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W in 'I V Page. 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Oregon Tuesday, September 1, lflsl Capital AJournal An Independent Newspoper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Luri Win hnU 1 mm imUt tnm u4 Vto WW fmfc n Imclilil Proa to aelulolT anllUad U lb, 014 for eutlmtlia 0 Mm dliNtelua mint u U (turvIM cntflus I um SUBSCRIPTION RATES! r etrriMt Moatur, 11m ma untH rue on im 111 M. Br w-io t uottm. Mk. t lu mMtAn. riukimti GauhLMm Ifaathl. Ite: SIX IIOBtdl. MU; OM Tut. tt.M. UU BHWIurt la OtttoDt Monthly, U N: au llyiU M.00I Om Imi. tll.oo. mt Mid Otuif Oram UontlUr. Mrsuu. i.wi m Tr, 111.00. OREGON ACE GETS ALTITUDE RECORD Lt. Col. Marion E. Carl, 87, Oregon flying ace hailing from Hubbard, who is one of the Marine Corps' outstand ing pilots, both in World War II and since la again in the limelight for flying a rocket propelled plane higher than man has ever gone before. On August 21 he climbed to an altitude of 83,235 feet, almost 16 miles for an unofficial world record. He says there would have been "no limit" if he had carried more fuel. The flight was made in the Navy's D558-2 Skyrocket, a rocket plane built by the, Douglas Aircraft Corp. The mor-L. evpaarU f Vio sprocket's own previous record of 79,494 feet, established by Douglas test Pilot Bill Brldgeman, August 15, 1951. Carl has made four flights In the Skyrocket, all from Edwards Air Force base on the Monave aesert. i ne any rocket was dropped from the belly of a B-29 Superfortress at an altitude of 83,500 feet. He had dropped to 28,000 feet before he had lighted the first two of her four rockets. le started with less than three minutes fuel, otherwise he could have climbed much higher. Carl, who is a modest, unassuming man, a graduate of the ROTC at OSC and graduated as a lieutenant was an outstanding Marine ace with 18V Japanese planes to his credit in World War II. He was credited with 15 V4 Jap anese planes in the battle for Guadalcanal in the summer After World War II, Carl became a naval lest pilot and helped develope carrier landing techniques for jet air craft In 1951, he became the first Marine to win the annual Chanute award for "a noiaDie coninouiion maae by a pilot to the aeronautical sciences. . Carl held the world's speed record of 650.7 miles per hour in 1943 and will try soon to better the present worm speed mark of 1,238 miles per hour. G. P. I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU, JUDGE Jf Tl"w dPJ? v POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER WISDOM FROM MONTGOMERY Not much has been heard of late from Britain's top troop commander of World War II, General, now Viscount Montgomery, deputy commander of the NATO forces, presently in Canada where he made a speech the other day which represented as much wisdom as we've heard from a Briton in many a day. ' Montgomery said the military arm of the NATO na tions cannot plan a sucessful defense of the free world because the nations of this group have not yet reached a meeting of minds as to what they wish to defend and how. Successful military planning is impossible under the conditions the peoples and governments have imposed on their military leaders, he warned. - . Even Americans and British "hardly speak the same language," he said, adding that as an illustration, there . is not and has not been an understandable western policy toward Eastern Asia. The same differences are to be found in the European area. Montgomery warned against complacency over the Internal troubles within the iron curtain realm. He be lieves the strain will become "more intense" and that "tough decisions by political leaders" in the free coun tries canot be long avoided. Montgomery says we must create military machines that can be geared to handle any emergency for about 25 years without wrecking our economies, which means improved reserve forces called up for yearly training. He also insisted upon "live and dynamic leadership" on the political side, which he must know though he did not say, no longer exists in his own country. BACK TO SCHOOL The youngsters greet the approach of school's reopen ing with mixed feelings, just as they always have. On the one side there is consternation. Where has the vacation, that looked so long three months ago, gone. Can it really be about over? Must we go back to books, themes, special assignments, home work and all the rest so soon? Gosh! But there is a more pleasant side, which we think far outweighs the other in most youngsters minds. One will soon see friends of both sexes, many of whom one hasn't seen, or but seldom, all summer long. Notes to compare, pleasant associations to be renewed. And ' school activities