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SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS
of Main Street and the World
American Plan for European Army
Endangered by Allied Bickering
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CONSERVATION PROGRAM
W ater Resources Legislation Proposed
ment; define broad national objec­
tives in safeguarding of essential re­
sources and would affirm the duty
of the federal government, with
state and local agencies, in coopera­
tion with people of the several
basins, to bring about m axim um
utilization of w ater and land re­
sources. The Budget bureau also is
studying the commission’s proposed
legislation
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WALTKR S N IA D . WNU C » rr
Probe Violations
EUROPEAN ARMY— The American plan for a united European Krem lin Fliers
««-mv to check Communist aggression In Europe, to which America has
T ISN’T pleasant to contemplate,
_v<- . m illions of dollars, equipment, and its greatest m ilita ry brains, is
but the inescapable fact is that
on the verge of being smashed. Old and bitter national feelings have
Russia is not only outproducing us
climbed out of the grave of history and asserted themselves.
The big question is how and under what conditions West German in planes, but is building up a res­
troops are to be included in the European army. The United States has ervoir of battle-tested pilots to fly
them. The blunt fact is that the
proposed that West German manpower be brought into an ‘ •integrated”
force under General Eisenhower. West Germany and France have their Krem lin is using Korea as a grad­
uate school to train Russian pilots
own views of how this can be accomplished and to what extent.
I how to fly against American planes.
The German view: She w ill agree to participate in the “ integrated”
Rotating “ classes” of Russian
force only if taken in as a fu ll partner in the Atlantic alliance. In addi­
tion she wants several other concessions, including maximum sovereignty pilots have been manning the M iG ’s
over Korea and learning American
under the “ peace contract" yet to be signed.
combat techniques firs t hand. The
The French view: France would agree to inclusion of German units,
present class showed up in Korea
but stipulates that they can not be recruited until after the five other
on November 1, is now about ready
participating nations have ratified the treaty. These nations are France,
Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and Italy. This stipulation means a to graduate.
Each class takes the same pre­
delay of months at least since ratification of a final treaty is a long
process. In addition, the French want several other checks, particularly scribed course. The firs t month is
control of war production in Germany as a safeguard against the re­ spent making navigational flights
across Korea. The second month is
building of German m ilita ry might.
spent
observing American forma­
The three big powers—the United States. Britain, and France—have
already told the Germans they can not be included in the Atlantic a lli­ tions at a safe distance. During this
ance fo r the tim e being. There was a hint that if Germany signed the period, the M iG ’s w ill occasionally
European arm y pact, however, and showed the Allies she could behave, make a pass at a bomber form a­
then it would be a much easier job of selling western Europeans on the tion, but it is all in practice. They
idea of bringing Germany into the alliance. The three powers did offer never fire a shot. The M iG ’ s also
concessions, including a seat on a projected four-power appeal board take care to keep out of the way of
that w ill have power to review and modify the sentences of more than air force F-86 Sabrejets during their
breaking-in period.
1,000 German war prisoners.
By the third month, however,
West Germany and France are still fa r from satisfied and remain
the Soviet student-pilots begin to
suspicious of each other. The door is still open for a possible settlement,
tangle with American fighters—
but the whole thing hangs by a thin thread. A few wrong words at the
preferably with slower F-80
wrong time can still wreck the plan that has cost home towners of
Shooting Stars and F-84 Thun-
America m illions of dollars. But more important, it could cost the west
derjets.
As the Russians gain ex­
a united front against communism. It has been said that an European
perience, they mix it up with
arm y can not work without West Germany and France. It is obvious,
our crack F-86 squads.
then, these two must compromise their demands for the good of the
The result is that the green Rus­
whole and world peace.
sians are shot out of the skies at
RECORD DIVIDENDS__The Department of Commerce reports cor­ the rate of 13 to our one. But the
porations in the United States paid a record $8.053,000.000 in cash d ivi­ survivors become tough, skillful
dends during 1951, a 2 per cent gain over 1950.
j pilots, baptized by fire and able to
However, many corporations reported profits down during the last i hold their own against our best.
half of 1951, with a drop of 16 per cent fo r the month of December. It was
Note.—In contrast, we send only
partly attributed to increased tax payments.
our crack pilots to Korea, give our
Dividends were reported up in all fields except manufacturing. Auto­ ! new pilots no battle training. Reason
mobile dividends dropped 25 per cent and electrical machinery and , is that we are so short of F-86’ s
chemical goods manufacturers reported dividends down about 10 per | that we cannot risk letting green-
cent.
