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BY BECK
Things to Worry About
4
Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 21, 1950
Reason for a Special Observance
Within the next three weeks, the pouring of cement
for the huge Detroit dam in the North Santiam canyon
should start. Once the pouring gets under way, it will
be on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week basis. The first
generator should be on the line by the fall of 1952, while KRISS-KROSS
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Oklahoma Voters Wise to
Congressman Wickersham
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Down in Oklahoma they aren't letting the
Korean war make them forget about the importance of clean
politics.
Not only have they got wise to the speculations of Senator
Thomas, but the only Oklahoma congressman who failed of re
election on July
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
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Drew remn
Because of what the Detroit dam will mean to the North
Santiam canyon and the Salem area, the actual pouring
of the cement should be the occasion for more than the
mechanical dumping of cement into position. The event
should be one that would draw people from the canyon
and Salem area.
To so many people, the dam project is just a construc
tion job that happens to be going on up in the canyon.
As a construction job, there are a lot of men employed
and the canyon floor and walls are being cleared of trees.
The part the dam will play in the development of the
area and the Willamette valley itself is being overlooked
too often.
The dam, as one of many in the valley, will do its part
in an overall 85 percent control of yearly floods. There
will be power from the North Santiam canyon, too. And
there will be a lake 15 miles long resulting from the back
ing up of water behind the Detroit dam.
The Willamette valley is not thinking ahead as to the
use it will make of these flood-control dam units, as they
are finally fitted into the overall project which will bring
benefits also in navigation, reclamation, industrial develop
ment, domestic and municipal water supply, abatement of
pollution, and recreation.
Pouring of cement in the Detroit dam is only another
incident, perhaps, in the construction progress of the dam
itself and in the big Willamette basin project, but the
cement pour amounts to the start of the actual dam which
will have such unrealized meaning to the area. Because
of the event's significance, the Willamette river basin
commission and the Corps of Engineers should see that
the event is recognized for its true importance. Salem,
as one of the cities to benefit, could join with the other
communities in noting the event in some kind of ob
servance. It will take constant reminder of such occurrences as
the cement pouring to bring thought toward the future
and what the valley will do with it when the dam projects
are completed and are bringing benefits to the people of
the area.
Fighting of Two Different Kinds
There's a war going on in Korea, but an observer in
the United States senate wouldn't have known it yesterday.
The senate spent its time playing politics.
A furious scrap went on in the supposedly grave, som
ber chambers of the senate in Washington over, wheth
er or not McCarthy's charges on communism in the
state department were "a fraud and a hoax." Senators
got so heated during the debate that two of them almost
came to blows.
Senator Tydings shouted that McCarthy's charges were
"foul and vile" and "ought to make the blood of Ameri
cans boil." McCarthy answered that Tydings had "tried
to notify communists in government that they are safe
in their positions." There was an attempt to play a phono
graph record on which was recorded McCarthy's original
claims that he had names of 205 communists in the state
department. Later investigation failed to produce any.
Meanwhile, over in Korea a completely outnumbered
division of American soldiers was forced to retreat again
and leave Taejon. The GIs, pushed back to new positions,
were too tired to eat. And General Dean, division comman
der, was still unreported after having been in the thick
of fighting in Taejon.
The contrast between republicans and democrats spend
ing their time fighting along strictly party lines over
McCarthy's charges, and tired, heroic young Americans
fighting desperately for their lives, country and the United
Nations is discouraging.
President Truman called on congress to get mobiliza
tion of manpower, resources and money under way. The
very next day after the message, however, the senate spent
its time jockeying for political position on the McCarthy
report.
Politics of that kind isn't going to win the war in Korea.
'Doll Lady' Haying Trouble
Finding Girl Named Henrietta
Bad Homburg, Germany, July 21 OT Mrs. Peggy Rolley
Stumpf, the "doll lady" from America, is having a little trouble
finding a girt named Henrietta who needs a doll.
The SO-year-old daughter of Somerset, ((Pa.) newspaper pub
lisher Henry Baker Retley is distributing 2100 dolls donated by
Americans.
She already has given some away In England and France
nd plans to go to Vienna, Wursburg, Frankfurt and Berlin. The
first girl she meets who's named Henrietta is going to get a
fine doll.
That's because on woman in America who donated a doll
stipulated It go to a child named Henrietta.
"And you have no Idea how hard It is to find a little Euro
pean girl named Henrietta," Mrs. Stumpf declared.
