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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1953)
' . '! i . ' ; . . . --;.! 1 " ' 5- J :v- 6 (Sc 1 Statesman, Satan, On. WexL, Spt. 18. X 353 The Oat is Story Iecis Clse lira m MP pfiffices Dira Series off Sftirairage Anresfts (Baker County Rancher Leads in Wheat Yield PORTLAND m A Baker Coun ty rancher claims Oregon's high est wneat yield for 1953. Roland George, of Baker, bar vested 3,464 bushels of wheat from a 40-acre field. This was an aver age of 88.S bushels an acre, or three times the state average of zs Dusneis an acre. (EDITOR'S NOTK: William S OaXU, the Associate Press corres pondent who spent more toan twe years la a Communist prison 1 Czechoslovakia, nee written a series ef articles aooot his experiences. In tne one below no tells of nis arrest an the start of his Ion qnes- By WILLIAM N. OATIS (Copyright 1S53 ay fa Associated pfess) Monday, April 23, 1951, was a bad day for me. In one month, the Czech staff of The Associated Press burea. in Prague, Czechoslovakia, had been cut In half as three men had been arrested, one by one. I had to run the bureau with only two translators to help me cover the news through the 18 hours every day that it was made available by the official Czecho- V. - 1 i u aWBSjamnT - r,-iSnmBBnBBBBBSl OatU Slovak News Agency, newspapers and radio. I had to look for new help, keep books, write letters. I had to get a tire fixed. And I had prom ised to go see Tyler Thomp-: son, counselor of the United States Embassy, to talk to him about my per-1 lonal safety. All morning 1 1 was involved f with office de- tail, and it was?. 2 pjn. before I was ready to go" to the embassy. Just at that moment, a caller walked in. It was Miroslav (Mike) Hustak, a Czech who had lost his job as an operations officer for Pan American Airways when the line had stopped flights to Prague the previous falL Xn Marks the Window He had come to my office about a month before, asking for work. There was some question about Hustak. I was not going to hire him, though I needed another translator badly and his English was good. But he had kept com ing to see me. Though it was chilly that April day, Hustak, a husky young man with a low forehead and eyebrows that joined above his nose, was in shirt sleeves and hatless. He told me he had a story for - me, and she showed me a photo graph. It was a picture of the front of an old castle, fenced off by iron bars and guarded by police dogs. Hustak said this was Kolodej Castle, northeast of Prague. On one barred window was an "X" in green ink. Pasted on the back of the print was a typewritten note in Czech, which Hustak translated for me. It stated that Dr. Vlado demen tis, former Czechoslovak foreign 'minister, had been held until recently in the "chamber marked. The note said this information came from "a militiaman named Jan.- Hustak, told me he had got the picture from an acquaintance who knew about th interrogation of dementis, arrested the previous January on spy charges. He said the man wanted to sell mc the story: I told him I did not buy stories. They Didn't Knock He premised to try to pry it out for nothing. Then he started for the door. "Hey," I called after him, "you left your picture." "Oh, you can keep it," he said hastily, and dashed out I laid the picture in a desk drawer and put on my hat and coat to go to the embassy. Before I got to the door, it opened suddenly and some men in trench coats walked in. There were six of them, as I remember. They surrounded me. A short, blond man in glasses, with a freckled pokerf ace, flashed a blue card from his pocket He looked like the kind of little boy hat breaks windows and writes bad words on fences. Spionai! But the card told me that he belonged to the Statni Bezpecnost (State Security), the most widely feared group in Czechoslovakia the Communist secret police. The little. man, apparently the only one that spoke English, had me throw everything from my pockets onto a table. " Another plainclothesman, who seemed to be directing things, picked up a little black note book. "Pavel! Ha-ha!" he shouted, reading from the notebook. "Vesely! Ha-ha! Pokorny! Ha-ha!" Those were the names of high security officers reported ar rested in a purge that had begun in October with the imprison ment of a Brno Communist leader named Otto Sling. 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It meant "espionage.1 I headed for a teletype ma chine. If I could punch a message out on that, it would go right into the AP's Frankfurt bureau But a detective headed me off. Finally ,the interpreter told me f must come to the police station. "We just want to talk to you," he said. "You will be back here in an hour." I did not believe it for one minute. But there was nothing I could do. Three of the men escorted me downstairs and to a car parked in the street It was a big, black. streamlined Tatraplan a Czech car known as almost a trademark of the secret police. A bareheaded chauffeur was at the wheeL One of the de tectives got in beside him. The other two sat in back, with me between them. The Boss' Again I had been taking things as they came, not thinking much about them. And I idly watched the street scenes as we rolled down Wenceslas Square and then by narrow back streets into the gateway of a gingerbready old building on Bartholomew Street We left the car there, and. in the midst of my three guards, I walked down the street and across to a modern building of perhaps six stories. The place had a suck white stone front and looked like a hospital. We entered and, passing uni formed policemen, government propaganda posters and huge photograps of cabinet ministers, went up one flight of stairs to a comfortably furnished office overlooking the street There we sat down and waited. It was almost dark enough to turn the lights on in there when other plainclothesmen began drifting in. Last of all, with a quick, swaggering stride, came a lean, spectacled man in a tan trench coat He was blond, with a long, pale face and pale fanati cal eyes, pouched like a lizard's. He frowned at me and, talking through an interpreter, said, "We have met before, on a happier occasion." I remembered him. This man, who called himself "the Boss," had talked to me the previous November at a Prague permit of fice about whether I should be allowed to stay in Czechoslovakia. OT Rnla Tfcm He had let me stay and work, even though I had been deprived of official accreditation as a for eign correspondent in Czecho slovakia and did not get the ac creditation back till three months later. "You promised me then," he said, "that you would not do unofficial reporting.' You broke that promise." I remembered making no overt promise to confine my reporting to official news sources. I told him so. He cited instances of "unofficial" newsgathering that he could have got only from my missing employes. He said something about "nase strana," two Czech words I knew to mean "our party." The in terpreter skipped that, but I got the next sentence in plain, un- grammatical English: "If anyone opposes us, we ruin them!" Talk! Talk! "You are here," the man went on, "in two roles: As a witness against your employes, and as a defendant yourself. "Do you know why your em ployes are here? Murder-foul murder! They protected an enemy agent An accomplice of that agent took a human life. He killed one of our men in cold blood, a man with a wife and children." I said I had nothing to do with any murder.' I insisted I had never even met the agent he spoke of. He replied, "We will prove to you that you did." The Boss hunched forward, shot a bony finger at m and yelled, "Spy!" (Tomorrow: Reds Set Trap.) 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