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8 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1950 Film Paid to Wed Actress Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker (above), motion picture Tarzan, are shown in Hollywood as they revealed their engagement. They have been seen to gether regularly for the past year. It will be the first mar riage for Miss Dahl, who is 24, and second for Barker, 32. (AP Wirephoto) U. S. Finds Itself in Strange Situation with Sec. Acheson By JAMES MARLOW Washington, Dec. 21 W At a most critical moment, this coun try finds itself In one of the strangest situations in its history. Its secretary of state, Dean Acheson, has been discredited by a large part of congress, the republicans But at this instant he is in Europe, trying to plan with this country's western allies for a de-f lense against Russia. For them to take a spirited stand against Russia, those allies must feel this country stands solidly behind the plans being made. Talking with Acheson, they must wonder: How can they be sure congress will back up any thing he says? Acheson flew to Brussels from here Sunday to talk over the plans with the members of the Atlantic pact. On Friday, while he was pre paring for the trip, the republi cans in congress pulled the rug from under him by overwhelm ingly voting no confidence In him. (The republicans had started to do this about a week ago but Governor Dewey of New York, titular head of the party, stop ped them cold for a few days by telling them this was no time for a move like that. (The republicans apparently thought this one over and then decided to go ahead, Ignoring Dewey.) This country's Atlantic pact partners have been dawdling along with their defenses. Ache son is supposed to spur them in to action and get things going, in the belief there's no time to lose. Before Acheson boarded his plane Sunday, President Tru man issued a statement which said he had "complete confi denco" in Acheson. Ho has stood solidly behind Acheson, and still is backing him, so far as is known. (The no confidence vote was only the climax to many months of republican attacks onAchcson. But for that matter, the demo crats, or rather most of them, haven't defended him very strongly and some not at all.) There seem to be two schools of thought on what may lie ahead.: 1. That Acheson may resign when he comes back, thus let ting Mr. Truman appoint an other secretary more acceptable to the republicans, since Mr. Truman needs republican back ing on major foreign policy moves in this crisis period, 2. That Mr. Truman may get his dander up to such a point that he won't let Acheson go at nil. But if Acheson doesn t go, then Washington is going to see some of its most embarrissing situa tions in years. This is why: Acheson has to deal a lot with congress, face to face, by trot ting up to the capitol to explain to congressional committees why his state department has done thus nnd so or what the govern ment s policy is on this or that And republicans sit on all those committees, always just Numbers by the primary grades were: "Deck the Halls by a chorus; "welcome, a poem by Mary Jansen; "Away in a Manger," the chorus; "unnst mas," Roberta Smalley, Casey Jones, Mary Lee Harner, Nor man West, Joe Cunningham, Jon Remy, Mary Fisher, Jimmy Armstrong and Nancy Welty; Christmas Is Coming," Eileen Weigert, Andrew Stortroen, Lin da Miklia, Jackie Oliver, Donnie Schaberg, Virginia Forse, Bobby Bowder and Jimmy Bryan; and the closing number "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." Numbers by the intermediate grades: Piano solo, Mrs. Keith Gwynn; "O Little Town of Beth lehem," the processional by the chorus;" "Angels From the Realms of Glory," fifth grade chorus; O Holy Night," fourth grade chorus; "The First Noel,' chorus; "It Came Upon a Mid night Clear," sixth grade chorus We Three Kings, chorus with solo parts by Gary Frame, Gary Isom and Glenn Welliver; piano solo, Mrs. Gwynn; "Silent Night," chorus; "Hark the Her ald Angels Sing," chorus; "O Come All Ye Faithful," the re cessional by the chorus. The pantomime was by the in termediate pupils; Mary was Yvonne Ellis; Joseph, Wayne Welty; kings, Bobby Douglas, Gerald Guman and Tommy Se Rine; shepherds, Donald Straw, Charles Alderman, Jerry Fetsch, slightly outnumbered by the democrats who have a majority on each committee because they have a majority in congress. So, if he remains, Acheson will have to explain his reasons and plans across a table to re publicans who already have said they lack confidence in him. And it seems unlikely, no mat ter what Acheson does from now on, that the republicans can ever reverse their stand and pat him on the back. It may be supposed that If Mr. Truman tries to pacify the re publicans, whose backing he needs in foreign affairs, and lets Acheson go, that the republi cans then will have an obliga tion to back up Acheson s successor. Not necessarily so. True, the senate has to approve a secre tary of state. But this is merely an expression of confidence that man ought to be able to do a good job. The republicans will have to lake part in that vote. But any time thereafter they're free to tee off on him If they don't like the job he docs. Acheson himself had to get senate approval when he took office 23 months ago. Gates A special meeting of the voters of school district No. 21J has been called by the board of school directors for the purpose of electing a director to fill the vacancy left on the board by the resignation of Oswald Hirte. The meeting will be held in the basement of the local high school Friday evening, De cember 22, at 8 o clock. GIFT SUGGESTIONS HICKOK BELTS SUSPENDERS JEWELRY Open Evenlngi Till 9 Until Christmas S & N CLOTHIERS "Good I xktng Olothw Are Not Expensive" Berb