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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 21, 1950
The Coal Strike Muddle
The reluctance of the president to utilize the Taft
Hartley act to end the United Mine Workers strike in
the nation's coal fields is reflected in the hesitation of
the courts to enforce their orders to end the strike, and
the extension of time granted because of miners' defiance
and the renewal of Lewis' old battle cry, "no contract,
no work." There is a sharp contrast with the govern
ment's decisive action in 1946 and 1948 when heavy fines
for contempt of court were levied against both Lewis and
his union.
This time Lewis has twice ordered the miners back
to the pits to comply with the court's order, but for the
first time the union members refuse to obey their czar's
order, whether under clandestine agreement with Lewis,
is not known, but he has officially complied witn tne
letter of the law. There is no law however to compel a
man to work against his will, though the union can be
penalized and fined for contempt, as previously.
If the union does not comply with the back to work
order by Friday, it will mean a hearing before Judge
Keech next Monday, when the strikers will have been in
contempt of court for two weeks. The order was renewed
Monday until March 3. The union paid $ 2,130,000 in two
fines before.
Among the many court actions pending or in progress
against the United Mine Workers are:
1. A pending request from the government for an 80-day
anti-strike injunction under the Taft-Hartley law.
2. The government's current request for punishment of the
union for cntempt of court in refusing to obey a 10-day tem
porary restraining order.
3. A court order barring the union from demanding four key
contract clauses (union shop, welfare fund for unionists only,
a clause stating miners must work only when able and willing,
and memorial period work stoppages). The national labor
relations board must yet rule whether these are unfair labor
practices.
4. Various other actions, including the suit of a miner for
an accounting of mine welfare funds; suits by Senator Bridges
(R.-N.H.) and Ezra Van Horn to declare themselves not re
sponsible for any dissipation of welfare funds; a court action
by Charles I. Dawson to force Lewis to recognize him as the
operator member of the welfare board of trustees; and damage
suits brought by operators against the union, particularly in
Ohio and Kentucky, seeking to collect money from the mine
union for allegedly illegal acts.
For the past year Lewis has been cutting down the coal
stockpiles by strikes and 8-day work weeks to improve
the miners' position. With the coldest weather of winter
clasping the east, the coal reserves are down to ten days
supplies, rationing and brown-outs are in effect in many
regions, rail transportation has been curtailed, many in
dustries forced to close and the danger point reached.
Meanwhile negotiations for a new contract have bogged
down and a crisis reached affecting the welfare and health
of the public, due to kid-glove handling of the pampered
strikers.
Another Framed Red Conviction
Robert A. Vogeler, 39, the American businessman who
pleaded guilty to sabotage and spying against the com
munist government of Hungary for the United States has
been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The prosecution
appealed on grounds that the court had been too lenient.
A British associate, Edgar Sanders, was sentenced to
13 years imprisonment. Two Hungarian co-defendants
were given death sentences. Three other Hungarians were
sentenced to prison terms of five to 10 years.
The trial followed the usual communist pattern. The
accused are never brought to trial unless a "confession"
is first secured through drugs, threats, torture or threats
of torture, inducements and pressure. If there is no "con
fession" there is no trial and the accused "disappear"
either before a firing squad or in some slave work camp
never to be heard of again. Those who have escaped from
prison have described the whole procedure.
In Vienna Morris L. Ernst, New York attorney who
was refused a visa to defend Vogeler, said the trial was
"a rigged up affair." He said he counted 85 misstatements
of fact in the testimony Vogeler read, and "torture or
drugs apparently were used." The same procedure was
followed against Sanders, just as it had been previously
against Cardinal Mindszenty and against many others.
Neither the American nor British ministers had been per
mitted to see the accused since their arrest.
Compare the communist trials of accused spies with
the trials of the accused communist spies in this country,
in New York, which last nine months and the defendants
permitted to hire the best lawyers for their defense, who
used every pettifoggy device in behalf of their clients,
and after conviction by a jury, are permitted release on
bail pending appeal to higher courts, from mild sentences
of Imprisonment.
A Chance to Beautify the Station
The other day the Southern Pacific announced modestly
that a few minor repairs would be made in the Salem
station. There would be some redecorating, too.
There was nothing elaborate about these spring clean
up plans. But from them came an idea. The "Friendly
Railroad" was asked if it would be agreeable to a joint
venture to beautify the ample grounds around the station.
The SP indicated it would on a limited scale.
So now Salem can join with the .Southern Pacific in
putting in some trees and shrubs to offer a softened
effect to the station which welcomes travelers to this city.
Salem interests would supply the trees and shrubs. The
railroad would look after the watering.
