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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
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AP news tflspatehca.
Reds Get Grip in Czechoslovakia
The Slovak end of. Czechoslovakia has beenpredominantly
conservative in politics and Roman Catholic in religion. Some
thing of a separatist movement existed there before the ; war
which Hitler encouraged. After the war Slovakia had its lown
local government which was composed of eight democrats (con
servative) and six communists. In the current effort at consoli
dating strength across Central Europe the' communists in the
central government at Prague have forced the issue and the
communist premier has been granted authority to reconstitute
the government of Slovakia.
j. Czechoslovakia's government has maintained a precarious
balance in its attempt to bridge east and west Under the eaves
of Russia and indebted to Russia for liberation the country like
Wise has strong affiliations and sympathies with the west. But
communist leaders seem determined to erase dissident parties
and leaders, and one-by-one the coalition cabinets have yielded
to communist pressures In Hungary the small-holders party
. was forced to submit to .communist domination. In Bulgaria the
opposition leader was executed. In Romania the head of the
peasant party is on trial charged with crimes against the state.
In Poland the opposition leader, Mikolajczyk fled because he
felt" hisr-time of freedom was getting short. -The
ready explanation is that fearing possible war the com
munist friends of the USSR want no foes within the -borders
of the satellite countries. The One-party system will be estab
lished; dissent will be made dangerous. The cordon sanitaire will
be revived, but designed to block penetration from the west,
not the east.
The world suffers With this drawing of tense linesj and
particularly in the darkening of the "window on the west" which
Czechoslovakia ha sought to remain. However the communist
bosses are correct -in their strategy in that country. To consoli
date their power they must destroy the semi-independence of
Slovakia. In fact communism works that way: it never tolerates
1 political or economic freedoms.
Need for Bigger Hospitals
Visitors to Saiem hospitals jindlbeds in corridors and hall
way ends because regular room and ward Space is all occupied
Patients, seeking admission -to hospitals are often subject to
delays until a bed is vacated. Even, emergency cases may have
to be kept in the surgery or other special room until some better
provision, for them can be made.
. It is "because they have been up against this overcrowding
for several years that the board of directors of the Salem Gen
eral hospital have decided to undertake to raise $1,500,000 for
a new and larger hospital. The directors of the Deaconess hos
pital, which face the same problem, have been preparing for
a similar building project at their institution.
Growth in population in the area has 'not been matched
with increase in the number of hospital beds available. Also
there is more frequent use of hospital facilities than formerly.
Few children are born in private homes now. Pooled health
services and hospital associations finance hospital care and more
people demand such service when they become ill.
The turns required to erect new hospitals will be large be
cause the buildings must be of fireproof construction and be
equipped with modern hospital facilities. Yet there can be no
argument as to the urgency of the need, and there is little doubt
that this community ean finance the costs if the people respond
generously to the appeals that will be forthcoming, j
. Hospitals are not money-making institutions. While rates
may seem high, patrons should understand that the charges
include "hotel" accommodations (room and board) and special
services such as trained nurses and availability of highly spec
ialized equipment. For capital investment the hospitals , must
depend on private philanthropy or public subsidy.
'Country GulV
Label Put on
Hughes Plant
WASHINGTON. Nov. 6V-tfP-A
discharged plant manager today
called Howard Hughes' aircraft
plant in California a "country
club" in which he was unable to
speed production on $40,000,000
worth of wartime contracts.
Charles W. Perelle, the airplane
production manager, also told the
senate war investigating subcom
mittee he personally fired John
W. Meyer, Hughes' free-spending
publicity man, by letter in Sep
tember, 1945. Meyer, however,
has been shown-to have stayed
on the payroll.
But by December of the same
year, Perelle said, he himself had
been ..discharged from his $73,000
job by Hughes for "insubordina
tion."
Wrkd at BMlnf
(Perelle is a University of Wash
ington graduate and worked for
the Boeing Aircraft Co. at Seat
tle a number ot yean. He was
production manager when he. re
signed prior to world war I
take an executive position wi
the Consolidated Vulte Aircra
Co.)
Paretic's long recital of "Intel
nal bickering" in the wartime air
craft plant came after the senate
group put aside for the time be
ing a committee contention that
Hughes and his companies owe a
"tax deficiency" of $5,919,921,
Attorney Protests
Tom Slack, Hughes' attorney.
protested to newsmen that he and
Noah Dietrich, executive vice
president of the' Hughes Tool
company, were, being denied a
chance to answer the tax issue,
Chairman Ferguson (R-Mich)
said the committee must maintain
its witness schedule and that
Hughes or his aides will get a
chance to explain the tax and pro
fits angles later.
