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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 7, 1950
Attlee Put on Spot
King George IV's speech from the throne opening par
liament in London a speech written as customarily by the
new government, promised that all controversial legisla
tion would be pigeonholed during the coming year, as
neither the laborites or conservatives want another election
in the near future. Prime Minister Attlee immediately fol
lowed with the announcement that labor would stick to the
schedule for nationalization of steel, "to give effect to acts
passed by parliament," but would not press for other na
tionalizations now.
Winston Churchill immediately put Attlee on the spot
with a request for a definite pledge that labor would not
take over steel until a date "not later than nine months
after the next general election." This offer to labor was
a respite from threat of sudden overthrow and to relieve
the pressure on the administration forced by an election.
The nationalization bill passed by the last parliament
provides that government directors be appointed after
October 1, 1950, and that the actual takeover of the steel
industry should be accomplished between January 1, 1951,
and January 1, 1952.
Churchill's conservatives decided last night to press for
a vote expressing dissatisfaction with labor's policies on
nationalization of steel and construction of housing. With
labors' precarious majority of seven seats in Commons, its
position is precarious for an adverse vote of lack of confi
dence would force another general election. When the steel
nationalization bill was passed, labor had a 148-seat major
ity. The conservative challenge which conceivably could
bring the government's resignation if successful was con
tained in two proposed amendments to the customary gov
ernment motion for approval of the king's speech which
laid down the program yesterday.
One amendment expresses regret that the speech con
tains no reference to the future of the iron and steel in
dustry. The second amendment scored a "continuing de
cline" in house building, criticizing the government pro
gram for not including "more effective measures to deal
with the situation."
The Mayor's Off-Street Parking Plan
Mayor Elfstrom has long been an advocate of off-street
parking, whether downtown or in shopping areas of the
city.
. At the Friday meeting of the Retail Trade Bureau, Elf
strom made the first definite contribution offered by any
one yet, to help the downtown parking situation. He sug
gested the widening of three streets and the using of a
section of River street next to the Willamette bridge for a
parking lot.
His latest suggestion to the downtown merchants was
one combining the logic of city improvement and merchant
initiative to meet the problem of finding more parking
spaces.
The widening of the streets is a sound, intelligent, long
range move. Other streets in the city should be widened,
too, as the city manager has indicated, but the three Elf
strom mentioned for downtown will help a particular park
ing problem. On the other hand, the Baldock traffic plan
calls for the widening of streets in other parts of town at
a later date for improved traffic flow.
Elfstrom was shrewdly cautious in limiting his sugges
tion to the street widening and the one parking lot. He
was speaking both as mayor of the city and as a downtown
merchant. He realized the limits he could go as mayor in
suggesting downtown improvement, backed by civic co
operation. As a businessman, he was one of those who
realized that the off-street parking problem downtown
will be licked only when the cooperation of the merchants
is brought together in a joint merchant-operated parking
lot program such as followed in other cities.
Elfstrom has offered the merchants the basis for a pro
gram that will ease the downtown situation if those merch
ants respond by uniting and supplementing the plan with
parking lots of their own. Elfstrom has made the'firsf
move as mayor and civic leader. Now the next move is
up to the downtown merchants.
Dust Bowl Returning?
There seems to be every indication that the plains states
are entering into another cycle of dry years which peri
odically have followed a series of wet years since settle
ment began and that the "dust bowl" is returning with its
own aridity.
Dispatches state that high winds are whipping up dust
clouds over thousands of acres of crop land and stripping
the sou ot its tertile top sou, cutting down visibility, espe
cially in Texas and New Mexico, similar to the "black bliz
zards" of the 1930s, which also started blowing early in
the spring destroying thousands of acres of cropland and
ruining countless farmers.
The high winds have fanned prairie fires across Kansas
and Nebraska as well as the Texas Panhandle. Unless
copious rainfall follows, weather forecasters say that this
is just the beginning, as severe blowing out of wheat and
other crops is following precedent.
