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Capital Adjournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher . Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. BY BECK What to Do? WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND BY CARL ANDERSON 4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 21, 1950 'Sons of Freedom' That strange religious sect the "Sons of Freedom" Douk hobors, are reported on the rampage again, this time near Nelson, B.C. Periodically, they stage their antics, men, women and children parading in the nude and putting all kinds of buildings to the torch, including their own dwell ings. Thursday at the "dogpatch" village of Krestova, some 200 naked, chanting fanatics burned down with gasoline soaked torches four of their own homes, aqd one car and were preparing to fire eight more unpainted wooden frame buildings, when the police roared in on them and arrested five men and three women, who seemed most active, and extinguished the fires. The Doukhobors were protesting the arrest of 38 Sons on charges of arson last week. All their belongings had been taken out of the houses and piled in front, and they were ready t.- sprinkle gasoline inside the dwellings. This arson orgy was only the latest of a blazing chain of fire raids in the district 250 miles east of Vancouver. As the police left, the chanting, dancing Freedomites fired two more homes a short distance from the main Douk hobor community. Meanwhile, in nearby Nelson, Peter Khaladinin, one of 36 Freedomites charged with last Friday's burning of the $50,000 home of John Veregin, leader of 15,000 orthodox Doukhobors, told a court, "I have done my sacred duty in taking part in these burnings." Peter Elasofof, another of the 36, said "the burning of John Veregin's house was done in the name of 15,000 Doukhobors and now our mission is fulfilled open the doors and let us go." "I would burn the courthouse tomorrow night if I felt the divine urge," Mike Voyken, another of the Doukhobors charged with arson, told the court. 1 was inspired by an act of God." The Doukhobors (spirit wrestlers) started in Kharkov, Russia, about 1750, and spread rapidly in the Dnieper prov inces. They regard it as sinful to read or write, printing being a snare of the devil. They hold as every one's action is being dictated by God, it cannot be wrong. They form ed a colony on the Sea of Azov in 1801, and their crimes led to their deportation (1841-44) to Transcausia. Their migration was permitted, the main body going to Alberta, where they have been a constant source of turmoil. There are about 10,000 of them in the Dominion. The Doukhobor sect was founded by a German, just as the communist cult was, and both have been spread over the world by fanatical Russians. One is as senseless as the other and proportionately destructive. But why should either cult appeal to Americans to the extent that they will play traitor to their own country for its destruction and enslavement. There may be an excuse for the ignor ant Russians seking an illusionary Utopia in the name of freedom but there is none for our intelligentsia with their espionage for the Soviet paradise. 'Mistaken Identity' West Coast Airlines, which is seeking permission to serve Salem, has called the Capital Journal's attention to an incorrect reference to an RFC loan of $5 million to West Coast. The reference was made in an editorial of April 1 which commented on the delay in a decision on Salem air service. Herb Munter, executive vice president of West Coast, described the RFC reference as a "question of mistaken identity." He went on to say that "we call specific atten tion to the fact that West Coast Airlines has no RFC loan whatever nor has West Coast Airlines ever had an RFC loan." Munter said further: "We are particularly distressed with this type of information since the inference is that because of this loan, which doesn't exist In fact, the governtnent may be considered prejudiced on behalf of West Coast Airlines. "Not only, then, is the statement entirely false, it's implica tions are likewise without basis, even if a loan should exist." The incorrect RFC reference to West Coast is regretted by this newspaper. No criticism has been made by the Capital Journal of West Coast Airlines' service. Those communities in the Pacific Northwest served by the feeder-line have only good words for the type of service offered by West