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2 Sec. IV-Statesman, Salem. Or Moil. Dec 21, 1953 Beria's Case Shows Power Rise on Part of Soviet Army " (Editor's note William L. Ry an, AP foreign" news analyst, is back in the United States after a three-month tour of duty as an AP correspondent in the Soviet Union. He talked with some of the men who are influential in Russia and he talked also with scores of everyday Russians in eight bf the republics of the U.S.S.R. This is his appraisal of the current setup in the post-Stalin government, and of some of the aspects of the Beria case spotlighted by last Wednes days announcement that Beria bad confessed and been committed to trial.' By WILLIAM L. RYAX AP Foreiga News Analyst power of the MVD, and the lessen ing of MVD power means a weak ening of the Communist party s police arm. Now there appears to be a stand off between the Communist party and the army, a sort of uneasy truce with each watching the other carefully. Collective Leadership Thus, the collective leadership being talked about by the Com munist party since the death of Stalin is real in this respect: It is a collective of six individuals who rule the party and govern ment together because this is no time for any one of them to at- I tempt to emerge as the dictatorial Sad'News From Panmunjom Moscow's handling of the Beria i j,oss case demonstrates clearly tne. These sjx are taia Malen swift dirmmshmg of secret pobcejk lcad s Khrushchev, power in the Soviet Union and I at F Iinister'v. M. Molotov. th-same time a rise in power and ,Defense Minister Nicolai Bulgan. whence of the Soviet army. . y. Prcmier Lazar R Suddenly and surprisingly, the . .. . . Tra . Miniet iWlv-n a?ainst former police boss ! on opo t.M c nn A nvi v tilt v , uviivt uaa uiw case i n...in..;k lz hip i Mvrenij r i presidum but they do not figure been dragged from its obscur ty ; . ' Marshal W and has become the subject lor intensive propaganda. This treatment reinforces the lm as rules. These are Marshal Kle- menti Y. Voroshilav, a figurehead who was a comrade-in-arms of ' Ctntin t-i 4 r rwr niiin!np Vtn iirVi 1 XT pression that the remaining six j hono Uon president; rulers of the Communist party ?J Mittailysatoirov and M. G. Pervu- fell!!!!;,; . fw?m " rVi MsVi,!p 't u i 1 w.v' . ' V" I I - " -'" - - - I Minneanolis Truck Strike Stalls Paners MINNEAPOLIS UPl Minne apolis resident? queued up by the thousands to buy the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune Sunday as a truck ers' strike left this city of more than half a million without any Hit-Run Car Leaves Boy Critically Hurt KLAMATH FALLS UPI - Norman Miller, 13, was found Saturday night lying on the highway which runs through Bly, 64 miles east of here, after the sound of screech ing brakes had prompted people to look out from their houses. No car was in sight. The boy, i regularly-delivered Sunday news- son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Miller, paper. About 100 truck drivers, mem bers of an AFL teamsters' local, struck the newspaper early Satur day evening in a wage dispute. With a Sunday circulation of more than 620,000 undeliverable, the Tribune ran off about 75,000 copies for "over the counter" sales. The papers limited to five per customer were sold out by 2:20 p.m. The company said Monday morning's issue of the Tribune was scheduled to go to press as usual, but with no delivery. A line of buyers, two and three deep, at times extended a full city block outside the Tribune's main entrance. Minor traffic jams clog ged nearby streets was brought to Klamath Valley Hospital here in critical condition with a leg fracture, internal in juries and head injuries. Salem Obituaries HALE Mrs. Mable Hal, late resident ot Eugene In that city, Dec. 20. Sur vived by sons. Cecil E. Kale of Eu gene and Irving G. Hale of Kenne wick. Wash., and eight grandchildren, tervices will be held Tuesday. Dec. 22, at 3 p. m. at the Clough-Barrick Chapel. Interment at Belcrest Me morial Park. . hrateamSsteerstS' established a tl 14' i picket line only at the Tribune's MONtTa7ts V ! loading docks. Members of other unions reported for work as usual j an uasrcollective leadership! wh? "e jn?usi tA.1! TOKYO Kyoko Arakl, Japanese bride of American PFC Claude J. ; via other entrances Batchelor, 22, of Kermit, Texas, sadly reads a letter in Tokyo; "nion seeK weeKiy pay m from her husband, one of the 22 Americans who have elected thus ! creases of $4.56 for day work and far to remain with the Communists, In which he tells her it is ! 