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BY H. T. WEBSTER
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime U. S. Military Secrets May Be
iBWl Withheld from British Radicals
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Ambassador Lew Douglas made a special visit to
the Pentagon this week to discuss with Secretary of Defense Louis
Johnson the idea of withholding U. S. military secrets from new
British Minister of Defense Emmanuel Shinwell and from British
War Minister John Strachey.
ly, Tokyo Rose and James Monti.
Bureaucrats get a lot of kick
ing around on Capitol Hill and
in the newspapers. But Campbell
is one of the so-called bureau
crats who not only did a superb
job, but played an important role
in the destinies of the nation.
BY CARL ANDERSON
H e
'4
Salsm, Oregon, Saturday, March 11, 1950
"Mortality from Diseases
The annual report to policy holders of the Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of New York, presents the following table
showing the causes of death among its 10,343 policy hold
ers who died in 1949:
Diseases of heart and circulatory system, 56.8 percent. Can
cer, 15.8 percent. Accidents, 4.5 percent. Diseases of kidneys,
4.3 percent. Influenza and pneumonia, 2 percent. Suicide, 1.7
percent. Tuberculosis, 1.3 percent. All other causes, 13.6 per
" cent. Total 100 percent.
The cause of death percentages are probably good for all
large insurance companies and correspond to those gath
ered by the Public Health Service at Washington. The
J latest published statistics are those for 1947 compiled in
- the World Almanac, listing deaths for selected causes and
rates per 100,000 estimated population as follows :
Diseases of the heart, 400,000, rate 321.2; cancer, 189,811, rale
132.4; accidents, 99,570, rate 69.4; pneumonia nad influenza,
61,836, rate 43.1; diabetes, 57,515, rate 26.2; nephrites, 80,288,
rate 56.0; suicide, 16,538, rate 11.5; tuberculosis, 48,064, rate
-33.5.
The American Heart association states that more than
w 625,000 Americans die annually from 21 distinct types of
heart disease. The death rate heads mortality from any
j cause, 3 times as high as in cancer, 6 times as high as
accidents, 10 times as high as pneumonia, and 13 times as
;i high as tuberculosis.
The Institute for Cancer Research states that between
$' 180,000 and 200,000 deaths occur annually from it. In
1949 an estimated 278,164 persons were being treated for
v cancer for the first time and 879,550 others with a history
of cancer were living in all stages from cure to imminent
death, while 229,765 had received treatment for five or
?. more years.
The mounting death rate in 35 years has risen nearly 300
percent for a population increase of 50 percent, due to the
fact that cancer is principally a disease of middle or old
' age. Gratifying progress has been made the past five
years in it3 treatment.
Poliomyelitis recorded about 40,000 cases in 1949, striking
the nation for the fourth time with epidemic fury, compared to
: the 1948 maximum of 28,000. Progress is reported in its treat
- ment, requiring Individual care, the most expensive known, ex-
hausting the $25 million funds of the March of Dimes raised to
i combat it.
Some 620 respirators, 495 hot pack machines, 320 cribs and
i mattresses, and other supplies were shipped to emergency areas.
The National Foundation recruited for emergency duty 153
physical therapists, 2427 nurses, 35 resident physicians and a
. long list of other specialists. The discovery of a new polio
virus marks an important advance in treatment.
It's About Time!
Secretary of State Acheson's call for "total diplomacy"
to curb Russian expanion sounds as if the Truman admin--
istration has finally realized what's going on in the world.
The people of the country, from their crossroads posi-
tions, have been puzzled and concerned that Washington,
' D.C, had not previously sensed that only by an all-out
global effort could the Soviets be stopped without re
h sorting to actual use of arms.
Those people the average "guys" have been wanting
the administration to get wise to what's doing on the world
.- front and start offering leadership, instead of waiting and
' waiting with nothing but indecision to mark their actions.