Ferguson said he considered
these angles "material" to the
committee's general inquiry sto
what the government received for
$40,000,000 in Contracts for a huge
wooden flying boat and a photo
reconnaissance plane.
Slaking Up with Peron "
The United States seefns to have gone all the way in ap
peasement of President Peron of Argentina. "After reading ex
tracts from a recent address of our present ambassador in
Buenos Aires aU that seems to be left is for President and Mrs.
Truman to invite Eva Peron up for a visit at the White house.
James Bruce, who succeeded George Messersmith at the
Argentine capital, in a speech to the American Legion post there
called Peron "a great leader of a great nation," and praised
him ; for his "extraordinary ability to Understand quickly com
plicated business transactions."
Bruce included Foreign Minister Bramuglia in his sugary
eulogy, referring to him as!a "great patriot, a very honored and
able man, and a hard-working ambassador."
With these compliments Peron must feel a bit like the
canary that swallowed the cat. Spruille Braden, our, former am
bassador, who felt very differently about Peron and his gov
ernment, doubtless feels that once more democracy has been
deserted in the house of friends.
Withholding Tax "
A bulletin to editors from F. H. Young, manager of Oregon
Business and Tax Research, makes the suggestion that news
papers publicize the approaching imposition of a withholding
tax. This will be effective on the first payroll on or after Jan. 1,
1948. Employers are required to deduct one per cent of the
gross -wage (including value of emoluments such as board and
room) ot every employe. .
The only exceptions in the law are: no deduction unless the
aggregate wage paid an employe exceeds $50 in a month; wages
paid to persons in active military service or to employes of
common carriers not residents of Oregon who perform service
within and without the state.
This tax is under attack in a suit sponsored by organized
labor, but wiM be imposed starting in January unless held in
valid by the courts.
No Jade from China
No jade is coming out of China. Prices are higher for it in
Shanghai than in New York. Its Value mounts with each surge
of Chinese inflation, for those who hold it know they have
something of assured value, like gold in this country only the
. people can't have gold.
In fact, so disorganized is China's economy that very little
is being exported from that country. People prefer goods to
paper money. What is exported is routine merchandise; curios,
Chinese foods, camphorwood chests. ' - s
The wartime dream, of a great revival and expansion of
trade with the orient is still a dream, only it is a forgotten dream.
Revisions in
Foster Creek
Dam Act Asked
WENATCHEE, Nov. 6.-WV
Members of the Columbia basin
commission sought army support
today for a proposal to rewrite or
amend an act of congress author'
izing the Foster Creek dam on the
Columbia, at the first joint meet
ing of the Columbia river inter
agency committee and the com
mission. ,
Commissioners expressed fears
that the multi-million dollar pro
ject might b turned down in the
courts, on the grounds that it .Is
primarily a power generating
dam.
Reclamation of an estimated 15,-
000 acres of land could be accom
plished only if the Foster Creek
act is changed by congress to pro
vide a subsidy from power sales
to offset irrigation costs, leaders
said.
The Question arose as Lieut.
CoL W. H. Shuler, army esgin
eering officer for the Seattle dis
trict, completed a review of army
suggestions for Columbia river
development. In his review, he
said that the Foster Creek dam,
designed to generate 960,000 kil
owatts of electricity, was consid
ered the No. 1 project. He also de
scribed Priest Rapids, south of
Vantage ferry, as the next most
favorable site along the upper Co
lumbia.
REALTORS HEAR SCHUSS
Speaker at the Salem Board of
Realtors luncheon this noon at
Marion hotel will be AI Schuss,
business manager of station KOCO.
His topic will be "Advertising and
Radio.
SALEM GIRL TO SING f
Denise Murray, Willamette uni
versity faculty member, will sing
at a dinner tonight at Oregon Col'
lege of Education in Monmouth,
honoring President and Mrs. Hen
ry Gunn, the. college reported
Thursday.
Exploding the Burned Child Theory
Opera Troup Finds 'Addicts9 to
Gilbert and Sullivan ' Plentiful9
By Robert E. Gangware
City Editor. Th SUtomin
The American-Savoy Comic Opera Co. came to Salem Thursday,
relaxed on one of its all-too-occasional nights off and prepared to give
this city its first professional performances of Gilbert and Sullivan in
many a year.
Still fresh and enthusiastic after 15 continuous months on the
road. Director Edgar Iversen and his 21 -member troupe leaned back
last night in the somewhat com
fortable assurance that Gilbert
and Sullivan operettas are as pop
ular as ever with the American
public.
