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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem. Oregoa
Thursday, January 7. 1954
Capital AJournal
An Independent Nwpopr Established 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING. Editor ond Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editot Emeritus
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MYSTERY OF TWO MEN
"Death Valley Scotty" has waved from the ridgetop and
tissued over to the other aide.
To some he was the Spirit of the Old W est hovering- over
the desolate valley whose name he bore. Others jay be
was a fourflusher. A press story says bluntly that he
fooled the world for more than ju years,
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But it isn't Death Valley Scotty the picturesque the
profligate spender and the teller of tall tales of hidden
Sold, who is so intrisruinir. What the world would like to
know 18 trie story Demon me T .
in. k. .luiwi nn hotivMn Albert M. Johnson.
the Chicago insurance executive, and Scotty, the lone wolf
of Death Valley ? Scotty seems to have made vairue men
tion at times of his "pardner." Johnson was sueni.
Then, after more than 80 years of fooling the world,
Scotty seems to have admitted that Johnson, and not a
hidden gold mme, was me source oi ms iu.
son, under duress of an oath in court, (teems to have con.
4;-mA it
But why? Scotty had once nursed Johnson back to
health in the hills, it is said. So Johnson Rave him mil
lions, and built him a castle at the head of Death Valley.
Hardly plausible.
"He had a great appetite for money, and 1 like to give
it to him," said Johnson.
But when Johnson was hard pressed Scotty, too, could
come through handsomely.
"I still got about $700,000 in the rock," he said, and later
admitted there was no rock.
So what is the story behind the story, the link between
the insurance executive and the man in the desert? Was
it a story of men's hatred, men's passions, greed, or just
the love of one good guy for another?
As the Mexicas would shrug and say, Quien sane? Who
knows? S. A. S.
ANOTHER 'FIVE AND TEN' CRISIS
When the matrimonial affairs of the very rich become
public property they usually become dillies. Those of Bar
bara Hutton, the five and ten heiress, hit the nation'
front pages with resounding smack the other day when
she wed her fifth, a Latin American playboy whose only
claim to fame is that he haa married two of the world's
richest women. The guy must have something, at that.
With the ink scarcely dry on this romaritic episode the
newspaper reader is informed that affairs have reached
some sort of a climax between Winthrop Rockefeller, and
his estranged wife, Bqbo, the ex-cinderella girl, who is
the daughter of a miner.
This "rags to riches" romance made millions of hearts
throh several vears airo. but the hearts of the participants
cooled, for some reason not as yet revealed, and now it has
become a matter of money between them.
Actually it's another "five and ten" situation, but it
doesn't refer to nickles and dimes as in the Hutton case.
Withrop Rockefeller is offering Bobo and their son a five
million dollar divorce settlement, pi us some iringe oeno-
But Bobo, having been exposed to the big money, is no
piker herself and she wants a round ten million, win
throp's hard working lawyer indicated that -he was about
to give up, because every time his client raised the ante
Bobo raised her demands, leaving the two as far apart as
ever. And we imagine a lawyer gets no fee unless there
is something to claim a percentage of.
Today, it is announced that Winthrow says it's got to be
"five million, take it or leave it." We've a suspicion Bobo
will take, once she gets the idea that a present generation
Rockefeller can be tough, like his old grand daddy used to
be. At least this is what most of us would do, confronted
with such an ultimatum.-
Gosh, if only we could be.
NEW LIGHT ON THE 22 P.W.s
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neiurn m Lurpurai iiauuc u. duiahciui, mie ui me ivja r)ne goif Courso m l,
American war prisoners wno reiusea repatriation iouow-!pn it fbouX nooo f(.c, above
ing the Korean truce throws new light on what has become sea level. And in that rarefied
a mystery to most Americans here at home. : atmosphere, the ambassador ex-
The assumption has been that any American prisoner . plained the hall rocs much far
was free to return to the U.S. lines by simply telling one ".Jj"!! Zt whie"
of his Indian guards of his desire. Simple as that, the I wml,, hav, hrfn ,round 250
dispatches have suggested. i yards in the US A.
Batchelor, a Texan, suggests it wasn't and isn't quite, Alld lhat wa, wnat ha() oth(,r
that simple, lie says the got their orders not to listen
to explanations of U.S. representatives and were probably
afraid to disobey them. Once they had accepted the Com
munist way of thinking they more or leas automatically
urrnntpH the nrincinlff nf hlinrl nherlipnco in nrrlpm
Batchelor finally mustered courage to speak to a guard , p?" f'na'ly hfd.,.
