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MountaliQ&tares Co. .
Asks Stock Issue Permit
WASHINGTON (JP) The
Mountain States Power Co., A 1
bany, Ore., has applied to the
power commission for authority fg)
issue 900,000 shares of common
stock, par value $7 25 a share, in
exchange for 300,000 shares of no
par value now outstanding.
The plan would be subject ay ap
proval by stockholders.
The company said the proposal
would help facilitate sale of addi
tional common stock to enable the
concern to carry out a 1951 con
struction program.
14 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ort.Thuri., Dec. 21, 1950
Ntwsrtel Employees Get
Russian Prison Terms
Failure To Bomb Yalu Power Dams Raises Question
By ELTON C. FAY
A. P. Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON (JP) Why
don't U, S. bombe-s blast the big
hydro-electric power dams on the
joint communist border of Man
churia and North Korea?
The question has been raised,
among others, by representative
elect Alfred Sieminski (D-NJj,
just returned from duty as an
army major in Korea.
So far as is known, 'here lias
been no formal, official answer
to the, question.
Sieminski said in New Vork sev
eral days ago that GIs having
fought in the area and been forced
into retreat by the Chinese Com
munists "are saying that a cartel
has a stake in those (power proj
ects. . . .let's blow them."
Unofficially and informally
(wb,ich means they can't be
named) some Pentagon officials
offer one explanation:
Russia m'rfajt seize on destruc
tion of ll" communist power
plants on the Yalu river boundary
as a pretext to take an open hand
in the Far East war. On the other
hand, she might not, but the grav
ity of the risk outweighs the mil
itary value of destroying the dams.
Just who has the responsibility
serious opposition from the enemy
could make such strikes.
If they wanted to remain as me
ticulous as they have been up to
now about refraining from cross
ing into atanchurian territory,
that could be done, fliers say.
Bombing runs by the planes could
QBERUN (JP Two German
employes ot the American News
rcel company, Paths news, have
Leen sennced to prison by a
Soviet zone Communist court, the
West Berlin Telegraf reported.
Cameraman Siegfried Ru;'ge,
3.1, received a four-year term and
chauffeur Heinz Tochtermann,
2C, a three-year term, the news
pi. per said.
The men were arrested last June
30 in East Germany by German
Communist police while driving
a Pathe car and equipment from
Berlin to Bremen on assignment
The Telegraf said the trial was
conducted without the d e f e n
dants being represented by a law
yer. The prosecutor was quoted
us saving their American News
it el activities were "offenses
ugainst Democracy."
be directed either up or down
stream and bombs dropped with
out flying over Manchurian areas.
The dams could be blown out on
the North Korean ends, releasing
impounded water and making the
power plants useless.
Manchuria, and especially the
city of Mukden, produces mun
for staying bomb attacks on the
dams isn't quite clear. The Penta
aon vaguely refers questions to "a
higher level" and to Gen. MacAr
thur's headquarters at Tokyo
There appears to be no tactical,
purely military reason why the
bombing couldn't be done.
Easy Targets From Air '
Unless the Reds displayed un
precedented air activity, B-29
bombers which have roamed close
to the Yalu river area without
ft
Secondary military results also
might be obtained from destruc
tion of the dams. Sudden release
of the impounded water could
create flood conditions to dam
age transportation routes and
cities downstream. In Europe,
itions lor waging the war against
the United States and her allies.
Loss of electric power to the Man
churian arsenal, as well as to
whatever plants the North Kor
eans may have back in operation,
would reduce the output of those
factories.
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some dams were bombed for that
specific purpose.
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SAILORS ON LEAVE Jim Dal St. Ong., left, Carmal Ray Smith,
center, and Richard Nelson St, Org were home on leave for
Christmas from the U.S.S. Los Angeles. Jim and Richard are
ions of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Summers of 1919 Mulholland drive,
and Smith is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Smith of Myrtle Creek.
These men enlisted in the navy Sept. 6. Jim is striking for boats
wain mate, Richard for shipfitter and Smith, radioman. (Picture
by Paul Jenkins).
World Still Kept Guessing
On Activity Of Joe Stalin;
Always Right, Aides Assert
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst
Prime Minister Stalin's 71st birthday December 21, was
noted with elaborate praise by the Soviet press, but the world
still Is left speculating about the health and activity of this man
who wields far more power than any other individual on earth.
