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4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 6, 1950
Maybe Goethe Was Right
Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe, finding that men were
becoming wiser but in no way better, told Johann Peter
Eckerman, his private secretary, in the latter's "Conver
sations with Goethe":
"I foresee a time when God will be disgusted with hu
manity and He will destroy everything in preparation for
a new creation." '
The prediction of the scientists of the possibility that
a hydrogen bomb would exterminate the human race may
be right and all may be destined to die from the effects of
radio-active cobalt dust. On the other hand, the prophecy
of the 8th Chaper of Genesis when the waters of the flood
subsided :
"And the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the
ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's
heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again smite any more
every thing living, as I have done.
"While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold
and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not
cease."
But the menace to humanity of the atomic, hydrogen,
and other yet to be invented bombs, of radar guided death
missiles which menace life on the globe are not the work
of God or of nature, but of mankind itself. Certainly every
effort of science and humanity seems bent on destruction
of life with the progressive increasing terribleness of the
means of mass production and destruction for ruin and
death until all organized life on the globe is wiped out.
At brief intervals come announcements of new devices
of winged death. The U. S. army announces that a guided
missile with a ground-to-ground range of nearly 1000 miles
is possible with present American knowledge and experi
ence, but an immediate program for it would mean "freez
ing design" at the present stage of development and con
centrating on production rather than research. Given
time they probably would devise a 10,000-mile missile.
The V-2 German rockets inaugurated the guided missile
program. Some 100 were brought to this country after
the war and have led to a number of highly efficient surface-to-surface
and surface-to-air missiles, one of Hitler's
legacies of death to the world.
In the perfection of the hydrogen bombs and these long
range guided missiles perhaps lie future peace for they
are such terrible weapons of mass human suicide that
their use must be eventually banned and peace, other than
that of the grave, preserved.
The House FEPC Bill
Copies of the amended and revised Fair Employment
Practice Commission bill passed by the house and sent to
the senate, where it will probably be filibustered to death
by southern democrats, reveals that while the despatches
described it as a voluntary measure with its enforcement
penalties removed and so "toothless," it is in reality
drastic legislation taking away the inherent right of indi
viduals to hire whom they want, with social and economic
effects on the nation.
The bill, if passed, will place all private employment
procedures under federal control. It calls for the appoint
ment of five federal commissioners, with offices at Wash
ington and in the regions, states and localities with a
bureaucracy of employes to hear and initiate complaints
of discriminations against persons seeking work, who
would investigate charges and make community or indus
try studies of their own, with or without formal represen
tations. The FEPC members would have power of subpoena and
place witnesses under oath. Reports from the commission
. and attendant publicity of their specific recommendations
'for the removal of conditions they protested would preju
dice the public and injure individuals and businesses. More
over, persons denounced for "contumacy" and obstruction
could be fined $500 in federal court for contempt for any
one of the six discriminations charged. Advocates of the
original bill declare it ineffectual without additional pen
alties. The bill is a continuation of the do-gooders' efforts to
make people good by passing a law to regulate and regiment
human nature along the lines the Puritans attempted in
their New England theocracy and really belongs to bu
reaucratic stateism through a public supervision of pri
vate employment.
Arthur Krock of the New York Times, speaking of its
alleged toothlessncss, relates the follow annccdote :
"Once an animal-tamer with a circus artproached a member
of the staring crowd on the lot and offered him $10 if he would
insert his head twice a day in the mouth of the circus lion.
Persuasion being clearly required, the animal-tamer offered
assurance that this lion had no teeth. 'No sir,' was the reply.
'I don't want to be gummed by no lion!' "
If the Gas Station Is Permitted
Will there or won't there be a gas station on the corner
of Center and North Capitol streets across from the ex
panding capitnl group of buildings?
Salem's city council will decide next Monday night at its
regular meeting. The city planning and zoning commis
sion acted favorably on the permit, despite a plea from the
capitol planning commission that the "fringe" area around
the zone set aside for present and future state buildings
be restricted to institutional, apartment house, school or
special public service use.
