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'ONE ARM.ED BANDITS' BACK? ,
What the Oregon supreme court labelled "one armed
bandits" the slot machines have as many liv.es as
the proverbial torn cat is shown by the ease by which the
Oregon house of representatives passed House bill No.
440 designed to legalize "free-pay" pinball games Wednes
day wstn only eight votes against it.
. That many of the legislators did not realize what they
were doing, though the majority did, was revealed Thurs
day when an effort to recall the bill was defeated by a
vote or 84 to zi.
The bill would nullify an
eral George Neuner that
value" ana tnat pinball machines are of questionable legal
ity under the anti-lottery provision of the state consti.
tution. f. '' .' ;; .,' vv-. ' . ...
The legislature passed and
legalizing the sale of liquor by the drink because it was
a "mandate of the voters in the 1962 general election."
But there was so mandate of the voters to legalize pin
ball games. -
, It is true there was a "mandate of the people" to con
tinue the pari-mutuels system for race gambling, but
that was due to the organized effort to continue it because
a share of the profits finance the various state, county
and local fairs. So there is no alibi for slot machines,
though their licensing brings some revenue to some cities.
, The slot machines are now legally barred in 47 of the 48
states, Nevada being the exception because gambling
and prostitution are the keystones of Nevada's prosperity.
. The crooked slot machines, in one form or another, had
been one of the country's biggest businesses of racketeers,
with multimillion profits. For the first tirneNm record.
they are fairly under control in Oregon and being smashed
as illegal devices. . ;.s, .,,V'..,; t-
Their suppression has been vigorously opposed all
along the line there was plenty of money in them to
finance legal and legislative battles.
' As is well known the "free play" pinball machines are
a cover-up for over-counter pay-offs made to winners.
If the bill is passed, enforcement would be difficult and
evasions plentifftl and in the long litigation assured, the
supreme court could nullify it as it has previously. Mean
while the golden harvest from suckers would be harvested.
THOSE FIVE-YEAR CONTRACTS V J J
r When the auto industry's five-year labor contracts
with the C.I.O. United Auto Workers were being hailed
as a great feat of statesmanship we entertained a strong
suspicion that they would look like something quite, dif
ferent before the five years had elapsed. This was in
1950. rtt-- r Vv--- ,$, :.
, Today, early-1958, the union convention delegates voted
to send this not very subtle message to the Industry:
"Either you agree to our requested changes (in the con
tracts) even though you are not legally bound to do so
or we'll have no more long term agreements when these
run out in 1955." .as
Nor are we saying the C.I.Q. is wrong. It could be
100 per cent right in vigorously seeking modification of
an agreement entered into in 1950. No one could possibly
anticipate developments five years ahead or even three
Sears ahead. Changes would be sure to occur that would
e burdensome on one or both parties. These would be
likely to exert pressure for modification, indeed would
have to if they became burdensome enough.
Labor peace for the auto industry for five long years
Was a pleasant dream while it lasted, but it just couldn't
be a reality in this fast changing world where every
body is constantly scrambling for advantage. - ,
VIRGINIA HONORS A NEGRO MOTHER
The state of Virginia has chosen a Negro woman, Mrs.
Leah Young as its "mother of the year" to compete with
mothers of the other states for the national honor, which
is one of the highest this great nation has to give.
If you think racial tolerance isn't improving in the
south just ask yourself whether such, a thing could have
happened in any southern state 10 years ago, or even five
years ago. It couldn't. It is extremely significant that
it happens now, and surprising.
We can hardly think of anything a southern state
could have done that would have had a finer effect on the
ticklish racial problem in the United States. We hear a
lot about compulsory "civil rights" and F.E.P.C. bills,
but they do not get to the heart of the problem, which is
tolerance, kindness, sympathy, understanding between
people of different skin pigmentation.
Virginia has added a new honor to a long list It will
now be interesting to see what the national selection com
. mittee does. This group will be tempted to do the dra
matic thing and choose the Virginia entry, but this
wouldn't be right either, unless in their opinion she merits
it without regard to her race. For the equality principle
worn iraui wojri.
