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Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04

wegians found that copying the
emergency rations of other coun-
tries wouldn't work because they
were not suited to that kind Of
climate.
During the six years of experts
ments with various foods and
packings, each successive set Of
rations was tried out on soldiers
during exercises, and now at last
a satisfactory solution to the prob-
lem has been found.
The packet is scarcely larger
than a normal army mess kit. But
il contains food with a total call
ory content of 1920 calories,
equipment to cook it with, and
even necessities such as soap.
Each packet is intended to be suf-
fieient for one man for one day
The light aluminium tins in
which the rations are packed can
be used as pots in which to heat
the soup, canned meat and bever-
ages. A small stand has been de-
signed on which the pot is placed
and heat is provided by a con-
centrated tablet fuel. which looks
like bar of chocolate divided into
squares. The stand has shields to
prevent the wind from blowing out
the flame and to insure concen>
tration of heat.
In addition to food, the packet
contains a can opener. flavoring
tablets, fuel. bookmatches, cards
board spoons. and soap.
The packet has proved satisfac-
tory under all sorts of conditions,
after being tried by troops on long
forced marches, on exercises in
the mountains, and in severe win.
ter condition.
All the food is Theoretically
sealed and packed to keep indef-
initely. Supplies OF it will be stored
at strategic mobilization points
ready for any emergency.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04

American opera singer Grace
Moore,
The new Swedish ship of $4,000
gross register tons, length 600
feet, width II feet, passenger ca
pacity 500, will be the largest
Scandinavian luxury liner in serv-
ice. Incorporating all the latest
refinements of luxury ship con-
struction, the new vessel has been
designed with special consideration
for cruise service. The maiden
transatlantic voyage is scheduled
for the end of 1858. to be fol-
lowed by a series of winter cruis-
es.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04
Track and Field

Swedish championships in the
track and field were held in
Stockholm's Olympic Stadium
August 22-24.
Among many fine results may
be mentioned Tage Ekfeldt's 47.6
in 400 meters. Bertil Albertsson's
IA min. $50 in 5000 meters and
Lars Ylander's 52.2 in 400 meters
hurdles. Roland Nilsson registered
1910 meters in the shot put and
52.10 in discus.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04

Manager for the seattle area, it
was announced recently by Warren
e. Kraemer, SAS. General Traffic
and Sales Manager.
The responsibilities of the new
position will not be new to Mr..
Ewald for he has been discharg-
ing the duties of his title for some
time as acting manager.
Having been associated with
SAS for the past five years. Mr..
Ewald has the additional advant-
age of having been associated with
the Norwegian Airlines prior to
joining the staff of SAS, Inc,
here in the United States.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04
From Charles XII To Modern Sweden:
ga Long Search For the middle wav"
BY The Editor, Thorsten Nyman

STOCKHOLM, Sweden.-In Stockholm there is magnifi-
cent statue of Charles XII pointing finger demonstratvey
toward the east repeatedly right Moscow. He the
Swedish monarch with soul of fire whose appearance among
the ustrous kings of Europe was-n the words of
lye"like the bursting of cataract of bombshels in
dull ballroom The explosions he created shook Sweden
its foundations and have heard Swedes say the country
hasn't fully recovered from them yet!
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04
Arne EwaId
Promoted

Mr.. Arne Ewald, formerly Pas
senger Representative at Scandin-
avian Airlines Systems Seattle Of
flee, has been promoted to District
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04

Alta Slate Works, in the north
ernmost province of Finnmark, ex-
poets to export $4,000 tons Of
slate this year.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04
Crop Damaged

Violent downpours have damag-
ed the crops of Southern Sweden
and Gotland during the past week,
the harvest and orchards of Skane
having suffered particularly.
The cold and rainy summer has
retarded the ripening of the grain
in Northern Sweden, only 5O-75 per
cent being expected to reach full
maturity in certain areas.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1952-09-04

The fifth Nordic Church Music
rally, held in Reykjavik, lee
land, was attended by representa-
tives OF Church musicians from
Sweden, Denmark, Norway and
Finland.
Evening star., 1952-01-03
Vinson Remains Heir-Apporent
Galaxy of Aspiring Democrats Ready to Enter 1852 Race
If President Truman Does Not Choose to Run Again

