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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
White House Debating What
To Do About Joe McCarthy
f Y DREW PEARSON '
rv - V - nnlAll Kirlhl I k.1 F
Now that Governor Patterson and the state board of
control, the three veteran wardens who made the prison
investigation and deposed Warden Virgil O'Malley have
all made public their reports in full, the public is better
informed or the conditions existing at we aww pnaun
which culminated in a change of administration and the
appointment of Clarence TV Gladden as warden. Gladden
recently retired after 28 years of experience with the
federal bureau of prisons.
The three wardens making the report Joseph E. Ragen
of Illinois, L. E, Clapp of Idaho and G. Norton Jameson of
South Dakota declared that the trouble first stemmed
. from interference with the authority of the wardens by a
senate committee in 1951 who interviewed inmates and
granted numerous concessions to them. They were back
ed up by private organizations which championed the
complaints or tne trouDie-maxing convicw.
The committee's action, the investigators found, was "a
direct slap at the warden's" authority and enough to render
him useless as head of the institution." Warden O'Malley
' "should have had things under control in less than a year
and a half that he has functioned." But they gave him
credit for his efforts in the realm of prisoner classifica-
tion. education, health and recreation, placing the blame
for conditions on lack of discipline. Their report was
summarized as follows:
"Your committee has had many years experience In institu
tions of this type, and has visited many others, and previously
aerved on similar investigating; committees, but we do not hesi
tate to state that the degradation, lack of control and general
s confusion in the Oregon state penitentiary is without parallel
In our experience. ... We feel the institution can burst Into
: flaming revolt at almost any moment.
"Last year there was a 81 per cent turnover in prison pay
roll because guards were beaten-up by prisoners with little
or no punishment, 25 beatings were reported last year alone.
Bootleg pruno flowed among inmates, homemade knives were
frequently found. Homosexuality was rife."
In his defense statement, O'Malley said that the three
investigating wardens spent only 50 minutes inside the
, walls of the prison during their three days' investigation.
He shifted the blame for many deficiencies on divided
. control with Superintendent George Alexander, denied
' some charges and intimated that the entire investigation
was "rigged" against him, and no attempt made to verify
- the charges made by the "parade of witnesses," nor any
'inspection made of prison records. He added:
"Furthermore, it Is my opinion that it is a highly unethical
practice for any committee or board evaluating a report to
' codemn anyone without giving that person a chance to refute
the charges made by a reactionary group of wardens."
.' O'Malley stated that when he "took over, the charge was
made that the prison was run by a group of inmates, but the
group has been eliminated. While inmates are not strictly
regimented, they are under control." , ,
v ' ''
The record of the prison speaks for itself for it has been
front page news very frequently since O'Malley took
charge. He is right on the divided control issue, but the
legislature will remedy that. Fifty minutes within the
prison tells the story to experienced experts in prison
management.
If the parade of witnesses, guards, etc., testifying as
to prison conditions had taken place within the walls of
the prison, the prisoners would have known of it and
another riot probably follow and fresh demands fesulted,
rendering discipline hard to restore.
The board of control has acted wisely in effecting a
surprise change in administration it attained the objec
tive without violence. It is to be hoped that it works
out satisfactorily tor despite the lobsisters, the prison
should not be a country club. .
.. , .
CRACKING DOWN ON G.O.P. MISDEEDS
Some Republicans are doubtless shocked that their own
party should so soon be embarrassed by some of the same
seamy situations that plagued their rivals, the Democrats.
during tneir long reign and especially during Its last few
years under Truman.
The national chairman, Roberts, resigned the other
day, presumably by invitation after a committee repre
senting the Republican legislature of Kansas reported
that he had violated the spirit if not the letter of a state
law requiring lobbyists to register.
Now Attorney General Brownell has ordered a grand
jury investigation or reports that certain individuals have
tried to sell postmaster appointments in Georgia. The
individuals are not yet identified, but they are presum
ably either Republicans or pro-Eisenhower Democrats.
The other kind of Democrats wouldn't be influential in
choosing postmasters. This recalls similar situations in
Louisiana and Mississippi involving Truman Democrats.
We said these situations are similar to recent ones
during the "fair deal," and they are, but there is a trreat
difference in the way they are handled, and here we think
is a tipoff on what will prove to be a fundamental differ
ence between the Truman and Eisenhower administra
tlons. '
Where Democratic scandals were allowed to fester and
attempts to expose them were regularly blocked by ad
ministration officials the Republican derelictions are
promptly dragged out into the open and "appropriate
action" taken.
The G.O.P. national chairman walked the plank within
24 hours after the Kansas legislative committee reported,
and certainly the energetic Brownell wasted no time in
getting after those fellows who are reportedly trying to
aell oostmasterships.