to be resumed, particularly the king of fall sports, football. And learning. Is that so obnoxious as the youngster tries to make his elders think? We greatly doubt it. Otherwise many more would drop out than do. It is fun to learn, with certain exceptions, we grant. It's also fun to eat, but not all foods. Spinach for instance. The Capital Journal salutes the mid-Willamette area's teachers and students as they prepare to return to the classrooms for another year which we join them in hop ing will be the best ever. September's Here, But What Is It? Hal Yawns By HAL BOYLE W) Here lt is i notify the leaves it li time to RACIAL STRIFE IN CHICAGO Better racial relations are making steady, rapid prog ress in the United States, including the south where prog ress was naturally expected to be more slow and difficult. However it looks like the last place in the United States to acquire decent racial attitudes is going to be, not At lanta but Chicago. Voilence broke out again last week in the windy city. When a federal housing project ac cepted a negro tenant an irate crowd stoned the police. Five incendiary fires were started in the project, one of which caused $15,000 damage. It was the second race riot in a month. Chicago has about three-quarters of a million negroes nd thev have to have places to live. Many are living under deplorable conditions. Worry by white people over nearoea moving in and depressing real estate values is understandable up to a point, but violence cannot be con doned, even if there were a lot more provocation. Chi- eagoans are going to have to grow up and reconcile them elves to a lituation they cannot change. Truck Rates Drop on Highway 30 Today Portland l Truck freight rate between Portland and stern Oregon along U.S. Hlchwsr 0 drop 25 cents a lllld today with the expiration of a way bill ",.. M Decision on whMhrf the sur charge will be renewed If ex. pected within 10 days, A. F. Harvjr, superintendent of mo tor regulation for the Oregon Public Utilities commtMion, said. Hearing was held In Portland month ago on the application of the Pacific Inland Tariff Bu reau, Inc., to continue the sur charge to Aug. II, J854. New York September Morn, and all it rates from moat of us li a big fat yawn. . . For in the great house of the year September is one of the least Interesting rooms. In fact it is less of a separate room than it is a drab corridor be tween two pleasant places. September it like near beer. It has the name but lacks a famous flavor. It is near-sum mer, near fall, end yet is neith er. It is like a fellow who tries to be popular by lmi tat ing two other people, and thus becomes ncbody. How can September ever have an Identity of its own. half of the time essaying the cloying warmth of August, then weekly attempting to copy the robust appeal of Oc tober? If the months were named for diseases, September would he called "30-day schizophre' nia. ' or "the season with the split personality." It is the elderly adolescent of the cal endar, forever teetering be tween the dog days and au tumn, forever unable to make up its own mind or its own weather. Just what good Is Soptenv ber, if it were put on trial, who could you say In its de fense? It generally has enough hot aayi 10 provoKe tne warm weather conversationalists to croak a final, "They say It sin't really the heat It's the humility." These people then hibernate silently until the first snowfall, when they emerge and ask, "Cold enough for you? But If you gamble on going to the beach to put a last pol ish on your suntan, St-ptem ber is Just as likely to slap you in the face with a hurri cane. September is underlain. It Is In reverse with wrinkles un der the eyes like middle aged actress trying to play the role of a young girl again in an out-of-date melodrama. The trouble with September Is that she reflects her Inde cision Into us. She brings a kind of reverse spring fever. On warm dayt we sluggishly think how nice it would be to fhave a second vacation. But the cool days she brings aren't crisp enough yet to stir our moping minds to vast new dreams. September is lull In liv ing, a cocoon time for boss and hired hand. It it an interlude In which to tie up the loose ends of summer, pay old bills, get the kldt off to school again, a lash pause of the blood be fore the vigorous pulsing dayt ahead. And. I suppose. If you put September on the witness stand in its own behalf. It would say something like this: "You can't . have action on the stage all the time, or the audience would wear out And everybody in the theater can't be a star, either. "It Isn't my fault I am only on of the year' scene shift ers. My Joo is to get the sum mer scenery started moving off th stage, and the next scenery