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Capital Adjournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c: Monthly, S1.00: One Year, $12.00. By Mail in Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year, S8.00. U. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, S1.00; 6 Mos., S6.00; Year, $12. BY H. T. WEBSTER How to Torture Your Husband MY ceR,buK itex U, CKeHATA CCNVeXA . IS POINS eeAUTlFULLY! AMD Vouft PlR!S FLORIBCJNDA - SIM PLY lovslY' You MOST COME AND btc OUR VIBURNUM We'vt? HAO A TSRKIBLe TiMe WITH The PHLOX DIVARICATA AND The SCILLA CAMPAhluLATA, PUT OUR ILCX -CKEUATA HELLeKI HAS Oone QUTte 4 Sulem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1951 FINANCING CIVIL DEFENSE Marion county feels that a county-wide civil defense organization is essential during this crisis of survival in which the nation now finds itself. In fact, Marion county has allotted $11,000 to cover expenses for the defense or ganization for the next fiscal year. But if the civil defense system has to be put into actual operation one of these days in the present national emer gency, the system will be only as strong as the sum total of all of the various county civil defense systems. In the case of Marion county, for instance, a disaster here of unforeseen proportions would require the assist ance of neighboring counties. And since Marion county has been designated as one of the few critical target areas in Oregon, there is interest in what the surrounding counties are doing about preparing and developing the fundamentals of a civil defense organization. As Marion county has found out, a civil defense organ ization costs money. There are expenses involved in set ting up the various units throughout the county, and the director has to have expense money, likewise. For any county which might be trying to decide what to do, with the deadline for budgets already almost here, Marion county found that the early stages of setting up the or ganization had to be covered by emergency funds. Since it was questionable how much money would be needed and since provision had not been made previously for in clusion in the past budget, emergency funds did get the organization underway. President Truman has already declared the national emergency, so drawing on the emer gency fund is fitting in name and need. As the fiscal year rolls around in about 10 days, the regions throughout the state will continue to in tegrate their defense systems to the extent of funds allot ted. It is, of course, hoped that there will never be any need for actually putting the civil defense system into operation because of a disaster, but if the need ever should arise, the system must be in proper outline so it could be put to the test of crisis. THE IRAN OIL SEIZURE The Iranian oil crisis reached its climax when Premier Massadegh of Iran last night spurned British mediation offers and issued orders for the government to take over control of the billion dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil company at Obadan which produces 30 million tons o oil annually. Iranian production equals three-fifths of western Eu rope's total annual consumption of oil. Besides supplying part of the needs of both Europe and Asia, Iran is the chief source of fuel oil for the British navy and any interference with the flow of this oil might mean a slowing down of western armament production and may lead to a rationing of oil in the United States. Government seizure reaches far beyond the Iranian-British dispute and will probably affect the welfare of all na tions and the future of international conduct, and is threre fore of international importance. Russian influence is blamed for the surge of fanatic nationalism in Iran and it is perhaps part of the cold war waged by communists against the west. The Iranian parliament has given a vote of confidence for the "no compromise" fight to drive the British com pany out of Iran and mobs roam the streets of Tehran smashing Anglo-American company signs and will prob ably end up by smashing the oil plants, the main source of revenue of the Iranian government for many years past. Britain meantime has issued warning that she will pro tect militarily the lives and property of Britons in Iran and has appealed, to the United Nations' court of justice at The Hague, for an injunction against seizure. At present Iran seems ruled by the unreasoning mob which always destroys but