Considerable activity Is re-
ported also in the vicinity of
two close friends and co-opera-
tors, Senator Lyndon johnson
of Texas and w. Stuart SYM
ington, the RFC Administrator.
Democrats who recently have
swung through the West, South
west and Midwest report it in
two ways. Some suggest that
Senator johnson Is willing to
make the sacrifice. Others put
forward the novel idea that the
Senator is only managing Mr..
Symington's candidacy for Vice
President on a Vinson ticket.
Mr.. Truman's party appears
to want him to act decisively on
the administration scandals but
it is prepared docilely to re-
nominate him: Party regulars
insist he can beat Senator Taft
easily and Gen. Eisenhower with
a slam bang effort.
Yet the candidates among
them declare the scandals in
jure Mr.. Truman only, not the
party. They are all genuinely
eager to snatch the nomination,
and if he does bow out, his
choice, Mr.. Vinson or another.
will by no means have 1t all
his own way.
Evening star., 1952-01-03
Fletcher KnebeI:
Potomac Fever

President Truman he'll revamp the standardized
nal Revenue Bureau by putting all tax collectors civil
service He's not going to take the chance of Republican
President appointing lot Of hacks who'd your money
Gov Earl Warren blasts Senator Tafts presidential campaign
for arrogant insulting The G. O. p
shifting emphasis the domestic cene@everybodys
kitchen with a skillet in his hand.
Cleveland gambler $16663 in months
the 10 cent gambling levy approaching
day when the real patriot will be
bonds to play the horses
Congressman Hays President Truman hopes
whether he'll by February g. The President
time recently to statement he's been busy
pagning.
Mrs. India Edwards, Democratic boss says party
leaders ARE hoping and praying President Truman will
again. Most of them loyal to Truman they couldn't
think Of holding Federal job under other President
Internal Commissioner Dunlap says needs 5000
more tax agents we were all honest wouldn't need tax
agents. We'd just mail the right the Treasury
trusting to their best judgment how to waste 1t.
Gen. MacArthur's spokesman says will address the
Michigan Legislature May Is. After the address,
only too happy to conference
all questions will be answered-by his spokesman
Evening star., 1952-01-03
An Old Guard Communist Passes
Lvno Was One of Few High Soviet Officials
Actually Believed in World Peace and Tried Further 1t
Constantine Brown:

The death Of Maxim Litvinoff,
who came to washington as So
Wet Ambassador on Pearl Har-
Dor Day, was announced in
Moscow two days after it oc-
CURED. He was one of the very
few Western minded high-rank-
ing Soviet officials. It is prob
able that up to the time of his
death he did not know that his
wife, during their stay in Wash
ington, let the cat out of the
bag by telling one of her inti-
mates that her husband had
been informed by his superiors
when he left Moscow that the
Japanese would strike on that
fateful day..
The Russian government,
which had a superlative spy net
work in Japan under the leader
shiJ of the sinister Richard
Sorge, knew in advance that
the japanese feet and aircraft
carriers were on their way to
hit Hawaii. While there is evi-
dence that the Chinese govern
ment. which also had known
about this move, transmitted the
information to Washington and
London, the Russian govern
ment had not mentioned it to
either the American or British
ambassador in Moscow.
Nine. Litvinoff. an English
woman whose brother, Sir Maui
rice Low, had been the London
Daily Telegraph correspondent
in Washington in World War I,
was less imbued with party disci-
pline than her husband. Some
two years after Pearl Harbor
she revealed that Mr.. Litvinof
had known about it when he
left for his new post.
Mr.. Litvinof was one OF the
few old guard Communists. He
escaped the purge Of many Of
Lenin's followers in 1886 by skill
full maneuvering. He kept
strictly neutral in the gigantic
struggle between Stain and
Trotzky and managed later to
become one Of the leading
Soviet diplomats.
Although he joined the ranks
of the prepopderantly Asiatic
new rulers of Russia, he actually
believed in world peace and did
his utmost to further it. He was
Russia's foreign secretary in
1899, when the Kremlin started
preparing the Second World War
by laying the foundations Of an
alliance with Hitler. Mr.. Lit
vinoff did not protest, because
he knew the meaning of such a
gesture. But he resigned his
position.
He was replaced by Vyacheslav
Molotov, who speeded up the
negotiations and the double
cross of France and Britain. He
ordered the Red Army general
staff to discuss details of mill
tary cooperation with the Brit
ish and French general staffs,
who had been invited to Moscow.
The information received from
those well-meaning but naive
officers was transmitted to Hitler
and helped him substantially
improve his campaign plans.
This Kremlin action will go down
Evening star., 1952-01-03

