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' "Vo Faror Swayw Us, No Fear Shall Aw"
From First SUttcmu, March U, Itil .
THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRACUE. Editor and Publisher
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Ru$s Escapees
:Iee Westward
i !
By) I Thousands
Br Joseph sad Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 A
Russian who deserts from the So
viet occupation forces in Germany
knows that he will be shot if "he
is caught- He knows that the ruth
less ly I efficient
lice, the MVD.V.
is more thinr
Not In the Public Interest
likely ? to
He
catch
w a -
him -Ta Vnnurc
that his family f V i .
in the Soviet un - ;
The. sale of 280 acres of timber land in Deschutes county ton will almost j I :. ,
a u .... . . KAVT9iniW! f 1 1 Tiar
bearing a fine stand of Ponderosa Dine violated a rule adopted by w"
a former state land board to retain forest land and Sell Ohlv the I i..-. 4. i
, i ui ma unfi uuu.
timber on iL In this case the land board sold not only the land I He knows' that
I the drsrvl half
wvstu ub Msuvciy 1SU ruiu t en. SB iiu vswau ,va oats a u nv ,a.ua waa i - ; 'a a
sealed bid or auction, and at a price $2.00 per thousand board iJtJT8ZZ&
feet under the minimum recommended by the state forester. js jst he can hope for if
State Treasurer Scott opposed the sale but Uoyernor riau ana he succeeds. Yet it can now oe
Secretary of State" Newbrv nut it throuch. : . revealed on undoubted authority
- I a.i a.' :l A..W cm avla a
. UUL eclCIl 1111H1UU UIUIC WiaiJ es
The tract will bring over $104,000 to the state, which is thousand Soviet soldiers and ci
tempting; but the method of sale followed was wrong and not vilian officials are risking death
in the public interest. The state forester's recommendation should to flee to the American zone of
have been followed. On auction the timber itself should have rJ"umjF . W1 . . . .
i ..-w u , ton - ai . a -a The astonishing total of desert
the state should have retained the land to grow successive erops
of timber on.
era to the American zone in tha
last 12 months
is just over 13,
I vv a I
I r'2r- If
000. Of these
about 4,000 were
officers, includ
Jing two generals.
lone a lieutenant
general on Mar
shall Sokolov-
sky's staff. Ap
proximately 6,
000 were enlist
ed men, and 3,-
a000 were Russian
The value of the land to the purchaser is this: since it is
pretty well surrounded by federal forests he can make an ex
change with the forest service whereby the latter "will get the
land but he. will get cutting rights on a similar tract of federal
forest lands. So the purchaser stands to earn two profits.
There has been some finger-pointing because Ralph H. Cake,
, republican national committeeman, represented the purchaser,
s though he were mixing politics with his law practice. As far
as Gov. -Hall is concerned we doubt if Cake has any influence
at all. Secretarv 'Newbrv though ought to cet awav from being 1 t Zlvwutt AlsoiH workers and" d
a carbon copy for the governor. While Hall appointed him he ri' .TL "Lc,,als:
made the. grade himself in the spring primaries arfll so should certainly on the' low side, simply
leei on ms own now. because tne - total inciuaes omy
Some months ago the land board sold a small tract of tide- .jS10 Jti"
,, A . . . , from the Soviet occupation for-
land on Coos Bay, Treasurer Scott objecting, for a sum which cej There is no doubt that many
looked large on the basis of the small acreage involved but was more Russians have crossed the
mall in comparison with the lease value of the land. Now an- zonal borders and quietly faded
other instance has arisen where it does not appear that th. land SSSSS.
