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BY BECK
Wives
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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, January 19, 1950
Lifting the Gag
Admiral Denfeld is writing his own ending to the dis
graceful handling of his recent dismissal as chief of naval
operations. He is asking that he be retired after 40 years'
service in the navy.
It is probably best that way.
When his retirement becomes effective March 1, he will
be free to speak his mind as he found he wasn't during
last fall's hearings in Washington, D.C., on unification of
the services.
Denfeld admitted that no one had asked him for his side
of the story which covered the appearance before congress
and ended abruptly by his being fired by Secretary of the
Navy Matthews.
It made no difference that the house armed services
committee had asked Denfeld to give his honest opinion
on the way unification of the services was working. It
made no difference that the Secretary of Defense several
months before the hearing had directed that the gag be
lifted on statements of officers except for material classi
fied "for security reasons."
The only threat to security in Denfeld's criticism of the
way in which the unification law was being administered
was to the security of those defense officials administer
ing the law. Congress had asked Denfeld and other rank
ing naval officers for information which would help mem
bers of congress act properly in shaping the nation's armed
forces. Because President Truman and Defense Secretary
Johnson didn't like what Denfeld was telling congress,
Denfeld got bounced. In disciplining the then chief of
naval operations in that manner, Truman and Johnson were
defying the right of congress to investigate the armed
forces.
Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin has raised the startling
possibility that Admiral Denfeld had already been com
missioned until 1951 as chief of naval operations when he
was fired. This would make the actions of the top Fair
Deal brass toward Denfeld even more odorous. To give
out the phony excuse that Denfeld was "incompetent" to
do a job for which he had been recommissioned but a month
or so before is to make the case just plain stink.
The invincible Johnson and his crony Matthews may not
be so invincible when Denfeld is in a position to tell the
facts about his case. Denfeld's retirement will lift the gag
that Johnson tried by bully methods to enforce in what
appears to be a crude, ruthless manner.
A Fine Judicial Appointment
Governor Douglas McKay is to be commended for ignor
ing partisan politics in his appointment of Judge Earl C.
Latourette as associate justice of the supreme court to re
place Justice E. M. Page, whose resignation was forced by
illness. He has thus lived up to the spirit and intent of
the law creating a non-partisan judiciary, something that
some of his predecessors ignored, placing judicial fitness
the main consideration.
Judge Latourette is a democrat and was appointed cir
cuit judge by another republican governor, Albin W.
Norblad, Sr., 19 years ago, and has been regularly elected
since in a republican district. His record as a jurist shows
that he has had a "phenomenally small number of opinions
reversed," is well versed in the law and has that rare quali
fication, a judicial temperament, fair and impartial in his
decisions.
Justice Latourette was recently favored by a margin of
S to 1 by the Oregon State Bar association for appointment
to the newly created federal judgeship. But the newly
elected left wingers now in control of the state democratic
organization recommended instead a little known lawyer
who had rarely appeared in court and had no other recom
fendation than his partisan politics, which seems to be the
only qualification required in the "Fair Deal." He has not
yet been confirmed.
The qualifications of Judge Latourette for appointment
to the federal bench were thus listed by the bar associa
tion: "Learning in the law. A background of highly credi
table judicial experience. High personal standing and hon
ored Oregon family ;" he follows to the supreme bench two
other Clackamas county jurists, the late Thomas A. Mc
Bride and James U. Campbell.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Dixiecrat GOP Coalition Gives
Seven Men Lower House Control
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Here is how the republican-Dixiecrat coalition
is riding roughshod over the right of free democratic processes
in the house of representatives.
Meeting behind closed doors in the rules committee the re
publicrat coalition not only demanded the reinstatement of the
old gag rule hv ...
which that com- "v"
mittee can bot- ' M "-1
tie up any bill.J 5
but even refus-tj Jf? ,
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
Drew Pearson
'Cougar Scare' Scared Off
Wenatchee, Jan. 19 (PI The 'cougar scare' has subsided
here today.
Yesterday a man telephoned police to say tracks of a cougar
could be seen clearly in the snow of his front lawn within
the city limits.
Police dispatched a man.
Cougar tracks, sure enough.
But, after the story was printed In the newspaper, a high
school student called in to say he was the cougar.
The student made a drawing of a plaster cast of a cougar's
tracks in the Wenatchee museum. Then, In woodworking
class, carved a set of wooden cougar feet. Strapping them on
his feet, he walked home from school.
