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4 Th Ctffttf" ' Solm, Orecjoa, Tu dar Mar 19& rcson " Mo Favor Sway U. No Pear Shall Ate" from first SUtesnuav March ZS, 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAUUtS, Editor and Publisher IabUahed every morning. Business offlc SIS 8 Commercial, Salem, Oregen. Telephone S-Z44L Entered at the postoffios at Salem, Oregon, aa aecead claaa matter under act of eengresa March S. 187& Suit Over Controverted Lands Threats ot action to force distribution of funds impounded from sales of timber on controverted O 8c C lands will materialize this week. Clack amas County will file suit in the federal district court asking for an order to distribute some $5,000,000 which has accumulated while the In terior and Agriculture departments were argu ing over the title to these lands which now are included in national forests and administered by the Forest Service. Lane County may join In the action. There is doubt as to the legal procedure in a case of this kind. The Oregon court may throw it out on the ground that jurisdiction rests with the Court of Claims in the District of Columbia. The house public lands committee has held hearings on the Cordon bill to vest title in tha Interior department, but action on the bill was deferred pending a settlement of the dispute over apportionment of Junds from O 5c C lands to counties. Congress may act on both these matters before a court case could be concluded. The legal action, however, may serve as some thing of a prod to Congress which ought to get these disputes settled. Juries and Casualty Rates One factor which is forcing an increase in rates of casualty companies protecting motor car owners from losses due to property damage or personal injuries is the high awards given by juries in such cases. There seems to be a temptation to raise the award if the cost will fall on an insurance company rather than on the individual car owner. Courts labor to pre vent disclosure of the fact that an insurance company is the real defendant in a lawsuit, but with insurance now so generally held it seems almost to be taken for granted that a corporation will foot the bill, and the verdict is weighted by that assumption. No honest person wants to deny a litigant who has suffered damage or injury fair compensa tion for his hurt: but some juries have turned In what seamed to be outlandish allowances, furors generally are car owners themselves, and thev ought to remember that a verdict unjustly high bounces back on them in the way of higher casualty rates on their own insurance. Damages for Fire Loss Up in Lane County a jury awarded damages to Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. of $66,000 on ac count of losses it sustained during the Fall creek fire in 1949. Defendants were several parties interested in the timber on land where the fire started. It is not often that such suits are filed or suc ceed. One of the larger judgments occurred several years ago in the Eastern & Western case over a fire in Clackamas County. The law how ever does fix responsibility for forest fire losses where timber owners or operators are negligent and the fire spreads. Coming as it does at the beginning of the fire season the Lane County judgment ought tq quicken the concern of loggers over fires. Last year the most serious fires arose in logging op- New Attorney General's Record Contains Quarrel Over Misuse of $5,000 in Funds By Joseph and Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON - James P. McCranery, the Pennsylvania Judge the President has chosen to clean out corruption in tha government, will propably be confirmed as Attorney General of the United States shortly after these words are printed. Thera is still time to note, however, that this event is likely to turn out to be an other jolly Joka on the Ameri can people. The peculiari- t Jmi9UA Cranery record have not yet been publicized be cause the Chairman of the Sen ate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Pat McCarran, carefully closed th hearings when the mora cu rious evidence was being giv en. Sen. McCarran seems to have a fellow feeling for the Attorney-General-nominate, which per haps derives from their common friendship for Pan American Airways. - The oddest test! many, now re leased on mo tion of the Ju diciary Com mittee minority wai given by the young Turk Democratic leader of Phil adelphia, Rich ard Dilworth. Dil worth and mittedly. arel-BSMUas old-time political enemies. Yet Dil worth's testimony was but tressed by an elaborate appara tus of photostats and court rec ords. And it cannot be lightly dismissed, since the main facts are net disputed. la 'brief, in the summer of 193, when King George and Queen Elizabeth of England were due te visit this country, an Irish revolutionary, Sean Russell came here with the avowed intention of assassinating them. He was promptly picked up by the FBI. The Clan Na Gael, an extremist Irish -group, thereupon persuad McCranery, then a Democrat ic member of Congress, to fjgr 1 &.8&JL. I Mtate$raan erations and