the impression
that the two were important and
even intelligent men."
Tarkington said the list should
not include Maurice Materlinck
"because he's alive."
"He is a great man and
great writer," Tarkington said,
"but if any living person should
be on the library wall in name
that should be (the Indiana poet
James Whitcomb) Riley."
In another letter several
weeks later, after Riley's death
Tarkington suggested that Wil
liam Dean Howells, then 79, be
the only living writer on the
list.
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f The 14 aired their views Sun
day over NBC on the "Voice of
the Press ' program.
Connected with the cold war
struggle between Russia and the
West were, many outstanding
single events, including Russia's
development of the atom bomb,
the fight between the Soviets
and the Vatican. Yugoslavia's
break with Russia, and the com
munist triumph in China.
Elections past and future were
the other leading events in the
editor's opinions.
They noted the recent New
Zealand and Australian elec
tions, both moves away from
Socialism, and the American fall
elections, which were generally
favorable to the Truman ' Fair
Deal."
For the future, they looked
forward eagerly to the 1950
congressional elections in the
U.S. and the impending British
generalelection.
But the sharp contest between
the Soviet and American sys
tems was easily the greatest is
sue before the world, they
agreed.
"We must admit that the U.S
and Russia are engaged for the
soul of the world," said Palmer
Hoyt, editor and publisher of
the Denver Post.
"The U.S. cannot fail to gain
supremacy in the world, and
this is not imperialism. This is
evangelism. This is merely the
continuation of the age-old bat
tle of a million years to bring
man to peace and freedom."
Others on the program were
Roy Roberts, president of the
Kansas City Star; Alfred H. Kir
chhofer, managing editor of the
Buffalo Evening News; Virgil
Pinkley, editor and publisher of
the Los Angeles Mirror; Eugene
MacKinnon, general manager of
the Salt Lake City Tribune-Tele
gram; Ed Kilman, editor of the
Houston Post; Marshall Field,
Jr., assistant publisher of the
Chicago Sun-Times; Whitelaw
Reid, Jr., editor of the New York
Herald Tribune; William Hes-
sler, foreign news editor of the
Cincinnati Inquirer; Henry Gil
len, chief editorial writer of the
Boston Post; Gideon Seymour,
executive editor ot the Minne
apolis Star-Tribune; Mrs. Ruth
Miller, editor of the Washington
Times Herald; Wright Bryan,
editor of the Atlanta Journal
and George W. Healy, Jr., man
aging editor of the New Orleans
Times-Picay une.
Bridge Builder Michael J.
Hountalas checks one of the
light fixtures on his model of
San Francisco's Golden Gate
bridge in the basement of his
San Francisco home.
In the third letter, Tarkington
condemned "all lists (as) bad
and vicious in principle because
the laws that govern art have
not been and can't be estab
lished." King David's subjects in Ri
blical days are said to have used
raisins as a major part of the
barter with which they paid tax
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Martin Calls for Balanced
Budget Without New Taxes
Washington, Jan. 3 U.R House Republican Leader Joseph W
Martin, Jr., Massachusetts, today
without new federal taxes.
Martin, back at the capitol
urged quick approval of excise
Valley Projects
On Program
The bureau of reclamation,
department of the interior, plans
an investigation program in Or
egon involving 15 projects. In
cluded for western Oregon are
the Salem and the Grande Ronde
projects.
Nearly half the total expendi
ture allotment to the northwest,
or $445,000, will be used in
Oregon, with $284,000 allotted
to Idaho, $161,000 to Washing
ton and $59,000 to western Mon
tana. Three reports on investiga
tions in Oregon are programed
for completion this year. Pos
sibly the most important is that
on the Rogue river basin. It
will be a general inventory of
resources and will contain a
plan of development. It will be
one of a number of reports on
the Rogue river basin to be com
pleted by agencies of the De
partment of the Interior this
year.
The other two Oregon plan
ning reports scheduled for com
pletion by the Bureau this year
include one on the Goose lake
project and a reconnaissance re
port on the Jordan valley proj
ect. Red Admiral Dies
Moscow, Jan. 3 The So
viet navy newspaper Red Fleet
today reported the death of Rear
Adm. Nikolai Zayats, 65, who
the newspaper said had served
since 1908 in the Russian fleet.
Red Fleet said the admiral died
as the result of a long illness.
It added he had served during
World War II in Russia's Black
sea fleet.
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JANUARY 4, 1950
called for a balanced budget
for reopening of congress, also
tax reduction which he said
'"would give business "the best
possible shot in the arm."
Martin told newsmen that
both foreign and domestic
spending should be trimmed, but
that he saw no need for new
taxes to make up losses in pro
posed excise tax cuts, or for
current over-spending.
The remedy is to reduce
spending," Martin said. "On how
much, I am willing to await de
velopments. But it has got to
be substantial."
Martin said that he found peo
ple generally "kicking about
high taxes and complaining vo
ciferously about high prices."
A wave of sentiment for gov
ernment economy, Martin said,
has reacted favorably for the
republicans. He said it was
strong enough to give the party
plenty of encouragement" over
its prospects for capturing con
gress in the 1950 elections.