The investment in this project would not be large,
but the effect of trees and shrubs typical of the valley
would tend to beautify a nice-looking station that appears
lonesome now in its surroundings. Perhaps some of the
nurseries in the area would donate trees and shrubs for
the project. Perhaps the garden clubs in the city could
join forces to care for the planting for the first few
years to insure a good start for the trees and shrubs.
The result would be a simply, but pleasantly, land
scaped station that would give a more friendly reception
to train travelers coming to Salemt
BY BECK
Recollections
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Military Chief s Give Grave
Picture of Red Military Plans
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Around the giant Pentagon building, just across
the Potomac, winds a labyrinth of beautiful boulevards built
during the war at considerable cost to American taxpayers.
The other day in Richmond, Va., the two builders of these
boulevards, McKenzie Davison and W. J. "Doc" Hardy, walked
Into court and
wun tneir narrowing report into
increasing appropriations. But,
perhaps because of Johnson's
stern eye, the military men mads
little positive comment.
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
pleaded "no
contest" to four
of six counts ac
cusing them of
defrauding the
government of
$217,806 in tax
es the same
gove r n m e n t
which paid
them handsome
ly on war contracts.
Behind this virtual
m
Drew Pihhd
KRISS-KROSS
Oh Well, if Business Was
So Good, He Could Afford It
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Attorney Fred A. Williams was a busy man yesterday . , . too
busy to get away from his desk long enough to feed a hungry
parking meter by his car.
As a client was leaving law office, Williams handed the client
a nickel and asked him to kindly insert it in parking meter.
Williams gave.
plea of
guilty lies a long story, dating
back to October 1948, in which
this column exposed Hardy and
Davison, not only for income-
tav ejasinrf htlt fnr nnlitipal
wirenulline. concealment, and fense Johnson broke in and sug-
dodeine. When this column nub- gested that the chiefs of staff
Gen. Gruenther brushed aside
questions about increased mili
tary needs by warning: "Don't
ask me. I am liable to be biased."
Once he quipped: "As Senator
Wherry has said, military people
would fortify the moon."
Gruenther also warned that
we must not bleed ourselves by
over-spending, that some people
are too concerned about secur
ity and not enough about econo
my. Finally, Secretary of De-
lished the story on Oct. 19, 1948,
it was so sensational that some
papers refused to print it.
The two road contractors had
should join Gen. Gruenther in
answering some of the questions.
One by one, General Bradley,
Army Chief of Staff Collins, and
marip nut. false invoices, written
Chief of Naval Operations Sher-
checks to other contractors, who man agreed that economy comes
client a good:
description o f
car, and toldi
him approxi
mately wneii't
vehicle was!?'
parked.
Fred doffed
his worries
About a half
hour later hej
went tn his par
If t A . 1
Chris Kowlti, Jr.
by Public Utilities commission
has been offered for rent to
Marion county. PUC will soon
move to new public service
building, and county will need
temporary quarters for its of
fices while old courthouse is
being torn down and new edifice
being constructed . . . March
edition of National Geographic
mag contains final article writ
ten by the late General H. H.
(Hap) Arnold. The general
then cashed the checks them
selves, and generally falsified.
Yet for eight months after this
column's expose, they argued,
pleaded, and haggled with pati
ent justice department attorneys.
Finally, last July the case was tV"80 by qulckIy con'
f t the its aHnmev in centrating our forces.
Richmond for pr o s e c u t i o n ,
where, however, it dragged. And
nrst. jonnson Beamed like a
schoolteacher whose pupils are
reciting the correct answers.
Bradley reported that our oc
cupation troops are in areas
where they are strategically use
ful, and assured that we could
UMBRELLAS l T '51 UMBRELLAS 1
. . . the meter
was red and one of those fa- scribed the article shortly before
miliar little yellow slips was un- his death . . . Only one student
der windshield swipe. finished with an "A" average at
Now Fred is trying to figure Pacific TJ. for the recently-com-out
whether his client has a pleted semester. That compares
short memory or is unable to to 27 "A" students at Willamette,
distinguish a coupe from a se- . . . Twenty-nine women, no
dan. men observed at Woolworth's
lunch counter at noon yesterday.
"Xmas trees for sale" reads . . . More signs of spring: A few
a sign north of Salem. Nothing convertibles venturing out with
like buying early . . . Man tops down,
sneezed so hard during high
school fraternity case in circuit
court yesterday that his belt Naming of certain roads in
snapped in two . . . The 30-odd outskirts of Salem is presenting
high school students who sat in quite a problem for city and
on the frat case did so in spite county officials. Roads in ques
of warning from school authorl- tion are public roads not owned
ties that they would be given by the county. Law is clear on
failing grades for so doing . . . changing of road names within
Don't let all the "Stromboli" that circle, but law makes no
publicity mislead you. Only provision for naming new roads
thing hot about the movie is the in the area. Some roads have
volcano eruption therein . . . laid around for five or six years
The portion of the Busick's now waiting for someone to
market building at Commercial name them. The question is
and Marion streets now occupied . . . who'll do the naming?