were attributed to carelessness. When to the loss of one's own timber and equip ment and the cost of fighting the fire is added a sizable judgment when fire crosses into other ownership the total is enough to cause the woods boss to be strict in enforcing fire regulations and prompt-in fire suppression. Farm Leader Succumbs Oregon loses one of its sturdy, salty charac ters in the death of Kl W. Hogg, long a farmer in Polk County and prominent in farm organi zation activities, particularly with cooperatives. He served for many years on the board of the big wholesale cooperative at Walla Walla, and much of the time as its president. He was posi tive in his convictions and forceful in presenting them. He was practical in his Judgments and successful in his farming and business activities. He and his sons were leaders in the purebred livestock Industry and the Hogg farm was widely known in the Northwest. We shall miss him as friend and sometime critic, but his work and influence will abide. The first result of tjie Bolivian revolution is an attempt to nationalize the tin industry of the country. Tin is their chief source of foreign ex change. The mines are held by a few rich fam ilies and the lot of the miners is miserable. May be the new government will grab the mines; or perhaps there will just be another revolution. Editorial Comment WARNING FROM A FRIEND For sometime now this newspaper has been gently suggesting to the labor unions that this habit of running to the Government with all their troubles was one destructive of their own best interests. These suggestions have been noticeably lacking in effect. No comes Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, one of the labor union's most violently partisan friends and one who can hardly be suspect to them, to make the same warning, and not at all gently. We hope that the cheering delegates at last week's convention of the C. I. O. Steelworkers were not cheering so loudly as to drown oat this part of the senator's speech: "I happen to be one of those who doesn't lika the idea of the Government seizing this or seiz ing that. There may be a necessity, in view of the public welfare and the public interest, oc casionally to resort to seizure. But I want to warn this audience and to warn the workers in America that the price of seizure here and there time after time becomes a habit, and it can be the doom and the end of free collective bargaining and a free economy." The steel industry, so heartily denounced at this same convention, has fought the Government sei zure and argued for a continuation of bargaining even at the high cost of a shut-down of the steel plants, should it come to that. The C. I. O. union has intervened in the court case to argue in favor of the Government seizure. It is an irony that the reviled "steel bosses" want to keep the Government out, thus preserving the steelworkers' right to strike; the union wants to keep the Government in, thus abolishing tha right to strike. It will be a sad irony for the unions if they will not heed the warning, even of a friend, as to where this habit ends. Wall Street Journal to get Russell released. And at McGranery's request. President Roosevelt allowed Russell to leave the country after $9,000 bail had been posted. This $5,000, raised with treat difficulty from rich members of the Clan Na Gael, was deposited with McGranery as surety a gainst Russell's bail bond. Part ef the money was transmitted to McGranery by James McGarrity a Philadelphia chieftan of tha Clan Na Gael. The rest was handed to McGranery direct by a Clan Na Gael officer. James Brislane. Russell left the conn try, and in 1941, tha Clan Na Gael began to ask for its mon ey back. By 1944, although there was no proof of Russell's where abouts, his hail bond was dis missed. This removed the only pretext for McGranery's holding the $5,000 of surety money, and the Clan Na Gael trew more in sistent on betas; repaid. No less than seven lawyers ap plied, at different times, to Mc Granery. One of them, Thomas M. J. Vizard, testified that in 1945 McGranery offered him a " deal, whereby he would give the Clan Na Gael half the money and keep half himself thus, in effect, acknowledging the Clan's claim. Meanwhile, McGranery had first been appointed to a high Justice ; Department post, and then, In 1946, had been nam ed a District Court judge. Possib ly because no one likes to sue a Federal Judge, none of the lawyers pressed the Clan Na Gael claim until the Clan retain ed Dilworth. Dilworth brought suit against McGranery ea the Clan's behalf in 1948. Despite his offer te Viz ard, McGranery now alleged that the $5,00 he; was holding was really the property of the Clan's Philadelphia ehleftaa, McGar rity. McGarrity had died la 1940. McGranery had never made any attempt te acknowledge his sap posed debt of $5,000 to McGar rity 's estate. McGranery signed receipts to the Clan Na Gael were catered la evidence. Hence the eoarf ordered McGranery te re pay the $5,000 te the Clan Na Gael, less about $1,200 ef ex penses he claimed te have In curred In