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SFKKE PIT 77 Favor Sways Us, NoFar Shall AwT from First StoUoMa. lisxeh It, 1U1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLT3 A. SPRAGUZ. Editor and ttibHsls ' (XatMwl t Oragoa. as eend class Matter coe su a. m. mioa or tbs associate nm tress to estttl txstaslvaty to Om ate tor rS4aea tf a t M WW Mil AT MVS ! L ' MXMBXX FACOTC COAST DIVISION OT BURgAU OF AJDVUtllllfO t M ! 5 A4vtrtHto ijimtJtHM War-Ortmtti Cfc. New Yert. ChlnK tu trntmrn audit bvxxau Or osculation y ftssl (to ASti By Ore aJasaftsialaPJA. a Stoat- m ml 111 II i 4W .U4 'Axfa SaDy" on Trial i They played recordings of "Axis Sally's war time broadcasts as testimony against her (Miss .lildred E. Gillars) in her trial on charges of treason. "Axis Sally" was th name given this 'American woman who went on tha nazi radio during tha war, aiming her broadcasts at Amer ican armies. Arrested after VE day she was re f&fitly brought to this country to stand trial. 4 We haven't had many treason trials in this country. The most famous was that of Aaron Burr in Richmond, Va. with Chief Justice John Marshall presiding. Burr, who was accused of trying to set up a new republic in the south-, west, was acquitted; and President Thomas Jef ferson who. had been elected over Burr by tha house of representatives,, was bitter against Marshall. f A few days ago a former air force office, Martin James Monti, was convicted of treason nd sentenced to 25 years imprisonment and fined 410,000. It is the only time, according to the justice department that a man has con fessed treason. This suggests reference to the constitutional provision regarding treason: "Treason against the United States shall con sist only in levying war against them, or in ad hering to their enemies giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of trea son, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." Monti's conviction was bucd on the last phrase: "confession in open court." The govern ment had brought witnesses from Germany, but "didn't need to introduce them because Monti confessed to 21 charges of overt acts of treason. His case is singular. A lieutenant in the air force, he deserted in Karachi, India, hitchhiked by plane to Italy, stole a P-38 at an air base near Naples, flew to Milan and surrendered to the Germans. He did broadcasting for the nazi, wrote propaganda for the SS and was actually accepted as an officer in the SS. When the war was in its last stages Monti reported to the 'American army, claiming to be an escaped pri soner of war. He was tried though for desert ing and stealing a plane and was sentenced to 15 years on conviction. When he agreed to re nlist the sentence was remitted. Later his trea sonous activity in Germany was learned and he was arrested on treason charges. One can count on the fingers of one hand the number of Americans arrested and tried for treason as a result of the last war. Considering the varied national origins of our people and the wide tolerance of political opinion here that Is Quite remarkable. It-shows that loyalties here run deep. It is OUR country, despite a few Axis Sallys and Tokyo Roses and Martin Montis. Want School to Stand on Its Merits Members of the Klamath county delegation advise this editor they are waging no "battle" for continuation of Oregon Technical Institute ftt Klamath Falls. Horse-trading, log-rolling for It ae out, they assert; and when men of the Stamp of Phil Hitchcock, Henry Semon and Ed Geary say that you can believe it They have faith in the institute and believe it will stand tip tinder legislative scrutiny. They are willing ERP Men Oppose Italy Land Refor ms By Joseph Alsep ROME, Jan. 28 In this old honey-colered city, with its im memorial beauty and air of easy luxury, unpleasant facts are easy to -forget. But It is a vital fact none the less -that all the im- rfZJt provement that i , , . . that can be ac- ' w - coaiplished in - f ,41 "UJ IS US' ropean recov- , nrnf ri m - E m- afaa as f lUAflvV .... a TZT- ? the Ufa of the r wS Italian masses 1 I ; I anything but J I cruelly hard. U V 1 c a;n not make All; authorities Joarph Alaotr Indeed agree that the only solution of Italy's economic problem is mass emi gration the inclusion of human beings among articles for ex port. In these circumstances, it is downright shocking that Ameri- ' can policy is rapidly acquiring the reputation of being reaction ary. Specifically, here in Italy land reform must take first place in any program of social better ment. Significantly, it is among the dispossessed workers of the - great Southern Italian latifundia that communism is now making iti only progress in Italy. Yet passive