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4- Tha Statesman, Salem. Oracjon, Wed, May 20, 1953 CDrcfiou QD statesman 7fo Favor Sway Ui No Fear Shall Aw" ' From First Statesman. March 2S. 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHAfiLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher : 'published every morulas. Business office 280 ' North Church St, Salem. Ore, Telephona 2-3441. 'Batered at the poetofflee at Salem. Or u second rliei matter raider act of Consreaa March S, 1870. r;' Member. Associated Press The AjsoeUted Pre la entitled exclusively te the use tor republication of all local new printed in '. , this newspaper. Return of William Oatis Those who expected William Oatis to come out and do a Robert Vogeler after his release from Communist prison are surprised and perhaps disappointed at his persistent refusal "to'iay.the things they expected. Oatis denies thsJReds used drugs or terror to force a con fession from him. He' admits their method was-DSTcholoeical: but he declines to repudi ate his confession and gives hazy answers to queries , on espionage activities. This naturally will erect doubt as to hi own innocence". Was he in truth serving as a t is quite unsafe to jump to such a con clusion as a result of Oatis' own vagueness. As Frank Starzel, general manager of Asso ciated Press, said, we must remember that Oatis has been in prison for 25 months, cut off from contacts, ignorant of the fact even that Stalin had died. Of a sudden he receiv ed! a pardon and was flown thousands of miles back to the homeland. The experience certainly has been a great emotional shock. Oatis wisely wants to wait until he gets re oriented, until he can reread his confession. Perhaps he reveals the real truth when he says that "What was a crime in Czechoslova kia would not be a crime here.!' In i other words, where here it is quite legitimate for a reporter to probe into political, economic and military matters, that is forbidden in Czechoslovakia. This leaves unanswered the question whether he was working merely as a reporter for the Associated Press or engag ing in espionage for our government at the same time. The rule in the Associated Press is for one to serve only the AP; and it is very doubtful if the government would seek to employ a regular AP reporter for espionage. So we must await the full story; and we trust that Oatis will write it when he is fully rested and relaxed', and tell the truth regard ing his; activities and his experiences. chler hearing. Instead he came off so well that it was enhanced. " " : ' - But the time has! come. for the public to understand what a menace Joe McCarthy is. He has done nothing but spread fear and sus picion in this country and contempt for us abroad. He has not tagged a single Commu nist in government service. His recent denun ciation of the British let them withdraw from Korea and be damned was arrant de magoguery. It was time someone, stood up boldly to resist McCarthy in his own lair. Weschler did just that. He did a valiant serv ice not only for the free press but for free thought in this country. - ' MAN-MADE VOLCANO Backhand for Truman Stephen Mitchell, who was Adlai Steven son's choice for Democratic national chair man, was politicking in Oregon over the week end. He tossed a few brickbats at Republi cansone at Secretary McKay for dropping Hejls Canyon; but his backhand slap at ex President Truman was .what was significant. Quizzed about the former president's recent statement that he planned ' to get into the Democratic campaigns in 1954 and 1956 the Democratic chairman said coldly that the high command had no plans for using Tru man in any future campaigns. This indicates that Mitchell thinks that Truman was an albatross around Stevenson's neck in the last campaign. He was; Steven son couldn't repudiate him, and he couldn't carry the Truman burden. The 1952 Demo cratic candidate virtually admits this is his own diagnosis of his defeat. . It seems quite too early to throw old Harry to the wolves. He has a unique down - to earth style of campaigning that certainly proved effective in 1948. It appeals to the crackbox voters, and there are many of them. Come 1954 or 1956 Truman with his bite and his bile may prove an asset to the Democrats. Mitchell should remember that Stevenson's own style, though it pleased the intellectuals, failed to register behind the gas house. Match for Joe McCarthy When Joe McCarthy called up James Wes chler, editor of the New York Post for inter rogation he pulled in a Tartar. Weschler proved more than a match for the WiscQnsin senator. The resulting publicity when Wesch ler called on the American Society of News paper Editors to study the transcript and see if McCarthy was attempting press intimida tion advertised the hearing and exposed the McCarthy method. And in a Sunday night Meet the Press interview Weschler pressed his attack on McCarthy with skill and vigor. Weschler has been hammering McCarthy In the New York Post McCarthy invited him to come to testify before his committee, os tensibly because a book of Weschler's had been found in an overseas government lib rary. But when the quiz came off neither Mc Carthy nor his counsel could tell which one of four books Weschler had written was in volved. (Two were written while he was a member of the Young Communist League; two after he had broken with Communism). Instead McCarthy directed his probe at Wes chler personally and at his editorial work for