Why? "Well, for one thing, most
everyone remembers the time he
sang in the school's production Of
Mikado or Pirates, points out Di
rector Iversen.
Fan U Watch Aadleace
"And it's fun to look from the
stage into your audience and see
how many mouths are following
you word for word - - and in per
fect time," added topnotch sopra
no Blair who will sing Mabel in
"Pirates of Penzance," and Jose
phine, the captain's daughter, in
"HMS Pinafore" here on Friday
and Saturday.
What's more, put in Company
Manager Richard P. Stevens at a
gabfest in one of the troupe's
rooms in the Senator hotel last
night, "school audiences take to
Gilbert and Sullivan like ducks
to water, even at their first hear
ing - - and they want more of it."
Miss Blair entured that con
firmed Gilbert and Sullivan ad
mirers are "addicts, not Just fans,"
but that they are still enough in
the minority that advance pro
motion 4s still a "must" for some
of the lesser-known, albeit best,
Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera,
like "Ruddigore," "Patience' and
"Gondoliers."
Towns Must Be 'Warmed Up
These satires in song - - for all
G&S are musical satires on fam
iliar and timeless topics --are in
the regular repertory of the American-Savoy
company, but usu
ally are played in a town which
already has been 'warmed up' by
standby like Mikado and Pina
fore. The gay "Gondoliers," straight
music, satirizes Italian opera
"Ruddigore" takes off the old
time meoldrama, complete with a
villain and his black snake, mad
women and ghosts, and "Pa
tience," the satire on Oscar Wilde
and his effect on what Virginia
Blair describes as "the bobby sox
ers of the Victorian period."
The troupe 'will perform at
8:30 p. m. Friday in Salem high
school auditorium, giving both
"Trial by Jury" and ""HMS Pin
afore." In the same auditorium
the company will give "The Mi
kado" at 2:30 p. m. Saturday and
"Pirates of Penzance" at 8:30
p. m. Saturday. Sponsor of their
appearance here is Salem chap
ter 8, Disabled American Veter-
Leadtng Roles Alteraate
"Everyone's a star," Manager
Stevens said of his troupe last
night, explaining that lead sing
ing roles are alternated and all
sing in the chorus, including him
self. For their performances here
lead roles besides Miss Blair's
will be sung by Iversen himself,
as Sir Joseph Porter in "Pina
fore" and Frederick in "Pirates";
by baritone Marsden Argall as the
pirate king. Dick Deadeye (in Pin
afore) and Pooh-Bah (in Mikado)
and by Sheri Mason as Pee-Bo in
Mikado and Cousin Hebe in Pin
afore. ( j - '
Manager Steven's said last night
he regrets the troupe is not play
ing for a school or prison audi
ence here - - explaining that both
are invariably so enthusiastic the
singers are entertained as well as
the audience. Recent performan
ces at Washington and Idaho state
penitentiaries were popular, he
said, with the convicts specially
delighted over "The Policeman's
Lot is Not a Happy One."
Has Own Company
The American-Savoy company
organized three years ago in San
Francisco where it has its own
theatre. It has specialized in Gil
bert and Sullivan completely and
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
; A California judge has ruled that a girl who broke her
engagement must return her engagement ring to her former
fiance. He dug up a precedent in old Roman law where the
decision was that an engagement ring was only a symbol and
didn't become the woman's property until marriage. Generally
the girl gives the ring back voluntarily, which may explain
why the judge in California had to go so far back in history
to find a precedent where the ring was sued for.
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Tear speeches load conservation have prednced excellent results.
Sena tar Feeple have stepped tare wing it at year
Soviet Detains
Newsmen in
Russian Zone
BERLIN, Nov. 6 -CiiPr-The Rus
sians detained an Associated Press
photographer and a Stars and
Stripes reporter for three and a
half hours today before releasing
them.
Henry Burroughs, the photo
grapher, and Joseph Fleming, the
reporter, Fere picked up while
gathering material for a feature
story on a Russian barter shop in
the soviet sector of Berlin.
The pair said they were arrest
ed by Russian plain-clothes po
lice, apparently agents of the
NKVD (secret police), who accus
ed them of Snaking anti-com
munist pictures."
Burroughs said he had made no
pictures and was Just going to an
automobile for his camera when
the Russians seized them.
Four or five Russians surround
ed the pair and kept them in their
parked car for an hour question'
ing them, thev sakL Another ag
ent then appeared, with an armed
soviet officer, and the two Amer
icans with their German chauf
feur were taken in separate auto
mobiles to Russian central head
quarters.
