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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 2, 1950
"Worlds in Collision"
In the January Harpers magazine appears an article
that has attractednationwide comment entitled, "The Day
the Sun Stood Still," by Eric Larrabee, one of Harper's
editors. It sets forth a preview of the remarkable theory
of Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, which will be set forth at
length in his forthcoming book called "Worlds in Collision,"
to be published by Macmillan.
The article explains the Old Testament account of Joshua
and the battle of the Jewish tribes at Beth-Horan :
"And he said in the sight of Israel, Sun stand thou still upon
Gideon; and thou moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun
stood still and the Moon stayed until the people had avenged
themselves upon their enemies. So the sun stood still in the
midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole
day."
The article states that there are traditions all over the
world among the aborigines of America as well as in folk
lore of Asia and Europe of a great catastrophe, in which
the sun did once stand still, which refers to a disturbance
in earth's orderly rotation. The author continues :
"It is conceivable that a large celestial body approaching the
earth could exert an attraction sufficiently powerful to slow
down its turning and make the sun appear to stop in the sky. The
heads of comets are assumed to be composed of clusters of
meteorites. If a comet were to come close to the earth, it would
be accompanied by meteors, falling in a torrent. The Old Testa
ment, two verses above the description in the Book of Joshua
of the sun standing still, contains the following passage: "As
they fled from before Israel ... the Lord cast down great stones
upon them in Azekah, and they died. . . ."
Velikovsky will present a great mass of evidence, the
result of many years' research, to show that about 1500
B.C., a comet, a new member of the solar system, did pass
close to the earth, at the time of the exodus of Israelites
from Egypt. Some 52 years later the same comet return
ed. At both of these meetings with the comet, "according
to the memory of mankind, the earth refused to play the
chronometer by undisturbed rotation on its axis,!' and that
many times the earth has undergone vast and disastrous
cataclysms in which its rotation was interrupted. Larra
bee says:
"Dr. Velikovsky brings strong evidence to bear that the comet
which so terrorized the earth was in fact the planet Venus
newly born, by eruption from a larger planet. While it was
still a comet, Venus wandered erratically, which is why its
course was so closely watched, why the Venus Tablets of Nine
veh do not seem to make sense, and why the appearance
of a comet has always aroused premonitions of disaster every
where in the world."
The years of terror lasted until the seventh century, B.C.
Venus as result of encounter with another body, Mars, lost
its tail and took up its present orbit and changed from a
wild comet to a tame planet rotating on the serene orbit
it now occupies. Larrabee continues:
"There is a hidden purpose in Dr. Velikovsky's book, a warn
ing to the world that threatens to explode with hatred among
the nations: the cosmic catastrophes may repeat themselves.
This world will be destroyed,' reads a passage from the Visud-dhi-Magga
whirb serves as motto for his final chapter, 'also the
mighty ocean will dry up: and this broad earth will be burned
up. Therefore, sirs, cultivate friendliness; cultivate compas
sion.' "Bringing to this perspective all the apparatus of learning
from astronomy and physics to folklore, religion, classical liter
ature, archaeology, geology, paleontology, biology and psychol
ogy Dr. Velikovsky has undertaken the awesome task of mak
ing an 'inquiry In the architectonics of the world and its his
tory' and of applying the techniques of scholarship and psycho
analysis to the entire human race."
Certainly humanity, with the aid of science, not content
with nature's return to comparative cosmic peace, is doing
its best to bring back the "years of terror" on earth with
Its atomic and hydrogen bombs and synthetically recreate
on earth the hell of turmoil and destruction of cosmic
power.
Changing Presidential Elections
The senate, by a vote of 64 to 27, has approved a pro
posed constitutional amendment for abolishing the 162-year-old
electoral college system of electing the president.
To become effective it still must be approved by two-thirds
vote of the house and must be ratified by the legislatures of
three-fourths of the states.
