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OUR LEADING FOUR FLUSH ER
. In Sunday papers, Senator Joseph McCarthy with a
'flourish of trumpets anounced that ha had by-passad the
" Eisenhower administration by concluding an agreement
with the Greek owners of 242 merchant ships to break
off all trade with North Korea and Rd China. j
: Hailing tha agreement as a major blow against tha
Reds, McCarthy said the ship owners also hava agreed
"to refuse to carry cargoes of any type from one Com
munist nort to another in any part of the world.
.' McCarthy aaid the agreement was negotiated by staff
members of the Senate investigations subcommittee
which he heads. He aaid the negotiations were carried
out without the State Department or any other agency
of tha government being informed about what was going
, "I didn't want any interference by anyone," he ex
plained. However, he said ha had no reason to believe
the State Department would not "wholeheartedly ap
prove' of the action.
The intimation was of course that he had done what
the president and State Department had fallen down on.
The U. S. Constitution provides that the conduct of for
eign .affairs is lodged with the president and any inter
ference by b senatorial Subcommittee is an infringement
on presidential prerogative, especially since the adminis
tration has been cracking down on foreigners who bought
surplus ships from the U. S. and were alleged to be trad
ing behind the Iron Curtain.
The U. S. government has foreclosed mortgages on 21
such ships in default; and other actions were pending
on many other ships in default.
The State Department now announces that the Greek
government has agreed within the past 10 days to impose
a ban upon the use of ships operating under the Greek
flag to carry cargoes to or from Communist countries,
And this was before McCarthy's announcement and inde
pendent of it, and has still to be ratified by the Greek
parliament., if f ,. vrt-, .y--rv; ? 'v t j m .
Mutual Security Administrator Harold E. Stassen ac
cuses McCarthy of "undermining" admin istration efforts
to cut off shipping to Iron Curtain nations instead of
helping it, and "it could have a very major effect if you
give these Greek shipowners an endorsement." ;
McCarthy, sore because of the defeat of his efforts
to prevent the confirmation of Bohlen as ambassador to
Russia, is merely thumbing his nose at President Eisen
hower in another of the numerous four-flush plays typi
cal of "McCarthyism," in his pursuit of the will-o'-the-wisp
of power through the dismal swamp of vituperative
demagoguery. S
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D. J. Pulling No Punches,
Prosecutes G.O. P. Solon
Y DREW PEARSON.
THE INCOMPARABLE JIM THORPE
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Jim Thorpe, the incomparable Indian athlete, has heard
his last whistle and made his last headline. He is dead
at 64, a career that blossomed early to be followed by
drab, discouraging decades. ' .
America's sports writers have in xecent years voted
Thorpe two of the greatest honors they could vote to
anyone, top' athlete of the first half of the century, and I
greatest football player of the half century. He outdis
tanced Babe Ruth for the first honor and Red Grange
for the second. '
Thorpe played for a small school it now develops was
not a college at all, only a high school, though it played
such athletic greats of the day as Harvard and West
Point, and beat them when Thorpe was there. His foot
ball feats are legendary. Against one Harvard team ha
ran the whole length of the field and in the dressing
room afterward each Harvard player said he had his
hands on tha tricky Indian.
Thorpe easily won the all-around athletic champion
ship of the world at the 1912 Olympic games, though
ho had done little training for the long list of track and
field events. Later it was discovered that he had played
baseball for f 60 a month in the Carolina league and his
honor were stripped from him. However what he did
was not forgotten. It couldn't be. "
The great athlete was anti-climactic as a professional
baseball player, though he stayed in the big leagues six
years and later played pro football. When he waa through
In sports he was really through, for he had no trade or
profession. He eked out a slim living, but his very last
years were apparently relieved of the worst ills of poverty
as money was raised for him two years ago when he was
discovered broke and in need of an operation in Phila
delphia. , Y
: Jim Thorpe was a marvelous athlete who will never
be forgotten. His eareer is of particular interest here
where we too have an Indian school in which two of his
sons have studied. . .