The issue actually is not one of whether or not a gns
station is better than a lot full of weeds. The issue is
whether or not another "exception" will be made to the
idea of restricting the "fringe" area around the capitol
group.
If another "exception" is made, then the planning and
coning commission and the city council would be in no
position in the future to try to restrict use of the lots in
the "fringe" area.
. How could the zoning commission or the city council
justify in their own minds or in the minds of the people
of the community the turning down of future "exceptions"
if the gas station is sanctioned ?
How could the zoning commission or the city council
turn down a permit in the future for other "exceptions"?
Approval of the gns station would make meaningless so
called restrictions in the "fringe" area around the capitol
zone of buildings. Then the city council would have to
answer to the rest of the state which has entrusted the
' protection" of the atate building! to the city itself.
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Lack of Cooperation of State Henry
Officers Hurts Narcotics Case
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neighboring srare
By DREW PEARSON'
Washington Abe Davidian, a narcotics runner," was found ly
ing on a couch in his mother's home in Fresno, Calif., last week,
a bullet hole in his head. . ' ,
Behind his murder were ramifications extending to the New
Jersey palisades, probably down to Miami, Fla., where a narcotics
grand jury has
ill
Drew Pearnon
, Jr.
Chris Kowlti,
KRISS-KROSS
Salem Man Identifies Sea .
Monster; 'It's a Manatee'
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Among the hundreds of curious-minded folks who flocked to
DeLake Sunday to view the mysterious mass of sea life which
had washed upon the beach there was Lewis McDaniel of lozi
Cross street, Salem.
McDaniel, like every person who gazed upon the hideous crea
ture, went away r
mutter ing to
himself, "What
is it?"
But instead of
just wondering
about the gi
g a n t i c thing
which others
have dubbed the
"sea monster,"
McDaniel decid
ed to do some
thing about
identifying it.
Arriving home early Sunday gressional delegation to get TV
evening, McDaniel got out a set for Portland, are sponsored by
of encyclopedias and started a group of radio and electric
wading through th,e volumes in stores in Portland. Their pur
search of something which fits pose in boosting TV isn't to sell
the description of the DeLake television sets . . . it's to sell
monster. radios. People in the Portland
After several hours of tedious area are being educated by their
page-scanning, McDaniel thinks friends to not buy radios now,
he has the answer. because television will be along
"It's a manatee," McDaniel oon. forcing radio prices to skid,
was convinced this morning. Radl duealers en 4 P""?
"The encyclopedia's description any fuch dP ln Pr,lce?' but
of a manatee is a perfect descrip- they re anxl?us fr fpl
tion of the monster at DeLake." PeaF s pe?ple wlU start buylng
McDaniel said the 20-foot ra S aBam;. . .
monster somewhat resembled a
sea cow, and that it had "hog
UicHac" alt n,n i XTn mnm .
orized a vivid description of the on duty, a ew mont.h a?' ls
monster as he looked it over, ,,""-. . . .7
then compared every detail with Jk-' Tm' 51,11 Jglan . S"l'
the encyclopedia's explanation of lost abut 30 pound? du.rml u
a manatee.
"It checks from every angle,
said McDaniel. "The thing is
manatee."
been in session,
and apparently
up to- enforce
ment officers in
the state of Cal
ifornia. In fact,
Davidson's mur
der illustrates
the amazing in
terstate network
of organ i z e d
crime.
I was in Fres
no in January when Davidson
and 15 others were indicted by
the federal government in an ef
fort to break up a giant narcot
ics ring. At that time both War
ren Olney of the California
Crime commission and George
White, chief U.S. narcotics agent
for the west coast, were worried.
They told me they were wprricd
over the strange behavior of the
office of California's Attorney
General Fred Howser in declin
ing to cooperate in this impor
tant case.
Here is the story of this sig
nificant murder and the pecu
liar facts behind it.
