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lThe Statesmen fotTem, brefrori i " -No Favor Sway 17, Wo Fear Shalt Atc" From FTO SUtesmad, March 28, im THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY I CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . I rabUshed every morning. Business office 215 S. Commercial, Salem, Oregon. Telephone 2-Zllli Catered at the postoffie at Salem. Oregon, as second class matter under act of congress March X, 187i No China Trade I Certain tariff concessions negotiated with Chi na in 1947 are being dropped by the United States. This was done because nationalist China has withdrawn from the Geneva agreement ef fective last May. The comment also is added that , the United States has virtually no trade with the 1 nationalists or with the Chinese communists. . That what was once a great and flourishing business which we had dreamed would expand greatly with the end of the wars has dwindled to small dimensions.. A century and a half ago sailing vessels were active, in the "China trade" and 6omecame to be known as "China clippers. Boston merchants Would load a ship with goods to be traded for furs to Indians on this coast. The furs would be exchanged in Chinese ports for ojlks, tea, etct whijh would be sold in Europe or on our own Atlantic coast. ' . I A half century ago there was a heavy business with China from our own ports. Wheat and flour went out in big volume from Columbia river and Puget Sound andjreturning ships brought rich - cargos oi sua; inai was rusneo. uy "auu eastern silk, mills; Revolution in China didn't interfere greatly tia Knt Vvo .Tananpw war did. for one niui wm bui j - - W purpose of the Japs was to dominate the China " trade. The prolonged warfare brought China to prostration, and jthe communist civil war pre vented recovery. INow the bamboo custain has nff Tnnrh rf hi remaining inter- 4(UiWU kVJ WUI VM MMM W - mnru tirits tiTocrtprn nations. There chiefly out of Hong Kong and China - petroleum. But the heavy trade with China that was hoped would follow the second world war has not materialized. As tensions tighten in the far east the prospect for any revival of the old trade is pushed farther into the future. This abnormal and unnatural situation surely cannot last indefinitely. In the past the broad Pacific has joined JNortn America er than divided them. When the lamp of reason Is relighted then ships heavily laden will cross the ocean bearing the goods of commerce and yie passengers to interchange culture of east and west ' Reds Go Underground It must have been with a sigh of relief and a brisk "rolling up of their shirt sleeves that CP members' heard 'their official orders to. go un- Comrades operating in the limelight of pub licity feel about as comfortable and as efficiently as bats at high noon. The very - nature of communist activity demands skulking around in the darkness, and the underground is the native habitat of all subversives. iSb, with the announcement that the commun ist party in America is going into eclipse, the Rda have alreadv cot the droD on such DroDOS- d measures for forcing the comrades to operate open and above board as loyalty oaths and laws rcquiruig puiy uiuuucis iu icgutci. &oma na tional Sfjrptarv fTns Hall; i "It ithe duty of every loyal communist ab solutely to ignore any federal, state or local law that reouirea wwninunist to rpffistpr. Tt wntilri be a grievous breach of party discipline for a member to register, which would call for au tomatic expulsion from the party." And Organization Secretary Henry Winston, addressing the same top policy-making meeting, "jadded that "our party is very well equipped to carry on its work in spite of legal repressions." U. S. Soldiers in Korea Feel New j American Units Brought Up By Joseph Alsep WITH U.S. FORCES IN KO REA, Sept. 1 The folly of mak ing forecasts about this Korean war can be r7"T"'J simply Ulustra- ?i''v--K.