The new administration cannot hope all its supporters
will be honest and above board, but if it hops onto every
indication of impropriety as it has to date the country will
be happy. And tnere won t do too many derelictions.
Washington Top question
being debated inside the White
House, next to peace in Korea,
is whether steps should be tat
en to crack down on the fast-
dancing, quick-jabbing senator
from Wisconsin, Joseph R.
McCarthy or, as he's called
Inside the White House,
"Jumpuv Joe.", ;.
One Ike adviser frankly ad'
mitted the other day that It
was never expected McCarthy
would be a problem.
"We didn't anticipate that
Jumpln' Joe would precipitate
things as fait as he has," ad
mitted C. D. Jackson, former
publisher of Fortune magazine,
now intimate adviser to the
president. "We thought he'd
give us a little breathing space.
Frankly, he's a problem."
At first the president duck
ed any move to tangle with
McCarthy. He acted as if he
wanted to stay just as far
away as possible from any
showdown, even with his own
administration involved.
When McCarthy first began
delving Into the Voice of
America, Carl McCardle, as
sistant secretary of state in
charge of the voice, phoned the
White House and asked press
secretary Jim Hagerty to get
Ike to say something at his
press conference to squelch
McCarthy.
Ike declined. Furthermore,
when a news question was
asked at the press conference,
he indirectly supported Mc
Carthy by saying it was the
right of congress to Investigate.
WRONG ADVICE
This, of course, was prior to
the bitter battle over Ambas
sador Bohlen. Since then,
White House advisers report
that their chief is - sore, has
stiffened toward McCarthy,
and has decided the advice
given him by Vice-President
Nixon and at first by. Taft is
wrong. Nixon had believed
that the administration should
try to get along with McCar
thy and that McCarthy in turn
would play ball.
This was the same advice
given Ike during the election
campaign just before his
speech in McCarthy's home
state. Governor Dewey had
urged that Ike cold-shoulder
McCarthy on this trip. But
Arthur Summerfield, together
with Senators Ferguson of
Michigan and Hlckenlooper of
Iowa, flew to Ike s private car,
finally persuaded him to re
verse this.
However, when Ike Inserted
two paragraphs In his Mil
waukee speech praising Gen
eral Marshall, whom McCar
thy had so bitterly castigated,
Summerfield arranged for Mc
Carthy to come up the service
elevator' of the Pere Marquette
hotel in Peoria and confer pri
vately with Ike. At that meet
ing, McCarthy persuaded Ei
senhower to reverse himself
again and take out the two
paragraphs praising Marshall.
IKE CAN GET HAD
White House advisers say
that despite this appeasement,
the president can get awfully
mad, and It's a well-known
fact that when be gets mad, he
usually stays mad.
However, a man who 1
spent all bis life away from
the hot and hectic arena of
politics, usually shies away
from political battles, with
senators. This was true of
Herbert Hoover, who like II
senhowre, had spent much of
his time abroad. The presi
dent feels that he cannot fire
a senator in the same way he
could demote or transfer an
army officer who gets out of
line.
Some advisers recall that
over in the justice department
is the senate elections commit
tee report on McCarthy's weird
financial operations, one of the
most comprehensive reports
ever made about a member of
the senate. Some believe the
Justice department should
study this report and let the
chips fall where they may. But
more conservative leaders on
Capitol Hill are very much opposed.
That, In brief, is the present
White House quandary.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The American "melting pot"
was brought home to President
Eisenhower while lunching
with Congressman Al Siemin
ski of New Jersey, son of a
Polish immigrant. "My father
had many hopes for the future
in this land of freedom and
opportunity, but he never
thought a son would one day
sit down to eat with the presi
dent," reported the congress
man from New Jersey . . .
Congressman Brooks Hays of
Arkansas showed the president
short-snorter the president
himself had signed some years
before. , The Arkansas told Ike
how he had proudly displayed
the signature to his young son.
"The only signature he made
a fuss about," said Hays, "was
that of another signer, Bing
Crosby" . . . Recalling a meet
ing with Walter Reuther and
CIO leaders, Ike told friends
he was struck by their "youth
and mental alertness," and that
he genuinely enjoyed the "fast
play of wits among them." Ike
said Reuther had urged "gen
uine collective bargaining,"
with plenty of freedom be
tween labor and industry. "I
told him and the other CIO
leaders," . added Ike, "that I
would be sure to be in their
corner if they would just stay
with that."
EISENHOWER PIPELINES
When President Ike prac
tices his golf shots on the
White House lawn he uses only
his irons never 'his driver.