board has exercised proper business prudence. It must pj
It sets a bad precedent to sell timber on a negotiated price figures listed above apply only to
basis when timber is in as crreat demand as it is at the Present Soviet desertions to the American
time, and then at a price less than that recommended by the erman They dor not
State forester. Why call on the state forester at all if his advice Lted ito the west in Austria and
Is to be discounted so heavily? j I elsewhere, nor do they include
In this instance the purchaser wanted the land board office , have fled to the Bri-
ftake his cruise. The office had a cruise made by the state for- j - j t rr
aster's office which showed 50,000 more board feet than the Also j in British Zone
ether cruise. This became the basis for the comrutation. If the I British figure on Sov iet deser-
.. j..: vj i n i i i u u I tions to the British zone are un
iulc r. i w. obtainable. Yet it can certainly
would probably have obtained $10,000 more for the timber and be assumed that at least as many
Still held title to the land. j Russians have fled to the British
zone as to the American zone. In
deed, the total may well be high-
Efficiency for DPS ' 4 t er. This is for a very simple rea-
v j I son
Two months agocongress authorized entry into the United L.Sf LJ'
States of 205,000 Of Europe's more than 850,000 displaced per- can zone cf Germany were hand
sons. Not one of the would-be immigrants has yet reached these ed over to the Soviet authorities,
hbres. ' and thus to certain death, as a re-
Isui i ot a post-war ooviet-American
agreement. The agreement has
their labor could have been easily absorbed during the sum- now in' effect been jettisoned. De-
mer harvest season Europe's modern Les Miserables have re- serters! are returned only if the
mained in idleness, growing daily more discouraged and more vid TitjaZ
difficult to rehabilitate. It where he can be found and
It will be another month before the DP program actually 'or obvious reasons this happens
OUT!
We Fear the "Woret"!
gets going and the innocent victims of war start coming to Amer
ica.
exceedingly rarely if at all
Nevertheless, the fate of Rus
sian sdldiers who escaped earlier
to the American zone certainly be
came known to would-be desert
ers in I the Soviet zone, and al-
;The reason for this delay, of course, is that everything has
to run like clockwork in this country and sometimes it takes
a while to get the clockwork together,
"Channels"-
averything has to go through chapels. Rules, regulations and -jded Ed
Official directives form the channels. So far, the plans made for serters lover to the tender mercies
th DPs are still somewhat tentative because, you see, the U. S. of the MVD. Therefore Soviet de-
DP commission, appointed by the president when congress ad- serUoni to theBritish have very
Journed, has not yet formulated all the rules and regulations.
though; ; American 'policy has
- i ii a x m 1 I rhancpd J tha mmnrr linvpn nn
wie uiuuusixtMiiu ui uui cctuciakiu iraicm, i " :. . . " J ----o -
Shipping a couple hundred thousand strangers 3,000 miles
probably been higher than to the
American zone.
oc nnn t?:.,i. r .1.
away to Ellis island and communities all over the country is not Y tt f
as simple as it sounds. It involves fingerprinting, verifying re- tion M'ooRLsTansrt'the
cords (a monumental task because a lot of filing cabinets got very least, have risked certain
blown to bits during the war), checking birth certificates (a lot death to escape the iron grip of
Of people canal prove they were born at all) and digging into enyj'et nTh Americaai2
police records. Also a DP's political beliefs must be scrutinized SoritieLfareeat lJt awaked the
Since communists are now barred from entering this country, fact that this army of Russian
And every emigrant has to have a medical examination. deserters is a gold -mine of in-
... ,. , . , , . TT . . vamaoie.' miormauon. Many are.
Meanwhile, the plight (and expense to U. S. taxpayers) of of course, unlettered neasants and
the DP's in Europe gets desperately worse, .but perhaps if the I workers, and. these are merely al
DP program is stalled lon enough, it will not be necessary to I lowed fa find what place they can
have it at all. The DIs will have died off or have fallen into JOIS1hef'saeJ,t wo thirds" Ire
Russian hands or been taken by other coOntries. And that would woTinir n GermTn farms L a
be so much more convenient than doing away With red tape on ricultufaj laborers.
V4" their behalf. ' ' I As ell as the two generals al
ready mentioned, however, many
! responsible officers (including a
Labor Vote to Divide IMfUS VL? tl1?
While President Truman was making his strenuous effort 1"- 'fn
to capture the labor vote in a Labor day drive through iindust- tion otherwise wholly unobtain-
rialized Michigan and a big speech at Detroit, Uncle Dan Tobin, able, both military intelligence,
long right bower for FDR in the labor movement, and his team- and m?rp general but equally val-
. . A. t 7 j t uable information on the inner
sters were getting set to stay (officially) neutral. Instead of mak- workingi of the Soviet system,
tng any endorsement the union isn't even going to hold a political r 1 .
