Capital journal., March 21, 1951, HOME EDITION, Image 4

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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 21, 1931
RAPID DEFENSE MOBILIZATION
Disclosure of the present armed might of the United
States has been made by President Truman in an exchange
of telegrams with Defense Secretary George C. Marshall.
It reveals that the United States has doubled the size of
its armed forces since the start of the Korean war and its
strength now exceeds 2,900,000 men. The immediate
goal is 3,500,000.
Marshall stated that the build-up in the past nine months
has proceeded at a rate more than twice as fast as in the
early days of World War II when this country mobilized
the greatest fighting force in its history. "The 2,900,000
figure was not attained in World War II until more than
21 months after our build-up started in June, 1940, follow,
ing the fall of France and more than three months after
Pearl Harbor," Marshall reported.
President Truman said, 'This tremendous gain in our
strensrth." achieved at an all-time record rate "has been
made necessary by the lawless aggression of communist
forces in Korea and by the menace of still further commu
nist attacks against other free nations. He served notice
on Russia that this astonishing build-up "is evidence of
our determination, in company with other free nations, to
establish and maintain world peace."
"The armed forces we are building," the president said, "and
the supplies for them which our factories, farms and mines are
turning out, are for the protection and preservation of our
freedom." And, in an implied bid to this country's allies to go
and do likewise, he said: "The speed with which we have been
able to strengthen our defenses should be a source of inspiration
and encouragement to men everywhere who love freedom." At
the same time he made an appeal for public and congressional
support of a still bigger build-up of American armed strength.
When the North Korean Reds started their aggression
June 25 by driving across the 38th parallel the American
armed strength was 1,458,500. Since then six national
guard divisions and many reserve units have been called
to the colors, 450,000 have been drafted with another 80,
000 scheduled for induction in April and 60,000 in May.
The present distribution of the armed forces is approxi
mately 200,000 in the Korean war (all services) ; in Europe
127,000, of which 97,000 are in the army, 20,000 in airforce
and the remainder in the navy; except for a few thousand
in Alaska, Hawaii and the Caribbean, the remaining 2,500,
000 are in the United States or aboard ships at sea.
Publication of these defense figures were timed to en
courage the allied nations in Europe as well as speed up,
if possible, action by congress on pending legislation, such
as the troops of Europe issue, the draft bill and other vital
defense measures.
ANOTHER WARNING
Persons of European birth have analyzed the world
crisis to Salem audiences in recent years with an appeal
each time for a realization of the grim facts as they actu
ally are. The list of these foreign-born Paul Reveres com
ing to Salem is a long one. Without question among those
at the top of the list should be Dr. Tibor Eckhart, number
one enemy of Hungary to both the nazis and communists.
Dr. Eckhart spoke Tuesday night before the local Knife
and Fork club. ,
As the brilliant Hungarian fighter against totalitarian
Ism noted, there remains but a 50 percent chance of avoid
ing World War III. The only hope of possibly avoiding
a new world war is for the United States alone to lead the
western world in displaying a superior force, both militar
ily and spiritually, to the Russian aggressors, he warned.
He agreed with the Stalin contention that either commu
nism would triumph over all Europe or the forces of the
west would push the Russians back behind their natural
Eckhart noted that the 100 years of general world peace
after the Napoleonic wars came because Russia was ex
cluded from a voice in western Europe. He attributed the
great failure after World War II to the opposite decision
making Russia a party to all matters in western Europe.
In referring to the troops-to-Europe issue in the U. S.
senate, Dr. Eckhardt compared the 12 divisions Red Hun
gary will have by July 1 with the 11 divisions the United
States has. He' attributed the low morale in western
Europe and the nationalization of oil in Iran to the reali
zation on the part of those peoples that the west just
doesn't have the military forces to hold back the Soviet
hordes. He said it would take a minimum of 60 divisions
on the Rhine to block a sweep across northern Europe by
the Russians. Only 12 allied divisions are available now.
In face of such discouraging realities, the people of Iran,
for instance, hope to spare their country for a while by
dealing with the Russians.
The Hungarian's warning is one that is becoming recog
nized as more and more the truth by a reluctant American
people: There can be no compromise with the aims of the
masters of the Russian people to dominate the world. He
likened the communist aggression to the Turks holy war
against Christianity that began in the 11th century and
continued for eight centuries.
Fainting Routine
Fairbanks, Alaska, March 21 WV-Two months ago Mr. and
Mrs. Eldon timer escaped unhurt when a fire destroyed
their apartment. But Mrs. rimer fainted on recalling she
had left an engagement ring she valued at $1,800, on the
bathroom sink.
