Days When Diplomacy Was
Figured in Simple Terms Gone
By ARTHUR EDSON
Washington, Jan. 20 W) Secretary of State Acheson must long
for the good old days, when diplomacy's triumphs could be fig
ured in simple terms like acres and pennies
I kept thinking of this yesterday during Acheson's news con-
Sference.
Outside the auditorium where
Yanks Reported
In Russ Camp
Berlin, Jan. 20 (U.R)Newly-
freed inmates of Soviet zone
concentration camps said today
they had seen Americans and
other Allied Nationalists in the
Sachsenhausen camp.
(A U.S. official in Berlin said
at least six American soldiers
were believed to be in Soviet
custody.. The official said U.S.
headquarters had received re
ports that American soldiers
were in Soviet zone concentra
tion camps, but the reports could
not be confirmed. He said be
fore the Americans could de
mand the release of a soldier,
headquarters had to have con
crete evidence that the soldier
was held.) ,
The inmates were released
this week after the Soviets re
ported they were closing the
three concentration camps in
East Germany,
Three women from Sachsen
hausen said they saw two uni
formed American soldiers being
shipped eastward, presumably
to Russia, on Nov. 17 with other
prisoners. They said at least
six more Americans or Britons
were at Sachsenhausen when
they were released.
Another former inmate, Fritz
Schulz, said one Sachsenhausen
barrack contained one Ameri
can, two Frenchmen and several
White Russians. He said he had
been arrested because he op
posed land reform in the Soviet
zone.
The women said mistreatment
by Soviet guards at the camp
was frequent in 1946-47, but
ceased in 1948.
Northwest Naval
Air Arm Cut
Seattle, Jan. 20 U.R Sen.
Warren G. Magnuson, (D.,
Wash.,) reported from Washing
ton, D. C, today that the de
partment of defense had advised
him that America's naval air
force in the Pacific Northwest
has been ordered cut to only 36
patrol planes.
Magnuson said that two nine-
plane squadrons of navy patrol
wing four now based at Whid
bey Island are being decommis
sioned.
Patrol wing four is responsi
ble for navy air coverage of the
Pacific Northwest and Alaska
coastlines, the Aleutian Islands,
Bering Sea and the Arctic ocean.
The reduction will leave the
wing with only four squadrons,
one of which is always on three
month rotational duty at Kodi
ak Alaska and another of which
usually is on leave.
The decommissioned planes
already have been flown from
Widbey Island to be put in
mothballs at San Diego.
Magnuson said the reduction
in the navy's air strength was
forced by budget requirements,
Rivenes Receives Check
Woodburn Mike Rivenes of
Woodburn is believed to be the
first veteran in this area to re
ceive a G. I. insurance dividend
check. He received his check,
amounting to $346, Monday of
this week.
the conferences are held are a
couple of illustrations of the
state department's finest hours.
In well-lighted cases are
mounted the documents that
completed the Louisiana pur
chase and changed the owner
ship of Alaska from Russia to
the U. S.
The paragraph on the Louisi
ana purchase is headed:
Three cents an acre." Yes,
that's what it cost.
The caption on the paragraph
explaining the Alaska deal
deal reads::
"Seward's folly."
The paragraph hurriedly ex
plains that of course it really
wasn't folly. Secretary of State
Seward got Alaska for less than
two cents an acre.
Understandable transactions,
both. But look at diplomacy today.
Acheson opend the conference
with:
"I have talked so much this
week that I'm afraid I'm talked
out." But, he said, he'd answer
questions. And he did. -
What about that conference
of ambassadors? .... Saar coal
mines? . . . Japanese peace
treaty? . . . Sale of liberty ships
to Chinese Nationalists? , . , For
mosa? . . . would we, in case we
got a more powerful bomb,
change our atomic policy?
For 12 minutes we dizzly
hopped, skipped and jumped
about the world.
On the way out I noticed a
group of students clustered in
the rear. Turned out they were
from American University here,
and were studying government
in action. How had they liked
the conference?
Well," said one, and then
didn't finish. "I had trouble hear
ing," said another. Finally one
pert miss said, "Frankly
couldn't tell what it was all
about."
There you are. Explain and
explain and explain, and it's still
hard for many of us to remem
ber the details on, say, the Saar
coal mines.
Not a bit like land at two or
three cents an acre. Now there,
citizens, is something we can
get our mental plowshares into.
Ai:;.ij.r..: ---A
'Show Must Go On
'Inside USA' Cast Says
Portland, Ore., Jan. 20 U.R
It was 12:30 a.m. and cold out
side but the cast of "Inside
U.S.A." upheld the "show must
go on" tradition of the theater
and gave an opening night per
formance to a Portland audience
kept waiting four hours.
When stage sets were held up
by a train switch at Oakland,
Calif., and by weather condi
tions through Oregon mountain
passes, the Mayfair theater man
agement and representatives of
the road show version of the
smash Broadway hit considered
calling off the opening night
show. But a spokesman for the
cast said, "No, we'll open if it
takes all night."
And it nearly did. The show,
scheduled to open at 8:30 p.m.,
finally got under way at 12:30
a.m. Wednesday and finished at
3:30 a.m. The first nighters,
most of whom sweated out the
opening curtain, were enthusias
tic but sleepy.
One one-hundredth pound per
acre of parathion was found
effective against artic mosquitoes
when sprayed from a plane.
Put Super Bomb'
Problem to Russ?
