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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 1, 1950
The Hydrogen Super-Bomb
An almost unanimous congress is backing President Tru
man's decision to go ahead with the hydrogen super-bomb
as a necessary defense step, and the only course for this
country to pursue to win the arms race with Russia.
The top atomic scientists say that the president's deci
sion was a wise one, that we must make the bomb, con
tinue to achieve unity of the west but hope that it will be
possible to do away with atomic weapons and war alto
gether. Senator Brien McMahon (D., Conn.), chairman of the
joint congressional atomic energy committee, calls for a
nationwide discussion of armament and how the arms race
"can be halted in the interests of the peace of the world."
He agreed with the president's decision to build the dread
weapon and said, in fact, that he recommended it a few
days ago. But he said a "political program" also is needed
presumably a plan to bring about adequate international
control of atomic armaments.
Some United Nations diplomats speculated that the
H-bomb announcement might impel the Russians to come
back into talks on control of the atom and weapons of mass
destruction. They walked out January 19 in protest
against the presence of a Chinese Nationalist delegate.
A plan for international control of atomic energy has
been endorsed by 49 of the 59 members of the UN. The
Soviet bloc wouldn't accept it and proposed a counter
plan that has never even approached acceptances.
This government's urgent interest in the possibility of
making a hydrogen bomb is said to have begun immedi
ately after word was received and announced by Mr.
Truman last September that the Russians had succeeded
in setting off an atomic explosion. Informed persons say
that the subject of the new weapon began to be earnestly
investigated about four months ago. The dispute among
the atomic energy scientists is about four months old.
During that four months period the policy of the Tru
man administration has been to obtain all the information
possible on the proposed new bomb. In other words, early
theoretical and experimental work apparently has been go
ing ahead while the undercover argument raged.
The president's statement that work on atomic weapons
including the super bomb will "continue" affords the
first official indication that work is actually already under
way. The statement, however, gave no hint as to the prog
ress made.
"Missouri Reports for Duty"
All loyal Americans will heave a sigh of relief over the
successful liberation from the bottom of Chesapeake bay
of our sole remaining battleship in active service, the 45,
000 ton "Mighty Mo," where she has been stuck fast for
two weeks. She yielded finally to a salvage team of tugs,
high tide, northeast wind and straining winches after the
failure of repeated attempts to yank the warship out of
the muck.
"The Missouri reports for duty" was the message sent
by Adm. Allan E. Smith who supervised effort to free the
ship that relieved the navy of its embarrassment. It was
sent to Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, Atlantic fleet commonder,
who retires today from service as a perfect going away
present. He is succeeded by Adm. W. M. Flechteler.
Blandy replied with words of praise for Smith and the
2000 men who worked on salvage operations.
The Missouri will be sent to Portsmouth dry dock for
inspection. She had strayed from the narrow buoy marked
channel January 17 and went aground. Perfect weather,
for the release prevailed for the first time since her im
prisonment. A high tide was pushed higher by strong
winds, enabling the placing of additonal pontoons under
her stern, bow anchors were removed, fresh wated pumped
out and her bow rode higher, the Mo warped out into safe
water, and tugs pushed her clear.
Far Eastern Policy Reversed
The house foreign affairs committee has approved by a
vole of 17 to 1, a new $60,000,000 Korean aid bill and the
house is expected to redeem itself by speedy passage of the
measure. The house defeated a similar bill by one vote
two weeks ago.
The new bill extends the termination date for economic
aid to Nationalist China to June 30. The termination date
provided in present law is February 15.
Meanwhile, the senate foreign relations committee unan
imously approved a bill to make about $28,000,000 in eco
nomic aid available to Chinese Nationalist Formosa.
The measure was sponsored bv Senators H. Alexander
Smith (R., N.J.), and William F. Knowland (R., Calif.),
two of the chief critics of the U.S. hands-off Formosa
policy.
This bill, like the house measure, extends from Febru
ary 15 to June 30 the period for using $106,000,000 in
ECA funds voted for China last year. Such action was
long overdue unless the United States is to play into the
hands of communist Russia.
'Black Annie' Controlled
Jackson, Miss., Feb. 1 VP) The Mississippi senate has
passed a bill to control the use of dreaded "Black Annie,"
official whip at the slate penitentiary.
Senator Fred Jones, who wrote the bill, said drunken
prison sergeants sometimes stagger into the stockades and
use "Black Annie" at random.
Under the bill, a sergeant cannot use the whip without
first putting a request Into writing and listing his reasons.