moving on. I have to change costume and give the robins their cue to scram. "I just got a million things like that to do. All I can promise you is that if you II just stick around, the next act will be better. Meanwhile, why don't you rest your eye balls and wait for the show, Instead of bawling out the stagehands?" There's no doubt September has point, even though, as months go, its at f'ull to most of us as a corset ad is to Shetland pony. But lt has one priceless vir tue. It brings a magic tea change to every restaurant menu. The first of Septem ber may often bore mankind But it draws your old pal, the oyster, from his shell. He's in real stew from now on. Chaos Bomb Albany Democrat-Herald No sooner do we feel a slight lift of optimism on the brightened prospect for a bet ter world than we pick up a press dispatch or a magazine article telling us that the sci entists have envisioned a big ger and better bomb to turn the whole earth into an unin habited and uninhabitable desert. And there's another day Just ruined. It is still an open question whether man has enough de cency to be trusted with con trol of such weapons. The ex cuse for dropping the A-bomb was that it shortened the Ja panese war and saved a lot of lives. This has never been proved: the fact seem to be that the Japanese were com pletely licked before Hiroshima Then we had bigger A- I bomhs and hoped we could use them as an unanswerable argument fo' unlver.-.l dis armament. Now the Russians have, apparently, mastered the secrets of not only the A bomb but the vastly more ter rible H-bomb. There seems to be no halting the ghastly slide toward the bomb to end all bombs - and end every thing else. The latest military plaything Is called a C-bomb C for cobalt, also for chaos. It's de signed to be Just an H-bomb with an A-bomb trigger, en closed In shell of cobalt. The explosion would pulverize the cobalt and a fine radioactive dust would spread over the earth, ending al life. Imagine someone In posi tion to give the world to re lease such a lethal force over considerable sector of the globe. He would go down In history at the man who well, anyway, he'd go down, perhaps taking his hittory along with him. Salem 14 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL September 1, 193 German planes bad dropped bombs on Warsaw, Poland. Prime Minister Chamberlain had told an emergency session of parliament that France and Great Britain bad given Ger many a final warning: If Ger many does not cease aggres sion and withdraw her forces from Polish territory Britain and France wili fulfill their obligations to Poland. President Boosevelt had told reporters that he believed the United States could stay out of the European war and that the administration would make every effort to keep this country out. Wheat prices I n Chicago had skyrocketed more than seven cents bushel under impact of buying inspired by outbreak of hostilities in Eu rope. London had already sent her children to safety in the English country-side and with in a few days 3,000,000 more scheduled to leave other Eng lish cities. Rumors Fly Beedspert Courier There are many charms bout a small town, on of them is not rumors. A lot of rusaors are harmless and in fact sort of funny when ana Ivied. Others are not funny at all and in fact quit vicious and harmful. Naturally, we like to think of Reedsport as different but Just when we get pretty well elated about the way things are going an arrow pierces th balloon and down we come. That is what happened the past sv eeral days, or perhaps it was weeks, but any wsy a lot of rumors were flying. Th thing that brings us into all these rumors is that a lot of gullible people wonder why we don't publish th big stories, if they were, true, that is. The sad thing if that a lot of pretty good folks, anytime a rumor starts the rounds it it the gospel truth, to them. There have been tome tall onea lately around the whole of the Lower Umpqua area. They, and we point up the word they, because what is supposed to be one big story has turned out to be at least eight different episodes. We are asked several times each day why we don't publish the big newt. Naturally, we want to know what it it. that is why we know that there are at least eight stories about this supposed incideni. Maybe there are more, but that is the number that have come to our attention. Again, the word naturally, we don't want to be asleep so we start checking. We do a detective job that we hope would make Rip Kirby and Dick Tracy sit up and take notice. But maybe we aren't as good as Rip or Dick but we just can't find any facts or even a semblance of evidence to go on. Everytime we start tracing what is supposed to be the thread of evidence, it