never creates. Iran hasn't the technicians nor the "know how" required to run the oil in dustry and is virtually destroying itself. The country would bo far better off to acept a larger share of the oil profits, than to permit Russia to operate without any profit at all for Iran, but all for Russia, which has been the case in all satellite countries. r y n s vN 7. the man who eypecreo To DISCUSS GARDEWNG IN HIS NATIVE TbNeue WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND WAFs' Ire Mounts at Report Given by Jacqueline Cochran By DREW PEARSON Washington The ladies of the air force are getting more and more wrathy over Jacqueline Cochran's report that the WAFS aren't glamorous or shapely. Miss Cochran, who is the wife of Wall Street financier Floyd Orlum, but who operates a cosmetic business on her own, has submitted a confidential report to air . BY CARL ANDERSON Henry chief Gen. Hoyt I Vandenberg, de-! scribing the I WAFS as "tat- tered," "bedrag-j gled" and even "cross-eyed." To say that this has the! tne ladies oi tne ,a g ISOLATED WOMEN hair nulling Miss Cochran was also horri tZ,a t. L,tttJt D"w fied over the small number of mood is putting urns i . .,.. it rmldly. They have retaliated It . Tu.i . by calling Miss Cochran Stone- failed to measure up to specifi cations. "If the above is accepted," she argued, "it is believed that the air force will be able to cut down materially the misfits that are now getting into the program at the recruiting level." POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Dorothy Gish, Early Star of Movies, Yearns for Old Days By HAL BOYLE New York (IP) Dorothy Gish gave this advice today to movie moguls worried about bad news at the boxoffice: 'Go back to the old days. wall Jacky," and even go so far as to suggest that since her hus band, as head of Consolidated Vultee, manufactures the B-36, Miss Cochran should not have been called into the air force even for consultation. Stuart Symington, when secre tary for air, was criticized by some navy men because he spent structure, hnrfilv nrnfiio nrnn one night at the ranch of Floyd al grooming and general deport Odlum and Jacky Cochran. Navy ment" should be taken into ac men have claimed that orders count "in order to get a smart er the B-36 came out of this looking group," Miss Cochran visit. Now the irate WAFS are wound up her report with the digging up the B-36 all over significant comment that "all of asam. the air force generals whom T It is believed that to have one enlisted WAF assigned to Greenland and two to England is wrong," she advised, "just as it is wrong to send one WAF to a station like Douglas, Arizona, which just recently occurred. There were no facilities avail able, and the commanding officer was very much disturbed." Stressing again that bone I I I Cam- p Communist Air Force Is Becoming Active in Korea A new shakeup in the WAFS have consulted in the field ao One of filmdom's earliest stars, the vouneer Gish sister feels has just taken place as a result prove my recommendations. the industry has lost something it had when both she and it were of Miss Cochran's "glamor" re- herein contained, as minimums." young together. , . port, and Miss Mary Jo Shelly However, General Vandenberg What? .jaP Miss Gish says she had a hap- of Bennington College, Vt., has lowered Miss Cochran's mini- "Well, fun for f L py ijfe as atage child her rePlace.d WAP commander, Col. mus slightly for example, he was fun then ',rst r?'e w,as .a m??, iT,?"s0"" Miss Cochran's conclusions. How- enough for WAFS, instead of 61 intends to go all-out in Korea in an attempt to win the ball By HARRY FERGUSON (United Freu ForeiRD News Editor) It's a little too early to tell whether the communist air force ator at 5, playing little Willie in everj the furor continues, travels kept her from getting be yond tne sixtn grade in school, what iahitv sun oive nn mich mpn'i inh "There wasn't all this talk of jjiss Cochran came into the mechanics, truck-drivers and from their bases children hating their parents air forP nn tpmnnrarv ril,fv f. grease monkeys. n.Vh o the then " shf recalled. "Dnr favnr. i ir i i j Note Before Miss Cochran Jtaiu river to A-.'-i ' auviac vjcueitii v ttllucllueiK, HUU People worked together better. A medium is always more fun to work in when it is new. That is what w a lr n a 4 a atti . ni ,Ial yi' We didn't go to the candv store lsmrf air v.a tv3 Thn,.h t i . . . , . . .. nnrl aoV fnr twn ronte wnvih nf T-t... w i i. i i neckties and skirts, and' adripri ii isn i as mucn lun wnen tney ... aaKy a geuertui.