; horns fly them in combat.
The oil refining industry registered one of the biggest gains with 19
per cent, mining was up 16 per cent, railroads 10 per cent, and paper and Messages to Moscow
printing 8 per cent.
A lot of schools all over the coun-
A TO M IC TESTS__ A new series of atomic tests w ill be held at Eni- | try are taking advantage of the ar-
wetok atoll in the Pacific, it was announced by the Atomic Energy Com­ ■ rangement whereby the school chil­
mission. I t was also revealed that further tests are planned for the near dren of America can broadcast via
future in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas.
the Voice of America to school
In keeping with the secrecy that surrounds such tests, exact dates children behind the Iron Curtain.
Many newspapers are also cooper­
and the type of atomic •weapons to be tested were not announced.
Meanwhile, the B ritish government has announced it w ill test its ating.
firs t atomic weapon this year in Australia. The B ritish turned down an i In Charleston, W. Va., the Gazette
offer from the United States for a site for the tests and it was understood is running a four-week contest
among high-school children for the
that no U.S. observers would be on hand to witness the experiment.
best "Messages to Moscow.” The
POLITICS__As 1116 political pot begins to boil in earnest, the biggest , winner of each week’s contest w ill
question in the minds of most home towners remains: w ill President Tru- , be announced weekly, and at the
man seek the Democratic nomination? There seems to be little question end of the month the final winner
but that the President can have it by simply saying so. Since January ! w ill be given a trip to New York to
when most observers were w illing to say, “ I don’t think he w ill run again” , i visit the United Nations and broad­
observations have gradually changed to “ he m ight” and “ he w ill” .
cast personally over the Voice of
But until M r. Truman announces his intentions, the Democratic side America.
of the question is wide open. There is increasing evidence that Senator
The Los Angeles News and the
Kefauver—although he is unseasoned as fa r as presidential tim ber is
Wichita Eagle are cooperating w ith
concerned—is gaining strength. His campaign is showing surprising
California and Kansas schools in
strength at the grassroots level and if Mr. Truman suddenly announces
running sim ilar contests.
he is not interested in reelection, he w ill have a great advantage over
The messages should not be over
those “ better-late-than-never” candidates who w ill come out into the
150 words, should tell about condi­
open.
tions in American schools, and how
THE DRAFT__The armed forces w ill draft 19,000 men this m o n th -
the youngsters of this country want
15,000 for the A rm y and 4,000 for the Marine Corps. The A p ril call brings peace and resent the a rtific ia l
to 894,000 the total of announced draftees since the d ra ft was resumed in b a rrie r to friendship imposed by the
September, 1950. Also, the A p ril call is the lowest since September, 1951, Krem lin. Since the youngsters of
when 16,900 men were requested by the two services.
today w ill have to carry out the
American foreign policy of-tom or-
KOREA__The United Nations have agreed to the Communist pro­ row, this is an opportunity for them
posal for a conference after an armistice is signed in Korea to discuss
to help mould that foreign policy
political issues concerning Korea. An armistice in Korea, however, is
now.
still a long way from an accomplished fact. At the moment there are
three im portant unsettled questions. They are:
(1) The Communists want Russia included as a neutral power to help Costello’s Friends
supervise the armistice. This is unacceptable to the United Nations since
For the firs t tim e in years, a sen­
it has been established without any doubt that Russia has trained and ate committee w ill defy the un­
supplied Communists in Korea with arms of all kind.
w ritten code of congress and ques­
(2) The Communists insist upon their right to construct airfields in tion congressmen.
North Korea during an armistice. The United Nations deny this right.
Specifically, Arnold Bauman of
(3) How, where and when the exchange of prisoners of war w ill
the senate D.C. crime committee
take place.
wants to know why certain congress­
When these questions are settled, the home towners of the nation men have been so chummy with
can then begin to hope for an armistice.
racketeer Frankie Costello’s Wash­
ington lobDyist, M urray Olf.
T-men have actually traced long­
distance phone calls to Olf from
Costello’s partner. Dandy Phil Kas-
tel. Olf also kept racketeer Joe
Adonis overnight in his hotel room
while Adonis was hiding out from
the senate crime committee. Olf
himself has a crim inal record.
