Southern Oregon miner., March 23, 1950, Image 2

S O U T H E R N O REG O N N EW S R E V IE W
Strange
A lch em y
BROADWAY A N D M A IN STREET
Nazis' 'Process of Selectivity'
Outsmarted by Polish Scientist
By BILLY ROSE
Whenever I'm in the mood for gargantuan gab. I hie myself over
to a Russian tea room near Carnegie hall where refugees of a dozen ,
nations sit around and give out with tall talk about the old days be­
hind them and the new days coming up.
JOLLY TIRA«
ALW AYS
P O P Í/
e x is t rtstvtx
A VlltCtOVS
W i
I
AM amazed to hnd that pain and grief
By tome Grange alchemy, if bravely borne,
Become a power, vital beyond belief,
To bless and comfort other hearts that mourn.
I did not dream through those far lonely days,
Those bitter hours when pleading for release,
That God would move in His mysterious ways
To make those hours a means to others' peace.
To give you a fittin g for-instance. the other midnight I heard a maca­
bre yarn from a gent who used to teach science in Warsaw, and while I
don’t know whether it's history or hokum, it strikes me as being worth my
allotment of white space today. . . .
During the last year of the war.
there was a small concentration
would be shipped out that Satur­
camp in east Ger­
day night.
many which had
In December of 1944. my tea­
been set up for
room friend—the scientist from
tw o
purposes:
Warsaw—was cattle-carred to this
(a) to build an
concentration camp and assigned
underground ma­
to a barrack occupied almost ex­
chine shop, and
clusively by captured Russian sol­
(b) to make avail­
diers. He was asked the usual ques­
able the required
tions, and when the Russians found
number of human
the newcomer was a Pole, they
guinea pigs for
quickly let him know that the fra ­
certain
experi­
B illy Rose
ternity of races as preached by
ments being con­
ducted by distinguished Nazi scien­ Moscow was confined to Kremlin
publicity handouts.
tists.
And when he further admitted he
By SS STANDARDS, the method had never joined the Party—not
of selecting these guinea pigs was for any big ideological reason, but |
For hurt, bewildered ones— 'tis Strange to me;
scrupulously fair.
Each morning simply because he was a scientist
Yet
out o f pain is often born a white
before breakfast, the SO men in and had no interest in politics—
the
Red
arm
y
men
decided
he
was
each of the wooden barracks would
Undying flame of love and sympathy;
stand at attention until the com­ an enemy of the state and began
The power that comes to dry another’s tears
mandant appeared with a list of to plot against him.
THE POLE, however, was more
their names. He would read off
Was generated through long bitter years.
the top name on the list and the worried about the disks in the hat
prisoner whose name was called than the whisperings going on
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
about him. Under the lottery sys­
would step forward.
tem, it would be almost two
The commandant would then months before his name was
hand two small leather disks, one
called, and since news had fil­ awake in his bunk when he felt made a black circle on it, and
marked w ith a white circle and tered into camp that the Russian a tug at his blanket. I t was a young when the commandant asked him
the other with a black, to the forces were only a few weeks away, Czech who had been badly m is­ to examine the disk, his plan was
“ trustee” of the barrack for ex­ he kept telling himself that libera­ treated by the "’trustee.” and who to palm the one with the white c ir­
amination. Then the commandant tion m ight come before the date had often mumbled about getting cle and substitute his own, so that
would drop the disks into his hat. for the drawing. But as the days even.
either would mean death to the
and the prisoner would draw one turned into weeks, and s till no
non-Party man.
According
to
the
kid.
the
com­
of them.
sound of far-away cannon, he re­ rades had figured out a plot to
For a long moment, the scien­
signed himself to taking his 50-50 make certain the Pole would be
If be picked the one with the
tist looked up at the slat ceiling
chances w ith the h a t
white circle be wet safe u ntil hit
shipped off to the Nazi experi­
of the bunk above him "Thank
name came up again 50 days
The night before the fateful menters. The “ trustee” had cut a
you," he finally said to bit friend.
later; if he drew the black one, he
morning, the scientist was lying leather disk from his shoe and
" I think I 'll be able to manage."
The
KNOLTON S CASE
Fiction
By
Richard H. W ilkinson
Corner
L
NOLTON'S ACT was the result
of two year’s of planning.