American opposition to land reform has just been indi cated by no less a personality than the chief of the ERP mis sion here, J. D. Zellerbach. This sort of thing was perhaps understandable before the No vember election. With a reac tionary congress breathing down their necks and a republican president looming up 'ahead, tha executives of American policy in Europe had a natural tendency to walk very carefully. Further more, although this did not coma out i during the campaign, L Gov. . Thomas IV Dewey apparently Xijve them good reasons for do- It is understood, for instance, that at a dinner in New York shortly before the election, Dew ey asked General Lucius D. Clay to tell the Germans he meant to have no truck with the power ful Social Democratic party. Si multaneously in Franca men close to him were deeply alarm ing the French center parties by their close association with lead ing Gaullists. Meanwhile, here in Italy, certain minor; figures of this ERP mission were making no bones about their sympathy with the Italian rightist Parties and their assurance of future support in Washington. The real source of the general Italian belief in American op position to land reform was, however, a private warning giv en the government ; by Zeller bach in September. For practi cal reasons which held good at that time, he warned : that re forms must" not hamper the harvest in Che present Crucial crop year. On the other hand, although Zellerbach may not have noticed it, the American election has now shown our people on the side of social pro gress. The crisis year is over Ir Italy. And there can be no poss ible excuse for' the statement is sued by Zellerbach. just befon leaving Italy, that he could no countenance any landl reform which would .result even in ; temporary drop in the land's pro ductivity. ; As a practical matter, tha Ze' lerbach statement has really e plosive Implications. Americr influence is now strongly felt i every sphere of Italian politic Premier de Gasperl Is commute to land reform, and he and th majority of his cabinet wish t begin the job immediately. The are being powerfully obstructed, however, by the rightist parties in the government, And now Zellerbach has played directly. to stake its continuance on a report of tha ways and means subcommittee which plans to visit the school. That's a fine attitude, one rare in legislative precincts. Tha question primarily is one of whether tha cost of operating th former ma rine barracks plant aa a vocational school can be brought within reasonable scale, measured by tha results obtained and tha state's financial situation. It should not be opposed from region al or competitive rivalry. Municipal Off street Parking Mayor Robert I ELfstrom is recommending a diversion from the parking meter revenues to finance offstreet parking for downtown Salem. Albany has already taken such a step. The city council approved the purchase of four lots for $38,000. This will give one-half block of land adjacent to th city center for use for parking. Parking meters allowing 10 hours of parking will be placed at th head of parking stalls. This looks like a practical way of meeting demand for parking space. Serving primarily the all-day parkers (clerks, store proprietors and others) it leavs th curb parking space for shoppers and transient motorists. The Salem city council should look into th mayor's proposal and see if something along this line can't be worked out. The : state police rounded up a bunch of slot machines in Clackamas county, leaving the she riff to stutter an explanation. Supt. H. G. Mai sori says it has been the policy of the state po lice to defer to local authorities in these mat ters. But where local authorities are deaf, blind or crooked, the state police shouldn't hesitate. The quick way to end the racket is to order tha state police to knock over the one-armed ban dits all over the state. That's the way to treat them--not do like the new DA of Coos county, tell the proprietors not to park the slot ma chines close to cash registers! Tha backfire started by Oklahoma landlords who served eviction notices on their tenants in protest against federal rent control will quickly burn put. Few propertyowners can afford to let their houses and buildings stay vacant, for tha taxes run on; and they do not add up to enough voters to cut much political ice. Communists never hestitate to claim all tha civil liberties offered in our constitution, and never to criticize the denial of them in communist-controlled countries. Just how much academ ic freedom is there in Russia? Or freedom for scientists, musicians, writers? Four slot machines were seized at Canby in Senator Hilton has a bill to