IDLE TELLS DIES
CRIMINAL STATUTE
DOES NOT APPLY
Government Employes Help
ing CIO-PAC Untouchable
by Justice Dept., Claim.
Washington, Aug. 8 (U.R)
Acknowledging receipt of a let
ter calling for prosecution of fed
eral employes alleged to have
worked politically with the CIO
political action committee, At
A torney General Francis Biddle
said today that the section of the
Hatch act they were supposed to
have violated Is not a criminal
statute.
Consequently, Biddle wrote
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex.,
of the house un-American activi
ties Investigating committee,
violations of the clause section
9 of the clean politics act
would "not come within the in
vestigation or prosecution juris
diction" of the justice depart
ment. Dies Accuser
Biddle acknowledged receipt
of a letter from Dies demanding
prosecution under section 9 of
the act of certain government of
ficials whom Dies charged hafl
engaged in political collusion
with "the political arm of the
New Deal" the CIO-PAC.
(Section 9 of the Hatch act
makes it "unlawful" for any fed
eral employe to "use his official
authority or influence for the
purpose of interfering with an
election or affecting the result
thereof." It lists certain specific
exemptions, including the presi
dent and vice president; em
ployes paid from funds appro
priated for the office of the presi
dent; heads and assistant heads
of executive depratments, and of
ficers appointed by the president
Nc
lapoleon would shake his
head mystified. Julius Caesar,
a four-star Roman, would grum
ble, "Not ia my day!" Stone
wall Jackson might say, "Per
haps we started it the Rebel
Veil was advertising."
Yet every great general of
the past would be amazed at the
role played in this war by ad
vertising. On the home-front
itself vastly more important
than ever before advertising
bas become a full-scale instru
ment of war.
Look first at the work ad'
vertising has done directly for
Uncle Sam. With government
agencies pointing the aims but
with private sponsors meeting
the bill advertising has helped
Uncle Sam recruit his woman
forces . . . helped Uncle Sam
sell bonds . . . helped Uncle Sam
find manpower for production.
That's quite a job. Yet, on
its own, independently, adver
tising has done even more. It
has helped Uncle Sam enlist all
the people in this war by
showing them constantly how
they can take part.
When you read the ads thesa
days, you see the arms your
money buys. Vou see the weap
ons created through shortages
. . . rationing . . . sacrifice. Along
with MacArthur's men you
travel the jungle in a jeep . . .
help Clark's boys level a ba
zooka on a Nazi tank . . . tramp
the deck of a destroyer on Mur
mansk convoy . . . rush a Jap
held beach with the Marines in
in alligator -boat. You're one
more American working . . .
giving . . . fighting.
No wonder Napoleon or
Caesar, or any of the old mas
ters, would discover something
new in warfare. They couldn't
open a newspaper or a magazins
without sensing it And they'd
envy Uncle Sam a new fore
toward victory.
and confirmed by the senate to
policy-making positions.
Removal Provided
(Section 9 contains no clause
for criminal prosecutions, but
provides that violators shall be
removed from office immediate
ly.) Biddle said that while punish
ment for violations of section 9
is administrative and enforceable
by the particular government
agency involved, he nevertheless
had instructed "the director of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion immediately to obtain from
you any evidence which you may
have pertinent to . . . (The CIO
PAC) inquiry."
Dies charged In his letter to
Btddle that the federal officials
he named had used lesser em
ployes and government funds to
carry out PAC directives in vio
lation of the Hatch act.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Aug. 8 (U.R)
Terrors of new weapons of de
struction conceived in this war
hit the front
pages dally.
The robot
bomb has now
been doubled
in size. Nazi
b r e d rumors
predict one
eventually will
cross the
ocean and de
scend on New
York. The
Sunday sup
Paul Malloo
plement
dreams of warfare are supposed
to have come true.
By these and other new im
plements, many of which we
ourselves have alertly devel
oped through necessity, the
people have come to realize that
weapons of the future will
spread greater destruction. Sin
gle implements will increasing
ly kill more and more thou
sands of persons.
THE average run of comment
holds, therefore, that we
must rely heavily on our navy
and our air force in the post
war period. We have a navy
now reputed at nearly 5 to 1
over Britain, and so many ships
in the Pacific, it may prove dif
ficult to assign them all an ef
fective war task. As one naval
authority has told me: "We
have so many ships we do not
know what to do with them."
The American air force also
will come out of this war the
greatest in the world. Our army,
they say, never again will be
allowed to deteriorate.