Coast. As for Salem in the current Civil Aeronautics Board hearings, the city has fought to keep United service. The CAB, by its show-cause order, indicated the possibility of substituting West Coast service for United Air Lines here. Salem had no alternative but to fight to keep United Mainliner service, with transcontinental connections. The CAB did not ask if West Coast should come into the state capital as an additional air service. The CAB implied in its Show-cause order a choice between the two services. Under those circumstances, Salem signified its need for continuing the United Air Lines service. Soviet Renews Cold War Russia is apparently stepping up its cold war offensive in Europe. The latest is the accusation that the western powers are turning the free territory of Trieste into a military base. The charge is probbaly designed to upset the effort to settle the Triest issue peaceably. Russia reopened the Trieste dispute last night in notes delivered in Washington, London and Paris. Its accusa tions were interpreted as part of i series of Kremlin power plays along the eastern European front of the iron cur tain. Recent Soviet cold war offensives are listed as follows: 1. The United States was charged with "deliberate interna tional provocation" in sending a bomber over Soviet-occupied Latvia, which opened fire on Soviet fighter planes. (The U.S. position is that the Russians shot down an unarmed American plane over the open Baltic sea.) 2. A campaign to wipe out American influence in eastern Europe which was culminated in the closing of American "libraries" in Czechoslovakia and the ouster of a U.S. embassy attache on "spy" charges. 3. The long-dormant Soviet campaign to gain control of the Dardanelles flared anew as the controlled Moscow press at tacked Turkey and demanded revision of the Montreaux con vention designed to keep Russian warships out of the Mediter ranean. 4. Increased pressure on Finland to force her more firmly into the Russian orbit through thinly veiled eharges that Finnish-Americans are spying on the Soviet Union. In its Trieste note Russia declared the situation had be come "intolerable," that the Italian peace treaty had been violated, that no governor had been appointed for the free territory of Trieste by the UN security council. The fact that the UN could r.jt agree on a governor because of Rus sian opposition wa ignored. ' TURNING THE HOME ) XT', I rSZfflBS OVER TO KIDS MAY f&&&X fffll keep them from S iL ' 9j$ sr"&MmA "MM BECOMING CRIMINALS! tt? WWA fill, BUT UNLESS thcise'TM1 tfJt ' JMO WW Public OD.nion Has Reversed Henry Itself Since End of World War By DREW PEARSON Washington Five years ago today, this column broke one of the most sensational and unpleasant stories of the war. American troops had reached the suburbs of Berlin, I reported, and then been ordered back to the river Elbe because of a demand by the Russians. KRISS-KROSS Favorite Anecdote: Last Laugh on the Pranksters By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr. With spring at last upon us, and happy kids roaming the play grounds once again, I am reminded of a certain incident I ob served at Olinger city playground several years ago . . . not a very timely tale, perhaps, but it's a story that I haven't told before . . . though it has remained one of my favorite anecdotes for years. Near the Ol-, Jl!gt:i swimming pool once stood1 a wooden pole . . . about 15 feet high ... I never did know exactly whatj the pole was! there for , . . but some prac tical pranksters Ohru Kowlu, jr. found a new use for it one summer day. Publica 1 1 o n brought imme diate criticism from a great many people, who felt that I was upsetting U. S. - Russian relations. They especially ob jected to this paragraph: "At the height of the rapid U. S. advance (toward Berlin), and just four days before Roosevelt's death, Stalin sent him a brusque note accusing the United States of making a deal with the Nazis in order to advance more rapid ly through Germany. The note was couched in most caustic and "Sf m Drew Pearson But this much is fairly clear. While the American people have every reason to be sore, the time for them to have been sore was three and four years ago. Today the secrets are stolen. But likewise the present admin istration of the state department has done the greatest personnel house-cleaning of all time. It was the Acheson regime which fired the 90 homosexuals. It was also the Acheson regime which ousted a long list of bad secur ity risks. And though Acheson person ally pulled a boner in indicat ing his continued personal loyal ty for Alger Hiss, the real fact is that the men under him have orders to do a thorough, vigor ous job on loyalty checks. Ache- critical language. The inference son's loyalty review board, inci was that a U. S.