Part I
Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspoper Esioblishsd 1888
BERNARtJ MAINWARING, Editor end Publisher
- GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus .
Published every oftemoon except Sunday ot 444 Che
meketa St., Solent Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont
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STALIN'S ANNIVERSARY
Monday, December 21 waa the birthday of the late
Joseph Stalin, born Josef Visarionvich Djugashvili, in
Tiflis, Georgia, in 1879, who died March 5, 1953, ruthless
dictator of the far-flung Soviet Russian empire and his
European and Asiatic satellite states.
Though Stalin was, next to Hitler, the greatest and
most fanatical assassin and gangster in modern history,
who consolidated his regime of terriorism by countless
purges, numerous starvation slave camps, persistent
campaigns of propaganda exalted and deified him.
A serious effort was made to isve the Russian people
replace Christ with Stalin at Christmas time all over the
vast Soviet domain. Great portraits of him hung in
churches and radios and loud speakers everywhere bellow
ed his praises while Red sycophants brayed forth sicken
ing laudations.
Since his mystery death, this year Stalin seems all but
forgotten, even as a member of the communist trinity of
Marx, Lenin and Stalin, for no mention has been made
even on the birthday of the departed Red savior.
One of the birthday events recorded, not in Russia, but
in Mexico, was the refusal of Jacque Monard, the myatery
assassin who killed the bolshevik lesder Leon Trotsky 13
years ago by cleaving in his head with an axe, who re
fused a parole from his 19-year sentence to remain in
prison. He evidently feared he would be killed himself,
either by the Trotskyitea or by Soviet agents to insure
that be will not tell who ordered the assassination.
Stalin's anniversary was featured in Moscow however,
by the Kremlin's acceptance of the Eisenhower proposal
to confer on a world pool of atomic energy materials for
peace provided the Soviet demand for a ban on atomic and
hydrogen bombs is taken up simultaneously. . This may
be in a way, a repudiation of the Stalin policy.
Another feature of the anniversary is the campaign
waged by the Kremlin propaganda machine to whip up in
,the Russian people hate against Lavrenty P. Beria as the
probable prelude to the official announcement that he has
been shot as a traitor.
Beria was head of Stalin's secret police atid did the
dirty purge work and one of his most ardent supporters.
Probably both he and his six alleged accomplices are
already dead.
Dispatches reveal an intense nationwide campaign of
denunciation and vilification of Beria has been going all
over the USSR at all these meetings, organized and di
rected, of course, from Moscow, speakers demanding the
death sentence for the "criminal.''
All of which shows that the Malenkov regime, for some
reason or otner, may eventually repeal as wen as modify
Uncle Joe's foreign policies perhaps from fear of the
Russian people as well as those of the Satellites. But it
should not be assumed for It Is probably illusionary. G. P.
NEW LOW FOR JOHN L.
John L. Lewis has more
public eye of late, mainly because there nave been no sug
gestions this winter of freezing the public with a coal
strike. This, it is said, is because there is a large stock
pile of coal due to overproduction and an increased num
ber of nonunion mines. The situation does not favor a
Lewis type squeeze play.
" But the old maestro is not Idle. It is revealed that he
has joined forces with the discredited, crime-ridden Inter
national Longshoremen's Association which was kicked
out of the A.F.L. He has advanced it United Mine Work
er funds, which be treats as if they were his own to do
with as he pleases. " .
This involves Lewis in another fight with the A.F.L.,
which has organized a new union for longshoremen and
is seeking to be designated as their bargaining agent.
Lewis has now solved the financial problems of the old
union, its new president says, by providing a wsr chest
for the fight.
If Lewis succeeds in saving the power of the I.L.A. on
the New York waterfront he will probably be able to join
it with his U.M.W., which will give him another club to
swing in the fight with the rival union leaders, Meany of
A.F.L. and Reuther of C.I.O.
Lust for power has been the moral undoing of John
L. Lewis, who hsd potentialities for greatness as did
Mussolini, who rose to power in another land under other
conditions in a somewhat comparable way. He is an
other gloomy proof of Lord Acton's classic observation
that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts abso
lutely." BIG NEW BUILDING PROJECT
Many Salem residents must have blinked their eyes
Monday when they read of the new $800,000 building
project planned for the south of State street area next
year.
Portland capital Is coming here to erect the Unrest
building in the Salem business district, one of three to
get under way next year, an
arm for the old capital city.
