y Tho Sfnt rhrmy Red am, Oracjon. Tnaadayy Sopt "o Favor Sways U, Fear Shall Awe From First SUtesmaa, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBUSHINC COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the se for repabll ' eatJea of all the local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AT news dispatches. Red Concept Evidenced in Cruel Deaths The; Story of Peter 1 By Joseph ui Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON, Sept 6 Ev eryone! knows that there are mil lions of people certainly as many as; twelve million in the forced labor camps of the Soviet Union. Yet the very magnitude of this vast , system t of human slavery makes it somehow difficult for the mind 1 to grasp. For this reason it Is worth tell ing the story of one of these mil- (call him, Israeli Can Help the Arabs The World Council of Churches meeting in Amsterdam last l lions month asked Jewish authorities throughout the world to work for convenience, - i I a- a. i v : 1 for the relief of Arab arid other refugees in the Palestine area. . ref f w" 1 J In a sense, this is askinir the Jews to continue what they have P3 Mv.a . eIP - 0 - 1 - n Ta lira 1 n a 'j. 1 m been about for the past 20 years. David L. Cohn in the August d,auf of a slave I a .m . oa v . V . ' I 1 I I - 1. ' . I -" Atlantic jyioniniy snows now tne jewisn seiners m raiesunr laborer in SiDer have done more in thatrtime than anyone else in 1000 years to ia for the last relieve the plight of the Arabs. f ear' Pet" - 1 r...i,:.v. era swjiv is cii- ontmuous wanare among memseives, ceniurra u. Hii msthnti domination and despotic overlords have reduced the once-proud although for obvious reasons it and highly civilized Arabs to a bunch of poverty-stricken, dis- has been necessary to alter- cer- eased illiterates. Oneav they were pre-eminent of Peter, who is now medicine, astronomy. Now their industry consists of handicrafts, . - r.H f th. rfrpa, mvd. their education is limited to memorizing the Koran, and their begin in the spring of 1939. That f was when he was arrested in Moscow by the secret police - t' f:Peer was just H 21 and he had zS o v i e t union with ms family. He did not like what ha saw. and since ha was not a Soviet citi a anm '4f v ; 1 - medicine is exorcism 01 me evu eye. The only exceptions are tne courts 01 me iauuitmaij wcuuij and selfish rulers, in the American and British oil centers, and in Jewish. Palestine. Here, In environment much like that throughout the entire r Middle East, the Israeli have applied western technology ana created an oasis in the desert. A high percentage of the popula tion in the Jewish colonies consists of scientists and technicians u who fled from hate-infested Europe. They brought along tne most advanced methods of agriculture, animal husbandry, fish- The results are amazing. In 20 years, malaria, smallpox and hilSdJd' typhus have been almost eradicated in Palestine; the diseases, back to his native land. For this Dlus trachoma, are still rampant in the test of the Middle East purpose, he visited his country's t-.-i t 1 . AvnAonmr nt M S vpart I emoassy to asx lor tne Drooer no X.KJTUI.. raitsuae wcwa neve iaivhuiv, j . . , , , r, , .r iw 7 VMr-- that I papers. He was arrested, without raiesune atius u e k. lus family's knowledge, and figure is now past 50. Egyptian Arabs today average a years throwti Into Moscow's grim Lu and in Iraq the expectancy is only 27! pyanica prison. In 1918, one half of all Arab children born aliVedied in in- Bound for Siberia m a . a - 1 w m i. a om rTa ' m tb n iniani a . . zancy; ioaay, in me jewiiii-ucvciuvcu - 1 ne prison was crowded, so mortality is' down to about 15 per cent. In surrounding areas, crowded that the prisoners had Arab children continue to die at the rate of 49 in 100. barely room to stand erect. Un- Lack of proper food is probably the biggest problem Arab Wgnt g cows give an average of 800 quarts of milk a year and Arab hens tested that he had no interest in lay about 70 small eggs a year. The Jewish colonists crossed politics, and had only wanted to Holsteins and Jerseys with native Syrian and Lebanese cattle go nqme. ; Alter tnree montns ui .and now get 3.500 quarts per cow per year. Leghorn, chickens aIiS . ... . - & T...; v VmaH r-a ar00 - - crossed wiin native varieties nei uicu cv - To ms dismay, the other occu ggs a year. pants krf the crowded wagon told Once the all-purpose camel, goat and sheep provided most him that it was bound for Siber- of the Middle