Peggy's doll distributing plan got Its start in 1047 at a Christ
mas party in Welsbaden where Peggy was a Red Cross club
director. Peggy watched a lot of little German girls who were
sot lucky enough to get dolls.
When she returned home, she talked to her father about It.
They put an ad In his newspaper, the Somerset American.
From then on, the dolls poured In.
When Peggy returns to America, she hopes to bring along
her new husband, German musician Hans Stumpf. She met him
during her Red Cross days, corresponded with him afterwards
nd married htm last Valentine's day.
Pat Was Overpaid $900,000
Kansas City, Has., July 21 W Pat Ranlon, SI, received
check for $900,650 In payment for a 5050 not he sold a
bank.
He called the bank and said he would return the check
today. An official said the $900,000 mistake was due to fail
tut of a oheok writing machine,
Men, Too Are Worried
Over Shortage of Nylon
ByCHWSKOWITZ.Jr
Now men have joined the fairer sex in worrying about a
potential shortage of nylons . . . they're thinking of the fancy
shirts, colorful shorts, sport socks, etc., that are made of nylon
. . when the nylon shortage broke out at the start of World
War II, men didn't have to worry . . . men's nylon clothing
had not yet
1 over, etc., and when they'd see
that the light was accidently
left on, they'd signal the driver
. . . but driver never got wise
to all the honking horns, wav
ing hands, etc. . . . he con
tinued on down the highway,
creating confusion for all concerned.
come into pop-""
ularity ... as
for me, I'm not
worried now . . .
if times get so
bad that nylon
is not available,
it's going to be
so bad that I'm
not going to be
around to buy
any civilian curl. Kowiu, Jr.
clothes anyhow.
People who drive cars with
'mi
4 was Victor
Wickersham of
Mangum, who
enjoyed some
peculiar ar
rang e m e n t a
with his
ployees
had all
marks
same
kickbacks that
landed Con-
gressman Parnell Thomas in jail.
As a result of these salary
arrangements, Oklahoma voters
got suspicious of Congressman
Wickersham, and the seven op
ponents running against him got
more votes than he did. Now
he faces a run-off.
The FBI has been investigat
ing Wickersham, who, inciden
tally, happens to be a democrat,
while Parnell Thomas is a repub
lican. I have also been probing
Wickersham, and can report that
one of the young men hired by
the congressman under peculiar
circumstances has now received
a pay-off.
He is Lloyd Matthews, who
worked in the congressman's
real estate office in Washing
ton, though his salary was paid
by the American people to han
dle congressional matters.
On the same day I first ex-
In March and April of last
year, he put two young con
stituents, Steve Fisher and Phil
Symcox of Cordell, Okla., on
the federal payroll. However,
they didn't report for work un
til two months later June and
July, 1949. Meanwhile, the con
gressman had held their March
and April paychecks for $250
each, which he paid them after
they started work.
He explained, however, that
they were supposed to work for
$165 a month so that the checks
really covered a six-week peri
od. This, of course, was not
true, but Wickersham used it
as an excuse to demand kick
backs from both boys.
For after they finished two
months work and decided to go
home, Wickersham explained
that they had not put in a full
six-week period for each $250
check and demanded a kick
back of $127 from each.
This was paid directly to him,
whereas their original salary
checks were paid them by U.S.
Treasury. Thus the congress
man was in a position to pocket
the $254 or $127 from each.
Fisher and Symcox, when
reached by telephone, verified
the above facts. They also said
that immediately after this col
umn first exposed Wickersham's
payroll peculiarities last Decern-
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MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Reason Why Russia Wants
Red China Admitted to U. N.
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
W1 Fore 1 bo Affair Analyati
Amorinn wants nparp in Korea but has no Intention of sac-
podWicker?hm'sypayXad: feints for STlm f"ici"? PCipleS a"d ngaging ,ny hrSe"deal W"h HUSS'a
A Sunday school teacher in
a small church on the outskirts
of Salem planned to exhibit to
her class the evils of alcohol
. . . teacher brought a worm into
blinkine turning signals should the Sunday school room . . .
be more careful in shutting the first she dropped the worm in
lights off after a turn is com- a glass of water . . worm
pleted . . . some of them shut off squirmed around, in obvious
automatically . . . others must good health . . . then she re
be turned off by the driver . . . moved the worm from the wa
we've noticed dozens of cars ter, and dropped it into a glass
driving down the streets with of whiskey (we don't know
their turning signals blinking where she acquired the liquor)
away, creating confusion for all . . . worm immediately curled
other motorists ... we followed up and died . . . "Now, children,
one car all the way from Mil- what does that little experiment
waukie to Salem the other day prove? . . . One freckly-faced
. . . its turning light was blink- boy promptly answered, "Drink
ing all the way . . . other mo- whiskey and you won't have
torists would slow down, pull worms."