For weeks L'lmer combed the ruins of the building looking
for the ring. Yesterday he unearthed the sink and trium
phantly produced the ring. It was imbedded In Ice and
undamaged.
Mrs. Ulmer fainted again.
BY BECK
Boyhood Hazards
THE ELUSIVE KID WHO ALWAYS
SLIPS AWAY FROM HIS MOTHER'S
r SIDE JUST AS THE FAST l.
. EXPRESS IS PUaiNO IN. Mi.'
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUNL-
Urges Radio Network Bridge
Oyer Stalin's Iron Curtain
By DREW PEARSON
(Editor's Note: Drew Pearson Is making a flying tour of
the middle east and Europe, surveying the world situation.)
Berlin This Is the extreme northern end of the iron curtain.
I started this trip at the southern end where it begins, between
Bulgaria and Turkey a long line of barbed wire extending
north and have now reached the other end, where it isn't even
barbed wire but fans out into the east zone of Berlin.
One of the
BY CARL ANDERSON
most important
conclusions I've
reached on this
trip is that Win- T
s 1 o n Churchill jy J ff"
am ine demo
cratic world a
disservice when
he talked about
the border be
tween Russia
and the western
world as an iron
Drew remnoB
scene, it covers local news, uses
local wisecracks and dissem
inates local political gossip.
Making the Voice of America ef
nt fective from 4.000 miles away
' is like publishing a newspaper in
Chicago from a news desk lo
cated in London.
therefore, we are to punc
ture the easily punctured iron
curtain, what we need is a series
of local radio stations extending
from Berlin to Turkey one
Red-Faced Amateur Sleuth
Seattle, Wash., March 21 U.R) D. A. Davis was more than
willing to leave the catching of burglars up to the sheriff's
office today.
He said a number of punchboards and prises were stolen
from his ear Sunday. Then, he decided to leave some more
merchandise In the vehicle as bait, and catch the thief red
handed. Th burglar took the stuff when Davis wasn't
looking.
Plane Delayed Two Hours
Eagle, Alaska, March 11 WV Alaska Airlines pilot Don
Emmons was delayed here for two hours yesterday.
Neither weather conditions nor engine trouble held up
bush pilot Emmons.
Be was pulling a tooth for a local prospector, Frank Oio.
KRISS-KROSS
Spring Has Sprung . . .
Seasonal Hazards Here
By CHRIS KOWITZJr
At least one Salem man decided to start his spring house
cleaning early this year ... to wit: 12 hours before the start
of spring . . . yesterday afternoon he climbed atop house to
clean some leaves out of eaves trough . . . meanwhile, a group
of kids a half block away decided to crowd spring, too . . . they
got up baseball
Fred Cords, Salem YMCA phy
sical director, has acquired a
sore throat as the result of swim
ming . . . now that doesn't sound
the least bit unusual ... a lot
of people have acquired sore
throats as the result of swimming
. . . but Fred's case is unique . . .
his sore pipe is the result of
someone else's swimming . . .
Fred is instructor in learn to
swim campaign being conducted
1Mb wpplr at V fnr hntirc nn
JWLn,-erJ- witJ),.its 'cy end. he stands on edge of pool
and blinding blizzards, ,k.i, ncm.iinn tn th
game . . . while
man atop house
was crouched in
precarious posi
tion near edge of
roof, batter loft
ed a high fly
which landed on
roof, just inches
from guy clean
ing roof
ditto happened
few minutes
later .
streets
may be a dangerous season
but spring has its seasonal haz
ards, too.
Current edition of magazine
devoted to home life contains ar
ticle on how men should, at
times, assist their wives with the
curtain, because the border isn't along the Czechoslovak border
as impervious as the word iron in the American zone of Ger
indicates. Not only is Stalin's many broadcasting in Czech and
curtain between the East and Slovak languages, one in the
the West not even marked by American zone in Austria, one
barbed wire in many places, but in Yugoslavia to reach nearby
it can be crossed fairly easily. Hungary and Albania, and one
The border between Czecho- in Turkey to reach southern
Slovakia and the American zone Russia.
in Germany, for instance, can be Such a radio network would
crossed almost any night. In fact, pay 100 per cent dividends in
it is crossed constantly by Ger- getting our ideas beyond and
mans who make their living behind the Iron curtain,
smuggling goods back and forth. However, radio propaganda
The border between East and alone, while important, won't
West Germany is like a sieve do the job. My examination of
while, in Berlin, thousands of the Iron curtain convinces me
people walk or ride back and that, in addition, we could get
forth daily between the Russian all sorts of propaganda into sat
and American zones. I entered ellite countries. Thousands of
the Russian zone without even people in Czechoslovakia, Hun
knowing I was in it and drove gary and Poland are eager for
through several miles of its bat- information about the outside
Henry
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal, Back from Vacation
Asks: Back Across Border?