This Story's Got Everything
Especially a Laugh or Two
ed to let Chair
man Adolph Sa
bath of Illinois,
who opposed the
gag rule, speak.
Each time the
83 - y e a r - old
Sabath started
to talk he was
shouted down with cries of
"vote! vote!" by Democrats
Gene Cox of Georgia and How
ard Smith of Virginia and their
republican cohorts. Finally,
GOP Congressman Leo Allen of
Illinois took pity on the little
chairman.
"He has a right to talk,"
pleaded Allen, above the bed
lam. "Let him speak for two or
three minutes."
Sabath didn't appreciate the
humor in this. He was so riled
by the roughhouse tactics of the
coalitionists that he almost
choked up.
"We ought to at least have a
public hearing, so that opponents
of this resolution can be heard,"
he demanded. "This is a matter
of vital concern to every mem
ber of the house. Since we re-
lution and to give house mem
bers a right to testify for or
against it at a public hearing
was smothered under a 7-4 vote.
The three members who joined
Sabath for a free discussion
were: Democrats Ray Madden of
Indiana, John Lyle uf Texas, and
James Delaney of New York.
The seven who voted for im
mediate action without a public
hearing were: Democrats Cox,
Smith and William Coler, of
Mississippi, and Republicans Al
len, Clarence Brown of Ohio,
James Wadsworth of New York,
and Christian Herter of Massa
chusetts. Lyle of Texas and Delaney of
New York, however, backslid
into rcpublicrat ranks on the fi
nal, 9-2 vote for the gag rule,
leaving Sabath and Madden stan
ding alone against it. Delaney,
who usually supports the fair
deal, somewhat sheepishly ex
plained his defection by saying
that he wanted to restore the
power and "prestige" of the
committee which, he contended,
was abolished by last year's
rules reform.
What this amounts to, though
Delaney didn't say so, is that
the New Yorker favors giving
seven men on the rules commit-
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: ... ..r V .;,-S .w;
"I'm looking for an interesting job that doesn't1 call
for typing or shorthand."
year, this committee voted out
55 rules on bills and resolutions,
the greatest number in history.
Socialized Medicine Has Come
To Great Britain to Stay
Editor's Note: One of the most controversial measures en
acted by Britain's labor government during the past five years
was its national health plan of socialized medicine. The British
Medical association fought it bitterly, but finally agreed to
cooperate just before it went into effect July 5, 1948.
(In the following dispatch, a United Press correspondent
tells of the status of opposition to the plan as the British
general election approaches.)
Jan.
By GERALDINE HILL
19 (U.R) Socialized medicine has come to Britain
Tacoma, Jan. 19 W) The seige of Roy took place again Mon
day afternoon and, as usual, the Pierce county sheriff's de
partment won out.
In the latest chapter, a crew of telephone repairmen set out
to free long distance lines tangled by a tree branch during
Friday's blizzard.
The trouble spot was located MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
taa vnnxn nnutaw l.an Gil ft ntUa.
pealed the gag procedure last members of congress.
Wayward Minors Not Protected
From the nation's rogues gal-
laKiaD tha nhilAyan'a k,.Mf,, ha.
"Some of you say that the re- ,,,, ' . uf.. i i,i,i.,
solution will give the committee st It is a side of American
more power-that is, power to life that isn,t generai-y knowni
stifle legislation which you op- but the bureau estimates close to
pose as committee chairman, I 100,000 children were thrown
don t want that kind of power. I into adult jajls last year along.
"" " "B" s,de hardened criminals.
hmicp mpmhorshin " .
Youngsters were even found un their fieht to reDeal it And , . ..
Fair Dealer Backslides shoveline dirt on road Banes and bfH .. umP. i." . George's physician. Under his
London,
to stay.
Enacted by the labor government in 1948, it will remain on
the statute books regardless of the outcome of the general election
next month. -
Even doctors who prefer free Heading the fellowship is 79-
enterprise in medicine have given vear 0id Lord Horder, King
by an elderly couple noted for
their dislike of railway section
crews, highway crews, plow
salesmen or anyone else who sets
foot on their land.
As in previous Roy seiges, the
crew was turned back by the old
sters and returned later with
sheriff's deputies Bob Forrest
and Russ Wall. The sheriff's
office said deputies had been dis
patched to aid road and line
crews through the farm on other
occasions.
The old folks took a stand
under the tangled lines and re
fused to budge.
