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Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos $6.00; Year, $12. 4 sSalem, Oregon, Wednesday, February 21, 1951 MacARTHUR'S KOREAN STRATEGY General MacArthur, during a visit to the battle front, has reassured the United Nations allies, that although he has been given full authority to do it, he would not send his troops across the 38th parallel in Korea, if it acquires new political importance. He stated : "I want to make it quite clear that if and when the issue actu ally arises I shall not arbitrarily exercise that authority if cogent political reasons against crossing are then advanced and there is any reasonable possibility that limitation is to be placed thereon." MacArthur further stated that his statement was not a peace bid and that "no cogent political reasons" have yet been advanced and that more of the enemy must be eliminated before it is considered. Anyway, he reiterated, the question is "academic" at present. The purpose of the statement was evidently to clarify End quiet the recent wave of international discussion about the parallel and the expressed fear that a new invasion of iNorth Korea would interfere with renewed peace ellorts with Bod China. As MacArthur said some two weeks ago because of the enemy's vast numerical superiority, his potential for reinforcement and resupply from Soviet Russia, and his unprecedented military advantage of an inviolable sanctuary in Manchuria there was only one possible field strategy to pursue. This strategy, which he is following, is to conduct a war of movement, of successive advances and withdrawals, to keep the enemy off balance, to lengthen his communica tion lines and inflict on him as heavy punishment as pos sible, while sparing his own troops and avoiding the haz ards of entrapment. For these reasons he rejected both the opinion widely held that the strategic withdrawal fol lowing the entrance of Red China into the war was a decisive defeat for the U.N. forces and that the Allies should try to hold a firm line across Korea for a positional war. MacArthur's Korean camapign has been compared to the same kind of warfare which the Duke of Wellington waged against Napoleon in the peninsular campaign in Spain and Portugal. This too, was a war of movement against superior forces, of capturing and surrendering capitals, but drained Napoleon's resources and manpower to an extent that insured his ultimate defeat. So it is apparent that until such objective has been secured, major operations beyond the 88th parallel are out of the question and "purely academic." OF ONLY TEMPORARY 'BENEFIT' Secretary of the Interior Chapman describes the linking of Bonneville power with Califoria power as vital to the national defense effort. Chapman then tries to describe this intertie of power facilities as beneficial to both the Pacific Northwest and California. But the secretary's explanation and justification of his project which he hopes to get completed by 1952 is received in Oregon with apprehension and with reservations. Chap man's scheme is cut from the same cloth as the one to pipe Columbia river water down to the parched fields of Cali fornia. But this power link is offered as necessary to national defense. In fact, Chapman says it is "required" by the war effort. And during these days when all-out national effort is long overdue, certain projects called for by Washington may have to be accepted, distasteful as they may appear. The theory Chapman uses to promote this project to tie together the power circuits of this region with that of California is to feed excess power south when required and feed excess power from California to the Pacific Northwest when needed up here. In the latter instance, Chapman would visualize a time during a critical water condition, as expected in 1952-'53, that steam generation In California would permit aluminum plants ill the Pacific Northwest to operate. Low water, with resulting falling off of power, could "starve" aluminum plants in this re gion. This all sounds fine up to a point. If the Pacific North west is short of water, California likewise could be short, too even shorter than usual. Then the California steam plants would be taxed to put out enough power for the state's expanding war industries, let alone ship out "ex cess" power. Furthermore, one state or the entire Pacific Northwest could