the Post. He imputed that Weschler still might be a Red because he was critical of McCarthy, Jcnner and Velde, as was also the Communist Darly Worker! a characteristic perversion of logic by McCarthy. Press freedom wasn't injured by the Wes- Predictions were made that when planes broke through the sonic barrier they might fly apart. One plane piloted by young De Haviland in Britain did; but the barrier has been crossed so many times without event that it is no longer fearsome. It was news worthy, however, for Jacqueline Cochran, noted woman aviatrix, to fly faster than the speed of sound and to break two world speed records in doing it. This she did on Monday last, flying a F-86 Sabre jet plane at an average speed of 652.337 miles per hour. She calls it the 'most exciting and interest ing experience in my 21 years of flying." She really is a pioneer, the first of her sex. to fly through the sonic barrier. The light ' barrier, however, is still safe from penetration. Comment NATIONAL FOREST PERMITTEES . AND H. S. 4023 While a resolution in support of the so-called , Uniform Federal Grazing Lands Tenancy act (H. R. 4023) was voted by the Oregon Cattlemen's association in Portland on Wednesday the vote loses significance when it Is remembered that the permittees on the national! orest ranges in Ore gon oppose the bill almost unanimously. It is these cattlemen whose interests are affected by the proposed legislation and they are against it in its present form. The forest permittees tried in vain to secure indorsement of their views regarding H. R. 4023. They are, in tha main, operators of average spreads. . They were voted down by the users of the Taylor grazing act range and the influence of the big operators in Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. The recommendations for changes in the bill presented by the forest permittees, if adopted, would leave things on the forest ranges pretty much as they are today. The only conclusion is that the bill, supported so strongly by the nation al cattle and sheep associations, is a bad bill and should be defeated, (Bend Bulletin.) Allies Delay Korea Peace Talks in Order To Discuss Conflicting Armistice Plans By, J. M. ROBERTS, JR. Associated Press News Analyst The Allied request for a farther sixday recess in the Panrnunjom truce talks means that the Western AUis kve not yet fully agreed on their ijew approach to a Korean armishce. Reports among delegates to the United-Nations in New York, that the United States would revise its proposals to bring them more into line with last fall's U.N. Assem bly resolution, seemed to have some basis in fact, although indi cations at the. State Department were that things were by no means 'set.'" The 'report was that the U. S. might Ugree to a political confer ence tp take up the disposition of prisoners unwilling to accept re patriation to Communist-held ter ritory .provided some sort of limit 'was set for the conference to . reach agreement. , The Americans at Panrnunjom power fceutral commission, but d ' ruandei 'definite time limits. . i? Prune' Minister Nehru of India, whose country would be a member f the neutral commission, brought the Allied dispute into the open last week with aa announcement that he considerd the Communist proposals nearer to what the IL N. had intended than were the coun terproposals of the American ne gotiators at Panrnunjom. Canada, France and Great Bri tain were inclined to agree, with the Canadians the most active in expressing British Commonwealth sentiments. ' The tendency seems to be that, of prisoners who still refuse t4 go home should become a problem not for the neutral supervisors, nor for the Americans or Commu nists, but for tha United Nations Reports that the U. S. had agreed were classified in Washing ton as premature. There were still gaps between the U. S. and her Allies, and still conferences to be held in an effort to close them. There was no assurance that, re gardless of how the United States might amend its proposals, the Communists would agree to a truce. They had roundly denounced the U. N. resolution at the time of its adoption. Even successful con ferences at Washington among tha Allies might produce no more than better agreement among themselves. Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS THE ARMY AIR FORCE. IN WORLD WAR II: Volume Five: -The Pacific: Matterhorn to Na gasaki June 1944 to August 1945, by editors Wesley Frank. Craven, James Lea Cate and others (University of Chicago; ?850) In nearly 900 pages of text, photos,' maps, charts and tables,' this fifth volume concludes the history of AF combat in World War II . . . the two remaining volumes in this essential series are intended to discuss the AF at home or on auxiliary assign ments. The book tells the dramatic story of Superforts over the Pacific and, eventually, over battered Japan. It is climaxed, of course, by the atom bombs that laid waste Hiroshima and Nagasaki" in the summer of 1945. It tells of all planes, to be sure, in all sorts of services: rescuing fliers downed in the ocean, supporting invasions, ferrying supplies, dropping -in- . cendiaries as well as explosives. , For all our high opinion of fis sion and its calamitous- potent! alities. it after all did not no so much damage, apparently, as old-fashioned fire. The new fire bombs for instance killed mora j than 80,000 in one Tokyo raid. and in urban Japan in general obliterated more than 100 square miles of essential