The amendment introduced by Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr. (R., Mass.), while retaining the present system
giving each state one electoral vote for each senator and
representative, would divide each state's electoral vote
among candidates in proportion to the popular vote. A
state's entire electoral vote now goes to the leading candi
date in that state.
Before the final vote, the senate adopted by voice vote
changes in the amendment proposed by Senate Democratic
Leader Scott W. Lucas, which would require at least 40
percent of the electoral vote. If none did, the house and
senate would pick the president from the two highest can
didates with each member getting one vote. Numerous
other amendments were rejected, including the election
of president by popular vote and nomination of candidates
by nation-wide primaries.
The new proposal is an improvement over the existing
electoral college winner takes all system under the unit
rule and a bare plurality of popular votes swings a state's
entire electoral tally to the high vote candidate.
In the debate preceding the senate's final decision, Lodge
claimed his proposal would revive the two-party system
and open up the entire nation to intensive political cam
paigning. Under present circumstances, he pointed out
that the candidates are inclined to concentrate their efforts
in pivotal states, making only token tries in areas consid
ered safe for their opponents.
Newlyweds Sue Best Man
Minneapolis, Feb. 2 U.R Bride and bridegroom sued
their best man and his mother for injuries received In an
automobile collision on the wedding night.
The suit was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Nelson
against David Hastay, the best man, and his mother, Mrs.
Leona Hastay. Hastay was driver of the car In which the
newlyweds were riding when It collided with another.
The Nelsons also sued Robert L. Schroeder and his aunt,
Mrs. Ida Caplstrant, driver and owner of the other car.
Donald, 21, asked $10,000 for shoulder Injuries. Bar
bara, 20, asked for $5000 for rib and head Injuries.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Frankfurter Brought Many Men
To Capitol, Most Good; Few Not
By DREW PEARSON
.Washington Ever since the Acheson statement supported Alger
Hiss, congressional corridors have been teeming wi'h comment
regarding the so-called Frankfurter "red-hots" and the supreme
court justice who has put Hiss and Acheson plus so many other
men in key spots in Washington.
This column-
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
ist has no rea
son to love Fe
lix Frankfurter.
Not only have
his supreme
court opinions
been a disap
pointment, but
twice in private
supreme court
discu s s I o n s ,
Frankfurter has
berated this
writer, and on one occasion de
manded that he be jailed for
criticising certain supreme court
moves.
Drew Pearson
can. And though some people,
including Frankfurter, soured on
Corcoran, his final impact on
history, in this writer's opinion,
will be on the plus side.
Thomas D. Thacher, able and
conservative, who served as
Hoover's solicitor general, was
also a good friend of Frankfur
ter's and owed his appointment
partly to the controversial gen
tleman from Harvard.
Stimson Was Frankfurter Man
Frankfurter was also 100 per
cent responsible for the appoint
ment of one of our finest elder
statesmen, Henry L. Stimson, as
When Chief Justice Vinson FDR's secretary of war. The
KRISS-KROSS
This Lunch Counter Won't
Sell You Doughnuts to Dunk
ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr.
There's at least one lunch counter in Salem that doesn't allow
its customers to dunk doughnuts. The place is located at 445
Court street. Go ahead, try it. Ask them for coffee and dough
nuts. We guarantee you'll get a reply ... A certain robin out
at Roger Bailey's place, 2065 Breyman street, is keeping care
of himself these t 1 4
about preserving the clock, any
how? . . . The up-again, down
again Wheatland ferry goes back
into use today after a long
period of idleness.
and a majority of the court rul
ed against any criminal action,
Frankfurter even went over
their heads, through a friend,
to the justice department and
demanded prosecution.
However, in the spirit of
two had served in the U.S. at
torney's office in New York
when they were young. Further
more, Felix also had a finger in
the pie regarding the appoint
ment of Republican Frank Knox
to be secretary ol t n e navy,
fairness which Justice Frank- though the two were not close!
xuilci lias uul always anuwn to
others I should like to review
the whole list of so-called "red
hots" whom the supreme court
justice has brought to Washington.