start demanding an ever increasing amount of power to the detriment of the other power part ner. One state could be growing fnstcr than the others. An example of this undue demand for the supply avail able is found in the water controversy between Arizona and Southern California. Long ago the two agreed to share the waters of the Colorado river. That was all fine so long as there was enough water for both. But when Southern California's huge population growth demanded more and more water, Arizona protested. There just wasn't enough water to go around. Arizona wanted to care for its belated development. Perhaps the power linkup is necessary now as an emer gency and temxjrary measure, but even that is question able. The long range solution is one that should be un dertaken now: Faster development of the Pacific North west's power potential. That means pushing power pro jects in these parts, instead of merely talking about them In Washington. BY BECK What's The Use? (II Oil AFTER LISTENING ) J"'J,u'?Jj4jrj ) TO SOME OF THE CfiM V INSIPID CONVERSATION r GOING ON OVER THESE VJf LINES. 1 WONDER WHY&atggX 2 WE RISK OUR NECKS SSN ( TO RESTORE .SERVICE YWZ i WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Labor's Mobilization Beef Boils Down to Row on Clay By DREW PC ARSON Washington The bitter row over labor participation In the mobilization picture boils down partly to a clash with Gen. Lucius Clay, former military governor of Germany, now right-hand man to defense 'mobilization czar Charles E. Wilson. There is also a lot of peeve against Harry S. Truman personally. Clay, a hard-VSMPfjTf' siding at the Joint foreign relations-armed services quiz of Secretary of State Dean Ache son. As he called the roll, and came to the name of crime-busting Sen. Estes Kefauver, there was silence. "He's off chasing crap-shooters," Connally grum bled into an open microphone. There were roars of laughter from the audience. "That's off the record," boomed "Long Tawm," and went on. WASHINGTON PIPELINE Ex - Congresswoman Helen Homemade Fudge in Korea Somewhere In Korea, Feb. 21 U.Ri Two V. S. army enlisted men who use a steel helmet for a pot and a bayonet as mixing spoon turn out delicious candy fudge. They are Sgt. James W. Ringblum, 20, Burlington, Iowa, and Corp. Charles Hicks of Pomona, Calif., who mix up a batch of the candy every day. hitting, hard-- NT! working army II 1 officer, accus- luiueu lu giving ana liming ur ders, was con tinually clash ing with civil ians when he served as right hand man to war mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes in World War II. Later, while in Germany, he established what is probably a record for Drew Pearson any American official. He cabled Gahagan Douglas is selling her birthday. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Hal Tries to Accept Fact That He's 40 Years Old Today By HAL BOYLE New York W) This morning I looked Into the mirror and saw a boy I used to know. He was the boy I used to be. I looked closer the boy was kind of glimmering and I saw the man that had kind of grown around him. The man was me. U. riMn'r lnnlr inn onnd. It was his 40th birthday my 40th that sometimes shows In a man's KRISS-KROSS Lt. Tom Kay of Salem Meets General Confusion ByCHRISKOWITZ,Jr. Some of Salem's 409th quartermasters now at Fort MacArthur are getting first hand information on motion picture filming . . . scenes from a picture starring Joan Caufield are being filmed at the fort ... the army comes first, however, and when in walks the army's two-stars the boys snap to attention and forget the ,. '. wno says, Jjear ji.riss-R.ross: We noticed in the special event section of the fun festival to be held at the new church next Saturdav nieht. 'SDOCial Added I Attraction The Thing'. So glad to know you are coming." his resignation to the state de- home in Beverly Hills, Calif., in partment as military governor order to pay the campaign debts of Germany three times in one incurred in running for the sen day, ate from that state. A lot of peo Illustrative of Clay's difficul- pie promised to cough up for ties with labor leaders is one Helen before she ran, but when backstage incident involving the she was defeated they ran too, appointment of a manpower commissioner. President Truman had tele phoned mobilization czar Wil son asking him to appoint ex Sen. Frank Graham of North Carolina as manpower commissioner.