Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspaper Established 1888
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher
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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 9, 1950
But He Follows the "Party Line"
Testifying in his own defense in his federal trial at San
Francisco on perjury charges, Harry Bridges, president
of the International Longshoremen's union, stated that he
didn't disagree "so much with the communist program,
though solicited to join the party but refused to for fear
of deportation." In other words, he admits being a "fellow
traveler" playing Russia's game. His speeches and actions
from the organization of his union to his support of Henry
Wallace for president shows that he always followed the
Kremlin's "party line" and was part of the communists'
"democratic front."
Further Bridges stated that he never paid dues to the
party, never signed an application to join, and the com
munists did not dominate or dictate strategy in the 1934
waterfront strike. This is in contradiction to the testi
mony of other witnesses. He also admitted that the com
munists had helped finance the strike and that he had con
sulted with them.
In his statement to the jury, Bridges is quoted as say
ing in part:
"It was not so much that I disagreed with their (commun
ist) program, as that I knew membership would subject me to
deportation. I had been a member of the IWW (Industrial
Workers of the World) for only a short while, but I knew that
members o that organization were persecuted and often de
ported." Conviction on the present charge, that he committed
perjury when he told his citizenship hearing in 1943 that
he had never been a communist could lead to his deporta
tion. Bridges said the communists had a "nice, fine, revolu
tionary program," but "I didn't think that it answered
any of our problems." He said what he and his fellow
unionists wanted was an answer to their immediate prob
lems "how are we going to get steady work, how were
we going to stop the racketeering, the kickbacks, and so
forth ? The idealistic, revolutionary program of the com
munists could not correct the things the longshoremen felt
were wrong on the waterfront." He continued :
BY H. T. WEBSTER
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Salem Cops Distributing
Record Number of Tickets
ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr.
Patrolmen on the Salem police force have orders from their
captains to mete out more tickets between now and February
16 than in any previous week in history. No, they're not to make
any particular crack-down on jaywalkers or double-parkers.
They're just selling tickets to the policemen's ball.
Cops
make
pretty determ
ined salesmen,
we've found.
When one of
the boys in blue
gets you corn
ered and goes
into his sales
talk, you might
as well shell
out your dollar
and buy a tick
et.
It's just
. Jr
for a near-give away price, but
that it spent $25,000 in moving
the span to McKee. Now a little
more enlightened on the sub
ject, we discover that the $25,
000 included the entire process
of tearing down, moving, setting
up, constructing approaches,
building supports, etc. Had the
county just built the bridge in
the first place, it would have
cost around $50,000. So the
moving operation actually saved
as hard to talk yourself out of upwards of $20,000.
buying a ticket to the ball as it Judge Grant Murphy is the
"There have been many, many times when I and others have is talking yourself out of a county's chief bridge buyer.
been accused of being a communist, and sometimes we'd say, speeding ticket,
'look here, iiere is what we stand for, this is our program, this '
is what we're trying to do, and if these things are communist,
then we're communists.' "
Movie Monopoly Busted
A New York federal circuit court has entered a final
degree in the 12-year-old anti-trust suit against Hollywood
movie production and distribution companies ordering the
major film companies to give up the theaters they own
within three years. The companies are expected to accept
the decree without appeal.
The decision will bring about a major change in the
set-up of the American movio industry which for years has
owned large theater chains, limited exhibition competition,
and fixed prices, federal prosecutors said. The distribu
tors affected were Loew's, Inc. ; Warner Brothers Pictures,
Inc.; Warner Brothers Pictures Distributing Corp.; and
20th Century-Fox Film corporation.
The court ruled that no distributor or a similar company
resulting from break-up of the trusts may enter the exhibi
tion business and that no exhibiting company may enter
the distribution business, except with future approval of
the court. The distributors must file their divercement
plans within six months. The plans must provide for sale
or other disposal of theater properties within three years.
The big producers and distributors were enjoined from
fixing minimum price of admission to theaters,, making
agreements to fix a specific period of time between picture
runs in particular theaters, and requiring any exhibitor
to take one or more features to get another feature.
Five remaining exhibiting companies were enjoined
from making pooling agreements among theaters normally
operating in competition, leasing theaters to independent
operators for a part of the profit, and operating booking
agencies.
Protest Against Cutting Out Small Dams
A proverb in many languages goes like this:
"For want of a nail the shoe is lost. For want of a shoe
the horse is lost. For want of a horse the rider is lost. For
want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle
the kingdom was lost all for the want of a horseshoe
nail."