to receive the homage Of his
public.
Senator Estes Kefauver's for
NAL announcement will not be
long delayed. He was encour-
aged by a decision of the CLOS
political action arm to support
him for Vice President on a
Truman ticket; he is assuming
that can be translated into first
place if Mr.. Truman retires.
Senator Kerr of Oklahoma
has a modest committee organ
lied which is ready to go on to
bigger things when the time is
right. Friends of Secretary Of
the Interior Oscar Chapman
have been limiting to the old
Roosevelt wing of the party that
he and not Senator Kefauver is
the logical heir to their support.
Vice President Barkley threw
a tin helmet into the ring in
Korea. The Weep and the Chief
are both Kentuckians and Ken
lucky politicians are still torn
by the prospect that they may
have to side for and against a
Kentuckian. They can get no
hints, much less assurances. that
this may not be their hard fate.
Evening star., 1952-01-03

a Senator or a cabinet officer,
to name two spots that afford
close observation of the Presi-
dents tribulations. the dream
of occupying the higher Office is
likely to start affecting him.
Presumably each man thinks
things would be different in his
case.
One who should know better
than most the bitter disillusion-
ment that accompanies eleva-
ton to the highest Office within
the gift Of the people is Senator
Taft. He has lived in the White
House. His father was Presi-
dent. An able man, of excellent
purpose, unusual experience in
public affairs, blessed with a
gift for making people like him,
President Taft was beaten within
his own party after one term and
voted out of Office. Nobody
should understand that story as
we'll as the Senator.
Then there was Jim Farley.
Having, in his own mind,
made" Roosevelt President, his
life turned completely sour when
he found Roosevelt unwilling to
reciprocate the favor. For some
years he was so intimately ac-
quainted with the presidency
that his own inadequacy should
Evening star., 1952-01-03
In Market for ough Prosecutor
McGroh Told Truman to Consider Himself Free to Appoint
A Successor at Any Time He Wishes to Do So
David Lawrence:

Attorney General Howard Nc
Grath has told President Tru-
man that he should consider
himself free to appoint a sue
cessor at any time now that he
wishes to do so.
Mr.. McGrath made his posi-
ton clear in writing to the
President three weeks ago. not
long after Mr.. Truman an
nounced from Key West the re-
moval of Assistant Attorney
General Caudle. It will be re-
called that, when Mr.. McGrath
subsequently testified before the
House subcommittee, he ex-
pressed himself as still unin-
formed as to the exact reason
for the dismissal of Caudle.
While he was advised in advance
of the Presidents decision to re-
move his assistant, it is appar-
ent that he was not given a bill
of particulars and it can be
inferred from Mr.. McGrath's
testimony that, while he re-
garded his assistant as indis-
Greet in the handling of outside
activities, he did not hold Cau-
die to have been dishonest.
There is no ill-feeling between
the President and Mr.. McGrath.
The Attorney General is re-
ported to be anxious to leave
public life so as to be able to
devote himself to private busi-
ness interests. This happens to
coincide with the desire of the
President to use the opportunity
created by the vacancy to ap-
point some one as Attorney
General who can do a cleanup
job, thus making it unnecessary
perhaps to appoint a commits
sion, though the idea Of having
two special prosecutors - one
. Republican and the other q
Evening star., 1952-01-03

in history as one of the greatest
receptions ever perpetrated.y
Had Hitler not known about this
double cross and had he not been
given formal assurances that
Russia would be on his side,
there is no doubt that he would
not have started the war.
Mr.. Litvinoff was no party to
this scheme. He had resigned
as soon as the negotiations
started and was placed on ice
by the Politburo. He was given
a menial job while his wife was
sent into semiexile, far from
Moscow.
The desperate need for un-
limited assistance in the war
with Germany caused Stain to
fish him out of his retirement"
and send him as ambassador to
Washington. Mr.. Litvinof was
the man who had signed the
agreement with the United
States in 1888, when President
Roosevelt decided to resume
full diplomatic relations with
Russia. Mr.. Litvinoff had made
a good impression in Washing
ton and had known a number
Of American political men who
attended the perennial arms
limitation conferences in Ge-
neva. He was good window
dressing for the duration of the
war.
When the war ended, the
Kremlin decided the time had
come to start the second chap
ter of its policy to establish the
Red hegemony over the world.
He was denoted to the job of
deputy fofeign minister for a
while. Then he disappeared
from circulation. His disap-
pearance dovetailed with the
new anti-Semitic campaign
which had been started by the
Kremlin not only in the q. s.
S. r. but in the satellite countries
as well. Whether he was placed
once more under police super
vision" or was actually under
Evening star., 1952-01-03