Six Months Left to See
Los Angeles, July 21 W Doctors have Informed Gordon
McCaw, Henderson, Nev., elementary school principal, that
he will be blind in six months.
So today he Is en route to his native Sydney, Australia, to
see relatives and friends for the first time in 19 years. Ac
companying him is his wife, Elsie. McCaw's eyesight has
been failing rapidly.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal in Tokyo: Life and Death
In the 'Commuters' War'
By HAL BOYLE
Tokyo W) The Korean war somehow seems almost as far
away from Tokyo as it does from New York or Washington.
This is odd, considering that a jet plane can fly from here to the
warfront in about the lime it takes a man to smoke a 10-cent
cigar.
But an air of solid confidence
has replaced the tbnsion that
prevailed in the first weeks of
fighting. There is probably less
nervousness here than in the
Pentagon.
The turning point was the
landing of a
fresh American
division on the
eastern Korean
coast above the
vital port of
Pusan. There is
a feeling that
the United Nn-
lions forces can
now not only;
hold a bridge-;
head they'
may even
shortly undertake offensive
action of at least limited nature.
And there even is a hope that
the North Koreans faced by
powerful ground troops and
lashed by superior air and sea
forces may figure they have
lost initiative and begin a slow
withdrawal back beyond the
shelter of the 38th parallel.
There is complete absence of
hysteria or hurry around sup
reme headquarters here. Every
one goes calmly about his dut
ies, including women in cleri
cal posts whose husbands are
fighting in Korea.
"If you see my old man over
there, tell him hello for mc--and
that everything's all right,"
smiled one wife who typed out
my accreditation papers.
Many headquarters echelons
are still taking Wednesday and
Saturday afternoons off as well
as Sundays just as they did
before the emergency. But
they seem to be getting done
everything that can be done at
their level. It is always the
frontline troops that have to
work a seven-day week.
It is an odd and unreal war
in many respects. It is quite
possible tor soldier to be
wounded in Korea before lunch
and to eat dinner that same
night in a first class army hos
pital in Japan, assured of finest
medical care.
Some fliers call it "a com
muters' war."
They can return from mis
sions over Korea in time to join
their wives and friends in a
game of canasta. But of course
they don't all get back to that
hospital or that canasta game.
It is still a war.
It has hit home particularly
hard among sad-eyed American
evacuees from Korea, who had
to flee and leave behind all per
sonal belongings except those
they could carry.
Many lost their passports and
it has been a tremendous task
for American state department
officials to check their identity,
issue new credentials and help
arrange passage home.
"The plight of some of these
people is really desperate," said
John Baldridge, ECA official
and Iowa weekly newspaper
publisher. "Some are stranded
without funds.
"A number of ECA employes
have resigned posts because they
no longer want to return to Ko
rea after order is restored. And
they have no job in the United
States to go back to."
Most rueful evacuee I met was
one who said he had to abandon
$7,000 worth of household goods
In Seoul and that didn't in
clude cost of his swimming pool.
"That sounds like a lot of
money," he said. "But did you
ever figure out what it costs to
clothe a family and furnish a
house from safety pins to a
refrigerator? What I want to
know L how and when am I
going to get that $7,000 back?
"It took four years to settle
most of the claims from the last
wax."
ding Dec. 12, 1949 young
Matthews wrote a letter to his
friend Aubrey Witt, another
member of Wickersham's staff,
in which he said:
"Mr. Wickedsham finally
reached me tonight after several
efforts and undying persistence.
"He told me," continued Mat
thews, "to do exactly what I
had planned to do anyway, keep
my mouth shut. Amazing how
a man's magnanimity increases
in direct proportion to the duress
under which he is subjected.
"He, out of the clear blue
sky, asked me how I would like
to help with the census . . .
his remark was plainly forced,
but he said it . . . adding whip
ped cream to the dessert, he
continued: 'How would you like
to go to West Point?' "
PEARSON'S A LIAR
Down in Oklahoma, the con- '
gressman has been answering
salary kickback exposures with
the routine answer given by
most Washington bigwigs when
caught in a tight corner name
ly, "Pearson is a liar."