Chrfs KowlU. Jr.
novice swimmers ... all that
shouting has had its effect on
Cords' cords.
With Spring at least underway,
and travelers soon to hit the
By HAL BOYLE
New York. W; Recently in my mail there came a cartoon
tered streets. The only way you worm and are even willing to drawn by a young corporal in Korea.
have of knowing you are in the risk their lives to get it and help The cartoon showed two elderly natives watching an American
Russian zone is through the disseminate it. soldier cross the 38th parallel. The American soldier was bent
signs on the streets which say: During the war we devised all with age and had a beard halfway to his knees.
"You are now entering ine aem- sorts or schemes to get our prop- How did it
ocratic section of Berlin." aganda behind the enemy lines, all start?" asks
This fairly easy access into re- We devised waterproof propa- one native,
stricted areas behind the iron ganda leaflets, which could not "I don't re
curtain raises one of the most be destroyed by rain. We devised member," the
important omissions on the part small printing presses, which second replies,
of the United States government one man could carry and op- "I was just a kid
namely, why are we not doing erate. We printed messages in when they first
more to influence the people on Bibles and got them distributed crossed it."
the other side of the curtain? in churches. . .
Obviously the curtain was rung But we are neglecting much of This wry car
down by Stalin for only one rea- this today. We are spending bil- toon today prob-
son: Decause ne iears uira- lions io rearm a reluctant Eu- ably reflects tne
course between East and West rope, many parts of which don't feeling of the
titude is more like "this Is where
I came in."
That attitude is best summed
up by the joking answer many
veterans there give when young
replacements ask them how long
they've been in Korea:
"Nobody'll tell me."
housework . . . included in the highways, we re reminded of this
article is this statement .... little ditty:
"When the wife washes the dish
es, the husband should wash the
dishes with her, and when the
wife moos un the floor, the hus
band should mop up the floor For now he's selling gasoline,
with his wife." Hot dogs and orange juice.
Beneath the spreading chestnut
tree,
The smith works like the deuce.
It is likely that patrol for
ays north of the 38th parallel
havp alrpartv hppn maHp affain
he knew contact with the mod- particularly want to be rearmed, average American soldier toward by the United Nations forces,
ern marvels of capitalism would Meanwhile, only a few millions .rn;nc th Kith noraiipi oin But it is doubtful if the Eiehth
make it difficult to keep the Rus- spent on getting our propaganda jt is with small sense of adven- army wiU Press onward very far
sian people nappy unucr turn- oeuina me iron curtain might
munism. pay a bonanza of dividends for ture he now aPProaches
'Just Too Many Nice People'
Vancouver, Wash., March 21 WPJ The mother of a 9-year-old
Vancouver girl suffering from an Incurable brain tumor
has requested the many kind well-wishers to please send no
more gifts to the child.
Mrs. Don Ruth said the flow of gifts and good wishes to
Carol Lee had been too much for her. "There are just too
many nice people," she said.
Will It Be Dimelodeon?
Chicago, March 21 0J.R) The nickel won't even be any
good in the nickelodeon within six months.
George A. Miller, president of the Music Operators of
America, said today that within six months it will cost a
dime to play a juke box anywhere in the country.
Delegates at the group's convention here said rising costs
will force them to plug up the nickel slots,
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Increasing German Tension
Strengthens Hand of Russ
By BRACK CURRY
ror DWltt MicKentle)
Bonn, Germany Some allied officials fear that a gulf is wid
ening between Garmany and the west which is strengthening
the hand of Soviet Russia.
Forty-seven million West Germans in the center of Europe are
becoming increasingly restive under allied occupation controls,
these officials say. "
Behind-the-scenes bickering official commented. "The Ger
and distrust between allied off i- mans have offered us, in general,
cials and German leaders is re- all the necessary rights. But we
ported mounting. In Bonn, the must have a precise arrangement
capital, a drumfire of criticism spelling out the rights of our
against the allies is heard.
Therefore our best bet to head peace.
off war obviously is to go over (coprriiht usn
the Kremlin's head and reach
the Russian people and the sat- .Dmi. .......
ellite millions also forced to re- JrtlS rUKUM
main behind the curtain.
or very fast.
In two months it wrested the
that artificial border dividing T the InemFand
North and South Korea. His at-
pushed them back to the fate
ful border where the war started
last June 25. It has been a cau
tious offensive whose object was
less to gain real estate than to
kill as many Chinese and North
Korean Redr. as possible.