That proverb might have been used by Colonel Walsh,
division engineer for the corps of army engineers, when he
protested the cutting out of a number of small dams in the
Willamette valley project.
The colonel stressed to the Columbia basin inter-agency
committee meeting in Salem the need for these smaller
dams fitting into the overall picture of flood control for
the valley. The omission of the smaller dams would seri
ously interfere with the effectiveness of the entire project.
The next move will be a meeting of the inter-agency com
mittee again in the valley to consider deletions and take
appropriate action. The long-time goal of a system of
dams- throughout the valley to block the annual costly
floods should go ahead as rapidly as possible.
Every dam is important in a complex system of barriers
to the ravaging winter streams. Elimination of even small
dams can mean the loss of value of the entire program for
the Willamette valley.
Prince, Who Likes to Bark
At Fluffy Clouds, on the Job
By GRAHAM TROTTER
Canadian Press Stalf Writer
Whitchorse, Y. T., Feb. 9 (CP) Prince, a seven-week-old
Shepherd dog, who would rather chase luffy white clouds
around at 10,000-foot levels than bark at the heels of fluffy
white sheep on solid ground, today was at his accustomed post
at daybreak.
When the crew of a United Stales air lorce B-17, one of
the outfits engaged for the last two weeks in a giant aerial
search for a missing C-54 in the wild Yukon country, clam
bered aboard their four-motored search plane, they found the
little brown pup sitting up in the co-pilot's scat. Prince has
made every search flight with the B-17 and has about 100
hours flying time.
The pup, only airborne mascot at this northern search base,
accompanies Lieut. Jim Keel of Chicago, 111., eight hours every
day as the American pilot and his crew search treacherous
mountain tops and valleys.
"We've got him along as protection against wolves in case
we have to come down somewhere in this rugged country,"
joked one crew member.
As Prince went up for another aerial sweep today, air
commodore Martin Costcllo of Winnipeg, search co-ordinator,
said four-engine planes commanding long ranges would be used
almost exclusively In the future.
Now if Murphy can locale
good second-hand courthouse
Latest report from Dick Mase someplace, the courthouse com
mission can put aside its finan
cial worries regarding a new
and Dick Bennett, the two Sa
lem lads who are touring Eur
ope on bicycles, finds them in Marion county courthouse. The
Bordeaux, France, and fed up present building wouldn't have
on French bread. The cycling much trade-in value, though,
duo plans to sail for America , .
sometime in April.
. Don Blankenship of 2430 Hol
About the nearest thing Salem lywood Drive, a Capital Jour
has to a royal ballroom, at nal carrier, draws a nice corn
least in general appearance, is pliment from Gertrude diam
ine inside of the Rural street berlin of Rt. 7, Box 406, a sub
water reservoir . . . The room, scriber on Don's route in the
192 feet square, is quite im- Middle Grove district. She
pressive with its 22-foot ceil- writes, "He didn't miss once
ing and huge, cylindrical sup- during all the cold and snowy
porting columns. ... Of course, weather. Many adults could
the place is flooded with mil- take a lesson from this." . . .
lions of gallons of water most of When we think of how the
the time. newspaper carriers kept going
through snow and slush, it
Marion county does right well ought to make some of us feel
as a buyer of used bridges, af- pretty guilty about those times
ter all. We stated the other day we just "couldn't make it" to
that the county once purchased work or to a meeting during
an abandoned bridge at Aurora snowtime.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Mother's Love for First Born
Seen in Latest on Edward
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
((if) ForcUn Aflalra Analyst)
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are reported in the London
Evening Star to be planning a return to England to live again
after their years of self-imposed exile.
If the former King Edward VIII and his American duchess
do pursue this course, a lot of Britons will be made glad. He
was one of thcl
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Four Huge Concerns Form
Nation's Most Potent Combine
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Congressman Manny Cellar of New York is keep
ing it secret so far, but his monopoly Investigating committee
has a report on the giant du Pont combine and its control over
American industry which every businessman should read.
Prepared by the federal trade commission, the super-secret
document shows
CAPITAL CARTOON
Hee Haw
Prew PeartoD
how du Pont,
General Motors,
U. S. R u b b e r,
and the Libbey-
Owens Ford.
Glass company
have teamed upj
to form the most
potent industrial
combine this
country ever has
known.
This sprawl
ing dynasty has become a gov
ernment unto itself, bossed by
the Delaware du Ponts, whose
chemical company alone nets
$120,000,000 annual profits,
after taxes. The du Pont family, '
the FTC report shows, controls
and shares in the income of other
companies with assets amount
ing to close to three billions and
net profits (after taxes) of well
over $300,000,000 a year.