One is reminded of an incident back in 1934 when it was
rumored Stalin was ill and even dead. Charles P. Nutter, thei
AP chief of bureau in Moscow, addressed a letter to Stalin asking
for the facts. He got a reply in the Soviet chief's own hand
writing
"I know from the reports of (he
foreign press that I long ago aban
doned this sintul worm ana moved
into the other world. As one can
. not doubt such foreign press dis
patches unless he wants to be ex
pelled from the list of civilized
people, I request you to believe
them and don't disturb me in the
calm of the other worhl."
This question of whether Stalin
till has a firm grip of Bolshevism
is mighty Important not only to
Soviet Russia and her satellites
but to the world at larce. Me is
(or has been) the absolute dictator
of the Russian regime and of the
world revolution for the spread of
communism. It was he who laid
the groundwork for the revolution.
Five-Year Plan Upset
Long before the last war, Stalin
was given credit by European ob
servers for expecting another glo
bal conflict. He was said to be
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figuring that this would give the
world revolution its real opportun
ity to spread.
Accordingly Stalin Inaugurated
his series of five-year- plans to
make Russia strong militarily
and industrially. He signed with
Hitler the non-aggression pact
which enabled the fuehrer to
launch his war of aggression. The
plan went awry in that lljtler sud
denly attacked Russia, but ulti
mately it worked out to the advati'
age of the Red revolution, which
quickly brought all eastern Europe
into the Moscow sphere of con
trol. Well, now, absolute power such
as Stalin has possessed creates a
delicate situation. His sudden re
moval by illness or death might
create chaos in the Soviet bloc, and
conceivably could precipitate a
third world war.
The point of course is that while
Stalin has maintained unquestioned
control of the Soviet regime, there
, are a dozen or more ambitious
men who might be expected to
reach for his job when it was va-
j cated.
I That's too many for unity. Na-
turally one assumes that Stalin
already has Ucsignated his sue
i cessor, but that designation might
j not stick, once his powerful i n
fluence had been removed.
Purges Block Ambitien
; Why is it that Stalin has been
able to remain in unquestioned
power all these years? Why hasn't
i some one of his ambitious lieuten
ants reached for the big job?
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Commie Party
Dwindles, Denied
Hall For Meeting
NEW YORK UP) The Ameri
can Communist party, beset by
membership and financial worries
and its leaders facing jail terms,
opens its 15th biennial national con
vention here tonight.
The convention will begin with
public rallies in Manhattan, the
Bronx and in Brooklyn if the party
can find a meeting place there.
Owners of a hall where the Brook
lyn rally was to be staged canceled
the reservation. The small, sepa
rate rallies contrast with two years
ago when the public convention was
held in Madison Square garden.
The rallies, however, were ex
pected to be just a backdrop for
the real business of the convention
"closed door" sessions at which
the Communist high command will
exchange views on the future of
the shrunken party.
Communist leaders are frankly
worried by a drop-off in dues pay
ments, declining mcmbershm and
the difficulty in maintaining the
party organ, the daily worker.
Three years ago the party
claimed a membership of 100,000.
FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover re
cently put the total at 55,000. Last
spring, an official party report on
membership gave no overall figure
but did admit a 17 percent Hup in
1950 registration over that of ",949.
Eleven members of the party's
top echelon face five years in
prison, convicted of conspiracy to
teach and advocate the violent
overthrow of the government.
Ten probably will be present at
the convention. They are free in
bail pending appeal of their con
viction. But Eugene Dennis, gen
eral secretary of the p,"ty and one ,
of those convicted, already is in
jail for contempt of congress. i
A pre-convention bulletin issued
by the party some time ago
charged the United States with
"aggression" against Korea and
China. It portrayed the Soviet
union as the real force for peace in
the world today.
Forester Charges Theft
In Yule Tree Cutting
ALBUQUERQUE (IP) The
U. S. Forest service's official
frown on cutting Christmas trees
on its land was almost a glower
today.
Why? Because between 200 and
1100 trees are missing from the
Sandia district of the Gibola na
tional forest near here.
Bob Stewart, ranger i . charge,
was quite peeved about it as he
made the estimate.
"A lot of Albuquerque residents
start out showing the spirit o f
Christmas by stealing a tree," he
said.
One answer to these questions is
that the early purges which were
carried out under the Stalin re
gime made it quite patent that am
bition was a dangerous attribute.
However, 1 don't believe that is the
real answer.
The reason Stalin's Dictatorship
has been unchallenged is because
he possesses powerful leadership
and because he has kept coming
up with the right schemes to im
plement the Red world revolution.
His followers claim that he is "al
ways right" in his judgment, and
that therefore his leadership hasn't
been challenged.
That probably is the explanation
of his power, lie has delivered the
goods diabolical gootls from the
standpoint of the democracies.
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