Truman Interested
Personally In
Perfumers' Trip
WASHINGTON, (A3) — Senate
investigators yesterday turned up
a memo from Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan to state department au
thorities saying President Truman
was “personally interested” in a
prospective European trip for
John Maragon in August, 1945.
Agents of a Senate investigating
sub-committee introduced into its
records a memorandum by Vau
ghan, dated Aug 3, 1045, which
said that Maragon was interested
in visiting Italy for the Albert H.
Verley Perfume Co., of Chicago.
The memorandum contained
this pencilled note in the lower
left hand comer:
‘‘Col. Vaughan informed Mrs.
Shipley <Mrs. Ruth E. Shipley,
chief of state department passport
Jlbureau) that the President is per
sonally interested in Maragon’s
trip to Italy—Col. S. agrees that
he is I D.”
It was signed JFS 8/28/45.
The military permit procedure
in effect at the time listed as “I D”
persons “whose travel is author
ized by the President.”
The Senators, digging into the
question of whether there has |
been improper influence in the
conduct of government business,
have wunted to know how Mara
gon and other agents of the per
fume company managed to get
passage on military transport
planes to Europe in 1945.
It was on the return from the
July trip for the perfume company
that Maragon got into difficulties
with customs agents who found he
had valuable perfume oils dis
guised as champagne for the
White House.
The committee was informed
yesterday that Maragon settled
that case for $1,500 — including
$1,141 assessed as a penalty.
Francis D. Flanagan, assistant
counsel, introduced the various
documents, including the state de
portment memorandum.
Flanagan said “JFS was a "Mr.
Scanlon,” assistant to Mrs. Ship
ley.
Senator Mundt <R.-S. D.) com
mented that he thinks President
Truman “probably” had no per
sonal knowledge of what Vaughan
was doing.
Maragon was waiting to testify
when the decouments were intro
duced.
But chairman Hoey (.D-N. C.)
suddenly announced the hearing
would recess until tomorrow.
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WASHINGTON, bP) — Write a
letter to the interior department
about Alaska or Hawaii and
chances are it will wind up on the
desk of Mrs. Olive Remington
Goldman, lately of Urbana, 111.
Secretary of the interior Krug
hired her last April as a consult
ant, primarily on problems relat
ing to statehood for the two Ter
ritories.
She also works on preparations
for interior department adminis
tration of Guam—scheduled to be- I
gin next July 1—American Samoa
and the Marshall, Caroline and
the Mariana Islands of the Pacific,
all currently under naval control.
Twice a candidate for Congress
from the 22nd District of Illinois,
Mrs. Goldman has an office—and
a secretary—just down the corri
dor from that of assistant secre
tary of the interior William E.
Warne.
| She consults daily with Warne
and undersecretary of, the interior
Oscar L. Chapman. Mostly, she
says, her job is giving speeches
and disseminating informat i o n
about the Territroies and island
possessions.
A Vassar graduate with a mas
ter’s degree from the University
of Illinois, she is the wife of Dr.
Marcus Selden Goldman, Illinois
University English professor and
reserve army colonel now on ac
tive duty in Washington. Mrs.
Goldman taught at the university
while her husband was on war
! time military assignment.
Mrs. Goldman said the long
standing shipping strike in Ha
waii has hurt the immediate like
lihood of statehood for the Terri
1 tory.
Statehood bills for Hawaii and
Alaska, approved by the House
public lands committee, have bog
I ged down in the rules committee.
An Alaska statehood bill in the
Senate is unliekly to be forwarded
until the House has acted, she
said.
“Many people in the labor
movement, including the AFL, the
railroad labor executives associa
tion, international association of
machinists and the CIO, who have
indorsed statehood for Hawaii, re
gret that the strike has been used
to defeat the legislation in the
present Congress,” said Mrs. Gold
man, who writes a column for a
labor weekly in Decatur, 111.
“Hawaii is prosperous, pays its
taxes, turns out for elections and
has long deserved statehood.
“Alaska deserves statehood, too.
Its people know the Territory will
not develop as it should, in popu
lation and production, until state
hood is granted.
“Alaska needs statehood, fur
thermore, from a military and
strategic standpoint, to make for
security against Russia.”
Mrs. Goldman said the argu
ment that Alaska cannot yet af
ford statehood has been pretty
well knocked out by the Territori
al legislature’s action in voting
substantial property and income
taxes.
“Alaskans can afford statehood
better than they can get along
without it,” she said.
“They can't get federal funds
:.i. roads, education and other
‘hings they need until they have
r mono in the Senate to fight for
them. Alaska hasn’t even enough
money for the survey that is need
ed to clear title to the lands, and
her population won’t increase sub- j
stantially until that matter is
cleared up.” ,
Catholic Information
How much must a man worship?
Suppose a man paid taxes ac
cording to his individual con
science and nothing else? What
then? A minute few would pay
more than their share. A very
few would give what they pay
now; but the vast majority would
pay sc* little <if any) that the gov
ernment could not function.
Now God demands worship, and
it would seem to the Catholic that
subjective private judgment is just
as unreliable and self-l'avoring in
determining the amount of wor
ship God requires as in determin
ing the amount of taxes a man
should pay to his government.
Yes, God demands worship, but
who’s to determine how much ,
worship a man must give to God
in order to save his soul?
The Catholic claims to have the
answer—simple, logical, authorita
tive. And this is it:
God knows the uncertainty and
elasticity of the human conscience,
so when He gave man His revealed
truths, He founded a church, not
only to safeguard and interpret
those truths, but to guide His chil
dren in the use of those truths. To
accomplish this He gave His
Church the power and duty to
make its own laws in conformity
with his divine plan.
It seems to us logical that God
would do this. It seems to us cer
tain that He did do it, in view of
His own words in the Scriptures.
To take a few samples from the
King James Bible: Christ said to
His Apostles: “Whatsoever ye
shall bind on earth shall be bound
in heaven; and whatsoever ye
shall loose on earth shall be loosed
in heaven” (Matt. 13:18). And
again: “He that heareth you hear
eth me” (Luke 10:16>. And also He
said: “If he neglect to hear the
church, let him be unto thee as an
heathen man and a publican”
'Matt. 18:17). And then to make
it all permanent our Divine Lord
promised: . . . and “lo, I am with
you alway, even unto the end of
the world” (Matt. 82:20).
To have to assist at Mass 58
times a year may seem a hardship
to him who enters a church sel
dom if at all; but to the practical
Catholic this minimum is so low
that his love for God takes him to
Mass and otheT devotions on
many occasions when there is no
obligation at all. In fact many
Catholics assist at Mass every
morning in the year.
The Church gives no guarantee
of salvation to him who merely
keeps within its laws. Ontheother
hand it constantly warns the faith
ful that only by frequent attend
ance at Mass and frequent recep
tion of the Sacraments can the
soul be safeguarded against the
snares of a God-neglecting world.
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