"' This "total diplomacy" idea amounts to a mobilization
of the nation's people and resources in an attempt to stop
Moscow's imperialism without having to go to a shooting
' war. Acheson has admitted that the Soviet rulers in the
Kremlin are now at war with the United States and other
v western democracies. But that war is still in the "cold
;.- war" stage.
ii Acheson's call for complete support was really not neo
: essary. He already hnd that support, generally speaking.
It was typified by the bi-partisan foreign policy. If that
bi-partisan policy was falling apart, it was only because
"" the White House had failed to show the leadership that
. was expected of it.
, When President Truman showed leadership in meeting
.; the Russian expansion in Europe, he was being bold, but
,, he was taking the only sensible course open to him to pro
tect the nation's interests. The people blinked a few times,
but went along with the president.
,r Then when the airlift thwarted Russian attempts to
blockade Berlin, the people again went along.
But when the president failed to follow his Truman
.; Doctrine in Asia, the people became disgruntled. Ameri-
cans lost as much face last year in the Orient as they did
I in the years preceding World War II. But Truman would
" do nothing about it.
So when Acheson finally comes through with a call for
nationwide support, he is greeted with comment like this:
"We've been ready for a long time, but where have vou
been?"
It is hoped that this belated awakening to the facts of
the world by the Truman administration won't be labeled :
"Too little too late."
" Mistaken Appeasement
At the government's request, the sentence of 15 years'
o imprisonment of Valentin Gubitchev, the first Soviet citi
' zen convicted of spying in the United States, was suspend
",' ed for his deportation to Russia within two weeks. His
.. co-conspirator, Judith Coplon, will have to serve her 15
year term, her second conviction.
" Trial Judge Sylvester Ryan flayed both Gubitchev and
the 28-year-old Brooklyn girl as betrayers of their trusts.
' He called Gubitchev a "betrayer of all human mankind" a
man who came to the United States as an "emissary of
peace" and who was accepted as a friend, but violated his
; oath to the UN and "all the peoples of the world."
The leniency shown Gubitchev was an act of appease
ment of Russia in the hope of similar leniency to Ameri
cans behind the iron curtain, held for espionage under
. framed convictions and extorted "confessions." The formal
" official statement said: "It was believed that suspension
of the sentence conditioned on Gubitchev leaving the Unit
' ed States would best serve the public interest."
AH Russian nwspapers, however, assert that Gubitchev
Is being sent home because of the "collapse of the accusa-
tions groundlessly brought against" the Soviet official.
" They did not mention the espionage charges for which he
t was convicted.
Like all of our appeasement efforts, this one will only
" intensify the persecution of Americans in the satellite
nations and be twisted into anti-American propaganda.
Que-
wi tm t 3M1. .ttwmro iy HQunr .
BIO
TRACKS
mploym5 cooper
STeppws in tus euew
MOCCASIh) THACKS
Drew Pearion
The two Brit
ish cabinet
members are
colorful left-of-center
labor
party politicians,
one of them ac
cused of having
communist con
nect ions, ' but
with enthusias
tic followings in
England. Shin
well is a hot
headed British Pole, represent
ing Ramsay MacDonald's radical
mining constituency and thor
oughly hated by the British gen
eral staff.
Once, during a parlimentary
debate, when another M.P. de
manded of Shinwell, "Why don't
you go back to Poland?" Shin
well stormed across the chamber
and punched him.
When Shinwell moved from
the ministry of fuel to the war
ministry, Winston Churchill said
hopefully: "When he was minis
ter of fuel, we had no fuel. Now
that he is minister of war, per
haps we will have no war."
Strachey is now under fire
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Don't Pay Too Much Attention
To Exceptional Cases in News
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector, St. Paul' Episcopal Church
There is an old saying that it is not news when a dog bites a
man, but it is news when a man bites a dog. We should have this from Lord Beaverbrook's London Graham has just as consistently
in mind when we read the parable of the Good Samaritan. In the Evening Standard for "failing supported President Truman as
parable of the Good Samaritan, a certain lawyer asked our Lord, to renounce your known com- his colleague, Senator Hoey, has
Senator Can't Slap Back
Sen. Frank Graham of North
Carolina, who has made as great
an impression on congress as
any newcomer on Capitol Hill,
faces a tough re-election battle.