-Former president of the University of North Carolina, Dr. Graham served as a member of the war labor board In World blonde stars Lt. Tom Kay was among' those in the front row watching the filming and get ting acquainted with the picture stars and the in dustry when up $ ill War II and played a potent part Plants And this is what I saw. A guy growing old. A guy with his scalp show ing through on the top and a Judge Ferdinand Pecora nev- gray nest build er served in the state depart- ing on each tem- ment, but has this definition of pie. A guy bulg- a diplomat: "One who remem- ing in the mld- bers a lady's birthday but nev- die and sagging er remembers how old she is." at the shoulders, .Sign of the times: Lieut. Sam I flexed an arm and a mouna oi even t 39 Husk. husk, husk Ingram, Who built bleachers, tired fat came to attention. The New straw over 0ld bones, grandstands and stadiums at muscle didn't even show . ... heaven heln Hamilton, N.Y... now building through. me T am 4n. the vear that ,ife I looKea again ior ine puy x begins. But will it make me see eyes always lives in a man's heart. Well, I can still shoot a good game of marbles and I still be live the forgotten prince can break the spell of evil that binds the enchanted palace. Neither war nor peace can change the illusions we live by. Bat Boyle Oh world, oh youth, oh time, oh love. Oh, any age less than fortyl The shell I am today, and ah the flesh I was yesterday, bomb stelters for industrial used to be. And there he was Paris fresh, or Naples anew? Truman's suggestion, but later, ,, . . .. . ...1 r!!,, 11,1 Wilon "" " """""S l"t- ture. "Tomahawk" was filmed was his eyes two blue pools of sad bricks of Berlin Salem police are looking for a missing person who is Tattoed nil nvor . . . he's Eueene Tat- tooed, who disappeared several roared a jeep &V2s and out jumped chria Kowiii, Jr. days 'ag0 a two-star general . . . the Salem officer snapped to attention ana came forth with his best salute Wanna be different? . . . then . . . at that moment the direc- build yourself a home in Man tor yelled "cut" and the man brin gardens and paint It white, with the two stars turned to Kay and informed him, "I'm Mrs. George Amundson, 2325 not a real general, Bub. I get Pringle road, correctly answered $35 per for this job." the jackpot question on a net- , work quiz program at 10:20 a.m. today . . . she won $655 . . . dur- Mrs. Minnie Lindsey, elevator mg the next few minutes, three operator at the courthouse, ob- persons telephoned us tips on the served her 70th birthday Sun- incident ... so we tried to call day . . . she still gets around at jirS- Amundson . . . here's log: a good clip ... a lot better 10:25 a.m., line busy . . . 10:30 clip, in fact, than the elevator a m jjne busy . . . 10:35 a.m., she operates. iine busy . . . 10:40 am., line busy . . . 10:45 a.m., contact . . . We thought we had been call- Mrs. Amundson said that dozens ed everything in the book (plus of people had called to congrat a few others) . . . but never ulate her . . . she's lucky that before have we been called "The she wasn't swamped with calls Thing" . . .today's mail brings from people trying to sell her a letter from a Salem woman something. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Western Allies Take Firm Stand on Red Armaments By DeWITT MacKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst) The firm stand of the western allies, in demanding a clarifica tion regarding all the Red bloc European armaments, is an" en couraging development from the popular viewpoint in the democracies. It is taken as a positive move which confirms the determination of the western szaflZns . Observers figured tnat me al lied notes were aimed at Bul garia, Hungary and Romania. Their forces have been estimat ed by Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia at 660,000 A total greatly ex ceeding the limits provided in their peace treaties. From the Washington State department also comes word that Russia now has a fully arm ored force of 35 divisions in East Germany and Poland alone. Moscow also has repaired East in keeping labor relations on Van , Heli!?' ,now starring ln just as young and eager and con- How? an even keel. xomanawK, neipea aeaicate fused as he had ever been. Jie 0ne lifetime, one lightning Wilson seemed to welcome fJLi", astern at looked back at me from the mu-- stroke at a tlme-And