But from now on every milt
the Reds are bached up tends I
to bring the two forces nearer
EAGER FOR V. S. w" 1 M,.,u i
INFORMATION To the Editor: We want to commend your newspaper on the
How effectively this can be stand you.,e king on the matter concerning "Third Circuit
done and how eager the satellites court."
IT IS A t ihnwn riehl hprp in
Being a taxpayer and a Marion county citizen for 33 years, equilibrium. The stalemate en-
Berlin, where our state depart- also having done sales work In homes and worked with charity visioned by General MacArthur
ment is doing its most effective work, I feel I know a little aPPears to be approaching.
job of propaganda through radio and yet it is so little of what a detention home. You'd know Tne reason is simple. Up till
station RIAS. This station, which is going on in homes of parents whv , ,.. , ' , nw the enemy supply lines have
gets its abbreviated name from that neglect their children and . , . " interested been strung out and given allied
Radio in American Sector shirk their responsibility. m tne great number 01 aehn- airpower fine targets. And ths
was originally started by the And it- is up to all of us, as uent children all over our fighting has been concentrat
army but is now operated by well as our juvenile court. Espe- count5r- ed in tbe narrow waist of the
three state department radio cially with the inadequate quar- we ure proud of our county. Korean peninsula where the out
men plus 600 Germans. ters they have at the present Let s continue to be so, and pre- numbered United Nations troops
RIAS carries a regular sched- time. So as God-fearing people Pare for our young underprivi- could mass their firepower,
ule of radio entertainment not we must carry the responsibil- leged -children a place so they
unlike the average American ity for our next generation's can b made a citizen to be Bllt th. ' .
station with quiz programs hav- sake Proud of our beautiful Marion ,, wJr ecf!m,y " gett!ng
Ine Ihp hiffhest Hnnner ratine ... , . Cnuntv. w.. ... mF1,., uc-
. , i 7 . es, you u Know wny we necu
and musical cabaret shows sec- ms court weU need of
ond. Interspersed through all
these programs, however, are
telling wisecracks and political NOT SO FUNNY
comment which nickle-nursing
GLADYS HARRIS
Congressman John Taber of New
York probably couldn't under
stand and wouldn't approve of,
but which have East Germans
roaring with laughter at the
expense of Joe Stalin.
RIAS is so popular in Eastern
Germany that when the Soviet
Being Bachelor Nothing to
Turn Handsprings About
yond the Manchurian border.
And as the peninsula widens out
the allied line will have to be
come thinner and thinner dan
gerously thinner.
The same allied forces that
held a battleline of 125 miles
cannot possible hold a line of 500
to 700 miles yet that is the
line it would have to hold if it
drove to the Manchurian-Siber-ian
border.
The two previous efforts to
Allied officials say
Europe's growing confidence in
its ability to defend itself against
the communist threat is not
matched in Germany.
They concede that west Ger-
troops as individuals and as ar
mies. Otherwise there will be
western chaos when the occupation
ends."
The hard lesson taught both
times by those abortive drive
By allied estimate, 18 months
will be needed to hammer out
the details of the "contractual
man leaders sincerely hope to agreement," although the pres-
align the nation with the west, ent occupation system has ap-
includtng an eventual German parently outlived its usefulness
armed contribution to the Atlan- and become a political liability
tic army. But German leaders for the west in Germany,
tell allied chiefs in private that It is also a liability to the Ger-
they cannot pass rearmament le- man government Allied surveys
gislation until the last shackles indicate that a majority of west
of occupation are scrapped. Germans distrust their existing
They are prodding the allies political parties and acutely dis-
to place allied-German relations like having the Bonn regime un-
on a basis of equality now. der the thumb of allied controls.
They claim thousands of Bonn leaders complain Ger-
Germans write: "nhy should
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY
New York, March 21 (UJ9 No man should brag about beinz a
held its big youth meeting in harhplnr .Tpan Snhlon il inrfav .rtrfino that h. .Hio reach that border brought dis-
Berlin last December several back the just iyen nim one o( ft aster. Only its superior mobility
thousand supposedly communist . . . ' .. Kept tne Elghth army from be-i
youngsters called at the station "n6le men in the world' Ing destroyed.
out of friendly curiosity, while lne rencn crooner, along witn tne nine other unmarried men,
streams of letters pour into the was named as the choice of a
RIAS offices each month from group of the country's glamorous smilingly acknowledges a guess was that the United Nations ,i!
all parts of Soviet Germany. bachelor girls. The others nam- 0f "around et," said he wouldn't simply doesn't have enough ' j
une ot ine most popular tea- ea were Anmony r.aen; mayor care whether his wife were an troops in Korea to conquer the
tures on RIAS is the evening Martin Kennelly of Chicago, American girl or from his native entire peninsula,
news show at which the com- Count Amadeo Cacace of Rome, France.