--'-1 ted. After ? ' w&A 1 1 Ing some days f . v tn tKs tin with I . . I the hospitable 1st Battalion of the 27th. Infan try regiment, this reporter briefly returned to thenar. Here, among the - . : ! big wheels as lfMirvik Aoi' the brass is call- fl AIPi ed in this war, the balloon was up. A great, and menacing en emy effort was momentarily ex pected. Next morning, however, a trio back to the front revealed no scenes of bloody carnage or last ditch stands. Instead, the enemy had begun a general withdrawal precisely where the big wheels had' anticipated a massive on slaught. And by that afternoon my. friends of the 1st Battalion were loudly rejoicing because the big wheels felt safe enough to pull the 27th Regiment out of the line, send it halfway across Korea, and reunite it after many weeks with its parent division, the 25th. ! While one therefore wishes to avoid, phophesy, it is none the less allowable to report that the men 1 who do the actual fighting believe that the first great crisis is over In Korea. If they are right, the dinger of a full-sealer catastro phe, has passed at last. . ' ' No one at home seems to real ize how great that danger lias been. Yet not so many days ago, LL Gen. Walton H. Walker called . for total, immediate mobilization of all air transport in Japan, ia ; order; to evacuate as many Amer ican troops as possible after an enemy break-through that was expected In twelve hours. We then had no reserves to cover a 4 withdrawal and no prepared posi- - tiocs to withdraw to. If our in " credibly - thin defense - line had ' Saturdar BepteaAef 1 95ft He indicated that clandestine presses would pro vide the members with party literature and that the party's underground organization was as ready to roll. . ' Clearly, projected laws requiring registration of subversives would be worse than useless; they . would tend to give the nation a false sense of security. The FBI's technique of installing agents and maintaining stool pigeons within the com munist party organization would seem to be the more effective" way keeping, informed on the comrades' work and progress. " Death Takes Harry Banfield " .Save that death from natural causes so often has struck swiftly one would almost refuse to believe that T. H. Banfield had been summoned. ' He seemed always so alert and vigorous one nev er suspected that he would be a quick victim of an organic trouble. But so it transpired, and a most useful life is brought abruptly to an end. Harry Banfield was a native son of Portland; there he lived and worked, achieved great suc cess; there and in Oregon he played an import ant part in the public affairs of the last quarter century. Just a few months ago he retired as chairman of the state highway commission after two terms in which he devoted a large measure of his time to the duties of the office. These were truly arduous for the commission had the re- sponsibility of organizing and carrying forward the great task of postwar highway rehabilita tion. : . As an industrialist Harry Banfield was pro gressive and enlightened. He pioneered in me chanical developments and followed aggressive . methods in merchandising. He had a genuine ' interest in the welfare of his employes and had fcl is local trade. must import a social conscience. His participation in civic af - fairs as worker and contributor was generous. It was most appropriate that he was designated in 1949 as Portland's "first citizen." Oregon has too few citizens of the stature of T. H. Banfield; that he was taken at what seem ed the prime of his powers is a great loss to Oregon and the country. ana Asia raux- Loud squawking comes from a few fishermen who got tagged by state police in the Astoria fishing derby because they were tardy in tag ging -the two salmon the law permits them to catch. The purpose of the law is to learn just how great the take of sports fishermen is. In any program of conservation the authorities need to know the facts, and if, as alleged, sports fishing is making inroads on the salmon supply further restriction may be required. A beginning might well be made in cutting out these fishing der bies. . work about No time now to set up for universal military training. The call is "men wanted" and the re cruits will have to take their training in short order to fill gaps in the line in Korea. If we are . in for decades of wars or war alarums we'll have to impose a compulsory training program, dis tasteful as it is to most Americans but it will have to wait. , President Truman wants congress to author ize dispersal of government offices in the vici nity of -Washington. The idea is to have vital services scattered so they will not be knocked out in another Pearl Harbor. Why , not set up offices in Colorado where the . guerrillas will protect them? been breached that