European Nevs Breaks!
Against Return Home
Of Gen. Eisenhower
By LYLE C. WILSON
, Washington U.PJ The lat
est reports that Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower would come home to
campaign do not stand up well
under close examination.
The day by day European
news breaks are against the gen
eral's return. The political situ
ation developing in the United
States, of course, is an urgent
spur to the hope of some Ike-for-President
campaigners that the
general will make a personal
fight for the Republican presi
dential nomination.
Would Lift Campaign
Eisenhower is a powerful
speaker with a million-dollar
smile. The campaign to nominate
him undoubtedly .would get a
tremendous lift from hi3 appear
ance on home grounds. Some
persons believe the campaign ur
gently needs the general not only
back in the United States but on
the stump talking to the voters.
However that may be, the
word is being passed around that
he will come back. His managers
are being quoted to that effect.
The radio, newspapers and mag
azines are spreading the word.
Won't Ask To Be Relieved
But Ike, himself, has said he
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
There's an odd and in its way
rather fascinating little tale in
the news as this is written. It
concerns ' an . 82-year-old Colo
rado schoolteacher .and librarian
who liked so much the way the
government treated her Civil
War veteran father that when
she died a week or so ago she
willed Uncle Sam the tidy sum
of $55,000.
The dispatch goes on:
"Attorney William C. Rhodes
says the spinster schoolmarm
was grateful for the way the gov
ernment treated her father, Wil
liam C. Thomas, a Union Army
veteran who was wounded and
imprisoned in a Confederate
prisoner-of-war camp.
"Rhodes said the government
provided Thomas with a $20
monthly pension and certain
other benefits."
THE odd part of it, I suppose is
that in these days anyone
would be grateful to the govern
ment for a pension especially
one of only $20 a month. It is
the way of the present world to
take such things for granted
and even to be a little bit miffed
at the smallness thereof.
Perhaps it is explained by the
lady's age. At 82, she remem
bered other days and other man
ners.
INHERE is another angle to the
situation.
In these days, most of us
would be inclined to reason that
the old gentleman with the chin
whisker would get the bulk of
the estate anyway in the form
of taxes, so why break down and
GIVE him anything?
"DUT let's be serious for a mo-
ment.
Back in the days of which the
Civil War was a part, there was
RESPECT for government. For
one thing, the president, in those
days was Abraham Lincoln, a
man who commanded great re
spect. There was even respect
for political parties. In the grave
period that immediately pre
ceded the Civil War, the Repub
lican party was born. At its
birth, the Republican party had
more than a mere itch for office.
It BELIEVED two things: -
1. The Union is RIGHT, and
must be preserved.
2. Slavery is WRONG, and
must be abolished.
VOU RESPECT beliefs like
that. You respect them deep
ly. That isn't all. You respect
men who hold beliefs like that.
The institution of individual hu
man freedom, upon which our
country is built, was established
by men of that sort, holding be
liefs of that sort.
Tele-fun
by Warren Goodrich
"Sorry to interrupt, but I must
get the fire department. A
glow worm and a lightning
bug fust lit on me!" ... For
emergency calls oyer a busy
party-line, simply explain the
circumstances to the other per
i son ... Pacific Telephone.
would not campaign. He has told
visitors that and in his agree
ment to permit his name to be
put up for President he said last
Jan. 7: "I would not seek nomi
nation for political office. Under
no circumstances will I ask re
lief from this assignment in or
der to seek nomination for po
litical office and I shall not par
ticipate in the pre-convention ac
tivities of others who may have
such an intention with respect
to me."
Jut to sew it up tight. Presi
dent Truman then said he did
not plan to relieve Ike. The gen
eral's statement was definite. But
conditions could change so dra
matically and favorably in Eu
rope as practically to release
him from his western defense
job.
There has been no such
change. On the contrary, some
news has been bad. Great polit
ical progress toward Europe s
defense was made at the Febru
ary meeting of North Atlantic
treaty powers in Lisbon. But
great as the progress was, it was
vastly over-ballyhooed in first
reports and much exaggerated as
to accomplishments in terms of
I men, guns an dequipment.
I And ready to DIE for them, if
need be.
& It isn't too surprising, when
you think it all out, that one
born not too long after the Civil
War and fathered by a veteran
of that great war should hold for
the government that treated her
father right and lived up to it$
obligations to him such respect
and affection that she would
write into her will a consider
able bequest to it.
1IE ARE living in the hey-day
of the welfare state.
Yet
In these days, respect and af
fection for the government, I
would say, are the EXCEPTION
rather than the rule.
And that isn't too surprising
when you come to ponder on it
deeply. It isn't by lavish gifts
that governments win respect
and trust. Of all the Founding
Fathers, so far as I have been
able to read history, NONE gave
away any of the government's re
sources to win the favor and the
votes of the populace. All of
them, I'm sure, would have been
horrified, at the political idea
that lies back of the welfare
state.
But we respect them deeply
and sincerely to this day. Yet all
they GAVE us was a good coun
try to live in and MAKE OUR
WAY IN.
The Grange
Sami Valley Grange
Sams Valley Grange met
March 1 with Master Ralph
James presiding. Gus Kohlner
spoke on soil. Carlos Morris
showed some pictures which all
enjoyed.
HEC met at Thelma Beers'
place and some new officers
were installed. Sister Straus re
ported that HEC will buy new
curtains for the hall.
There will be a dance March
8 at Sams Valley Grange hall.
Next Grange meeting will be
March 15 with a potluck din
ner at 7:30 p. m. A display ta
ble of old dishes will be shown
by Mrs. Walter Miller.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Day, Mrs. Haines and Mrs.
Balkan.
WINS DIVORCE
Santa Monica, Cal. (U.R)
Mary Rogers Brooks, 34, daugh
ter of the late humorist Will
Rogers, won a divorce from
Walter Brooks, stepson of Gen.
