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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 7, 1950
Thanks to the Emergency Board
Salem need wonder no longer about the intention of the
state government to go along on the extension of the
capitol zone north of Center street. The state emergency
board's move to permit buying of the Coates' property in
the heart of the proposed capitol area puts the Oregon
stamp of approval on the zone outlined for future state
buildings. .
The city council had moved cautiously to freeze the four
blocks north of the present capitol grouping. The council
had put a one-year option on those blocks. If the legisla
ture next year didn't act to buy the section outlined, then
regular zoning restrictions would be put back on the blocks.
The council's action obviously had been skeptical of Ore
gon's going ahead with funds to back up the proposal to
build the finest group of state buildings in the nation.
So when the emergency board unhesitatingly moved
Monday to buy the Coates' property and thus forestall
building of a seven-story apartment house in the desig
nated area, the council could feel better about the state's
intentions.
The five emergency board members present voted unani
mously for the nrooosed purchase. The five were from
these cities: Coos Bay, Medford, Canby, Independence and
Salem. The two members absent had previously heartily
endorsed the idea of extending the capitol zone north.
Those absent members were from Portland and Klamath
Falls.
In other words, support for the zone extension and prop
erty buying was from many sections of Oregon. And it
was unanimous. The only point in question was to deter
mine the best way in which to buy the property in the path
of future state buildings. Should the state buy all the
four blocks at once or buy the property as the individual
owners wanted to sell to the state and as needed ?
The emergency board has earned the thanks of the state
and the city of Salem for its action in endorsing the idea
of pushing the capitol zone north. And as commendable
as the action, is the non-political nature of support for the
extension idea.
Hollywood Immorality
Decadent Hollywood immorality is being pretty well ex
ploited by the marital escapades of its two "most beauti
ful" stars, Rita Hayworth and Ingrid Bergman.
The twice married Rita chased around; Europe for a
long time with the also married Ali Kahri, son and heir
of the fabulously wealthy Aga Kahn, Jfcslem spiritual
ruler. But they went through the formality of more or
less phoney divorces before the wedding, but a seven-months-old
baby was born to Rita.
Ingrid did not bother to even secure a divorce before her
"romance" with the also married Roberto Rossellini, Ital
ian film magnate, before giving birth to a son to which
Eossellina proudly admits paternity. And it may be only
a coincidence, but the same week Ingrid's infant was born,
double pages of amourous ads appeared in American peri
odicals of Ingrid's new film, "Stromboli," a bald capitaliza
tion of adultery for profit.
Numerous ministers throughout the country are preach
ing sermons strongly criticizing the actions of both act
resses as in defiance of all Christian ideals of marriage
and the sanctity of the home and a cynical flaunting of
moral standards, advocating a public boycott of their films.
Theater owners of Indiana have agreed not to show the
well advertized films, but probably the more they are de
nounced the bigger the patronage. It's the usual result.
Hollywood is of course impervious to such criticism and
stands by its own code. It is said that Ingrid and Roberto
have received over 5000 congratulatory telegrams from
screen stars and authors, most of them from the film capi
tal, including Marian Davies and Ernest Hemingway,
which is not at all surprising.
It is a far cry from what the late George Ade in his
fables of slang called the "short and simple scandals of
the poor," to the glamorized, ballyhooed, commercialized
scandals of sex-crazed filmdom with its conjugal infidelity.
Truman Discovers an Emergency
President Truman, after many months, with the short
age of coal in wintertime increasing, railroad transporta
tion curtailed and industrial plants forced to close because
of the strike of the United Mine Workers and the obsti
nacy of their boss, John L. Lewis, has discovered at last
that a national emergency exists threatening public wel
fare and utilized the Taft-Hartley labor-relations law to
invoke the powers given him to end the strike. He could,
have done this last fall, but refused to because of his dis
like of the law.
Ironically enough it was the rejection by Lewis of the
president's fact finding and truce, accepted by the opera
tors, which forced the president to concede that an emerg
ency to public welfare exists, thereby forcing presidential
action. So the power-mad labor czar himself is to blame
for the inevitable appeal to the courts to re-establish au
thority of government in emergency.