Democrat-has not been alto
gether abandoned.
1t is understood. too. that Mr..
McGrath has felt that his own
position would be untenable if
special prosecutors were ap-
pointed unless he himself had
recommended them. It was
argued, too, presumably by Mr..
McGrath himself, that perhaps
the best solution was to find a
new Attorney General who
would not be beholden to any
one previously appointed in the
Justice Department. So Mr..
Truman is IN the market for q
hard-hitting prosecutor whose
appointment will itself be the
best proof of the administra-
tion's desire to make a genuine
cleanup. Even a Republican
lawyer would be eligible for the
job.
Mr.. Truman is determined to
convince the American people
that such Irregularities as have
arisen in the Bureau of Internal
Revenue and in the Justice De-
partment will be cleaned up by
his own action without the need
for further inquisitorial efforts
by Congress, though the COM
mittees on Capitol Hill will nat
urally seek to continue their in
quiries.
The President, by his reor-
ganization Of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, has taken a
step which is long overdue and
gets at a situation which needed
correction under previous ad-
ministrations-namely, the CO.
mingling of politics and admin
istrative duties in such a deli
cate affair as tax collections and
auditS.
Mr.. Truman has been listen
ing to the advice Of Secretary
Evening star., 1952-01-03

of the Treasury John w. Sny-
der and Commissioner John B
Dunlap, who was recently ap-
pointed head of the Internal
Revenue Bureau. Both have
for weeks been insisting that
the bureau be streamlined. that
plans be made to ask Congress
for higher pay for the career
men, and that political ap-
pointments be eliminated Alto
gether.
The President is not likely
to abate soon his new campaign
of reol ganization. While pros
ecutions of wrongdoers are
spectacular and dramatic, what
counts in the long run is a re-
moval of the source of the evil
the determination of politi-
cal influence from tax audits
and the prosecution of those
who are accused of violating
tax laws.
It is significant that, in the
case of the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, the appoint
ment Of w. Stuart Symington has
led to a cleanup there which
is rapidly restoring public con-
f1dence in that agency. The
same tactics of serious atten-
tion to day-by-day acts Of con-
tinuous reorganization inside
the Internal Revenue Bureau
and the Justice Department
may prove similarly construc-
tive with respect to those two
agencies.
It is being said in many
quarters here that the Presi-
dent is doing all this to make
good political impression
either for himself or his party
this year. but, whatever the
motive, if it is in the public
interest, the action taken will
not be disparaged.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star., 1952-01-03
$4,000 Armour Workers
Win 6-Cent Pay Raise
BY the Asseeiated Press


CHICAGO, Jan. 3. - A Scent
hourly wage increase to some
$4,000 workers in 13 Armour
plants outside Chicago is provided
Iir an agreement signed yesterday
by the AFL Packinghouse Work
ers' Union with Armour & Co.
The union, the AF'L Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butchers
Workmen, signed a similar agree
ment with Swift & Co. last week.
Both contracts are subject to
ratification at union meeting in
Chicago tomorrow.
Earl w. Jimmerson, union presi-
dent, said the increase boosts the
average wage to $1.66 an hour.
The pay boost was negotiated un-
der a wage opening clause in the
contract which expires next
August.
Evening star., 1952-01-03
Lawmakers Work Harder
Now, 0'MahoneY Ayers
BY the Asseciaisd Press