Against the warnings and protest of agricultural au-
thorities the high war time prices and government support
prices following, assuring profit to the farmers, has caused
the plowing up of millions of acres of natural grassland for
grain crops, land that was resown for grazing to check the
dust storms, for the immediate profit, heedless of the
future. .
Many who got rich quickly, will now pay the penalty,
for the shallow fertile top soil, held in place by grass sod,
when plowed is blown away in periods of droughts. That
is to be expected in the dust bowl where dry cycles follow
wet as the night the day and only return to grazing will
ventually solve the problem.
George Stuck by His Gum Story
Bristol, England, March 7 (P) George Law said It was the
automobile that had been stolen from him three years, despite
a different coat of paint and ehanged engine and chassis
, numbers.
He pointed out one thing that was the same a piece of
chewing gum he had used to patch an oil leak. Local magis
trates agreed and ordered the oar returned to him.
BY H. T. WEBSTER
Life's Darkest Moment
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FACtMS TTie GRIM ReLITIES ,
BACK IN TFlE BCMIGHTCO RAYS
B6F0K6 SOCWL SecURITY? PEN
SIONS, BONUS67S AND OTHER
BLESSINGS OF Trie WELFARe
STATE
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Key Civilians to Be Trained on
What to Do in Event of War
By DREW PEARSON
Washington In a recent conference with congressional "Big
Four" leaders, the president made it bluntly clear that he ex
pected them to finish passage of the federal aid-to-education bill,
which already has passed the senate.
"I'm depending on you to get a satisfactory bill through the
house during
BY CARL ANDERSON
Hen
this session.
Truman told
Speaker Sam
Rayburn and
House Majority
Chief John Mc
Cormack. The President
added that he
wouldn't at
tempt to dictate
the terms of the
bill regarding
such controversial questions as
free bus transportation for pa
rochial students.
"The demoratic party," he
mi
Drew Pearioo
said, "has promised aid for our want it or not.
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES
John L. Lewis vs. Phil Murray
The good old American spirit
of free competition may be fine
regarding some things but it was
partly responsible for the coal
crisis. Harry Moses of U.S.
Steel's giant H. C. Frick Coal
Company put his finger on this
during closed-door talks when he
refused to give John L. Lewis a
bigger wage than that given
Phil Murray's CIO Steelworkers.
When rank-and-file union mem
bers see a boost going to a rival
union, they demand the same
thing whether union leaders
KRISS-KROSS
Join the Latest Fad; Pick
A Name for Delake's Monster
ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr.
Genus moroleuthis . . . manatee . . . cetorhinus.
Sounds like a page from a Greek refresher course? . . . No . . .
Those are just some of the scientific guesses as to the identity of
the huge mass of sea life which washed up on Delake's beach
over the week-end.
Laymen havei
been content to
call the thing
"the monster,
"p r e h is t o r icl
goose," "Tub-f
by," or "Smelly
Nellie," etc.
Whatever the
thing is, it'
brought about a
late-winter
Fourth of July
for Delake . . .
thousands flocked to the coastal long pants. Had bowlegs and frau
city Sunday to cast curious eyes Dolly Madison insisted that he do
on the whatchamacallit, and s0- Actually, however, Dolly
small crowds were still dropping wore the pants in the family,
in Monday and Tuesday. Length unknown."
One Salem woman, who view- Wel1. as the old saying goes,
ed (and smelled) the 22-foot you learn something new every
creature Monday, brought back dav-
only one impression . . . "It
stinks'" Observed by Salem man on re-
And while Smelly Nellie (or iJSSSi.H. mf
whatever else you might want wg e""!m en frlendsmeet'
to call it) is causing onlookers filSl!
to wrinkle their noses, it's J," fr0m a tnp to the white"
prompting scientists all over the , '
nation to dive nosefirst into L,e me see the hand that
textbooks in search for an an- shok the hand o Truman," one
swer to the question of the day: o 4the men said. Other man held
"What is it?" 'out right hand. First man look-
... . ,. , . ed at hand, then said, "Let me
fientisls have agreed shake the other hand !.
iiiub me punster is actually a
schools and I am determined
that we make good on that
promise. You bring me a bill
down here and I'll sign it."