Deputy Wall began an ad
vance. It lasted five steps ana
However, Sabath's motion to serving sentences in state oeni- .... ,u i, nnni,. i, leadership.
postpone action on the Cox reso- tentiaries. These were not mere wnen'they see it, say flatly in drawn up
lauicticu coses,, um ,u.su. nave their election handbook:
nappenea ngni in your nome
county, for in 34 of the 48 states
children were discovered in jail
with grownups despite the fact
that most of these same states
have laws protecting children
from such treatment.
"It can never be too often
stated that the conservative
party is wholeheartedly in favor
of a national health service avail
able to all."
the fellowship has
10 amendments for
presentation to parliament.
"We are not against a health
plan," Horder said, "but we are
against this one in its present
form. We hope that the abuses .
in (health minister) Aneurin
Bevan's scheme will be recti-
Bizarre Tale of Plotting in
Caribbean Under Investigation
By NORMAN CARIGNAN
For DeWitt MacKenzle, AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Assorted gun running, filibustering .plotting and other tricks
of the political trade in the Caribbean are currently undergoing a waus, but in some instances uu? ,Mimn hMl practice on a broad basis as an
searching investieation bv a SDecial five-nation committee. i ,1.. Public ultimately pays uie nuge
Not only were juveniles often that a party wnich opposes free tied with the help of our amend
found in fithv iails with foul j; f 5 , ---- ,1 ments.
7 meuical aim iiubpiiai uuie xui an
toilets, splotched mattresses, and wouId have mtle chance at tne
wim roacnes running along tne British pollSi even though the
He said the amendments are
designed to preserve private
youngsters were loagea in tne bill throuffh heavv taxes.
same cells with murderers and Tne only questions remaining
rapists. In Taylorville, Ky., a are how socialized medicine shall
ij-year-oia runaway Doy was b administered, and how much
survive.
state
searching investigation by a special five-nation committee.
The tale that this group of hard-working diplomats will uncover
will undoubtedly make your favorite "whodunit" seem pale by
comparison. ' "
Already much of the story has Today's Caribbean expeditions locked up in a two-cell log jail rivate oractice shall
come out throueh a blisterine are based on the hottest a irnlanp. - ,.,.-,u . : . private practice snau
- r xvi ivLu uaja witii a adccuiuii,
cross-fire of charges, counter- revolutionaries can get hold of. laughing maniac. A 10-year-old
charges and denials of varying The only sailing venture occur- Neero bnv was sentenced tn the
jiMpii j j ,l e ,n,f u n ; . . tne xsruisn meaicai association, icw:iviub n iciuhu uuiu wc aunc
mtAe?tSly;(. , ,...h " lh"tme: o47' .S..1!?: andoned organized opposition according to the cost of the ser-
........ .v ellj" Uy lyJICUlt l UUgC 1V1. A. IVlclIlIl
and air-borne invasions of the known as the Caribbean Legion, in Abbeville, S.C.
Dominican Republic, a secret organized an expedition at Cayo Just across the Potomac from
meeting in a village church, as- Confites, Cuba, against the Do- the nation's capitol, the chil-
sassination, bomb and poison minican Republic. dren's bureau found 14- and 15-
plots have all been brought into Cuban Dolice broke it ud be- year-old boys working on the
alternative to complete
control of medicine.
"The most important amend
ment is that every Briton should
be given the choice of either re-
The British medical profession maining in the national health
as a whole, under leadership of service or leaving altogether and
the British medical association, receiving a refund from the state,
tumbled throueh the ice of a.'ne amazing drama. fn th. LCI,jnri set out in some road gang in Fairfax, Va,
small nond. He clambered out. .. Just what the truth is in all surplus landing craft and small In fact, 2650 Virginia young-
to the labor government's nat- vice at that particular time,
ional health service in the Horder said,
summer of 1948. "If a Briton remains in the
But a core of medical diehards scheme but wishes to occupy a
remained. They acknowledged private bed in a hospital or
that they could not hope to get nursing home, he should receive
repeal of the health service plan, a government grant toward the
this IS trip Rrwrif m Inn ff (no , sfprs wprp hprriPfl info f ha catrta ... ... . "MV" v
took five more steps and plunged fact.inding e0mmittee now at r k.v .,.. jails with adult prisoners during ! Si"
......... . ,4o .. .. ...v. ..,u,u a,.UEU ""5"
in again waist deep. The ad
vance became a retreat.