There was little chance that any­
thing would go wrong. He had
served as clerk at the lumber
camp fo r two long years. And
from the moment he firs t saw the
payroll left unguarded in the of­
fice while the bank guard went out
and a camp paymaster came in—
from that moment Knolton knew
that some day he’d steal that pay­
ro ll and make a get-away.
The d?y that Knolton had chosen
for the robbery was not unlike a
thousand others. At exactly noon
the payroll car
drove up. A guard
* Minute stepped into the
K
3
Fiction office
and depos'
riciiun
Ued the
heavy
bag by Knolton’s
chair. Knolton greeted him care­
lessly, nodded at the bag and bent
to his work. The guard went o ut
The moment the door closed
Knolton's head came up. He lis­
tened intently. Outside he could
hear the bank guard in conversa­
tion with Raymond, the camp pay­
master. There wasn’t a moment to
lose.
Quickly Knolton lifted up the
cover of his desk, removed from
inside a bag almost identical to the
one on the floor and equally as
heavy. He made the transfer deft­
ly, unhurriedly.
The door opened and Ray­
mond came inside. He nodded
briefly to Knolton, picked up
the decoy bag and went out
again.
Knolton stepped outside and
walked leisurely toward the river.
Unobserved he climbed into the
By now
beard.
he
had
grown
a
canoe which was hidden there, and
pushed off.
By mid-a f t e r n o o n
Knolton
reached a trib u ta ry and turned off
the main stream. He paddled up
this sm aller waterway for more
than a mile.
He set the canoe a d rift and
headed inland, swinging southward.
By dusk he had come to a virgin
stand of tim ber, m ighty monarchs
of the forest as yet unscathed by the
lum berman’s axe. His steps led
him to a huge pine, larger than the
rest with thick undergrowth at
the base. He parted the growth
pulled at a tu ft of d irt. The tuft
came away, revealing a shallow
With pounding heart he mounted
hole. Knolton had dug the hole the ridge and paused to look. It was
months before, allowed the under as if a hand had suddenly reached
growth to grow over it so that no out and was squeezing him in a
trace of his recent visit would be powerful grip. He stood rooted,
in evidence.
mouth ajar, staring in stupified
He deposited the bag in the hole incredulity at the country below.
and carefully replaced the dirt.
With a sense of horror he realized
what had happened. The entire
T WAS A MONTH before Knolton area had been logged by the lum ­
reached his destination; a tiny ber company, swept bare of every
village hundreds of miles south of standing tree and piece of tim ber.
the lumber camp. Here he paused
Every tree stump looked alike;
to rest with a friend. By now he none was larger or different from
had grown a beard. The friend pro­ its neighbor. He surmounted great
vided dye, and Knolton changed piles of slash, tearing at them fran­
the color of his hair from light tically, hunting for the stump, the
brown to black.
stump of the great pine tree.
Thus unmindful of his direction
Six months later Knolton,
he came again to the river bank.
now known as Carl Hedman,
And when at length he reached the
with no trace of the one-time
top of another h ill he paused to
clerk showing beneath his per­
rest, overcome by fatigue.
Too
late he felt the slash pile beneath
fect disguise, rode leisurely
him slipping away. Too late he
back toward the scene of his
realized that the slash had been
crime.
thrown on the brink of a precipice
The lumbermen gave him no overhanging the river.
more than a passing glance.
Knolton, with a p itifu l cry on his
Satisfied that he had not been lips, went over the brink. Far, far
recognized, Knolton followed the below he lay, a broken human
riv e r to the mouth of the tributary. body on the jagged rocks.
I
CROSSWORD P illili
ACROSS
1. Mast
2 One of
Canary
Islands
5. On top
3 Portion of a
9. Coin
curved line
(Turk.)
4. A cheer
10. A young
5. Plant Insect
salmon
6 Thin tin
11. Ravine
plate
12. Employ«
7 Odd (Scot.)
for
8. Make
wages
believe
14 An indenta­
tion of the 11. Fuel
13. Dispatch««
sea
15. God of
15. Double
pleasure
(Bot.)
(Egypt.)
16. Began
17. Shower
19. Type
18. Man's
measure
nickname
20 Roman
money
21. A sum of
money
23 Biting
26 Poet»
27. A color Of
a horse
28 Breeze
29 Music
note
30. Province
(Can.)