-German deal dently, is under a New Hamp- All the boys who heard the plan were eager to carry it out . . . but they found it wasn't easy . . . lifting a bicycle 15 feet high was hard work . . . finally three boys stood on the ground, two more boys stood on their shoulders, and another boy stood atop the whole pile of juveniles, comprising a three deck pyramid . . . after a couple of bad tumbles and much grunt ing and groaning, the boys some how managed to hoist the bike tn thp fnn nf tha nnla nt hp The pranksters in this case lrame of the bicycle ar'ound the were a group of about seven or , tnen iet the bike to the eight boys of grade school age groun(j . . as they walked near the The 'prarlksters walked away pole, one of their members hap- from the scene t , couIdr).t pened to notice a bicycle stand- hel but ja ... it was a ing nearby the boy who funny sight indeed a bi ,e had spotted the bicycle eyed it sprawled on the ground with a carefully, then eyed the pole ls.foot pole seemigiy growing . . . his eyes lit up with a mis- rjgnt up through its frame, chievous g earn ... he obvious- T stuck around to observe the ly had a plan. reaction of the bike owner . . . He explained his plan to his my patience was rewarded just companions . . . take the bicycle, a few minutes later .... a little lift it to the top of the pole, fellow who couldn't have been a then let it down to the ground, day over 8 years of age walked with the pole passing through up to the pole and bicycle . . . the frame of the bicycle . . . he took one quick glance at the then when the owner of the bike situation . . . then, without the came after his vehicle, he'd find slightest bit of hesitancy, he a pole growing right through it took hold of the pole, yanked . . . and he'd have to lift the it out of the ground, picked up bicycle clear over the top of his bicycle, replaced the pole in the pole before he could ride the ground, got on his bicycle it home. and rode home. Being Tall Can Be Dangerous Cornelius, Ore., April 21 (U.R) Lawrence Herb of Cor nelius was thankful today he isn't any taller. Herb, who is just six feet tall, was standing at the kitchen stove of his home when a stray bullet, apparently fired acci-" dentally, crashed through a window and just grazed the top of his head. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Pete, the Flying Rabbit Makes Big Stir Around Colorful Paris By CARL L. DAVIDSON Paris CP) Hal Boyle, Associated Press columnist, New York. Dear Hal: Remember Peter? He's the white rabbit you sent to Paris because you couldn't keep him in your apartment. He arrived today confound you. Cut little fellow, all right, but : the trouble he's caused! First of of my favorite bistros and a all he created quite a commotion waiter walked past with an order in the Paris customs office. It of pate de lapin, a sort of chopp was all because customs men ed rabbit cold cut. here are inexperienced in handl- Mrs. Maureen Petschansky, ing rabbits. public relations officers for over Most visitors to Paris this seas airlines, which flew Pete to year are people not rabbits. Paris, got to reminiscing about Pete we're having a cere- wartime Paris when the princi monial rechristcning to make pal meat was rabbit. Pete cow him "Pierre Le Lapin" took it ered. all in his blase way, munching We had planned to take Pete carrots, lettuce and a customs to the famous flea market, but agent's little finger. abandoned the idea because Pete When we cleared customs at glared at us. with a look I would Le Bourget field, we set off to describe only as baleful. Pete's new home, that of Mrs. George Anton, sister of Ted The only cheering note, for Alexander, the AP office boy, to Pete, in the whole day was a whom you sent the rabbit. cablegram from Al Smalley in St. Paul, who sent you the rab Thore's where trouble began bit in the first place after Pete's to start. Now it's hours later, sterling services in a Minnesota Pete is nervous and homeless fund-raising campaign. It read: and a little disgusted about the "For the thousandth and whole