obtaining Russell's re lease. In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dil- worth characterized tha whole business as a "shabby" attempt at "misappropriation." McGran ery hardly attempted to answer Dilworth .except to point out that Dilworth mas a member of A mericans for Democratic Action. This greatly outraged Sen. Mc Carran and several of his col leagues who then denounced Dil worth as a probable subversive. In addition to Dilworth, Thom as McBride, one of the most re spected leaders of the Philadel phia bar, also appeared against McCranery. McBride testified that McGranery was a lejal Ig noramus, totally lacking In ju dicial temperament. Aa evidence, he offered the enormous number of reversals of McGranery's Ju dicial decisions by the Federal Circuit Court. Among- the Mc Granery errors cited, were such really fantastic rulings as the de nial of the right of counsel te a defendant in a criminal case, aad a charge to a jury grossly confusing the nature of "reas onable doubt." Evidence was also offered that after the Clan Na Gael ease. McGranery sought te ase his judicial power to revenge himself on Dilworth. through one ef Dilworth's clients. Peculiarly enough, the minor ity members of the Senate Ju diciary Committee who are op posing McGranery's confirma tion have subordinated these re ally shocking charges that Mc Granery tried to misappropriate funds and is a legal incompe tent. These Republican Senators voice their loudest dissatisfac tion with McGranery's comments on President Truman's steel sei zure, and with his explanation of his role in the "Amerasia" prosecution while he was in the Justice Department. The explanation of McGran ery, both as Federal Judge and aa Attorney General -nominate, la simple enough. When Sen. and Mrs. Truman first came te Wash ington, Rep. and Mrs. McGran ery were good neighbors to them. In short, McGranery la another Truman crony. He is also a mam ef considerable surface charm. Bat whatever., the ..rights and wrongs of the Dilworth and Mc Bride testimony, the evidence certainly dees net suggest Me-f, Granery can be counted on for the great elean-ap ef the Feder al government, which he has said will be "aa easy aa pie." (Copyright. 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) ' SIDETRACKED : ' C omefir W JU ! 1 Dfhy What some persons won't do to get a parking place. A driver was charged in Municipal Court the other day with driving while intoxicated. He was discovered by a local gendarme driv who donated the ducats in the first place . . . Steve Anderson, local attorney, will address the graduating class of Langlols High School in Curry County (land of blue cheese) Wednesday. Steve graduated there 20 years ago but can't recall what it was his class voted him most likely -to do. Winter Street residents these days are howling to city police about all the trucks going by their houses trucks which were shooed off Summer Street recently . . . Sight on election dayt State cop, In state police car, feeding a parking meter. Cliff Bowen, local plumber who was married recently, got a delayed wedding shower at laat Rotary Club meeting. Cliff was festooned with a shower of rice (unwrapped), a plumber's friend and a lot of kidding . . . These gags are the brainstorms of Rotary Prexy Joe Dodd who staged a model plane raid when Hal Sweeney observed an anniversary or something with United Ah- Lines, and who handed Dave Hoss a traveling bag (leather) for his trip te Europe. If you Plugged the Dike for Ike, or Went Down for Brown, or were Nice to Rice, or A Pal with Al. or Put the Okay on McKay, or Held the Fort for McCourt, or Gave Your Bestest for Estes, or Put the Axe to the Street Lighting Tax, or were a Hoper for Sloper, then you may now Spark with Mark, Howl with Howell, Be Glad with Tad and make ready to Give Your All (Again) in the Fall . . . Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What Is wrong with this sentence? "After ascending up to the top floor of the building, he waited the better part of an hour for his friend." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "mediocre"? S. Which one of these words is misspelled? Venerate, accele rate, conciliate, rowdlsh RIN AND BEAR IT "Her new hey friend is coming te dinner Sunday, dear wants us te paint the house, redecorate the living r end tmy a ing nonchalantly over a NO PARKING FROM HERE TO CORNER sign and Front and Center Streets. The sign was demolished and rooted out of its concrete housing. Not only that, but the driver failed to signal for a stop. During the annual Manbrln Gardens com munity dinner the other night prises were raffled off. Last prize was a pair of tickets to the Elslnore theatre. Winner was none other than Wally Cowan, theatre manager 4. What does tha word "his tronic" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ino that means "thought less"? ANSWERS 1. Omit up. and say, he wait ed almost an hour." 2. Pro nounce me-dl-o-ker. first e as in me, o as In no, accent first syl lable, not tha third. 3. Howdyish. 4. Pertaining to the stage or to actors; theatrical. "His role re quired a great amount of his- tronic ability. 