Eastern menu. The ha oJ six week, the closed wagon gardening, increased honey production, developed tank-cultiva- with it5 human cargo moved east tlon of fish, and improved strains of the native orange so that by fits and starts. Never during Palestine is the second biggest citrus exporter in the world. this time were its occupants al Reclamation, afforestation and soil improvement projects we soStok olfa were underway when the war broke oufeand a modern industrial stig wagon. By the time they structure was arbuilding. Social wellare, cultural ana education- reached Magadon, in the Bay of 1 nrmerta were clanned. Tausk, half the prisoners had f n VkiHntf Palestine un-to-kiate died ' . . j 1 1 V -tk! Th Var staVe in oeace At Magadon. Peter first heard is tremendously important. The whole world has a stake in peace . ;Ka o0!1;nc v,rr, nti in Palestine, and that peace will remain precarious until the two cal .crimes against the state." He 4 tieonles there reach some common ground. was put to work in the Kolnima The cultural and time lag between the Arabs and the Israeli gold mines, worked entirely by znakes communication difficult. Somehow Arab, must make -Jg?J the jump from the lZth century, in wnicn iney are suu uvmg, goId mines could look forward on to the 20th century. The Israeli, by example, can show them how. r to one end death: death by But it is going to be pretty hard for the Israeli to comply freezing, death by starvation or with the Council of Churches request to keep up their gooai 1, , " j work, unless the new Jewish nation is going to gt a chance to Used Dead Alan S t OOQ survive. American refusal to support Israel admission to the United Nations ia not going to help either tha Jewi or the Arabs Peter shared a shelf wooden planks nailed together with three other prisoners. Towards the beginnings of his imprisonment. one 01 them died of starvation and cold during the night. Peter Oreffon'a Bi Show Going to the state fair b probably the only spectator .port 12. lorpcoSid ST&i wnicn me im soon ucuuuca mi uuupM The minute the visitor is pushed through the gates by the trampling throng behind him, he is swept up by a current of dead man; and eagerly divided the crass roots, all squinting in the warm September sun and open- extra rations among them, unta 1 . . ... , - . . . i 11 j the mrrsft wan at last discovered. mouthed with admiration for the clean new 100 ot tne ouiia- D more frequently ings and the fine shape of the grounds. . day, Jn the terrible Siberian cold. That minute he becomes part of the show. He doesn't know indeed, death by freezing was so it. probably, but without him there would be no barkers to bark, predictable an occurrence that a no ,erri wheel, to turn no popcorn machine, toatur jnd no S.Xn tSt slim-ankled flare-nost riled horses to wait impatiently for their The burial detail methodical- turnlat the rxst. For this current of spectators is tha incentive r dug a mass grave in the morn the energy that produced the exhibits and necessitated tha mid- ing, and filled it In again at night, covering with earth the cadavers y' , jt ,.s . r whicb had been collected during li wouiani De yery gouu kiu wimuut " the day. ; The burial squad was gticky-fingered with pink cotton candy and mustard,- to brush also i charged with a peculiarly throuch the crowd, or parents, carrying wide-eyed tots, to per- gruesome ceremony. spire along from booth to booth, picking up free i literature and I Hands Kept for Prints samples and wistfully eyeing manure spreaders, autcnen ranges During most of the year, the and needlework. - cold was so intense that when Tf ..Mn't tu tm.i fun If there weren't kids delicately fin- man; died his corpse became hard gering concrete building block, poking a tentative thumb nail in- jj entTJ?s Sffici to prize tomatoes and demanding that Daddy allow them to kick or impossible to take the dead the pop bottles from under the immense tractor balanced upon man's fingerprints to complete the them. Or if there weren't any price-starved city j dwellers lick- officjal records of the secret po- Ing their gums as they gaze upon the best looking most . nder erefore wgj f succulent pork chops, beef steaks, leg of lamb, mea cnicKen ana duty, of the burial squad to cut the roast turkey on the hoof the state ever produced. hands from each cadaver, and stacyo all take! them to a special hut In a. . u! i u . I which a fire was kept me ume. miu me aiiraunuiu wuuug tu yut ifi """"6" ently lit. The hands were