The prison superintendent would have to reply In writing.
Each whipping would be recorded in the prisoner's file.
"Black Annie," Jones said, is a "barbario relic, unfit for
civilized people."
But he added:
"I know the legislature will not repeal this law (allowing
IS lashes as prison punishment) and since I can't abolish
the whip, I want to control its use."
The house has to act on the bill now.
Honesty Rewarded
Milwaukee, Feb. 1 (U.R) Lester Lcmmon, Jr.. 16, found a
manila envelope containing $1,500 on a sidewalk.
He took it to police. They turned it over to Mrs. Elfrlcda
Helm, 69, who had reported loss of her life savings while
en route home from a bank.
Mrs. Helm gratefully handed Lcmmon two crisp $100 bills
and told him she would "watch over you for the rest of your
life."
BY H. T. WEBSTER
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Then You've Got Real Beans
By CHRISKOWITZ,Jr.
The hardships we all endure during the current cold seige
have frequented many of us to pity the poor pioneers. We
wonder how they ever got along without oil stoves, running
water, chains for their wagon wheels, etc.
Max Madison of 645 Edina Lane writes in his solution . . .
the pioneers got
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Republican Admiral Strauss
Favored by Truman in Fight
By DREW PEARSON
Washington An interesting development has taken Dlace inside
the atomic energy commission, wherein President Truman is seri
ously considering a republican to be the new chairman, replacing
David Lllienthal.
The republican is Admiral Lewis Strauss, one-time secretary
to Herbert Hoo-
FORMOSA ISSUE FIZZLES
Three extra Republicans,
looking for fresh ammunition to
attack Truman's policy on For
mosa, showed up at the closed
door session of the senate for
eign relations committee. How
ever, they went away empty
handed. The GOP battle cry to
save Formosa petered out like
a hoarse Halloween horn.
As the senators settled in their
chairs for the meeting with Sec-
rotarv nf Tlnfanm Tlm- 1
leeiiiiB ueiwee.. ..n iwu Cmcf o S(af Bradley Wiscon.
nas oeen sirainea, ana me rres- si,s jovial Senator AUx wj,
ident-instead of siding with his tried to relieve the tension b
old democratic friend, Lllienthal pointing to a bad his Ja ,
BY CLARE BARNES, JR. .
White Collar Zoo
ver and a mem
ber of the Wall
Street firm ofd
Kuhn, Loeb. It
was Strauss'
who vigorously
opposed Lilien-1
thai inside the J
commission re
garding the hy
drogen bomb I
Strauss being
for the new
bomb, Lllienthal against it.
(tffwV
iiLWifj
Drew Pearson
Republican with jhe initials T T p
la H.nnmn
w juu nnuw wuai LIlUMf
initials mean?" he asked the Sec-
their strength
and stamina
from properly
cooked Navy
beans.
Max writes:
"The pioneers
drove oxen,
wore buckskin
britches, felled
giant trees,
wrested the
stumps out with-
1111
. Jr.
pointed to a picture of Salem's
polio cover girl, Jan Lynn
Branch, and said, "I want to
give this so she can run and
play like I do."
Cheryl's father, who followed
her into the office, vows that no
one prompted Cheryl's contri
bution. When Cheryl was told
of how polio had stricken Jan
Lynn, who is also 3, and how
money to the March of Dimes
ic nepH in hattlp tho Hrpariprf
out aid of INI. iney subsisted diseasej Cheryl could hardly
largely on beans, and beans at wait to contribute her week's
their best were baked for 24 anowance.
hours . . . cooked with a gener- . .
ous portion of fat back." . . . . .
Modern culinary artists under- . J? L'
cook beans, Max insists. He ' . ,
would have them undergo the
24-hour, fat back treatment. He
asks, "Has the bean lost its po-
Chrll Kowlll,
stick your finger in a pan of
water and see the hole that is
left," reads an epigram on the
I t. - , i : - .i r irkn
tency, or was the pioneer anemic "L "
.', Grill Restaurant. If you try it,
reaiiy. ,.,,.. r;nnA tuaa 4
Well, Max, beans have always , i. . t
has backed up
Strauss regarding the
and now is even considering him
nl nhairmsn
Strauss, however, believes the "L
chairman should be a democrat; Johnson shook his head, so
also says he expects to resign Wiley boomed hilariously: "They
from government. This means stand for tired tax payer, and I
that Truman will have three sure am one."