5. Incogitant. by Lichty she aew zx . . E333JJ0Q RJCDCrDj (Continued from page one.) hard to understand without some preliminary coaching. Again the voters threaded their way through the 12 and gave evi dence that they knew what they were voting for or against. The old rule of "When in doubt vote no" was not observed because five of the 12 were approved and on nearly all those that were defeated the margin was close. The break came on the money measures, but even there the voters showed discrimination. They approved millage levies for parks and a fire engine, but de feated a levy for street widening and bond issues for sewers, drainage and bridges. This vote probably deflects the agitation of the Randle-for-mayor cam paign. Randle himself was beat en decisively, but his complaints about spending awoke the tax consciousness of voters and they rejected most of the money measures. On the whole it may be said that the voters were pretty well informed on these measures and voted their sentiments. Regard less of the result, this fact is encouraging. It demonstrates an earnestness on the part of the voters to cast an intelligent ballot. When they have this at titude the problem then is one of getting the facts to the vot ers, giving them full informa tion as to men and measures. When they have that, usually they do a pretty good job of marking their ballots. That is what has made our democratic system work. $15,000 Suit Filed as Result Of Fire Death Suit for $15,000 in damages for the death of his wife In a fire at Idanha last March 3 was filed Monday by Jimmie Staggs in Marion County Circuit Court. Mrs. Staggs, 22, left three small children, in whose behalf Staggs filed the complaint. It is directed against Merton F. Cox and V. D. Bryant, partners In the sale of oils. The complaint alleges that Staggs bought from the defendants on Jan. 24 two gal lons of a fluid which he supposed was stove oil, customarily used in starting fires in the Staggs' kitchen stove. When Mrs. Staggs started a fire on Jan. 26, the oil exploded and burned, resulting in her death, according to the complaint. It al leges that the oil did not meet the standards of stove oil and that the defendants were negligent in selling it as such. Civil Defense Movie Offered A free civil defense movie for children called "Duck and Cover" will be shown at the Organized Reserve Corps armory today at 3 pjn. for all interested parents and their children. The armory is at 775 Airport Rd. The 9414th VAR squadron was shown the movie "Survival Under Atomic Attack" at Monday night's meeting. It shows how any family can minimize dangers from mod ern warfare by taking some common-sense precautions in the home. Brazilian Turns Tables on Rivals In Jungle Drama BELEM, Br axil (y-A Brazilian major radioed Monday night ha had turned the tables on the rival jungle mission which held hirn and an American hostages and had taken control of his captors. Detallg were scanty. The latest act in the weird jungle drama near the spot where a Pan-American World Airways plane crashed last month came aftei the Brazilian Air Force sent three - planes with 38 parachutists to res-j , . ., , cue the captive pair. There was ! ""lfrd "ld B no word that theyhad dropped. I w" ll bfjn held The message to Belem saidn I xl"."0" Pke official expedition to the scene of ? "fTT wa the wreck found the area ran- "f "nd w" tnthewLa Grtad sacked and all money and jewelry , camp s'te Wllh Brooks, which the plane passengers pre- : Correa and the three Americana sumably carried gone. were members of an official ex- Arrangements are being made Pedition which set up an advanced here to search the unofficial group bas at Lagoa Grande, 900 mile which reached the crash first i nortil of Rio de Janeiro, and when they arrive in Belem. j backed a path 25 miles through Bad Field Ready lhe jungle to the mountain where The radio message from Maj. 1 Pan - American's stratocruiser Miranda Correa said he had a crashed and killed all 50 persona landing field ready where a light aboard oa April 29. The party plane could land. Arrangements reached the scene Friday, are believed ready to fly him and Unofficial Kxpeditiea the other persons In the jungle But an unofficial expedition, clearing out. i warned against the trip by the The American, who presumably Brazilian air force and depart gained his freedom along with ment of civil aviation, beat the Correa, was U. S. Civil neronau. ; official party by dropping para tics Authority safety advisor Scott chutists 3 4 miles from tr-e spot A. Magness of Miami, Fla. and preparing a landing for heli- The two had been reported held copters, by about 35 armed Indian guides This expedition was headed by and newsmen as hostages to ensure , Lino de Matos of Sao Paula, a their own safe evacuation by air- ( state deputy, and was financed by lift. Adhemar de Barros, head of the Capt. Charles Miller, pilot of a Brazilian International Airlines U. S. Air Force helicopter, mes- i and a possible candidate for pres. saged his commanding