fades out like snow bsll on the Fourth of July. We are getting tired of chasing after the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and have concluded that there "ain't none there." We are too close to home to be experts. We credit William Howard Taft with the state ment that "an expert is any damn fool 90 miles from home." Maybe he didn't orig inate the phrase but at least we know that he used it on one occasion. Well that leaves us out as experts, so, our findings will just have to be our findings. Perhaps our sleuthing is poor but we just can't find anything true about big ru mors that have been drifting around lately. If there are facts, they elude us. We are out after news but we have to have something to go on. When there Just isn't anything to tie to, unless we could learn the McCsrthy technique we are lost. WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Some WACs Acquiring Weight in Wrong Spots Independence, without bus service for months, hsd been advised that the application of K. N. wood to operate a bus line between Monmouth, Inde pendence and Salem had been approved. President lunacy Moscicki. president of Poland, had de clared a state of war following German bombing of Polish cities. Salem Art center had an ex hibition of drawings, etchings and lithographs accomplished by the distinguished German artist. Kaethe KollwiU, victim oi Nazi persecution. The year had ended Septem ber 1, with a total of 31.10 inches of rainfall, a deficiency oi iu.j as compared with normal of 41.62 inchet. In Salem August had brought .94 oi an inch of rain. Prunes were being purchas ed here at a price of $12 ton green for a count of 12 or larg er a pound. A count of 15 and 18 a pound had price of $8 a ton. i St7 a Subsidy Corvallis Gazette-Times Whittling away at its defi cit, which is expected to run to $748,000,000 this fiscal year, the Post Office Department will hereafter be paid for pos tal service rendered to other departments of the Federal government and the Congress. It is estimated this will bring $35,000,000 additional reve nue, Including $1,600,000 now charged for the franking priv ilege of members of Congress. Of course, the taxpayer will be not better off. But as the departments of government and the Congress feel the pinch in, their budgets of their ex penditures for postal service, perhaps the great flood of mail that flows out to citizens and such mass-information media as newspapers, magazines and radio stations will be reduced to the meaningful. It may be too much to hope, but the day may come when the handouts that are now measured by the ton, and are little more than ballyhoo for heads of agencies and congressmen will be cut to the irreducible trickle of worthwhile Information. By DREW Washington No public an noun cement has been mad in order to apar th girls' feel ings, but th army is taking a critical view of sagging WAC shapes. Th problem is so pro nounced that th army has or dered a special program of "formal physical exercise per iods" and . "instruction in wholesome dietary habits" for lady soldiers who bulge in the wrong places. Under th army's new gla mor standards, a WAC mutt keep her weight "well distrib uted" and "within the limits established by AR 40-100 as accptabl for her height and age." She must also d "tree from obvious defects of ap pearance remediable by physi. cal exercise and good health practices." Of course, she is alto expected to keep a watch on her "posture and physical bearing." Those who do not measure up will be given a chance to wear off iirplus pounds by "participation in individual or team sports or physical activi ties." If this fails to trim them down to regulation shapeliness, however, they will be obliged to take formal exercises, These will be conducted with scien tific regard for individual shapes and sizes. "To the extent feasible, and when competent technical ad vice is available for guidance," says the regulation, "the ex ercises in these periods will be Individualized to meet the differing needs of the women participating; this is especially desirable when the goal is to reduce or redistribute weight." However, the army, wise to the habit of goldbricking, cau tions: "It will be borne in mind that much of the benefit of such exercise depends upon frequency. An hour once or twice (a month only is useless and may be detrimental." LETTUCE AND PARSLEY For any female physical cul- turistf who may try to carry things too far, the army adds sternly: "Certain important goals of military physical culturlsts who may try to car ry things too far, the army adds sternly: "Certain import ant goals of military physical training for men, such as strengthening of muscle groups to meet the strains of