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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.
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Recollections
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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
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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.
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