The other two are to house Oregon's two largest de
partment stores outside Portland. The new project will
be different from any others built in Salem heretofore,
with space for ground floor stores, professional offices to
two upper floors and a big parking area on the roof. 'It
thus combines the shopping center with offices and mass
psrking facilities, all of which seems to fill a need here.
Real estate folk will be interested in this challenge to
a trend nortnward and westward in the business district,
which must have given concern to owners of property
south of State. This area cannot now be discounted. It
will make a strong bid to keep what it has and gain more.
Meanwhile 1954 looks like one of the best construction
years in the history of Salem.
THE FANS WILL RESPOND
Decline in attendance at sports events was a general
eomplaint among colleges and sponsors of other athletic
entertainment this past year, but they set an all time
attendance record Monday night at Gill Coliseum when
10,424 persons clicked the turnstiles.
Occasion was a basketball double header par excellence,
Oregon and Nebraska and Oregon State bracketed with
Indiana, top rated team of the nation in the finale. Fans
thronged into Corvallis from all over the Willamette val
ley. Cars were pouring out of the college town bumper to
bumper on all the main highways for nearly an hour aft
erward. Here is visible proof that come high water and all that
is sometimes associated with it, the fans will support
sports events when the attraction is there. And proof
that such games need not be played in the state's chief
city to "pack 'em in."
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WASHINGTON MERRY
Hoover Says No Reds Left
In Policy Making Positions
By DREW
Washington J. Edgar Hoov
er told a super-secret meeting
of the houie appropriations
committee (judiciary subcom
mittee) recently that to the
best of his knowledge no com
munist agents hold any policy
making Jobs in the government.
A lew impeded Reds in
minor government lobs are still
under FBI surveillance, Hoov
er told the committee, but that
is all.
Hoover also admitted under
questioning that he did not
lavor making public the hith
erto secret FBI'reports on Har
ry Dexter-Whit. He laid he
agreed to make the files public
when ordered to do io by his
boss. Attorney General Herbert
Brownell.
Hoover also admitted that In
a parallel case in 1931, both he
and former attorney general
Howard McGrath had refused
to give any ot the FBI secret
tiles on communism to dem
ocratic Red-hunting committee,
headed by ex-Sen. JIMard Tyd
tngs of Maryland.
The FBI chief alto testified
that leu than 10 per cent of
employees discharged from the
Justice department under the
loyalty program were proven
Communist or fellow travelers.
The rest of those discharged
were so-called security risks,
including alcoholics, Incompe
tents and employees who for
one reason or another might be
blackmailed.
Mr. Cohn and Mr. Schlne
Gerard David Schine, the
handsome, dreamy-eyed young
man who gravitated around
Europe at the taxpayers' ex
pense on behalf ol Joe Mc
Carthy and who belatedly was
drafted into the army after va
rious maneuvers and medical
examinations, Is now at Fort
Dlx.. N. J.
There, he has been the ob
ject of several phone conver
sation! between hii pal, Roy
Cohn, McCarthys counsel,
and the commanding ofliccrs.
Roy, who also gallivanted
around Europe and was pub
licized in the German press
for engaging In a private
scuffle with David in a Ger
man hotel, has been very so
licltious about his friend's
welfare In the army, Two or
three times a week for awhile,
Roy called the commanding
officer to ask now Gerard Da
vid was getting along.
"The senator," said Cohn
ominously, "wants to know."
This had the d'sired effect
among lower echelons at Fort
Dix. Gerard David was kept
off kitchen police, guard duty
and other disagreeable chores.
Finally, however. Gen. Corn
elius Ryan, commander cf the
19th infantry division, could
take It no longer. He got in
j touch with the secretary of the
army, Robert Stevens, ex-
enc of Joe McCarthy's counsel
in affairs at Fort Dix, asked
him what he should do about
It.
"General." replied the sec
retary of the army, already
harassed over McCarthy's var
ious probes, "this is one you've
got to handle yourself."
LONELY TOM DIWBT
Probably the bitterest polit
ical feud ever experienced In
side the Republican party Is
now taking place in New York.
lit has direct bearing on the
1 Republican presidential nomln-
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ation for 1958, and means that
Gov. Tom Dewey, even if he
wants it, will be out of the
running.
Dewey Is now engaged In
probing the taxes of some of
the most important Republican
political figures in New York
state some of them once quite
close to him.
Certain Republicans, in turn,
are busy checking on the com
plete circumstances under
which Dewey released Lucky
Luciano from Sing Sing during
the war. At that time, Luc
iano, considered the No. 1 crim
inal of New York and head. of
Murder, Incorporated, still had
about SO years to serve.