Four months ago Davidian
was speeding up California's
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' Thanks to uncooperative state
officials, therefore, Davidian
went to an early trial and plead
ed guilty. But Judge Warren
Stockton of Bakersfield, anxious
to cooperate, postponed sen
tencing Davidian, thus giving the
federal government time to in
dict Sica and 14 other members
of the narcotics ring.
As they were picked up, mem
bers of the ring told U.S. agents
they knew exactly who was'
going to be arrested. Federal
agents, incidentally, had let the
state agents see their confiden
tial files. It is also interesting
that Crime Commissioner Olney
announced that a phone call was
traced from Sica's office to Rob
ert Franklin in Fresno, one of
Howser's campaign managers.
"No Jurisdiction"
Kills Cooperation
That ends chapter 1 of the
story of the California narcotics
ring. Chapter 2 began about two
weeks affn whpn thp TT S otf.-
ney's office in Los Angeles got MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
a up inat eastern gangsters
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ical error? No. We borrowed
the idea from an anonymous
reader who writes.
"This hemline work you see
discussed so often . . . shouldn't
it be himline?- ... It is the hims
the hemlines are supposed to
please ... so here's to more at
tractive himlines as spring blos
soms and festers into summer."
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Those petitions, being circulat
ed locally, urging Oregon's con-
Battle in Which Men Roasted
To Death in Devil's Oven
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
At ForetEn Affair! Analyst)
Your columnist has been ruminating over strange strange bat
tles he encountered in two wars.
What set me thinking along this line was the recent American
and Canadian joint army-airforce maneuvers in Alaska's current-
They were op
erating with
skis, snowshoes
and sledges in
temperatures oi
20 to 60 degrees
below zero, and
that
Tiny Odle, the city cop who
was stricken with illness while
recent illness. . . . Silverton high
school band showed up at dis
trict basketball tourney last was to buy narcotics with mark- u.S.A. But
weeK aoiiea up in Drana new
uniforms. First time they had
worn the new suits. . . . Used car
With the introduction of ladies' dealers in Salem hinting that
were being Imported to bump
o:i uaviaian. ,
The FBT wao notified Dut
contrai vaiiey near Baitersiieiu Davidian was a narcotics wit
with one kilogram of heroin in ness for the treasury depart
his car. When the police gave ment. He was not a justice de
chase, he drove so fast that, partment witness and, without
though he tossed the heroin out consulting J. Edgar Hoover, the
to get rid of the evidence, some west coast FBI took no interest,
of it flew into the back seat A few weeks before this the
with such force that the police. FBI had been asked bv the U.S.
had to use a vacuum cleaner to attorney in Los Angeles to help iy frozen wastes where the toys had to evict an invading enemy.
,V UJi D1IUII1H icucidl W1U1CSS,
Offered To Tell On Ring Ralph Allen, was almost beaten
Shortly after his arrest, David- to death in Long Beach, Calif,
ian came in to see federal nar- Allen had been a witness before
cotics chief George White and a federal grand jury against At
offered to tell the story of a torney General Howser, and
large-scale narcotics ring which shortly thereafter was pistol-
the, federal governmeni naa Deen io wiinin an men oi wnen ns
trying to track down lor monms. j" int. c0 it is easy
He was willing to buy more But when the FBI was asked to get f r 0 s t
heroin, this time using marked ' neip protect Alien as a wit- bites as some I
-nnA., nn,4 iUVi floral nffirAre ness before a feriWal Brand 4urv ,',- i, i !
and dictaphones planted within the FBI replied that he was a troops found
earshot. witness in an income-tax case. out. Macken.i.,
Federal officers were elated "his was under the treasury de- Tne story j
and immediately communicated Partment, not the justice, so the j,ave jn min(j is about a unique
with California's state narcotics FBJ didn't cooperate. and awfui conflict under condi-
chief, Walter Creighton, who j- protect mm, Davidian was tjons exactly the reverse of ladies and gentlemen, that is
promised cooperation. But the hidden in Arizona by U.S. nar- tnose j ice-bound Alaska. That mighty hot.