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CHRYSLER CUTS CAR
Those who have been nervous about the end of price
controls, and who of us have not, are bound to be some
what reassured by Chrysler's price reduction, which will
average about f 100 per car.
. The cuts are not the result of lower costs of manufac
ture, it is pointed out. These have increased slightly in
recent weeks. The fact that the automobile factories of
America can ium out more cars than they are likely to
be able to sell undoubtedly prompted this spectacular
move.'
Chrysler is bidding for Increased sales by traditional
competitive tactics, the best price regulator there is, when
it works, which is any time productive capacity equals
or exceeds market demand. The trouble has been that
too much of the time in the past decade saw demand ex-
, eeeding supply due to war, rearmament or government
controls.
Perle Mesta to Quit
Post in Luxumbourg
Luxembourg 0 Perls
Mesta, the American lady dip
lomat whose career hit the
musical comedy state and the
movie screen, announced to
day the is leaving her post
-;:
opinion by ex-Attorney Gen.
"free plays" are "a thing of
the governor signed a bill
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PRICES
as minister to Luxembourg en
April 13.
She was appointed by Pres
ident Truman after a headline-making
career as a Wash
ington hostess and democratic
party campaign worker. She
arrived here en August 17.
1949.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Greedy Greek Ship Owners
Repaid Us by Helping Reds
SY DREW
Washington In May 1951
nearly two years ago, this col
umn revealed that certain gree
dy Greek' shipowners . who
bought American Liberty ships
on a shoestring, sailed them un
dor a dozen different flags to
scape taxes, then repaid Ame
rlcan generosity by hauling
contraband goods to our ene
mles behind the Iron Curtain.
This is the same Greece which
the U.S.A. supported to the
tune or over a billion dollars
In order to block communism.
Reason this country sold the
ships at knockdown prices was
to help the struggling Greeks
rebuild their merchant fleet
and restore their war-wrecked
economy. Instead, the high
handed Tsaldarls government
turned the ships over to a few
private friends who lived In
the St. Morltz hotel in New
York, paid practically no
Greek taxes, and transferred
most of the ships to Panaman
ian and Honduran flags.
These money-minded Greeks
then proceeded to grow fat and
wealthy on the postwar boom
and forbidden trade with the
enemy. They parlayed their
shoestring fleet into one of the
world's largest, and lived like
potentates in New York, Lon
don and Buenos Aires.
Probably the largest Greek
shipowner to become a postwar
millionaire at uncle Sam's ex
pense is Starvros G. Livanos.
This column revealed on May
14, 1951, how he finagled
enough certificates from'' the
Greek government to buy 12
bargain-rate Liberty ships by
making a paltry down-payment
of $21,780 per ship. The mari
time administration still holds
the mortgage on 11 of these
vessels, which have been steam
ing regularly into communist
pons all the time Livanos has
been paying the U.S. govern
ment for them, . j
This column also listed In
1951 a number of dummy cor-j
poratlons in England and Pana
ma, used by Livanos to acquire
several more Liberty ships,
Usually, his financial interest
was obscured, as in the case
of the Companla Internaclonal
De Vapores, a ..Panamanian
shipping company, which
bought a number of ships
through front men who were
American citizens. This compa
ny, for instance, was chiefly
owned by S. S. Nlarchos, who
turned out to be a son-in-law
of Livanos. r, . : i
TRADING WITH BEDS '
At least 28 of Livanos'
American-bought ships have
been spotted entering or leav
ing communist ports. For ex
ample the W. B. Rodger, re
named the Aktl, unloaded con
traband cargo at the Russlan
controlled port of Dalren,
Manchuria, in June, 1951, and
made another trip to the Chi
nese communist port of Tslng
tao in July. 1952. Yet the Unit
ed States stiU held a $280,500
mortgage on the ship at this
time. . -.. , .
Another Livanos shlD. the
Alexander Wilson, renamed the
Alflos, also entered Dalren in
June, 1951, and again in Sep
tember, 1951, while it was un
der $280,500 mortgage to the
United States. StiU another.
the James Ives, rechristened
the Axlos, not only stopped off
at Dalren in March, 1951, but
actually delivered war goods
to Russia, Itself, dropping an
chor at the Black Sea ports of
Novbrosslsk In May, 1952, and
Odessa in June, 1952.