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
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Wajhlngton The new Re
publican Justice department hai
Urted out by not pulling any
punches regarding the preiecu
tion of Republican, including
Republican congressmen.
Af a rciult. Congressman
Earnest Bramblett, Republican,
of Pacific Grove, 11th district
of California, faces grand jury
action on charges made by this
column last fall of taking kick
backs from his office staff,
The grand jury action is be
ing ordered by another Call'
fornia Republican, Warren 01
ney, now . assistant attorney
general In charge of the crim
inal division, who as counsel
for the California crime con
mission am more tnan any
otner one man to clean up
crime In that state. Since com
ing to Washington he has help
ed to crack down on one noto
rious figure in the California
gambling world, Emelio Geor
getti, whom the Democrats did
nothing about,
Olney alio caused havoc in
the justice department by ask
ing the resignation of four
Democrat lawyers in his crim
inal division who dragged their
haels ' regarding Congressman
Bramblett
Ordinarily, Justice depart.
ment attorneys do not like to
tangle with congressmen, let
alone prosecute them. This
writerw supplied most of the
evidence to the Justice depart
ment in the case of ex-congressman
Farnell Thomas of New
Jersey before It prosecuted, al
so part of Uie evidence regard
ing ex-Congressman Andrew
May of Kentucky, and publish
ed the original kickback infor
mation regarding Congressman
Walter Brehm of Ohio. All
were convicted. , '
' Bramblett's Operations
In the case of Bramblett, this
column reported last fall that
Mrs. Margaret Swanson, listed
as working on the congress
man's payroll from September
1949 to January 1951 never
worked In his office. She drew
the top salary in his office,
94,700, but did not work for
the congressman either in
Washington or in his home dis
trict in California. She is the
wife of Irving Bj Swanson, Re
publican clerk of the house of
representatives and a close
friend of Bramblett's.
The question arose, therefore,
as to why she drew this top
salary, paid her by all the tax
payers supposedly for helping
Brablett'a constituents, though
she did no work for them.
Another secretary, Vivian
De Witt, was approached by
Bramblett with an offer to
boost her salary from $3,400
to 95,000 a year provided she
would pay him $5,000 cash in
advance. She refused, and
shortly thereafter left the con
gressman's employ.
Another secretary working
for Congressman " Bramblett,
Mrs. Dee Bundy, was given a
salary Increase In January 1951
from $2,100 to $8,000. She de
nied giving any kickback, said
her sudden incrense was due to
extra work. Her husband, in
cidentally, was also listed on
the Bramblett payroll. Mrs.
Bramblett also drew $3,400 a
year though was seldom seen
around the office.
The above informalton waa
turned over to the FBI by this
columnist last fall, and the FBI,
after a careful investigation,
submitted the evidence to the
justice department: There, less
er officials inherited from the
Democratic administration, rec-
commended against prosecution
Some of them may have re
viewed the facts too hastily.
But at any rate they initialed
the recommendation not to
presecute. These attorneys in-
eluded Francis Walker, nephew
of the 1 a t e Jimmy Walker,
mayor of New York; Jiutinius
Gould, Fred Strine and Ray
mond Whearty.
Their new Republican chief,
Warren Olney, however, him,
self a Callfornian and a Re
publican, reviewed the case
against his fellow Republican
and decided it should go to a
grand jury.
Pauley's Private Island
There's a political paradox
that Harry Truman may not
realize in the fact that he's
chosen Cocoanut Island, the
private island of oilman Ed
Pauley, for his Hawaiian vaca
tion.
- Pauley has always nosed as
the great political promoter of
Harry s. Truman. And it's true
that at the Chicago convention
of 1944 it was Big Ed who ran
back and forth from the con
vention floor to a private of
fice under the speakers' nlat-
form wangling key delegates
10 switcn from Wallace to Tru
man. But in 1948 it was a differ
ent story. After Truman got the
1948 nomination. Paulev act.
ually discouraged friends from
contributing.