34. A covered
way
37. In what
manner
38. Reprove
39. Very
large
nail
41. Girl's name
42. The glass
of a window
43. River of
underworld
44. Settlement.
SW Arabia
DOW N
1. Gush out
21. Price
of
passage
22. Biblical
city
23. Tapestry
24. Forces
25 Radium
(sym.)
26 Apron
top
28 Malt
beverage
30. Antelope
(A fr.)
31. River
(E u r)
32. Memento
33. Solemn
wonder
week's
last
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36 A con­
federate
39 Resort
40 Cushion
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Next morning when his name
was called, he saw the “ trustee”
palm the white-circled disk and
substitute another.
But he pre­
tended not to notice, and when the
commandant held out his hat he
smiled and selected a disk. “ White
or black,” he said, “ I ’m going to
have one good meal in this m is­
erable camp.” And before the of­
ficer could stop him, he popped the
b it of leather into his mouth and
swallowed.
The SS man frowned.
“ Crazy
Pole,” he said, “ what good w ill
that do? There is s till a disk left
in the hat. If it is black, you picked
the white; if it is white, you picked
the black.”
“ That is quite correct. Sir,”
said the scientist.
By
IN E Z
Plyw ood Economical
In M an y Farm Uses
Brooder Houses Prove
Utility of Material
Farmers are finding that the
high strength and light weight of
plywood makes it an economical
and efficient m aterial to use in
portable farm buildings such as
brooder houses, hog shelters, and
range sheds.
A brooder house, a building mag­
azine reports, should be of ade­
quate size, warm and dry, and
properly lighted and ventilated. To
H ere Is a “ turkey feeder”
that Is easily and economically
made from exterior plywood—
w eather can’t harm It and It's
easy
portab ility
appeals
to
farm ers.
be economical. It should be rela­
tive ly low in first cost, and yet be
strongly built to give long life w ith­
out expensive and troublesome up­
keep. For convenience, it must be
easy to clean and move.
P ortability, of course, is of prime
Importance. Some portable build­
ings, b uilt by conventional meth­
ods, weigh as much as 2 to 3 thous­
and pounds. Farmers naturally hes­
itate to move a heavy structure fre ­
quently, and so invite exposure to
disease. If moved often, particular­
ly over rough ground, heavy build­
ings soon are loosened at the joints.
Ends Poultry Choro
GERHARD
TDA LUPINO, currently seen in
in H iding", is the firs t
motion picture actress to shatter
the calm of James Hilton, English
author associated w ith H allm ark
Playhouse. Recently she was to
play an Italian role on a Playhouse
broadcast. A perfectionist in the
Another poultry chore has been
pictures she produces as well as electrified and placed on an auto­
those she acts in, she hired a voice ! m atic basis as shown above. This
coach and worked so hard that her tim e it is a feeding job which nor­
doctor told her to let up. Finally, m ally requires considerable tim e
less than 24 hours before air time,
and personal attention.
she threw over the whole idea—
I t is being accomplished on an
said she couldn't master those
Italian intonations. A new script Increasing number of electrified
was hastily prepared for her, and farm s by mechanical feeders op­
Hilton was a candidate for the erated by small motors. The device
Shangri-La which he invented years illustrated here is fa irly common
in a number of larger poultry
ago.
houses. Feed and supplements are
Ralph Edwards has a large staff placed in the top of the metal
for getting details of the lives of cylinder and then mixed by the ro­
people used on his NBC “ This Is tating central shaft which has
Your L ife ” , but anyone may sug­ small paddles attached at the low­
gest a candidate. Need not be a er end. The shaft is lowered as the
well-known name, either. To be a feed is ejected from the bottom of
talent scout for the program, you the cylinder by the spinning pad­
dles.
need only write a note to Ralph
Edwards in Hollywood, outlining
the reasons why your friend or
Chemical Caponization
neighbor’s life would make an in­
teresting story.
Held of Limited Value
A “ Woman
Bing Crosby, who has no love for
appearing at big shindigs, w ill at­
tend the dedication of a new ath­
letic field, “ Bing Crosby stadium” ,
at Front Royal, Va., this spring. A
poll of the 7,000 citizens chose him
as “ The Most Popular Entertainer
of the H alf Century” and he ac­
cepted. Crosby w ill appear for
good causes, not for mere advertis­
ing or publicity.