Graham, a former president of
the University of North Carolina,
has turned out to be a fine sena
tor, but is a babe-in-the-woods
as far as politics is concerned.
He doesn't know how to slap
backs, raise money or roll logs.
Furthermore he gives so much
of his money to charity that he
has almost no funds with which
to run a campaign, and the
other day had to borrow from his
wife's savings account. So far
organized labor, whom he has
supported, hasn't lifted a finger
to help, nor has there been even
a whisper of help from the White
House despite the fact that
n ry
r Anotibon
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
incident
which a certain"
man was r ob-
bed, and left
half dead by
the road side.
Two men ob
served the un
fortunate man,
but went along
without render
ing aid.
These two'
men, by the Rer. Georce H. Swill
very nature of
their profession, would have
been expected to care for this
sufferer and give him every at
tention and assistance. If they
had rendered aid, they would
munist views." In reply, Strach- opposed him.
incident because it had news ey, who was once held up on Graham is opposed by ex
value. Only thoughtless and un- Ellis Island as a suspected radi- senator Bob Reynolds the old
observing people would look cal, said he was never a com- isolationist, whose daughter in
upon the parable as a blanket munist party member and re- herited a fortune from Mrs. Eva
condemnation of the priests, and pudiated communist doctrines in yn Walsh McLean of Hope dia
a. blanket commendation of the 1940. In his new post he is in mond fame- and by Willis Smith
Samaritans. charge of counterespionage. former president of the Ameri
' ' . Thef appointments come on can Bar association, who has the
In reading the daily news, we top of the jitters given our joint backing of the big mill-owners,
should be careful about drawing chiefs of staff on British security the tobacco interests and the
conclusions from isolated cases over Dr- Fuchs, whose tips to bankers It It hpl invert fhat pith.
liiv quvicl enauieu me uoatt to
set off a bomb five years ahead
of American estimates.
Romance of African Chieftain
Becomes International Issue
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(OP) Foreign Affair Analyst)
The romance of the young Oxford educated Negro chief of the
South African Bamangwatos, who made a white London typist his
queen, has suddenly become an imperial issue and put the British
government on a most uncomfortable spot.
The 27-year-old chief Seretse Khama, ruler over 150,000 sub
jects in Bechu-
which make the headlines. For,
as a rule, they are exceptional
cases, or they would not have
gained particular attention. A
mother told me that she would
not send her son to school beyond
the grades because she had read
Rabbits vs. Education
Behind closed doors in the
house labor committee, blunt-
representative Graham
ma! education beyond the lower which would prohibit federal staying neutral in
that James J. Hill, the railroad spoken
not have been mentioned, for builder, and Thomas A. Edison, Harden of North Carolina was
one was a Jewish priest and the the electric wizard, and other arguing the merits of his new
other a Levite. So few priests men she mentioned had no for- federal - aid -1 o - education bill,
or Levites would have ignored
the man that it was startling
news when they did ignore him.
Just as startling news to the
lawyer was the act of the Sa
maritan, who later came by and
tenderly cared for the wounded
Jew, because the Samaritans did
out direct religious training. But
it would be disastrous to sup-
not like the Jews. Christ made pose that therefore we need no
the lawyer and the countless religious training for our child
number of people who have read ren. Such cases are so rare they
this parable since remember the have news value.
grades, and she thought they did spending for any school buses,
all right. public or parochial.
Occasionally we hear of some "When I was a boy in North
man of exceptional influence for Carolina I had to walk three
good who has become so with- miles to school," Barden recall-
er Reynolds or Smith may later
withdraw, in order to pool their
votes against Senator Graham.
Meanwhile no one is running
against Senator Hoey, who Is ex
pected to become an open Dixie
crat after the election.
Note Secretary of the Army
Gordon Gray, who will replace
Graham as president of the Un
iversity of North Carolina, is
the North
Carolina race, but his family is
backing Smith.