Came Truman's surnrise vic
tory over Dewey, however, and
Big Ed was on deck immedi
ately after election day with
$85,000 of post-dated checks.
eagerly though belatedly
climbing aboard the Truman
band wagon. In fact, he went to
the White House personally to
take credit for the checks, did
not dwell on the fact that they
were post-dated.
it was partly because of
Pauley's fast recovery right
after election that Truman
made an ambassadorial ap
pointment that cost him plenty
of headaches Mayor William
O'Dwyer of New York as am
bassador to Mexico. Pauley
was working on an oil conces
sion with the Mexican govern
ment at that time, also wanted
a U. S. government loan to
build a ' Mexican government
refinery. Ed Flynn, boss of the
Bronx, also had Interests in
Mexico. .
So they sold Truman on the
Idea of appointing O'Dwyer to
this key post.
That's the inside storv of how
O'Dwyer went to' Mexico
where he's been ever since a
story, Incidentally, which the
ex-presldent probably doesn't
know even today as he vaca
tions on Pauley's private island.
i Mailbag
Karl Haartz. Andover. Mass.
Re your suggestion that all
motorists be assessed $.001 for
every life lost on 'the hlshwav.
Congressman Jack Dempsey of
New Mexico recently told the!
American Association of State
Highway Officials that, despite
reckless drivers, congress has
failed to assume its responsible
PICASSO FAILS TO PLEASE
New Terk Times
' Pablo Picasso is one of the
great artists of the generation.
In fact, nature seems to have
paid ao ' much attention to
making him a great artist that
she forgot to give him any
sense of logic in the political
field. The result is that M.
Picasso, an individualist , who
has gone his own impetous
way in art, has enmeshed him'
self with a philosophy and i
regime which aims at produc
ing men without faces . and
human beings without indivi
duality. Why this could be is
hard to : say. Why Plcosso
should- hate a tyrant in Spain
and gladly accept a Russian
tyrant whose butcheries are
on a far vaster scale and
whose tyranny . is for more
pervasive one just doesn't
know.
But even Picasso, in spite
of all his devotion to commu
nism, can transgress the party
line. He drew a memorial
portrait of Joseph Stalin. It
does not look much like Jos
eph Stalin except around the
mustache, but that was the
way M. Picasso felt about the
subject. The picture was, he
said, drawn "according to my
inspiration." He added, "If my
drawing does not please them
it is just too bad." Now he has
been rebuked, as has the edi
tor of the French magazine in
which the Stalin drawing
appeared. He is definitely out
of line. He is perhaps ever so
slightly tainted with bour
geois deviationlsm.
It is thought that the Com
munists will not throw him
out he . still can serve as
window dressing. But If he
really wished t o test the
Utopian nature of the Russian,
so to speak, civilzation, he
should take the Stalin portrait
under his arm, go to Moscow
and argue it, out man to man
with Mr. Malenkov. When he
came back, if he did come
back, we suspect his commu
nism would be ot a paler cast.
Pefhaps it would have a touch
of Tltolsm in it.
Salem was yesterday Jilt by
an invasion" of beggars and five
were collected by the police
and brought to the station to
tell their troubles to Judge El
gin. Each was sentenced to five
days of hard labor.
Salem's entire fire depart
ment responded to an alarm
turned in from the Owl room
ing house, corner of Ferry and
Commercial streets, tills morn
ing and wrecked the hose cart
in their hurry to reach a fire
that did not exist. Following
the automobile pumper the fire
team and hose wagon was un
able to- negotiate the turn at
the corner of Chemeketa and
Commercial streets and : the
hose cart piled up in the of-
fice of the Salem, Falls City
& western Lumber company,
The team was not hurt but
the hose cart will require
thorough overhaul before it can
respond to another alarm. -
ity to allot funds for better
highways and that 75 per cent
of funds paid in gasoline and
excise taxes by citizens are be
ing diverted to usage other than
highway building and mainte
nance.