BRIEFING PUBLIC
ON A-WAR
, A plan to form a chain of air
craft spotters across the United
Idaho Potatoes Here are two
interesting things about the
potato surplus: 1 Idaho pota
toes aren't glutting the market
like Maine spuds. 2 Acreage
quotas aren't going to limit the
potato crop much. Farmers
simply use more fertilizer. Maine
farmers have now increased
Ca m. k riavn Sr" i. u " J ' '
"
?,aLfrArri"tthe .2Lti. tttoJE- POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
National Defense Department.
The idea is for the public to
do less worrying and more pre
paring for possible atomic attack.
acre, whereas the national yield
is 211 bushels. Thanks to fer
tilizer and insect sprays, how
ever, the national average next
rw
. 1 I
Ctlrll Kowllz, Jr.
wrestled and killed an octupus
under water in the Delake
aquarium.)
Some of the darndest things
come over the Associated Press
wires. The following gem of in
formation, evidently an answer
to some one's query on a certain
phase of history of presidents'
clothing customs, livened up the
wires over the week-end:
"Madison was first to wear
To this end the general public year wU1 1x5 240 bushels. Mean
will be briefed on how to escape while top Idaho spuds have been
danger and stop panic, while ci- selling for $2.75 to $3.50 per
vilian minute-men will be train- bushel while Uncle Sam is pay
ed in peace for possible duties in lnS a support price of around
Getting People to Attend Public
Dinner Now Active Industry
case of war.
One of these is a civilian air
craft warning net, stretching in
an arc across 25 northern states
from North Carolina to Califor
$2 for surpluses.
Idaho that potatoes have been
piling up.
Hot War It didn't leak out,
but the cold war almost turned
By HAL BOYLE
New York (IP) Today, we take you for
So it s not in peak at a great American industry
a behind-the-scenes
It is the business of getting people to attend a public dinner.
And right now it is one of the most active industries in the
United States.
nia cutting across the middle of int a hot war las week. Yu-
Public
ners fall
din-
into
Illinois. Ohio and Indiana. Civil
ian volunteers will be trained,
then kept on a stand-by basis at
goslav troops were on the verge
of invading Albania, which
would probably have precipt
key posts to scan the skies for tated a counter-attack by Russia,
enemy planes. This is necessary But u s- Ambasador George Al
to supplement our radar screen len in Belgrade got wind of Yu
which hasn't been completed yet goslavia's preparations, went to
and has certain blind spots, any- Marshal Tito and told him that,
jj0W if Yugoslavia did invade Al-
Tlie navy has also been as- an'a' the United States would
signed to work with civilian au- "5e d ' fT"?6 h""
thorities in order to throw a dim- J,JZ?. J1"!?
out switch down the Pacific 5?ed Tlto of and he called off
two broad class-1"
es:
1. The testi
monial dinner.
2. The "wor
thy cause" dinner.
nl,. tn fnrlr nnf h
the cash for a
a ticket to a
;...(I..WJ1M1.
Hal Boyle
people are afraid not to buy a
ticket. This assures a full, at
tentive house.
But roping folks into going to
a dinner for "a worthy cause" is
quite another matter Approach
ed with a proposition of this
sort, the average man will run
for the nearest excuse. His
mother-in law has just come
down with the measles or his
wife has broken her arm playing
Canasta, and he has to take her
to the hospital.
This reluctance has created a
coast as an emergency, anti-sub'
marine measure. A similar pro
gram will be work out later for
the Atlantic coast.
MUST FACE
UNPLEASANTRIES
The plans being drafted in
clude some unpleasant news, but
military leaders believe they
should be faced now.
his troops.