manufactur ing area. ' Matterhorn,, was subtitled 'the "early sustained bombing of Wa'pan;" the task of Bomber Command XX, based In China, itvdidn't pan out Number XXI, -working from the Marianas,' took over and, after Hansell and his 3 precision bombing were forced to yield to LeMay and bis .area fire-bombing, it began to go places. .The authors call Le -May "one of the very greatest operational air commanders of the war." . There are the familiar names, from MacArthur, Nimitz and Arnold to Spaatz, Kenhey. Whitehead, Harmon; the inevit able detailed account of various major operations from the some times hot-tempered discussions of strategy to the logistics and the fighting itself; the authors even find room for some thrill ing incidents. Billy Mitchell was proved right, , they say, bright, that is, for the Pacific j war Though f they speak for AAF, their claims are modest, and they quote Prince Konoye on the way "prolonged bombing by the B-29sn broke the militaristic spirit and hastened war's end. ,,:;Au , N; - y .j ; CoTngiTv Your I IVU III! 30000001 nronrm I r : j A ft 4kjv What's happened to food prices since OPS went off in March? Well, Oregon Business Review, put out by U. of O. bizad school, reports on a, list of 74 foods priced in Portland at mid-April. Compared them with prices in mid-March ... It found that 33 items of food were higher than in mid-March, 27 were low er and 14 remained unchanged ... In an earlier survey (while OPS was still with us) made in rhid-Feb. the Review reported that from mid-Jan. to mid -Feb., 22 items had gone up, 34 had declined and 18 were the same ... Signs aroand town someone should check nn an That na at fihrwk'a rar lot; "HX- tvv.aaa.OvO miles te Mars, l,SOeMa,tttt4O,O0O miles to North Star." ... That one in McEwan's photo shop window; "Year child's portrait for only a penny a pound." . . . That faded one (a leftover from WW n days) In 10 block on N. High: "Pull this switch at the sound af a blackout siren." . . . That sign In a State St window: "The itches Center." ... When the legislature raised the state retirement age to 72 it must have had Oliver Huston, Salem's answer to Ber narr Macfadden, in mind. Oliver, who doesn't sit around and let old creep age up oh him, put in this full day Saturday . . . He drove to Eugene at 9 a.rn.; attended University of Oregon football preview at 10:30; lettermen's luncheon at noon; Ore-gon-OSC track meet at 1; Oregon-OSC baseball game at 3; drive back to Salem at 5; got his own dinner (wife out) at 6:30; Salem-Spokane baseball game here at 8, joined visiting relatives at neighbors for colored slides at. 10:30 . . . Wonder the slides were about something relaxing like mountain climbing, or bear-hunting. Marion County budget committee, meeting this week, is get ting lotsa requests from department heads asking for new office , equipment for their offices. Bat the committee feels that new equipment can be bought when the new courthouse is done next spring. While the committee was talking about catting ant of the badget all aaessenttal mew eqalpaneatt items, Margaret Res nicsek, clerk of the committee, almost fell oat of her chair as an essential caster came oat cl one of the chair less . . . Later Judge Rex Hartley almost fractured his budget when a caster cane oat of his chair . . J Leyal Warner, citizen member f the committee, noted that questions asked department heads made it all sound like a qttix program''. . . He could have add ed it was a six-per cent tjiaix bat not doable-or-nothing ... .-.-.. . . Because of legislative action this is the first time the county budget committee can set salaries of other elected county officials as well as their employes ... So along with requests for wage boosts for their workers, dept. heads also have requested salary increases for themselves ranging from nothing to $100 per month. , , , Maj. Harlan Judd, veteran of many a budget hassle when he was county clerk, is now stationed at Jpliet, UL,. ordnance ammo center as chief of the legal staff there. His wife, Pat, and sons plan to join him soon as school's out ... GRIN AND BEAR IT ByLichty By Dr. Herman Bandesen Migraine headaches are a severe nuisance and handicap to thousands of people in this country, hoth'men and women. These sufferers should know that now there are drugs which will help prevent and relieve many people who have these at tacks. These drugs acn be taken in several different ways, of course always only under a doc tor's guidance. Most migraine headaches, it is believed, are due to a form of allergy" combined with some nervous disturbance, and they may run in families. They are usually not helped by the more common headache powders or tablets. A migraine attack usually brings head pains of varying se verity which may appear on one side of the head. In many cases there may. be severe nausea and vomiting, with some disturb ances of vision, such as spots before the) eyes and attacks of blindness.; . Most people with this condi tion tend to be the "keyed up" type, and their nervous tension and anxiety only aggravate their distress. Sometimes an attack may incapacitate the person for days and: in severe cases, for weeks. It has been shown that com binations of caffeine and ergot amine tartrate are helpful in stopping and preventing many attacks if taken early enough before the attack becomes too severe. : When the attack is accom panied by nausea and vomiting-, however, the person may be un able to take these helpful