-uiu.-iusiuiisieaK- - 7 - f K put the spit and polish on it." 3elIY be.ans. three cents worth d out and spread like wildfire oue ?TS: .ln 8rming L Dorothy and her sister, Lil- 01 licorice ana a dime s worm among the WAFS, her report has i....mis. rJ,e "battle lian, were stage children, friends o herm." never been published and only took place just of Mary Pickford, and in ca- In her beginning film days a few top WAFS haye seen it. SMALJ, BUSINESS south of t h e recrs spanning nearly half a Dorothy did things that would This column, however, has ob- FILIBUSTER rjver wnich du century they played hundreds make a modern film star faint, tained a copy. The late Huey Long, father of vides North of theatrical and film roles, ahe designed her own dresses, "It inches But hp ae'rppri that th gome. But for four days running it has showed up for batting WAFS should be more attractive. Practice. . should also be more feminine and Yesterday was the fourth straight day in which Red jet plane naa iiown down. fiuvi.se ueiiKi'Hi VHnnHnnprp. n nn .... ite treat was an Ice cream cone, submitted her report from Lack- Ief' Ladd.nd fiedj she had thg cnaiienge tne land air base. Texas. Thoueh WAFS reporting for KP duty in "ir. xur me suprem- Harry Ferruion is estimated that about Louisiana's Sen. Russell Long vwoa frr.m Tjrar.,;a o .. Dorothy made 'em laugh, Lil- fixed her own hair, applied her one-third of all the enlisted per- set one of the top records for a that is now referred to by our 1:.. Alr -rn(l.nn num makaim anri rarn wmibl ttnnno that haim haon nrinKlf n- Senate TlllnllST.Pr. HP TaMtPri Tnr inc ah- . ... ... mva jinn muni; cut lij, nan 1.11111:1. .u.w ....... v. v....M. ....... .....u -.-- ...mww...... jjiiuis tts iviiK uey. xne name 1 tmit' ah . Ho (iinnoht (hp r.ihp upro have a stand-in. She thinks the ated at Lackland are not fit 15 hours, second only to the f- k. t..nt Place ln MlS Alley Because industry suffers too much today material, she summed up blunt- eiuer jaroueues 10-nour ""- jet fighter known irom "tront office fear" 5T3 superiority over the Reds. we risk losing everything. There is an even more Berioul side of it. Nobody can prove it but there is a general suspicion that the pilots in the Migs can't speak good Chinese. If it is true that Russian pilots are flying the Red jets, the chance is always present that World War III can start at 30,000 feet slightly south of the Yalu river. Most of the dog fights take real dishes. our air force is on the offensive. and ly. "I personally came across a buster against war with Ger- '15. lt is called that bpcaUse it , V' ' , ilK "orth. " 1 cr: n'. wir ,hn .nmv!m,.i a manv. j , , . close o ine xaiu as meir oraeri Now nn Ihe wintrv side nf SO. - " r""--"L j m c-.. t 1... " lwo nu' . . 1 u,7 , regimented. ieei, incnes iau, ana wno aa Now young Senator Lone has namorf . r!.ii. mittedly weighed 134 pounds. a filibuster which will win him MI for Mikovan G for Gure- iiiia la mi iuu j11uL.11 weigut lur WMW uwu. . mauj qwio. VICn, Miss Gish wants to go on to the height, but what is even He plans to "talk at length" new adventures on the stage and worse, she is very much out of against the McCarran-Johnson television but she says she proportion as to bodily profile, "basing-point" bill which would lf th v N fi ld commanders 1, nuuiu w vti;i iw ana in aaaition. fine is cross- vcic mc buuichic uuuii aim Dorothy still has sprightly blue eyes and determined blonde hair. She likes to laugh over old times. "I suppose I have sat on more judges' laps than any woman my ago in America," she said. "On tour when I was a child movies. manv cities had ordinances "There' v tj v..v ..huu... UMf-.UH.LM . , . , . - Akfw.v IIIO, VilK ..Alga cue ai:i' against child labor, and I had to theater," she said. "But today many times," she added in tam industries, such as cement the Yalu river in force, not go in and sit on the local judge s it's like collecting paintings horror. the earnings she made in the eyed. "And I was informed that this ""'rr1, , that some day they will get a Manchuria ?on.p nf them -fall nothing like, the type of error has been duplicated JKte IU report that the Migs are across &hXtI?Tor2J. taf . restore the "Pittsburgh plus" ever lose sleep, it is because they will permit, looking for a fight. Lately the Red jets have been