thing. second time congratulations. Mrs. Anton isn't at home and Mother and seven babies doing we haven't found her yet. Pete nicely." for the moment is in my apart- We're going nightclubbing, ment, which I already was shar- Pete and I, as soon as he's had a ing with a wife, nine-year-old rest. We'll probably drop in at daughter, two goldfish named the Montmartre cafe called Albert and Bruce, and a male "Lapin A Gile," where people go canary named Edith Piaf. to admire Gile's rabbit portraits The concierge is stalking up and eat brandied cherries, and down muttering about "men- I'll add the cost of the cher- agcries", and the cook threatens rics to the bill. It has totaled to quit. just under $40 for customs, vet- crinary fees, taxi fares, and Pete first started getting ncrv- cattos." ous when we dropped in at one Sincerely, Davidson. ' Real Estate Tax Return Comment Litchfield, Minn., April 21 (U.R) The county treasurer today wondered just how to take this note which accompanied Theodore B. Larson's real estate tax return: "The cannibals had a way of solving high taxes. When they tot higher than the cost of food, they ate the tax collector." had permitted the Nazis to trans fer more troops to the eastern front and thus kill more Rus sians." I mention this now, because that critical mail came from about the same general type of people who are now writing me letters upholding Senator Mc Carthy and denouncing every thing even remotely Russian. In other words, the pendulum of public opinion, having swung violently one way, has now swung just as violently the other way. Five years ago some peo ple loved Russia too much, now some people hate Russia beyond the point of objectivity. shire republican, Gen. Conrad E. Snow, recommended to Acheson by Russian-baiter GOP Sen. Styles Bridges. McCarthy Late If Senator McCarthy had be gun making his charges in 1946 when first elected to the senate, not only would he have been en tirely justified, but he might have stopped the leaking of some secrets. All he had to do between 1945 and 1947, was to have read this column. It gave him plenty of ammunition. But now, after the horse is stolen and the stable door 42 t.Wfr talon I . M l1 WWW MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Labor Party in England Puts Brakes on Welfare Spending Sometimes we get better ob jectivity by thumbing through still ZU7 "card-carrying com- the pages of the past. And here munists in the state department.1 By DeWITT MacKENZIE iyp) Foreign Affairs Analyst) British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps a socialist who makes his idealism measure up to realities served notice in his parliamentary budget speech Tuesday that the iZZIa ,! ceiling has been reached in welfare service expenditures. sin iirst claimed that there are 'We have, in the last four years, services and taken on by way of social benefits all that are some situations taken from Later he brought this down to w.e, P0SS1DY the old files of the Washington Merry-Go-Round which illustrate: afford until such nilP man flWfln LaHimnra ,irVtn aside from two consultations! time as there Is nas not worked for any branch r "- of the government for five years. Note One effect of the Mc Carthy charges nas been such terror inside the state depart ment that if a newspaperman 1 1 1 Walks lin tn a TT S Hinlnmat n i .. Tf nt ,,i. day and asks him what, timp it tnat tne mdivi- " .- -. j IK. the riinlnmat lnnli 1WV, dual Will Want tT' , : , shoulders and whisoers: "Snrrv to retain a very considerable pro- position, their hats and run for the diplo- n0 comment matic storm-cellars. The biggest Canadian Spy Expose Situation No. 1 On Feb. 18, 1946, I published another anti- Russian story which few believ- our national production," de clared Sir Staf ford, adding: "Even then I have no doubti The conservative members of commons cheered this part of DeWltt Mackenzie the chancellor's speech. How ever, his statement will come as a bad jolt to advocates of sweep ing "cradle to grave" social se curity. Indeed, coupled with other signs, it supports the idea that England has swung as far left as she is going, and may be pull ing back towards "center," which would seem to be her natural (Copyright 1950) portion of that increase for his own spending. story of espionage and intrigue since the war is about to break . . . the Canadians have taken over a Russian agent, who has given the names of about 