Uncle Sans lawmakers do a lot
more work these days than they
did back in 1917, Senator O'Ma-
honey, Democrat, Of Wyoming
declares.
Interviewed as he started his
10th year as a Senator, Senator
O'Mahoney told a reporter yester-
day: 1.-THE work of Congress has
been steadily increasing. There
was a time when every other ses-
sion was short, but now Congress
is in almost continuous session. ~
Senator O'Mahoney. then a
Wyoming newspaperman, came to
Washington in 1917 as secretary
to the late Senator Kendrick OF
Evening star., 1952-01-03
Doris FIeeson::

President Truman has limited
again that soon he will reveal his
1852 intentions and a galaxy OF
aspiring Democrats is reverbe-
rating like a harp in the wind.
If the President does not
choose to run, his heir-apparent
remains the Chief Justice of the
United States, Mr.. Vinson. A
national magazine has already
forehandedly dispatched a staff
writer to the Supreme Court to
prepare its own word picture of
the great man and the writer
perceived at once that the Chief
was not precisely taken by sur
prise.
All the Vinson biographical
notes we're summarized and ar
ranged and his political memory
was well oiled. Anecdotes suit
ably illustrating each phase Of
his long career in Government
tripped lightly from his tongue.
Mr.. Vinson was more than CO.
operative; he was we'll prepared.
Despite the advantage Of his
close association with the
powerful incumbent, the Chief
is not the only statesman pre-
pairing at the drop Of a word
Evening star., 1952-01-03

arrest is not known here at
present. The fact that he died
on December 81 and his death
was made public only two days
later raises certain suspicious.
What appears probable il
that the Politburo has been in
doubt whether his passing
should go unnoticed or whether
a ceremonial funeral would
make good propaganda for the
Communist cause in the West
ern countries where Mr.. Lit.
vinoff was known and liked.
The latter course was adopted.
Mr.. Lityinoff was not openly q
> dissenter insofar as the doc
trines for world supremacy Of
the Politburo were concerned
And that earned him at least Q
firSt-claSS funeral.
Evening star., 1952-01-03
Lowell WeIIett:

Well, one man has definitely
said he doesn't want to be Presi-
dent. No, not exactly that,
either. But Senator Paul H.
Douglas, Democrat Of Illinois,
has said he doesn't want to be
considered for the Office. "In
the highly improbable event" Of
his nomination, he said, Il
would not accept"
That's putting it pretty plain
ly, although the cynical might
say the key to the Senator's de-
cision is the high improbability
of his nomination. That how
ever, is not preventing a good
many others of even higher i'm
probability from holding them
selves available. Senator Doug
las Is one Of the very few who
have been seriously mentioned
thus far as possibilities in case
President Truman should refrain
from running.
Being the sort of fellow he is,
1t is only fair to concede the
sincerity of the Senator's re-
nunciation Of presidential ambi-
ton. And that makes him vir-
tually unique among all the men
who ever have been bitten by
the bug. Senator Douglas has
been bitten, of course. Every
man who ever has been told by
anybody, even by doting aunt,
that he ought to be President,
is apt to believe it at least a lit
tie bit. He is apt to begin act
ing the way he thinks a Presi-
dent should act and to do things
calculated to cause other peo-
pie to give consideration to
his fitness. Some of the time
since he came to the Senate Mr..
Douglas has laid himself open to
the suspicion that he was doing
Just that, but on the whole it
has been fairly clear that he
has merely been his unpredict-
able self, acting only as he
thinks a Senator should act.
It is commonplace to say that
anybody who has observed the
Job at close range for any
length Of time should be cured
of the notion that it would be
nice to be President. It never
has been less than a man-killing
task. The burden of response
bility, even in periods OF per-
sonal popularity, would seem to
outweigh the fun Of being
important and the satisfaction
that comes from service. In
periods Of unpopularity which
occur to all Presidents. in times
of cruel and wilful misunder-
standing, the burden is well
nigh unbearable. All Of which
any one having frequent deal
ings with the White House can
zee.
And yet once o man becomes
Evening star., 1952-01-03
Why Would Anybody Want Job?
Senator Douglas Remuneration Of Presidential Ambition
Raises Question That's Difficult to Answer

have been fairly apparent to
him, but it seems never to have
been. And they do say that
even now he is prepared to re-
nounce the soft drink business
if he should hear, or should
think he has heard, the long
delayed siren call.
Evening star., 1952-01-03

Wyoming. He earned q law de-
gree by attending college at night,
and later practiced here and in
Wyoming,
Evening star., 1952-05-21
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