The two Americans said that at
Russian headquarters they were
required to empty their pockets
of all papers and other contents
and that Burroughs' camera; was
taken and its exposed film confis
cated.
only "occasionally toyed with
branching out into other operetta.'
Iverson said. One reason for this,
the director added, is the number
of return requests they get - - and
fill --far G&S.
Mentioning the latter, Iversen
said the company returns this
month to Coos Bay to play "Pi
rates of Penzance." "And consid
ering the Coos Bay Pirates," he
said, "that's like carrying coals to
Newcastle. -
Plane Team Accompanies
These Gilbert and Sullivan play
ers are accompanied by a two-
piano team, Antone Milos and
Helen Botello. Last year after
playing the northwest (but miss
ing Salem) the comoanv toured
the entire belt of southern ctatM
across the country.'then returned
10 piay au summer at the Utah
centennial; After this fall's tour
of the northwest the American
Savoy singers have high hopes of
geiung nome long enough to per
form for a month or so in their
JSan Francisco theatre.
Public Rerords
CIRCUIT COURT
William Owens vs. Richard E.
Scott and Bette Scott: Demurrer
by defendant
Claude H. Herring vs. Roxie A.
Herring: Complaint for divorce
alleges cruel and inhuman treat
ment. Married Nov. 22, 1925, at
Chickashaw, Okla.
Edith Leila Lundquist vs.
Fayne Edward Lundquist: Order
of default.
H. R. Ochse vs. F. M. Stout:
Amended answer by defendant
William C. Welch, jr, by Sy
bil V. Teausaw, guardian, vs. vic
tor Knuth and Robert Knuth:
Judgment for plaintiffs of $2,500.
Frances Louise McLaughlin vs.
Carl E. McLaughlin: Complaint
for divorce alleges cruel and in
human treatment Married Feb.
18. 1939. at Salem.
Alice E. Conley vs. Mitchell H.
Conley: Order of default.
Blandina K. Davis and others
vs. Maurice R. Dunigan and Idyle
Dunigan: Reply by plaintiffs.
E. W. CBnen vsi Loren Duni
gan and others: Accident damages
trial recessed until 9:30 am-.
when Jury to receive instructions;
involuntary non-suit granted as
to defendant. Mrs. Arlie Skiller.
DISTRICT COURT
Marion Joe Fernau. 198 N. 23rd
st, driving without headlights,
nnea so ana costs.
PROBATE COURT
Frank Lynch estate: Decree of
final settlement
Albert E. Schaefer estate: Or
der permitting administrator to
assign contract of sale.
George E. Hurst estate: Order
discharging administratrix.
WUford E. Beard guardianship'
estate: Order discharging guardian.
Amelia Gerig Bickell guardian
ship estate: Order confirming sale
of real property.
Edward Hari guardianship es
tate: Order directing guardian to
execute mortgage satisfaction.
Louis H. Ruth and Calvin Hil-
aeui anot gftciannfntp estate
Guardian's final account.
Carl Edward and Leila Madge
Beach guardianship estate: Order
appointing Pearl Ruddell guardi-
Velleda W. Ohmart estate: Or
der directing further distribution.
Joseph Hughes guardianship es
tate: Final report, and order dis
charging guardian.
Mary E. Denton estate: Order
closing estate.
William O. Bennett estate:
Hearing on final account set for
December 8.
John W. Crane estate: Orders
appoinUng Hal Flora, Leo Chitds
and Arthur W. Smither as ap
praisers; authorizing continuance
of business of Valley Oil Co., and
allowing claim of creditor to pay
ment of notes.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATION S
Ellis E. Cooley, salesman, and
Velma Mae Franks, stenographer,
both of Salem.
Lloyd F. Walker, 29, farmer,
Mt Angel and Betty Fay Gotteu
berg, 21, 2397 N. River rd., Si
lent. u
Wayne P. Allen, 20, farmer,
Rickreall route 1. and ' Betty
Campbell, 26, housewife, Inde
pendence. Lloyd Vinyard, 44, painter, Car
rollton. III, and Sarah MrElroy,
51. housewife, Whitehall, lit
MUNICIPAL COURT
David King. 1963 N. 4th st;
Lyle Young. 365 S. 16th St., and
Virgil T. Keller, 312 Water st,
all charged with malicious de- 1
struction of property, cases dis
missed following preliminary
neanng.
Truett J. Owens, .585 Highland
ave., violation of the .basic rule,
posted $7.50 bait
Clarence N. Hammer, 1488
State st, violation of the anti
noise ordinance, fined $5.
In the Crimean was appeared
the first modern army medicine
service,! the first telegraph" ltne
between battteiine and home
front; the first iron dads, the first
news camera.
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