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Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 20, 1950
Federal Tax on Oleo Lifted
The senate by a vote of 56 to 16 has joined the house in
voting for repeal of federal taxes on oleomargarine which
has been in effect for 64 years. Conferees are whipping
the legislation into final form for speedy passage, as the
senate measure differs in some respects from that of the
house.
The legislation eliminates present taxes of 10-cents-a-pound
on yellow oleomargarine and of one-quarter cent a
pound on the uncolored variety. Also repealed would be
license fees on manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of
colored and uncolored oleomargarine.
The taxes on oleo, originating back in 1886, were pushed
through and kept in the statutes by farm interests, prin
cipally by dairymen who feared its competition with butter.
But in the last few years, oleomargarine makers have used
an increasing quantity of vegetable fats, such as cotton
seed, soy beans and other farm products which has brought
agricultural 3upport for oleo.
Margarine spokesmen predicted confidently that house
wives will benefit by price cuts on yellow oleo of at least
10 cents a pound the amount of the present tax. Prices
of uncolored oleo, now taxed at one-fourth-cent a pound,
will remain about the same, they said. Butter interests
argued that in the long run, all margarine prices will climb
toward the level consumers now are paying for butter.
Butter prices now are nearly double those of oleo.
In any case residents of Oregon and 13 other states will
be unable to buy yellow oleo, its sale being prohibited by
state laws. Two other states ban its sale in restaurants.
Six states have their own taxes on oleo.
Persons who eat in hotels and restaurants will know
whether oleo or butter is served with their meals when
the law becomes effective. Each pat of oleo must be iden
tified, by triangular shape or some other way, and menus
or wall posters will announce that margarine is served.
The senate bill has this restriction, the house bill does not
Margarine interests contend that keen competition be
tween the 29 manufacturers who produce nearly 100
brands of oleo is sure to pass full benefits of tax repeal on
to consumers. They say oleo prices will rise and fall with
the price of ingredient oils. Dairy interests charge, how
ever, that an oleo "monopoly" controls the industry and
will keep margarine prices as close to butter levels "as the
traffic will bear."
Two Votes Help Kill War's Efforts
Truman's do-nothing policy in the Far East has now
started to come back to haunt him.
By only two votes, congress went against the president's
suggestion when he decided to try to help South Korea
with some financial aid. The little republic, bounded by
the Russian satellite of North Korea, is now given but a
few months to live. Congress gave notice it had aban
doned it. It is anticipated that the Moscow-trained com
munist hordes will now sweep down from the north and
kill off the little spark of democracy left in that part of
Asia.
Why did congress help the Russians in this way? If
Moscow could have had its wish, it would have asked con
gress to do just what it did do.
For years President Truman has fumbled and stuttered
on a possible policy toward the Far East. In contrast, how
ever, he came through with a policy in Europe which, at
times, was brilliant. His Truman doctrine and the Berlin
airlift were strokes of a man who grasped the tactics of
the cold war. But when he looked at the Orient, he appar
ently looked away again to forget the mess. He forgot
that it was not in Europe that World War II hit the United
States. It was in the Pacific at Pearl Harbor. The ag
gressor was an Asiatic.
Apparently because congress was so disguested with the
series of mistakes the administration has made in the
Orient, the house tried to chastise him. This was short
sighted. The person to be hurt will be Uncle Sam. And it
might be near disastrous eventually to a nation that still
doesn't have a policy that is clear to the public or the world.
How can Acheson say the United States is interested in
the future of democracy in Asia when congress kills an
offer of help to one of the few sparks of democracy in that
part of the world ?
What will Congress say and do when the North Kor
ean Reds sweep into now-abandoned South Korea?
If Truman and Congress continue to botch Far East
policy, what little "face" the United States has left in the
Orient will be gone. And all that the soldiers, sailors and
marines fought for in the Pacific will be lost.
Scrapping Diplomatic Boycott on Spain
Secretary Acheson has announced that the United
States has resumed its policy toward Spain and will sup
port the United Nations proposed repeal of the ban under
which most member governments have withdrawn am
bassadors or top-flight ministers from that country. A
big majority of the 59 countries, it is reported, favor such
action at the next general assembly.
Acheson's position would not affect a resolution of the
first UN assembly in London barring Franco from mem
bership in the United Nations. Spain never has applied
to the UN and any application from Franco is certain to
run into the Soviet Russian veto in the security council.
If Britain and the British Commonwealth countries can
recognize communist China and other Red countries, there
is no reason why they should not recognize anti-communist
Spain which has one of the most stable governments in
Europe. And if Russia and her satellites, intent on com
munizing the world by aggression, can belong to the United
Nations to hamstring it, there is no sense in barring Spain,
that would be cooperating against the Soviet's cold war.