disqualify from holding office a candidate who made false state ments about himself or any other candidate. If that passes, what'll we do for public officials? A Seattle woman won a divorce when sha testified : her husband would lay a board across two chairs and start sawing on it when she turn ed tha radio on to soap opera. Clear case of in compatibility. X" into the rightists' hands. For great changes always bring some confusion. And any effective land reform is virtually impossible on Zellerbach's terms. What makes the whole bust ness still more shocking is tha demonstrable fact that the Zel lerbach attitude is fantastically unbusinesslike. We are already spending nearly six hundred million dollars a year merely to stop the communists in Italy. An additional outlay of a few tens of millions, to cover the initial cost of land reform, will deal tha communists a crippling, perhaps even a deadly blow. By any business standard, it would be hard to find a more attractive investment. No blame here attaches to Ambassador James Clement Dunn, who has done a singularly brilliant job, or to the state de partment, whese instructions to press for land reform Zellerbach has ignored. But distributing the blame is not lmportant. What is important is to grasp the central issue. After all, centrist governments like de Gasperi's cannot last forever. It is vital to create in Europe a healthy, non-communist left, which can take power when the time comes. The con ditions for the emergence of such a healthy left are Just beginning to be created by the weakening of the Communist grip on most sectors . of the broad working masses. A whole new political scene can take form in Europe if America will only stand forth as the champion not of the rich few but of the suffering many. That Is the only way the Job can be done. That is the secret of the future.. And for Ameri "ans, including Zellerbach, that -hould be th chief lesson in taly. Copyright. UMS, Mew York Herald Tribune, Inc.) V A a 'iiiiM 'U jTi t murr minimi mi i i ' Ti Hi -U.. I 1 i1- jaBnafefejsaaaaBBte ,MBaBBaMMBBBteMBauBBa .a 8QQDDDB id n (Continued from page 1) (Continued from page 1) being a socialist and an effort was made to have his certificate revoked on that ground. A hear ing was held before Mrs. Jose phine Corliss Preston, state su perintendent. The only spot in the law by which he might be hooked was "unprofessional con duct" and possession of unortho dox political views could hardly be classed as unprofessional con duct So he didn't lose his cer tificate. I recall another incident in the Washington legislature of 1915. Ia the course of a debate a King county senator called a fellow member, Petes Iverson who ran a paper on one of the islands in the Sound, a socialist. The next day another senator arose and asked to have th "nasty epi thet" erased from the record! Now the label socialist is almost a compliment compared with communist. It is a hard thing to police opinions but somewhere there has to be a limit. According to our present lights the authorities at the University of Washington seem to have acted wisely. "Come the revolution" of course and Dr. Allen and the regents would quickly decorate the lamp posts. The Safety Valve Plaanln- at Stats Capitol To the Editor: The state board of control is to be congratulated on its neu tral or adamant attitude toward further messing up a State House which in the beginning was conceived in confusion and born a monstrosity. However, we must make the best of what we have and it is gratifying to learn our state government is carefully plan ning a system of permanent of fice buildings, and also 'endeav oring to facilitate our parking problems. Therefore, I deside to offer a suggestion to this legislature to appropriate the necessary money to adequately excavate and construct two or more decks of parking space north of the Capitol building and between the State Library and new Of fice building along with tunnels under the streets to the base ments of these respectice build ings. And to further restore the landscape to its original beauty, the same as San Fran cisco has so effectively' done to some of their city parks. I further wish to suggest that within this assembly of new buildings the state and th city of Salem get together in build ing an auditorium capable of taking care of the greatest na tional conventions and making it accessible to all political par ties, religious denominations, lodge organizations and labor unions in their turn. This would be the greatest possible adver tising by attracting the nation's most representative citizens to our state and our city. While eliminating a vexing parking problem during the legislature, and