(Copyright 1950)
analand, m a r
ried Ruth Wil
liams, 24, in
London some
months ago and
took her to his
clay - hut capi
tal as q u e e n.
You wouldn't
think that was
anything tol
worry the em
pire upon which
the sun never sets, but events
soon proved any such idea to be
fallacious.
The great Union of South Af
rica, which is a neighbor of Be-
DeWitt Mackenzie
It Wasn't Fire-Proof
Seattle, Wash., March 11 U.R An airplane fuel tank de
signed to be bullet-proof, leak-proof and fire-proof was tested
yesterday at Boeing field with bursts of bullets from a machine
gun.
Two fire department crews spent half an hour dousing the
resulting blaze.
Name Was Reason Enough
Pocatcllo, Idaho, March 11 Wi Municpal Judge R. Don
Bistline today dismissed an overparking charge against a
young woman who told him she inadvertently placed her
, coin In the wrong meter.
Her name?
Fonda Parkin.
KRISS-KROSS
Rain, Snow and Sunshine
. . . Where Else But Here?
ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr.
Where could it happen but in Willamette valley, Oregon?
For about a half hour Friday morning, right in downtown
Salem, rain, snow and sunshine came down all at the same time.
Nice weather for a contortionist ... he could have opened up
his umbrella, put on his snowshocs and shed his coat simultan
eously.
ea. ".nowever, it didn t seem
very long because I got so I
could run the whole three miles.
My classmates didn't consider a
fellow much good if he couldn't
run all the way to school in the
morning."
"That's nothing," drawled In
diana's homespun Andy Jacobs,
"Before I could even start for
school my father used to send me
out to catch a rabbit for break
fast. Sometimes I'd have to run
as much as five miles before I
caught up with that rabbit.
"Then, I'd reach down and feel
his ribs. If he wasn't fat. I'd let
him go and take out after another
rabbit."
More Tax Fraud
Another income-tax evader ex
posed in this column was fin
ally collared by a federal grand
jury last week, when Earl Sher
iff, the ex-sheriff of Prince
Georges county, Maryland, was
indicted.
This commentator first expos
ed Sheriff on June 26, 1949, for
having "received money from the
gamblers who do such a lucra
tive business right under the
nose of the nation's capitol," and
for having failed to pay income
taxes on it.
The Sheriff case illustrated
how U. S. attorneys sometime
fail tq prosecute after a case is
Too Efficient Exterminators
Lake Charles, La., March 11 (U.R) A dog fancier blamed the
loss of two retrievers on too efficient state health facilities
today.
Carl Robinson, Fenton, La., breeder of golden retrievers,
said two of his pure-breds died after:
Eating a rat,
That ran out of a warehouse,
After eating poison placed there by state rodent extermina
tors. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
You Just Can't Know
Nothing for Certain Now
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Slip the rumor to me, junior. Did you see a
bird flying backward? You say a lion stopped you in the street
and wanted to know what subway to take to the Bronx zoo?
How's that? You just trapped three men from Mars in the
basement and winged 'cm with your atom gun?
Do I believe
you, son? Well,
let me put it to
you this way
I don't disbe
lieve you. I no
longer disbe
lieve anybody
or anything.
The
k. .. j ujaudieu ii
chuanaland, has constantly be
fore it the burning issue of seg
regation of the white and ne
gro races. The case of Chief
Seretse Khama and his wnite
queen suddenly got entangled in
this broader question and 'he
young couple were In trouble.
The British government In
vited Seretse to London recently
to discuss his status. The gov
ernment decided that it couldn't
recognize him as chief because
of what was described as ten
dencies to disruption which
threatened the protectorate. He
was told that he couldn't return
to his state, wihout permission,
until the issue of tribal rule is
settled years hence.
The chief blew up over that.
He said he had been tricked. H i
wi'- was in Africa and 'hy
were expecting a baby. He de
clared in effect that come hell
or high water he was going back
to his wife and people. He caol
ed the queen to sit tight.
The scene then shifted to-the
mother of parliaments. No less
personage than the great Win
ston Churchill, leader of the
conservative opposition, rose tn
commons to question the social
ist government's handling of the
case.