made 1 paces are endless. He can have his weight guessed, he can fill soft and pliable over the fire, and o--up on hot corn-on-the-cob "dipped in butter" arid pink lemon- a complete set of fingerprints was ade, he can have his entrails addled by any number of machani- takeK for tee record. The hands cal contraptions with blood-curdling yells for sound effects, he ,totK can just sit on the grass and look at the flowers, he can studious- corpse's neck before it was con- ly inspect the best efforts of Oregon artisans and institutions, he signed to that day's mass grave, can find that almost any one of the many spirited racers can feter, less than a year out of Si- .TMJ?gl 1 S hT Sreams1 oTTn en And all the tune while he is being convinced that this is succession of dead men marching -- truly's Oregon's greatest fair he is there, and by his presence with their hands tied around their 0r v pw itif - Jt- m v h ta r ? f M m Stat e Hospital Graduates Last pursing Class on Federal Aid After graduating 800 cadet nurses In Psychiatric nursing slica 1944 under a federal aid program, Oregon State hospital announced Monday! that the last class under the program is being graduated, i At the samfe time the hospital announced that another group entirely sustained by their own hospitals during their training period will uc- William Tell Advent of Worldwide Parcel Post Recalls Earlier Service The advent of speedier nationwide-worldwide air parcel post service September 1 brings back to minds of old-timers the intro duction of similar surface operations 35 years ago. It was in 1913, ac cording to Postmaster Al Gragg of Salem, that parcel post first made its a p pea a ranee in the United States. , The service at that time was established primarily to aid farmers and hamlets, located off the beaten paths, in expediting their products to market and, In turn, receiving sorely needed goods from larger cities. However, mail order houses and other establishments were quick to realize its value. Transportation facilities in those days were still slow and tedious. wotor-driven. vehicles were few and the roads which they travers ed were frequently impassable. Too, trains were giving off more sparks and smoke than speed. There were no commercial planes in those dayseither, and only the foolhardy visioned the rapid ap proach oi this Air Age. Then it took' days, to transport parcel post packages across the country. Some parcels were forced to go by virtually every movable conveyance before they reached their destination particularly to the more remote sectors. From that modest beginning, parcel post has grown to become an integral cog in the far-flung American postal operations. Its annual poundage, keeping step with the progress of transporta tion, has soared from a few mil lion to billions of pounds of assort ed commodities. Still determined to employ the fastest means of transportation to move the mails, the Post Office r epartment will add the link nec essary to give the United States the world's most highly specializ ed doorstep delivery service with the launching of the new nation wide-worldwide air parcel post. said Postmaster Gragg. Army May Use Soldiers to Aid Boat Shipment SEATTLE, Sept. 6.-(;p-The army hinted today it might use soldiers to load supplies for its Al askan and far eastern outposts aboard commercial ships now strikebound. CoL William H. Donaldson, com mander, of the Seattle port of em barkation, said the army hoped to avoid such action but we have a job to do and will not fail to do it." The striking CIO maritime un ions have -agreed to work only ships carrying war dead, incom ing mail and passenger baggage. Colonel Donaldson said the five-day-old strike had slowed army shipments. He added then-unions would be asked tomorrow to load army sup plies. Union leaders could not be reached for comment tonight but the strikers' joint action commit tee said Saturday the army would have to do its own loading. The colonel said only 20 percent of the outbound supplies were moved in army transports; the rest in commercial ships. He added the shipments might' be made from eastern and gulf ports. scribed m a forthcoming report in this space. For although Pet er's is not a pleasant story, it is only unusual in that he survived his years in Siberia. And the story of Peter has a grim meaning in these times, when the long west ern tradition of political freedom and personal dignity is so closely menaced by the rival concept of the ant-hill state. Copyright. 