The deputies conferred. They
laid planks to reach the defiant
couple when the family bull
strode up to watch the fun. But
he strode too far. There was a
crack and splash, and the bull
was in the pond.
The animal carried away a
good section of the ice coating,
leaving a lane of open water be
tween the deputies and theit
quarry.
work in Washington.
news Jasa ilulic wiieii ail : niu: u-
... as four times. This is -the same
pun PRY Patalinn nirnraft was
The committee is made ud of j , t h tate' incidentally, that is run by
freedom of medicine."
and certain agreed appliances."
Our Brave New World
The modified plans for the new Marion county court
house show an improvement on previous designa but still
retain the frlorified barn or warehouse effect that is in
sharp contrast to the stately architecture of the state
buildings it was supposed to conform with.
That of course, is a mere layman's viewpoint, one prob
ably not qualified to pass on the "beauty" and "symmetry"
and "simplicity" of the new architecture, whose dwellings
resemble hencoops or outhouses and whose windowlcss
bipr business and public buildings, warehouses and grain
elevators.
There are many, of course, who rave over the "modern
istic" architecture, just as there are those who swoon over
the nonsensical freak dabs of the "futuristic" and other
"modernistic" cults, and in the same category the jarring
discords that masquerade as "modernistic" music. And
the same "trend of the times" is evident in the crack-pot
"liberal" politics of the New Deal, the Fair Deal and social
Ism, communism and other ideologies that are demoraliz
ing the world.
To many however, contemptuously relegated to the rank
of "has-beens" in the creation of "the brave new world."
these modernistic crazes may in future perspective be
viewed are evidences of a gradual decadence that is bank
rupting humanity and ushering new dark ages to over
whelm civilization. o
This so delighted the old folks
that they broke into wild guffaws
so wild in fact that, yes, the
ice broke again and they got
their turn in the pond.
The woman reaching for a
hannging branch of the tree, in
tending to haul herself back on
the ice. The branch became
snarled with that entangling the
phones lines. Another tug, and
both branches crashed to the
ground.
The phone lines sprang back
into position.
That restored the long dis
tance line.
The cast retired amid much
sneezing .
representatives of the Organiza
tion of American States (OAS)
from the United States, Uruguay,
Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia.
The OAS used to be called the
Pan American Union. Its main
aim is to keep the peace in the
Western Hemisphere. Its ma
jor weapon is the RIO mutual de
fense treaty. All 21 American
republics are members.
On Jan. 9 the OAS council,
alarmed over charges of more
plotting, invoked the Rio treaty
and set the committee to work
investigating the whole Caribbe
an situation.
The bizarre tale of plotting
which the committee is trying to
unravel surpasses, in technique
at least, the filibustering activi
ties of William Walker, who is
perhaps as well known in Cen
tral America as any other Amer
ican. Walker, a Tennessean, organ
ized four expeditions during the
middle 1800s. One sailed from
San Francisco, two others from
Mobile and a fourth from Mexi
can territory which he had
grabbed. At one time he man
aged to gain control of Nicaragua.
norm coast ot tne uominican ne- Qni,jQ
public, after those aboard tried Scnools for Crime
Criminal studies
mL?"ZZId'a eficient po- She Had Ideas on Tax Form
15
show that
to unload munitions. All
aboard were either killed or jail doesn't cure as much crime
captured, including three Amer- as it breeds, especially when ju-
lcans veniles are locked up with pro-
Meantime, two Mexican and fcssional criminals. For cell
two Guatemalan planes were re- mates don't make the best tea
ported by the state department chers, and sending children to
to have landed at Yucatan, Mex- jail is actually like putting
ico, where they disembarked them through a school in crime,
some fifty armed persons. The A much better method of
Dominican Republic charged the handling young lawbreakers has
Legion with plotting an air- been worked out by the Big
borne invasion of the country to Brothers of America, ndw cele
ovcrthrow President Rafael Tru- brating national Big Brother
jillo. week.
. . Volunteer "big brothers" are
selected from prominent citizens
In January, 1948, a plot involv- i each community who are
ing citizens from four countries willing to put a friendly arm
aimed at bombing Caracas, the around a wayward boy. Their
. . , . ,,,, , ii, individual guidance saved more
capital of Venezuela, was broken Bnnn .
v . than 5000 boys from a life of
up. At about the same time Cos- crjme ast year less than 7 per-
ta Rica was fighting off rebels cent of the boys who have been
that had invaded the country given this individual counsel
from neighboring Nicaragua. hve made second missteps. Yet
' K .. 1 1 1 -
A year later Haiti tried unsuc- i" " "
, v. it. bi.i fr each boy for club dues,
camp life and vocational guid
ance. This is only a fraction of
Oklahoma City, Jan. 19 (IP) An Oklahoma county opera
tor of a second-hand magazine shop has individual ideas
about completing tax forms.