officer in , ident. the Panama Canal Zone Sunday; All of the official group started night he was being forced to fly ; to return to their base except Mag supplies to the armed group " at ; ness and Correa, who went to the the threat of death' to Magness. j helicopter base of the rival group. May Also Be Held Meridional said the trouble started The Brazilian news agency,; when Correa ordered the De Bar. Meridional, said Robert Wisen- ros party to return to base, pre baker, a Pan-American pilot, and sumably Lagoa Grande, where big Stanley Brooks of Pratt & Whit- I Catalina planes could evacuate ney, might also be held. The two j them. were last reported en route from I The unofficial party apparently the crash scene to where they had objected to the long jungle hike, landed their helicopter. j and demanded airlift by helicopter A representative of Pratt ic from their tiny clearing. Salem, County Vote Alike on Republican House Nominee, Separate Tabulations Sbo w Marion County's four Republican nominees for the house of rep resentatives would have been the same whether Salem had voted alone or the rest of the county has been tabulated separately. In only one instance involving last Friday's primary vote on eight candidates would there have been a difference Salem gave W. W. Chadwick third place, with R. L. Elfstrom in fourth; precincts outside of Salem put Elfstrom in third place, Chadwick in fourth. Mark Hatfield led in both the city and out-city totals; Lee Ohmart was second in both. The other four candidates finished in the same fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth order in both the city and out-side categories Frank Doerfler, C. A. Ratcliff, R. F. Cook and David Cromwell. On the basis of unofficial returns (the county canvass will not be completed for another week but is expected to show but slight change), here are the standings: Hatfield Ohmart Elfstrom . Chadwick. Doerfler . Ratcliff Cook Cromwell Forty of the 88 out-city precincts gave Hatfield a lead; ten Doer fler; eight Elfstrom; six Ohmart. one Cook. There were ties in three out-city precincts Doerfler-Hatfield, Elfstrom-Hatfield and Ohmart-Hatfield. Quesseth Led County D.A. Race in Salem Cecil Quesseth led the Repub lican district attorney ticket in Salem, with HarrJe Bratzel sec ond, a recapitulation of the pri mary vote showed Monday. The GOP nomination was won by Kenneth Brown, however, who polled by far the largest vote in the other 68 precincts of Marion County. The Statesman tomorrow will publish the oat-city preeinct-by- precinct vote oa the GOP representatives' race, and also will publish precinct-by -precinct counts on some of tha other races. Of the 88 precincts outside of Salem, Brown led in 38, Miss Bratzel In 25, Quesseth In 3, Joe Meier in 1. Brown and Miss Brat zel tied in the other 3. The unofficial tabulation from all 10 precincts showed: City Cnty Total Brawa , 2.46 !, J14 Bratxel 1M 2a Qacsseta 1.114 1.SSS Meier l.7 UH S.SS2 xjse Leslie Girl's Essay Wins Joan Knytych, Leslie Junior High School student, received word Monday that her essay on Americanism received second place in the state essay contest sponsored by the American Le gion Auxiliary. Announcement was made by Mrs. Lois Erickson, state Amer icanism chairman. Miss Knytych's essay first recei ved an award in the contest spon sored by Capital Unit 9, then was entered in the state contest. Her Leslie junior high teacher is Miss Frances Dix. GLENN II OAS. AT POINTED Employment of Glenn L. Hoar as auditor for the state fair com mission was announced Monday by Leo Spitzbart, state fair mana ger. Hoar has been employed in the administrative offices of the state agriculture department for several years. City .7.S97 M73 5.4M 5.575 3.7tl . 2,442 .2,195 ...1.711 County 6.7M 6.419 5.714 5.595 5,377 3.492 3.37f 2.979 Total 14.113 13.291 11.201 1L172 9,971 5.934 5.571 3.791 Imposters Acting As Tax Officials Paul Lynch, deputy collector of Internal revenue, said Monday his department was receiving In quiries regarding persons who had intimated they were on bis staff without offering proof of their identification. He suggested that anyone In doubt as to the creden tials of any one claiming to be an agent, telephone his offlc 3-8262. 'Great Victory' Won in Oregon Kef auver Says WASHINGTON WVSen. Estet Kefauver of Tennesseee said Moo day he won "a great victory in Washington and Oregon last week in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kefauver took Issue In an inter view with the assertion of Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma, an other presidential aspirant, that Kefauver had received a "stun ning setback" when his forces lost an attempt to win an endorsement from the Washington state Demo cratic convention Saturday. The fact that I won six-to-ooe over the combined votes of Got. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois and Associate Justice William O. Douglas in Oregon and have the support of more than half of the Washington delegation constitutes a great victory for me and not any setback,'' Kefauver declared. mm