would also establish a gen uine public service the : year around and for many years to coma. T. J. Shipler Rt I Literary Guidepost FROM DAT TO DAY, by Odd Nansen, translated by Kath erine Jeha (Putnam's; $5) Son of the Norwegian explorer, this author was arrested in his home in January, 1942 and was held In custody as a "court host age" near Oslo, then near Trom se and finally in - the Berlin area, at Sachsenhausen, until May, 1945. He was in the habit of keeping a diary, and it seem ed somehow a habit to continue, one that in his sometimes in credibly wretched new life bound closer to his happy old life and to his beloved wife and children. Written for his wife alone, and often at great personal risk, it was nevertheless published, met with marked success, and de serves to succeed here, for it is the only thing of its kind to come out of World War II. In a sense this Is not a war story at all. The stress does not fall on adventure, bravery, suf fering, misery or death. This is about the survival of dauntless humankind, about the persistence of humane instincts even behind barbed wire, about brotherly love Health Bureau Plans Clinics, Immunizations Immunizations and child clinics top the list of activities next week of the Marion county department of health, according to a schedule list released Friday by the de partment. The schedule includes: Monday Immunizations and vaccinations for children at the department's Masonic building of fice from 10 a.m. to noon and from 3 to 5 pm.; immunization clinic St Highland school, 1 to 3 pjn. Tuesday Clinic at St. Paul school, Silverton, by Dr. W. J. Stone and Helen Wangsgard at 9:30 ajn.; infant and pre-school health clinic at Eugene Field GRIN AND BEAR i twiTit Afuc l Kris r "After therouch censidersuen. I thiak we should sappert the present Chinese leaders . otherwise w X that will not be bludgeoned into extinction. There are passionate cries of hatred, to be sure, less In Nor way where Nansen is inspired to admit "I'm not having a bad time and more in Sachsenhau sen, of which he confides to his wife in the diary: "God grant that you've heard nothing about this camp." There are brutal treatment of prisoners, delibera tely cruel executions, appalling deprivation, starvation. But mostly this is another world complete in itself. Where you d expect a man to spend every minute screwing up his courage to the sticking point, be in fact eats, works, reads, plays " cards, writes letters, laughs, weeps; he Is generous or selfish. honest or dishonest, as he was before imprisonment; he is wise and patient, or stupid and ill tempered; he can march off to death with a smile, or whimper at an ache and pain. An unpretentious, unassuming quality gives this account its spe cial validity; and Nansen s a bid ing conviction that we should love our enemies gives it is un usual moral force. school, Silverton, 2 to 4 p.m., and Immunization clinic at Stayton school, 930 a.m. Wednesday Fluoroscope chest clinic at Salem Memorial hospi tal, 1 to 2 pjn. (for appointment call 3-9208). Physical examina tions for first graders and others will be held at Keizer school by Dr. Stone and Dr. William Croth ers with parents urged to attend. 1 to 3:30 p.m. This examination will be held both Wednesday and Thursday. Thursday Child health confer ence (by appointment) at Masonic building, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m im munization clinics at Roberts, Halls Ferry and Riverside schools. Friday Immunization and vac cinations of adults at Masonic building, 10 a.m. to noon and 3 to 5 p.m., includes milk and food handlers. Saturday Immunizations and vaccinations for children and adults at Masonic building from 9 to 11:45 a m. IT By Lichty weald have i learn a let i new FiasT FLOOR, . 0M.X jwrx . I I 'j f ! L o J 4, , ' flST m T 1 i I i lii I ' 'mm ii 1 3Q-$ J j m j i Here's a, big Utile boas with and twe baths. Th five rooms a tha first floor eaa be finished first leaving th sttle for future expansion. Although the plan Is of economical rectangular shape, a rambling facade ft achieved with garage anJ breeaeway perch. This is plan 1141 by MeMurrly 4g Chirgotls. architects, 968 Stayvesant Art.. Union N. J. It covers an area of L006 square feet. The architects Amendments Would Grant! Taxing Power Readied for introduction In the house Friday were three proposed constitutional amendments to give the legislature more taxing pow er, to tighten up the Initiative process, and to make it harder to get school bond issues passed. One measure would let the! leg islature pass tax measures con taining emergency clauses by a two-thirds vote. This means that if two-thirds of the legislature voted for a tax bill, the referen