Pat 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem. Orer I Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING. Editor end Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketo St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads. 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409 Tan bl Win ftarvlM at lk iwkM ttt iri Tlw OaltM mm. Tn Auocllted Prtu u sxrlaalvtlir uitttlsa t tbt um for aubllutmi af 11 Btwi alapstehw eredlua u It r atbsrwlM fdltid m tola ptast gat llM Bwt publuhea thfrcln. rCHAMPION'GATE CRASHER There arc all sorts of ways of winning notoriety if not enduring fame, but James Leo (One-Eyed) Connolly, who died just before Christmas at a rest home at Zion, 111., at the age of 84, secured national renown as the world's triampion gate crasher. Perhaps it was because there are gate crashers m every community in the land but few make a profession of it or get away with it long. Hence Connelly evoked the envy and admiration of a numerous clan. For a half century, Mr. Connelly carried on a personal crusade to outwit the gatemen at sporting events and political conventions. He succeeded by posing as a ven dor, iceman, carpenter, or anything else that struck his fancy. By his own count, he had crossed the United States 102 times on gate-crashing forays and also had in vaded Europe and Australia. Perhaps Connelly also successfully crashed the ocean liners, railroads and bus lines, for while gate crashing is a money saver, it is not a money maker, and how else could he travel first class for 50 years? Connelly lost the sight of his left eye in a boxing ring accident when 18 years old. and boasted that he had ' crashed all heavyweight championship fights since 1897 except three he did not care to see. In a newspaper inter view, ne once said: "It started with the James J. Corbett-Bob Fitzsimmons 'match in Carson City, Nev. I told the gatekeepers I had over heard two thugs plotting in town to rob the counting room. I was Invited through the sates to keen watch for them." "At the Jack Demnsev-Georeei Carnentier hnnf in 1021 at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City I was tossed out of 13 of me is entrances, out went through the 14th. I borrowed a pail of coffee and a basket of sandwiches from the telegraph crew ana me gaieman mougm i was a venaor. "At the Dempsey-Tom Gibbons fight in 1923 in Shelby, Mont., I posed as an iceman and carried 80 pounds of ice through the door for the coolers. It was not only prize fights that Connelly crashed, but national political conventions as well. He stated that "I've used doors, umbrellas, apples, brooms and just about everything you can think of as props. At a demo cratic convention in Houston, some fun-loving fellow handcuffed me to a bench in the hall. I lugged it inside, obtained my freedom and also a badge to the convention." Connejly gave up gate crashing eight years ago and he worked as chef and greeter in taverns, elevator operator and finally as usher at sports and political events where he specialized at spotting gate crashers at world series. He was dismissed when he ejected P. K. Wrigley, Jr. in 1945 from Writjley field in the game between Chicago Cubs and Detroit Tigers. When the team owner identified himself, Connelly told him, "That's for the birds." Connelly showed originality, ingenuity and persistence enough to have made a success in legitimate industry but the joy of his life was the excitement of gate crash ing. G. P. NEW BONNEVILLE ADMINISTRATOR Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay promptly appointed Dr. William A. Pearl of Washington State (college administrator of the Bonneville Power adminis tration as soon as the resignation of Paul Raver had cleared through official channels. The public, in Oregon at least, finds Dr. Pearl a new name and a new face, though he is probably much better known in his own state. He is a graduate engineer and educator of long and successful experience, though he has never before administered a large organization. The best qualified men by experience are those who have actually operated electric power systems, but here McKay must have run into the fact that all of these are either private power men or public power men. Few have had experience in both and virtually none hold a bal anced, objective view, between the two. It is akin to the difficulty a president finds in appoint ing a secretary of labor. Labor