The Russian bloc in the UN is certain also to protest
at length in the next assembly against the move to take
down the bars against sending envoys to Franco. It has
resisted every effort to that end. Latin-American coun
tries have led moves to ease restrictions against Spain in
the United Nations. In the 1949 stormy session, Poland
placed a proposal calling on all member nations to stop ex
porting war and strategic materials to Spain which was
defeated. A South American resolution permitting mem
bers full freedom to send envoys to Spain failed to get a
two-thirds majority, the vote being 26 in favor, 15 against,
16 abstentions, including Britain and tha United States,
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Gambling Rackets Undermine
Law Enforcement in Big Cities
(Ed. Note Another of Drew Pearson's columns on gambling
racketeers and how they affect city governments.)
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Earlier in this series I expressed the opinion that
President Truman knew nothing about the links which some of
his henchmen have with Costelloism and the gambling racketeers.
I base this opinion on the fact that, at this moment, federal
grand juries are probing ihe racketeers in Los Angeles, Miami
and in T r u -
badgered by the gang, commit
ted suicide.
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
man's home
town, Kansas
City.
This . invest!
gation includes"
the new demo
cratic boss of
Kansas City,
Charles Binag
gio, who has
carried the
town for Tru
m a n by re-
sounding majorities,
Mi
Drtw Ptaran
but who,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Getting Ready to Play
The Last Curtain on Earth
By HAL BOYLE
New York, W) Mankind has been trying to play God for
a long time. Soon it will have the chance to play the role out
to the last curtain fall.
The new
mic comedy
stnffe actor
and bring the action to a final and men put wings on the guns
climax
The invasion of Costelloism is
always slow, almost impercepti
ble. At first it can scarcely be
detected.
Nearly always it gets a foot in
the door through heavy politi
cal contributions to a candidate
for public office. He may be
completely honest, but he needs
the money and doesn't think
neverthelss, was hauled before twice about the obligations he
a grand jury by the justice de- must fulfill after he takes of
partment at the very same time f'ce.
Truman was in Kansas City for In Kansas City, for instance,
the Bill Boyle testimonial din- it was Democrat Forrest Smith,
ner. running for governor of Mis-
Actually, these grand juries ta 1948 who accepted the
cannot clean up gambling, which "i""g h "I B8S' gang,
comes under local enforcement Now that h, B. in the governor's
u..t -or, rair chair, Smith has no love for the
agencies but they can , crack gambiers or what they stand for;
down on narcotics, income-tax .,, : , ...,'
evasions and illegal immigration, "e,v"ele!5 B nagg, ' , pht "
which go hand in hand with an -nescapable fact,
gambling. In fact, rranKie COS- . , . .... . ... anrt if thov tnr-lr tncother thav rnnld swins tha whole thlnff.
tello, an Italian immigrant, could aec;et democratic caucus'of the Searching for clues as to how Mrs. Brittania will use her vote,
ine snop-
Head of Shipping Department
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
British Parties Aim Strategy
For Bulk of Women's Vote
By ALVIN STEINKOPF
(For DtWItt MacKenile.'AP roreUn Aff&ln AnMrit)
London More than half the 34,400,000 persons qualified to
vote in Great Britain's general election February 23 are women,
hydrogen bomb the latest demon in our long cos- J?tJlep0'?.cd Ita ly m".W Missouri legislature, while two Political canvassers have been listening attentively in
-is already muttering on the horizon like an off- if the justice department wanted Binaggio Mmis haye bM pin8 queua'-"---',
waiting to rush on - named by Governor Smith to where they can. JSty . 11,9 an answer coui
This climax is the downfall
of man, self-betraytd into ulti
mate ruin by
his own ambiti
ous nonsense.
Jokes have a
way of coming
true. And the
hydrogen bomb
provides m a n -kind
an oppor
tunity of fulfil
ling a 1945 joke
that seemed
wryly funny at
the time.
ML
The important thing about the the Kansas City police board.
ana called mem airplanes. gambling rackets, wnetner tney In Louisiana Huey Long got
Yes, the hydrogen bomb is be in Miami, Kansas City, or started through exactly the same
pretty sure to be made. Fresno, Cal., is the manner in nrn--, Franiri. rt-u,.