1048. Nw York Herald Tribune. Inc. Auto Sideswipes Train; Passenger Loses Front Teeth FOUR CORNERS, Sept. Mil dred Bales, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bales, 110 Beck ave arrived home Sunday morning GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichly and his interest making that assumption a certainty. Food was tha only means of vorHn or delavinf the comlna Red Faces in Poland lof this ' terrible end, for with Dr. Albert .Einstein not only qualifies as an I intellectual of SI hIJm" the first water; he is also cagy like a fox. H c tw J r J When the World. Intellectual Congress in Poland asked him wu to write a paper for their meeting they probably, thought fliat, . JJ1-Wy. toJ:n .Jftz as one scientists deeply concerned with social issues, Einstein pj were recruited by the secret would play into their hands. ; I police with offers of extra rations. Instead, he wrote a long message that indicated all mankind There were so many spies in the for failure to live peacefully and obviously looked to a strong I KoUma camp, that even after. United Nations to overcome the horrible obstacles of national openly to another frontiers' and "solve all conflicts leading to watf." Peter did not become a spy. but The intellectuals from behind the iron curtain' were evident- he found a way of obtaining the ly unsatisfied with Einstein's essay so they simply rewrote his which meant the difference letter entirely and issued their own statement to the press, i lSS a short tinman Vt s u- Fortunately, the old professor is not nearly as absentmind- dent in Moscow. It is part of the ed as they must have thought him. Dr. Einstein, in New Jersey, strangeness of Peter's strange released the full text of his own message to the New York Times stIT that his rather rudimentary j aions simultaneously! ' 1 How this happened will be de- m el9ISMMTimae "I hepe yaa had a grand vacation . . . Td hate to think that I was stock with, the children all summer for bo thing...' from Generals General hospital wnere sne was taken earlier Sun day following an accident in which she was involved. Miss Bales suffered face lacer ations and her front teeth were knocked out when the car in which she was riding with Leonard Rem ington, Portland road, went into a ditch in an attempt to avoid hit ting a string of Southern Pacific flat cars crossing Lancaster drive just north of Four Corners. The auto sideswiped the flat cars. The accident was not discovered until 3 ajn state police said. Both Remington and Miss Bales receiv ed preliminary treatment at Salem General hospital. Miss Bales will be a senior at Salem High school trus tall. ceed thij last federally-aided class. Courses in psychiatric training under the present program con sists of 13 weeks, with 120 hours of class ropm work practical, clini ral and theoretical rrxrfmr Tina Buerksen, director, believes that after 1950 statutes will re quire all graduate nurses to be trained ; in psychiatric nursing. Nurses receiving the psychiatric training; at the state hospital are better qualified to understand and assist mental cases to recovery. The experience. Miss Duerksen believes gives the nurse self con fidence i when confronted by pa tients With mental derangements and tempers the fear most nurses have for mental cases. Nearly all of the 28 graduate nurses caring for the 2,800 patients at the suite hospitaUhave received psychiatric training as cadet nurses, Miss Duerksen said. Assisting Miss Duerksen in the training of cadet nurses ; is Doris Haid and Mrs. Erma Grace Tur ner is! superintendent ! of the graduate nursing staff. The last graduating class under tne government aid program - is: Margaret June Berry. Clara Kief- er, Erla Mae Kolbeck, Clara Jean Pubols, S Mildred Bingham, Celia Rose Moll. Mary Theresa Powers. Clarissa Rosalie Weber, Cartene Alice Wood, Ruth Anderberg, Mir iam Cribbs, Barbara Loringer,1Pa- tncia van der Hennen. Lola Erickson, Mary Ann Smith, Clella Mae Masters Wilson, Esther Lau rene Miller, Joyce Marie Williams. Dorothy Ann Solterbeck, Hilda Dorothia Vahala, Lois Margaret Siddall,: Pauline Cloa Vandecar, Monna L Fay Bailey, Woodrow Arthur Murphy, Mary Lou White, Ruth. Biesecker. Marearet June Dietschj Pearl Lorraine Waterman, Ethel Mae Buckwalter, Evelyn Schaber, Mary Louise Veccnio, Bonna Vera Beckstead, Ida Jean Weiderrnan, Mary C. Henry. Yvonne Eleanor Gray, May Bel shaw, Joan Caskey, Iris Hailstone, Alma Russell, Anna Mae Ryroan, Barbara Schaffer, Alice Young