mentator uncovers a communist Crooner Vic Damone, Joe Di- ,.ej a majer 0 personaj.
agent in East Germany. Maggio, Farley Granger, Gay- ity not nationality j,e said! Tw0 tb'ui might change the
"You may know Hans Goer- lord Hauser, Elliott LawTence flashing a wide smile "AmerU Picture:
ing, the butcher on the corner and John Alden Talbot, Jr. ca gills have vairy pretty lgg j A decision to permit allied
of W llhelmstrasse and Luxem- The scroll Sablon sent back but you never can tell, beauty is airplanes to attack Chinese
burgplatz," says the commenta- was signed by Sandy M. Pitof- not everything. Charm is more troops and supply concentrations
tor. "He may pretend to be sky. director general of the imnnrfant " in Manrhnria
In France we have an old 2. The sending of hundreds of
your friend but he isn't. He's a Bachelor's Club of America.
: . . . . . . . ,, . " .nine n c- nave an Ula . iim ociiuiuie ui uuiiuicub ui
Zr,f rl 1 r 8 P"fSKy- however' M!d ,the 'J saying. '11 n'est, jamais trop tard thousands more allied troops to
what you do and say to the was chosen by a panel of single faire hp H . Korea.
ing his moustache reflectively. There is no sign that either
"Translation: 'It is never too will be done. Either might pre-
Soviet police." girls, including the 10 girls
East Germans eat this up and named recently by the Bache
the East bureau of the social lor's club as the most eligible
democratic party has kept RIAS single girls in the country.
late to do well.' '
cipitate a third world war.
mans have been confused parti
cularly by apparent contradic
tions in American policy toward
German rearmament, they assert
six months ago the U.S. was call
ing for full-speed ahead. Then it
The Germans have proposed a tacitly accepted go-slow tactics
co n v e n 1 1 o n guaranteeing the initiated by the French and Brit-
rignts ol allied troops In Germa- ish.
we fight for the allied high
commission? Give us freedom
and then we'll fight the Rus
sians if they come."
well supplied with names and
details of communist agents.
LACK OF FINDS
HAMPERS "VOICE
ny. But direct talks with the Ger
mans on winding up the occupa
tion have not started.
The allies argue that the Ger
mans fail to understand the
Germans have asked Amer
icans here: "What do you
Americans really want as to
do?"
They claim there are signs
complexities of the "contractual that Britain and France will fa
arrangement" promised them by y o r a neutralized Germany
the Brussels foreign ministers achieved through four-power
conference last December. conference. The prospect of a
"We can't just put the Ger- neutral Germany open to com-
mans out in a nice green pasture munist Infiltrations is terrifying
and let them alone," an allied to most Germans in Bonn,
"I deedn't understand," Sa
blon said, explaining why he
accepted the scroll yesterday
and then sent It back. "The best
ttntn f ni- man hannv mar-
The sta e department operates riage not living alone. I do
another Voice of America radio not wlsh t0 honored because
station in Salonika near the j am bachelor."
southern end of the iron curtain , ,, . . . . . .
v... k ,.,,, , He isn t married, he said, sim-
but, because of insufficient . . . ,. . .. . A1
it i ,i v. ply because he hasn t found the
funds, it hasnt really begun to ht . . ...nt .h i
scratch the surface of the Iron iai
curtain with effective propa. vauj young and could not afford
ganda. marry.
One trouble with the Voice of " would evcn ahave off my
America is that it operates via moustache if I found the right
short wave. RIAS, on the other ,?,lrl tomorrow and she didn't
hand, operates on a standard llke Sablon generously,
wave and fits its programs right
in on regular East German pro- The handsome singer, who Is
grams. And, being close to th reluctant to give his age, but
Tornado, Twin-Sized
Seattle, Wash., March 21 U.B Twin tornadoes in the forma
of 4 M -year-old children raised havoc In a summer cabin
near here.
Sheriffs officers said the pair broke 17 window panes,
three lamps, two doien dishes, five mixing bowls, four cook
ing plates, a cookie jar, two ice trays, five large glass jars
and a glass top of a coffee table.
They also tore s metal chimney loose from the ceiling of
the unoccupied cabin, scattered soot around the house and
damaged $35 worth of groceries.
Lose Clean Fight With Police
Halifax, N. 8., March II U) Four merchant seamen
faced charges of drunkenness today after losing s clean
fight with police.
Police said the four pelted them with cakes of soap as
they were being rounded up after a street fight
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