The fact finding board named by the president could
have been named months ago, and the appeal to the courts
have long ago restored peace. No such action can now
be taken until the board makes its report, on or before
February 13. Then the attorney general can seek an
injunction ;n federal court requiring the resumption of
work for a "cooling off" period of 80 days. If at that time
the strike was renewed, the only recourse would be con
gressional action. Lewis defied in 1948, a restraining or
der and was fined $20,000 and the union $1,400,000, and
the fines upheld by the supreme court.
Something to Squawk About
Detroit, Feb. 7 U.nBob, a 52-year-old parrot, had more
than usual to squawk about today.
His master, George M. Blair, willed the bird his $40,000
estate.
"He deserves every penny I'm giving him," Blair said.
"Bob's the only friend I have."
Blair retired in 1927 after serving on the Pittsburgh police
force for 20 years. He now works part-time for Chrysler
corporation. His wife died In 1945. They had no children.
Blair said his grandmother brought Bob from Soulh Africa
when the bird was only two years old.
"He's my whole family," Blair said.
BY BECK
That Guilty Feeling
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HERE'S A Arf.JJ
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TWf TIME YOUR MOTHER LEFT WWSAf .
ALONE IN A LADIES' LINGERIE Jsti''Z?l02
SHOP WHILE SHE WAS TRYING ON SJC MP ('
SOMETHING IN A DRESSING-ROOM. Ic
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Drew Pearson
KRISS-KROSS
Comedy and Drama Observed
At Ferry Street Pet Shop
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
One of the most popular forms of noon-time entertainment for
downtown business people is the show put on by Jo Jo the
monkey and a weird assortment of other animals at Henry
Sinaka's pet shop at 475 Ferry street.
The frisky antics of Jo Jo, the clumsy wrestling of chubby
and . , ,
about their pen . . . she observ
ed the canaries leaping from
swine to .swing inside their
flPl cages . . . finally she glanced
puppies,
the perennial
treadmilling of
chipmunks pre
sent quite a
show . . . and
the adults who
stand outside
with their noses
pressed against
the window are
just as enter
taing as Jo Jo,
et all.
Chris Kowltz, Jr.
Animal emporiums have their
more serious moments, too. Sin-
at a smtll aquarium containing
a group of little turtles.
The girl looked at the turtles
a moment, studied their slow,
deliberate walk . . . then her
glance fell to her own limp leg.
With a deep look in her eyes,
she said: "Daddy, I want two
turtles."
She got her choice. Price of
turtles, just 30 cents; price of
but that was
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Hoover Says Subversives
Worse Now Than During War
By DREW PEARSON
Washington After J. Edgar Hoover's lengthy session with the
senate appropriations committee last week regarding A-bomb
leads, newspapers reported that senators left the meeting ashen
faced over the disclosures.
Here is what Hoover said to cause those ashen faces:
Hoover d r a - "
which Dr. Klaus Fuchs, arrest
ed as a Russian spy in London,
worked in the U.S. during the
war.
Los Alamos, where he was
stationed, was unlike all the
other atomic installations and
not compartmentalized. In other
words, scientists did not work
in secret compartments but
were familiar with each other's
work.
There were some 600 scien
tists at Los Alamos, of which
the foreign "colony" numbered
about 60 20 British, 2 Swiss,
10 German refugees, and some
Italians.
Sir James Chadwick headed
the British delegation. Fuchs
was not considered on the first
team, but rather on the second.
Since there was no compart
mentalization, his exact scienti
fic standing made no difference
as far as collecting data was
concerned.
Fuchs' friends recall that he
first worked on atomic matters
in Canada, at the Chalk River
plant in northern Ontario. This
is Canada's chief atomic lab.
Next he went to New York,
where he was assigned to
working out the plans for the
Oak Ridge diffusion plant; then
on to Los Alamos.
The scientists at Los Alamos
were confined to a 200-mile ra
dius from the Los Alamos lab,
due to the fact that an army of
ficer made . a security slip in a
Denver bar in the early days
and trips to Denver were ruled
out. Scientists were also forbid-
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BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
mati c a 1 1 y re- """"jajg"
ported that sub
versive activi
ties in the Unit
ed States are at
an all-time high
w o r s e than
during the war.
He also re-
vealed that
communists are
doing away with
party cards in
order to prevent detection and
conviction. Instead, they identi
fy each other by word of mouth.