day, even the greatest effort of air evacuation could hardly have prevented the loss of half our men and most of .our equipment in Korea. Such was the danger. Even now,. the line remains alarmingly, thin. ' Even now the line's security mainly depends on : certain small crack outfits like the 27th Regiment and the First Marine Brigade, which are push ed into the line like corks wher ever a break threatens. The men who do the fighting feel new con fidence not because of any high level strategical gains, but be cause they .consider the North Koreans are growing visibly weaker -while we grow visibly stronger. ' This recently altered balance of strength was strikingly evident in the fighting this reporter has just, seen with the 27th Regi ment's 1st Battalion. In what may have been its culminating effort as a cork, the regiment had been used to meet a serious en emy threat on the main highway to Taegu, the provisional Korean capitol and hinge of our defense line. Although, the North Kore ans were locally driven by by the 27th's aggressive exploitation of our superior artillery fire pow er and air superiority, the enemy commanders continued trying for a breakthrough . for five more days before they at length with drew. But they had no air. They used their armor gingerly. They em ployed their artillery largely for counter-battery fire. They were even fairly sparing with their mortars. And the few prisoners taken , testified that the North Korean divisions on this front were feeding their men only once every two or three days, and , were hardly able to keep up their stocks of small arms and machine gun ammunition. " i All' this of course resulted from the-attrition Imposed bjj our . resistance, plus the increasing Iso lation of the battlefield by our air power. The North Koreans . are still being supplied by the Confidence; to Full Strength Soviets, but they are more and more unable to get th. supplies to the front. While the North Koreans are thus losing their offensive capa bility more rapidly than seemed possible, our own units are at last getting back the regiments, battalions and rifle companies which "economy docked from them.. When people here speak of an American division, they are positively beginning to mean the real thing, and not a poor en feebled skeleton with "courtesy of Louis A. Johnson" written all over Its emaciation. ... . With 2,500 estimated aircraft within range of our Japanese bases, with great armies In Si beria, with satellite power in China, the Kremlin can of course reverse this whole new tendency of the Korean war In the short space of a single night. But if the Kremlin does not choose to intervene here more directly, our. existing forces are now probably sufficient io con tain the whole strength the North ' Koreans can muster. If this is true, even a fairly small addi tional force, if well equipped,1 can rather quickly strike at the enemy's unprotected rear, either by "direct : breakthrough, or by securing a beachhead, or even from an airhead. And once the North Korean rear has been suc cessfully attacked, only the nasty task of mopping up will then re main. ' In short, we mixht get out of this mess in Korea rather more quickly than seemed likely when " catastrophe still- imminently threatened. As a nation, we shall then meet our greatest test, ; wheher to continue to plod down :: the hard road to survival, or whether to listen again to the cheap politicians who have tried so hard to cover up the origin and greatness of the danger here, who even now are shamelessly ' concealing the grim toll of our dead, wounded: and missing whose blood has been the heavy price of grandstand "economiz- ing." ; j Copyrtjfht. 1950. New York. Ue rid Tribune lac ROUND TRIP . '.: : . ' : ' V":'- - . ; ' " . -; ' i ' - i ' '"!,'. ' ' V 'I.'