next day White's federal nar- c0'lc agents, but last week he was the Battle of Romani on the
cotics deputies in Los Angeles returned to Los Angeles for ar- blazing Sinai desert just east of Well, sure enough one day a
talked to Creighton and found raBnment and slipped up to the Suez Canal in August of Turkish and Arab army partly
him huffy and uncooperative. J"s mother s home in Fresno. i916. And if you lind this a officered by Germans and Aus-
Mike Riordan, California assist- rn,V:'.Iy.lnB .n. a couch with a twice told tale, you can skip it. trians, suddenly appeared from
ant attorney general in charge bull hl? his head, Davidian ... the ast and flung itselfin.
of law enforcement in San Fran- j and 'his IS indicted At that time the Suez Canal, eluding a camel corps against
Cisco, Creighton said, didn't want agues were considered the Britain's lifeline to the Far East, the British defenses. This assault
to cooperate with the U.S. gov- Z?"UZZZl was being guarded with utmost was accompanied by the un-
. ,u. . mT- ranfinn hv general Sir Archi- believable circumstance of a
njijr u, uuueu oiaies. inis .
was the first time the federal ba!d Murray, commander in
cniex ior xne in ear r-asi at wnose
However, General Murray
didn't subscribe to this belief.
He held with Napoleon's predic
tion that someday somebody was
going to put an army across that
desert.
So Murray established a de
fensive force, including a con
tingent of the famous Anzac
horsemen, among the dunes of
the desert to the east of the ca
nal. There the men lived and
labored in the deep, drifting
sand, under a sun which at noon
time produced a soil tempera
ture of some 175 degrees and.
ernment.
prosecute Davidian immediately
To prosecute Davidian lm
iu eovernment rnt real insido in. cniei ior tne iMear a
mediately, however, would have formation reEardinB th. sources headquarters I spent some time.
spoiled any setup wnereDy ne of heroin nQv floodi (. East of the canal lay the Sinai
Turkish artillery bombardment.
How the deuce could heavy
guns be brought across the dessert?
The Turks struck among the
spring styles scheduled soon, it car prices will soon take an up-
will be interesting to note the ward swing.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Laughton Finds He Likes
Writings of Gertrude Stein
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) "Gosh!" cried Captain Bligh boyishly, "Ger
trude Stein is a beautiful writer!"
Pacing his hotel room as if it were a deck of H.M.S. Bounty,
the captain who prefers to be known as Charles Laughton told
of how he had come to fall in love with Miss Stein's literary
efforts.
desert hell which formed a na-
ed money, so U.S. Narcotics liv( t wlf ..:.,. tnom tv, tional barrier against a Turkish unes witn a fierceness ana
Chief White went to Santa Bar- against h ci advance across the peninsula. At courage for which they are fa-
now blown up higher than a least most military men thought UJ B"sh macmneguns atop
kite. the desert was impassable to an the dunes swept the enemy ad-
vauue witii ueatii. Aiizttt; liurse-
"It's an ex-
traordin-i
ary iiiinK now
you go through
life!" the actor
exclaimed. "Ten
years ago I
couldn't under
stand Gertrude
Stein. It was
all bosh to me
"But recently
I sat down and
read her aloud. It was delight-
U t u
cently he completed a 52-city
tour during which he gave a
one-man show consisting of read
ings ranging from limericks to
Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
"Gertrude Stein's literary
stvle is built on reoititinn. and
M so are parts of- the Bible,", he
said. "I have been thinking of
reading a piece of hers side by
side with a selection from the
Bible that's in the same style."