1,700 other Russian agents; also has put the finger on certain offi cials inside the American and Canadian governments cooperat ing with the Soviet . . . Photo stats showing payments to U. S. and Canadian oficials have even come to light. "The state department is anxi ous not to disrupt relations with Russia. One Russian agent nam ED, REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN Vet With 5000th Gl Loan Married Salem High Grad By WILLIAM WARREN (United Press Staff Correspondent) Eugene, Ore., April 21 (U.R) To Ed Lindstrom, 36, about as representative an American as they come, went loan number 5,000 from the State Department of Veterans' Affairs. Representatives of the department traveled to Eugene Tuesday to confirm the loan formally and to congratulate Ed on being Pri Shimislionlrn wao npentiatino NO. 5,000. for the purchase of the blue- Ed is improving the place in Eugene-Klamath Falls run be prints of an American jet-pro- his time off, varnishing the fore going on the Eugene-Port-DGlled nlanp. The insticp rlpnart- floors, fixing the walls where land run. ment proposed arresting him, but they need fixing, working in the the state department said no. yard. Shimishenko sailed with his wife He and his wife, Agnes, and and child Jan. 6. He did not get their three-year-old son Ken the blueprints." eth, think it's quite a place. This, I repeat, was published This house at 208 E. Second Feb. 18, 1946 four years ago. street, on the slope of Skinner Once again there was a deluge Butte just east of the place oi critical letters . . . could not have done October turned out to be quite a month for Ed. He went into the service in October of 1943 and out of the service in October of 1945. Says Ed: "I got my greetings from Uncle Sam on Lincoln's The narrow margin by which the socialists won the last general election was due in part to pub lic disapproval of the socialist nationalization program. Since then the government has been treading circumspectly, and the use of the curb on the welfare program is part of this caution. So was the action in granting the middle class taxpayer an in come tax cut amounting to $33. 25 a year. Whether the budget brings cheers or sneers, Sir Stafford Cripps won't display emotion. He has become inured to hard knocks through having to play the role of "Austerity Cripps" to a hard-pressed nation since the war. Sir Stafford is one of Britain's outstanding statesmen but, curi ously enough, the general pub lic isn't well acquainted with him. He lives within himself a great deal, which is rather a pity because he is a personality who should be known both at home birthday in 1943 and reported "Russia Where you see the University of fr examination on Washington's and abroad, SUCn a flvptfnn'c larffp "O" as vnu drive "UlllUdy. Prinno thp cinil.-of- thing." . . . "You are disrupting ainnB thr, pacific hiehwav. is 25 is ( or has hppnl a man t o-pt years old. But Ed, who drives Ed and Agnes like the location means. Before the late war he the Portland-Eugene run both of their new home for several was said to be the highest paid ways five days a week for Grey- reasons. It's near a good park corporation lawyer in Britain, hound, says: with a playground that ought to earning the equivalent of a "I'm tickled to get an older be just the thing for Kenneth quarter million dollars a year. place instead of a new one, be- wnen ne gets to the age where owever, he gave that up be- our relations with a great ally. . . . so ran the criticism. Maryland Spy Ring Situation No. 2 On Sept. 7 1947 I published another expose tpllino hnw a littlp a f P1" "laicuu VL new vnc, uc- .... wiv. H.reic "..v...., b gave uiai uj ue- tening now a iitue group oi cause we get more space jor the he needs more stomping ground cause, he said, he was tired of envernmpnt pmn nvpps hart nn. erated a spy ring in a Maryland money suburb basement, stealing blue prints of the B-29, photostating them, and sending them by courier to New York and thence to Moscow. The story was considered so sensational that many news papers did not publish it. One year and a half later, it made headlines when officially re vealed by a congressional com mittee. Situation as of now today the American people are harassed, How about this GI Joe who got GI loan number 5,000? Ed met Agnes, a graduate of Salem high school, when she was working at the foun tain in the Senator hotel in Salem. That was when Ed was