46 Ior mSht work. Plus other impossible for him to return to her. The letter was in reply to one I frule benefits. The Minnespohs from her in which she asked him to come back to Japan. (AP scar 811(1 iDune company nas oi Wirephoto via radio from Tokyo to The Statesman.) Japanese Bride of Yank PW Begs Mate to Leave Reds fered $3.04 and $4.18 respectively. Willi II utile, uc mutu f lective security. . . The impression was unanimous There is no single boss, appar p to a few days ago among for-, ently because none wants to occupy ; eign observers in Moscow that the i that uncomfortable position at this party wanted the Beria case lo be ! juncture. forgotten that some day the Avoided Publicity party would simply annouce Ber- i It seemed logical up to a short ia had been convicted and exe- time ago to suppose that these cuted. i rulers, having shelved and incar- Ii" t Opposed cerated Beria. would have pre- But somebody obviously opposed ferred to let the whole thing pass the ides. I lie eviuc.ce pLii.s to ; gradually into oblivion without the army. Recently at one of the j raking up the whole story again state affairs which call for innum-j through a publicized (though not erable toasts, I heard Marshal public) trial. Georgia Zhukov express himself j Somebody wanted the humilia- grandmother. Younger, sister To in a way which seemed to suggest i tion of Beria and the MVD to i shiko has grown up. She is a resentment with the party and im-: De finalized, to be brou2ht home 1 pretty, young lady now. nliAifa tn liaira 4 final rhantflr ; -i ti. . .t f : . i , : t n r M V. m t? . . T H . ,A I i""11"" ""' " oramducauy 10 me oovitu people. inree cnnsimases nave come i s uiin. dui i uu v iu v-uin- m:i . pa . f h written in the career of Beria. ; That could onlv have been the and cnn. sinr hovish Cnl Cm,de i munist China." , " Z K . , , . !. o ' . iJ 1 1 in i - zhukov, popuidr num.ii army. Batchelor. 22. of Kermit, Tex.. By JOHN RANDOLPH TOKYO un Rassi, the dog, is dead. Tama, the cat, is an old jty because of her hatred for Com munism. Write Him Again' 'I write him again," she said. East Oregon Wreck Fatal To Woman BURNS, Ore. ( A former Minnesota woman was killed and I will do anything to get him ; her nusband 4 n j u r e d Saturday ' back. I U go to the neutral zone i night in a two.car colHsion Rhonda Fleming Teresa Brewer Gny Mitchell "THOSE REDHEADS FROM SEATTLE" Color by Technicolor Dennis O'Keeke "MOON STRUCK MELODY" PHONI S-SOM NOW PLAYING! William Holden Elinor Parker John Forsythe "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" " "MERRY MIRTHQUAKES" of World War II. had been asked! to contribute to the toasts. Looking j Slum and solemn and obviously disapproving the carryings on of the Communist party big shots present Zhukov recalled that "justice" had been the subject of one of the toasts. He announced he wanted only to support the toast to justice. Sharp-faced Anastas I. Mikoyan, once mentor of Beria in the Com munist the matter Beria Given Prai" 1 taught his little Japanese war For the Dartv. the Beria case is , bride to sing "The Tennessee Waltz" and went off to war in Korea. In five days, the fourth Christ mas will be here. awkward. Beria, according to the Soviet encyclopedia published in 1950 and still embarrassingly pres ent in current sets in the U.SJ5.R., 1 1 r 1 . l ..1. : j carritu oui greai wor mi u- ; .impossibie to Return iroying me Mensneyih. uasnnax j -circumstances make it inl and Mussavitist parties after the , possible for me to return to Tokyo revolution. But last ednesday , nn. r(,aH a tvnpwrittpn letter they accused him of having been j rece'ived Saturday by the bride, an aL'iR ui iinit- yiuups. 111c en Andprson. fnr- : His letter had hinted of plans merlv of Austin. Minn., and more; for reunion soon in a Communist recently from Eueene. was killed i country. Kyodo borrowed a fountain pen and paper, went over to a steel desk and started writing. "I fear the happiness of us two is being taken away for good," she wrote "My Darling Claude." 'Used ft Sing'i "You used to sing for me Ten nessee Waltz" she recalled. outright. Anderson, ex-chief engi r . 1 r f . i n 1 . i ' neer ior ine norniei rauMiig vu. i in Austin, was hospitalized here j X with severe scalp cuts and a 1 broken left leg. j State police said the other mo torist, Lee Baldwin Jr., Burns, swerved his car to avoid hitting - u i J : .I 1 i j a uuuiuei in me ivau anu smuuc u j into the patn ot tne Anderson ve- 11 3H PHONE SS447 Humphrey Bogart in "TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE" Also Paul Henreid in "SIREN OF BAGDAD" nartv. snannpd- "What's : " ,. c. ."r . V.,.V ! Kyoko Arakl . m. i V n eve opeaia savs ne aeteatea me iter. Zhukov? Cant you : T- tctvirt ,h nthr ,ti - a a j .i n j uiiu uinv.1 uutt put j think up your own toast?" 