And if it is made the chances which they undermine law en- rjaH with . tmnnnn ... dried fruit? ,
tf ftnn I. 1 U ...Ml h 4.-nn- . ' "Mnrf en mnnh
hear such com
plaints as these:
"Why don't
we get more
are iu,uuu-to-i it wm De crop- lorcement. trihntinn in h,iv' ,.amnai,m
ped sometime. Mbst people probably see in return for which Huey opened of the sugar g0
For it is unlikely mankind nothing wrong with a $2 bet up the state to slot machines. to the res'au-
wUl give up its long passion for , witn giot machines in a beer Tni, looked harmlcs, at th rants? ' "T ey
playing God. God-or the gods t. But along with the $2 tl "T "AJLI last only a &rt-
counted to 1m-
nress older women, who remem-
ber dreary out-of-work stretches
in the between-the-war years,
f The labor party feels fairly sure
ot the older working class wo
i men, but the youngsters may
t not be so thrilled by security.
In studying the puzzle, poli
ticians aren't overlooking that
Ttfa hq. onHan n Kit an.ia In
set up a system which can bet and the slot machines eo ... xi . : mght. ' Britain latolv A mil. m
both create life or cause death. pay.0f to the police. These t the bioil comoanies and S.h r e.w.d . . . food, a little more coal, a little
pay-offs may be only $30 a utilities then bent on defeatinff fPeaKeal ln? Ppmicai meei- better variety of goods ,n tne
him. But it paved the way for , gs 01 a" fa. les na, Se"eral- ships. And it would surprise
the most ruthless state dictator- ly agr.eed "?eir tory, i1" . no one if the government finds
ship this country has ever seen. mldt?Wn ? and w ' i,se aWe to increase the meat
, , , ration (aDout a pound a week
en's interests in austere Britain per person) before ni d
Or take another town which lle clse to the home and family.
ine laoor party counts on lull
A minority may be impress- employment as its most telling
fornia. ed bv a candidate's scholarly aD- campaign argument. To make it
So far man has preferred to im
itate God chiefly in his death- week. But when a cop will take
dealing power. $30 a week to protect a gam-
If the nations do start hurl- bling joint, he will also take
Ing hydrogen bombs in the $1,000 to fix a murder case,
earth's green valley, then in all Once the pattern of a dishonest
honesty they should open the police force is fixed there is no
It arose after the uranium doors of all mental hospitals and boundary line where it can be is pretty much "average city
atom bombs, now old-fashioned, i me inmates out. aioppeu. " " r"
were dropped on Japan, ine . -3 Here the gamblmg fraternity proach to relations with China, 1
T'.hirH wrlH war came in the excuse that they might harm have been solved by the police used exactly the same techni- bu m bidding for the women's W"' and income arent
JLht rtonsToraVm themselves or others-or that in the last two year, And as a Que to put. friend in office, v. h- soon gets around to Jhey becom , jobs for
.... v.-.-h-n. "iey can t aajusi to ine. uui ao result of tne current justice ae- ana wouia nave succeeded nad ; . . . . .
bombs around like baseoa is. Qur Qwn action jusUfy us Jn tment probe ,n Kansas cityj they not' picked the wrong , The Brltlsh are Sreat heck- The registration of electors
,? " , w SI judging them? one witness before the grand friend. In Fresno, a shrewd and Jf- and the . candidate who makes no classification as to
finally lifted, all lie naa Been Tne day q th(j hydogen jury Daniel W. Robinson, was likable public relations counsel, 1 come to grips with ev- sexes, so the exact proportion
destroyed on earth except two burst ev sick , d should mUrdered recently. Another wit- Robert Franklin, with manifold ryday realities soon hears a 0f woiri n voters is not known.
dazed apes nanging trom a tree bfi lreg tQ adju5t tg death nes gam Builer after being connections, became the cam- shriu volce demanding: , Because the poll is secret there
in Africa. paign manager for republican "When do we get some of that is no telling how women vote
Ana tne papa ape, alter glanc
ing at the boundless devasta
tion, turned to the mama ape
and said sadly:
"Well, honey, now I guess we
will have to start the whole
damned business all over again."
Boy, wasn't that good for a
laugh way back in 1945?
Former Iowa School Teacher
Human Star of Puppet Show
It began as a children's show "i
... .. n im al.n a rnrta amnnd puni.