(Copyrllht 1950)
iY,ilnna ,1,111 ho trninpH In PHPh
hunk off a very common form of This writer has suddenly been city to care for the dead and
wounded and restore tne city to
emergency operation. Mobile
units will also be trained to
f Looks Like Myrtle the Turtle
Is Going to Be a Mama All Right
Chicago, March 7 W) Myrtle the turtle of the Brookfield
zoo is fertile and apparently is going to be a mama.
Myrtle the turtle. Zoo Director Robert Bean explained, isn't
exactly a turtle. She's a 28-year-old, 300-pound giant tortoise
In case of atomic attack, key from the Galapagos islands off the west coast of South America.
Bean said Myrtle's babies will
testimonial din
ner is no problem at all. Gen
erally the gent being honored is new specialist the professional
so fowerful that at least 1,000 Publlc dinneJ arranger.
Let us take a typical case.
Suppose you are president of the
society for relieving impoverish
ment among Eskimo architects.
You want the society's annual
dinner to be a success, so you go
to a professional arranger. '
"To begin with my fee will be
$750," murmurs this dear old
lady.
"What!" you bark. "Why
f,w fUC waV a, e, r camped with a deluge of cigars
squid. But old-time Delakers from friends who have become
(heartily backed up by the papas. Guess we'll either have to
Chamber of Commerce) insist iearn to smoke or buy us a
this monster is the real thing . . . wooden Indian . . . Ardo Tarem,
a true demon of the depths. the YMCA masseur, is the only
Bulldog Jackson, one of the man in the state who can slap
most colorful figures in the his- the governor around and get
tory of wrestling who now lives away with it . . '. The Chemeke
in Salem, looked at photos of tans, Salem hiking club, plan to
Delake's latest pride and joy, climb Mt. Hood on June 10 and
and muttered, "Hell, I've rasslcd 11 , . . Home extenson units be
worser lookin' things than thai." ing sought by residents of Fruit
bulldog, incidcnlly, once land and Keizer district.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
West Germany and France at
Loggerheads on Saar Valley
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(iPI foreran AMaln Analyst!
Once more France and Germany (this time the Bonn govern
ment of Western Germany) are at loggerheads over the Saar
valley a bone of bitter contention for two centuries.
The Saar, which the Bonn regime claims is German territory,
lies up against the French frontier. It is of vast importance for
two reasons: r
It is one of
the world's rich
est coal areas.;
and (what per
haps isn't so
widely recog
nized) has great
strategic value
militarily. j
rms siraicgic
aspect is of spe
cial significance
in view of the
deep-seated hostility between the mission appointed by the League
two nations, engendered oy a of Nations. After that a plebiscite
long train of wars. should be held and the people
should decide which one of three
At the end of the late war courses they should pursue: Con
France detached the Saar from tinue under the league adminis
Germany and gave it a status tratlon, make union with France
of limited self-government under or with Germany.
French direction.
The French Have made a treaty On January 15, 1935, the pleb
with the Saar under which the iscitc was held and 90.8 percent
valley government becomes a' of the vote was for union with
"republic" with broader auton- Germany. This was during the
omy but with Paris remaining Hitlerian regime, - and it was
in charge of foreign relations and widely charged that the Fuehrer
military security. France con- had plastered the basin with
tinucs in control of the coal Nazi ringers. However, the zone
mines for fifty years. The Saar went back to Germany. Now it
is promised complete idepen- is again under French control,
donee at the end of that time if at least for the time being,
the allies approve. France's action has caused hot
Actually France has no auth- anger in Bonn. The German gov
ority to make final disposition eminent has made it clear that
of the Saar at this juncture, it will demand the return of the
since the western allies have Saar, and it is expected that a
agreed that the matter shall be special session of the legislature
settled in the peace conference will be called to deal with the
with Germany. However, on the situation.
basis that possession is nine In its first post-war election
points of the law, the French may in 1947 the Saar voted overwhel
have strengthened their position mingly for economio union with
In Mixing opportunity by the Franco.
11
w1
DeWill Mackeml
forelock.