. ,1.. 1 it i Pentagon, but is one of the most order him to be present and dut-
and made his return to our forces. He suggests thnt Jml ?; iir. .t. h. iinii.i if,,n rh hii,. ..
others of the group would probably like to do the same 1 ,d states haa ever taken In re
thing. I card to future war.
We suspect that these 22 are far from the brightest ones : It completely reverses the old
in the armv. The fact that they succumbed to Communist stal' ncpartment-Peniason pnl-
KlunHUdrm.nt. in ihe fit-it i.ln.-o .trnmrlv inrPst thi, : icy Ramst usinK the atom bomb.
WASHINGTON At a recent
White House dinner for the dip
lomatic corps, ambassadors were
curious over an animated con
versation between President Ei
senhower and Boliviian Amas
ibador Victor Andrade. The
President huddled with Andrade
longer than with any other dip
lomat. Ambassador ' Andrade repre
sents country with plenty nf
problems, though many nf them
of staff, and brilliant ex-commander
in Korea, has been equal
ly skeptical of the new policy.
Privately he branded the with
drawal of two divisions from Ko
rea as "politics." (The troops
won't come home until next Sep
tember or October.) And he is
highly doubtful about substitut
ing atomic warfare for ground
troops.
Salem 40 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
January 7, 1911 '
A Salem wife of an itinerant
minister of faith called "Religion
of the Golden Tongues" had
started divorce proceedings
against that preacher on grounds
of non-support. Food for her ba
bies and herself had gotten down
to one cup of rice.
President of Portland's defunct
Title Guarantee Trust compa
ny, convicted of stealing $288,
426.87 of the state's educational
fund, had a strong delegation
appearing in his behalf before
Acting Governor Bowerman.
Taxpayers in the Donald, Hub-
What the military men nrivate-
tv ask is "What are we irninff bard, Aurora and Chamnnefl area
have been ironed out, thanks to to do with baby atomic bombs if j to the number of 400 had sienrd
his own astute diplomacy. How
ever, Bolivia is still wooed by
Dictator Peron and troubled by
some communist agitators; so
there was a lot of speculation
among envoys as to what the
two men talked about especially
when Andrade remained myster
iously mum.
However, the subject of their
conversation was golf.
the enemy comes back with much
larger at mic bombs? We now
know that Moscow even has the
hydrogen bomb. Once we start
using baby atom bombs, how art
we going to keep the enemy from
using hydrogen bombs?"
This has always been pretty
much the position of the joint
chiefs of staff. It was only Gen
eral MacArthur and the China
The Bolivian ambassador, who . bloc who wanted to use atomic i
plays in abaut the same 80-to-90 ' weapons in the Far Eastern the-:
scoring range as the President, 1 atre.
but plays at the Chevy Chase . Hnwpvnr cn.,.nr nf ci.t. .
club, not Burning Tree, was ask- Dulles, with CnHi.rswri.iarv nf
ed whether he had ever played Defense Kves. and to a lesser
with Gen. Frank Allen, former extent. Secretary of Defense Wil
commander of the 3rd armored : son, believe we should now con-,
division and European publicrc-! centrate on atomic strength and
Iations chief for Ike during the fast-striking forces. Their idea
war a member of Chevy Chase. tn njt the source of asgrrs
Then the President quizzed sion which in the case of Ko
Andrade about golf in the upper rca would he China.
aiinuae ni ua t-nz, capital oi bo- Revolutionary Chanse
Thus, thouch not announced in
so many words, the Korean troop
withdrawal is the most radical
chance of American military and
forcicn strategy since Eisenhow
er took office one yea rago.
Note 2 General Ridgway was
understandably so upset over the
cuts Secretary of Defense Wil
son ordered in the U. S. army ;
that he tried not to appear be
fore the National Security Coun-1
cil where he would have to de-
petitinn asking for a Willam
ette river bridge near Butteville.
As the result of a boxing match
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Trellis Mae Puts Crimp in
Wilbur's Lunch Allowance
is a
By HAL BOYLE
Hometown, U.S.A. WV-"What . eiple said Wilbur.
makes men hold on to their
money so?" demanded Trellis
Ma Feeble, America's most av
erage housewife. .
Wilbur lowered his morning
newspaper until their eyes met
across the breakfast table.
"Dear," he said, "a wife's con
versation Is like a jigsaw puzzle
it takes a fellow some time to
make any kind of pattern out
of it What are you trying to
get at? I dont know any man
who is holding on to his money."
"Well, Winthrop Rockefeller is.