Hoover told the senators that
communists were making a spe
cial attempt to infiltrate into
strategic industries such as tele
graph, telephone and the manu
facture of electrical equipment.
Asked point-blank by the sena
tors whether there still was a
spy ring inside the government,
Hoover answered "no."
The head G-man complained
that Elizabeth Bentley's sensa
tional disclosures two years ago
had been premature and that as
a result the FBI lost many sour
ces that had been carefully
planted for ten years inside the
communist party.
Listening to Hoover as he tes
tified was Sen. Homer Ferguson
of Michigan who was partly re
sponsible for the Bentley dis
closures. Fergus o n , together
with Congressman- J. Parnell
Thomas, then chairman of the
un-American activities commit
tee, heard about Miss Bentley in
connection with the communist
treason trial being prepared in
order to cop the news headlines,
they called Miss Bentley before
their committees and smeared
emergency.
According to' British intelli
gence, Klaus Fochs came to Bri-
' 1 mnnlrmr ffCK
1 ,1,. 4U iiiunivcjr, .
tut. ..u """r "j once when the price tag had
scene of a drama that would notning to do with true value,
have put a lump in the throat s
of anyone.
A 7-year-old girl, grasping her A government rmvl inspector
father's hand with one hand and who spends all his time travel
a crutch with the other, hobbled ing reports that roads in Marion
into the shop. The girl, as would county are superior to those in
any other 7-year-old, enjoyed surrounding counties ... Ed
the merry antimated mixup. ward K. Piaseki of Cascade drive
The girl doesn't know that owns a valuable Weimaraner
some of those animate may out- dog. Only two other Weimar
live her . . . she doesn't know aners in the state, one in Eu
that an incurable disease has gene and one in Portland . . .
its deathly grip on her ... she Biggest March of Dimes contri
only knows that she can't move bution to date from a Marion
about without the aid of crutch- county professional man is a
es or a wheel chair. $50 check from Lewis P. Camp-
While the girl was staring gog- bell, Jr., Salem dentist . . .
gle-cyed at the wide variety of General consensus of opinion
pets, Sinaka offered her a choice among local telephone employ
of anything in the place. The ees is against striking . . . First
girl's decision was a careful one. sign of spring: City detective
She glanced at the monkey George Edwards has purchased
as it hopped up and down ... 20 packets of seed for salvia
she eyed the puppies, running plants.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Why Did Defense Secretary
Talk so Tough to Russia?
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(iP) Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Rarely does a government official resort to such sensationally
tough talk to a foreign power as was directed to Russia and
Marshal Stalin the other night by Secretary of Defense Johnson
during a speech in Washington.
"In all we are doing," declared the secretary, "we are seeking
peace. There is
her testimony all over the front tain from Germany in 1932 as
nases an anti-nazi refugee on orders
XI . i i t from Moscow. Fuchs' instruc-
tTZlZl S32f f ; tions were work his way int
? British scientific circles. As a
f."hI24u"Te.7?pl?s-?l11" result, he became a British citi-
by telling how during the first
trial of Alger Hiss, the FBI was
unable to locate Hiss' maid. All
Mrs. Chambers could remember
about the maid was her name,
"Mary." However, after the first
,k T w - j t to produce before they got the
rough sketch she had made of A.hmh Tk. nriM-v, if,
"Gentlemen, this it my ossiitont, who will be working
with me on your account,"
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
What Better Hobby Than
Collecting Human Faces?
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Besides collecting years and nonsense, as we
all must do, I collect another thing just for fun and that is
faces.
Probably everyone does unconsciously, but I do it deliberately.
It is the cheapest hobby I know of, and differs from every other
lect them, you look for differ
ent patterns just as you follow '
a thread of theme in symphonic
music.
zen, knew every secret of the
A-bomb including the exact size
of the critical mass that makes
an explosive, and even the sec
ret of the detonator.
Fuchs also knew about the H
bomb, which our scientists tried
the mail, gave it to the FBI, and
after honeycombing Baltimore
and using only this sketchy evi
dence, finally the G-men locat
ed the maid.
Hoover told the senators that
Dr. Klaus Fuchs had access to
every atomic secret in the Unit-
A-bomb. The British believe he
gave everything to the Russians.