Thus we are preparing in the
future to maintain ourselves in
permanent peace. It seems to
me that, in this instance again,
we are fooling ourselves.
NO weapon, no new device of
destruction, ever assured se
curity to a nation. The French
built a Maginot line, which was
impregnable to them. The an
cient Chinese built the wall of
China, which to them was the
same thing to their people. Are
we not today being Just as short
sighted in our thinking on de
fense and our preparations for
our future securityas were the
French, tne ancient ninese,
and, in fact all defenses of every
nation in the history of the
world?
What is security, If it Is not
walls, navies, planes, armies? ,
What can make a people se- .
curct Only their own ingenu- j
ity, in my opinion. Only in the
mind of man can he find the
stones for impregnable fortifi
cations. Only by constant alert
ness and wise leadership can
he provide for his safety. Wis
dom, in my opinion, is more im
portant today than navies,
planes and armies, because
what good if they are not put
to superior use?
To be static is to be weak,
no matter what the size of the
defending force. The minds of
the generals of France, like
their people, were confident in
their security and, therefore,
unalert to their danger. They
had the best wall ever built up
to that time.
W,will have the best defend
ing force. But it will be
useless unless the psychological
attitudes of our leaders and our
people changes. There must be
a new doctrine of realism pro
pounded. It must say:
"You are never secure. There
Is no security In the very na
ture of things. There never has
been. There never will be. That
nation maintains itself longest
which Is alert, wise, and, there
fore, realistic."
So also with weapons. There
never was a weapon made In
the history of the world for
which there was no adequate
or superior answer. These ro
bots might spread greater de
struction than shells, and they 1
may grow larger and larger, j
but an answer will be found
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with J. Carrol Naish and Alan
for them. The only lesson of
science in this war is that meth
ods of destruction are rapidly
now amplifying their field of
operations. Is the answer not
then plain?
Ships, planes and guns we
may need aplenty. Pacts, di
visions of territory, splitting of
Europe into small separate parts
may be devised. But what good
are any or all of these things
if they are not wisely conceived
on a basis of realism, and con
stantly, alertly administered.
Olive (
Barber's
Observations
Even as the piling-laden truck
turned over, I saw the boy atop
the load leap into the canyon
skirting the left side of the road.
If I hadn't been in the car fol
lowing the truck and hadn't seen
the accident, I would not have
believed it could happen so
quickly. One second the truck
was going along in the smooth
est possible manner, the next and
it had flipped over with a rend
ing sound of smashing cab and
grinding poles.
Frank's thought paralleled my
own we both cried out to the
boy who had been standing erect
on the load but who now went
hurtling into the canyon below.
And though my husband's first
act was to rush to the cab-Imprisoned
driver, I made for the
canyon, calling the boy's name.
From the green depths rame his
reassuring cry, 'I'm okay!"
I'd met the boy just a few
hours before as he, with several
other loggers, had eaten lunch
about the camp table under the
trees. Without being able to say !
why, I'd instantly liked him. He ;
was 18, he said, and shortly go- j
Ing into the marines. He was
keyed to fever pitch in his anxi-1
ety to be off about the business I
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row for a four-day showing at
the Craterain.
of killing Japs. Eating hugely,
he was scornful of my amaze
ment at his eagerness to go out
and get himself shot at Plying
his fork most energetically, he
told me between bites how he
felt about the matter and had
the philosophy of all soldiers,
that he woud die only when his
time came.
Yet I'd heard It said this
youngster had been in trouble
at different times There always
is such a one in every neighbor
hood; one whom it is prophesied
will come to no good end. But
now I brushed 'his aside. I re
membered with what gallantry
he had offered me his seat as we
loitered after dinner, and though
this seat had been only a box, he
made the gesture with so fine a
grace that the box became a fine
chair. Later he'd hunted for, and
found, my purse among the rocks
up the creek where I'd lost it on
one of my rambles.
Then I'd watched him at work
as the piling was being loaded:
had pleasured in the flowing
muscles under the brown skin
of his torso, for he worked
stripped to the waist. There had
been real beauty in the smooth
coordination of that young body
And often have I found that
the so-called "bad ones" are the
first on deck in rase of trouble,
resourceful, reliable.
Also, any mother will tell you
that it is to her wayward son
she goes rather than to one with
an impeccable reputation when
she's in trouble. And perhaps it
is the "bad boys" in the marines
who will keep you and me a free
people.