Vet this same Olf has been
livin g In style at the Congres­
sional hotel, has entertained at
least 50 congressmen at cock­
ta il parties. A handful of con­
gressmen have been extra close
to Olf, and at least one has ac­
tually run errands for the rack­
eteer.
Bauman intends to find out why.
He personally w ill call on the con­
gressmen and take their state­
ments. Among those who can expect
The FBI, m ating against night riders who have terrorized small com­
a visit are Congresman Morrison
munities and rural residents of southeastern North Carolina, arrested 10
of Louisiana.
former Ku Klux Klansmen on charges of kidnaping and flogging a whit»
Note.—Fear that something like
man and woman. They are, left to right, front row: James R. Hayes, Early
this would happen was one reason
Brooks, Steve Edmund, Pittman Strickland and Sherwood Miller. Back row:
why the senate crime committee
Horace Strickland, George Miller, T. C. Worley, Bob Brooks, and Ross
had a hard tim e getting its work
Enzor.
extended.
President Truman’s water re­
sources policy commission has pro­
posed legislation establishing a na­
tional water resources and related
land conservation policy. The legis­
lation was drawn from a recent
report from the commission to the
White House.
The proposed legislation would es­
tablish the policy of recognition of
riv e r basins as units of develop­
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1962
SOUTHERN OREGON NEWS REVIEW
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•p llIS column has repeatedly re-
• ported concerning the violation
of civil rights of citizens who are
called before congressional com m it­
tees as witnesses in the many probes
now going on. The utter disregard
for these rights, the brow-beating of
witnesses, the star-chamber ses­
sions without reference to any rules
or the justice of jurisprudence has
become scandalous.
It remains, however, for a fresh­
man senator to really rebel at the
tactics used in these probes and ad­
m inister a verbal lashing to his col­
leagues in the United States senate.
He is Sen. Herman Welker of Idaho,
a member of a senate crime investi­
gating committee, elected for his
firs t term in 1950.
Senator Welker was particularly
incensed at the use of radio and tele­
vision which has made a spectacle
of many of these senatorial inquisi­
tions. In a television forum spon­
sored by Georgetown University he
charged that these probe com m it­
tees have no rules of evidence, no
rules of demeanor and could brow­
beat a witness and force him to testi­
fy about something he would not
like to mention; Shat the committees
are not governed by any sacred
rules of law. admit hearsay evidence
and conclusions; that the witness is
subject to the whims of the men con­
ducting the investigation and that
such tactics invade the constitution­
al rights and the right of privacy of
the witness.
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BANKING ON THE HONOR SYSTEM . . . The C entral N ational Bunk of Y onkers, N .Y .. got tired of m aking
ch an ge for its cu sto m ers, so it did the next best thing—let the patrons m ake their ow n ch an ge. A wood tab la
top fitted with four g la ss tops con tain in g q u arters, d im es, n ick els and pennies was placed In the lobby of the
bank. The cu sto m ers drop their ftfty-cen t p ie c e s or one or live dollar bills Into the slots set hack on the tab le,
then scoop up their ch an ge and go their w ay. The bank presid en t exp lain ed . “ We don’t w atch them b ecau se
w e think people are honest." The bank has reported that the honor sy stem Is working p erfectly.
He further declared that radio
and television broadcasts were
using the testimony of the w it­
nesses In the hearings in com­
m ercial enterprises and for com­
m ercial purposes, certainly a
violation of the individual's
rights and for which the w it­
nesses are uncompensated.
Said Senator Welker: ". . . here
an unfortunate individual that some
of our detectives or investigators
want to bring before us have never
perhaps seen a United States sen­
ator before. They are racked up be­
fore us, before these cameras and
microphones and the august body of
senators presiding, and they are
nervous and it affects them, and by
one slip of the tongue, they may be­
come guilty of perjury, they might
incrim inate themselves, or they may
find themselves in contempt of the
body investigating them” .
Continuing, the gentleman from
Idaho said:
. , we are putting on
a good show, dealing with morbid
curiosity of the people whp like to
witness these "people before con­
gressional hearings where we lite r­
ally put the heat upon them . . . I
say there has been too much mug­
ging on the part of many senators
who have enjoyed this lim elight of
being on the television and before
the radio audience, and I say it is
about tim e to get back to funda­
mental justice, and decency and get
some courtroom judicial demeanor
into this m atter.”