sweet mem. ... w ... v a a ror mui ail mat was lull ux win nripe nn a srrino- nf flr tha Seoul in flames . . . and coolness in the tropic of cancer. So long ago . . . such a time ago . . . five years or only yesterday . . . the boyhood of time, the boyhood of me. And only two eyes left i ti , -ii u i ..... "aj rirtiinr two wens oi cnuuxiuuu de tt de ar ' That" Graham J f. B? reluctant to cloud over. ing cast. John Gunther reports from Tokyo that, while dining with Maj. General Charles Willough- by, MacA.'s intelligence officer, DrWitt MacKemle powers not to allow them selves to be pushed about. It mcasu res up to the gener al belief that two-fisted firm n e s s towards bolshovlsm i s the only atti tude which pays. Monntimc. from Korea comes better news. This may be sum- German railways which would med up in the language ot urn- bo carriers ot supplies irom itus- ish Defense Minister Emanuel sin If there were war. Shimvcll, who told the house of The state department said the commons that U.N. forces in the Russian proposal to talk only Inst few weeks "have demon- about Germany was absurd, and stinted beyond all doubt that at another point declared blunt- the Chinese and North Korean ly: forces arrayed against them can "By their very nature the So- be checked and mastered." Sim- vict notes have aroused serious ilar assurances came from doubts that the Kremlin actually American military sources in wants a conference. Past ex perience and current intelli gence have made the U.S. skep tical of the Kremlin's good faith." would be only one of six assist ants, and would report not to mobilizer boss Wilson but to Clay through Wall Street in vestment banker Sidney Wein berg. Under these hamstringing conditions, Graham politely de clined. NOTE Graham subsequently went to Alaska, showed how skillful he was in handling la bor relations by smoothing out a difficult situation threatening to stop vital construction of air force housing and army fortifi cations. CLAY STAGES A VISHINSKY On another occasion General Clay had called a closed-door conference attended by Secre tary of Labor Tobin, Selective Service Director Hershey and Presidential Aide Daniel H. Stowe, to discuss manpower problems. Clay, at the time, was all set to announce his own man as manpower commissioner, but he had scarcely begun to talk when White House assistant Stowe in terupted. He advised that he had instructions from the President that the manpower commission ership was not 'to be discussed. Stowe did not say so, but the President knew, even then, how vigorously labor felt on the sub ject, and he did not want Gen eral Clay dictating the appoint ment. Faced with this message from the White House, Clay got red under the collar and stamped out. Later he got his way. His own candidate, Arthur Flemming, of the civil service commission, be came manpower commissioner after being pushed through by Wilson himself. This is one of the reasons labor is so sore. BIG BUSINESS TYCOONS Another reason is the number of big business tycoons around Wilson and the manner in which they dominate the mobilization picture. Here are some of them: General Clay, on leave from I shaved the man in the mir ror from force of social habit, Willoughby proposed the fol- VaS irhe were"mV child and went about the stale duties 0f the day when the world was of the day. But the boy haunted young. greatest military genius in the world Francisco Franco." (Copyright 1951) And the more I thought about being 40 years old the more I FranceSi said t couid she i got mixed up. Because the boy couId do anything i wanted to do for 48 hours. I think she had a Trawler Thrives on Vitamins Aberdeen, Scotland, Feb.' 21 (U.R) The motor trawler Dunk ity chugged into port today with its engine running on vita mins. The Dunkity, loaded with fish liver oil for vitamin pills was swept out to sea in a storm. The fuel tanks ran dry. Skipper John Baxter tried the vitamin oil ln the diesel. It worked. But Baxter estimated it cost $1,120 to get back to port. Roller-Skating No Gamble New Albany, Ind., Feb. 21 W) "Mama, we can't roller -skate over there any more but we can shoot craps." That's what a nine-year-old girl told her mother about a skating rink near New Albany. Sunday Sheriff Pyle raided the place. Today, seven men pleaded guilty to operating a gambling house and were fined. Rustling Hits Small-Time Class Laredo, Tex., Feb. 21 m