I kit
it was not until after this col
umn, on Oct. 21, 1949, again re
viewed the lengthy delay that
the tax-evading road builders
finally were indicted.
Perhaps the gravest briefing
given to congressional leaders
since V-J day took place at the
Pentagon building last week.
The substance of the closed-door
session was that Russia must be
preparing for aggressive war.
The briefing was given by Lt.
Gen. Alfred Gruenther on be
half of the joint chiefs of staff
to members of both the senate
and house appropriations com
mittees and armed services com
mittees.
This harmony over economy
was finally shattered, however,
when Air Force Chief of Staff
Vandenberg was asked about the
air force's needs.
"Before Russia had the ato
mic bomb, the air force took the
position that it needed 70
groups," replied Vandenberg
cooly. "There is no reason to
change that position now that
Russia has the bomb."
The talk about economy was
so unanimous, however, that it to achieve some-
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
NoAbandoningof Cold War
Unless It's in Interest of Reds
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(W Foreign Affair Anftlt
Current demands that the western powers make fresh efforts
to achieve agreement with Russia, and thus avoid a possible
atomic war, give rise immediately to the vital question of what
the demands are based on.
Is this idea premised on some concrete development or practical
proposal which
might appeal to
Moscow? Or is
it merely the re
sult of wishful
thinking an
idealistic effort
disturbed Senator Knowland of
thing which
California. Though he usually ,,,? t k
economy, he finally nmt,uha u
preaches
broke in:
'I want to know what
right- minded!
we should spend in the judgment D.0Die' "
of the military people, regard- it's vi
cJ
is another war. That would look
like an exhibition of weakness
and could do untold damage to
the cause of peace.
I like the realistic way U.S.
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son dealt with this problem in
his policy statement of February
8. He summed the situation up
by declaring that four years of
experience "have brought us the
realization" that progress to-
vital that
uuna. we can.t , a DroDer evalu 11115 polnt De cleBrea UV ueiuie wara peace simpiy ny marung
Gen. Gruenther was cautious fin if ih nu K T 1 further steps are taken. This is agreements with the Russians is
hie ctato ont onnfinorl him. "?U " "le m"ary IS gOing tO , , , ... , , ... , .
tell us what we can afford." ""- . "re ""vl" v '
Gen. Vandenberg however experience that there's not ment is realistic and adjust poli-
remaiiied the only definite dis- tne sl'Shtest use in going to Mos- cies when compelled by facts to
senting voice to the general note cow and caUinS tor peace simply do so. As he pointed out:
of economy. because peace is good or because y0u can't argue with a river
(Copyright 1950) someDony win get nuri li mere
Miss Bivalve of 1950'
Portland, Feb. 21 VP) Oregon spawned a new threat today
to the clam-consuming championship of the west a 147
pound woman, whose potentialities are unmeasured.
She won the Oregon championship and the title "Miss
Bivalve of 1950" by gulping down 181 little neck clams at
one sitting. Her nearest competitor, a 235-pound man, put
away 167.
The titlist, Mary Jean Hlne, a radio copy writer, then went
to another table and ate a clam dinner.
She will represent Oregon in a clam-eating contest in
Seattle next Saturday.
And this Is warning to Seattleites to start digging clams
now.
Miss Hine deprecated her achievement here, remarking
that in New England, where she used to live, she had eaten
more than 200 at a sitting.
No one knows how many she might have eaten here. They
ran out of clams just as she was going good.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Insects Are Laughing at Us
By HAL BOYLE
NewYork W) Sayings of a curbstone Socrates:
The difference between love in a crowded cottage and love in
a mansion is three children and five bathrooms.
Mirrors have caused more self-improvement than colleges.
A pessimist looks at life through the other fellow's ulcers.
Two
scales are all a man can trust
these days and neither gives
him the answer he wants.
Trying to do selfish people a
favor is like peeling grapes for
apes except that you get skin
ned. Sir William Osier once said,
"Alcohol is the milk of old age."
The nip replaces the nipple.
A cynic usually leads a gray
life because he is color blind to
worn
dollar bills were
discussing thelrj
careers. "Have
you noticed,"
said one, "the
way the value
of people has
fallen off in our
lifetime?"