blood, fDelores Chitwood, Kimi Nijya, ijcho Lamaont, Fanchon La von Gdfrey, Mrs. Maxine De Shazer.l Retirement i Pay Granted To Reservists Little Op LI timisih i Indicated for Meat Eaters! By Francis M. LeMay WASHINGTON. Sept. 9 V?V fiJff fJT? Ca expect "tOe bet terment this wmter in the supply of beefsteaks, lamb chops and pork, the agriculture department has announced. j j This is despite banner livestock feed supplies and a record break ing corn crop. ( . j In fact, the department said, "meat production per capita ffof the rest of 1948 will run . round 10 per cent less than the rata at the same5 time last year. Price? The department does not hazard a guess. i . t me monthly livtorV mn meat situation" bulletin said meat consumption in all of 1948 will total approximately 143 per eap- i .?mpared wltn 155 ' Pounds in 1947. i i But even the 145 nm.' fA. eacn person is away ahead of pre-war consumption. From 1933 to 1939 meat consumed Der ber- son per year averaged only 128 J pounds. Mora DeoDle eat mnn meat now because they have mora monev a nH that .. . price of steaks, chops and hams. Wheelbarrow DtF Members of the navy, army, air force, marine corps and coast guard reserves are now included under the federal retirement pay act under the new retirement law signed by President Truman June 29, the i Salem navy and -marine corps reserve offices have pointed out. j Computation or retirement pay is based primarily on services per formed by reservists and the time spent in the reserve or regular armed forces. Upon reaching the the foreign aid plan. But that will a.5 ? JVZlsl MT be?om; be lost in the ocean of Chinese mssm iTpmmnra (Continued from page 1) currency unless reforms stick. Governor Dewey is a strong friend of China - and - if elected presiaenx may want to pour 20 or more years of federal serv ic Each !year of service with the reserve or a regular armed farces even billions of American funds Prior td the effective date of the into that country, partly as a act Jan. 1, 1949, will be credit foil against communism: but that ed as a satisfactory year under the policy is of doubtful -wisdom, measure. To be credited with a China must show capacity for satisfactory year, a reservist must self-government to make outside earn nof less than 50 points, money give lasting results. After! the act Is in effect reser- The southward drive of com- vists will-receive 15 points annual- munism in Asia is causing alarm, ly for membership in the reserve; Burma is flirting with the ide- one point for each day of active ology; revolts in other countries federal service performed prior to of south Asia and adjacent islands and after the effective date of the may reflect "the penetration of I measure, and one point for each comrrftinist influence. If China drill or period of instruction or should fall to the reds our pros- equivalent instruction consisting of pect in the Pacific would be accredited correspondence courses, grim? (Could! that be one reason Reservists will begin to receive why we are in no hurry to get retirement pay at the age of 60. out of Japan?) Red Asia would The number of points earned dur- not be a military menace for considerable period of time, but it would pose an economic threat We recall the pinch caused when Japan cut off our inflow of rub ber, tin, tung oil, tungsten. There isn t much we can do about it. We cannot prevent Asia from sliding into an amorphous political mass if the leadership there is helpless. It looks now as though the long-held dream of golden Pacific era is pushed back into the Indefinite future. Texas Man Buys 4 Corners Station FOUR CORNERS Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nottingham of Mc Al len, Texas, have purchased the Mobilgas service station and res idence located on the northeast corner at Junction or Macieary road and highway 222. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shephard from whom the Nottinghams bought the station will go to Portland to reside as soon as their residence there is completed. Shirley LaVaHey, Durbln ave is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George La Valley in Portland. Butler Buys Service Station at Sublimity SUBLIMITY Ray Rauscher has sold the Sublimity service sta tion to Gene Butler of Sublimity, who took over the management September 4. The station was built in 1923.. Butler, formerly employed by the Lulay Brothers Lumber com pany, is installing completely new equipment and modernizing the station. Rauscher has been confined to his home by illness last year. When he recovers his health sufficiently he plans to return to newspaper work. ing the reservists entire period of service will be totalled and divid ed by 360 to obtain the number of I- Pusher to Try South America 1 i : BALTIMORE. Sent. (l-fJPi An ex-Montana cowpouncher walked into town last week pushing a white wheelbarrow sporting a small American flag before him. arry Higntower, 46, said he left Ellensburg, Wash, July f 4, 1946, on a round-the-world trip! He pas sed through Baltimore two months ago, heading north for; a boat crossing to' Europe. But he de cided things are "too mixed tip." So he's going south this time, bound for the Pan-American highway down the vertebrae of the Americas. -. j Equipment on his wheelbarrow includes a generator for 5 a head- ' light, a radio for picking j up' weather reports, and a jacket with a safety reflector on. the back. His first stop here wai at a service station. He had his wheel- narrow greased. Auburn Woman Hostess F or Missionary Circle AUBURN Mrs. Erwin C. Sun derlin entertained Wednesday for the Missionary Friends circle of the First Christian church. Mrs. Ronald Hopper ' was co-hostess. Attending were MrsE A, Stelnke, Mrs. A. J. Flint, Mrs. Lloyd Rob inson, Mrs. Wayna. Murphy Sand daughter, Carol, "Mrs. j Harold Melchert, Mrs. Katie Elgin, Mrs. Hoppers grandson, Steve Special guests Mrs. Sunderlin's i mother, Mrs. Emma Vangreen and sister, Mrs. Charles Gillmlng, and; tha hostesses. I I . .-1 years creditable for .retirement purposes. y "I The amount of retirement pay Is determined by multiplying the to tal years of service by 2Vt per cent of the annual active duty base and longevity pay for the highest grade achieved during service.) The act applies to both officers and enlist ed men. ' i Coiphand 1 'Smoky9 Ccunerqp j Plods Through City on Long I Hike to Panama Sans Horse I . ? -r A man who is slowly covering America with hisftotsteps passed, through Salem Monday on ah 8,000-mile hike to Panama. ; I Robert (Smoky) Cameron, a wizened little 62-year-old cowhand from Arizona is the man who set out two years ago walking to; for get a great personal tragedy. I InS mid-1947, after his wife and two small children were killed by stampeding cattle. Smoky swung j an 80-pound pack on his 140-pound frame at Nogales, Ariz., and took off for Alaska walking. After one year and a series of amazing adventures the little, balding ex-rancher, limped i into Anchorage, Alaska. Walking for most of the 4,000 miles,, accepting rides when offered, but .''never hitchhiking. he traveled through Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Wash ington, British Columbia and Al berta. Canada. . Harried Trip ! At Alberta he picked up ; the Alcan highway and hiked it to Anchorage. He ended up in a hos pital twice on the way, wandered around for five days once living on Copenhagen snuff in a blizzard, treked through weather 32 degrees below freezing, burnt his feet in a forest 'fire and was finally yiscued by Indians and mounted police. Quite a fuss was . made over him in Alaska. But soon the walk ing bug hit him again and he laid plans - for the 8,000-mue wauc to Panama. To expedite matters he flew into Seattle. : Works and Walks "From there on." Smoky says. it will be the road. Maybe a few rides if offered. But when I cross the Texas border I will be strict ly on iny own two feet, a compass and a map ; "When I get to Panamade pends on how I feel I might just keep going until I reach the tip of Argentina. Just pickin' 'em up and layin' 'em down." j f ' - Smoky claims he can always "get . along" when on tha road. , When he becomes flat ha works. The money he received when ha 1 sold his Arizona ranch Is already gone. Hefiopes to write a book or two on his unique travels. 1 ' Varied Career . V " He and his late wife traveled with the original Buffalo ( Bill wild west show in England. At tha ' outbreak of World War I? tha Arizona cowboy joined the British air force and later switched to the American air force. ; When two years old ha was left by his parents with . a tribe of Apache Indians In Arizona.! Ha stayed with them until ho f was eight. They gavo him the name -"Smoky". ; v i While traveling Smoky alter-,' nates between a heavy pair of ' moccasins which ha made himself and a heavier pair of black walk ing boots.. He sports a typical, beat-up cowboy hat for sentimen- tal reasons and because "its tha only one I got." What he owns la on his back. : I- .