The Saar district, of some 784
square miles, originally came
into possession of France in 1766
as part of Lorraine. After the
peace of Paris in 1815 it was
turned over to Germany. At the
end of World War I the Saar
basin was awarded to France by
the treaty of Versailles, for ex
ploitation of the coal fields.
The treaty further provided
that for 15 years the Saar basin
should be governed by a com
be the first of the species to be eggs, weighing 3 ounces; under there are only 100 members in
hatched in an American zoo. an X-ray machine at a dentist's our society, and we were going
Until last Valentine's day when office. On the film, Vaguely and to throw our clambake in Joe's
Mvrtlp laid five eeea in the mistilv. were denicted the be- joint. We only charze S2.00. and
move into an atomic-blitzed city zoo's reptile house, she was just ginnings of a tiny tortoise, they Joe lets us have his blue plate
and aid local authorities. Big- another tortoise. said. . special for $1.50, so we only ex-
gest need will be a huge blood But until yesterday Bean and Snedigar estimated the blessed pect to clear four bits a head"
reservoir. Another problem con- Robert Snedigar, curator of rep- event will take place in six to So the wise old lady says don't
cerns the present humanitarian tiles, had been in the dark as to 10 weeks. The eggs are in a spe- be foolish, nobody goes to a two
concept of aiding most critical whether Myrtle's eggs were fer- cial incubator. buck affair anymore. She
cases first In mass destructions, tilp km i j-t n . schedules the dinner at the Wal-
They said Myrtle's secret was per in their defense," Snedigar ance f tow's a dt
laid bare on X-ray film after said. . "She just lacks all in- lrance Iee t0. 1.0 a. aucat'
they placed one of the tortoise stincts of motherhood."
Who Says Hollywood Isn't Wild?
Los Angeles, March 7 (U.R) The west is still wild.
While Shoppers scattered for cover, a coyote strqlled down
fashionable Wilshire boulevard yesterday.
WHO WOULD BE SELECTED?
Atomic Age 'Noah's Ark'
To Ride Out Radioactivity
By JOHN M. ROACH .
New York, March 7 (Ufc Mr.' and Mrs. John Q. Public
wouldn't stand a chance to climb aboard an atomic age "Noah's
ark to ride out H-bomb radioactivity.
All the space would be filled with Hollywood movie queens
like Inffred Bergman and Jane Russell who would keep company
more, tne middleman nas Deen wit), males like Dr. Albert Ein
making more. stein and Gen. Dwight D. Eisen.
in January, 1849, for instance, hower.
it will be more important to con
centrate on aiding those who
have a better chance of surviv
ing. This tragic problem is al
ready under study by medical
experts.
A huge national war game,
testing military - civilian team
work from coast-to-coast, is also
proposed.
SENATE FOOD-PRICE PROBE
The inside story behind high
food prices will be brought out
into the open today by courtly,
white-haired Sen. Guy Gillette,
an Iowa dairy farmer whose
subcommittee has been digging
into skyrocketing prices of cof
fee, milk, bread, eggs, poultry
and live stock.
Despite terrific pressure to
stop this probe, Gillette will
show that, while farmers' income
is shrinking and consumers pay
"Who's going to make the main
speech?" she asks.
"Why, I was," you say lamely,
and she remarks, "Don't be piti
ful. We gotta get some big name
talkers."
"But who cares about helping
the poor, downtrodden Eskimo
architects?" you inquire. And
she says leave that to her.
Well, it turns out that a sena
tor from Washington would be
more than glad to discuss, "The
Eskimos are our first line of de
fense." And a bigwig from the
United Nations is just aching to
give a half -hour report on
"Peace in the Far Snow It's
wonderful."
And for entertainment? It
turns out that a brilliant young
composer has just finished a new
piece called, "North Pole Seren
ade," and would love to try it
o-t on the public at a charity
Those famous four received
the most votes in a poll of
prominent Americans who
were asked to name the per
sons who should be hidden
away to give the world the
freshest start if civilization
were destroyed by H-bombs.
The ark, however, would be a
deep natural cave.