The Llvanos-owned Nestos.
formerly the Mary Lyon, made
calls at Dalren in April, 1951;
Novorossisk in May, 1952; Con
stantza, Rumania, In June,
1952; and Tsingtao, China, In
December, 1952. The same
ports were visited by the Fin-
ios, formerly the Robert L.
Hague, which steamed into Dai
ren in April, 1951; Tsingtao in
April, 1952; and Constantsa lnlln(j k streets,
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Livanos also sailed several
other ships into Manchurian
ports with supplies for the cm.
nese communist army. Some of
these ships were still mort
gaged to the United States,
such as the former Dudley M.
Hughes, Joshua A. Leach, Erasi
tus Smith, and Louis Joiiet
ANOTHER GREEK .
Another fabulous Greek
shipper, exposed two years ago
by this column, was Manuel
Kulukundls, who started with
four of the original Liberty
ships and built up a far-flung
shipping empire that stretched
to Panama, Canada, Britain
and the United States. Xulu-
kundis' record is nearly as bad
as Livanos'. . .' .
For example, the. United
States still held a f 310.700
mortgage on Kulukundls' ship
Hadiotis. formerly the St.
James M. Courts, while it was
delivering contraband cargo to
such Iron Curtain ports as
Odessa, Russia, in July 1950;
Gdansk, Poland, in September,
1950; Gdynia, Poland, in De
cember, 1950; and Novoros
sisk, Russia, in November,
1951.
These same ports were visit
ed regularly by other Kulu
kundls ships stui unoer u.B.
mortgage, including the former
J. Maurice Thompson and Jo
slab. Cohen. Kulukundls also
owed this country $306,000 on
the John F. Myers, renamed
the Santorlnl. while it was
sailing to Dalren and Tsing
tao with supplies for the Chi
nese Reds.
This' column also put the
finger on several other get-rich-quick
Greek shippers, in
cluding John M. Carras and
Constantino Hadjipateras, who
bought Liberty ships on credit
from us, then used them to
visit Red ports.
Under the mortgage contract,
this government , cannot re
claim the ships unless the
Greeks miss a payment And
the Greeks, now making mo
ney hand-over-fist, are careful
to miss no payments. However,
the United States ought to be
able to bring enough pressure
on the Greek government to
stop Greek citizens from deal
ing with the enemies of both
our countries. .
Note Four of the bargain-
rate Liberty ships that the
United States sold to the
French government have been
delivering cargo oeninatne
Iron Curtain as late as Octo
ber. 1952. They are the Basua,
formerly the Andrew Carne
gie; the Grenoble, formerly
Henry George; the Mortain,
formerly Stephen tfohnson
Field; and the Oyonnax, for
merly Wilbur o. Atwaier.
All of our European allies,
it should be noted, have been
trading behind the Iron Cur.
tain, though with the under
standing that this trade not in
clude strategic materials. If 'it
does include strategic mater
ials, the state department un
dertakes to cut off foreign aid.
GAMBLING IN CAPITAL '
Two pedestrians were ar
rested In Washington recently
and sentenced to five days in
tail for crossing the street
against a red light. Reason fpr
the Jail sentence was oecause
they deliberately ignored an
earlier warning from the po
lice, .
However, while the Wash
ington police are alert about
nabbing jaywalkers, they might
also keep an eye on some of
the gambling Joints operating
wide open in the nation's ca
pital. Here are some of them:
Near Fifth and G streets, al
most in the shadow of Wash
ington police headquarters, a
Greek gambling game called
"barboot" is being run fuU
blast . . . Another joint is lo
cated in a hotel up 16th street,
and another on 18th street, be.
tween K and L streets ... An.
other gambling den has been
running wide open near 14th
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LEGISLATORS as Seen by Murray Wade
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Women Learn Youth Art,
Now Males Had Better
By HAL
New York ( Ladies,
you've learned the art of stay
ing young and lovely. May
be there'll be more money in
the bank for you now if you
see that the man in your life
is weu-oTMtofi, too.
