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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1951)
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Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Tear, $12. i Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, November 21, 1951 MORE WAR PROFITEERS A senate subcommittee headed by Senator Blair Moody (D Mich.) investigating the "gray market" in steel has revealed war profiteering on a giantic scale which largely accounts for both the steel shortage and high prices, which have stymied building construction as well as crippled war production and made brokers millionaires. The committee truced "a typical gray market daisy chain" in the shipment of steel, to show how it changed hands and how the price rose from $5.20 to $15.75 a hun dred pounds. The testimony showed that the price climbed with each new sale, due in part to added freight costs even though the steel sometimes never even moved. The brokers told the subcommittee that they dealt in huge quantities of steel. Some consumers testified that they were forced to deal with the brokers in order to ob tain a supply of steel' to keep their production lines oper ating. A 30-year-old broker testified that in six years he ran an original investment of $1300 of his own money into a business netting him currently an estimated $280,000 a year before taxes. Seymour Waldman expected his sales to gross about $7 million in 1951. Another broker, Isadore Forman of Pittsburgh, said he "saw a chance to make a fast buck" so he started in busi ness about a year ago although he knows nothing about steel production, owns no warehouse and has never seen any of tho steel he bought or sold. "There ain't nothing Illegal about it," Fornian said. "Everybody made a profit, even Uncle Sam. What's everybody screaming about?" Moody said that there was nothing illegal about the activities of the middlemen who had entered into the steel business, but he told newsmen that he believed the short ages in the vital metal were brought on by the middlemen. "The government regulations certainly should be changed to make them illegal," Moody said. There was nothing apparently "illegal" also in the scandals of the "influence peddling" for RFC loans, in the bestowal and acceptance of gifts to and by public officials, or in the 5 per cent deals on government contracts, and in other scandals which have been and are being exposed in federal affairs. But they all reflect the decadent morale in public officials. With all the experience of two World wars, plus the worst of all of our wars, that in Korea, it is strange that a busy-body congress has not baned war profiteering or at least curbed it in strategic supplies. What has happened in steel has also happened in many other vital industries, including pulp and paper as any newspaper publisher can testify as to the effect of both black and gray markets on his newsprint, metal and other supplies. A STRANGE COMMENTARY It has been said many times how strange the Korean war is. An event in Portland illustrates that fact. So does the news out of Washington today of the passing of the 100,000 mark in the number of United States casualties in a war that hasn't been recognized as a war yet. Representatives of the 19 different nations with forces fighting to repel communist aggressors in Korea parade today in Portland. Another group of similar representa tives of United Nations fighting forces are parading also in another part of the nation. By their visits Korean vet erans are trying to bring home to the American people three points: Emergency need for more blood donations, continued building cf defense to save the western world from being taken over by the communists, and the value of United States defense bonds to help finance the war. How strange it is that the men who do the fighting have to come back to the people back home to remind them that a war is ,-?oing on across the Pacific! The men who have seen their buddies killed in combat have almost to plead with the home folks to help. No nation fighting in Korea has yet declared that a ' state of war exists. The Truman administration has called the Russians, Chinese Reds and the North Koreans a lot of names for causing the war that's going on there, but no one has reached the point of admitting in an official res olution that the fighting amounts to a war. And yet the casualty figures for this nation's men in that war have gone over the 100,000 mark, a figure exceeded in the nation's list of casualties from previous conflicts only by the Civil war, World War I and World War II. The men inarching in Portland today deserve the hon ors of the city. Although the Korean veterans