leaders are of the A.F.L., C.I.O. United Mine Workers or Railway Brotherhood groups. Each has his loyalties and his aversions. It is virtually impossible to find one who is looked upon as fair by the others. For this reason most labor secretaries have come from outside labor ranks for many years past and it is probably just as important that a Bonneville administrator come from outside the active power ranks. Dr. Pearl is evidently satisfactory to the private power interests and therefore unsatisfactory to the public power interests. This is to be expected, for while the Eisenhow er administration expects to continue and to expand the Bonneville operation it will no longer be used as a medium for propaganda in behalf of public power. It will be oper ated as a government business, serving the region, and incidentally the taxpayers of the entire nation who put up the money that created it. Dr. Pearl will evidently administer Bonneville accord ing to this pattern. If he does we believe the results will be satisfactory to most of the people of the region and the country. There is no occasion for Bonneville to be operated for the promotion of socialism in electric power. The people elected Eisenhower, not Stecnson as presi dent. SLOTS LEGAL IN ONLY ONE STATE Slot machines have been legal in only two states in recent years, in Nevada without restriction and in Idaho under certain circumstances. Municipalities could decide by local option whether they wanted them. Nearly all the larger cities voted them out, but many smaller towns tolerated them in order to collect revenue. Some taxed slot "take" as high as 50 per cent. Last week the Idaho Supreme Court unanimously de cided that the slot machine is forbidden by a state consti tutional provision against gambling. This has been in! lorce lor many years, and district judges have from time to time ruled that it applied to slot machines. But the cases were never appealed by the operators, who studi ously kept the issue from reaching the highest court, whose ruling would establish the law for the entire state. Finally this happened and the result was as expected. Slot machines are illegal. Prosecuting attorneys of the various counties have been setting deadlines after which the machines would be raided and confiscated. Hun dreds of them are reported being hurriedly transported to Nevada where they can continue to operate. w nether slot machines will soon begin reappearing in the back rooms of some of the places from which they are now being removed is a question whose answer is not now at hand, but the constitution is not self enforcing in Idaho or anywhere else. And the usual experience is that law enforcement or lack of it closely follows local attitudes. So it will be no surprise if slot machines continue to operate in some of the "back country" points in Idaho while they remain banned in the larger towns where sentiment, has already been demonstrated as atrongly agait.'t them. IKf, AND KOREA AN TAUM (By WlNS) NUt Bl6 NEW H 53 - BUT AAEMORV BRING UP M AftOKTMeNT OF HAPPENINGS A YOU LOOK BACK OVER THE MONTHS . Haw f arnsvXCav M RANDOM MEMMORIES OF 1953 V ' BFMEMRFR. TUI BERLIN -'AT FOOD PARCELS ? -AND THE REDS WHO Stood ok THE5IS AMENDMENT mi i act mm THERE vwefcc THE TRAVELERS WIRE ALWAVS COrAlNC H6ME , W 10 K6POI!, P&TI(Z GOING DOWN IN CUROPCS WHO CAN FORftr THE TALK-TALK-TALK FROM THE PANMOMJ0M MCUTNT' REMEMBER NATHW6 OF 0UCEN Elizabeth? CORONATION ? WHO "'Su M am . . .. iCC V BRIBE IiHaTaMilTl 1 .XK"t. 4?- XXI jBiinin m at m A NEW FAT MAN CAME , TO THE HEADLINES- (j W T7 I I' WEPT IN 'AND WINNierHE CREW HISTORIAN, WAS STILL MAKING HIS OWN HIST0RV POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Hal Forecasts the Future, But in a Whimsical Vein By HAL BOYLE New York Wl What lies in store in 1954 for all us surviv ors of the debris of 1953? Well, our clouded crysal ball seems to have more smog in it than usual, but here are a few fuzzy forecasts of what you can look for in the coming year: The sale of wheelchairs will rise and the sale of diapers de cline, as the population gets a bit older. Five new sure cures for fall ing hair will hit the market, and 10 million American men will go on getting balder and balder. More women will be gin going bald, too, as then campaign for equal rights with men moves on to a new frontier. A restaurant chain will feat ure a five-cent hamburger, served with a 3D polaroid lens to