. ' nev.. " ' rKf T i Jl rtOTRESMSIBlH ft 1 ' 1 Eisler Aide Under Arrest In East Reich i ! BERLIN, SepL 1 -(JF) Six high officials of the East German re gime, Including the deputy to Propaganda Chief Gerhart Eisler, werei reported under arrest to night after banishment from the red-ruled socialist unity party for anti-Sovietism. Berlin speculated that Eisler, himself, may be next on the purge list. Eisler lost his place on the central committee of the party in a recent - shakeup. But the pudgy international revolutionary, a fugitive from American justice, was still reported at liberty. The Russian zone Politburo warned that the purge would slash deeper "until foul liberalism is finished.'' Walter Ulbricht, former Mos cow expatriate who is now East German deputy chancellor and secretary-general of the party, led the attack against the veteran red comrades, who once were exiles in western Europe. He accused them of postwar Safety Valve Appreciate News On Graham Meetings To the Editor: . The Christian Service Guild of th. First Evangelical United Brethren church of Salem wish to express our. appreciation to your paper for each news Item covering the Billy Graham evangelistic services in Port land. . Some of us have been able "to attend the meetings but we are all greatly interested in reading about them. Yours truly, Ida Swenwold Secretary Christian Service Guild.' GRIN AND BEAR IT "Maybe y.a thought It wise to .diet, 4wM. but YOU don't "NVl-' j TICKET ON THE GRAVY TRAIN connections with "American spy Noel H. Field" and forming -a "nest of class enemies' Inside the party heirarchy. All were charged with lacking trust in the Soviet Onion as the leading progressive force, , in which no doubt is possible." , Reliable information indicated the six who were banished. had been jailed by the Soviet zone ministry of state security in ad-' vance of the purge announcement today. The zonal press office said it could neither confirm nor deny the report. - , This office headed by Eisler, lost Deputy Propaganda Chief Bruno Goldhammer in the purge. Goldhammer has been pro communist for 20 years. He was hounded by the nazis in half a dozen concentration camps until he escaped and hid in' northern Italy on the Swiss border. ' Mrs. Johnson Dies; Services SlatedToday Mrs. Mary E. Johnson, a resident of Oregon for more than 60 years, died Friday at a local hospital. She had observed her 69th birth day on Thursday. Born Mary Wilson, Aug. 31, 1881, in Caney, Kah., Mrs. Johnson came to Oregon in 1888 and was mar- nea in 1SU3 to wiiuam H. John son, who survives in Salem. The couple had resided In this city since about 1912 and lived recently at n. letn st. Mrs. Johnson attended the First Presbyterian church. Survivors, besides her widower, Include two sons, J. Frederick Johnson and Fletcher W. Johnson, both of Port land; a sister, Mrs. Kate Landon, Woodburn; and four grandchildren. .Services will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Clough-Bar-rick chapel with Dr. Chester W. Hamblin officiating. Interment will be I in Belle Pass! cemetery In Woodburn. THIEVES DOUBT MAXIM TORONTO, SepL l-i?V-ThIeves stole two wax hands from dum mies In the "Crime Does Not Pay" show on the Canadian National Exhibition midway last night. . by Lichty put my wife .n a lew calorie have to Uve with her ..." Rental Issue Taken fromj Portland Ballot PORTLAND, Sept. 1 -UP)- The city council today decided not to put the question of rent controls before the voters at the Novem ber election. Instead it took steps to set up local control through an 11 -member appeals board, including rep resentatives of tenants, landlords, labor and the public. A nroDosed ordinance t would prohibit increasing refits without permission of the appeals board, and no increases of more than 15 per cent would be permitted with out giving tenants an opportun ity to object. , Commissioner Ormond R. Bean said he would propose that con trols be removed if the appeals Doara ordinance is passed.! Mayor Dorothy McCuUough iee opposed ine acuon. Milk Price ! Rise Sought 1 PORTLAND. Sept. 1 JPt A dairy industry spokesman predict ed today that a milk price increase would be 'sought here from the state milk, marketing administra tor. I Will Henry, manager of the dairy . co-operative association, made the statement after the price of milk advanced In Eugene and Roseburg 1 cents a quart. He said a similar boost would be sought here. t Henry and Thomas L. Ohlsen, milk marketing administrator, both said supplies were getting short here. Plan to Increase Hops Allotments Under Discussion WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -UP- A proposal to increase supplemental saleable allotments for hops is un der consideration, the agriculture department announced today. The marketing agreement which regulates handling of hops grown in Oregon, California, Washington and Idaho provides that total pre liminary and supplemental allot