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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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( 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. , ' ,, :
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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. - '
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Our Company is in a strong position today,
said is moving ahead with the most extensive
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write for an early appointment for a local in
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O. Box 6i or 3050 N. W. Front
Capitol 1201 today. - ;
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