Frankfurter and Republicans
Robert Patterson, Stimson's
undersecretary of war, and la
ter secretary of war, was also a
100 percent Frankfurter ap
pointee. Here is a partial list of the
Jut
Most people don't remember otheJ so-called hot-dogs, some
cold days and
nights. Bailey
reports that the
bird has estab
lished home in
a big firethorn
plant loaded
with berries,
and fights off
all other birds
that threaten
to trespass
thereon . . . Don '
Upjohn, for whom we are pinch-
that Frankfurter's influence be
gan long before the Roosevelt
and Truman administrations. As
a Harvard law school professor,
he enjoyed a unique relation
ship with two of the greatest su
preme court justices Oliver
Wendell Holmes and Lewis D.
good, some bad, some indiffer
ent, but on the whole an amaz
ing and constructive contribu
tion for one man to have placed
in government office.
Chrli Kowlts,
Ctmon practice about the
streets these days is rapid move
ment of arms, legs, etc., in order
to keep warm. Oh, how we
envy those people who can wig
gle their ears . . . Jary Florists
are selling lovely bunches of
hitting, is still in Salem Memori- blue J'leis fr nly., a quart,er'
al hospital recovering from a Prvid the buyer drops a do
couple of operations. He's ex- ?a 'on ln the March of Dimes
pected to go home early next bttle . There 1000 of
week. Doing fine . . . Sign in !hos? niature iron lungs in
basement of First Christian Ma"n Als0 serv,lng
church rearis "St Kntpanpp." s marcn Ol iJimes money coiiec-
Do they mean "street" or
"saint?" . . . Kids west of the
Francis Bfddle Former attorney gen
eral, former circuit court Judge, solicitor
general, and presiding Judge of the nazl
war crimes tribunal. Blddlo was former
Brandeis in that each year he ommended to his first government post
selected the brightest Harvard he"' " Mm Frank,ur-
law graduates to be their law David Llllenthal Former head of the
clerk Thim a cjtpariv ctrpam nf Tennessee valley authority, now chalr-
cterKS. inus a steady stream o , , tne alomlc 8y
Frankfurter proteges Came to Wiley Rutledge Now deceased and ft
Waihineton Hurinc thA Vnnvpr reat Justice of the supreme court, was
Yvasningion auring tne ioover, nev , rruuan protege, but Franic-
Coolldge and Harding admmis- furter helped pick him for the court,
tratinns manv of thpm rpmain. Arter th appointment, however, they con-
UdUUIlS, many OI tnem remain- ,i,t.M, disagreed on court nnlnlnn.
Sole authorized photo of ninth vice president .
for publicity release to metropolitan dailies
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Now They're Listing Parlors in
The New York Social Register
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Chalk 1950 down as a complete failure for me.
We've gone and missed it again.
Missed what? Why, missed having our parlor picked as one
of the ten best-dressed living rooms in Manhattan.
The selection was made by some housekeeping firm that says
it manicures.
ing on.
Tn nrfrlitinn in thic HVanWui. "cretary ol war. head of the world
in aaaition to mis, JjranKtur- ,nd hB commissioner to Germany.
John J. McClov A verv able assistant
secretary of war, head of the world bank
ter was consulted by many re
publicans on government per
sonnel. During the Hoover ad- tne clv11 aeronautics board.
James M. Landls Former head of the
securities and exchange commission, di
rector of civilian defense, and head of
tors are
meters . .