Cattle rustling is ait old story in this border area but it fell into the small-time class today. Father George Gloekner, pastor of Blessed Sacrament church, reported someone had rustled a calf from the garage church. It was to have been given away at a Mexican village fete tonight. Workman Risks Life to Save 20 Passengers in Aerial Car ByW.W.COPELAND Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 21 W.B Authorities praised a heroic workman today who risked his life to save 20 fellow pas sengers from a stalled cable car that dangled 650 feet above a mountain chasm for more than seven hours. Augusto Goncalves, an electrician, slid down a rope from the after it stalled yesterday kind of wifely idea we should be together, but that idea I could . n't go for. I think the first time you are forty you have to be alone and realize it. And so I did and sorry I felt for the hidden boy I could nev er be again. Well, I told the bartender I was forty years old and he began to cry. And I began to cry. Then an old fellow down the bar rail slipped down to us keeping one foot on the rail so he wouldn't lose balance and said: "The next fifteen years of your life will be the best years of your life. Be sure to use them well." Then he started crying. Then the man who owned the bar came by. As soon as he found out the situation he started to weep, too, raising his eyes now and then only to wail, "Well, who's buying?" I got to thinking that after all I should share this historic oc casion with the lady who caus ed it all. So I put in a long dis tance phone call to my mother in Kansas City and asked her how she felt about me being 40 years old. "You were born in a terrible . snowstorm, Harold," she said, "but the weather is much clearer now than it was in 1911." I told her I thought she de served a break in the climate. Then I asked, "Mama, I'm 40 years old, and I still don't know what the devil this world you brought me into is all about. What shall I do? And she said in her sweet Irish voice, tempered by 63 years of trouble and fun: Why, just live another 40 To put the situation on thumb- Coffin Fails as Book Shelf Zanesviile, O., Feb. 21 (U.R) A 20-year-old youth stopped funeral here yesterday when he took a rough wooden box in which the coffin was to be placed. Police traced the box to the youth's home and he admitted the theft under questioning. He said he planned to make helves out of the box. No charges were filed, but police watched while the youth carried the 70-pound box back to the graveside on his back. Conscientious Woman Taxpayer Chicago, Feb. 21 (Fi An unidentified woman mailed her Income tax payment of 1 cent to the collector of Internal revenue. The penny was fastened to her tax return with plastic tape. Collector John T. Jareckl said the woman, a machine opera tor explained her employer had withheld $399.99 or her wages for tax payment. But her Ux bill wa $400. Korea. So, while the U.N. forces in Korea still confront formidable Tjorils. as Shlnwell put it, and there are equally great aanRera what the western powers In Europe, the general position nppcaI. trying to do is bring So- of the democratic world seems viet RUssia out into the open as to be Improving. We like to rcgnrds her plans for bolshevist think that, anyway. expansion. By the same token, The 'nil for clarification of Moscow is taking cover in order the Russian armament position t0 avoid disclosing her hand, comes in connection with the There must be a showdown on projected Four-Power meeting, this score sooner or later. With- Russla has been insisting that m,t it, Moscow will continue her this deal only with disarmament military-economic war of attrl- of western Germany, declaring tion to add to her already vast that western plans to raise an bloc of Red nations. So we have army in western Germany were right to take encouragement most disturbing to world peace, from the new move by the west- This extraordinary proposal crn powers, drew similar notes from Amer- The western notes suggest to lea, Britain and France to Mos- Moscow that a preliminary cow, calling for a discussion not meeting of Big Four ropresonta- only of German armament but lives be held In Paris March 5 that of Russia's east European to talk about the true causes of Satellites. These notes coin- international difficulties. Amer- clded with reports by Czecho- ica proposes that after the Paris Slovak exiles in Paris that the meeting, the Big Four meet in Soviet bloc was preparing to at- Washington to ease world ten- tnck Yugoslavia April 15. sloni. when one of its two-cable tracks Janeiro and its harbor. broke and blacked out the scenic A full moon and the absenno years, son, and try to remember continental uan; trea searis, on railway power supply. 