Behind this GOP civil war
is first the fact that Dewey,
with a good record as gover
nor, suddenly woke up to find
various political allies involv
ed in the "race-track take"
and other shades of dubious
political operations.
Also behind It Is the fact
that Dewey figures that, unless
he proceeds with a .vigorous
cleanup, not only his political
goose, but his political repu
tation, is cooked. He has
pretty much decided not to
run for governor again. But
even If he were Inclined
otherwise, the atmosphere is
such that young Franklin D.
Roosevelt would win In a
walk.
Furthermore, Dewey, the
man who nominated Ike, has
found his position faulting in
Washington. Despite the fact
that he appointed two cabinet
members Dulles and Brown
ell plus t h e White House
Press Secretary, Jim Hagerty,
he's had a hard time putting
across his Niagara Falls pow
er project. I
When Dewey went to the
White House last week to dis
cuss the Niagara Power proj
ect, he had to go hat In hand,:
and he didn't come away with'
a definite promise. Ike indi
cated that he was for letting
Dewey have his way at Niag
ara, bu' he didn't button it up
definitely.
Weakness in Washington, say
his friends, is the chief reason
why Dewey reversed himself
on "Brownellism" and came
out with a rousing speech in
Hartford, Conn., backing up the
spy expose. Previously he had
been .mphatic in saying pri
vately that his old friend, the
attorney general, mrde a mis
take in digging up skeletons
of the past. But at the SlOO-a-plate
GOP dinner In Hartford,
he sounded the battle cry for
more skeletons.
Anyway, the governor of
New York today presents a pic
ture of a lone warrior, fighting
a lore battle, with most of the
New York political leaders wbo
once rallied round him now
sore at him and In. some cases
being invesUgated by him. It
is not the picture of a man who
can ever be nominated again
for president
The Russian embassy still
hasn't replaced iti huge paint
ing of Stalin with a portrait
of the new Soviet dictator.
Georgi Malenkov. . . . Isw
Jersey's jrpublican bosses are
backing Congressman Robert
liiean. cnairman oi the house
tax fraud committee, to take
the GOP senatorial nomination
away from Sen. Robert Hend
Irickson. Both are good men. ,
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OPEN FORUM
State Manufacture of
Paint Draws Protest
To the Editor:
I was told today by a state
official, who wishes to remain
anonymous, of a, proposal by
a department of our state to
enter Into the manufacture of
paint for state use. He told me
tbii is but one example why
the taxpayer does not get his
money's worth.
A questionnaire Is now be
ing used in connection with
the state formulated paint. I
am told these questions will
not be answered sincerely be
cause, the working man in
public service- Just don't stick
his neck out. Some one's idea
that the paint manufacturers
do not know their business
Just does not hold water.
It seems to me that business
men, technicians and chemists
are being subjected to an ama
teur whose Intentions may
excel his knowledge on this
aubject. If this experiment Is
allowed to go through we will
not only be thwarting these
professional men's Judgement
but also penalizing the tax
payer. Men who make a business
of paints have thousands of
satisfied customers in Ore
gon and as most people will
agree that dissatisfied custom
era will sink a business man
Just as surely, quickly and
devastatlngly as dissatisfied
voters will sink a public ser
vant. One of our neighboring
states has a commission of
eminent citizens designated
by the chief executive to con
sider problems of ethical stan-
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POOP MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Man and Woman of Year:
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus
By HAL BOYLC
New York Iff) Would your
wife let you out even one
night a year If you spent it
climbing down and up strange
chimneys?
Certainly not But Mrs.
Santa Claus does, and isn't the
least bit Jealous of her bus
band. This makes her the
world's most undemanding
wife.
So why not give a little long
overdue recognition to this
good gray dame and nominate
her "Woman ot the Year?"
And how about making old
Santa himself the "Man of'the
Year?"
. It is time we make a break
In tradition and give these
honors to a family team. And
who has better earned the
award, century after century,
than Mr. and Mrs. Santa
Claus? .
Some time they ought to
share a Nobel peace prize, too.
It would be hard to name a
couple who have done more
for International good will.
In an era of doubt they have
preached and practiced the
bright renewal of belief. They
are as . old-fashioned as long
underwear, but as modern as
faith Itself must always be.
In. an atom age they still go
on sturdily demonstrating that
no man can know happiness
who tries to remain an atom
unto himself.