1500 Salem parking
Any dime placed in
ministration for instance he was
solely responsible for the ap
pointment of Joseph P. Cotton
Wilamette have been behaving tnet metff Joins the March . .
since they became citizens of B.ut dn Pect o get 12 min-
Salem as a result of last No
vember's merger. Salem juve
nile officer Allan McRae has had
but one complaint regarding ac-
utes of parking for your 10-cent
piece dimes don't register
time . . . Police say that some
of the thinner dimes placed in
4nno UlriB tn cninm ,.., meters hi e uruupniK into tne nie-
side ... Of course there's no chani! d clogging up the
way to determine just how much
of the vandalism on the east
side of the river is being done
by W. Salem juveniles ... A
works.
Roy Remington, purchasing
agent for the state board of con-
man from Boston was among trol has bought enormous quan-
those donating a pint of blood tities of anti-freeze for state
at the Red Cross bank the other vehicles recently. A few days
day. But his blood was just as ago, Remington showed up at
red as the rest not a tint of the State House late. His car
blue in it . . . The courthouse had frozen up ... So they fi-
clock, frozen into inoperation nally pried the U.S.S. Missouri
the last few days, is now thawed loose from her riverbed mooring,
out and back in operation . . . The Missouri was about as hard
If the whole courthouse can't to move as a mule from that
be saved as a museum, how state.
Ben Cohen One of the Roosevelt brain
trusters, later counselor of the state de
partment, now a delegate to the United
Nations.
Llovd Garrison Dean nf thn flnlwraltv
as undersecretary OI State, Who, OI Wisconsin law scnoot ana cnairman ol
though a Wall Street lawyer, J.m?,r Bwe-Sie1' no. a man in th.
turned Out to be one Of the fin- Justice department for many years and
, . . . . , . ..... now one of Herbert Hoover's aides ln gov-
est Of State department Officials ernment reorganisation.
in two decades. Frankfurter was .D1"1? " A" assistant to fdr and
, .. . ... the only Roosevelt man remaining in the
also responsible for picking Truman entourage.
James Grafton Rogers, then . ot"er Frankfurter men include Francis
, . A. , , , ' . , Shea, formerly of the Justice department;
dean Of the Colorado law school, Joe Rauh. formerly of the housing au-
as assistant secretary of state in """"n Donald hiss, brother of Aiger,
, . . .. X, now member of the Acheson law lirm:
the Hoover administration. Ro- Adrian Fisher of the state department:
gers was a reDUblican and an tne Iate Judge Nathan Margold, former
r . . . repuDllLHn ana an ,o,lcllr , the it,r department: Mil-
A-t cnoice. ton Kats, an EC ambassador under Har
iri O S t of the
mansions "list
ed in the social
register" al
though I
thought the so
cial register cat
alogued people
rather than
homes
The firm said
it chose the top
ten living rooms
from some 500
to hold the news
me. Why didn't I
Da Boyla
nominees. And
"Don't try
back from
win?"
"What's the matter, do I need
my rug lifted?" it will plead.
Or
"Tell me the truth, is my ra
diator showing?"
This will go on for days and
days, with my living room de
veloping more and more of an
inferiority complex.
"Oh, you don't have to tell
me I know I'm hopelessly out-
it estimated the value of the of-date," it will sigh "Just ma-
furnishmgs in the lucky win- hogany and old lace that's me.
ners at about $500 000 or i've had my day. You should
$50,000 a room. have .gotten yourself a younger
There must be some error living room."
here. Could any living room ac- Then my living room will be
lt was during the Hoover ad- 20l,nkHfihfnfEinH!L'.hMld'.0.nif. w.'D" tually cost $5.000? what would gin to brood and blame me.
ministration also that the fam- furter proteges, who recently got caught
ed Tom iwnnran In tor hrain Aenmcty on nor, Doxes. tow 18
eu xom Corcoran, later Drain what Bome foiks'in Kentucky have done
truster to FDR, got Started in 'or years, though not many proteges of
government Corcoran had been uo,cmerCs',,,;rwffICce.rt., columnist. .
sent to Washington by Frank- dlcule the so-called Frankfurter "red-
furter ae. .Timtipp Wnlmpa' law hots" they pick only one or two of the
lurier as justice rioimes law weat ,p. It onIy lr hwer ,
Clerk, and then joined the RFC gauging the controversial Justice of the
Under ElirPno lWovoi- a rr.Kli- UP"""" tours to review nis enure IK
(Copyright 1990)
Finds House Too Late
St. Cloud, Minn., Feb. 2 (U.R) For more than a year, store
manager Deryck Cawthorn tramped the streets' looking
for a house for his family.