I have always held that a
gray-haired man looks dis
tinguished, and a baldheaded
geezer Is a more romantic
lover than a boudoir full of
these curly-haired young male
movie stars whose skulls are
dandruff nests and who have
to paste beaver fuzz on their
chests to look virile. ; ,, - ! -
Ten million American la
dies say I'm right. But my
wife, says I'm crazy, and Al
bert the . noted hairdresser,
who isn't any kin, just says
I'm wrong. : ; :
Albert, who operated a
kind of masculine Fifth ave
nue ' charm school for , the
weary business tycoon says it
is high time for the average
man to steal a bit from the
household budget and start
peacocking himself up a bit.
"This -is Important both in
terms of love and money," he
said. "The American wife
keeps her youth in middle
age.- She is a gorgeous
strawberry or silver blonde.
But her . husband is a gray
shadow who looks at least 15
years older. She looks like
slater. - He has worked hard
and hasn't taken care of his
appearance. So he looks like
grandpa. '
. "But this is an age of youth
and vigor.- Men who are gray
or bald find it harder to get
promoted or land a new and
better Job.
"A : wise man also should
never, lose his head or his
hair over a woman. Be
cause he will need both to get
another one." . ..
t Kind of discouraging to us
baldles. What can a man do?
"The same thing a woman
does," said Albert. "He
should adopt his hair style to
his face.''
"If he has a wide face, he
should avoid close-cropped
hair. It makes him look fat
ter. A fellow with Clark
Gable ears shouldn't clip his
hair snort either, - you can
see why, yes?
A man getting baldy may
cover it by changing the angle
be parts his hair. He should
not paste it down. - A few per
manent waves may thicken it,
too, and give it body. There
are many ways to disguise
thinning hair."
, Albert's main thesis is that
men today need beauty salons
as much as women, and he
says the smart ones are get
ting over their shyness about
going to them,.
" I will bet you that mavbe
one out of 25 men you meet
OPEN FORUM
Legislative Watchdog
Stirs Oz' Suspicions
To the Editor:
Those who have followed
legislative sessions down
through' the years are inclined
to view with suspicion the al
leged watchdog of the treasury,
who howls economy when ap
propriations are headed the
other way, but barks a welcome
when headed in his direction.
s u e n an occasion once
prompted a legislator to re
mark:
: "How sweet to hear the
watch dog's bsrk bay deep
mouthed welcome as we draw
near home."
. OSWALD WEST.
GEN. VAUGHAN WINS O.K.
Washington U.ft The sen
ate armed services committee
yesterday approved President
Elsenhower's nomination of
MaJ. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan,
former mllitray aide to ex
Presldent Truman, to be a
major general in the army re
serve for an indefinite term.
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today wear a ' toupee,
or
piece of toupee," he said.
You can wear a toupee and
stand- on your head with it
on, go swimming, or take a
shower. I have worn a tou
pee for four y sr uvju'u, ami
my own mother hasn't noticed
it."
Of course. Albert still has
more hair of his own than he
did when his moier first met
bim. . You have to think of
that. !. .v., .
Albert an embullient man
with needle point mustaches,
is an absolute enemy of gray
hair.' v- -v-v-
"Vfho comes to me to get
their hair tinted," he exclaim
ed. "Wall street brokers, cab
drivers, a cement mixer, and
TV stars. Thank heaven for
TV. It has meant a lot to
me.
But I tinted the hair of a
truck ' driver who had been
turned down for a Job because
he looked too old.
He went right out and got
another Job at more than $85
a week. You know who else
comes in to get their hair tint
ed? Many , clergymen. It Is
important, they feel', that they
don't look old and gray."
- In Albert's emporium an
executive can. dictate his mall
and have it typed , while he
sends his suit out to be press
ed and he himself gets a whirl
pool bath for his aching feet,
a manicure, a haircut and a
tint lob. He can also make
long distance phone calls.
J-.ite is really looking up
for the tired business man,
who now can come home and
tell his wife. "Well. I certainly
had a busy day at my beauty
parlor. How do you like my
new hair-do, by the way? It's
the latest in town."