can't in clude Salem on their schedule, this city and surrounding area have a proud list of units serving in Korea. There's the Marine Corps battery that left in August last year. The 369th engineers of the army reserve unit have sent many men overseas. Many in the 409th quartermasters left this past summer for duty in the Far East. Earlier army postal unit No. 894 was called up from here. This past spring, Salem area men with the 403rd troop carrier wing put on uniforms again. Navy and Seabee units have had personnel called to active duty. Since August, 1950, 15 officers and 144 enlisted men of naval surface division No. 13-28 put aside their civilian clothes, while four officers and 28 enlisted men from Seabee division 13-9 have done likewise. And, equal in recognition to the various organized re serve unit, personnel called from this area are the men drafted into service. The officers and men fighting in Korea deserve the highest honors. But what a commentary on current atti tudes and thinking that these veterans should have to make a special trip to the United States to remind the people that a war is going on. gy BECK Recollections BfPlT VWllHM TOOETAMOVHON, HSiHH !WSSm MEPTON...HERE APE TWO MORE MmmSSim! jffl'ffimw TO PLUCK... AND THE SHOP IS KWmWmi WwS&mL STILL FULL OF VOMEN TO BE y W&tWmS&s. VAITEDON.I PROMISED YOUR " WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Candidate Taft Brags Sure Of 600 Delegates or More fiY CARL ANDERSON Henry POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Washington Washington dinner at the Carl ton hotel recently, Sen. Robert Taft cheerfully bragged to close friends that his delegate strength was "way over 600 and going up." The senator had just come from a month of political bush beating and a press conference where he -we heckled for al most an hour. In high good humor, however, he told top aides Jack Martin and Lou Guy lay: "This has been the most productive political month in my career. Everywhere I've been in the midwest and south we are gaining strength. If the convention was today, I would get the nomination on the first ballot." Guylay supplemented this by giving details on a Taft man agers' report placing delegate strength at an all-time high of 600 enough to win on the first roll call. (At the 1948 conven tion, Taft never hit 300 votes.) Senator Taft listened, beam By DREW PEARSON At a relaxed Whitehurst, wrote to the Long Beach harbor commissioners on Malone's oficial stationery, ask ing $50,000 to lobby for state ownership. However, the deal fell through. Now Malone has completely reversed himself, and is battl ing for federal ownership. The position he now favors might help turn vast tracts of oil-rich tidelands over to E. L. Cord, the auto magnate, who bought up forgotten civil war scrip which he claims entitled him to feder ally owned tidelands. At the same time that Malone takes this position favoring Cord he has been flying around Nevada in Cord's private plane, and has been a house guest at Cord's Fish Lake Valley ranch in the Sierras. In other words, Malone sided with the Long Beach harbor commissioners as long as his assistant was trying to get $50, 000 from them. Then Malone suddenly switched to Cord's side, and is now accepting fav- Hal Suggests Thanksgiving Prayer for Korean People By HAL New York, (ff) A Thanks giving prayer by a Korean: O Lord of our household, wt thank thee for the ripe persim mon, the golden gourd, the rice that has ripened in the paddies. We thank thee for the daugh ter that is here, the son that is still among us. We pray thy help for the sons who are away. On this day of bounty we also pray thy blessing upon the quaint stranger among us the American, and his friends. They surely follow their duty. Dear Lord, it is hard to be a Korean in these days. There is the question of how we should turn. And no matter how we turn there is trouble. We are, O Lord, as thou knowest, an humble farm folk. Our days are measured by the turning sun. The best reward we can hope for is good weather. When the grain ripens, we ripen. When the rice tumbles under storm, we falter. Our hopes rise or fail with the growth in the fields. Such are we. No people to rise up and boldly change any other peo ple's history but one who has always been ready to rise to de fend our own. The Russians and their Chi nese friends come down from the north to tell a Korean what a Korean should be. And from the south the stubborn Ameri cans and their allies say what a Korean should also be. BOYLE It is all so confusing, bloody, and temporary. In this tangled international responsibility the average Korean would like tp take time off, look "at himself in the mirror and see what he would