However, if the facts I re
ported had not been correct,
the congressman could have tak
en me to the legal cleaners; in
stead of which he hastened to
give the man he wanted to keep
quiet a West Point pay-off.
Wickersham gave Matthews the
earliest possible appointment to
West Point, and he entered this
year's batch of plebes, July 5,
1950.
It also appears that Matthews
kept his part of the bargain "to
keep my mouth shut." For he
denied to the FBI that he paid
any kickbacks to Wickersham,
though his good friend, Aubrey
Witt, formerly employed by
Wickersham, told the FBI other
wise. Furthermore, the salary ar
rangement Matthews had with
the congressman looked most
peculiar. Matthews was a young
ster just out of high school when
on June 1, 1949, the congress
man offered him a job at $200
a month. Instead of paying him
$200, however, Matthews' sal
ary check was for $460 a month.
Now most people, even con
gressmen, don't pay a youngster
just out of high school at the
rate of $460 a month, or $115 a
week. And the real question is
whether Matthews kicked back
$260 a month to Wickersham's
pocket.
The money, of course,
receipts ior ine l eacn wnicn, tn achievp it
on the reverse side, stated that That, I take it, is the real significance of Washington's polite
the money had been spent for DUt firm response to the efforts of Prime Minister Nehru of
aaaressmg envelopes. Tn(jia to medi-
In other words, six months
after Fisher and Symcox kicked
back to the congressman, and
after part of his payroll activi
ties had been exposed; Wicker
sham hastily arranged for re
ceipts which could serve as an
alibi if he were charged with
pocketing the kickback money.
The great majority of con
gressmen, in the opinion of this
observer, do not indulge in pay
roll irregularities. They use
the office allotments given them
by the government to run their
offices efficiently and for the
benefit of their constituents.
However, one or two rotten
apples in Oklahoma and Geor
gia can spoil a whole barrel.
(Copyright 19S0)
ate the Korean
crisis.
Out of the
window is the
idea (approved
by Premier
Stalin) that
communist Chi
na's admission
to the United
Nations be
made a prelim
inary to nego
tiating peace in Korea.
There's only one acceptable
qualification for peace negotia
tions. That is for the aggressors
to cease fire and withdraw with
in their own borders.
Then the issue isn't one be-
DeWltt MRckenili
Only Driver Got Kick Out of This
Seattle, Wash., July 21 (U.ra James L. Keating was con
victed of reckless driving yesterday despite his plea that
his car was weaving down the highway because his dog
52-Minute Time-Loss for Sewerman
Seattle, July 21 VP) "I dug it, I cribbed it, and I got buried
in it, I suppose you might say I brought it on myself."
Such was the way 21-year-old Leonard Moshier dismissed
his 52-minute burial beneath 13 feet of sand yesterday.
The brawny young sewer digger was trapped at the foot
of a shaft as he bent over his shovel. He managed to shout
muffled directions to his rescuers.
When workers and firemen finally extricated him after
nearly an hour, Mosier waved off ambulance attendants,
grabbed a shovel and went back to work clearing out the
shaft.
TOPSY-TURVY WORLD
Student Wears Upside-Down
Crosswise Glasses in Trial
Wichita, Kas., July 21 VP) He's looking at the world through
topsy turvy glasses and it's making him a bit sick.
But Fred J. Snyder, 25-year-old GI student at the Univer
sity of Wichita, gets over his light spells of nausea quickly.
Snyder is wearing glasses
that turn what he sees upside
down and cross-wise.
It's part of an experiment
attempting to prove that vision
is something we learn just
like we learn to walk or to
eat.
Snyder's psychology profes
sor said he'd have several pe- he
riods o nausea after putting the over.
of trouble descending stairs at
tween Russia and America, but
between Russia and the U.N.
In short; America is standing
pat on her determination to meet
communist aggression where
ever it shows itself, and fight it
to a finish. There is to be no
compromise.
-
Ample backing for that sweep
ing statement is to be found in
President Truman's dramatic
call on congress Wednesday for
a $10,000,000,000 program to
provide men and material for
the Korean conflict and to guard
against armed aggression any
where else.
That means business. And if
you want an exclamation point
for that sentence, you can find
it in the fact that two fresh
American divisions have been
flung into the Korean theatre to
buy more time for the mobiliza- V
tion of strength to smash the
communist invaders.