There are some highlights
from the FTC report:
The du Pont investment in
General Motors stock, worth
more than $500,000,000 at cur
rent market prices, was pur
chased for only about $47,000,
000. Yet between 1918 and
1947 the du Ponts received over
great a voice over U.S. Rubber
policies and the selection of its
officers as it exercises over Gen
eral Motors.
The close-knit relationship be
tween the four firms has been
further strengthened by trade
covenants which discriminated
against outside companies com
peting for business with any of
the four, FTC records show. For
instance, since 1917, du Pont has
purchased practically all its cars
and trucks from General Motors.
In return, GM purchases most of
its fabrics, paints, varnishes, and
lacquers from du Pont.
The FTC report also reveals
all four companies du Pont,
GM, U.S. Rubber, and Libbey
Owens Ford have first call on
each other's products under se
cret trade covenants.
GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS
The staid old national rep
ublican club of New York was
thrown into an uproar recently
over a , resolution on party
policy.
At the request of GOP nation
al chairman Guy Gabrielson,
the members of the silk-stocking
club assembled to write a reso
lution offered by Cornelius
4 Vf0RESla,rf'f I
$670,000,000 in dividends from Wickersham, Jr. It read:
this stock.
Of 44,000,000 o u t s t a n ding
shares of General Motors com
mon stock, about 23 per cent
or 10,000,000 shares are owned
by the du Ponts. The remaining
34,000,000 shares are held by
more than 400,000 individual
stockholders. Yet du Pont con
trols GM policies and the selec-
"Resolved, the United States
government should not in any
way compete with private indus
try." This was greeted with en
thusiasm and applause until
Henry van Veen, a comparative
ly young man in this council of
elders, bounced up and asked:
"Does that mean the govern-
tion of its directors, a number ment must get out of housing.
du
of whom have doubled
Pont directors for years.
Meantime, the du Ponts have
bought heavily into U.S. Rubber,
until today they own, either di
rectly or through personal holding-companies
and trusts, about
300,000 shares or 17 per cent
of the common stock.
and out of TV A? Does that
mean rural electrificiation must
be abandoned?"
There was an answering shout
of "Yes," followed by a storm
of debate.
But when the votes were
counted, Wickersham's resolu
tion nffainst DivpTnmpnt in hllsf.
As a result, the FTC report ness wa, defeated.
shows, du Pont has almost as
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
OPEN FORUM
Museum to Advertise Oregon
To the Editor: I, for one, am in accord with the suggestion of
Renska Swart, regarding the preserving of the present court
house as a museum. My Interest is from both an idealistic and
mercenary point of view.
It is my impression that Salem and Oregon, in general, does
not make sufficient of its wealth '
of tradition and historic shrines main highway to California. It
and relics. I think it is good for hol,ld ba ,in its rif htTfuluh(T'
x, , ?. . itage of history and, I think,
the soul to preserve tradition to als0 coUect for Jtself more of
quite an extent, and history the money vacationers and
rightly and properly exploited others have in their pockets with
can be good for the purse as which they feel they are going
wpII Tl fnr pvmnl "AH- to be further "educated" by trav-
From Foxhole to Grammar
School for Hero, Now 24
By HAL BOYLE
New York UP) A young army hero who won the nation's high
est award for valor at the age of 18 now is attacking an educa
tional objective.
. "I want to finish grammar school," said master sergeant James
R. Hendrix. "After all I'm 24 now, and I ought to be getting on
with my school-
(Copyriiht mo zona Highways."
What has Arizona got
Oregon hasn't got other than
perhaps . . . top advertising . . .
and a different color scheme in
spots?
Hal Bot1
most popular
princes ever to;
come to thci
throne Prince
Charming they
called him and
his abdication!!
in order to;
marry Amen-!
ca's Mrs. Wallis
Simpson formec
one of the un
happy chapters
of the royal house.
MS.?
DeWItt Mackcoila
used to act as a buffer between
the King and the Prince when
things got too hot for the young
man.
When World War I broke, he
joined the British forces in
France. And a good soldier he
was, too.