BLUE-GRAY MONET
Rep. Pat Sutton of Tennessee
has received a flood of mail
from civic leaders, clergymen,
labor unions and bankers all
over the nation, pledging sup-
ing in at least
one respect: No
one is going to
corner the mar
ket in faces,
then die and
leave them to a
museum.
All the Rem
brandt paintings
seem by now
to be known,
owned, and un
der guard. So do most of the
rare postage stamps. And you
have to go to an auction to bid
on Louis the 14th furniture.
But faces are different. You
find them everywhere. They
keep on coming forever. Every
body has got at least one, and
Hal Boyla
The faces I like best are those
of very young people. A child's
face is like the Bay of Naples
the light across it shifts and
changes, and from moment to
moment it is never quite the
same.
You can never tire of it, and
if you didn't have to work for
a living I couldn't think of a '
more wonderful way to pass the
rest of my life than looking at
children. It is better if the chil
dren are not your own because
then the ownership question en-
ed States and was even in on Prt for his biu to smoke out
the "final critical assembly" of an estimated $10,000,000,000 of
the A-bomb. This was the most underworld cash by a new issue
ton-secret phase of the Manhat- of currency.
OrWItt MMekriii.
ed and mean business.
In considering the Secretary's
declaration we mustn't forget
that we are not at peace. We
are at war a cold war, to be
sure, but never-the-less- a con
flict which could lead to a
shooting-war. So while his lan
guage would have been beyond
the bounds of diplomacy if em
ployed in peace. It asumes a dif
ferent aspect as things are.
The history of the late war
only one nation
in the whole
world that
would start a
war. We seek to
have a military
establish m e n t
s u f f i c icnt to
deter that ag
gression and lick
hell out of her
if she doesn't
stay deterred."
Mr. Johnson said America's
defense system is in better shape has taught us that it's a mistake
and stronger than at any time to encourage the idea that a na-
sincc 1S45. Our defenses are get- lion won't fight in self-defense,
ting stronger daily and soon will It's a mistake for a government
reach a point where they will to lead its public into that belief.
be ready for anything in an and it s a much greater mistake
tan project.
Hoover testified at machine
gun speed throughout the closed-door
session.
Here are some of the figures
he rattled off regarding crime
in the U.S.A. last year: 1,686,670
major crimes committed in the
entire country; the big increases
since 1941 have been 67.4 per
cent more "aggravated assaults,"
35.2 percent more rapes, 27.5
percent more burglaries, 24.4
percent more robberies, 7.3 per
cent more larceny.
However, murder has dropped
0.7 percent since 1941, man
slaughter has decreased 5.5 per
cent and auto thefts 11.5 per
cent. The FBI, he said, had a
record of 97.2 percent convic
tions last year.
HOW FUCHS WORKED
Here is the background in
Also, more than 100 members
of congress have assured Sut
ton they will vote for his bill
if it gets to the floor. Meantime,
broad-gauged Rep. Brent Spence
of Kentucky, chairman of the
house banking and currency
committee, has promised to give
the measure a public hearing.
However, Sutton's supporters
are divided on the color of the
proposed new currency. When
Rep. Philip Philbin of Massa
chusetts asked Sutton what col
or he favored, the Tennesseean
replied:
"Well, being a southerner,
I'm for gray."
"Well, I'm a northerner,"
came back Philbin, "and there
fore lean to blue. But what do
you say we compromise on blue
and gray."
"That's okay by me," agreed
Sutton.
(Copyright 1S49)
more people have two than will ters in.
admit it. t t t The next best faces to me
are those of old people. I have
The pleasant thing about col- read in books that old people
lecting faces is you don't have to generally are selfish and queru-
buy them. Nor do you try to lous. If that, is so, I have been
wrench them off the owner, take lucky because most of the old
them home and put them under people 1 know have been just
glass. the opposite. They do have a
Heaven knows the average habit of v'ng string, but that
wife wouldn't allow that. She'd ls Jusl oecause, Knowing ineir
days are rationed, they have
Victor, now you come hate waste of any kind.
In my collection are a treas
ure store of splendid faces I
the have seen around the world, in
war and peace.