He found one yesterday a couple of hours before he was
ordered transferred to Marshall, Minn.
Girls Behind Candy Counters
First to Learn Who's Romancing
By PATRICIA CLARY
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Hollywood, Feb. 2 (U.R) A bunch of giggling gals behind the
town's fancy candy counters know all about who's romancing
who before the gossips do. But they guard their secrets like the
hydrogen bomb.
The folks who sell candy say they were the first to know
Clark
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Bomb Development Only Way
To Insure Country s Security
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(W) Foreign Affairs Analyst)
President Truman's order to the atomic energy commission
to continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including
the "so-called hydrogen or super-bomb," was of course anticipated
as a measure of defense "against any possible aggressor."
However, many folk will be shocked at being brought face to
face with thci
Gable,
was getting seri
ous about Lady
Sylvia Stanley,
and they have
some pretty hot
tips on other
celebrated c oo
ings, too.
"Columnl s t s
keep proposi-t
tioning us for a
pipeline into'
our place for
Patricia Clary
umns had them a twosome,"
Manager Jack Scligman said.
"She's a girl who likes sodas,
v even has a fountain at home to
make her own."
Batitzer usually buys her a
chocolate assortment before they
leave, he added.
The Marilyn Maxwell-Andy
Mclntyre merger wasn't any
news to Seligman either. Mcln
tyre dropped by months ago to
gossip," Fred Levy, president of ask what Marilyn s favorite can-
the swank Blum's Candy shop, dy was. They told him choco-
said. "But our ethics are as high late-covered nuts,
as a doctor's. We don't tell a 4 ..she got .em by the ton from
thing until after It's in the then on," he said,
papers." Roddy McDowell drops in for
Now that everybody knows an occasional soda with Ann
that Gable eloped with the love- Blyth.
ly Lady Sylvia, he can divulge "We sold him the box of candy
that Gable was in every week he took to his first date with
before the marriage ordering a her," he said. "Doesn't look as
$35 box of candy. , if there's anything serious there
"They surprised everybody," yet, but we're keeping a close
he said, "but us." eye on it."
Howard Duff is the most un-
Thc Peter Lawford-Sharman predictable customer.
Douglas whirl seems pretty "He's buying for one gal ono
promising, by the candy barom- day," Scligman said, "another
eter. After bcauing her around the next."
Hollywood, Lawford bought One of the hottest current
Sharman a bon voyage hamper items Is young Nick Hilton's
when she left for the family courtship of Elizabeth Taylor,
ranch in Arizona. and salesgirl Betty Field says
The candy shop got the first she can trace his progress by
flash when Attorney Greg Baut- the kind of candy he buys,
zcr switched from Joan Craw- "He started with the adven-
ford to Ginger Rogers. ture box," she said, "and now
"They were sipping sodas at he's switched to bouquet. A
our fountain long before the col- bigger assortment."
necessity oft
going ahead and!
developing thist
new horror-;
weapon of un
told destructive!
power. Thej
question natu-j
rally had arisen?
in most minds:
whether t h e r c
wasn't some1
way in which
this might be avoided.