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CATTLEMEN MEET TEST
(Ontario Argus-Observer)
During recent weeks cattle
men have met the test of their
long term policy. They have
demonstrated that they really
meant it through me ' years
when they opposed govern
ment price supports and ad
vocated a free market, with a
minimum of help or interfer
ence from the government.
The price of beef, on the
downgrade for th lajt year
or so, dropped sharply in re
cent weeks. . There was a hue
and cry for price supports to
aid the poor cattlemen., But
It didn't come from the cattle
men themselves. It came, in
stead from politicians, looking
for a weak spot to crack the
new administration's policy
on farm price supports.
Recently Western Livestock
Journal, the most widely clr-
cuiaiea iraae puoucauon in
the livestock Industry in the
western states, polled its read-
era and found them 90 per cent
opposed to government sup
port of beef cattle prices. ,
This lines up with the tra
ditional policy of the cattle
men. In former years they
could be accused of opposing
price supports because ' the
price of their ' product was
high and : they didn't need
price supports.
Now the situation has
changed. The price of their
product has dropped sharply,
but they continue their stand
in favor - of a ' free market.
proof that they really meant
it all along. v
The opinion ' of Malheur
county and eastern Oregon
cattlemen lines up with the
Industry .'as a whole. The
first thing we noticed when
the furore over dropping beef
prices occurred in Washing
ton, D.C., was that our own
local cattlemen weren't much
concerned over dropping
prices. It was just part. of the
business and they felt they
could cope with it.
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Friday Mart 37, 195J
Salem 17 Years Ago
My BEN MAXWELL '
March 17, 1(36
The Dalles chamber of com.
Bant nmanM .
the federal government asking
that action be taken to clean
up unsanitary conditions at th
Indian fishing settlement at
Celilo Falls, The village his'
nfl refuse disposal facilities and
in summer months the odor
irom me village arms away
falls. .".
Salem will be on parade to-
nlfht In, titiiiat .n-ln m
lng. The, feature will be six
Shetland ponies drawing two
wheeled carta.
Because ' the state's annual
kiv,uuu. nw fnuu, nearly
$33,000 for long distance, Pub.
lie Utilities Commissioner Mc
Colloch advised the board of
control . today to give "con
slderatlon" to construction n
a state owned telephone plant.
A mythical "ehemv" win .j 1
vance to attack Salem April"
19, in the greatest war gamei
ever held in Oregon, Major C.
S. Petee, executive officer ot
the 382nd infantry, . revealed
todav. .;.'
A new Oregon stamp com.'
memoratlng the 100th annl.
versary of the first settlement
in tne Oregon country will be
issued this summer.
Federal Judge Fee of Pm-t.
land yesterday approved as to
form .a petition for reorgani.
ration of the Charles K. Spauld.
in Logging comoany imd:;
section 77 of the national bank,
ruptcy act. The company has
737,000,000 feet of timber in
Folk and Benton counties, saw-
miiis in oaiem ana Newberg
and planing mills in Salem and
McMinnville.
Donald Young. Salem attor
ney, offered today to build the
state a new oitice building nro-
vldlng the state would lease it
for a period of three years.
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luung proposed 10 construct a
one-story structure of concrete
containing 17,500 square feet
of floor space to be leased at
a monthly rental of 4tt cents
a square foot.
The State of ' Oregon on
March 15, of this year owned
a total of 1536 automobiles,
trucks and other motor operat
ed equipment. Approximately
843 of these vehicles are oper
ated by the .highway depart
ment. .
Many men who have been
employed with WPA through
out the winter months are find
ing jobs agian with privile
enterprise, Jim Smith, director
of District No. 3, reported to
day. ..' ' .
A mass meeting of Polk
c6unty prune growers will be
held at Dallas March 27, to
hear about and discuss the new
working agreement proposed
by the Oregon Prune Control
OOBTQ. .
Giant tortoises can 'distin
guish between shades of green
and blue, says the National
Georgraphic Society. ;
bpertant link
of service
in this area .
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