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
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of here, after the sound of screech
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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
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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
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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-
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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."
The imprint of her lips was on I
the envelope when she handed j
it to a newsman for relay to Pan-;
munjom. i
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