The president is afraid one of
his long shots might hook or
slice right out of the White
House grounds ... President
Eisenhower tells friends that
pickets who parade in front of
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Two Vets Parley $5000 to Huge Business
Salem 22 Years Ago
By IEN MAXWELL
Bank Bandit Wants Juvenile Treatment
Portland (U.B Seventeen-year-old
Glen R. Sullsky of
Umatilla, acsused of the 18,
000 armed robbery last month
of the Mt Angel branch of the
U.S. National bank, Thursday
told a federal court Judge he
wanted to be prosecuted as a
juvenile.
Assistant U.S. District Attor
ney Edward Twining, however,
said it would be up to the V.3.
attorney general whether the
youth would be prosecuted as
a juvenile or Indicted by a
Scientists are checking un An
so-called jet streams ot atr
above the earth which
around the world from west to
vast in both the northern and
southern hemispheres at the
rate of 150 to 300 miles an
BOUT. jit'
April I, 1931
If the council adopts the
proposed contract whereby Sa
lem would agree, subject to
approval by the people, to pay
the Oregon-Washington Water
Service - company 11,100,000
for the Salem water system,
plus the cost of building an
unfinished filter plant, it is
certain that an injunction suit
will be immediately started to
halt the deal.
.
Resolutions have been adopt
ed by the state board of high'
er education agreeing that a
policy of retrenchment must
be adopted to chop $1,800,000
from the budget in the last 18
months of the present blen-nlum.
Hal Hoss, secretary of
state, proposes that expenses
ot all state departments and
institutions, due to depressed
economic conditions, be re
duced from 18 to 20 per cent
or even more.
Corduroy trousers, begrimed
with months and even years
ot turd service, have been
blamed by school and health
authorities for an epidemic of
scabies or seven years itch rag
ing among boys at Salem high
school. Some boys, it is re
ported, have worn their cor
duroys without cleaning until
the garments were almost able
to stand alone. Now it appears
that more girls than boys are
suiiering xrom scabies.
Immediate construction wnrV
on the so-called suner-hlsh
way between Orvann ritv and
Portland has been authorized
by the state highway commls
sion.
a
State highway commission
h&l affTMri tn niuh... tta
" ' fu.vimee uig
acres in the Sliver Falls coun
I try to be dedicated Bi a state
park. In the acreage are nine
of 10 famous falls, all framed
natural settings
During a 24 hour Interval of
this week 7.67 inches of rain
fall descended upon Valsetz.
Train service has been cut off
for several days because of
landslides and the Valsetz mill
shut down for one day be
cause of high water.
Hop dealers in the Willam
ette valley have ascertained
that 31,902 bales of hops re
maining from 1930, 1929 and
1928 crops remain in hands of
growers. Price for the 1929
crop is quoted at five and six
cents a pound, for the 1930
crop, 13 and 14c.
New York, VP) Two young
veterans here in less than
seven years, have, parlayed
$5,000 and a dream Into a
multi-million dollar, business
empire built on fire extin
guishers, haircuts and house
hold chemicals.
Every thing that Lewis Wes-
sel and Alvin Meyer touch
seems to turn to gold and
they Can't stop touching things.
"We try to stay out of new
things now we've got about
all we can do," said Lewis.
"But if it's exciting, we can't
stay away from it."
Wessel, now 36, and Meyer,
35, played in the streets of
New York together as boys
and have been lifelong friends.
Each had a .small business and
had to liquidate it when they
went into service during World
War H.
Lewis, as an Air Force lieu
tenant in Europe, and Al, as a
combat artilleryman,' dreamed
of going back into business on
their own when the firing
ceased.
"Neither of us wanted to
work for anyo:n slse," said
Al.
One evening in 1946, while
they were playing bridge, Lew
mentioned a new product he
was interested in a compact
fire extinguisher, no larger
In
than a flashlight, for use
homes or autos. i '
Al liked the idea, too. They
formed a partnership with
$5,000 they had saved. Lew, an
exception card . player, had
saved some "of his $2,500 from
his wartime winnings.
"Everyone we talked to said
we were foolish," Al recalled.
"They said people wouldn't
buy anything they didn't ex
pect to use and nobody really
expects to use a fire extinguisher."
But by recruiting a nation
wide sales force, the two part
ners soon were selling the
cheaply-priced fire extin
guisher like grass seed In
April.
. At first they commissioned
a metal firm to make them,
then bought the firm with their
profits. Now their metal plant
and its products gross about
$1,500,000 a year:
"We got Into the haircut
business by accident," said Al.
"An accountant with us told us
that the hotel barbershop he
went to was for sale, and he
thought It would be a good
buy.