vacancies to fill Lilienthal's, ' Johnson then read a 10-minute
Strauss's, and Sumner Pike's, al- opening statement, after which
so a republican. the senators began machine-
gunning. Most of the quizzing
One reason for Truman's sud- was done by three Republicans
den coolness toward Lilienthal Alex Smith of New Jersey,
has been the fear that his nega- Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa,
tive ideas on the hydrogen bomb and Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas
would be picked up by Moscow sachusetts. The three extra
and used as a phony peace of- Republicans, not members of the
fensive. That was why Truman committee, were Bill Knowland
was so opposed tfi Lilienthal's land of California, Leverette
idea of going to Moscow to try Saltonstall of Massachusetts, and
to make a bomb deal with the Ed Thye of Minnesota. They
Russians. asked no questions, except for
Truman feels, as the result of Knowland who scribbled queries
many attempted agreements for Hickenlooper to ask.
with Moscow, that any confer- The Secretary of Defense re
ence of this kind would be 'as ferred most of the questions to
profitable as a Missouri hound General Bradley, who peered
dog baying at the moon. It would through his glasses and shuffled
merely be twisted for propagan- through his papers like a school
da purposes. teacher. On military questions
Already, the White House has he gave a factual expository,
noted, the Russians have started complete with dates and details,
a new and phony peace often- but on political and economic
sive. On January 20, at the very subjects, he dodged gently,
same time Moscow had initiated MacArthur's Spokesman
..cvv uiuuiuma in uermany, Brad,v admi,,pri (h.r wnr.
An old salesman figuring up his expense account
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Today's Literary Morass
Of Freudy-Cats, Conflicts
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Been reading any good books lately?
Time was when I used to read 50 to 100 books a year. I
would start at the beginning and read them right through.
Poetry, novels, histories, biographies, collections of short stories
it didn't make any difference.
There was
some thing to
enjoy in all ofL
them. because w
they offered an
escape from the
monotony of the
moment. Or
they explained
something likep
now 10 Duua a
wren's nest.
Today I have
virtually given
T Mi
been a subject near and dear to
our heart, too. Maybe we can
get together one of these days for
a good, old-fashioned bean feed
. . . 24 hours and fat back.
long ... or else be sure to
have an ice pick conveniently
close.
Prof. Eursalimsky put out the
following peace overtures on the
Moscow radio:
mosa had "strategic signifi
cance." but he made it clear the
"Comrad Stalin pointed out Amen blo
The most popular phone num
ber in town lately is that of
One of the most heart-warm- Frank Bennett, superintendent
ing scenes ever seen in connec- of Salem schools. Bennett is so
tion with a fund-raising cam- harrassed by telephone calls
paign took place in the local from kids inquiring about the
March of Dimes headquarters on opening of school that Monday
the fourth floor of the Oregon night, for instance, he got but
building. four hours sleep. The phone
Little Cheryl Quillin of 1192 started ringing at 4 a.m. It had
South 16th street toddled stopped jangling at midnight,
through the door into the office
with probably the most serious Yesterday, the coldest day in
look she has ever worn in all Salem's history, found workers
her 3 years. busy all day in the press room
Cheryl handed her week's al- at the state capitol. They were
lowance to the woman on duty, installing air conditioning.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Food Will Be Vital Weapon in
Asiatic War Against Commies
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
iWl Foreign Affair Analyst)
Signs multiply that the weapon which will contribute most
towards winning the crucial war of the isms in southeast Asia
will be food.
In the language of the oriental that means rice, which to him
is the staff of life. The belligerent who controls the rice fields is
likely to be thcTr
that peaceful cooperation be
tween the capitalist world and
the Soviet Union remains in
force and the possibility of peace
cooperation does not only dim
mish, But can even increase,
"If we lost Formosa," de
manded Hickenlooper, "would
the west coast be in danger?"
Bradley shook his head.
Weighiest questions came
The proposal to conclude a pact from Sen. Smith, the ex-Prince
of peace between the U.S.S.R. ton professor, who recently got a
and the United States, as well as PeP talk from MacArthur on
the proposal of a pact of the Formosa and who read off three
five great powers for the pages of complicated w-itten
strengthening of peace are fresh queries, obviously representing
and convincing evidence of the General MacArthur's ideas,
peace-loving foreign policy of "Have you had the benefit of
the U.S.S.R. General MacArthur's views?"
"In its international policy the Smith asked as a starter.