The actor plans to make an
annual tour, giving his readings,
fill! That's how it is with great and says it is the best fun he's
writings of that kind. You can't ever had.
tell it unless you hear it." "It isn't new,' he said. "Char-
les Dickens and Mark Twain
Laughton then undertook to used to do it. I just revived it
defend the famous passage that the reading of classics aloud. It
has caused considerable ridicule has a nostalgic appeal. And it's
of Miss Stein bv the Philistines: an extraordinarily friendly ex-
bara to see State Narcotics Chief
Creighton personally. Creighton,
he found, was nervous and tem
permental. He declined to co
operate with the federal agents
unless he got a letter from his
chief, Riordan, in San Francisco.
White immediately phoned
Riordan, asked for a letter agree
ing to postpone Davidian's pros
ecution. Davidian, it was ex
plained, was. the key witness by
which the entire narcotics gang
might be caught.
Significant Request
Riordan promised a letter, but
never sent it. Instead he sent
a letter asking for a new count
against Davidian, which, signifi
cantly, would make it impossible
for him to be put on probation,
once convicted.
Riordan is the assistant of At
torney General Fred Howser. So
also is State Narcotics Chief Wal
ter Creighton. Neither the fed
eral government nor Governor
Warren have any power over
them.
By this time, federal agents
knew that the head of the nar
cotics ring was Joe Sica, the new
Italian leader of the Los Angeles
underworld and the man who has
been nudging Mickey Cohen
down from his gangland throne.
Sica trained in New Jersey
with the Willie Moretti gang,
whose headquarters are at Pall
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army.
Should Have Known Better
San Francisco, iUarch 6 (U.R) Mrs. Catherine Kane, who says
she should know better, left her diamond ring on a wash
basin. When she went back to get it, it was gone.
The wash basin was in the ladies' room at City prison,
where Mrs. Kane is a matron.
The ring was recovered later from an inmate.
Worn Out as a Burglar
Ketchikan, Alaska, March 6 (U.R) Burglary was apparently
too strenuous for Harold A. Dyar.
Police reported today they found him blissfully asleep on
a bed in a house he had broken into, his pockets filled with
jewelry.
Chinese Communist Rulers
Split on Reconstruction Issue
The Chinese communist government is severely split.on the
policy issue of the reconstruction of industrial China.
This schism in Red China was revealed today by foreign cor
respondent Michael Keon in the March American Mercury.
Keon, who left the Red China capital, Peking, last August, states
that this policy issue has caused
men in some places literally
jumped their mounts down on
the attackers.
J. lie uuttie rageu Ull Jlltu lue
white heat of the day. Wounded
Turks and Arabs cooked to
death on the blazing sands un
de rthat terrific sun. Others ran
out of drinking water and per
ished from thirst.
Human flesh could stand only
so much. After twenty hours
the Turks gave up and the Bri
tish interned close to 9,000 pris
oners. The rest of the army lay
among the dunes.
...
I have seen some weird and
fearful battle fields, but never
anything like Romani. A host of
dead in native garb lay close to
gether over the shifting sands
roasting in this devil's oven
formed by the dunes. Inter
spersed were camels and don
keys. Empty water bottles told'
their own grim story. )
With the battle over the Bri- 7
tish set about to solve the my
tery of that artillery, and I wa
there when the puzzle final!)
was exposed to an amazed gen
eral staff. Here is what hap-
sades, just across the Hudson ,,. ,t tnr n.
river from New York. Frankie ; , .
Costello is one of Moretti's close General Chou En-lai, premier
A rose is a rose ls a rose is a
rose" etc.
"I'll admit It doesn't seem to
make much sense read in cold
change a nice warm feeling for friends and the Godfather of his 01 the new, communist national
them and for me.
is the spokesman
But I think another reason ls
print," he said. "But if you take that Laughton, one of the most
it as a child might say it ." versatile actors of our time, has
And Laughton, his hair awry, had a lifelong dread of being
threw himself in a chair, let his typecast. And by reading from a
face and eyes wander aimlessly dozen books in a single evening
as he chanted in ten different he can play dozens of roles that
treble inflections: show the real range of his talent.