I read it in the newspaper be
fore you got up."
"Is be? How does he do It?"
"By refusing to give it to Bo
bo."
"What's a bobo?"
"Oh. don't act so dumb. Bobo
Is Winthrop's wife." said Trellis
Mae, who alwaya spoke of fam
ous peopl by their first name.
'Why won t he give it to Bo
bo?" replied Wilbur, who was
trying to read an article about
the electric power problem in
India.
"Well, they are separated, and
Winthrop moved to Arkansas to
forget it all. Now he wants to
settle six million dollars on her,
but his lawyer says Bobo is hold
ing out for ten million dollars.
Isn't that a silly thing to quarrel
over?"
"It could be a matter of prin-
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT"
NEW YORK U.H Multi-mil
lionaire Winthrop Rockerfcller
offered his estranged wife Bobo
"And four
pretty big
million dollars
principle.
"If she takes the six million
dollars," mused Trellis Mae, "it
says she could invest it so as to
get about 120.000 tax-free dollars
a year. That's not so much, is
it?"
"Only about 323 bucks or so a
day, including Sundays and the
29th of February during leap
years," dryly remarked her hus
band. "But. of course, if she
look it in silver dollars it would
make quite a jingle in her purse."
"Whose side are you on, any
way?" asked his wife.
"I don't believe n mixing in
family quarrels. I wish they'd
kiss and make up even if it put
SO divorce lawyers in s bread
line." "Well, I certainly think you
would be more generous than
Winthrop. Remember what you
told me when we had our first
big quarrel and I threatened to
leave you?"
"No, indeed," said Wilbur cau
tiously. "You told me I could have half
of everything you owned."
"Yeah, that was nice of me.
But what did I own then?"
"You didn't own anything. You
were even overdrawn at t h e
bank."
"Well." said Wilbur, "if Win
throp was in the sam espot I
was. 111 bet he'd be just as big
a sport about it You always have
Wire Tap and
Radar Evidence
Albany Democrat-Herald '
Wire-tapping for the most
part is, as Supreme Justice Oil
ver Wendell Holmes once call
ed it, "dirty business," but we
think it ought not to be barred
as a means of obtaining evi
dence for use in the trial of
cspital felony cases, such as
murder, kidnaping and trea
son. Ordinary eavesdropping, mo
tivated by raw curiousity or
some narrw personal reason, is
contemptible. The case is dif
ferent, however, when authori
ties, on the trail of a suspect
in a capital crime, could use
the content of conversations in
which i suspect participates.
As things now stand, no evi
dence obtained through the
tapping of wires can be used
in a federal court. Not only
should tfiis rule not be ex
tended to state courts, but we
believe it should be abrogated
in courts, of federal scope. The
rule is snother instance of
leaning backward to give every
advantage to an accused per
son; perhaps this sort of thing
can be overdone.
We feel somewhat the same
way about the use of radar
to trap violators of traffic laws.
A driver going 27 miles an
hour in a 25-mile zone, where
there is no apparent danger to
other drivers or to pedestrians,
is getting pretty severe treat
ment if convicted by the im
personal evidence of radar; but
in such case a court might be
expected to use judgment or.
to take the circumstances intojaf(er conviction, ,0 iuspend a
consideration. Why didn't you
leave me anyway?"
"With no carfare and mother
300 miles away?" laughed Trellis
sentence. In many cases, how-
'ever, the radar evidence might
be all that would stand be-
a divorce settlement of $5,500,000 ! m"., 'l .Tf-.....fJii tween a reckless speeder and
od'y ?,ndTth-ld:I,t.tanf. 'i. 1 1 ouldn"t lea"ve you even if you '? Served acquittal. Much
let it be known he wonld not
even consider Bobo's reported
demand tor a $10,000,000 settlement.
held in the basement of the Uni
tarian church for the benefit of
the Junior Brotherhood, O. Mial
Duster was knocked out in the
second round and had been tak
en to his lodgings to recuperate.
Rex Beach's latest play, "The
Barrier," had been billed for a
performance at Grand Opera
House in Salem.
Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton,
suffragette leader, was advocat
ing an eight hour day and a six
day week for working women.
made the same offer again to- depends on the seriousness of
day to give me half of everything
we have in the bank."
Wilbur looked at her suspici
ously. "Is our account overdrawn
again?" he demanded. Trellis
Mae nodded.
"I thought this conversation
finally would lead somewhere,"
said Wilbur crossly. "Why-can't
you be more carewul about your
check stubs."
"I will," promised his wife.