0 wind aided rescue opera- t0 cal1 yur mother again." leave from Newmont Mining, a The electrician then rigged up ,. . J. P. Morgan firm; Sidney Wein- an emergency hand -powered ..... At That's the best advice I got berg, head of Goldman, Sachs, car which he propelled out 900 Officials of the line said the Getting to be 40 years old has Investment bankers; Howard feet along the unbroken cable cable that snapped was a new happened to millions of other Chase, of General Mills; Alfred and rescued those remaining in one imported from Germany re- people, and they managed to sur- Howse, of Forest Land Develop- the car four at a time. He made cently. They could offer no ex- vive. I guess the onlv reason I ment Co., general economic ad- a total of five trips while thou- planation for the accident, the got upset about it is that it is Vise,r,,tP.Wils,onV,T,hf OP61'0"8 sands watched from the ground first in the 40 years the line the first time it ever happened of Weinberg's Goldman, Sachs fearing the remaining cable has been operating. to me. investment house during the de- might snap at any moment. pression, incidentally, was one of the reasons why congress He brought the last of the pas passed the securities and ex- sengers to safety shortly before change act. 11 o'clock last night while army While these are skilled busi- searchlights played on the nessmen, they serve as "no-dol- dangling car. lar" men. In other words, they The passengers said panic roll are paid not by the government ed through the car as it sud- but by their own companies thus are in the difficult posi tion of serving one master but being paid by another. These businessmen can do an Important job for their govern ment, but they need to be coun- Looks fCased' by Cops, Too! ,JT115,Haute' tad-' Feb- 21 m Vollc arrested 60-rear- "a!..0' cJ"ica yesterday and charged him with burglary. Detective Huerta Tribble said Ware was trying to Mac hi a tuvem, Tribble said Ware told him the job was "cased" for him by a friend. And where Is the friend? Police asked Ware. He's serving time in the Indiana state prison for attempted burglary of the same tavern, Ware said OPEN FORUM Housewife on Oleo Bill Result nted labor another to prevent any of the To the Editor: Each year I've prided myself In campaign work executives passengers from attempting to here in Oregon. I've been after folks to register and r- 1.1 nm nut In thair Haalhc u,nrUJ h. , a i .-i, . . B lCr . VOW. 1 Ve denly swayed dangerously and halted at 3:45 p.m. when the car was halfway across the chasm between Urica and Sugar Loaf mountains. But they said that motorman Julio Cordeiro Freitas locked terbalanced by labor representa- one door and stood in front of lives. Roosevelt appointed men among the top of war mobilization, so labor run out to their deaths. was always a part of the war Seymour Greenman, a tourist effort. Now labor has scarcely from London who was aboard been consulted. the car with his sister, said, "It wasn't a very agreeable experi ence." LONG TOM CONNALLY . . . Sen. "Long Tawm" Connally worked hard to try and get folks in office that I thoueht' mart nA rlasor-iinrr Now I am wondering if I will ever try ,Uch a thing again I am a housewife who tries to g 8 save on food, time and money Maybe if on the next election My family cannot afford real a few of those names that voted butter and we d d hone tha "No" or. j t! The railway runs on two cables colored oleo vote wm.lH an . . .. "i olner of Texas is famous for his gruff from the ground to Urica moun- through the "House." times with th m.i, US .ft side remarks, but It wasn't un- tain and then to the top of It wasn't asking much for the food items we m!v t . til the hearing on AUantic pact Sugar Loaf, a 1,000-foot peak average housewife, but it all break strategy that one of his remarks at the entrance to Guanabara helped. I worked to help get made television. bay. The line gives passengers those in office. See what returns MARGARET MARTIN . The colorful Texas was pre- a spectacular view of Rio De I get. Amity, Oregon M