AUrrri, MfT. 4M BTATK ST. East Salem's Swegle School Gives Christmas Program East Salem In the auditorium of Swegle school before an audi pnee of Darents and friends which filled the room until there was little standing room left, the pupils and teachers of the school presented their annual school program. It was arranged in three narts. f Marvin Johnson, Lloyd Johnson, Larry Jayne and John Lee; an gels, Carolyn Alsman, Dons Cobb, Donna Fetch, Marilyn Towery, Jackie Smalley, Doro thy Vaughn and Esther Utter back. Stage manager was Lloyd Johnson. The Christmas treats were given to the school children in their room and the PTA pre sented the pre-school children in the audience with their sacks. A Christmas play entitled The Meaning of Christmas" will be preserved by the chil dren who attend the Swegle Sunday school on Friday night in the school auditorium at 7:30. Serving on the committee for its preparation are Mrs. Harold Ol son, Mrs. Harold Alderman and Mrs. Albert P. Patz. Christmas Programs Scheduled at Mill City Mill City Grade schools will present the Christmas program Thursday evening, Dec. 21 at 8 o'clock in the grade school gym nasium. The upper grades will stage a play entitled, "Christmas Eve in Hillside Village , a can tata-drama under the direction of teachers: Mr. Hollyman, Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Schunk. Miss Smith plays all the accompaniments for the program. The choir is also made up of the upper grades, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth. The lower grades, under the direction of Mrs. Sletto, Miss Henry, Mrs. Loucks and Mrs. Schunk, will present, on the same night, a play entitled, Merry Christmas to All". There are also choral groups in the lower grade activities. The pro gram during the evening will in clude most of the students in the grade school. Longer Store Hours Albany Albany retail mer chants will remain open until 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday eve nings in accordance with previously adopted plans to accommodate evening Christmas shoppers. The stores will close at their regular hours Saturday. Juvenile Night Club Broken Up by Police Portland, Dec. 21 U.R)port land police have broken up a juvenile "nightclub" in an un ocupied Portland home. Police said Mrs. Frances Green of Tillamook was sum moned after her house was found open and littered with empty beer bottles. Officers said at one time they found five teen-age girls inside. Later three teen-age boys and two more young girls appeared on the scene. One youth, 21-year-old Robert Voorhees of Rhododendron, was jailed on a trespassing charge. Mrs. Green said she had not lived in the house for several months. School Program Set Sunnyside Pupils of the Sunnyside school will present their annual Christmas program Friday evening, Dec. 22, at 8 o'clock.1 of Them -fo serVfe He Book by Gibbs Interesting Story of Lost Men and Ships By BEN MAXWELL Bones of the ship and bones of the men who sailed them is the these of "Pacific Graveyard," a James A. Gibbs, Jr., book of out standing interest and merit lately sponsored by the Oregon His torical ociety. -.,,. ,i Binfords & Mort of Portland are publishers of this small, well- printed volume in an atractive' format. As the name implies Pacific Graveyard is a log book of disaster about ships of all class es and nations, lost long ago or recently, at or near the mouth of the Columbia river. More significantly the subject is present as history and not as romance by a writer who has had seafaring experience. Gibbs is now assistant editor of Seat tle's Marine Digest, and recent ly was elected president of the Puget Sound Maritime Histori cal society. And it may be added as an item of local interest that James A. Gibbs is a descendant of A. C. Gibbs who was Oregon's Civil war governor. In his slight but comprehen sive volume of 173 pages Gibbs enumerated some 160 vessels lost in the Pacific graveyard of his selection. Concerning many he tells an interesting and dramatic story about stays missed while crossing the bar, about anchors dragging when storm and tide defied human effort to save the ship. There lies the Lammerlaw, stranded at Leadbetter point when her master mistook the en trance to Shoalwater bay to be the Columbia river bar; and An drada that vanished with all hands near the entrance to the Columbia during a raging gale, December 11, 1900, and the Lu- patia. too, whose only survivor after disaster off Tillamook head was a blinded, whinning dog. Details about these and many other disasters are precisely and effectively related. Grim facts about stark tragedy at sea re quires no embroidery. Not since Lewis and Dryden's monumental "Marine History of the Pacific Northwest" was pub lished in 1895 has a book com parable to Pacific Graveyard ap peared to enhance the marine history of this coast. Obviously, Gibbs has labored long and in dustriously collecting forgotten information from obscure sources. Quite as obviously he has re-written, condensed and classified his material into an alphabetical chronicle of mara time misfortunes both large and small. Appropriately, it is called Pa cific Graveyard. Dug Finds Shelter This stray dog found shelter from a snowstorm by curling up in the straw used in the Nativity scene set up on the Albert Lea, Minn., courthouse lawn as part of the city's Christmas observance. (AP Wirephoto) 14 PROOF CONTlNfNTAL DtSTUINO CORPORATION PH1AD&PH1A, PA. A gut beyond compare ! 66 GAUGE FIRT QUALITY i 2.95 (o) U 1 - VALUE 'l These highfoisAiiperli the ultimate in hosiery k X " plus ever js sheer beauty that every! worn a4 will treas 1 i 11 1 U A ms.er Nvlons are ! Lojnq wear . . . . 1 ri mane a gitT sure ft FREjillpHEST With three pair purchases! 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