give it an air of realism. A new breed of hunting dog trained to find a car parking space will be developed. This loyal animal, after locating a place to park, will bay the news to its master and fight off other motorists with its teeth until its owner can drive up. The $2 haircut will make its appearance, and then a thous and editorial writers will la ment, "Whatever became of the good old two-bit haircut?" Wives will begin cutting their husbands' hair. On Jan. 23 a man in Zanes ville, O., will claim he saw the first robin of spring. The next day Pravda will denounce him as a capitalist tool, and point that the first robin of spring actually was glimpsed by a Russian serf on January 4th near Minsk in the year 1602. Pravda will also recall it was the Russians who first invent ed popcorn, the five-cent ci gar, Christmas tree lights and the safety razor. Mink coats again will be come popular in the nation's five innings of baseball, and just to keep things even, each side will have 10 men. The movies will make a real comeback in the entertainment world with still another gim mick by adding a fourth di mension to Marilyn Monroe. Radio will fight television by putting out sets with a screen that never lights up and on which you are positively guar anteed you will never see any thing. You just look at it and enjoy your own thoughts. The Army will come up with a new dehydrated combat ra tion in a plastic container. You remove the food, put it in your rifle and fire it at the enemy then eat the contain er, which contains a drug to reduce overweight, cure hic cups, and give a soldier a feel ing of general well being. As to the problem of com munism, international crises, taxes, the weather, and the common cold they'll be as Issues in 1954 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND McCarthy's Richest Backer Makes Million After Taxes By DREW PEARSON Washington The fabulous wealth of Senator McCarthy's chief backer, Texas oilman H. R. Hunt, has been made a matter of official public rec ord. Oilman Hunt has just been awarded a television lic ense at Corpus Christi, Texas, and in order to get it, had to list his approximate net worth. Hunt filed in a sworn state ment that his net income after taxes was "in excess of one million dollars a year." A few people in the U.S.A. have an income before taxes of $1,000,000 a year. But by the time they pay taxes in the 80 or 90 per cent brackets there written b SL"! Nr Sector o SZt "nun, and there Is no Incentive to stage oratorical gymnastics. The other day, however, Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon made an unpublicized itatument be fore the O. C. committee which may set an important precedent. ue i-uMiiniiirc naa oraered ' -wiio WlBt Commissioner Charles Mahaf- ecled " your lnfl?" fie of the Interntat. Pnmn,.. " wroni. Th. T"i commission, plus two ex-com- m1cnt. ." " "bout wJL i missioners, to appear before it f1uld. eC lZ J to explain why they had made "tela' wh wishes toJ"' a certain rutins nffariiin th. anonymous in """m Capital Transit company which me" may rest . supplies bus and streetcar serv- elther outright lyin. . ice to Washington. ',ng to hit meon R mnv Mn,.n. uam mbush. --j m . iiviii Wlllt , i.eni. rial a . - swenng a etter r- nt, fc Cap.talJournil,r " l th. tf. Plr 1, mai you u,..u l isn't much left. Hunt, how- ials have been indiscriminately . lne Board of Cmtii , . ever, testified that his net in-' hauled before Congress since y ,ute "Sency whui. " come was "in excess of one Mctartny set certain preced-1 HK vc ,ucn prom, above $9,000,000 in order to have a net income in excess of a million dollars. The 27 H per cent oil-depletion allow million dollars after taxes for ents that no one worried over each year of 1951 and 1952." the propriety of quizzing quasi Of course his taxes are a bit, Judicial officials. However, lower than some people's be-! as the hearing was about to cause he gets the benefit of the . 