DeWIU Mackensie
The answer to that, I believe,
had to be "no" if the security
of our country was to be in
sured. There is no indication, as I
"Look, big boy." it. will sniff.
wno were tne winners.' weii, "it you'd spend a little money
960 Fifth avenue (Mrs. John on me maybe all the other par
Reed Topping) placed first. The lors in town wouldn't be laugh
second place living room de- ing at me.
clined to give its address, but "I'm just as good as any other
admitted it was owned by Eliza- living room at heart."
beth Arden, a lady who has no- And it will go on:
tions about lotions. "I found out that those prize
Then, third, came 550 Park winning living rooms had $50,
avenue, lived in by Mrs. Danny 000 worth of frou-frou in them.
Kaye; fourth, 20 East 60th You know what you spent on
street, Inhabited by Mrs. Deems me altogether $684.33? No
Taylor, and fifth, 630 Park ave- wonder I look like 1 don't have
nue, where Mrs. Maty Roberts anything to wear."
Rinehart dwells. All the other Believe it or not. I'll then
prize-winning living rooms from have to start borrowing from
the tony upper East Side ex- the bank to pep my old living
cept 25 Central Patk West, a loom up.
dark horse entry from the other "Enough of this mongrel Vic
side of town, in which Ethel torian scrap," it will say. "I'm
Merman sings after supper. It going futuristic even if you have
placed eighth. to henna my sofa."
' And by the time we win a
wnat worries me ts what hap- prize, well, I'll be living over
decided not to produce such pens when I go home to 541 the hill in the poorhouse. And
bombs, this would not bind other East 20th street. Apartment 8-F. t h e neighborhood hockshop
countries. The only way out is That is where my living room owner will be sitting in my liv-
to control the source of bomb- hangs out. How can I face it? ing room awaiting to accept its
making materials. But Russia The first thing it will say is, medal.
nas always saia no to tnis. mere
should be one more attempt to
get her to see reason. . , .
"But the Russian people
should be told, by radio and
every other possible means of
communication developed in the
last war. If scientists can de
stroy the world, they should be
able to talk to the world.
"Let them talk to the Russian
people. That might do the
trick."
Well, that's an idea worth
CapitaljJournal
near future. It could happen,
but it isn't likely.
However, this cold war in
which we are engaged this con
flict of the isms is a fight to
a finish. There is small pos
sibility of any compromise.
This means we must be pre
pared for contingencies. We
can't run the chance that the
other fellow may have the su- order after the
Der-bomb before we ket it de- atomic committee
see it, that there is serious dan- turning over in our minds. Every
Da, nf Bnnlha. wn.H ..row tn h . . . . .
e,.. . ,..... , lMC reasonable effort certainly
should be made to avert the
tradegy of an atomic war.
The way things stand there
are a lot of citizens who feel like
migrating with their families in
to the far northern wilds of Hud
son Bay, where they could build
log-cabins and live in peace.
President Truman issued his
senate-house
gave strong
veloped, for that would lay us indication that it was about to
open to a possible lightning at- recommend development of the
tack which might knock us out super-bomb. His decision was
overnight. And we may be sure applauded by congress members
that the other fellow is think- generally.
ing of his own security in simi- It is worthy of note that the
lar terms. President's action followed
closely the publication of Sec
It is, of course, a damnable retary of Defense Johnson's first
shame that such atomic weapons annual report in which he called
of war should have to be built for America to be on the alert
in this day and age. Thinking and stay powerful until intema
along this line, the London Daily tional cooperation "is accepted
Mail, one of Britain's most wide- by the adversaries who are now
ly read newspapers, editoriali- doing their utmost to destroy it."
zes: The defense secretary express
"The question is: Can we do ed the encouraging belief that
anything about this new menace "the threat of war has dimin
before It splits the world? ished as our strength has in
"Even if the United States creased."
Birdie Tucker got
unexpected results
when she ordered a
Classified ad in the
Stockton (Calif.) Rec
ord to publicize her
Doll Hospital. A
Chum sh hadn't
seen in 35 years read
the ad ana called to
if she was the
mechanically gifted,
doll loving Birdie
Henderson he had
known in school. She
was I
Human interest gives
Want Ads big readership.
C Howard Parlib
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