rising to accept the challenge and it could be that they art practicing for the day when they will start an offensive of their own. When a Red pilot sees that htsi are haunted by this nightmare piane is damaged, he streaks for VJ tl-inf enmn riair 4Uair will rmi- . . ' ... . "1 inside North Korea, but our lap to get permission to act." ' it's an indulgence to be in it." Senate Mac Arthur Hearing Has Almost Forgotten General By LYLE C. WILSON andsteTcha tne seamen H E !iUJl' ground troops are not in po7 no matter where their factories ' nea or live nunarea. sesion of that territory, and ,MJ?S ?ochran'j.J Pinion of are located, and no matter what Th change the whole there has been no opportunity WAF officer candidates was no the cost o transportation complexion of the Korean war to look at the credentials on the higher. when the supreme cour't ruled because the U. S. air force saved body of an enemy flier who ha "I met and talked with ap- this out, McCarran of Nevada y "urln8 the desperate been shot down, proximately 30 O.C.S. trainees, and Johnson of Colorado intro- Per.d of the Pusan beach-head If the Reds ever come acrou and was certainly not Impressed duced legislation to overrule the a is one oI 1he chief reasons the Yalu in force, the big quei with their physical appearance court. On the other hand, the wny we now have an over"all tion will be answered, or grooming," she reported. "In senate champions of small busi- laci, tnree or lour women in tne ness Kefauver of Tennessee, Washington, June 21 U.B The senate MacArthur investigators group seemed out of balance, Sparkman of Alabama, Douglas have almost forgotten the general in the latter stages of their weight for height." of Illinois and Humphrey of Min- inquiry. nesota will vigorously support Sign of the Times From the time KeereLurv of Stale Dean Acheson began to tes tify until now the inquiry has turned steadily toward long-range MORE "BODILY PROFILE" Russell Long. (Copyrlstht 1931 Wakefield, Mass., June 21 (U.R) A burglar spurned the cash register at Ayer's market, but took 50 pounds of choice beef. DEFENSE BUYING ETHICS The exposure by a, congressional committee of the "absurd" armed services buying methods, revealed in the fantastic ca.se of the Klvnir Corporation of Jackson and Nachez, Miss., where two ex-convicts parlayed $1200 into more than $3,214,000 in defense contracts, typifies the reckless waste in defense contractinR. The subcommittee, headed by Rop. Herbert (D., Ln.), reported to the house that "none of these contracts have been performed, except for ft limited portion of one of them" and it said the company, tho Klvair Corp., never had enough cash to carry out its commitments. Herbert's "watchdog" subcommittee termed the whole matter "fantastic." It said that at a time when Klvair was awarded a $2,900,000 contract for army tank covers it had only $170.08 on hand. The report, added the firm anticipated a profit of $129,000 but that it probably would have been "much more than that." The report recommended that two inspectors in the Birmingham ordnance district who checked one of the contracts involved be discharged. It characterized the district itself as "the most haphazard, naive and negligent . . . thnt could be imagined." The subcommittee said Elvair's first board of directors included B. A. Totten, whose acquaintance with the firm's nales manager, B. T. Jayno of Ponca, Okla., "flowered dur ing the time both of them were in the El Reno (Okla.) pen itentiary." The army procurement system was declared "haphazard, naive and negligent" in its investigation of Elvair, which got four fat canvas goods contracts "without money, plant or experience," but conceded the firm did not break any laws. a dm i nislrntion foreign policy in i. the Far East. The period cov ered most in tensively is from the February, 1945, Yalta con ference to June, 1950, when wai began in Korea. Lt. Gen. Al bert C. Wede mcyer's tcsti- Hi LAX'i Miss Cochran suggested that which WAFS should be at least 61 Lris O. Wilson slructions for Marshall he refused to accept and that he inches tall, but not more than 72 returned them with proposed inches. In order that they appear changes. These and other more ladylike, she also suggesl- changes were made with Mar- ed abolishing the 30-inch march- shall's aid before he took off for ing step. But most important, China. she stressed "bodily profile." "Whatever difference is allow- Wedcmcyer denied