'tort. Senator Morse lnterrupt 27 depletion tax allowance ! ed. on oil wells. "This committee has no But if Hunt were in a non-,Pwer. he said, "to summon preferred industry he would ny judicial officer who is not have to make a gross income .under impeachment proceed ings. "I will be no party to break' ing down the traditional icd aration of the judiciary from ance which helps him is given other branches of govern oil operators because it's an ex-' ment," Morse continued. tractive inaustry. in otner; "The Interstate Commerce words, oil does not stay in the commission is a quasi-judicial ground forever. Coal, also an. tribunal, and we of the Senate extractive industry, gets only have no right ,0 que,tion iu a 10 per cent depletion allow- members on how they arrived ance, while granite, gravel, I at a decision regarding the Cap marble get 5 per cent. , itai Transit company or any Hunt uses his fabulous other company. We can ask fabulous wealth partly to back 'their views about needed legis- ssenator Mcuartny, also nnance lation, but we can t question the "Facts Forum" TV pro- their decisions. They are sym gram; and finally he's the big- bols of the judicial process. gesi conirmuior to "America "Furthermore, they have no for Americans, a group of pre-, riKht voluntarily to answer isolationists wno PUlltkcw nctinn " h n,.... institution and thThL2"l the mana.in. Jr..boul l By RAYMOND MOLEY There is something refresh ingly new in the aDDroach of:war President Eisenhower to tough money 'nt0 e.ycry camPa'K,n last ' senator continued. "We cannot nolitiral .hln.. Th. mnst 1 1. i. i"ff establish a precedent here for r " ' , :io iioerai wnaiora. breaking down separation of recent example of that is the Featured on Hunt's Facts the three branches of govern program of generalities that! Forum TV program is Allan' ment." came out after the recent ioll wnose American patriot-1 senator ucaii or Maryland, White House conference of Pe-! lsm w?.5 put on the attorney i who presided, immediately con. gcnci ni a luuvnaivc iai. sin- ong the books recommended to viewers are those of Merwin K. Hart, whom Justice Jack son described as "well known for his pro-Fascist leanings." On the Facts Forum advisory committee is Gen. Robert E. Wood, the Sears, Roebuck publican leaders. It is clear that the President and his im mediate official White House family feel that it will be very effective to have a nice list of laws passed by the forthcom ing session of congress and to go forth next autumn and tell the people all about them. This is a fine thought to have around this holiday season, but, like some Christmas neck tfes, these hopes will be limp and faded by Easter. And then, come Labor day, it will be the fierce attacks of the oppo sition that will make the is sues. The best thing that seemed to come from the White House parleys was the manifest good will in which the conferences were held. In that the presi dent is a master, however ....L. 1 1 , 1 hofnr. hrn,,nh 'KA u I '""til lie may ivt iu learn ably just as alive in '55. SUJ "? ,y!1 f. ".fi Salem 37 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL December 29, 1922 George E. Halvorsen, retir ing mayor of Salem, had said that the city would be ready soon for a change from alder- manic to a commission form of government. (This was consu lt a ted 25 years later). Oil leases had been filed covering land southeast of St. Paul and northeast of Wood-burn. All clerks and carriers at the postoffice had received a neck tie apiece as a gift from the G. E. Johnson clothing com pany on State street. W. M. Hamilton had been nominated as Kins Bins Rill capital as people realize that the Third of Salem Cherrians this fur, once the badge ol ant would assume the roval Democratic opportunism, now purple come Tuesday. is a sign oi itepuDiican pros perity. As a matter of fact ev erybody will be wearing mink coats but the minks them selves. As television sets get larger and new homes get smaller, a combined product will appear a TV set which actually takes the place of a living room. You live inside it, and the screen serves as a window. You can add other rooms a kitchen, a bedroom, and bath room as your family increases. The first model will sell for $5,000, complete with a free at which women's three-quar elm tree to shade it. j ter length plush coats, regu- Sclence will come up with a j larly priced at $32.50 were re cheap home hydrogen bomb duced to $14.75. kit. This will enable every- body who doesn't like the com-1 Prayer week In Salem had munity he lives In to make his been set for the week begin- own bomb and blow nil netgn- ning January 1, 1923, bor off the map. Coach Frank Leahy and Ca sey Stengel will be rival stra tegists in the biggest contest of 1954 a match between Notre Dame and the New York Yankees. This will settle the hottest question In the field of Farmers living In Polk and Marion counties and within the