Working as a happy team
together, Mr. and Mrs. Claus
must have brought delight and
Joy- to a billion children in
their time In a universal give
away program, that crosses all
countries and is heedless of
all politics. And they show
no signs of retiring on sn old
age pension or complaining,
"Children are getting so bad
the whole thing is no longer
worth while."
So far as t know neither
Santa nor his wife believes
there Is such a thing as a bad
child. What other childless
couples do you know who has
an attitude like that?
If history records where
Santa found his bride, the fact
has escaped me. But it there
are any more like her, I know
few bachelors who certain
ly would be glad to propose to
one.
Mrs. Claus deserves to be
named "Woman ot the Year"
If only because she hss proved
a good, gal can win fame In
the career of housewife, even
though she does her house
keeping In a place as remote
as the North Pole.
It Is well known by the
elvei that Mrs. Claus actually
supervises the North Pole toy-
making operations during
most of the year. But does
she Insist on a seat by Santa's
side, when he makes his an
nual Christmas Eve sleigh ride
around the globe? Not Mrs.
Claus. She lets her old man
get all the applause, because
she believes a woman's place
dards In the conduct of public
affairs. The commission has
no authority but is used as a
guide as to how public offic
ials should act and also gives
the press and public a clear
basis for determining offic
ial right from wrong.
George Baker,
Kt. S Salem, Ore.
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is In the borne, en Christmas
Eve, anyway.
"Besides," she has placidly
confided to friends, "I'm a
backaeat driver, and with all
that pack ot toys in the back
seat, there really isn't room
for me. And besides that. It
is Just common sense to let a
husband out one night a year
by himself, and. no questions
asked. i- 1
"You ought to see how glad
Mr. Claus is to come creeping
home on Christmas morning."
Between them Mr. and Mrs.
Claus help keep alive a force
more explosive thin a million
hydrogen bombs, the tuneless
power of human love and un
derstanding in a yearning
world eternally lonely for
these twin vitamins of the
human souL '
Nominations closed. All in
favor say "Aye!" Those op
posed, say but how could
anybody oppose them?
We give you the "Man and
Woman of the Year Santa
and his lady!
STOPPED WRONG PLACE
Val D'Or, Que. S)J0Ulric
Duvan, 50, was arrested for
driving while intoxicated be
cause he stopped his automo
bile at a street corner to wait
for the traffic light to turn
green.
TheVe is no traffic light on
that corner, police said.
REALLY RECKLESS
Milwaukee UJ9 John Mc
Lees was charged with driving
recklessly over the lawn,
through the picture window
and into the living room of
Grant R. Emerson's home at
the end of 70th street
SANTA'S
LOST
HIS
REINDEER!
Somewhere in the
Capitol Shopping Center
WON'T YOU PLEASE HELP HM
FIND THEM?
They'll Be in fhe Slores and Parking Lots
Between 6 & 9 on Tuesday & Wednesday
25 REWARD
PER REINDEER!
3 BUT BEWARE:
K THEY'RE IN DISGUISE AND MAY LOOK JUST
LIKE YOU OR YOUR NEIGHBOR,
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Salem 16 Years Agd
By BIN MAXWELL
Decease It, HIT
Light snowfall had brough
prospects of a white Christ'
mas for Oregon.
...
It had been expressed as
possibility t b s t Eleanor
Roosevelt, square dancing!
first isoy, wouia try in. "Big
Apple" si a wnna Horn,
young people's j dance during
the Christmas noildays.
.
Mrs. Ella T. Gray, SI, tot
many years a resident of 8a
lem, bad died in Seattle. (Mrs.
Gray was a daughter of Ste
phen Chadwick. governor of
Oregon between 1877.78.)
Her busband had built the
Gray block at the northwest
corner of Liberty and State
street
William E. Anderson, Sa
lem sporting goods dealer.
armed with a two by four
club had escorted a (arage
robber to the city jail. ;
President Roosevelt had
said that a large percentage
of American newspapers were
fostering a psychology of tear.
Jake Kilraln, famous boxer
In the "bare knuckle" era,
had died in a hospital in New
York. .,
More than 1,000,000 labor
ers were reported employed
In Russia to rush completion
of a great military highway
in Central Asia that would
provide a link between Soviet
Russia and China.
Works Progress Adminis
tration reported that it had
spent S10.6S0.7S9 in Oregon
between January 1, 1937 and
November SO, 1937.
State highway commission
hsd considered the feasibility
of illuminating the super
highway between Oregon City
and Portland.
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