U.S.S.R. is guided by the prin- Bradley replied that MacArth
ciple of the possibility of the ur's views "had been taken fully
lasting coexistence of two op- into consideration."
posite systems the Socialist "Do you feel at liberty to
and Capitalist systems. The give us his views?" Smith
whole of the foreign policy of pressed.
the U.S.S.R. bears testimony to Bradley agreed, but the Sen
the fact that the U.S.S.R. is un- ator from New Jersey went
swervingly acting as the partisan ahead with his questions. It was
of peaceful relations with all apparent from this discussion
those countries which in their that MacArthur was now in ac
tum desire to cooperate for the cord with the joint chiefs of
made him take harpsichord les
sons as a lad.
Turn from the frictions of
fiction to the self-help books
and what do you find? One
author tells you you simply have
got to relax, and the next one
says, "Oh, don't worry, all nice
people are neurotic."
This leaves the authors who
are trying to prove something.
One writes, "You Can, Too,
Eat Caviar With The Russians,"
up reading books, although I and another bounces back with
still buy them out of habit and a contrary tome called, "Drink
scan them out of curiosity. But Vodka and Die!" If you read
I think it is getting harder and both books, you then will have
harder to find a book you can to go back and read a self-help
read for pure enjoyment. book entitled, "You Don't Have
Authors appear to write books To Be Confused."
now for only three reasons. And the net result is your
They try to provide the reader mind runs the risk of ending up
a sugar - coated "escape from more deformed than informed,
life," to help him to help him- ...
self to face life, or to prove There is a simple compass to
something the author is sure is guide you out of this literary
the ultimate truth on subjects morass of Freudy-cats and con
ranging from old bugle calls to flicting opinions read more old
the chemical composition of the books that have stood the test of
iron curtain. time and change.
The "escape from life" books My personal choices, the ones
have become formulized escapes that stand me in best stead, are
from commonsense. They are three: The Bible, Shakespeare's
usually 800-to-1200 page histor- works (or any collection of great
ical novels the reading of which poetry) and the World Almanac,
is a proof of muscular strength Lately I have found the World
rather than literary appreciation. Almanac more and more con
The heroine has to be a bosomy soling. There is something about
semi-hussy and if any author reading a good sound indisput
ever writes one around an his- able fact that keeps a man's feet
torical lady with three bosoms on the ground, and the 1950
he is going to win the sweep- Almanac is full of facts,
stakes. There is an interesting fact,
Other types of fiction, includ- for example, on page 482 of this
ing the detective story, are so wonderful volume. It says there
hamstrung with psychopathic were 77,344 mental patients in
characters you feel like you are New York state in the year of
taking a course in psychiatry, most recent record, more than
and is is difficult to tell villians three times as many as in Call
from heroes. fornia.
One nice thing about Simon A lot more books are publish
Legree you didn't feel sorry for ed in New York, too. Could that
him because his mother probably prove anything?
staff, though he had been more
urgent in his original recom
mendations. Senator Lodge wanted to
iFffl
4''
conference at Ceylon which de
cided to plan economic aid to
southeast Asia. This article
proclaimed that "no amount of
weapons, no threats, no Ameri
can intervention is capable of
crushing the movement of Asian
peoples for freedom and independence."
DelVUI Markrnne
ultimate victor,!
and for twoj
very good rea-s
sons:
One: No man
can fight on
empty stomach ;i
two: The under-;
privileged mil-:
lions of the On-;
cnt do much ofl
their thinking
with their hun
gry bellies and who wouldn't?
Thus it's no surorice to see
the storm signals in Moscow sources say that parallel action
veer around towards Indochina. Probably will be taken by Amer
That not only is one of the great lca s0n afterward,
rice producing countries but it This development in Indo
ls a strategic key to Burma and China is part of the communists'
other growers of this staple encirclement of Burma, Tibet,
food. Moreover, it lies up against Afghanistan and the Indian pen
China proper, which already has insula to which this column has
been virtually overrun by the bcc" pointing. It is a further
Chinese communist forces. attempt to tighten the vise which
So Indochina looks like one of Russia is trying to clamp on that
the crucial battle-grounds In the vast area thus far with a great
swelling Red offensive for con- acgrec of success.
best of the world."
"OLEO" OSCAR
The day after he was unani
mously confirmed by the senate, know whether there had been
Oscar Chapman, the popular new a conflict between the defense
secretary of the interior, got and the state department over
some good - natured ribbing at Formosa policy. Johnson hastily
the cabinet meeting. assured that there had been no
Asked President Truman quiz- split, that the two departments
zically: "How does it happen you had exchanged views and sub
got through so easily? I under- mitted their recommendations to
stand even republicans made the security council. Then, after
His Name: Vs Smith
Pearson, Ga., Feb. 1 U.n city Councilman Smith has a
birth certificate to prove that his first name really is 58
(pronounced five-eighths).