drugs by mouth.! It is then necessary to resort to injections of the drugs in tha muscles or veins in order to stop the pain, or ward off a threatening attack. Injections are not always the answer, either, as many people are reluctant to give themselves injections, tor to take injections given by anyone except their physician. ! However, the doctor may not always be on hand in time to prevent an attack. When this problem exists, the answer may be to take the med icine in the form of a rectal sup pository, which is very quickly and easily! absorbed. A , small group of patients with severe migraine was given these sup positories to try, and the attacks were controlled very success fully. The suppository is inserted as soon as the person has the first warning of a migraine attack. Occasionally, it has been known to cause little rectal discom fort, such as burning,' but this is very rare and usually prefer able to thai severe headache DETTER II EARING- pjM ZMitk'i famous S-ytar ' aftar-psrehaat protect) plant -fit TIM-TUTU. itMIBT rllVS UEABING AIDS 3 M03EIS, EACH 75 nat bw H4 par start '...Rather than state an investixauaa. Senator, wouldn't it be simpler to merely order something elsa Instead af the hash?... lt-iATi t OWT-lafg , li II MorTisi Optical Co. 1 Batteries ami repairs for all ma'-es and models af Hearing uWaL Ph. 1-5521 ( Continued from page one;) in defense spending it is trying to extract ' the greatest .value from each dollar spent 1 President t Eisenhower i then outlined his tax program to shore up the income side of the budget i L Extend the corporate ex cise profits tax to Jan. linext 2. Repeal, the 5 per cent re duction in the regular corporate income tax scheduled for A nil 1, 1954. . . I . 3. Extend the excise taxes lue to expire on the same date. 4. Cancel the increase in so cial security payroll tax du to go up Jan. 1 next by ,one-3 ialf per cent on each employer - tnd employe. 5. Permit the scheduled lout in. personal income taxes to D into effect Jan. 1 next but nofi to advance the effective date; The President's program is perhaps even too generous with the taxpayer if the budget if to be balanced. Even so, he faces a hard battle in the House i W ays and Means , Committee wlose 'hardshell chairman, Dan Reel, is determined to reduce taxei in July. The President will lave to muster the full weight bf the administration and the i party organization to insure adoption of his recommendations, if. This report to the people gives evidence that Eisenhower land his associates have been working very hard to master the prob lems which met them when they entered office. The problem which underlies both de&nse and finance however is the Reso lution of the cold war. My nope is that progress can be made in removing the threat of wart for that would permit balancing the budget and reducing taxei, as well as dissipate the clouds of fear which envelop the peiples of the world. AWARD GIVEN Air ifirst ENID, Okla. (fl")--Vance Force Base here was the pilot training base in the nation to receive the flying safety aWard of the Air Force. Better English 1 By D. C WTT.I JAMS ; L What Is wrong with - this sentence? Upon entering into the room, a trunk was found.". 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "alma mater?" 3. Which one of these wordl is misspelled? Obeisance,, obes . ity, obligatory obligate "i 4. What does the word "con duce" mean? , 5. What is ' word beginning with va that means "part of an army?" -. ANSWERS h v 1. Say, 'Upon entering fomil into) the room, we found t trunk." 2. Pronounce al-ma ma ter, first a as in at second a un ' stressed, third a as in mate, ac cent first and third syllables. 3 Obbbgato. 4. To lead or tend especially with reference to a desirable result -Moderate ex ercise conduces to the preser -vation of health." 5. Vanguard. - .This Day; . : 25 Years Ago, From Statesman Files mat zo, lata The new natatoriura is com pleted and will be filled with ocean water heated t for swim mers at Newport -popular beach resort for vacationers of Salem, many of whom have summer home there . and at Agate Beach.: .-. George C. Will, local music dealer, fills another vacant space in the business section by the ; erection of a new 112,000. two; story building on Liberty Street The lot was formerly oc cupied by the Grease Spot Serv-. ice Station. , ' ,, : i - " i A petition is being signed asking the city planning com mission, the city council and ' the j county court to find some way to lay out a boulevard from Fairmount Hill and South Sa-i lemi through the cemeteries and let the city grow south in the territory on the west side of. Commercial street GRAVE ROBBER JAILED HONG 'KONG VP) Kwan Wai 27, a flower seller, was sentenced to two weeks' in prison - for stealing flowers valued at $1.60 from a cemetery. - ' 1 Ti MM sin f o ! if ? A. Funeral jServke Sine 1S7S Phone 3-9139 i Church at Ferry AUTOMOBILE DEALERS and Inves ment Counsehrs: v leek iats this nw tar f ra schist espertsiityl We are expandingjour dealer organization in this gu?ea, and would likje to discuss our program with 1 Established automobile dealers who are con-. sidering a change. --Successful business men, not presently con nected with! the automobile business, who would like tf know the immediate- and lonf -range profit. 'potential of our franchise. ' You have been familiar with the name of our Com pany, and the excellence of our cars, for many years. 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