County Assessor Cragin Smith received one from her
yesterday she wasn't identified which listed her "furni
ture and fixtures" as "orange crates, tables, book rack and
magazines."
She gave her inventory at the close of the year as "$200."
And even the next question "Is this the same as shown on
your income tax return" quickly answered.
"Yes and no," she wrote, "nobody figures it alike."
As "Other Assets (describe fully)" she listed:
"God, friends, enemies, customers, second hand merchan
dise and me inclusive."
CapitaljUournal
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cessfully to invoke the Rio -treaty
against the Dominican Repub-
Trujillo was involved in a plot . ,rma,, , . Doy
to overthrow her president,
marsais Estime.
Du-
f Is a Small World
Spokane, Jan. 19 W) Small world department
Friday, Jan. 13, a car slowed to a stop during a bliziard
Bear Klamath Falls, Ore.
A second enr slid into the side of the first.
Police Trafflo Sergeant George Pymm of Spokane stepped
out ot the first Allen Goldberg of Spokane got out of the
other.
They knew each other.
The greetings?
"Fancy meeting yon here," of sours.
Guests Left Waiting at the Altar,
While Groom Argues Over Age
Los Angeles, Jan. 19 (VP) The church was ready. The
guests were waiting and so was the priest. But the bride
and bridegroom were missing.
It all happened because the bridegroom looked too young.
Arthur (Bob) Miller, 21, or Hobart, Ind., had tried for
five days to get a marriage license to wed dark-eyed Joan
Pullara of nearby Eagle Rock. But he was turned down at
every bureau office because of his youthful appearance.
Came time for the ceremony and the prospective newly
weds In formal wedding attire still were chasing around
In search of a believing marriage license clerk.
But no luck. The guests in the church then were told
would be no ceremony. However, the reception went on
as planned Saturday night the food couldn't wait.
But there is a happy ending. Miller wired back home
for an affidavit to prove him the required 21. The county
clerk opened up shop special Sunday when the affidavit
arrived. The priest was called and so were the guests.
So in St. Dominic's Roman Catholic church, the two were
wad.
in a reformatory for a year.
Meanwhile the public, though
aroused over the current prime
Haiti said Trujillo was work- waVe, seems indifferent to the
ing with Astrel Roland, a former practices that are breeding a new
Haitian army colonel, and Jo- generation of criminals. Right '
hanna Verbracken, a Belgian wo- under the public's nose, children
man whom Roland met at the are being clamped into adult
Rio de Janeiro while on a good jails even though this is just as
will mission to Argentina. much a violation of law as the
Haiti's complaint contained ex- crimes for which the children
cerpts of love letters between have been sentenced.
Roland and Johanna Verbracken Tne problem was summed up
and mentioned a secret meeting Quite simply the other day by a
between her and the Dominican former inmate of the Indiana
ambassador to Haiti in a village boVs school at Plainfield, Ind. He
church near Port-Au-Prince, had bcen the son of the town
Haiti. The Dominican Republic drunk, had stolen money to help
denied any complicity in the care for hls neglected mother.
pl0t when the war broke out, he
marched off into the army.
Talking to a children's bu
reau worker the other day, the
delinquent remarked:
iirat VipaUa ,Ia n 1
Dominican of- mmin, , ,0j
op I IV IIU1IU1 tuj
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ago came
Haiti two weeks
back with another complaint former
against tne uominican nepuonc. "when
This time, it said, Dominican of- ,-,..
ficials-were involved in a plot to of donars to buy me clothes and
assasssinaie i-raiaeni raune, food and ammunition. But dur
the chief of the palace guard, the ing peace they were not wiUing
army chief of staff and the chief to spcnd one cent to help the
of police. Haiti demanded the town drunk's son."
Rio treaty be put to work. iconniut ipmh .
Amused when a stray
springer spaniel came
to his door with a news
paper In her mouth,
Stanley T. Gray of Los
Angeles looked through
the Lost Ads. Finding
one that fitted the dog,
he phoned her owner,
who lived several miles
away.
0.3. ud Canadian nsws
papers print aora than
300,000,000 indlTidual
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