trading area of Salem were re ceiving $250 daily for paper wood delivered to Oregon Pulp A- Paper Co. A warranty deed had been filed in which the McCornack building (Miller's store) had been conveyed to Dr. B. L. Sleeves and W. W. Moore. People's Cash store had a pre-inventory sale underway Ben Rider, Homer Best and W. F. Crane, Salem boys, were to enter the New Year's Motor cycle run to be held in Eugene January 1. First Methodist church at sports whether a top amateur j Woodburn had received a $300 football team can beat a Cham-1 gift by terms of the will and pion professional b a se ball testament of James A. Austin team. The fame will consist of who had recently died at two quarter of football and Woodburn. curred. Apologies were made to the three ICC commissioners and they were excused. Note The above precedent will be important. Senator Welker of Idaho tried to vio late it in Denver recently by quizzing U. S. District Judge Ritter during the probe of FBI executive and former head of'absention from the Smaldone America First. Wood Is now honorary national chairman of "America for Americans." Note Sitting on the Federal Communications comini s s i o n when Hunt was given his TV license for Corpus Christi was Robert E. Lee, the McCarthy disciple appointed to this key spot by President Eisenhower despite the fact that he was featured in the Senate report on the unfair 1950 Maryland election. TROUBLE IN EUROPE Confidential diplomatic ca bles about two of our best friends in Europe jury-tampering case. He was promptly cracked over the knuckles by Judge Ritter. tics He will nperi all nf that fund of good will as things un- more arming than the news fold in the months to come, "ports and they are alarming Fnr nn miction. lilr the enough. amendment of the Taft-Hart-L Ambassador Clare Boothe lev act. farm luooort.. tariff Luce ha cablin8 the State reductions, and foreign aid, the Department from Italy that differences between the presi- h.at country may go commun j ,,. .T- , ; ist unless the controversial :.:;. b T" - ; Trieste question is settled, . 5 "' Some observers consider her w..,.. .., w.u ...u uccp. reporU , littie on the alarmist mere is still a resentment ,jde, but unquestionably the mat approacnes omerness drift in Italy is toward two about the utter failure of the savagely different political administration to make any camps. The Fascist right and considerable progress in rid- the Communist left. The cen- ding itself of personnel in the ter parties no longer control. departments who find it easy In France likewise Ambassa. and convenient to frustrate ef- dor Douglas Dillon has report forts to carry out campaign ed to the State Department that promises. This resentment is the presidential stalemate tore not entirely because so few France apart even more than jobs have been provided for appeared on the surface. Right Republicans, but it is also be- wing Gaullist and other anti cause the administration, ex- Communists were so sore at the cent for a few too people, is Communists that they even much the same as it was when discussed subduing them by Candidate Eisenhower in 1QS2 lorce. promised to clean it out. I wnat made tne anu-iom- The attacks of Senators like ' " rTZlZJTL?' i:ih mat ju vie, miimr sador Vinograd was directing French Communist strategy in the presidential voting. He knew that a deadlock would split France wide open. Note Meanwhile John Fos ter Dulles' veiled threat to France to join the United Eu- UNITED FUND SUCCESS Bend Bulletin The United Fund drive hasn't taken long, not nearly as long as the procession of drives for this and that cause or activity used to take. Moreover, it has been suc cessful. When charities and social and health programs were fi nanced one by one through are even ! public subscription, success was by no means uniform. Frequently a drive petered out far short of the mark. People became fed up with Morse, Kefauver and Humph rey will grow in intensity, and we can have a fairly good idea now of what they will be. The old spectre of "big business" will be prominent. In many states new dealers will be cam paigning vigorously on the is sue of electric power. They will say that the administra tion has "sold out" to the "in terests." Morse will be even more the incorrigible nuisance than he was in the last session. He claims that he has traveled more and made more speeches than any other senator in the recess. Those