Patrick Gordon-Walker, com
monwealth affairs secretary, de
nied that the question of Se
rctse's marriage entered into tha
decision. He said the govern
ment decided to withhold rec
ognition from the chief until the
disappearance of the tendencies
to disruption "which threaten
, . . .. the unity and well-being" of the
As a matter of fact, the rumor protectorate. The secretary de
of an interplanetary space ship clared it was irreSponsibie lo
having crashed on the North say the chief had been trickedi
American continent has been adding that he had offered to
floating around Manhattan for have the wife flown back to
jiiuiiuis. Accoraing 10 ine ver- T.n-Anr, uHlh ll ..in.i
Television may soon feature
"G-Slring" programs. No, they
aren't going to telecast burles
que shows. "G-string" is the sig
nal corps name for a new trans
age of
sent them by the justice depart- smug certainty
ment. And on Oct. 26. 1949, this is gone. . Borl,
column further revealed that the Wonder has
U. S. Attorney Bernard Flynn in niled upon wonder so fast in
tacked a housecat belonging to Baltimore had sent the case back our lifetime that few of us have atomic scientist if he believed
Carl Longnecker family at Elk- to Washington indicating that he any disbelief left. It taKes a lhe rumorj and he repiied:
horn recently . . . Bobcat could " uyHa-" piuseuuuuu. brave or looinaray man uwu
have subdued poor kitty with n Jan- '9. 1,3()- this com- today to say "that's impossible.
pcrate from lack of food, at-
sion I heard, it hit in the south
west and the bodies of 34
"things" about three-feet high
were found. The "things" were
supposed to have been living
beings, but without skin, flesh,
scales or feathers.
A reporter asked a well-known
at-
almost no effort, had it not been mentator also called public at- Tomorrow he may be proved
mission line expected to be put for ioyai supPort from kitty's tention to the fact that Flynn's wrong and a doltish oaf.
tention.
"Will not the minister consid
er," asked Churchill, "that Sere'-
has a right to go back lo '
that very place and meet her at
that very place before the gov
ernment take any further ac
tion?" Gordon-Walker replied that he
Couldn't dn so. whprpnnnn .
"I wouldn't say I disbelieved Churchill retorted: W
"A very discreditable transaction."
it. Anything is possible.'
fracas and bobcat was so out
numbered that he had to flee to
the woods for safety.
into use by the television indus
try ... it would replace the
coaxial cable.
t
Gloria Ellexson, University of
Washington drum majorette who
p e r f o rmed inK
Salem Thurs-f-day
night, has.
been twirling;
batons for only
three years . , .
nnd she already
holds two nat
ional champion
ships . . .Eleven
year old Mar
Jane Wait, n
sixth-Krader a t
Rickreall school, K""'
ought to be one of the best maj
orettes in existanco a few years
hence.
Mary Jane's exhibition Thurs
day will attest to that.
Animal stories are always in
teresting . . . and this one seems came through, and loyal SHS
particularly intriguing . . . Wild supporters didn't have to cancel
mountain bobcat, evidently des- their reservations.
neighborhood torn cat friends name was before the senate jud-
. Tom cats galore got into the
Mankind seems to have lost
lciary committee tor reappoint- k , j i. rfriftin holler- "t '
ment as U. S. attorney, and sug- . r.T,.J -!( ,ir,rf scientists says,
vestigate why Flynn had not
prosecuted the ex-sheriff of
Several cracks have been dis- Prince Georges county for in
come tax irauci.
In the end conscientious La
mar Caudle," in charge of justice
to patch up aeParinient s tax envision, sent
IWU UL IMS (111U11!1V3 IU X3aill-
In all this exchange nobody
put his finger on the apparent
underlying cause of the govern-
covered in brand new Public
Service building . . . but it's no
thing to worry about. . . . Con
tractor promises to
ni.a.lrc ac ertnn ne nncQililn
innlvlnn n nlrl ,inn tn tho more una ticnmnaea mil ine case
Public Service building, "It
ain't what it's cracked up to be."