like a Korean to be. O Lord, our people is divided. We are unique in history. We are caught in a civil war a war this side and that side of the 38th parallel. And we are also becoming an International test ing ground of the weapons of outsiders. But a people and a land must choose, O Lord. And on this day of Thanksgiving, it is the mouth of South Korea that speaks thy praise here. Our faults are sores in thy divine eyes. Our virtues are as snows before they suns. They melt, and they are humble. Yet, O Lord, Korea must be our own Korea again. It was our fair land of morning calm for so long. It must be our fair land of morning again. There was a time before the foreigners first came when a Korean, dyign, was buried hud dled in a hill slope that looked across a greening paddy and a flowing stream to another hill beyond. It was all Korea then. And that is the way it must be again. A Korean must have a place to die in and to live in that he can call his own. He must, O Lord, have a land he can call :his chosen. ed, but commented: "After -this 0rs from Cord. The senate is in- trip, I would say our strength vestigating Vice Presi dent is way over 600 and still going Barkley's secretary for much up." less. But I predict the senate will not Investigate a fellow Taft's Line-Up senator. Reason for the optimism are the following reports sent in by Backstage With the Diplomats Taft managers: Three midwest The ABN underground in i. ! mi thMliiU.. vSSSI AMpgrtooM , 1 1 - at CHANGE IN EUROPE " y Fear, Dominant a Year Ago, Gives Way to New Courage By HARRY FERGUSON (United Preu Foreuo Newt Editor) A vest, non thn mnsf nhunriant n western European armv outside t r .. .j : ,.. 1 " . ... . in i.mioiia, T"j "tie (ABN Is an underground of commodity in western Europe of Paris and who has spent mucn states which turned their backs in 1948 Indiana, Kentucky and Wisconsin are now on the Taft team. southern Russia claims three Soviet republics, Kazakh, Uz bek and Turkomen, are boiling with revolt and vast purges three years ago, national com mitteeman Ralph Gates, the Moselm and Mongolian groups was fear. in south and east Russia. Its WnsTo "l"? ian otud march" west-" trine that anybody ready .d of his time going up and down the continent preaching the doc- Willis, and 68 GOP members of the state legislature record for Taft. In Kentucky, national com mitteeman Jouett Ross Todd, a Dewey man in 1948, is actively pushing Taft. A peasant revolt in all the j j i. u willine to defend himself can are on European satellites has brought gQ Soviet bombers lo purJsh ci come out of the storm cellars .u...., j which still were trying to allu 1UUIV lMe nujal"la 1,1 cjc culture ministries plus short buiw on the rubble of tne last Eisenhower is far from having rations. an army that could defeat the The Iranian Shah has secret- : ... , . .u. i- Russians, but he has been able to lv nnnforr.H with form.r nrp- . .... In Wisconsin, republican boss L p" the last 12 months. '" f " .' JL... Tom Coleman is lining up dele- Vm J XZZi: o Fear is still there but it is in " ' e a wa', "." . to fight one and that there still Sen. Joe mier Mossadegh The dto-Rus- comparatively short, supply, o i.gm one ana ina : i" nil- Tn " Qavam Al-SPaTtaneh, There ha, been a slow and sub- 1- time to get ready, gates. Coleman is McCarthy's friend . nois, Sen. Everett Dirksen has u,t, ahin.t foil in 1047 when tie change in the thinking of peo- dropped favorite son ambi- parliament repected his agree- Ple from Scandinavia to the Me- But the feeiing ol the peop. tions to be Taft s manager. This ment giving the Soviet big oli diterranean. seems to go deeper than military means Illinois' 60 votes will and border concessions. The other dav llUle Norway maUers. They seem to have lost probably go for Taft on the first Tw0 lieutenants of the wily sent tart reply to a Russian some of the fear about their 0Wn ballot. Mufti of Jerusalem who worked note. and that is something that economic future, less fear about In Pennsylvania, the three jor Hitler and now for Stalin probably would not have hap- bread and butter matters. top-ranking GOP organization are actiVely organizing terrorist pened a year or two ago. The economy of both Franca Naders were photographed with gangs and an ..army of iibera. and Britain is in desperate shape Taft at Harnsburg State tion" for Egypt. They are not No single man or event has and some of the other European Chairman Harvey Taylor, na- being deterred by the Egyptian brought about this change in natj0ns would have gone under tional committeeman Mason goverment. The terror i s t s morale. long since except for American Owlett, and Sen. Edward Mar- threaten to murder any Egyp- Dispatches from Europe