speeches were made to local audiences and fortunately have not encumb ered the Congressional Record as yet. He says that he in tends to oppose practically ev erything, particularly any ef fort to remove people not un der civil service. The theme of his story will be that the country is unhappy over Re publican rule and is waiting for the first chance to change it all. Kefauver is running not only for re-election to the Senate, but undoubtedly for the pre sidency in 1956. Hil attacks upon Republican policies will, except in the south, be much ropean army has boomeranged like the Viscount Ishil state ment in Japan that an act of Congress barring Japanese im migrants would be considered unfriendly. The U. S. Congress Immediately passed the Japan ese immigration ban as a slap at Tokyo, and it looks like France was reacting to Dulles in the same way. No country likes to be bossed. MORSE SETS PRECEDENT The Senate committee on the District of Columbia seldom makes headlines. People don't vote in the District of Colum bia, so no politics are at stake more vigorous than the mild banter of Stevenson. Faced by such opposition, Republican candidates will build their own arguments. They are not going to cam paign as the White House dic tates. They will fire with what ever ammunition they find to be most effective. in.titutionVThTS,!,,,,, uch program ,J Un ing of the board htj potheen Introd "It now appears that u questionnaire referred to i,Z betag circulated to sStJ? partments by the Diyitk, Purchasing for the puZ J obtaining informstlon mI rh'nab!the Division toi a better job of buyui, for the use of th, mJJ Department has no Met Z tention of propoiim sun manufacture of paint An,or, reading the queitionniin could not possibly read into any connection with iti. ... ufacture. We are quite m that, should we propose uch i program, the legislature would refuse funds. It is certainly the sort of specialized operation that could cost the state a Urrt amount of money, without th assurance of bettering our rit- uauon. "We are now buying satis factory, and in most cases, highly satisfactory, paints from Oregon manufacturen. nearly 100.000 gallons from a I Salem plant in a present con-1 tract. This product Is the best tested by the state for its pur pose and was purchased at a price higher than several brands of less quality that wen offered in bids to the state. It is a fine product. "We have in most cuts, found the paint manufactures I honest and dependable in their I offers to the Purchasing DM-1 sion. You should tell your in-1 formant to come out fromVt-l hind the mask if lie his y thing to offer of benefit to the I state. Such a man cannot be a I good servant of the people." MORE "KNOW HOW" Gresham Outlook Now that rationing mil government controls have dhv I appeared, know low coming back Into Its own again and is replacing "snow who" as a means of fetting things done. WHAT! NO COMICS! i.n. An spies (UJS Seven-Ten drives the people whose old Dennis Jensen nsd W -iu..i: . ... - u. ..jlnno rnmnlaint after ne was ..viiiii luuiiuiia nuc luugui awu the people who asked them. No wonder. They went on through the year; the solicit ing, committees were often made up of men and women who had served only a week or two before and who pres ently would be asked or pres sured into serving again. In evitably the sources of dona tions were the same from one campaign to the next, Now one drive does it. 'A little clean-up work and this United Fund, like the first one gathered last year, will be complete. A fine response by a wide range of donors and a well organized, coordinated job by the UF committees are to be credited with the result. struck by a streetcar nd takea to a hospital in a fancy new ambulance. Ambulances should be equip ped with comic books, Dennis. HUNTER HITS OWN CAB Trenton, Ont. OIB - BwU Sinclair spotted m rtJeet the bush while huntlnl I at" here, fired a volley oM shots and then ran to see he had bagged. It was his automooue. WASNT PEACEFUL Detroit MWmeM'P"?; 30, was placed on six o" Probation for disturbing la- peace. faU aSwmmmrt) mmm mmimm - Mat sn i Mmmmm Prevent Eye Injury I In the shop, ht sports, or whila driving, wtor rite new Unbreakable Glasses that won't shat ter .. . won't break. Ready in 1 day at Sender Optical. Liberal Credit NO EXTRA Charge fmf If IM OS tHwd. wttUf m Matfllr. Waar T danw WMt rarlafl 50 WIIK a AffVltl iuimsum emeu, yjtl u v 1..I1U Ma. SMn $ i sal