But the nurse he selected was
Mrs U:ipannr Pnnspvplt hppausp
they would need a "superior banquet. That way he'l sure of
woman to care for them until newspaper mention
they are adults."
Marie Wilson and orchestra
leader Spike Jones submitted
different lists but both had the
same idea.
By now the dinner really
sounds like something, but how
are you going to sell all those
$15 tickets?
the largest U.S. coffee importer.
the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.,
paid 25 cents a pound for coffee,
and sold it for 47 cents. Ten
months later A & P paid 28 cents
a pound, but charged 65 cents.
Another big buyer, General
Foods, raised its retail price
from 51 cents to 76 cents a
pound, although it paid approxi
mately the same import price as
A & P.
Manv of tne bie Importers are ,.1.. v-ii- r:i-nmn ta 1-., Hn ...1 1
- icinc x cinema, iiwiiiiu- jvccu an awuuiib ui. Wliai ,. llf 11 u 11 11 i
members of the Sugar & Coffee ent Minneapolis, Minn., novelist, goes on in the ark for the next ?erZ Well, believe it or not, in
Exchange, which were investi- eliminated headliners in his list world;" Joe Louis "For pro-'"ianna , n heTe ,are thousands
gated after World War I because ol who should rebuild civiliza- tection;" Jack Benny "To J People who make a career out
of the hike in sugar prices. Gil- tion. He suggested that a commit- keep spirits up;" Dr. Harlow '?"lg t0 pu , c dinners. Some
lette investigators figure a sugar tee of top pediatricians select Shapley "An astronomer to " , t 'j u
nrice rise is in the cards now. nnp.vpar-r.lri nmhan hnvs tolcp thpm trt annthpr nianpt in- wanl Keep my lace before the
public," and the rest Just don't
urfui, j t 11
Sh proposed nine men and fBf "Z ' ' t.iV J P -
"any beautiful girl to keep these l?ftS LfLn. f ' "i1"',?6,!"!
nine men happy." Her males in- to my selected list
eluded Einstein-"To figure out , di?,nIer-goer ' and we ?
what to do next;" John Gunther ?aUrom-, ' '
price rise is in the cards now, five one-year-old orphan boys take them to another planet in
unless the senate coffee probe and five one-year-old orphan case they run into trouble;"
scares it off. girls with good bodies and minds. Arthur Rubinstein and his piano
"To soothe their nerves with
LHienthal Gets His Revenge
Philadelphia, March 7 (IP) David E. LHienthal, who gave
weariness of senatorial heckling as part of his reason for
resigning last month as chairman of the atomic energy com
mission, has taken a poet's revenge on two of his most out
spoken critics.
They are Senators Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R., Ia.), and
Kenneth McKellar (D., Tenn.)
LHienthal said in a speech here last night he found that
as a private cltiien he had to have a card to use the George
town, Mei., public library, near his home. He also needed two
references.
know what else to do after dark.
So the dinner is a huge suc-
au buuuic men uavca Willi . , ,
music;" Fred Allen-"For witty Ju 5'000- Then you
laiu." iw. Tp,.nn "t . discover there are only five
talk;" Drew Pearson
diet what's going to happen next"
and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
"A military master to keep them
out of trouble." 4
.
Jones on the other hand nom
inated Jane Russel, Ava Gard
ner, Lana, Turner, Ann Blythe.
really poverty-stricken Eskimo
architects in the world.
You forward the money to
them, they put stoves in their
igloos, and the central heating
gives them pneumonia and in
three weeks there are no more
Eskimo architects.
You then disband your society.
Elizabeth Taylor, Bach, Bee- But that doesn't worry the pro-
tnoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn fessional dinner arranger. She
bnri 'Snilro .Tnnaa All tha malae t- n I I . . 1 ... i
t .... maiEii, to aucauy uusy UI1 Hie annual i
So, he said, he put down tha namea of Senators McKellar he failed to note, are dead ex- bannupt nf th fnr ,J
and Hickenlooper. cept Jones. tending television to tha Zulus