FINLAND FIGHTS ON
By United Press
The federal communications
commission said tonight that the
Finnish radio had broadcast an
order of the day from President
Marshal Baron Carl Gustav
Manncrheim calling upon Fin
land's army to continue the war
against Russia.
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KIWIS GAGSTER
IAKES BOISE GAL
STAR FOR A DAY
By E. G. Valans
United Press Correspondent
Boise, Ida., Aug. 8. (U.R)
Orchids every hour on the hour,
a hundred phone calls for break
fast, holding down two hotel
suites and a private plane the
devil with that.
So says Mrs. Betty Bolden
boge, Cleveland, O., aircraft
plant secretary, alias "the
gorgeous Carol Adair," who was
a movie star for a day here,
with all the trimmings.
Who's Who Crisis
Betty came clean today with
the details of a Kiwanis club
gag last week that nearly pre
cipitated a crisis in the editorial
offices of "Who's Who."
One day was enough. Betty
doesn't want to be a movie star.
Her one-jump to stardom be
gan when she came here several
weeks ago from Cleveland and
started work in the office of
Postmaster Harry Yost. Slim,
bespectacled Yost decided the
city needed a bit of a "shake
up," formally invited all the
ladies to attend a special
Kiwanis dinner and dressed
Betty up in a black gown, orch
ids and long eyelashes.
Yost wrote a "luscious"
speech to the effect that no won
der divorces were higher in
Boise than in Hollywood be
cause women here wouldn't
worry about glamour.
Newsmen "Tipped"
Telegraphed reservations for
the best suite at each of Boise's
two top hotels, an inside "tip"
to the newspapers and a hush-
hush campaign did the rest.
"I held down a suite at both
hotels," Betty said today. "Flow
ers and phone calls poured In
orchids on the hour, regular.
The newspaper had a reporter
in the hall all day trying to find
out who I was.
"They finally 'revealed that I
was "movie star Carol Adair.'
I breezed through a 'press con
ference' in fine style, although
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Yost and Kiwanis Club Presi
dent Robert Newell, also in on
the secret, were sure nervous.
"I was rushed Into a private
elevator they spared no ex
pense and ushered me into the
meeting with great ceremony.
The press was there and the
women flocked up with menus
for me to autograph.
Glamour Sore Spot
"My 'sophistication' kept
them happy but they didn't like
my reference to their supposed
lack of glamour. I kept looking
at my watch and escaped with
out having to face embarrassing
questions from the audience
when Mr. Yost announced 'Zim
merly's holding your plane for
Lewiston." I was whisked out of
the hall and back into welcome
anonimity."
After newspapers had carried
a full, factual account of "Miss
Adair's" visit they couldn't
seem to find background mater
ial in their morgues Yost fin
ally explained the affair. But
the "star s name was not
known until today.
"I've had hundreds of calls
since, asking me to appear at
functions all over the state,
Betty said. But once was enough.
I never want to be a movie star.
It's too much like work."
One New Tire For
"Each 50 Wheels Is
Outlook On Trucks
Estimating that there will
probably be not more than one
new tire available for each 50
running wheels on trucks, prior
ity classifications which will be
followed in an effort to fairly
allot the quota of heavy-duty
tires for this district were out
lined last week by the OPA
emergency truck tire panel at
its first meeting In Portland. O.
R. Hegness, chairman of the
panel, stated that it will prob
arly be necessary for every
truck operator to lay up part of
his equipment to utilize the tires
to keep other units rolling.
High on the list of priority
classifications set up by the
panel are city fire equipment,
busses on regular schedules,
sanitary services, farmers, over-the-road
trucks and the lumber
industry.
Trucks stalled along the road
will be an Increasingly common
sight," Hegness declared, and he
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Tuesday, August 8, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THRIK
urged truckers against starting
out with a load on questionable
tires.
MELTING SNOW BARES
CRASH ON ML RAINIER
McChord Field, Wash., Aug.
7 U.R) The body of 2nd. Lt.
Noland L. ONeal has been
brought to McChord Field at
Tacoma from the snow-covered
slopes of Mt. Rainier where
Lieutenant O'Neal met his
death in an airplane crash on
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operating since April 20 were
unable to locate the body or the
wrekage until snow that cov
ered it had melted.
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a punch,' 'Says Mr. Rears
why he chose to be a Gilmore
Independent Dealer ... so he
could sell Red Lion Gasoline.
"Of course some of Red
Lion casoline's power had to
be sent to war", observes
Emil. "But it's still compara
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war ... if what I hear is right
. . . what a winning sock Red
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