I was attached to British gen
eral headquarters as correspond
ent, and had a chance to note
his activities. He always wanted
to get into the thick of things
and the authorities had to be
Thr- niiko's mother. Dowager constantly on the alert to keep
Queen Mary, is said by the Star hm from getting killed,
to be among those who have had Edward always showed a great
most to do with his decision to sense of responsibility. More
return home. That is a most over, he was quite aware of
interesting item, for two rea- the greatness of imperial majes
sons which might seem to con- ty. He had started to learn of
tradict each other, but really that from his great-grandmother,
don't- the austere Queen Victoria,
One is that the bond of love whom he worshipped as a tiny
between the aged mother and reminded of an incident
her first-born son always has w Little Edward
been very great the other is and
that this forceful woman who ertured about what pre.
is every inch a queer, is said to " be
be among those who hayecen- He asked his governess,
surcd the Duk e most severely her
for quitting his throne as he did. es(y ould rank a mtle lower
If the Queen Mother is taking 1han the angeis, Edward thought
mis cnangea aiiuuue nuw, that over and tnen.
strikes me that reason isn't hard
to find.
I had my headquarters in Eng
land for some 18 years as an AP
correspondent, nnd watched the
"Well, I don't think grandma
will like it at all, going in be
hind them."
a
Still, he himself abdicated for
development of the Prince of love.
Wales toward kingship at close But a lot of water has run
range. One of the most Interest- over the dam since fateful 1936.
ing aspects of it was the wonder- Time softens many hurts,
ful relationship between Queen Queen Mother Mary is 82
Mary and the heir to the throne, years old, and at this writing
King George V was a kindly is bedridden with sciatica, a
but rather tough disciplinarian, terribly painful malady. One
and perhaps naturally kept a suspects that this is a moment
stern eye on his successor to the when she badly wants her much
rule of the world's greatest f beloved first-born with her, and
pire. Queen Mary very quit '. so has beckoned for his return.
ing. I want to
learn all I can."
The stocky,
red - haired,
freckle - faced
paratr o o p e r ,
who came here
to appear in a
film short for
the American
Cancer Society,
plans to attend
school at Camp
Campbell, Ky., his present base.
"I only got to fourth grade
before the war," he grinned.
He said he quit to go to work
so "the younger kids" could
have a chance. He is the second
oldest of 14 children in the fam
ily of a Lepanto, Ark., cotton
farmer.
Hendrix is a man for whom
death has taken a holiday.
He went through 8 months
and 21 days of doughboy com
bat overseas without a scratch.
On Christmas eve, 1944, in Bel
gium he went on a daylong
battle rampage that won him the
congressional medal of honor.
Between dawn and dusk he:
1. Pulled three wounded
American soldiers from flaming
vehicles.
2. Drove the crews away from
two 88 field guns by his rifle
fire.
3. Destroyed two enemy ma
chine gun positions.
4. Killed 7 Germans with his
rifle.
5. Captured 13 other Ger
mans. "All I got was a few bullet
holes through my clothes," he
recalled.
As a Medal of Honor winner,
he could pick his branch of serv
ice. So he transferred out of
the armored infantry into an
airborne division, which had
turned him down earlier because
of his color blindness.
Last September he had an
other miraculous escape from
death. While making his eighth
jump from a plane, both his
chutes failed to open and he
plunged 1,000 feet to the ground.
The durable Hendrix wasn't
even dented.
Hendrix hopes to put In 30
years of service, retire at 48
to an Arkansas farm "and raise
cows, hogs and chickens."
"The army has been good to
me," he said. "I was drafted
into it, but once I got in I found
I liked it. Up to now it has
given me everything I wanted in
life.
When I asked him if there
wasn't anything in the world he
was afraid of, Jim thought a
while and said:
"No, I guess I can't think of
a thing right now I'm a-skeert
of. Well, if I am a-skeert of
anything, I guess I'm a-skeert of
dying."
el. There is plenty here to ad
vance that ambition if it were
that all gathered together.
Beside its, natural beauties,
its excellent " fruits, vegetables,
fish, and yes, even nuts, the
early fur-trading of the section
is revelation, for most of the
Yet, there isn't a cactus in large posts this side of the
Arizona that has not had its Missouri were on the lower Co
picture taken. The price that lumbU. About the only way a
. .. , vacationer could learn of it
many pay for the magazine would be tQ djg it out Qf Ubrary
would pay the extra tax neces- archives. Few travellers have
sary to move or preserve the the time. A display of visual
courthouse and other historic education then should certainly
places and incidentally help to an advantage,
make western Oregon a further Committees are casting about
mecca for tourists and save for for ,wa,ys nd me4ans to create
. , ,, , , . , . work in this state of Oregon,
future generations material land- Preserving historical spots and
marks that should be saved. data could be a constructive
Is California passing up any Project and a paying one. . . .
bets in that line? Not she! Sa- THOMAS REESE
lem, the state capital, is on the Keizer Addition
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