Unreq u 1 1 e d
love never made
the average wo-
1 11
Li 7,
in his statements, confined him
self largely to a discussion of
Soviet armed strength, let the
congressmen draw their own
conclusions.
After listening to the report,
however, Congressmen Engel of
Michigan, Sikes of Florida and
Cannon of Missouri spoke out
that Russia could have only one
purpose in building such a pow
erful arsenal: to wage war.
Here are some of the main
facts presented by Gen. Gruen
ther facts which Moscow al
ready knows since there is no
particular secret about our arm
ed strength. Russia, he said, is
spending 18 percent of her na
tional wealth on arms, which is
triple what the United States is
spending. Even taking our top
budget figure of $15,500,000,000
which includes stockpiling
the United Stated is investing on
ly 6 percent of her wealth in de
fense. Russia has 40,000 tanks. This
includes the best heavy tank in
the world the Joe Stalin Mark
III. In contrast, the U.S. army
has only 7000 tanks, none of
them heavy. In the air, Russia
has 17,000 planes, including 300
heavy bombers of the B-29 type.
Meanwhile Soviet factories are
working feverishly to build a
strategic air force. Production of
long-range bombers and jet
fighters has been stepped up.
To challenge our navy, the
Russians have 280 submarines of
the latest, speediest German
make. Most worrisome, however,
is a new Russian torpedo, pilot
ed by an electronic brain that
seeks out its own target. This
ingenious torpedo can locate
a ship eight miles away.
Despite all this firepower, the
backbone of Soviet military
might is still her manpower,
Gen. Gruenther stressed. Russia
can muster over 500 divisions at
the drop of a bomb.
it is going to flow. You can dam
it up, you can put it to useful
purposes, you can deflect it, but
you can't argue with it."
The secretary illustrated by
pointing out that we have tried
ineffectually for years to get an
Austrian treaty. We have made
progress toward getting a Ger
man treaty. We can't even get
a forum with Moscow to discuss
treaty with Japan.
Therefore Aeheson rejected
all suggestions for new Ameri
can peace appeals to Russia. He
declared the American policy to
be "to build situations which
will extend the area of possible
agreement, that is, to create
strength instead of weakness
which exists in many quarters."
In short, he based Uncle Sam's
antl - communist strategy on a
policy of power.
' That declaration was made
less than a fortnight ago, and
the situation certainly hasn't
changed since then. What the
Western World has to recognize
is that Russia is waging her cold
war under a concrete plan. It
was worked out lone ago and is
Even the pain of a toothache, cancer patient . Around the aimed at communizing the world,
a sDrained ankle, or a burn can clock, the pain even if it is of Th,,. f nhir, -i
be as intense or more intense low intensitygoes on. At the lowed to stand j tn ,
.1 Ti . . .1 ! same limp the natient la ornw. . . . . . . J
limn tdiicci Irani, sub mc 111 . . - ... w.
sity of the pain is not what ing weaker and his attitude
matters so much, according to toward pain makes him feel
the doctors. even worse.
In cancer pain, which usually . ... ....
I. f lnw infensitv the nain ner. Doctors treating a patient in
sists and the patient has a far
Prowl Car on Prowl Somewhere
Lebanon, Feb. 21 After being overdue for more than a
month on delivery, Lebanon's new Ford police car arrived by
train In Albany Friday, but unloading was delayed until
Monday, and now it is missing.
When crews went to the depot ' Monday morning, the
freight car that held it was gone. Presumably some train
during the week-end hooked onto the supposedly empty car,
and Southern Pacific officials could only guess where it
might be. .
Tracers were dispatched immediately, but up to late after
noon Monday no results had been obtained.
Last week' the department's other prowl car was badly
wrecked when a night patrolman fell asleep at the wheel,
ramming a parked panel truck and seriously crippling the
police car.
Pain Caused by Fatal Cancer
Not So Severe as in Childbirth
By PAUL F. ELLIS
(United PreM Aolenca Editor)
Manchester, N. H Feb. 21 (U.PJ A person dying of cancer
such as Dr. Hermann N. Sander's patient suffers intense pain,
but it is not the worst pain that the human body can suffer.
Childbirth, for instance, is the worst pain of all, the doctors
say.
different attitude toward pain ease
than if he were recovering from ne ,pfln: In most' cases' the paln
a sprained ankle. 3 ff 4 cause the cancer h
involved a nervous center, such
this Red drive, excepting un-
surmountable obstacles. The
plan has been adapted to con
ditions over which Russia had
no immediate control, but it al-
paueiit in ., i . i , ..
the terminal or final-stages of ZZ.lC. ! I"??1 lm
straight line when those condi
tions finally had been met.