Mrs. E. A. Walker. Collcee
Park, Md. My comment that
Mrs. Fleur Cowles, wife of the
Look magazine publisher,
would not be welcome at the
Court of St. James' was based
on the long-standing tradition
and custom that divorcees are
not presented at court. Mrs.
Cowles is a divorcee , . '. My
position on lady ambassadors
was made clear when I stated,
February S3, that Mrs. Hiram
Houghton, an extremely able
woman with a wide under
standing of foreign relations.
would probably lose out on a
proposed appointment as am
bassador to The Netherlands
because of informal ODDosition
by the Dutch to lady diplomats.
xnis was no reflection on her.
But it remains a fact that Eu
ropean nations, except in Scan.
dinavla, do not welcome women
as ambassadors.
. (Oopfriihl, 1MI)
Salem3SYearsAgo
ly IEN MAXWELL
March 10.1915 '
Drager Fruit company's plant
at the corner of Trade and Cot
tage streets was destroyed by
fire last night entailing a loss
of $40,000. In additioon to ma
chinery the plant contained 200
tons of prunes, 10,000 pounds
of dried loganberries, 12,000
bushels of potatoes and 12,000
empty sacks.
Frank Meredith, secretary of
the state fair board, has re
signed and his place will be
taken by W. Al Jones of Jo
seph, a member of the fair
board who resigned to become
secretary at a salary af $2000
a year. . :. ',
. That women are both moral
ly and constitutionally barred
from engaging in the saloon
traffic or frequentftig places
where liquor is dispensed to
males, from the very nature of
things if not by the laws of
mankind, is the unqualified
opinion of the supreme court
of Oregon as expressed in an
opinion today written by Jus
tice Eakin. .
BY BECK
Actions You Regret
State highway commission
yesterday afternoon elected E.
I. Cantine of Portland state
highway engineer to succeed
Major Bowlby.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Today's Top Athlete Is - "
Business Man, Hal Finds
By HAL IOYLE
Wilmington, N. C, W) The. and they net him about $20,000
a season.
A caterpillar traction engine
pulling six plows attracted con
siderable attention on Front
street this morning. It Is the
property of L. H. McMahan
who uses the machine for cul
tivating his 500-acre orchard.
1Z5 acres or grain and 62 acres
of hops. There are but four
other of these big traction en
gines in the country. (Mr. Mc
Mahan, 891 N. Front street.
says this gas tractor weighed
10 tons, cost near $5000 and
was a very capable machine). .
A LEGAL SCANDAL '
(Medford Mail-Tribune) , .
Oregon's "habitual crim
inal" law needs revision and
amendment. As now con
structed, and too often inter
preted, it leads to scandalous
abuses and inexcusable injustices.
The recent case of Joe Fosul
of Oregon City is a good example.
Here was an illiterate.
friendless "skid-row" candi
date, whose fourth offense was
to pick lip some scrap-lead
from a paper mill dump val
ued at $2.50. . I
The policeman who made
the arrest was surprised to
learn later that the charge
instead ot being petit lar
ceny, was robbery a felony
and this branded "No-good"
Joe, aged 32 years, an habit
ual and Incurable criminal,
promptly sentenced to spend
the rest of his life in the penl-
tentiaryl
Not until he had served
there 25 years was any real
effort made to secure his re
lease.
Such belated action is now
being considered.
. .
The law as we know it is all
wrong, as it is now written.
Only the general high quality
of Oregon's judiciary and our
law-enforcement officers, has
prevented a major scandal of
such proportions that all right
m inning citizens of the state
would be up in arms against i.t
It should 'be radlcallv
amended, If not repealed.
tramp athlete is passing out of
the sports picture.