Washington, Jan. 20 U.R
President Truman told a news
conference today that he is not
considering direct negotiations
with Russia before deciding
whether this country should de
velop the hydrogen "super
bomb."
Mr .Truman was asked about
a report published earner mis
week which said he is being
urged by some of his advisers
to make a new effort towara an
atomic control plan. The report
said these advisers felt the ef
fort should be made before this
country commits itself to pro
duction of the new weapon.
The President said he is not
considering any plan to nego
tiate directly with Russia.
He also described as untrue
another report that Chairman
David E. Lilienthal offered to go
to Russia and seek an atomic
agreement with Josef Stalin
Mr. Truman firmly refused to
discuss prospects of a hydrogen
bomb. He also refused to com
ment when reporters sought an
official admission that a new
'super" weapon would be con
structed.
Other high administration of
ficials involved in the backstage
hydrogen bomb discussions have
said they are pledged not to talk
about them now.
Nome Field Closing
Will Be Reviewed
Washington, Jan. 20 (U.B
Alaska's Gov. Ernest Gruening
and Delegate E. L. Bartlett said
today the air force will review
its decision to close Marks Field
at Nome.
After a call on Air Secretary
Stuart Symington, they said in
a Joint statement that:
"Mr. Symington gave assur
ances that the decision to quit
Nome would be reviewed at high
policy levels in view of repre
sentations made by the governor
and delegate."
Geo, the Crocodile,
Gels Bottles Removed
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 20 U.R
Cleopatra, the Cincinnati zoo's
12-year-old crocodile that had its
sex straightened out only last
week, underwent an operation
Thursday and a veterinarian re
moved six soft drink bottles and
30 stones.
Three of the bottles were
broken.
It was the first known opera
tion ever attempted on a croco
dile anywhere, zoo officials said.
Return of 'Best Trusty' Awaited
After Trip for Father's Funeral
Oklahoma City, Jan. 20 (U.R) -Head county jailer John Selkin
had faith today that "the best trusty we ever had in the jail"
will return to serve a year in the penitentiary.
Norman Wendell Duke, 23, was supposed to start serving the
term this week, but he had been delayed in California.
Pnimtv aiithnrifipc TMirmiltpH-
Duke to go to California for his
Townspeople Buy a Community Street in Winfield, N. J.,
20 miles from New York, a community containing 700 houses
which residents have voted to buy from the government for
$1,350,000 through their own cooperative Mutual Housing
corporation.
fathers funeral after he was
sentenced on a guilty plea to a
bad check charge here. Duke,
who is crippled by infantile para
lysis, promised to return imme
diately after the services.
Selkin told other county auth
orities then he thought Duke
would keep his promise.
But now Duke has written pub
lic defender Charles Moss from
jail at Bakersfield. Calif., that
his return was delayed when
California authorities arrested
him in connection with "some
checks I had here."
He said he still intends to re
turn to Oklahoma as soon as he
is freed in California.
Said Selkin: "10 to 1 he comes
back."
Spartan, Now
East Lansing, Mich. (0)
Major Walter French, a former
gridiron star for the army in the
days when George Gipp was
Notre Dame great, is a member
of the Michigan State R.O.T.C.
training staff.
Parley Draws
Lumber Makers
What's ahead for Marion coun
ty lumber manufacturers in
1950? What are informed in
dustry and government leaders
predicting? Can increased co
operation and participation by a
larger segment of the west coast
lumber industry in nation-wide
lumber advertising and promo
tion projects help maintain pres
ent high levels of sales and em
ployment?
These and other questions will
be discussed when local lumber
men gather in Portland next
week with millmen from the en
tire Douglas fir region for the
annual meeting of stockholders
of the West Coast Lumbermen's
association on January 26 and
27.
Graham Griswold, general
manager of the Carlton Manu
facturing company at Carlton,
is director of the West Coast
Lumbermen's association for the
northern Willamette valley coun
ties and will head a delegation
of- lumbermen from Marion,
Polk, Yamhill and Washington
counties to the annual work and
plan session. Griswold said the
national lumber promotion cam
paign of the West Coast Lum
bermen's association had at
tracted nation-wide interest and
was responsible in part for the
present high position of sales
and employment in the Doug
las fir region.
Some shrimplike animals live
on the edges of the ice near the
North Pole; others are found in
the boiling waters of hot springs
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Leopard-Skin Upholstered
Cadillac Convertible Wovs
New York, Jan. 20 (U.R) General Motors showed the public
its fur-lined automobile today.
It's a yellow Cadillac convertible upholstered with $5,000 worth
of Somaliland leopard skins, complete with a girl In a leopard-
skin coat. -fc
'And the girl goes with it,"
said John F. Gordon, G. M. vice
president and Cadillac general
manager.
The car is a feature of General
Motors' 1950 automobile show,
Midcentury Motorama." The
how opened in the Waldorf
Astoria hotel Thursday with
fashion shows, pretty girls and
music. But the yellow Cadillac
took the cake.
The custom-built "Debutante'
convertible, the most luxurious
automobile ever turned out by
Cadillac, is tawny yellow buff.
The 14 matched leopard skins
are rufous buff. The seats are
gray nylon satin.
The only catch it that fur
lined autombiles are not schedul
ed for production by Cadillac.
The yellow Cadillac is the
keystone of the 1950 GM "Mid
century Motorama" which stress
es luxury, color and price cuts.
Gordon wouldn't set a price
on the fur-lined one, but the list
price for Cadillac convertibles,
without fur, was announced as
$3,465, a price cut of $36 from
last year.
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