Louis Calhcrn Is growing
younger. In "N ancy Goes to
Rio” he appears as Jane Pow­
e ll’s grandfather, but In “ The
Tender Hours” he w ill be seen
as her father. Ann Harding re­
turns to the screen as Jane’s
mother.
Bob Hope fought to record his
shows, but lost out. Then Charles
Luckman, his sponsor’s president,
resigned. So Hope, hoping again,
tried again, and again lost out with
the new executives. His show w ill
bs taped only when necessary
The question of whether chemi­
cal caponization is practical is one
which poultry raisers ask most fre ­
quently.
Many county extension
services also receive numerous
questions on the subject.
In experimental work, the treat­
ment stopped fighting and crowing
among the cockerels.
“ A ll things considered, it would
appear that chemical caponization
has very lim ited value at present.”
Massachusetts Collegian
Is Agricultural Winner
A 20-year-old Massachusetts col­
lege student whose two and one-
half acre plot of potatoes grossed
him >1,300, has been named cham­
pion farmer-businessman of the
country in competition w ith thou­
sands of farm youths from more
than 40 states.
He is Russell L. Sears, Jr., of
Cummington, Mass., who was de­
clared winner of the ninth annual
production-marketing contest.
AST JUNE, after a huddle of
lawyers in Birmingham, Ala , an
' important incomc-tux fraud case
| was sent back to the justice depart­
ment in Washington where It was
| marked “ Closed,” "No prosecu­
tion."
The case involved Joe M itchell
and Sam Kipps of Mobile who were
alleged to have profited from the
sale of jew elry to arm y post ex­
changes during the war and then
cheated the government out of in­
come taxes.
Hut the lawyers’ huddle In Blr-
1 minghnm decided thut there was
no case against M itchell and Kipps,
and sent it buck for “ no prosecu­
tion.”
Six months later, however, on
Ih-cetnber 1(1, 1949, this column
published the whole story of the
Ripps-Mitchell scandal, including
the fact that they were defended
in Birmingham by Ben Leader,
form er law partner of U.S. Attorn­
ey John H ill, the man who was sup­
posed to prosecute them.
To Women With
Nagging Backache
L
Just a few days before thia
story was published, John lllll
telephoned the justice depart­
ment from Birm ingham w arn­
ing that “ Pearson had one of
his Investigators In B irm in g ­
ham probing the Rlpp»-MItch-
ell case," Three days later,
when the story was published,
HUI Issued a general denial.
However, the Justice department,
with some of the new facts disclos­
ed by this column, reopened the
Ripps-Mitchell case. And the two
men were indicted in Mobile
As we gat older, etrvae and »train, over-
sxartloa, eieaealve amuklng or aspoaura to
cold lomstlmn« aluwa uuwu kidney tune-
thm Thia may lead many folk» to c o m ­
plain of nagging barkerb», loan of pep and
energy, haadaehea and diaaineet (lettin g
up night« or frequent pa«aag«e may reeult
from minor bladtler Irritation» due to cold,
dampneoa or dietary Indiarretiuna
I f your dlacoitiforte are due to three
rauaee. don't w ait, try Poan'e Pills, a mild
dluretle. I ’erd eueeeoefully by million« for
over 60 year» W hile three ay nip torn« may
often otherwise occur, It'e amaatng how
many time« l>uan a give happy relief—
help .he lb mile« of kidney tubes and filter*
flush out waate («at |)oan*e 1’ille today*
D oan
s
P ills
CONSTIPATED? READ
THIS HAPPY LETTER
"H ud tried method after method to
relieve constipation, until 1 lost faith.
Then 1 saw an ud uhout ALL-MILAN.
1 started to eat this
Kellogg cereal daily
and wus amazed at
the line ri sfllt.si” M rs.
As|M-rs,,'ll” BaileySt.,
Camden, N. J. Just
one of many unsolic­
ited letters from A l . l e -
M IA N users. l ori/'iK,
too, there’s hope, for
constipation due to lack of bulk in
the diet. Simply eat an ounce of
crispy Kellogg’s AI.IMURAN daily,
drink plenty of water! If not completely
satisfied
send empty
' J after
Bite “ 10 days,
‘
carton to Kellogg's, Buttle Creek,
Mich. Get double your money hack!