The top professional athletes
today often have business
brains as well as muscle, and
when old Father Time finally
forces them out of competition
they can retire gracefully with
a nice, nest egg to start a fresh
eareer,
Typical of these new businessmen-athletes
is Otto Gra
ham, 31-year old .star quarter
back of the Cleveland Browns
football team, who is vacation
ing here with his pretty wife,
Beverly.
Passing touchdown passes is
Ottq's specialty he has
thrown more than 100 in his
seven-year career as a pro
OPN FORUM
Thinks Sheep Will
Desecrate Cemetery
to tne jsaitor: will tne coun
ty court and Salem city ad
ministration cooperate in an
novel plan to clean up the
I.O.O.K. cemetery?
Will they desecrate the last
resting place of Salem's pio
neer fathers and mothers by
pasturing with sheep?
The condition of the ceme
tery is a disgrace, but would It
not- be better to let it remain
as it is than to broadcast to
the world this barbaric method
of beautifying it? Surely there
must be a better solution to
the problem,
.';.. HOWARD A DOAK
Identify 450 Pound
Skull as Mastodon
Portland ) A fossil found
ia years ago near Unity in
Eastern Oregon has been iden
tified as the skull of a prede
cessor of ice-age mastodons.
Alonzo W. Hancock, who
found the skull, said the iden
tification was made recently
by Dr. George Gaylord Simp
son, of the American Museum
of Natural History. He said the
450-pound skull was from a
Mlomastodon Merriama which
lived 12 to 20 mlUion years ago
in the Miocene period.
Some athletes with an in
come like that would be con
tent to spend the rest of tha
year fishing or Just plain
resting. But not Otto; He is
active in a food packing con
cern and acts as an assistant
branch manager in Cleveland
for a life insurance company.
"When I do drop out of pro
fessional football, I'll just go
a little deeper into life insur
ance," he said.
"I figure you can't comneta
in football much after 35 at the '
latest and I don't want to play
after I've passed my peak."
otto already has outlasted
the ordinary athlete's competi
tive lifetime because he takes
almost religious care to keep
in shafe.
"I don't drink or smoke, and
never have," he said. "I don't
say that drinking or smoking
in moderation hurt any adult
athlete but they can't possibly
do him any good either."
Graham is so sold on the vir
tues of proper conditioning that
he makes 40 to 80 speeches a
year on the subject to high
school groups.
A six-foot 200 pounder. Gra-
ham keeps fit with golf during
the off season. He is handsome,
boyish looking, and despite his
size resembles the music teach- .
er he once wanted to be more ;
than a professional athlete. . , v
His passion for keeping in .
perfect condition has paid off.
He rarely has been hurt, never
has missed playing in a game
during his seven years as a pro.
Of course, a quarterback
doesn't have to take as many
knocks as- some of the other
players," he said grinning.
"Athletics has been very
good to me. It keeps a man
down to earth. And playing a
sport really teaches- you the
things you have to know in
business how to get along .
with people, how to cooperate
with the other fellow.
"When I do finally have to
give up football, I'll have no
complaints." ;:
. The sport has given him a
fine living, enabled him and
Beverly to "Start a family of
thhree kids" and provided him
a stepping stone to a successful
business career.
"I've got a lot to be grate
ful for," said Otto.
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more than it used to." Well, for those of us with a long
memory we 11 have to agree that we spend more dollars
for auto Insurance today than we did in 1941, for example,
but let s pursue the subject Just a little further.
In 1941 a certain ."popular model car" sold new for $1100.'
The cost of Public LiabiUty, Property Damage, Compre
"fS'Ji"' Fir ,nd lBeli " 50 deductible collision was
JS8.76 per year, or $5.34 per $100 of valuation. Today,
toe same car sells new for $2650. The cost of the same
SFA0'.1 uSonceJ; now W3 00. or a cost per $100 valu
ation of $3.89. The rate now is $1.45 less per $100 of
insurance than it was in 1941!
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