18 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, March 3, 1950
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, A-Bomb Spy Gets 14 Tears Crowd stands outside Old
' Bailey criminal court in London where Dr. Klaus Fuchs,
'Britain's third-ranking atomic scientist, pleaded guilty to be-
traying Anglo-American A-bomb secrets to Russia and was
f sentenced to 14 years in prison. The trial lasted only 90 min
. utes. (Acme Radio-Telephoto)
Great Wire Basket Mystery
Has N.Y. Cops Red-Faced
p, ; By ED CREAGH
' New York, March 3 VP) The great wire basket mystery has
New York police running around in circles.
- Somebody is stealing wire trash baskets from the streets.
Hundreds, jn fact 316 in mid-Manhattan in the past five weeks,
or about 10 a day.
Who? How? Why?
The police, red-faced and hot
under the collar, say it's got
them beat.
i "No baskets have been recov
ered to date," admits police de
partment secretary Frank Doyle.
The city, in a burst of tidiness,
put out 4,800 shiny new baskets
last Jan. 23. They're big 34
inches high. They're heavy 45
pounds. They stand on crowded
streets. The cops watch them as
If they were filled with emeralds.
; Still they disappear.
". "I ask myself who would be
Wanting baskets," says officer
Wilfred O'Mahoney, "and I tell
myself hah! Apartment house
uperintendents.
, "So I scout around behind
partment houses and what do I
find? Cats. ' Laundry. Milk
bottles. And baskets! But legal,
boughten-and-paid-for baskets.
Not our baskets.' Not hide nor
hair of them."
You can get plenty of tips from
sidewalk sherlocks:
Out-of-towners take 'em. Use
'em to burn leaves."
But who burns leaves in Feb
ruary or March?
"Bird fanciers are doing it. The
baskets would make wonderful
parrot cages."
Hmmm. Three hundred six
teen larcenous parrot-keepers in
five weeks?
Glatts Are Home
Woodburn Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Glatt have returned to their
home here after an absence of
almost a month during which
Glatt underwent surgery in a
Portland hospital, February 3.
They remained in Portland dur
ing His convalescence.
POLITICAL POWERHOUSE BUILDING
Oregon Demos Reported Tied
To Disciplined National Units
Two men President Truman and "Bill" Boyle, chairman of the
democratic national committee are today building an across-the-country
"political powerhouse" in order to elect democrats
this fall and to "cement the foundations of the general welfare
state," Collier's reports this week-
Writing in the national week-.'
lv. Lester Velie, Collier's as
sociate editor, says that what the
late President Roosevelt accom
plished with personality the
President and Chairman Boyle
seek to do with straight party
organization politics.
"Already in Wisconsin, Ore
gon, Minnesota, Michigan even
in Maine Boyle has erected the
first state-wide county-by-county
Democratic organization in
the history of these states," Ve-
lie's survey shows.
"Across the country there
is being built the most formid
able political machine in two
party history. When Repub
licans square off against Dem
ocrats in this year's crucial
elections, G.O.F, candidates
will find they're not only up
against the persuasive issues
raised by the party in power;
they'll be up against efficient,
disciplined political organiza
tions as well.."
Collier's found that doorbell-to-doorbell
organization, Boyle
style, is transforming the politi
cal face of the Midwest and the
West.
Idaho, the Dakotas and Michi
gan, traditionally Republican,
blossomed out with tight, state
wide Democratic organizations.
In Wisconsin, national com
mittee money primed the or
ganizing pump, and federal pa
tronage helped. Paid organizers
moved into Republican strong
holds, found local people to take
jobs as Democratic county lead
ers, rented clubhouses, helped
organize ward and precinct com
mittees. And Boyle, ex-precinct cap
tain in the Pendergast machine
of Kansas City and now a $30,-000-a-year
captain of the Demo
crats' voting fortunes, relies on
youth to lead the way.
In Wisconsin, as well as in
Oregon, Boyle has given the pa
tronage nod to new young faces.
At a recent Democrat conclave
at Green Bay, Wis., more than
half the delegates were under
40.
In Minnesota, the state Dem
ocratic bosses are now 39-year-
old Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.,
Fair Deal senator, and Orville
Freeman, 34.
To those who cry "Pender-
gastism," quotes Boyle as say
ing: "There are good and bad
bosses, but we must have party
leaders and party organizations
to make our two party democ
racy work.