D A N G E R AND TR A G ED Y AT PA R A -M A N EU V ER S . . . T ragedy struck at C am p Drum, N .Y ., a s the a r m y 's
p arach u te m a n eu v ers, “ O peration Snow drop,” got underw ay. P aratroop er Clayton W hitner, M issouri, lies In
the snow after he w as injured In a Jump. Two buddies try to m ake the Injured trooper a s com fortab le a s
p ossib le a s first aid Is aw aited . At the tim e this happened two paratroopers had been killed In Jumps and a
ca rg o plane loaded with paratroop ers had cra sh ed on takeoff, killing three p ersons. The arm y is testin g the
stam in a and skill of the ju m p ers under w inter con d ition s and under situ ation s sim u latin g actu al war at the
front.
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Harold Ickes
In the recent passing of Harold L.
Ickes from the Washington scene,
death has stilled one of the most
powerful voices in the nation’s capi­
tal against the persistent efforts by
large special interests to grab the
nation's natural resources.
During his more than 13 years as
secretary of the interior the "old
curmudgeon” had his sights raised
above the petty chiselers in and out
of government in a continuing fight
to preserve the country’s public
lands, to preserve the natural re­
sources in water and electric power,
and to keep for the people general­
ly the untold m illions in wealth of
the nation's oil-bearing tidelands.
But even as he lay upon his
death-bed the big oil companies
which he had held at bay, with
the aid of a presidential veto
and two supreme court decis­
ions, were moving In again.
Settlement of this dispute, under
the guise of states' rights, w ill be
one of the m ajor issues in this cam­
paign. In two decisions, in 1947 and
in 1950, the supreme court has held
that coastal states have jurisdiction
over submerged lands in bays, r iv ­
ers and inlets and along the coast
from high to the low-tide mark, but
that farther out to the continental
shelf, these submerged lands belong
to all the people of a ll the states.
California, Louisiana, Texas and
Florida have joined w ith the oil
lobby in an effort to wrest this bon­
anza oil reserve from federal Juris­
diction. There is now up in the sen­
ate a compromise bill, which is
m erely an entering wedge, which
would give royalties from oil pro­
duced from these tidelands to the
public school system.
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POSES N IN E YEARS AS RED . . . Mrs. Brrcniece Baldwin, Detroit,
shown w ith Frank de Nunzio, Justice department attorney, as she ap­
peared before the government's subversive activities control board in
Washington, D.C., revealed that she posed as a member of the Commu­
nist party and Red underground while serving as an F .B .I. agent for
nine years. The board Is holding hearings to determine whether the Com­
munist party should be required to register Its members under anti­
subversives law.
Franco's Successor
Grain Investigation
S e c r e t agreement has been
reached among the principal ad­
visers and supporters of Spanish
D ictator Franco to make M artin
Artajo, present foreign m inister, the
heir-presumptive to the dictator
when the generalissimo retires—
which w ill probably happen early in
1954.
Franco himself took the initiative
in this decision and backed Artajo
as his official successor. U ntil re­
cently Franco dreamed of a dynasty.
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan
is urging the senate agricultural
committee to call as witnesses op­
erators of warehouses from which
government stored grain has disap­
peared . . . What movies have to do
with price controls may be nothing,
but the President went to the Nation­ NEW L IT T L E AMERICAN . . . In New York City, Hans Mcissnest and
al Motion Pictures Association to get his wife, Irene, are enjoying a book of child’s stories with Irene, a little
E ric Johnston and now he has gone | German girl whom they are adopting. The pretty child, who came from
to the Independent Motion Picture Waiblingen, Germany, arrived at New York’s Idlewild airport recently.
Producers Association to get Ellis Bhe was obtained by the Meissnests through some of their relatives In
Arnall to succeed Mike DiSalle.
Germany and an adoption agency. The new Uttle American’s new horns
from now on will be In Queens, New York.
KILLS MOTHER, SISTER . . . With
cigarette in mouth and ra rry in g his
luggage, John Schulz, 16, leaves a
train in Milwaukee, Wise., that
brought him back from Kirkwood,
Mo., where he was captured. Ho
admits killin g his mother and sister
In argument over fam ily car.
the U.N. In broadcasts to her na
Philippines is that of Claudia
Cruiz, Manila. Her dally news
grams are beamed to the Orlci
Tagalog, national language of
Islands.
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