"So we bought it, and took
the accountant in as partner.
The shop did so well we de
cided to try another."
They ended up by buying
By HAL BOYLE
the largest barbershop chain In
America 18 barbershops and
eight beauty parlors in New
York, Baltimore and Pitts
burgh. The chSln takes in bet
ter than $2,000,000 annuauy.
In 1951 the two partners
commissioned a friend, who
was visiting Europe, to jook
around for new products. He
came back excited over an
item he had found in Sweden.
A fluid in which household
silver could be dipped and
freed almost instantly of tarnish.
'We snapped it up," said Al,
"and sold more than $1,000,000
worth in eighth months last
year. This year we expect it
will do $3,000,000."
He and Lew have decided
the best field for quick profits
in America today lies in house-
bold chemicals products to
lighten a wife's chores. They
are currently preparing to
market a new wall cleaning
paste and a liquid de-mother
which can be poured into a
washing machine and protect
woolens from moths for a year.
The two partners work as a
Syracuse Stereotype
2-Day Strike Ends
Syracuse, N.Y. W) News
hungry Syracusans were ap
peased today as their two dally
newspapers operated normally
after a two-day strike of AFL
stereotypers.
. The 27 employes yesterday
accepted a retroactive pay
package and a $5 weekly raise
that brought their base scale
to $96, and voted to return to
the afternoon Herald-Journal
and the morning Post-Standard.
team, are closer than brothers.
. "We do everything" to
gether," said Al. "And, we
switch the pressure back and
forth between lis."
Both take pride in the fact
they have built their empire on
youth;
"Of our 12 executives," said
Lew, "ten are in their 20's or
30's. I'm getting to be one of
the old men."
HIGH PRICE OF HAIRCUTS
Grants Pass Courier
A 20 per cent increase in the
cost ot haircuts recently de
creed by the Barbers Union in
the Coos Bay area has brought
forth a scathing editorial in
the Coos Bay Times.
The editorial declares that
the new rates "are away out
of line," and that "barbers are
engaged in what has the ear
marks of a conspiracy to set
prices in restraint of . free
trade."
The Times editorial writer,
himself a union man, con
cludes: "We know of no other
way to combat the apparent
price-gouging other than to let
the hair grow longer or, per
haps, try a little home barber-ing."
Thus, we are reminded that
union members also are con
sumers. The Albany Democrat-Herald
adds Its bit anent the Coos Bay
price of haircuts, as follows:
"Oregon barberS no doubt
will do a bit of thinking be
fore they follow the lead of
their Coos Bay fellow-shearers
. . . With the price tending up
ward, some ot the housewives
will be wondering whether
they hadn't better sharpen up
the old shears again or buy a
pair of clippers."
funeral Service Since 1I7S
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"UNO WHO"
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starting Monday on the
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DISAGREES WITH
EDITORIAL
To the Editor! Vnn. -j... . .
"Banning Private EntowSS
(Anril 1) was a rr,.,?PU.
near sightedness or won. n
annnria Ilk It ... . . ":' "
an official of th pn i
How do you hold a power eoj
"' i.'a hi rus etm,
paign promises?
Did it ever occur tn v.. ..
if the Deschutes and
other tributaries were h.Zt?
off the Indians would hav.
nothina to fish for . T,,
Falls? .
So far as you are r.i.
to "SDortamen." flh.
principal exterminators of flS!
"J vjmuuu you Should
be peddling that on a soap boi
on a street corner instead of
writing editorials like that ont
"j" uoiicr understand
ing Of the SlOW destnirtin. -
suitable spawning grounds for
aiuiaun una ouier sea run fish
will change your opinions. Or
could it? w
Maynard C. Drawson.
.... 455 State St '
COUNT YOUR SHEEP
To thft HMftni. Mv j.
-"j nua aa
rives from the Durbin family
old Odd Fellows cemetery, u
do some of the West. . tt
No male West or Durbin
would ever have thought of
trusting: the other with a ....
sheep, even in a graveyard, on
a ubtk nigni.
So the emintv ivmit i.m.ij
count their sheep every mora.
inff. ana reearaieii nf tuhot
preachers may have said at the
services. 4 ,
OSWALD WEST
Presbyterians Expect .
To Raise $12,000,000
Portland W) Presbyterians
will reach the 12 million dollar
expansion goal they set this
year, Dr. Herman N. Morse,
New York City, said here
Thursday. -
The moderator of the Gen
eral Assembly, he said churches
already have guaranteed $10,.
600,000, and the rest will be
pledged before early summer.
The money is for construc
tion of new churches and ex
pansion of seminaries.
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I're seen how strings ba
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