"A rose is a rose is a rose is a "Actually, I know them all by
rose is a rose is a rose is a rose heart," he said. "But the book
is a rose is a rose." in my hand lets me be any age
Then Laughton looked up with or personality I want. It gives
an air of victory, and I couldn't me the freedom of the-universe."
think of anything to say. He And Charles Laughton is no
had given a wonderful picture longer Charles Laughton or just
of a chanting child, but I never Captain Bligh. He's Solomon,
have felt privy to Miss Stein's and Puck, and Henry at Agin-
inner aims, so I couldn't feci court, and Mr. Pickwick, and a
sure that was what she had railroad train, and a tall gaunt
meant or not when she said "a man at Gettysburg,
rose is a rose" and so forth. That's a wonderful feeling,
too, when you're stout and 50
Laughton, however, intends to and a rose tends to be just a
takt tha Usu to the people. Re- rose just a rose just a rose.
dangerous clash between the alone is enough to put him on pened:
two leaders most powerful after top in the Red hierarchy. There grows on the Sinai pen-
Chairman Mao Tse-tung. On its Ailing fifty - seven - year - old insula a shrub which is tough
outcome hinge a great many of Mao Tse-tung faces a serious and very wiry. That was the
crises in China's lack of the key to the trick for trick it
basic commodity food. This was.
crisis and the industrial chaos The Turks, perhaps at the in
and the unrest of unemployed stigation of German engineers,
labor have already forced the dug little parallel trenches just
Reds to recruit liberal elements far enough apart so that the
faced Liu Shaov-ch'i. the machine t0 tnelr national and municipal wheels of a gun carriage would
boss of the party and its chief administrations. fit into them. These trenches
theoretician, is the leader of the The war in China is far from were filled with the spring-like
radicals and doctrinaires. ov- ,. , shrubs whidh formed a perfect
m.... tt i; k.ii.rac hii (hi The political split in the Red track alone which the Buns ran
of California's Attorney General immpdia,e task of the new Bov. Politburo may let cause another well.
Howser refused to cooperate in nmnt i, to enlist the abilities cmI war to spread across the It was one of the smartest
v,,id.. ci .,!.,. government,
trips between Los Angeles and for the moderate pragmatic ap-
New York, an obvious link be-
tween eastern and western mobs.
Despite this background and
despite the pleas of U.S. narcotic
agents, the enforcement officers
proach to reconstruction. Bleak-
delaying prosecution of David
ian.
of all "non-reactionaries" in a
rnnnnrativa nffnrr tn 0ft thf AV-
"There was no explanation as hausted and paraly2ed country
to why the state bureau of nar- into working shape. .
cotics was so anxious to sabotage Liu sha0.ch'i is concerned
the federal case," Crime Com- chiefly with the problem of in-
missioner Warren Olney said in a corporating China quickly into
public statement. tne Russian-based communist
"The state office did every- empire,
thing It could," Olney continued, Liu Shao-ch'i, the radical, has
"to make Davidian unavailable the backing of Moscow and some
to the federal grand jury. In- army commanders. General
stead of giving the usual coop- chou, who has immense person-
eration," Olney continued, "they al prestige with the masses, is
speeded the trial. This is the strongly supported by the Red
sort of thing that makes or- commander in central China,
ganized crimt, possible." Lin Piao, whose military power
face of war-torn China.
bits of engineering in the war.
Collie, with $25,000 Legacy, Dies
Liberty, Mo., March 6 (.IP) Duke, a Collie dog that received
a $25,000 legacy, is dead.
The 16-year-old animal died Saturday night. -
Three years ago Duke's mistress, Mrs. Martha M. Benson,
a widow died leaving her estate to Duke. He had been her
constant companion since she found him as a puppy.
Mrs. Benson's will stated that after the dog's death the
estate was to be divided between two Kansas City tnstitntions.
The Catherine Hale home for blind women and Mercy hos
pital. Duke had been living at the home of Edwin R. Stroeter, of
Smithville, Mo., the estate administrator, since Mrs. Benson's J
death. T"