If I had to lose them all ex
cepting those of friends and
family what face would I keep
in mind's eye? I think it would
be a Chinese face. Any Chi
nese face.
It is like trying to read an old
keep breaking into your study
and saying,
are simply going to have to
throw away some of your faces.
They are cluttering up
house."
No, you just look at the faces
as they go by and let them
clutter up whomever they be
long to.
I am the last man in the
world to put people in pigeon
holes, or pigeons in people's
coops, but faces do tend to run and wonderful story through a
in patterns. And when you col- veil.
hour's time
"Joe Stalin will know," de
clared the secretary, "that if he
starts something at four a. m.
the fighting power of the United
to let the outside world get any
such notion.
Of course it's too late now to
argue whether Hitler would have
started the world war if he
States will be on the job at had"'' been encouraged by Bri-
UMi i-rime minister iiictiiiut-r-lain's
efforts at appeasement.
tw tii.. i. !.,; it Many observers feel that the
That certainly is laying it on Na dictator wouldn,t have
launched his aggression if a
mailed fist had been stuck under
his nose.
the line.
Of course, statesmen some
times under stress of emotion
make statements stronger than
However, having attended the
were intended. However, the fatcful conferences of Berchtcs
sccretary was speaking from gaden, Godesberg and Munich,
pencilled notes and there is no know that Hitler became
indication that he wasn t talking more agrressive with each sue
with studied deliberation. cessive peace overture by Cham-
Such language is reserved for berlain. The Fuehrer saw that
emergencies, and this certainly he had the other fellows wor
is a critical moment in the con- ricd, and took advantage of the
flict of the isms, as the great situation.
Red offensive continues its vie- So on the whole I think we
torious sweep across southeast may classify Secretary Johnson's
Asia. speech along with the announce-
It's my guess (and it is a ment that America is going ahead
guess) that Secretary Johnson to create the new super-bomb,
had two objects in view: Both pronouncements were de-
One was to let the American finitely intended as deterrents
public know that America is pre- to war. But far from being ap
parcd for contingencies and isn't peasement, they tell the Ameri
depending on any Maginot line can public, and the world at
of defense. The other was to ad- large, that we are taking no
vise Moscow that we are prepar- nonsense.
Punch Falls Short of Mark
Portland, Ore., Feb. 7 (U.B Cab driver Ed Hill was treated
for a lacerated arm today.
Police said he took a punch at the driver of an automo
bile who sideswiped his cab, but the window was rolled up.
He's Done 'Em Wrong
By OSWALD WEST
(Governor of Orrton from 1911 to 1915)
Practically all Democratic candidates for office high or
low in this state have been relying upon the cry, "C.V.A." to
insure their winning at the polls.
The Columbia Valley authority measure (S. 1645) was intro
duced last April, being sponsored by a number of administration
senators.
It met with sufficient opposi- bv the Army Engineers, Recla
tion to prevent its excreted early mation Service and the Interior
pasage, and its chances of gain- Department,
ing approval at this session are Now comes the President and
rather slim Sives his approval to all proj-
Up to date, all projects in the ects cvered, b the, f? w!th tbe
hands of the Army engineers of 'a ,U "f0 opr0J-
the Reclamation Service, wheth- enct and "niU'aition of the Snake
er on the approved list or under .R'v"'. "e a,sks 'or
construction, have been brushed V! T' w .
aside by the President. When pP-LT pC?'t aI0n by, th?
needed funds were sought, their "vJ " T 7
. of the C.V.A. coconut and stuff
sponsors were advised that such . j . Zr u7 ti
. . . , . ,r a cd it into the Magnuson bill It
projects should await the C.V.A. . . , " .
which had the rietit-of-wav candidates running
wnicn naa me rigm ot way. on a one.plank (C.V.A.) plat-
The C.V.A. bill, however, has form out 0n a limb,
failed to gather momentum, and The Republican candidates,
as a campaign measure may be who have been fighting the
regarded as a flop. C.V.A., will find the Magnuson
So, to save the day, the Mag- measure right down their alley,
nuson bill (S. 2180) was intro- for they long have declared their
duced. It carried a list of around approval of the work being done
35 projects power, irrigation by the Army Engineers and the
and flood control all approved Reclamation Service.
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