combat and the development of a high ly aggressive spirit, are neith er required by nor appropriate to the military duties assigned to women, and will not be pursued in , a program for women." j In other words, the army wants its WACs to be feminine. As for dieting, the army pre scribes: "Whenever possible, instruction in diet should be based on the teachings of re cognized authorities on nutri tion. Women presenting diet ary problems that cannot be met by moderate intake of well-balanced meals will be re ferred to a medical office for advice." To this end, some WAC mess halls have set aside special "diet tables" for the fat WACs. An appraising sergeant singles. out the ladies whose bulges seem to require special attention, and seats them at a table set with lettuce, parsley and the like. However, one corpulent WAC at the Penta gon confided to this column that she cheats by slipping down to the milk bsr after- H1GH BEAT TREATMENT New York W Capt. Cy Gates, Trsnt-World airlines pilot suggested heat sufferers might go up 20,000 feet above Cleveland. Th thermometer outside his plan registered a 10 below zero over the Ohio city. It was about 74 degrees on th ground. I Savings Earn Safely EXTRA EARNINGS 3 Your Savings or In lurid Safe to $10,000.00 by the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Cor poration. Open your Insnred Savings Account today with gflera Federal l0 State Street FeWsVlJ CeVWf fMMs . IAUA4, OfKOON PEARSON ward and ordering a couple of double malted s. Not Th army Is th last of th three services to become glamor-conscious. For years, th navy has been carefully grooming its Waves to bring out their sex appeal. Not to b outdone, th air fore hired glamorous Jackie Cochran, lady pilot and cosmetics queen, to recommend how th WAFs could improve their looks. Though her comments were so uncomplimentary that, th WAFs got up in arms, she drafted a set of standards which the air force has been quietly trying to follow. NOT GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS The fire that destroyed the giant General Motors plant at Lavonia, Mich., certainly was not good for General Motors, but it may have been good as a warning to the U.S. In fact. ii may nave been an act of God. Burnt up in that multimil lion-dollar fire was not onlv the machinery for making Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Cad illac hydromatics, but also hy dromatics for army tanks. This, of course, was a loss. But th destruction emphasized th danger of Wilson's "sinsl source of supply" the strate gy of concentrating production in one or two big plants in stead of spreading the orders out among several smaller plants. Fortunately for th army, it is making hydromatics for tanks in another factory, so the Lavonia fire won't hurt tank production. But if th Wilson policy hsd already been put into effect, th army tank program would have been out of luck. . Thus the Lavonia fir has caused defense production planners to think twice as to what would happen in case of H-bomb raids; and the singl source of supply idea pro pounded by Charley Wilson may be acrapped. WILSON VS. SMALL BUSINESS Wilton's production thinking was not motivated by any Idea of increasing General Motors business though that would have been the result he just thinks in terms of big business. It's second nature to him. Small companies, he has said privately are a nuisance; should be used only as sub contractors. B i g companies should get all the defense busl- !SS. Meanwhile, General Motors' own figures indicate that there's some truth in Chsrley's statement that what's good for General Motors is good for th United States. These figures show that GM pays 15 per cent of all corporate taxes paid in the United States, and five per cent of all the excess profits taxes. General Motors also grosses eleven billion dollars a year and there are few sov ereign nations, and few states of the United States, that gross eleven billions a year. ICOPTTUht 1S FIRST POLIO DEATH Portland (U.B Portland's first polio death of the year was on the records today. The victim, Edwin L. Bech tol, 35, was stricken with bul bar polio August 21. He died at hospital here Sunday. ' FASTEST TRAIN -M-ho CHICAGO and EAST? Go UNION PACIFIC StntnmUnex "eiW of PorrLAND" 1W ONLY COMM. ETC THROUOM STtf AMLRGt KTWHN PORTIA NO AND CHICAGO Isesf dmtmr ffiUmd . . . 0rUnt mrriwml Cit txtrs far W. fShmd 1:30 sua. Mdey .iiao ore 40 Yoe have a choice of Pullman accooiaxxktioof of reserved, reclining coach seats with improved leg restsa Relax in the homelike lounges. In the dining car eoiof oeltcMM food, fresh from the Uoioo Pacific West, Trwaa ebup- MoewUy sJaressgB ffidsy GENERAL PASSENGER DEPT. Reem 751 Pjtteck I lock PerHeM S, Oreo.