action conference; and its magazine gives its million members a "u experiment rails
pauis to vote as they please, though Tpbin urges support for con- ?r
gressional candidates who opposed the Taft-Hartley bill. nlace is itself an immenselr Kis-
Despite all of Truman's efforts he, is not going to corral all nificant j commentary on the So-
f the labor vote. The CIO is pretty well lined up behind him, "ei Iar more meamngiui
. ,. . . ' . , . than the occasional individual es-
bamng the Wallace splinter section. But Dewey is going to ga- cape ofp; Kravchenko or a Kasen-
ther in a good measure of support from AFL. kina. For the plain fact is and
For one thing, labor leaders are politicians too; and they " rtlJ"!, plaitner ?.)er d
know a bandwagon when they see one. The Dewey vehicle has penmen is a ghastly and tragic
the popular calliope now and enough AFL. leaders will get a ride failure.) This fact is attested not
on it to have a foot in the White House come next January. j only by the utter desperation
a t- . - . - . , , . ... . . . 1 wiucn musi mouvaie ine mass ae-
Another distinguished neutral this year is John L. Lewis. w
He will have no truck with Truman who broke John L.'s pick by the! almost equal desperation
with a Goldsborough injunction twice: but the GOP isn't angling which the Russian rulers are
for a LewW endorsement such as he gave Willkie in 1940. hSyfiSf .to isola,!f wh?If
Truman's hope of political salvation lies in labor. Tobin's This ! does not mean that the
on-the-fence stand indicates that Truman isn't going to get the structure of power which the So-
massed labor vote which four times stayed with Franklin Roose- . "af f.PLni.u"y con'
Velt.
west there are thousands who
Dr. Edward Benes had tha misfortune to live too long too a T
long for his own peace of mind. Disciple and successor to the Russiaii soldier has always fought.
great 1 nomas jviasaryK, ur. oenes. one 01 tne aDlest statesmen in cas of war. Yet clearly there
of Europe, sought to preserve Czechoslovakia from the nazis and is a deep inner, weakness in the
to make it a mediator between east and west. His hopes were Soviet -system. For only a system
. , , . . . 4 ,. , . ... . . .i. . . rotten - at the core could produce
dashed with the communist coup which he validated with his tne maye and incredible phe-
reluctant signature. Hi3 memory, though, will serve to kindle nomenln of the flight to the west
jsveof freedom among Czechs who kept it alive through cent- f whichls! now. going on.
UTies Of SUDJUgatlOn. ;, (Tribune! Inc.
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it is pertinent to inquire, When
do company profits become "high
enough?" Or "too high?"
Consumers of petroleum pro
ducts as they review oil company
earnings can't help coming to
the conclusion that prices have
been ' raised faster and higher
than Is justified. It is true that
demand continues strong and re
finers are overbidding posted
prices for crude but there ought
to be some degree of restraint
when it comes to taking profits
and not merely the limit of what
the traffic will bear.
On thing certain: consumers do
not want this strike prolonged
to where essential services are
curtailed, or even when less es
sential service is seriously im
paired. And they do not want
to 'be made the gpats of any wage
settlement There is cushion in
current earnings so the wage in
creases should not be rolled
along to consumers.
Jaycees Hear
Rosebraugh
Elimination of corner trees and
shrubbery as traffic hazards was
recommended Tuesday by W. W.
Rosebraugh, former, member of
the Salem city council in a talk
to the Salem Junior Chamber of
Commerce at the Golden Pheas
antr Rosebraugh pointed to the
new telephone building on the
corner of Winter and Court streets
as "a violation of the set-back
ordinance," predicting that "the
building will cause the death of
more than one resident In traffic
accidents."
He urged the Jaycees to cooper
ate with civic planning organizations.
Thieves Enter
Offices, Homes;
Money Missing
Several thefts and attempted
thefts Monday night and Tuesday
morning were reported Tuesday
and investigated by city police.
During the lunch hour Tuesday
a thief entered the Oregon build
ing, office of the Camp Fire Girls
and took a money bag containing
about $10, Mrs. H. G. Nelson told
police. During the same hour an
attempt was made by a prowler
to enter the Catholic Charities
and Oregon Child Evangelism
Fellowship-, offices in the Pacific
building across High street. A
screwdriver was found by the
building manager, Ed Amman, but
the attempt to enter the offices
was not successful, police said.
Mrs. Joyce Davis, 1180 Jeffer
son st., reported to police that
someone had taken a purse from
her car parked at 870 Shipping
st., Tuesday morning. The purse
contained $6.
Larcenies Monday night were
both from rooms, police report.
Andrew Creech, of the Beilevue
hotel, reported $23 taken from
his trousers while he was asleep
in his roon. S. F. Webber, Clare
mont hotel, told police that $47
was taken from a wallet on a
small table in his room while he
slept. The wallet was still on the
table, he said.