ments mar not exceed 80 per cent of each growers probable final saleable allotment unless the con trol board Increases the percent age. . . The proposal now under con sideration would increase the total of these interim allotments to maximum of 90 per cent, the de partment said, under certain con- diuons. . . Claude Matteson Succumbs at Home in Salem Claude Matteson, 67, a Salem resident since 1947. died Friday at his home at 3190 Dough ton ave. Survivors Include his mother, MtSt Ella Matteson, Puente, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Price, Salem, and Mrs. Claudia Shure, Sunburst, Mont.; five sons, Cecil Jones, Salem; Lee Jones, Eugene; Paul and Glenn Jones in Cali fornia; and Harry Jones in Kan sas? four brothers. Dewey Matte son. Salem, and Kelley and Oor? Matteson" and Edward Gleason, all in California; a sis ter, Mrs. Maude scroggms, ru ente; and 11 grandchildren. Funeral services will be ar ranged by the Howell-Edwards chapel. v . ... - i oenaTe App First Installment' 'Li Of Tax I h crease ? WASHINGTON, Sept. l-VThe senate approved a $4,508,000,000 first installment" war tax boost by voice vote tonight after votinr 42 to 38 to postpone'' until next January .a decision oh an excess nrofits levy. r - The measure now goes to .the house and probably to a senate house conference to compromise the differences with a bill approved Fourth on Oii Final List of Census Gains r . - PORTLAND. SepL I-CflVOnly four states in the union grew faster .than Oregon in the 1940-1950 de cade, the bureau of the census re ports. ' During this period, Oregon's po pulation increased 38.6 per cent Ahead of her were California, 51.6 per cent; Arizona, 48.7 per cent; Florida, 44.1, and Nevada, 43.7. . The three west coast states, Ore gon. Washington and California, gained a total of 4,600,000 In popul ation;: This 'is one-fourth of the total population increase of the na tion, said Carl J. Gilson, district census supervisor. - . 1 - ; Truman Backs Proposal taj Divert River OLYMPIA. Sept. 1. -OPY- Gov. Arthur B. Langlie said today he had no serious objection to diver sion of surplus water from the Columbia river providing: l. The water was taken from a point below the furthest down stream power production area. Z. The water that was removed from the stream would not di minish 'transportation upon the lower Columbia. 3. The water could be diverted with no loss to fish life. The Washington governor issued a statement on the subject after President Truman wrote a letter to Rep. Norblad (R-Ore). In the letter the president left no doubt that he favors a proposal to divert surplus waters from the Colum bia into the semi-arid - areas of southern California. , Langlie said that if plans could be devised in the future to meet the three provisos he mentioned, "certainly there can be no serious objection i President Truman apparently met the first proviso in his letter to Norblad which said: Tor your Information there has never been any intention to divert any water from the Columbia river, except at the point where it flows into the Pacific ocean. . , Court Gives Lead Ballast to Henry Kaiser PORTLAND. Sept. MSVA fed eral! court held here today that a Henry J. Kaiser company Is en titled to the $232,000 worth of lead it found In a surplus ship bought for $65,750. U. S. District Judge Gus J. Solo mon ruled that the company, Con solidated Builders, Inc a Kaiser subsidiary, bought the SJS. Leon ard Wood "as Is" In 1947.' The ship was . a troop carrier and attack transport. The "as is", the judge said, in cluded the 594.2 tons of pig lead ballast. John R. Brooke, assistant U.S. district attorney who carried the government's fight to recover the lead, argued that it wasnt known that the lead was used as ballast Manley Strayer, defense attorney, showed papers that Indicated the sale was made "as . Is." Judge Solomon ruled that in such sales the government makes no value guarantee, and that the purchaser must take his chances. Postal Receipts am Uncle Sam's "greetings' and ac tive duty calls don't add to postal receipts, but Salem postoffice scored a 13.5 per cent increase in receipts anyway In August. Postmaster Albert C. Gragg said income was $64,426 last month, compared with $56,756'a year ago. He credited most of the boost to Increased population and business of the area, pointing out that draft and reserve notices