HowTo Relieve
Unemployment Picture
4. The basic problem Is ene
of expanding the U .8. economy
fast enough to absorb the ever-
increasing num ber of people
available to work. During the
year 1949, for exam ple, the
labor force Increased by 1.33
m illion. Today's high level of
unem ploym ent Is due to the
failure of the economy to grow
sufficiently during 1949.
ü ' i m r y
Personal
Tax Probe Reopened
The council of economic advisers
has presented a significant, secret,
three-page analysis of the coun-
try's economic problems to the
President. Here in brief is what
Truman's advisers told him:
1. The m ajor problem facing the
country today is the sharp rise in
unemployment:
A> During the month of January,
unemployment set a record post­
war high with 4.5 m illion out of
work—almost a m illion higher th.
the previous month. Unemploy­
ment is now at 7 per cent of the
total labor force as against only a
little over 4 per cent one year ago.
B) The increase of a m illion in
the ranks of the unemployed in a
30-day period is considerably more
than would normally occur at tills
time of year
2. Partly offsetting the poor un-
employment picture is the high
level of home construction, bust-
ness loans and bank clearings. In
addition, those people who are still
employed have not received any
appreciable pay cuts.
3. In general, the present situa­
tion, while warranting the closest
study, is not as yet alarming
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it goe» right to the seal of die trouble
to help loosen and expel germ laden
phlegm and aid nature Io soothe and
heal raw, tender, iniUtned hrotuhial
niutou« membrane«. Tell your d ru gg iil
to sell you s bottle ot Crcomulsion
w ith the understanding you must like
the way it quickly allay* the cough
or you are to have your money back.
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LYDIA E. FINKHAM’S c™'™«
THIS WEARER SAYS l
“ T tell everybody about ORA. I t ’s
amazing how quickly stains and dirt
cotne off and how white the teeth be­
come.” Mrs. A. C. Wheaton, Roch­
ester, N. Y.
5. The present economic situa­
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B i Continued government spend­
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mm
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spending, social security, unem­
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C) The rapid settlement of the
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LIQUID OR
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TABlfTS
I t ’s d iffe re n t. I t ’« tint«
Rankin Silenced
j . tested. Even i f other
John Rankin, the wild-talking
failed you, tr y (;<>(!.
Mississippi congressman, has met
his match on the house floor. It
happened early in the morning of
B R IM M S
the long filibuster against FEPC.
F i n a l l y Representative Andy
Jacobs, dubbed by colleagues "the
Abe Lincoln of Indiana,” wearily
U i l Tl
pulled himself up and remarked:
s » stum
" I ’m getting a little tired of this
Holy W illie prayer. You remember
Bobbie Burns’ Holy Willie, who
thanked the Lord in a congratula­
tory vein that he, Holy Willie,
One application
wasn't wicked like his neighbors?"
This crack opened sleepy eyes,
for few representatives are bold J
for the life of your plates
enough to take on the nagging
f your piste* are loose and slip or hurt, refit
Rankin. But Jacobs, recalling Ran- I them
for instant, permanent com fort w itn soft
k jn ’s outpouring against FEPC en- j Brimms Plasti-Liner strips. Lay strip on upper
or lo w e r plate . . bite and it molds perfec tly.
forcement, continued: “ He favored I la r d t n t for la i h n t At
com lorl liven on old
enforcement of the Taft-H artley ' rubber plates. Brimms P Lsti-I.in er gives good
results from sis months to a year or longer.
law and asked enforcement against ' Ends forever mess and bother of tem porary
John L. Lewis. He requested the 1 applications that last a few hours or day*. Stop*
slipping, rocking nlates and sore gums I at
President to Invoke the Taft-Hart- ! anything. T a lk freely. Enjoy the com fort tho u­
o f people all over the country now get
ley law In the present emergency. sands
w ith Brimms Plasti-IJner
A year ago, when labor legislation 1 Insy to Ra-flt or Tighten Falsa tooth Permanently
was being considered, the gentle­ Tasteless, odorless, harmless to you and your
plates. Can he rem oved as per directions. I Isera
man talked here so much about the say: " N o w I fa n t a i a n y t h in n " M o n ty hack
rig ht to work; today he does not g u a r a n lt t . 1 1 .2 ) for liner for one plate; >2.29
for both plates At your drug store.
seem to be too much interested."
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