give aid tin. The other Pennsylvania tian who works for the British much of the credit to Gen. Bul there is n0 tendency on n'.ff ri'.gd,nh1e..ndnt ln..the Suez Ca"al 20ne K else- wh has, the part of the voters to turn Jim Duff is Eisenhower s big- where. established the headquarters of honeTeMlv toward communism. gesi pooster. Gets Job to Fit Name Central Front, Korea, Nov. 21 VP) Pvt. Herbert Hair, Hol lywood, Fla., finally has found an appropriate army job. Hair, Just out of the front line, took over as barber in a division command post near Kumhwa. In civilian life Hair worked In his father's barber shop. Chilling Wind That Blew Over Atlantic Came From Britain By JAMES MARLOW Washington, Nov. 21 The are living beyond their means chilling wind which blew across now. the Atlantic these past weeks was the news that the British are The chilling part about the In a financial jam again and ex- news is this: It raises the ques pect to ask us for more help. tion of when will all this stop; Shattered by the war, they When will we and our allies were in bad shape when the reach a point when they won't shooting stopped. The U. S. gave have to come to us for help and them a loan of $3,750,000,000. how long can we keep on giving That was in 1946. ' such help, raising our taxes, And, starting in 1948, the without going broke? U. S added about $3 000 000,000 lt wouid be , wise man who '1 he K,.uh!;,0i,gi ,the.uMSrm u could answer tht now. We have plan. With this help the British to arm to keep the communists began to get on their feet. from overrunning us, us and our By the beginning of 1951 they allieJ were in tne DiacK ana so con It's Still a Boy's World Akron, O., Nov. 21 (JP City council yesterday tabled without one dissenting vote a proposal to levy fines from $5 to $50 against boys who throw snowballs or other objects at buses. Not even bus driver Francis Greissing, who Introduced the measure, attempted to defend It. Police officials said the proposed law would be hard to enforce and that there were existing laws on the subject. Worthy Orphan of Helena to Get $8000 From Cruiser Crew hopelessly toward communism, The communist party has been soundly defeated in every recen election in western Europe ex. cept one. Finland is the lone ex ception, and there the Reds in creased their popular vote from 20 to 21.4 per cent of the elector ate. In other western European nations the vote has dropped be tween one-third and one-half. New England Trends The same story of organiza tion politicos, deserting the Eisenhower campaign to line up with Taft, is true in New Eng land, Taft managers report. At the 1948 convention, Taft re ceived only four votes from the whole area, now is -making heavy inroads in Masachusetts, despite Sens. Lever'U Salton stall and Henry Cabot Lodge's preference for Ike. Taft's man ager is the energetic new Bed ford publisher, Basil Brewer, who figures the Ohioan will get at least eight bay state dele- EainS other New England states Oneonta, N. Y., Nov. 21 (U.R) the cruiser was named. Dona. Wiley Sen Owen Brewster is Residents 01 Montana's capital tions from all aboard soon top trying to ' snatch the whole hav.e nothing but praise for the ped $8,000. Mnin nvw-tinn h., i ,iii n United States navy after re- , to overcome the prestige of ceiving from Korean veterans a ine cruiser is in Korean or deleating if necessary, any Sen. Margaret Smith, who leans surprising offer of at least waters, where lt has been for Soviet aggression, to ike ' ' $8,000 to be given the most the past 10 months with Task Marshal Tito moved Yugosla- Pnblisher William Loeb of the "deserving" orphan of Helena. Force 77. via all the way out of the Rus- Manchcsler, N. H., Union-Lead- News of the seamen's big Ashley C. Roberts, manager of sian camp last week when he er, is battling for Taft against heart was revealed recently in a the Helena Chamber of Com- signed a treaty with the United ailing Sen. Charles Tobey, while letter a navyman wrote his wife merce, cabled the ship's offi- States which will provide wea Scn. Styles Bridges sits on the here. cers the chamber was "proud pons for his army, fence. ' and happy to cooperate with you Vermont National Commit- Gunner's mate 3rdcl Waldo in selection of a deserving or- The fear in western Europe a tccman Jim Dewey, a cousin of C. Benjamin serving aboard the phan from Helena." Roberts year ago was deepest in western Governor Dewey, is openly pro- U.S.S. heavy cruiser "Helena" said the youngster would be Germany. The Russian army Taft. enclosed a copy of the Helena, waiting on the dock in San stood right on its border. The In Rhode Isalnd, Taft pulled Mont., Chamber of Commerce Francisco when the "Helena" memory of bombs and