the ad- ed over or below the standard ministration contention t h a t weight should be based upon the concessions made by the United bone structure, the distribution States and Great Britain to the of weight and the muscle tone Russians at Yalta conference of the applicant," she laid down mony following Acheson's con- were taken in good spirit by Gen- the standards for shapeliness, tained some broad gauge objec- eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, " stress should be given in lions to Far Eastern policies head of the Chinese Nationalist recruiting literature to the phy- during that period and several government. Notable among sical profile required for appli- riitect challenges of statements these concessions was a foothold cants to the WAF." made previously by ndminis- given the Soviet union in Man- Miss Cochran also insisted tration witnesses. churia. something must be done about Vice Adm. Oscar C. Badger Badger brought the dispute as WAF clothing, continued along those lines to facts more up to date by "I have seen several hundred when the investigation was re- denying the basic conclusion of the WAFS at Lackland, and sunied this week. Badger in a upon which Mr. Truman's ad- they are the most tattered, be way is Wcdcmcyer's opposite ministration formed its policy draggled persons I have ever number a lop navy authority toward China in the fateful year seen in the service," she com on the Far East. 1948. The conclusion was that plained. "The fatigue uniforms Chinese Nationalists could not which were being worn by the Gen. Douglas MacArthur has win, would not fight. It is con- trainees at Lackland were of at been invited by the senate in- ceded that the administration least six different varieties, and vestigators to appear again if d drag its heels that year on were exceedingly poor in appear- he desires to answer criticisms the aid to China program dur- ance and unattractive. These made of him by witnesses who ing the period when the com- WAFS are certainly anything but objected to his strategical plans numisis built up and delivered a credit to the air force in the and supported his dismissal by Hie striking force which caused present non-uniform clothing Mr. Truman. The discrepancies Chiang's flight from the main- they are forced to wear." in testimony now on the record land to Formosa. In fact, Miss Cochran urged may tempt MacArthur to accept that "no further recruiting that invitation. Acheson is on record as say- should be done of WAFS until The discrepancies are not all ing that Chiang's armies had adequate clothing not only in on one side by anv means. But weapons and munitions but drcss uniforms but in fatigue the discrepancies chargeable to lacked the will to fight. Bad- uniforms is procured, administration witnesses have ger testified lack of adequate "The WAFS should be equal special significance because the United States support to Chiang to the best among the women's persons responsible for them are in 1948 caused him to miss a services, sne pleaded, it snouia Bumpy Start in Life Lot Angeles, June 21 (UP.) Mrs. Wanda BidweM'i twins are doing fine today although they got a bumpy start in life. The expectant mother, 21, had her trip to the hospital In terrupted yesterday when the auto In which, she was riding turned completely over in a collision. Injuries to the mother were slight and the twins, five and a half pounds and four pounds, were born short time later t the hospital. the persons in power. At least one major question was raised by comparison of Acheson's testimony with that of Defense Secretary George C. Marshall. Marshall testified that his mission to China in 1946 was undertaken under circumstances which prevented him being briefed -on the Far East situa tion until he actually was en route. Acheson testified that the tat department prepared ln- good chance of licking or stop- be the aim to make them the ping the communists. best. But," she added sorrowful- The record will show that iy. "they are not so now." congress voted $125,000,000 in Miss Cochran suggested giv- military aid to China April 2, Ing all women recruits a physical 1948, and that as of Oct. 13, screening, then sending home at none of it had arrived. government expense those who fr& Diamonds Reset Whi e Ym, Wnit New Version of Old Saying Nashville, Tenn., June 21 (A1) Early Bird didn't ret the worm, He got caught. 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