candidate Gordon Dunn, a new- meat that's tied "up in the re- as a whole. However, there are
comer in politics. frigerator ships?" (The govern- more women than men in Bri-
And it was only a couple of menJ tori. 8 ?ot o ulmPrted tain and they are showing much
weeks after Dunn's election that S63', on fhlps " harbor when more interest in politics than
he was approached by the man there's not enough space ashore ) they did in the last general
who had helped to elect him to HrSjl0r X l y, ndl CleCtin in 1945'
"open up" the city to gambling drab4 h seem , "?e a handi-
j i,.L , .-. .: cap to the ruling labor govern-
and houses of prostitution. wh,ch ftr , .ye years About aU that can be said of
Dunn, naive but courageous, still thinking in terms of con- their voting behavior is that they
refused. However, the pressure trol and restrictions. The labor do not vote for women just be-
has continued, with the ap- party has an answer, but how cause they are women. If they
proaches being almost identical effective is is won't be known did. Parliament would be filled
to those made in Kansas City. until the votes are counted. with them. Actually only 22 of
But the thing that puts the Among other things, Lieut Ed "Yes, you have your queues," the 640 members of the present
program across is the way Fran Ellis, a friend of the city's gam- It says, "but they are getting house of commons are female,
treats the puppets as real peo- bling boss, Joe Cannon, was shorter. You have some money That may well be changed in
pie. They come alive. proposed as police chief of Fres- to buy something. You also have the election. There are many
I talked to her the other day no. Ellis had been so close to security and there are jobs for more women candidates than
dtltinff her rPCPnt triD tn New Cannon that thp Pamhlor ticl vnur mm Vn noorln'f iiim, ihara wot-o In lOAG Tk
cap compares to a stick of dy- red-nosed, balding, good-hearted York on the train from Chi- to sit in his office and send they'll be coming home with party is putting up not fewer
namite. It is just the booster little wory wart, and Ollie, a caeo and found that to her members of the nnlire forre mil rfivmisal lin Thr. .r. than in Pnnn,.n.. j
hot- one-toothed sentimental dragon Kukla, Ollie and the others are for coffee with such an air of queues at employment offices liberals will have more than 30
The hydrogen bomb itself may who wants to be a big shot. really people. She never talks of authority that rookie cops and no one is lining up for a each. The communists also may
be 1,000 times as powerful as Other puppets include Beu- them as puppets, and never goes thought Cannon was a member dole." have several women candidates,
the uranium bomb. It will dev- lat Witch, Ophelia Ooglepuss, a backstage. She doesn't like to of the staff. Lieutenant Ellis
astate 50 square miles perhaps retired opera singer and Clara see them hanging lifeless from took the civil service exam,
100 and could theoretically Coo Coo, a flighty cuckoo who a hook. along with the others, and flunk
easily kill 1,000.000 people or used to be timekeeper in Santa "I couldn't work with them if ed. But despite this he was
more in large cities. Claus' north pole factory but I didn't feel that way," she said, still urged on Mayor Dunn as
Quite an argument for a place to Chicago and developed PuppeU, like people, wear out. , police chief,
in the country, isn't it? But what a southern accent. Whenever Ti lstrom has to build Instead the najve newcomer
country? ' " nf,w Ku"a. - Rfsian for to li(ics sent one f h,
"noil" nr OIIip shi is nprvons , . .
Unseen behind the small stage for a few Derformances men, ueut. Henry Morton, to
. it a jew penormances. Washincton in train at T Tloo-
New York (P) The Alice in Wonderland of our times is a
former Iowa schoolteacher named Fran Allison.
She is the human star of an NBC-TV puppet show called "Kuk
la, Fran and Ollie," and It has rather taken the television world
The uranium bomb of that by storm.
day was just a horse-and-buggy
bomb. It could devastate an area but now it is also a rage among
of only ten square miles or less adults from truckdrivers to
and kill only 100,000 people literary sophisticates in some
under pretty ideal conditions. 54 cities. Kids from 8 to 80 have
But it compares to the new schoolboy crushes on Fran,
hydrogen bomb, now on the she jokes and sings with the
drawing boards, as a dynamite two major puppets Kukla, a
There will be great argument
over whether the hydrogen is the puppet manipulator, Burr
Living Up to Publicity Motto
Seattle, Jan. 20 (U.R) In an effort to live up to the Cham
ber of Commerce publicity motto "Enjoy Seattle's Golf
Courses the Year-Around," Park Supt. Paul V. Brown hai
asked the park board to approve the purchase of two port
able ski tows for nst on the greens.