Douglas MacArthuf, on charges
that he drank excessively "two
or three times a week."
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LISTENING to French politicians
during Paris reception, General
Dwight D. Eisenhower is In
unusually somber mood because
of crisis growing out of govern
ment's fall. (international;
Quick-Thinking
Pilot Saves Lives
In Crash of Plane
Tokyo (U.R) A C-97 military
transport evacuation plane carry'
ing 58 patients 27 of them litter
cases crashed during takeoff
Thursday and only the pilot's
skill saved the passengers from
death.
The huge four-engined plane
was taking off from Haneda air
base on the outskirts of Tokyo
for Midway island when' the
right landing gear collapsed. The
pilot, Maj. John D. Davis, re
versed his propellers and used
the nose wheel to swing the plane
to the right.
Smashes Into Mud
It smashed into mud beside the
runway, only a few feet from a
seawall on the edge of Tokyo
bay. If it had gone straight ahead
only seconds more, it would have
plunged into the bay.
Two passengers were injured
slightly by pieces of propeller
blades which broke off and cut
through the fuselage.
Sprayed to Prevent Fire
Within a minute and 15 sec
onds crash rescue crews reached
the plane and sprayed it with
foam to prevent fire while the
patients were removed.
All patients were removed
within three minutes under direc
tion of the flight nurses. Within
three hours all but the two
slightly hurt passengers were
placed aboard another C-47 en
route to their first stop at Mid
way. The Air. Force did not dis
close the eventual destination of
the patients, although they pre
sumably were heading for Hick-
am Field, Hawaii, and the U.S.
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Valley View Club
Dough Babies was the name
decided for the Valley View
4-H cooking club at its meeting
Nine members were present.
We sang songs and played games
The second demonstration was
on the art of making rice and
cereals.
Donna Faler,
Reporter.
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America Takes First
Steps for Release
Of Oatis by
Br HOMER JENKS
The U. S. has taken a first
step toward negotiating the re
lease of American correspondent
William N. Oatis from a prison
in Communist Czechoslovakia.
But a long rough road of bar
gaining ' lies ahead before the
prison gates swing open for the
slight, bespectacled 38-year-old
newsman who began a 10-year
sentence for espionage last
Fourth, of July.
He was labeled a spy by the
Czech Reds for doing what in
any non - Communist country
would be a routine job of news
gathering asking questions
about what had happened to
prominent citizens and 'collect
ing political, economic and mili
tary news.
The Czech government for a
long time refused even to con
sider negotiating with the Amer
icans over Oatis.
But from Paris comes word
that the U. S. recently handed
the Czechs proposals which ul
timately may bring his release.
Optimism Created '
The mere fact that the Czechs
consented to receive the pro
posals excited cautious optimism
in American diplomatic Quar
ters. The next step is up to the
Czechs.
American circles obviously
hope that the Czechs will accept
the proposals as a basis for ne
gotiation. Then the hard bargain
ing will begin.
No details of the proposals
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Czechs
are available. However, some
idea of the path the negotiations
will follow may be gained by
studying the case of Robert A.
Vogeler, who also was impris
oned on espionage charges by
a Communist government.
Retaliation Taken
Vogeler was sentenced by a
Hungarian people's court on
Feb. 21, 1950 to 15 years in
prison. When Budapest rejepted
American approaches for his re
lease, the U. S. retaliated by
closing Hungarian consulates in
New York and Cleveland and
banning American travel in Hun
gary. Seventeen months and much
bargaining later, Vogeler was
released in exchange for what
Budapest called the granting of
"various just Hungarian claims"
the lifting of the American
retaliatory measures, plus the
return to Hungary of property
looted by the Nazis in 1944 and
taken to western Germany.
The U. S. has taken similar
retaliatory steps against Czecho
slovakia, not only for the im
prisonment of Oatis but for the
earlier Czech closure of U. S.
Information Service libraries
and arbitrary orders for reduc
tion pf U. S. diplomatic staffs
in the Red country.
Geologists consider the fossil
record of ancient forests one of
the most accurate sources for in
formation regarding the geologi
cal history of any area.
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Monday thru Friday
Thursday. March 8. 1932
Buyer Resistance
Brings Sharp Cut
In Butter Prices
Chicago (U.R) Buying 'resist
ance on the part of the nation's
housewives was reflected Thurs
day in sharply lower butter
prices, and egg prices also were
on the skids.
Retailers and officials of the
Chicago mercantile exchange
agreed that the break, which de
veloped last week on the whole
sale level, was brought on by
the refusal of consumers to buy
butter at prices edging toward
$1 a pound.
Further quts were announced
by Chicago chain stores Wednes
day, bringing down the price of
butter as much as J.4 cents under
prices of a week ago..
And chains across the nation
followed Chicago's lead.
Eggs in some locations were
down as much as 30 cents under
the highs set last November.
Price Average Down
The price reporting firm of
Dun and Bradstreet in New
York said its average of the
wholesale prices of 31 generally
used foods dropped two cents in
the week ended March 4.
The average was $6.56, or 9.8
per cent below the average of
$7.27 during the same week a
year ago. However, the average
was still 10.1 per cent above the
pre-Korean War level of $5.96.
Reprocessed wool is made
from scraps of knitted, woven or
felted fabrics manuactured for
the first time.
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Longview (U.R) Haircuts
in five Longview and Kelso,
Wash., barbershops were $1 a
head for adults Thursday as the
result of . the shops' affiliation
this week with the CIO barber
local at Vancouver, Wash. Dur
ing the past year-and-a-half, the
price for haircuts has been $1.25
per adult man.
Most of the islands which re
main in the public domain are
masses of rock, inaccessible, un-
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