bullets of a crowd of party leaders at a cablegram thanking the crew for put in Dec. 11. World War II still was a nlght- $50-a-plate dinner, and ex-GOP their generous offer. "The entire city ofHelena is mare in the minds of the people, national committee press agent Benjamin said about two bursting with pride in the an- But here is how fast things Jim Selvage is organizing for months ago some 1,800 men on nouncement of your intentions," can move: Robert Lehr, interior 1(111 ill VUllllt.'L IILUl, Europeans need only to look around them to take courage. In Paris the diplomats of th democracies have been talking tough to the Russians at the United Nations general assem bly. The representatives of the North Atlantic treaty powers are about to meet in Rome to push their plans for containing, fident of clear sailing that they By the same token, we can't said they didn't need any more let .,,r al',cs gct Into an eco- Marshall plan aid. But by the nom,c "P, "'rough their fall of 1851 they were in trouble "anient program, because of aa(n the danger the communists might take over from within if In this country those who tnere ls "aPse- disliked the British Socialist government probably blamed it for the downturn in Britain's fortunes, thinking that if only Winston Churchill were running the show he would by some spe cial magic gift lift his country Into prosperity again. Churchill is in power now and almost his first act was to tell the British people, who have been on rationing since the war, that living would have to be come even more austere. Well Wishes to 'Borrower' Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 21 to.pj A want ad In the Walla Walla high school newspaper today announced: "Someone has 'borrowed' approximately $9 from Sally Maxon's purse. You are not known. The money is my al lowance and was being saved for Christmas money. "If yon think you need It more than I Merry Christmas." It wis signed, "Sally Ma ion." Vi-lnch Miss Missed $150 Springfield, Mass., Nov. Il-to.B A thief snipped off Dennis Kneeland'i necktie as he walked alone a street but mined getting his 169 diamond stickpin by about an Inch. But it was neither the So cialists hor Churchill who put Britain into the red again. It was the tide of events, starting with the Korean war in mid 1950 when Britain was just re gaining its feet. With the start of the Korean war this country and its allies, Including Britain, began to re arm. Britain plans to spend $13, 000,000 on her rearmament pro gram In three years. This dislocated the British economy. It put the British in the position of spending more than they earn. In ahort, they THANKSGIVING EVE "Give thanks to the Lord." Luke 2:38 We link Thanksgiving with Plymouth Rock . . . But Paul thanked God at Antioch . . . While David sang his thankful chord . . . And Anna "gave thanks unto the Lord" ... We find the chief thanks-giver of oil . , , Was Job, who under af fliction's pall . . . Could find much to be thankful for . . . So why can't we, In spite of wor . . . Un certain future and world privation ... for all we nave be a grateful na tion? JULIEN C. HYER rn in n ii Kansas Surprises At the Carlton dinner the oilier night, Taft gleefully re vealed two surprises. They were promises of strength from both Kansas, Ike's home state, and from New York, under the care ful thumb of Governor Dewey. Publisher Frank Gannett is de termined to break Dewey's hold by splitting the delegation for Taft. He has the undercover support of 10 New York con gressmen. Taft did not reveal his con tacts in Kansas, but did say that while visiting in Kansas City he had received definite pledges of support from key party leaders. Taft lieutenants pooh-poohed claims that Eisenhower will puncture Taft'a hold in the south. They say that, while the senator will not go Into Cali fornia to oppose Gov. Earl War ren, he expects to break even or better in seven of the 11 west ern states. Nevada Friendships The senate ls always quick to investigate anyone but its own members. However, one situa tion which badly needs investi gating Is the way Senator Mal one, Nevada republican, has re versed position on Tideland oil. At first, Malone fought to turn Tidelands oil over to the states. This was at the same time that his assistant, Ben the "Helena" decided to raise said Roberts. "You are indeed minister of western Germany,! $5,000 for an "underprivileged" a credit to the United States now is talking about a plan tc child from the city after which Navy." outlaw the communist party. ESTABLISHED 1891 :! i 'A eiktrcDC ccovirc auaiiabic rr aii" PHONE 3-3173 Out of Town Calls at Our Expense PARKING LOT AVAILABLE W. T. RIGDON CO, Funeral Directors 299 N. COTTAGE AT CHEMEKETA