bear the gov ernment franking and do not re quire postage. ". FLAX SEED PRICE CUT WASHINGTON, Sept, 1-OVThe commodity credit corporation has lowered tne domestic sales, price floor on its stocks of bulk flax seed and raw linseed oil to be elective until next February 1, E3BIO MOVIE NEWS IS I watch rot PRETTY BABY ttOMWAINUStOS. ELSINORE SUNDAY! Ureg Advance Ae roves earner by tne house. An acxnowieagea "stop - gap" measure to help fight Inflation and start paying for the Korean war and rearmament, the bill would hike Individual Income taxes by. about $2,700,000,000 a year. It would add another $1,500,000,- , 000 to federal coffers through an increase in corporation taxes and gather other millions by plugging "loopholes and making other tax law changes. On October 1 1 , The bill is designed to go into effect for individual taxpayers Oc tober 1. On that date, if the bill is enacted Into law in time, with holdings on wages and salaries, af ter personal exemptions, will iumn from the present 15 per cent to 18 " per cent.;,-,. 4 ,:- . ,.y- -. ,-j...1s.J xne corporate tax would increase from the present top rate of 38 per cent of the income to 45 per cent; " ' ' ' . Drives by Senators Douglas (D III) and Humphrey (D-Minn) and others to put more revenue-producing provisions into the bill were killed off In rapid fire order, most of them by voice vote. ; t The successful move to postpone until January a decision on excess profits taxation was engineered by Chairman George (D-Ga) of the senate's tax-writing finance mittee, and Senator Millikin (R Colo), the ranking 'GOP member." George contended careful stady Is ucm; vj avuia passiDly venous damage to the economic structure. Their plan, which requires that the excess rates decided upon by the next congress date back either to Oct. 1. or July 1, 1950, scuttled the proposal of Senators 0Mahon ey (D-Wyo) and Connally (D-Tex) to write into the bill an 5 per cent excess profits levy, effective as of July 1. They argued for an immediate blow aimed at profit eering on the war. - Exempts Soldier Pay The bill also: L Exempts the pay of GIs from all federal taxes, and exempts from taxation $200 a month for officers in the combat areas designated by Predent Truman 2- Speeds up corporation Income tax payments to bring an extra $4500,000,000 or more extra dol lars into the treasury during th next five years. This is done by requiring corporations to pay their previous year's taxes in the first six months of the following year, instead of the following 12 months as at present. . 3. Speeds up factory retooling for the production of arms and other war materials by granting an ac celerated amortization plan for in dustries established for this pur pose. The amortization would take place over a five-year period, for tax reporting purposes, instead of the normal 15 to 30. years. -'- Among Mr. Truman's so-called "loop-holes, which the bill would plug is one relating to edu cation and charitable Institutions. These Institutions would be re quired to pay regular corporation tax rates on their unrelated busi ness activities. G.E. Walkout Ordered Over Wage Dispute NEW YORK, Sept 1 - A strike against the General Electria company -beginning Tuesday Was called today by the CIO Interna tional Union of Electrical Workr ers. . ;J The IUE- claims to represent about 60,000 workers in S2 GE plants located In 25 cities. vv aiKouu involving m,wu wom en at five plants in Massachusetts and one in Syracuse, N.Y, were already in progress at the time the union's 50-member General Elec tric conference board decided on a general strike today. " James B. Carey, union adminis trative chairman, announced the board's action. The dispute is chiefly over wages and pensions. The IUE seeks a 10-cent-an-hour wage boost on top of a three per cent raise granted by the company July 1. - ! : TTT M 1 X 9tm RAM . WOUNDED MEN RETURN FORT LEWIS, Sept. 1 -rV About 21 fighting men wounded in Korea have arrived at Madigan army hospital thus far, some of them members of the second div ision which left here a month ago. BARBERS PAT RAISED PORTLAND, Sept. 1 --Portland barbers get a $10 weekly in crease in their guaranteed pay as a result of boosting haircuts to $1.25 and shaves to a dollar. FOX Insured Savings SEE First Federal Savings Tirst Current Dividend 2H st Federal Savings end Lcsn Ass'n. . 142 SoJ Liberty . 1 i : I