At the time he was born, Smith said, there were six
Frank Smiths In Dupont, Ga., including his father.
His name (or fraction) was chosen by his father because
it is easy to pronounce and write and because his father
wanted to know one Smith who was easy to Identify.
Mrs. 58 Smith calls her husband "Willy."
speeches praising you
Replied Chapman: "A
simple explanation, Mr. Presi
dent. The senate passed the oleo
examining all sides, the Presi-
very dent had made his decision.
Even the Republicans went
away from the meeting con-
Capital jJournal
That's the Red side of the pic
ture. Diplomatic officials in
London state that Britain will
recognize Bao Dai's government
in a week or so. These same
trol of the whole vast Oriental
theater
Russia yesterday
recognized the Viet-Nam repub.
lie of Dr. Ho Chi-Minh, the Mos
The whole critical Asiatic sit
uation will come under consider
ation by the meeting of U.S.
formally Joint chiefs of staff and field
commanders who are due to ar
rive in Tokyo today. The field
cow-trained communist leader commanders have long been con-
whose guerrilla troops have been cerncd with the rising Red tide
fighting the French since 1046. in Asia.
The Moscow press has been cm- Word from Tokyo is that Gen-
phasizing Indochina and the Tass eral MacArthur and his aides
agency reports fierce fighting in probably will tell the joint chiefs
Indochina near the Chinese bor- of staff that the American mili-
der between Ho's troops and the tary position in the Far East
combined French and Nationalist should be strengthened. Among
forces of former Emperor Bao other things the field officers
Dal. are expected to maintain that air
The emperor Is heading a new power is the key to America's
Vietnamese government in ri- defensive position,
valry to Ho Chi-Minh. One The struggle for the Orient is
Moscow newspaper declared that rapidly getting into full swing.
"Truman's billions will not save The side which controls the
Bao Dai." Another article dealt Asiatic food producing areas
with the British commonwealth will hold a tremendous asset.
bill just before it took up my vinced that armed intervention
nomination. Oleo greased the was not the solution on Formosa.
way." (oopjrijht isso)
Experts Were Not So Expert
Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 1 (U.B Seven engineers, all ex-
perls on elevators, were on their way to lecture on elevators
last night. They didn't make it. They were trapped for
hours in a stalled elevator.
Mechanics had to liberate the engineers, who had over
looked a sign warning that the elevator was built for a maxi
mum of six persons.
Charlie Carries Good-Luck
Dime in Mouth 38 Years
Georgiana, Ala., Feb. 1 UR' Charlie Boggan, a section hand
on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, has carried a dime in
his mouth for 38 years.
Boggan carries the dime as a good luck piece in his right jaw,
day and night, when he is sleeping or eating, working or just
loafing around.
Boggan said his grandfather, in for the railroad for more
Sip Faggan, a successful Negro than 18 years now and claims he
farmer, carried a dime around never has been sick
in his mouth 20 years before his Old-timers say his grandfa
death and passed the odd cus- her Sip seemed to prosper as a
iTi farmer while others were hav-
tom on to him. ing a hard time of it.
It was in 1917, Boggan said, Tne dlme ls blackened with
that his grandfathei gave him age n0Wi an(j tne data no longer
the dime and told him to carry js legible, but Boggan will pro
it in his mouth for good luck. duce n on request.
Boggan is 45 years old now and He said for the first month or
seems to have had good luck, two it worried him so that he
During the depression he was could hardly sleep, but now the
appointed porter in the Geor- only time he thinks about it is
giana post office over other ap- when someone asks to look at
plicants. Boggan has been work- the good luck charm. ,
Trad! Mark
S3
a
In 1912 Texas-born s
Ueora Lorunan an-
swerea an tia ior
eowhands tor a
ranching Tentur in
Paraguay placed by
Tex Rickard. late
gnat light promoter.
Rickard pulled out,
but Lehman borrow
ed $1,000 Irom Blm
and stayed. Loh
man's cattle empire
today consists of 80,.
000 head ol stack on
f-a 960.000 acres, largest
private aomain in
' i' Paraauay.
k Clautfied boi been
Ni tailed the iherte.1 fZ
"V distance between
these with want and
these ready te nil
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