Grumbling as he started to
leave for work, Wilbur held out
his hand for his usual two-dollar I
lunch money and cigarette al-1
the particular offense, and to.
decide on this is a primary
function of the courts.
It has been said, repeatedly,
that law enforcement is not
just a game of wits between a
suspected offender and the au
thorities a game in which
anything an individual can get
away with is O.K. We think
that fact ought to be even
more generally kept in mind.
The safety of society needs to
be remembered as well as the
rights of individuals.
Said a
"A good
Canilal Jnnrnal filler-
thinker ever has the
best of a hard drinker."
Elite cafe had a chicken dinner
for 35c.
Invnn.. Trnllit Man mil nnlv
a single dollar in it. , BLOWOUT DIDN'T
"A buck for lunch." griped STOP MOTORIST
Wilbur. "A mouse can t live on CHANDLER. Ariz, tits A little
thing like a tire blowout didn't
"My mouse can." said
wife. She kissed him.
"G'bye, Bobo." he said.
"G'bye, Winthrop."
h i a
stop Al Martin as he drove home
yesterday. Didn't even slow him
down, in fact. The tire was his
spare.
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GIVES YEAR 'ROUND PROTECTION AGAINST SKIDS
diplomats buzzing at the White
House dinner.
Troops Out of Korea
The order to withdraw 21.000 1 fend those cuts. When RidRway '
U. S. troops from Korea caused tried to arrance a conflicting en-
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And they could now be held against their will, as Batchelor
sujrirests.
If this is the case a further effort should be made to
reach them before letting them be doomed to worse than
drath, for once their propaganda value to the Red cause
haa passed it will be death or slave labor camps for all of
them. And this is a harsh penalty for ignorance.
Pratt Buys Interest
In Plant at Albany
It also marks the beginning of
American reliance on atom bombs
Instead of land armies.
Hitherto,' Secretary of State
Acheson was dead opposed to us
ing the A-bomb in Korea or in
neighboring China. So was Gen.
Omar Rradley and the joint
chiefs of staff. So were our
western allies. And when Pres-
get
Note 2 Secretary of the
Army Stevens was less dutiful.
He called on the President in
person, ureed that the Army not
be cut so drastically. Eisenhow
er made no decision, told Stev
ens the matter would be decided i
by the National Security Council. ;
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l""v '.;,. .:. "..V ' V " '"' vil.an chiefs of the Defense De-, moving out
leresta in the Albany Ire iiutin.i w-y- . . i.i -ri. . - . , ...
Cold Storage Company plant, investifiatlons subcommittee head- nnlirv " ' trur our Population
States that plans foi expansion ,d hy Sen. McCarthy in its far f " s military leaders are de-, row,n n no ben spectacu
are under consideration, llowev-! flung Red hunts has stepped ! eiriedly doubtful Adm Arthur 1,r' h"' brfn ,ho c"e ln
r, no announcemert will be i over into a field where it !i.,iu .k.i.I.. .'.- ,.i..'som areas of Orenon hut li
made in this connection for some , not intended to function at all." I cnl(.(, ll( ,,, n hM , prj. has been steady.
'm- . I To which Sen. McCarthy repli- j vat, debate with Secretary Dul-1 A slow, steady population
Pratt, along with i Harold Aim ed. I have no argument with Pat , mint , ,f hecon,,, i Rrowth Is more healthy for the 1
.R?,uC"' Ktn kK P?' w on J"?' necessary to stop accession we community than a rapid one,
all of Albany, hold a minority greatest senators we ever had tilolM , , confine ourselves ; which would hrin. ..HoiT,
Interest in the Albany plant, and I have unlimited respect fni" i to littlr timitpdan itT o!nii J i b"n eou
Jess Savage, president, retains! him " There's s pair to draw to, ! o i,t w.T ,Pred W ' 'hould , hoU!ln-h' nd c-r prob
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ot the old Albany tee plant in GIVE ':M RACK the No I militnrv spot of the na- AT I.F.XST HONEST
the downtown ares and a new NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CP), turn Admiral Radford of late DENVER op - Today s Rockv
roM storage warehouse located Honest motontts gave a bonus has been arguing for ' conven- Mountain News has this ad in the,
on JU acre. -. - . "r iMirr orpanmem. uonai weapons and for outlaw-. "Room and Board ' section on the (
eity. . . - uii.mtu mi.r.i in parKing ing me atom bomb. classified page
A meeting of the "'"'" which were not legally , Skeptical Rid,,., Columbine. Sinsle Room.
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