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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.
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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.