Cities are too big for town
meetings, and good party or
ganizations take their place to
give good government and good
candidates.
"A man who starts out in
precinct politics, who has pick
ed up a few votes while helping
his wife bring the groceries home
from the corner store, knows his
people what they want.
"There are 10,000 political
machines in this country. They
are modern instruments for run
cities and the nation."
With this faith, plus national
committee cash and federal pa
tronage, Velie found, Bill Boyle
is moving political mountains.
Reds Drop Embassy
From Mailing List
Moscow, March 3 W) The
United States embassy disclosed
today it has been dropped from
the mailing list of some 40 So
viet publications it used to re
ceive.
An embassy spokesman said
the magazines included decrees
and official orders, but otherwise
were technical in nature.
The spokesman said the em
bassy received about the same
selection of newspapers it always
did. They include 14 papers
from outside Moscow.
Center Will Elect
Lincoln Election of officers
will be held at the annual meet
ing of Lincoln Community Cen
ter association, to be held at the
Lincoln school house Monday
night at 8 o'clock. Residents
of the four districts of Lincoln,
Spring Valley, Zena and Brush
College are urged to attend by
the president, R. F. Yungen.
'Mystery Witness' John L.
Sherman of California speaks
from the witness chair before
the house unAmerican activi
ties committee in Washington,
as he was revealed to be the
"mystery witness" called by
the probing group. He will tell
of Hiss - Chambers relations.
(AP Wirephoto)
School Enrollment
Shrinkage Slight
Grand Island The seventh
and eighth grades of Unionvale
and Grand Island joint enroll
ment has been regularly 23 and
Monday the first day school was
held at the Unionvale church
social room. There were 20 pres
ent and only two of the absen
tees were of Grand Island. Mrs
Glen McFarlane is the teacher
and principal.
Regular attendance in the
fifth and sixth grades has been
19 and . there were 14 present.
Mrs. H. A. Murphy is the teach
er.
Lethal Gas Chamber for
Insects Given Official Test
Four executions in a lethal gas cnamoer in Polk county oc
curred with indifference upon the part of spectators.
The Oregon penitentiary has not moved its death equipment
across the river but a thorough test was given new equipment
at a Dallas furniture company fumigating room.
Executed were four tiny but
hard-to-kill carpet beetles, plac- L,, . r
uiri xoui iroops
Will Honor Founder
Liberty The Liberty Girl
Scout troop 51 held a regular
meeting at the home of their
ed in a small box with a single
pinpoint hole. Representatives
of the state board of health were
the executioners and tested the
efficiency of the new room to
be used in fumigating mattress
es, bedding, fur coats ana simi
lar objects.
The four "guinea pigs," in
their death chamber, had been
placed in the center of a mat
tress. The experiment was a success.
Conducting the tests were
Allen A. French, chief of the
furniture and bedding inspec
tion service and Glen Howe
fumigating technician, both of
the state board.
Howe says the room operates
the same as the death house at
the state penitentiary with the
exception that a pellet rolls
down a tube into an acid filled
vessel at the prison while discs
containing cyanide are used in
the fumigating room.
Oregon law requires all second
hand merchandise which carries
a concealed filling and is used
for sleeping, sitting or reclining
purposes to be fumigated before
being sold. This includes daven
ports, mattresses, blankets and
quilts, upholstered baby car
riages, pillows,, box springs and
upholstered hammocks to name
the large clasifications. The vari
ous section fill a 20-page pam
phlet. Regulations and standards
relating to bedding and furniture
are separate another booklet of
40 pages.
The fumigation law has been
on the books since 1920 but
until August 16, 1949, sulphur
and formaldehyde could be used.
Cyanide is now required
leader, Mrs. Robert Morrow, oa
Boxwood lane.
The girls voted to send Yvonne
Pool as a delegate to a meeting
to discuss the party in honor
of Juliet Lowe, founder of the
Girl Scouts, to be held on March
11. The girls selected material
for dirndl skirts as the last
project in their sewing assign
ment. Margo Hudkins and Shirley
Hudson became members of the
troop, and Margo Hudkins gave
the history of the scouts. Mar
go Hudkins was in charge of
the entertainment and Patty
McMillen served the refreshments.
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