The
Safety Valve
Toastmasters
Start Season
First Salem Toastmaster's meet
ing of the fall season was held
Tuesday night at Nohlgren's res
taurant. Announcement was made
that meetings will be held there
each Tuesday evening during the
fall and winter months.
Desmond Long was toastmaster
during the meeting and William
Hill, table topics chairman. Speak
ers were Glen Bunight, Harlan
Pearson, Wally Carson, Ernest By
berg and Ralph Nohlgren.
Peor Lishtln at Intersection
To the Editor:
After driving a number of
times over North Capitol street
and Fairgrounds road I am con
vinced that the lights are the
reason that so many outside
drivers are running through the
red lights at that intersection.
The driver does' not come into
the beam of the light until the
light is so near overhead that
he misses seeing it. While the
lights are there they show dimly
to an approaching vehicle. This
is caused by the curving street
at that point. Either brighter
lights or lenses that spread the
beam sidewise might remedy the
trouble.
Lewis Judson.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
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Morse Terms
ERP Dollars
Tor Defense'
The European relief plan dol
lar is a defense dollar and is well
spent, U.S. Sen. Wayne L Morse,
Oregon's junior senator, told mem
bers of Salem Kiwanis club and
their guests Tuesday noon at the
Marion hotel.
Possibility of a war with Rus
sia today is exceedingly remote
but in the first week of last
March the possibility was very
close, the Oregon senator said.
Subsequent passage of the Euro
pean relief or Marshall plan and
adoption of the selective service
changed the picture, he said, add
ing that be believes Russia now
regrets the fact it left the Pans
conference and lost the chance to
help shape the future of Europe.
While the United States had
little over two divisions ready
for combat last March, Russia had
71 divisions ready for combat
service, the Oregon senator said
in telling of hearings, before the
senate military affairs commit
tee of which he is a member.
Regarding the ERP, Senator
Morse said, "We cannot ship
great quantities of materials to
Europe without affecting the do
mestic economy here and I believe
we should tell the people why
prices are higher.
Speaking of his attitude toward
national legislation, the speaker
said he asked only that the peo
pie of Oregon wait until he- had ,
all of the facts . and then ask j
themselves how they would have 1
voted if they sat where he sat.
"I assare you that the Senator intends to fnlflll all his campaign
pi taxes ... even the ones he's made to the public"
20-30s Hear
Harvey Scott
Harvey Scott, of the engineer
ing department of the Oregon state
board of aeronautics, Tuesday
night discussed air markers with
members of Salem 20-30 club
meeting at the Gold Arrow res
taurant. It was announced at the meet
ing that the local club, in coop
eration with a national 20-30 pro
gram, will install an air marker
here.
The marker is to be in huge
white painted letters and will ei
ther be placed on the roof of the
Oregon state supreme court build
ing or the roof of the Bonesteele
building on Lana avenue. It will
bear the 20-30 insignia and an ar
row directing air traffic to Mc-
VNary field. The city's name will
be accompanied on the marxer
with the altitude of trie city.
Fouf new 20-30 members initi
ated at the meeting are Ronald
Patten, Dwaine Hewitt, Richard
Wherley and William Troth.
Institutions'
Budgets Rise
67 Per Gent
The Oregon state board of con
trol Tuesday was advised by Bud
get Director George Aiken that
the tentative budgets of 10 state
institutions have increased ap
proximately 67 -per cent for the
1949-50 i biennium. Aiken said
these compared with actual appro
priations covering the current
two-year period.
Budgets of other state activities
have increased 22 per cent, Aiken
said. The budget director indica
ted thai a number of institution
budgets probably would have to
be reduced materially to keep the
expenditures wijthin the state's es
timated revenues. . r"i
At the same Urn. the board of
control was advised by Roy : X.
Mills, board secretary, that the
value of state property Increased
from $52,892,000 a year ago i to
158.476,210 this! year. Mills said
that there are prospects of a fur
ther increase to! $70,000,000 within
the next 12 months. j -i
Mills presented the increased
state property valuation in con
nection with fixing the state res
toration fund Jeyy starting July 1
of next year. The rata of assess
ment required to raise $100,000
annually, the amount designated
by statute, is 17.1 cents per $100
of value. Last year. Mills indica
ted, the assessment was a trifle
more than 18 cents per $100. The
increase in thje value of state
property during? the past year was .
due largely to (the uuilding con
struction program now in progress
at the several state institutions,
, The state . restoration fund is
used by the state in lieu of com
mercial insurance. , 1
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