'"'L'!.a.rd.v.f0r.me..t.0'g.et Hoover's National Police Acade-
my and study exactly the op-
Some members of the Fresno
police force, however, continued
the police could arrive. But
e grownups, and it reached a peak "v." , , a ST - T
t of 11,000 letters last Dec 19. a Patrolman did arrive he
since science knows no oouna- 01 fantasy, so lar ne nas sung "j'm sensjtiVe to the change We ""-"y me op-
aries anymore than does the and talked for eight puppet have so much fun together I Dosite Iaw enfarcement methods
wind, the technique of making characters. He expects to create hate to think we can't go on al- .0m tnose tne gambling frater
one will be no secret. And since more if he doesn't run out of ways. I know that may sound
nity wanted.
any large country could make voices. sjny) but that's how it is."
one, each will begin making Through his puppets he and ...
thorn as a protection against each Fran have created a make-be- Fran has a curious small girl
otllcr- lieve world of their own, a quality like the girl you loved to be palsy-walsy with the gam-
world of gentle humor and small and lost in grammar school biers. Only recently gambling
Self-defense has become a predicaments. Most of the that gives her a nostalgic ap- chief Joe Cannon walked into
20th century tower of Babel and troubles come from Ollie's wild peal. This actually stirs jealousy Tony's restaurant at 6 a m wav-
panic. The decision to build the spendthrift gestures and his mad in some adult men television ing a loaded revolver
hydrogen bomb was made long courtship of Clara Coo Coo. Fran fans when she sings a love song . . , . t ',
ago. It was made when the first and Kukla usually manage to to Kukla, who says she's his girl. j ' ,m "lm awn,
an ihrn.i . in ,,. hail him nt kw nt h. mail i. ft and unloaded the revolver until
through his neighbor and the Ollie doesn't mind if the
i.c.guuu, uuj iiui ami e- oiners Kia mm Decause ne can 1 ". " J- faiioj tn r,nnn h.......
gan making himself a spear. And breathe flame through his nos- y fans send the puppets "u l oahha"nh" ca"se
the spears became bow-and-ar- trils. He explains his family fire 8'iui- When Ollie complained be- "J IVca ,l'y , I., re
rows, and they became guns, was put out when his dragon cause Kukla received a knitted .,' , '.. "l "u
nose warmer, a fan mailed him r!va1' was not loaded. Other
. . . . , , a new false set of dragon teeth. " "zfns do not et such lenient
OPEN FORUM Fletcher Rabbit, another charac- treatment.
ter, gof a wire ear hanger to ln resno, as in Kansas City,
keep his ears from flopping 'ne rackets have also been curb
down in his face. ed by alert newspapers. The
"Ollie gets the most mail from watchful Fresno Bee has cru-
mttn mphsna honea ha ie -n SaHfH Adaincl Pnctallniom n.hlU
Izaak Walton league has published an appeal for contributions uninhibited," said Fran. "Elder- in Missouri, the Kansas City Star
from individuals to supplement their funds which are to be used ly women seem most fond of has cracked down on every move
In a feeding program for the migratory waterfowl in the Kukla." That might be because Binaggio has made. Neverthe-
Salcm area. Kukla, who is . bit sad and in- less, the Kansas City police
What about the other areas ly eed and care for our wild- effectual, reminds them of their force which became a model of
over the state? Are the people We. husbands. efficiency after Boss Pendergasf
in those areas being called upon Paying the extra "price" for Bu' ministe"' businessmen, went to jail, is now in a state of
to feed the local wildlife? angling and hunting permits P"" and chdren they aU jitters.
.r. .. . . . writ in Fran Ona Milwa,,1ri0 t; , . . ..
I assume they are. since the aoesn t pother me ln the least. In i.d ' : mnaggio nas demanded tne
e commission cannot suDOort . 1, lor one, would gladly .. , ,. , wiemrai 01 a iormer pouce
11 a u s. jii . 1 u as Ch,cf, previously demoted, to-
(Capiteljypurnal
Trwrt Mar
Feeding of Migratory Waterfowl
To the Editor: In recent issues of the Capital Journal I see that
tWvfI.Arr teeth. nrf1
m ma, rnonc
Whan her dog found
teeth, Mrs. Walter
Baugham of Pleasant
Ridge, Mich., ordered
a Classified ad to noti
fy the owner. Scores
of hopeful persons who
had recently lost false
teeth answered. Many
who came in person in
slated on trying the
teeth.
Want Ads are direct
action ads.
aame commission cannot suDOort lact- 1, ,or one, would gladly
the feeding program in its own Pay any amount if results were
visible.
'back yard.'
Now. understand, I am not a As 1 see t, the game commis- your dream boy.1
"sorehead." but it seems the S10n throwing its weight A few days later he sent a
increase set by the commission instead 01 ine ieea so necessary worried followup:
you to marry me. Meanwhile, if gether with a new chief of de
youll be my dream girl, I'll be tectives, Thomas J. Higgins, de-
spite the fact that Higgins was
once indicted for perjury in
on hunting and fishing licenses during this hard winter. ..Honey, did you get my last l " "1 kZn u nTn ,
ivoprnfui iswj
should be sufficient to adequate-
DONALD E. GERBER.
letter?"
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