As so often happens, Premier
Stalin is wearing a halo of peace
in his ostensible willingness to
negotiate the Korean war if
the U.N. will evict Nationalist
China (one of the Big Five in
the World War) and admit com
munist China to membership.
In view of this let's take a
look at just what Red China's
membership means to Russia:
The main gain would be in
prestige for the communist bloc.
That would be very considerable
in the peace organization and
might be far reaching in Asia.
We mustn't forget that while
China now is a stricken nation,
yet potentially she is one of the
world's great powers. She has
within her borders more than
a fifth of the .globe's popula
tion, and she has resources
which in time can make her
strong.
The eviction of Nationalist
China and the election of com
munist China in the U.N.
(which America doesn't approve
and walking but has said sne wiu not veto if
the University
along tne nail. the majority want it) certainly
'It s funny they re putting would boost the stock of com-
the lights on the floor now," he munlsm in many Asiatic eyes,
jokingly commented. Countries like Burma and In-
At lunch in an off-campus donesia, which already have
restaurant where people stared powerful communist parties,
aian i KnuuK unytmng would say:
"If Red China is good enough
from all the taxpayers and was learn to live "diagonally,
strange glasses on, due largely "But he had trouble reaching so that the United Nations kicks
to nervousness. , for things like the salt shaker, the Nationalists out and sub-
' and difficulty finding the food stitutes the communists thev
In effect, Snyder will have to on his plate with his fork," a must be worthy folk and stand
supplied to the congressman so
he could efficiently run his con
gressional office and help his
constituents back in Oklahoma.
Instead, he had Matthews work
in his real estate office in Wash
ington, paying him at the in
flated rate of $460 a month, after
offering him only $200 a month.
So a lot of people are wonder
ing why you pay a young man
$460 a month when he is quite
willing to work for $200 a
month?
NOTE Congressman Wicker
sham also paid James W. Taylor
$7,720 of the taxpayers' money
supposedly to work in his of
fice though actually Taylor
spent his time traveling as a
salesman for the Herd Equip
ment Co. of Oklahoma City. A
lot of voters would also like to
know what the salary arrange
ment was between Wickersham
and Taylor.
TWO KICKBACKS
But, believe it or not, this
wasn't all. Here are two en-
co-worker chuckled. well. What is good enough for
"It's a very strange world," the United Nations is good
Snyder admitted. enough for us."
"
Snyder's brother Charlie 21 So if Russia could temporarily
and a Wichita U. junior also in- abandon the Korean venture and
tcrested in psychology will thereby gain International rec-
We feel that Fred will adiust serve 88 his uide on the pus nitlon of China, it would be
We leei inai rrea WIU aajUSI ...v,r.m. frlr," r. o onnrt .wan fnr Mncnu, Sha
We are going to observe and
record what happens to a per
son when you disrupt his ha
bitual way of looking at things,"
said Dr. H. N. Pronko, Wichita
university psychology profes
sor.
to seeing things upside down
after a few weeks.
"That will help strengthen
thesis that we learn to see just
as we learn to reach; write or
eat."
The experiment, which began
yesterday, will continue for 30
days.
He'll practice with a peg
board writing, reading, walk
ing straight lines.
When he sees a n upside
down hand sticking out to
ward him from upper left, he's
going to have to learn to reach
down and to the right to grasp
it.
Then the test over he's
going to have to unlearn it
all, when he takes off the spe
cial glasses.
tirely new salary arrangements ....
the congressman had, definitely
Involving kickbacks.
When Snyder first put on the
glasses yesterday he had a bit
and on a "shopping trip" up a good swap for Moscow. She
town today, always could return to the Ko-
Snyder's going to see how a rean attack at an opportune mo
drug store and a fashionable ment.
men's clothing store look, up- However, the status of corn
side down. munist China cannot be made
If he doesn't get an inverted the premise of Korean negotin
"greeting" from Uncle Sam, that tions. Uncle Sam stands on
is. He's an army reservist. principles.
Fireman, Save My Carrots
Wakefield, Mass., July 21 VP) A meek voice asked Wake
field firemen over the 'phone if they would do a woman a
great favor.
They indicated they might.
"Well," asked Mrs. Arthur E. Goodwin, "Will you turn off
the gas In my home and save the carrots?"
Mrs. Goodwin explained that she was In Topsfield 20
miles away and had left the gas burning under a pan of
carrots.
The firemen saved the carrots and possibly the house
from an explosion.