on the Salem-Portland run for Greyhound. than his own backyard. It's far enough away from the heavy traffic to be quiet, yet close enough to the center of things so that it's only an eight block walk for Ed to the Grey hound depot. In the living room there's a square-shaped fish tank with gold fish. And in it is a chunk and is a vegetarian, lawsuits "taking large sums of money trom one capitalist to give to another." The 61-year-old Cripps is a six footer and has a pleasant smile. However, he is reserved and lacks the warmth of a "mix er. He never touches alcohol They were married in Port- own. of coral with a history of its land August 23, 1939. They liv ed in Salem for awhile, then moved to Coos Bay, where Ed worried and sometimes seething made the Coos Bay-Eureka run mad. They don't know whom to for Greyhound and later the believe McCarthy, Tydings, or Coos Bay-Roseburg run. who? And I don't particularly They moved to Eugene in Oc blame them. tober, 1942, and Ed made the Instructions Fail to Aid Census Takers in Fairbanks Country 'We were going ashore from our ship at Kwapalein, for a beach party," Ed recalls. "I noticed this coral as we went in. .It looked pretty attrac tive, so 1 swam out and got three or four chunks. "The stuff has an awful odor when it s fresh, with organisms still living in it greenish then, too, Religion plays a great part in Cripp's life. He is a devout mem- . ber of the Church of England f and often preaches in parish ' cnurcnes. I met Sir Stafford in London in October of 1942 when he was a member of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's war cabinet. At that time Cripps was the most talked Of man in Britain npvt It's sort of to the great Churchill, and' there were many who predicted that When I got back to the shin Sir StaffnrH ,ou j the officer of the deck wasn't premier himself. But I promised him I'd put it m.H u H....J April 21 W Census takers are supposed way up on the mast until it was asked for an intpripT,7,. uL, thatt what i dT1Z,et -tAnd and had a chat with 1" hi J Z f -r, 8 Ut a week' frankly 'he reasons for my call and tne tropical weather took were that T Her path to a cabin was block- two rivers in the middle of the care of the bleaching and de- man who had stirred the ima ed by an obviously unfriendly spring thaw by dog team to odorizing process. Then I gination of the American pub buffalo. The buffalo turned tail count the villagers in Tetlin. brought it down and put it in lie and I liked to size folks up and headed right into the cabin Her guide took soundings with the radar room, where I kept for myself. He smiled and we of Alaskan Guide Bert Hanson a pole while she mushed the it until I brought it back to got along famously ' for refuge. team. the States." Ed was radar man My outstanding imn-pinn nf ihe day they finished and aboard the navy supply ship. Sir Stafford was that he was slush-mushed back across the . frank t ikj ' . 1 . - .uvni.u ntiii aijuaieiy us Fairbanks, Alaska, to count noses. But what do they do when the nose belongs to a buffalo? They do just what Mrs. Martha Lundstrom did recently in the big delta region, apparently. Unruffled, Mrs. Lundstrom followed the buffalo to the cabin. Then she counted the nose of Guide Hanson. Hers was one of many experi ences described today by Mrs. Tanana river, the trail washed In the center of the west wall the eye and read sincerity there, out behind them. of the living room is the fire- rr,ni,i c a in 1947, when the latter was But the Tetliners had been place. counted. There were 75 of them. On the mantle are just three Both Mrs. T.nnHctrnm nnr! Mrs. hnnks. a Hir.tmna 1 T it A nr.. T..11- m-.,- " . . . 7 . ' ""vvii:iieu xjuiiusiiuui o.iu i,a. xviayneld agreed on one thing: in Between two Bibles one a field, whose task was to enu- There was nothing in the fine masonic edition and the other merate in the Tok junction area print o( the extensive instruc- a national editoon. And just to also southeast of here. tions the census bureau gave the south of the fireplace, on the One of Mrs. Mayfield's prob- them to cover some of their ex- opposite side from the two lems was crossing 10 lakes and periences. Bibles is a prayer plant. made chancellor of the exche quer in the socialist government, as "the greatest brain in the (socialist) administration." The famous wartime prime minister was then leader of the conserva tive opposition in the house of commons.