Confidence: About a month
ago, several Salem high school
students reserved hotel rooms
Can the H-bomb destroy the
world? One eminent group of
yes." Another
j , , ,, ,, SKeuer uciuie vhhi'-1""3 cavc nankin
gested to senators that they in- , h on ..nHaintv. About says' p00h!
I.ADfinotB D..n V...J Vi -""-'- " . . . T . t ,. . . "...
all a man can be sure of is that " """"" ueieuuam crazy menis action, mat was left lor
if he steps aboard a certain bus or sane? ne psychiatrist testi- the British press to do. The Lon
he'll end up home. But how fies he's a bluebeard and a sec- don Times refers to the govern
about that bus driver a few years ond psychiatrist says he's batty ment being under "The urgent
back who started out on his as a belfry. pressure of an embarrassing pol
regular route here and ended Will anti-histamines cure the ltical situation", and adds:
up in Florida? common cold? There're experts "The decision has been reached
Nope, you just can't kno w on both sides. without any attempt by the union
nothing for certain. There is no That's the trouble nowadays. ?f South Africa to influence
basket left you can put your The world has gone beyond the il-14 is common knowledge, how
dozen eggs into and count on understanding of the common fver- that the nationalists now
getting all twelve back again, man, and whom can he trust in Power are not only committed
when the experts quarrel among the doctrine of the separation
Take that story bv the dyna- themselves? f the races but dislike sharing
mite salesman about the wreck- So, junior, I won't deny you meir conuncnt wim other com
be pushed. Last
was indicted
Crime Expert
It's supposed to be traditional
that a criminal returns to the
of his crimes. And the
for next week's state basketball scenes oi nis crimes. nci me -" , . ',,,,.,' Ktjr munities In which it is not an.
other day Alex uampbell did age oi a !.: uu..u ..... ,...s ... -
Those who witnessed r,?scr.val 0"! were , w.
tournament at Eugene
Said
er day Alex uampbell did age oi a sync uu..u .. ..... ,...s
He made a brief visit to in Mexico piloted by a gent only the lion on the street, or shot p"e-
Long Arm of the Law
Memphis, Tcnn., March 11 (U.B The arm of the Memphis
law reaches high into the sky.
Glenn Franks was flying along pulling an advertising
streamer yesterday. But when he honked a horn, citizens
complained he was violating the city's anti-noise ordinance.
lie was censured when he landed.
district 11 tournament had even Washington where for many
got underwav . . . Salem had to hectic months he served as assis-
win the district tourney to quali- tant attorney general in charge
fy for the state meet . . . Vikings of (he criminal division.
xiuwever, lilt: clime ait-lit? tu
which Campbell returned was an
office from which some of the
most important and difficult
criminal cases in the past decade
have been directed. For it was
Campbell who laid the ground
work for the prosecution of Judy
Coplon and Gubitchev. for Alger
Hiss, for Congressman Parnell
Thomas, and half a dozen impor
tant spy cases such as Axis Sal-
23 inches tall. The airforce says, the three men from Mars. I The truth is that British Af
"There is no evidence to support won't disbelieve anything. But r'ca is divided between one great
the existence of any interplane- just don't ask me to get ex- independent state, which be
tary machines." cited about your marvels. The licves in the color bar, and a
But you will note that the old man is worn out with mar- number of smaller states in
airforce doesn't rule out the pos- vels he can't comprehend. It which the color bar is repudia
sibility. It can't it may have might be a good idea to have ted. The conflict is tragic for
to fight space ships some day. a five-year moratorium on them 'he commonwealth but it can
So may the navy. till we can all catch up. nt forever be evaded."
The Times also speaks of the
nationalists being likely to press
for the transfer of Bechuanaland
to Union sovereignty if they see
growing up there a society fund
amentally at variance with thei
ideas.
Multiplication Tables Changed?
Seattle, Wash., March 11 U.R Delegates to the two-day
rabbit production school today passed a resolution calling for
increased rabbit production.
i