'Support Justice' I srouDS which had gone into the an it ouvict uiiuuiiuuiiu anu "I can now sing it well. Our hid?. o rri' C wl molhcr- The dog, Rassi, is dead. . .-to Austin on business. He recently; a Panmunjom. Korea. to suoDort the toast of iustice." iioine wu" ine . m L .: a . . I munism. , chuckle softly with your lips slight- lems. tk- f Rori, ,nnanL a0Vlel P8"ie? ana inuuigmce . . J-V tent. . . ftuge t;LrM7 ts cap.taMcoUn.; w w i . "You mentioned 'circumstances' i lea M-Z "1 " Vi Z. ' ; "r-i: " I tries . Last Wednesday Beria was ; now is nit anu - '";that do not allow vou to reunite A irL btlliie Ui II IC aiA lilCIlI pie, is the man who started Beria ! He'd Ra!lk Marshal accused of havine served the Trot-! a better future for mankind as cially for the working peoples who Cl "x. ..I wiuuuiiw F- skyists and the capitalist countries. ' a whole, the letter said, "espe- on his Communist party career It was Mikoyan who selected him for special work with the Bolshe viks in the day when they were fighting the strong anti-Bolsheviks in Baku. Azerbaijan capital which now is the Soviet Union's oil center. There are indications that rival- Qlc i now have to undergo continual fit r . a i i i np m)vipi pnrvr nnpn a aicn i notes that Beria held the rank of sufferin Marshal of the Soviet Union, five 'Changed Immensely orders of Lenin, the Order of Su- "I have changed immensely vorov. two orders of the Red Ban- j since I last saw you. You would ner and seven medals. Yet all the ! not believe 1 was the same man I ia me. i want to near you again an aavisor on meat paciung prou- ine couple nad lived in ne tor several years atter ing Minnesota. son. James Anderson, Eugene, with me right now. What are these j and a daughter. Mrs. R. W. Ral circumstances? . . . Why don't you i ston, Portland, came here Sunday. come back right now and explain time he was a traitor in the party's midst. Just before I left Moscow Tues- ry still exists among the top mem- day I heard from a competent bers of the Communist hierarchy, j source that Beria had been moved and the impression one takes out out of Lubianka prison, that ordi of Moscow is that- the collective i nary looking building on Dzher leadershin holds together onlv be-i zhinskv Square which once, ironi- cause it must in the face of a cally, held the Russian Life Insur-jtne Japanese Communist Party definite threat. i ance Co. The removal could mean ! for help and guidance. Threat From Army . i only one thing. Beria's doom was The threat seems to come from j finally sealed. He may well be dead the army. And, in Beria, the army j already, now is getting rid of a man it actually considered its enemy. He ! I have learned that happiness does not come with money as I used to believe but that it comes from struggle born of the fight for the emancipation of mankind from the shackles of war and capitalist exploitation." The letter advised her to go to was the head of the Ministry of j BaTS PrOlllOtCfl tO internal anairs. ana. wim nis own ; past private police army, intruded i upon the authority and dignity of the regular armed forces. The destruction of Beria and his most trusted aides reduces the COLORADO PAN-SAN AT THE SAN SHOP Grade of Major Promotion of Thomas P. Bays, 1635 Madison St., to the grade of major in the United States Army Reserve was announced here by Maj. Russell Haynes, commander of the 929th Field Artillery Bat talion. Bays, a veteran of World War ! II service in the Pacific, is plans and training officer for the Sa lem battalion, a part of the 104th (Timberwolf) Infantrv Division. Phrase by phrase, an interpreter turned the words into swift, stac cato Japanese. With each new sen tence, the little figure on the 'of fice sofa seemed to crumble anew. Begs Return Kybko received the letter in The Associated Press office. Associat ed Press correspondents had car ried to Panmunjom her letter beg ging Batchelor to return, then brought back the reply. "I don't understand," she kept saying. "He may be a Communist now. He's been in prison camp so long but if he came back here he'd for get it soon, very soon." Then she smiled quickly, said she wouldn't think of contact ing the Japanese Communist Par- to us from your mouth your ideas? You can go for your own ideas living with me. . . I know that you can come home simply by talking to an India guard and telling him so. . . 'Mother Sobs' "My mother sobs whenever she speaks about you. I try to calm her down, telling 'He'll be back before Christmas.' But while try ing to do so, I sob too. Let's re unite as soon as possible. I cannot continue this letter for tears now I gush in my eyes." 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