"We are going to make a mil
itant fight to cut down ex
penses," Martin said. "People
believe the government ought
to get along with less than $43
000,000,000 or $44,000,000,000 a
year.
Martin said he doubted that
congress would remain in
sion past July 1.
He is the author of a proposed
cut in excise taxes to prewar
levels, especially on such items
as jewelry and furs. He said the
cut would cost the government
which he believed would be
about $700,000,000 in revenue
made up by a rapid increase in
trade.
Martin said he would appoint
later a nine-member committee
of house republicans to cooper
ate with a committee from the
GOP national committee in for
mulating a statement of princi
ples pointing toward the No
vember vote.
Reno Gambler, Ambush Victim,
Probably Crippled for Life
Reno, Jan. 3 0-R Gambler Lincoln Fitzgerald continues to
show steady recovery today from gunshot wounds he suffered
November 18 in a midnight ambush, but his physicians say he
will probably remain crippled
Fitzgerald was seriously wounaea when a mysterious as
sailant shot him in the back at
point-blank range with a sawed-1
off shotgun as he opened the
garage doors of his luxurious
home to go to the gambling
casino he operates in partner
ship with Danny Sullivan.
Both Fitzgerald and Sullivan
were one time kingpins in Mich
igan gambling circles where they
operated games illegally until
the end of the recent war. They
were later fined more than $50,-
000 by Macomb county author
ities after pleading guilty to
charges of conspiring to evade
Michigan's anti-gambling laws.
Fitzgerald, who is 57, linger
ed near death for weeks at Was
hoe medical center as surgeons
battled to save his life. The shot
gun blast shattered a portion of
his spinal column, tore his liver
and penetrated the chest wall
and a lung.
All told, 108 shotgun pellets
entered his body.
His recovery was described as
unbelievable" by his physicians,
who credited the gamblers ex
cellent physical condition and
the fact he neither smokes nor
drinks as being responsible.
However, the shattered spinal
column will probably leave the
gambler partially paralyzed from
the waist down for the rest of
his life, the surgeons believe.
He has been allowed to move
about the hospital halls in a
wheel chair, and later, he will
be fitted with leg and body
braces, but his surgeons believe
it unlikely that he will ever
walk unassisted again.
Meanwhile, Reno police have
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City Baby Misses
Out on '50 Honors
Longview, Jan. P It was
a race between cousins with
boy arriving a few hours early
and missing out on first baby of
the year honors here.
The boy was born in a local
hospital New Year's eve to Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Hansen of Mill
City, Ore.
Arriving at 12:22 a. m. Janu
ary 1 was the baby's cousin,
Donna Jean Opsahl, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Opsahl of
Kelso. The mothers are sister-in
law.
Both babies were born in the
same hospital.
Some stalks of bamboo grow
to be a foot In daimetcr and 85
feet high.
for life.
never managed to uncover
single definite clue as to the
identity of Fitzgerald's assailant.
Police Chief Lorenz Greeson
says nis department has run
down literally hundreds of tips
and possible clues, but each in
vestigation has run into a blank
wall.
"The shooting was exceeding
ly well planned," Greeson says,
"and we've got to admit that
we've been stumped completely
to date." He added that the case
was not yet closed and that the
investigation was continuing.
The belief persists among cer
tain gambling circles that Fitz
gerald, his pretty blonde wife,
and probably Sullivan know
what led to the shooting, if not
the identity of the assailant.
However, all attempts to get this
information by questioning by
police and other official agen
cies interested in enforcement of
Nevada's legalized gambling
laws have failed completely,
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Young Yank Gives Children
In Berlin Chance at Democracy
By SUSANNE SCHUMANN
Berlin, Jan. 3 (U.R) A California soldier is giving Berlin chil
dren a break.
"Santa Claus comes only once a
Uncle Lennie comes almost every
Uncle Lennie is the name by
Raymond Lenny Sergeant of3
Glendale, Calif. The corporal, is
military policeman stationed
here.
For the past two years, this
23-year-old soldier has spent
most of his spare time and much
of his duty time to make life
more pleasant and interesting for
Berlin youngsters.
Uncle Lennie believes that un
less community spirit is develop
ed among the youths, they will
grow up quarreling, hating their
fellow beings and susceptible to
the next dictatorship which
threatens their nation.
'The German youth need help
today, not tomorrow," insisted
the young soldier.
American authorities think so
much of Uncle Lennie's work
with the children that he is called
to duty as a military policeman
only two days per week The re-1
mainder of the time he devotes
to his gang.
Uncle Lennie has taught them
football, baseball, boxing and
other sports. At first he had only
a handful of followers, but the
gang quickly grew to 750. Now
he is known throughout Berlin
and has approximately 5,500
little friends. He also has a staff
of 50 Germans, who work with
out pay, to assist him.
Additionally, "Uncle Lennie"
stages shows for children in hos
pitals and supplies books for
them to read.
German people in all walks of
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schools, returned Monday from
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