Hi! BojU
The supreme example of this
as the spinal cord or the brain. Soviet policy was the part Bus-
Experts who have made many The cancer may have spread to sia played as an ally of the
studies in measurement of pain many such nervous centers, Western powers against the Hit
Throughout the briefings, Sec- polnt out tnat a mother knows thereby causing pain throughout lerian forces. That took her '
retary of Defense Johnson took she wiu undergo pain to bring the body. far off her direct course of
a back seat and let military , .inj , the world, and that Powerful drues are adminis- world revolution hut oh. ,.-
her attitude toward the pain is tered in attempts to stop pain, cepted the inevitable. She may
one of reconciliation. She Morphine is the most commonly even have profited by it. In
knows it is necessary and ac- used, although in recent years any event, the point we want to
cepts it. ' there have been numerous other make is that once the world war
pain-killers that have proved was over, the Red shir, iwnna
UtlTiZ out that a t00thache Paln can et"iCient MhaU thenewsub- a ""to its old course, heao
soviet sirengtn was, ana wnue ., . stances are either derivatives or 1n etraiirht n,.i
O 1.U411111U-
meir
ily.
spokesmen talk. At one point,
however, he broke in only to be
slapped down by Congressman
Sheppard of California.
Sheppard wanted to know
able as sitting on a wet rock at livin-
a picnic. " God believed what tomb-
Woeful waist makes for woe- stones said, he'd have a crowded
ful diet. heaven.
Fear is only climate without Young love is ecstatic; old love
a change of season. is serene. And middle-aged love
Tell me your dreams and I'll is middle-aged love.
explain your nightmares. Second childhood wouldn't be
If museums collected people so dreadful if it would just grow
instead of things the world hair on a bald head.
would be less cluttered up with Nothing gets less thanks out
museum pieces. of life than a diaper or does
A man who beats his wife more good.
probably never had a chance to Most women must have lost
spank his mother as a child. their girlhood in a drug store
Remember way back when the way they keep trying to find
people used to marry for a rea- it again at cosmetics counters.
son instead of a season? What is prayer? It Is the vo-
Nothing keeps Its youth like cabulary of hope in the stunned
envy. language of loss.
Temperance is man's com- The insects must be laughing
promise between temptation and at mankind. We developed DDT
hardening of the arteries. for them but saved the hydro-
A wife and his bathroom gen bomb for ourselves.
how reliable the information on
fift.rlnt Blwntffti lime an4 tirhlle
a civilian exoert s Irving to be extremely intense, but a per- "ances are eiuier derivatives or ing ,
, Z -J !L( K ,. son knows that the pain won't members of the morphine fam- nsm.
explain that the iron curtain is
drawing tighter, Johnson tried to
brush aside the question.
"It we can't get an answer,"
snapped Sheppard, "we may as
well go home."
The secretary of defense sub
sided. Some senators and congress
men feared the military chiefs son lying at death's door in
were trying to scare congress hospital bed. Particularly,
We can't overcome those facts
cow is to ask ourselves whether
it will serve Red interests to
which is
an integral part of the commu
nist drive to spread communism.
Marshal Stalin and his cap-
go on forever and that some
thing can be done to stop it. by wishful or pious thinking.
An athlete many times plays e new Pa
wiu a paintui injurea raw or . lng . approach to Mos-
leg, Knowing mai ne wiu re- --- " ' J "
kv. the nianrlltji of the cheer, phine all trade names for vari-
, .. ations of morohine derivatives " "rve "
ti.u. ...!... i , , can on tne cold war,
USaUlUCicui ' effoMiv. than .hin. ilc.W
Some cancer doctors also pre
scribe the inlection of alrnhnl
in the veins of the patient teins undoubtedly would debate
Others have prescribed brain the subject courteously with
operations, known as pre-frontal representatives from the West,
lobotomy and topectomy, that But we may be dead certain
do not necessarily kill the pain, there can be no lasting agree-
To the Editor: Just a few words of thanks and appreciation but remove the patient's power ment unless that agreement
to (he paper carriers. We take the Capital Journal and Oregonlan. to feel the pain. A combination should foster communist in
Through the snow, ice and mud, our paper always came. of codeine and morphine with terests.
We live in the suburban area. When going got too tough to aspirin also is being used in That's an unpleasant conclu
use their bikes, the boys walked. some cases. sion to be forced into. However,
I think they all did a wonderful job. Too much of any of the drugs we shall save ourselves trouble
MRS. W. J. SITTON, often will cause death an'd the and disappointment if we face
210 S. Elm a Ave. end of the pain. the facts squarely.
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