dum could not be applied to it. The second measure would re quire eight per cent of the signa tures of all registered voters- be fore an initiative could be put on the ballot. " The requirement now is eight per cent of the num ber that voted for supreme court justice at the preceding election. The third measure would pre vent a school bond issue from going into effect unless 2 per cent of all the registered voters in the district approve it Now such bond issues can be approved by a mere handful of voters, Just so that the majority of those vot ing approve it The measures would appear on the next general election ballot. Sponsors included Reps. Earl Hill, Cushman; Dean B. Erwin, Enter prise; John P. Hounsell, Hood River; and David C. Baura, La grande. Belton Slaps At Earmarking Of State Fund There is too much earmarking of general fund ; revenues under the current financial setup In Oregon, Sen. Howard Belton, chairman of the senate ways and means committee, said Friday. Belton said he is convinced all state revenues should be placed in the general fund and be : ap propriated by the legislature.' It was Belton's opinion that an over - all appropriation system. with elimination of earmarked funds, would result in a substan tial financial saving to the tax payers. Under any system elimi nating earmarked funds, it might be necessary to exempt the state highway commission and one or two other large state acuviues, Belton said. The state highway department receives a large amount of fed eral aid which is. matched, by stat funds. Paper Files Suit Against Competitor LA GRANDE, Jan. 2M)-Th Grande Ronde Valley Publishing company, which publishes the La Grande Observer, filed a $35,000 libel suit today against the East ern Oregsn Review, a weekly newspaper here. ' The firm asked $25,000 actual and $10,000 punitive damages for statements published in a Review editorial January 21. The suit said the editorial; accused the Ob server of publishing news and editorials fot personal gain. The suit was filed by Frank Schiro, editor and publisher of the Observer, and secretary-treas urer of the Grande Ronde Valley Publishing company. i Named defendants were C I. Shorb, owner of the Review; E. E. Weiss, publisher; and Laura Mae Marshall, editor. Ancient Romans believed i.wla foretold the coming of death when they alighted on rooftops. FUFURI SECOND FLOOR, - -J i2-io m irjio- i suggest sn asphalt shingle rof fftt i j . r and air conditioned heating system., I I That They May Walk Th therapentie facilities of th Corona, Calif. Naval Hospital were mad available t victims of th 1948 polio epidemic In Los Angeles County after th . con tagious stag was passed at th Comity General Hospital wher atlents were first ordered for eatment. Phot shews Navy hospital eorpsman aiding a pa tient at Corona Hospital to walk all over again. I r Signal Spurs Search for Superfortress LONDON. Jan. 28-tfVSpurred by a radio signal, air rescue units searching for a missing American B-29 superfortress centered their efforts tonight on an area of th Atlantic 150 miles northeast' of the Canary, islands. . , j j The signal, in th form of a constant Mors cod VTt". raised hopes that the 15 men aboard tha lost B-29 had been able to take to life rafts. 1 U. S. third air division head quarters here said the radio sig nal cam from a position about 29 degrees and 44 minutes north and 15 degrees and 10 minutes west. A French flying , boat reported sighting an oil slick about 25 lies farther to the-northeast, The superfortress disappeared yesterday during a training flight from Dakar, French West Africa, to a base at Mar ham, Engj Ameri can, British and French planes ar participating in the widespread search over the eastern Atlantic. Portuguese sea rescue units have been alerted. I MaJ. Thomas Corrlgan, publie information officer at the air fore headquarters said: "Wei have strong hopes that all the boys ar alive and well." 1 i Guam Soldiers jj To Be Tried by X Military Court! GUAM, Saturday, Jan. 29-W) Three soldiers charged with rap ing and murdering Ruth Farns worth were turned over to th 20 th air force today for trial under military law. i . ! The move was ordered by th secretary of the navy yesterday. Th three air fore soldiers had been held by the navy governor of Guam and were to be; tried In Guam's civU court. ", i The three are Sgt Robert W. Burns, 32, Spokane, Wash; Pvt. Calvin Dennis, 20, and Pvt. Her man T. Dennis, 20, half brothers from Frederick, Md and Indiana polis. ' ! I " Miss Farnsworth was beaten In a shop where she was a clerk th night of December 11, dragged in to the jungle, raped and left dy ing. - il t ;.! -1 f I 'U it i j I . . 1 1 t ( l i !! I 1 l.i 1 i ,1