if. i j! i 4 The Statesmen, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Ian. 23 1S54 "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear S)ia1l Awe" f From First Statesman, March 28, 1S51 f CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher - Published every mornlf Business office 280 North Church St., Salen Ore..- Telephone 2-2441 i CnterM at toe joatoffic at Satem. Ore. as second clua matter under act of Coniress March 3. 1S7S. I Member Associated Press J The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use tor republication ol all local news printed in this newspaper Northwest Work Program The Pacific Northwest faces a reduction of I $21 million in funds for federal works projects in the region under the 1955 budget proposed i by President Eisenhower. The total of over j $300 million remains a very substantial sum i compared with- most previous years. All un- j completed projects receive good-sized sums for continuance of work. While completion of the dam at The Dalles will be delayed! some months, McNary dam will be finished on schedule. Principal disappointment arises ; from failure to recommend money for fresh starts in Northwest power and reclamation development. A token appropriation would; have proven the administration intends to fulfill the responsibility it has assumed in Northwest river and land undertakings. Of special interest is the increase in money for access roads for the Bureau of Land Man agement from the "million this year to $3 for next." This is important for opening up O&C timber for marketing. i Columbia Basin spokesmen express regret; that the allowance for extending irrigation works in Central Washington is cut by $10 million to a mere $8.6 million. However, in view of the farm surplus there is reason for; slowing down opening fresh lands for intens ive cultivation. We recall one farmer at the Oregon Farm Bureau meeting here a few weeks ago who reported that the new far-j mers on the Basin project were in dire straits unless they had a sugar beet contract. Those growing potatoes and alfalfa were not break' ing even.' ! The Northwesthas no particular claims for preference over the rest of the country. It must make some sacrifice in its desires in the common interest of restricting expenditures. And as the President lays out a program for the Northwest it provides lots of work and promises future benefits. GRIN AND BEAR IT B a Story Story Within I They will be .telling the story of suppress ing the news of the kidnaping of Leonard Moskovitz in San Francisco at bull sessions ' of the press club for years to come, and de bating it in editorial conferences. It became the story within; the story, a double drama with reporters and radiomen cast in singular roles, namely to prevent the spread of the news in hopes of saving the life" of the victim, j It worked too, for Moskovitz was seized by police, unharmed, though he had been threat ened by his captors, j Through the conspiracy of silence contacts were maintained between the kidnapers and ;the Moskovitz family un tilvpolice scouting la! district from which one of the phone calls! came, nabbed one of the pair in a phone booth. The news side of i the affair is so singular that its story makes; an interesting narrative. We pick up the account given in the San Francisco Chronicle and reprint it on this page. Rare indeed; is the time when news and radio stations iin a highly competitive field like San Francisco, agree to suppress news of interest and importance. Had the tactic failed the skeptics would have had a field day. The ruse worked; the kidnapers were caught: the kidnaped was set free. Read the story for yourself: Lichty, the Safety Valve i! ! Can Omit "Rest of World"! j To the Editor: ; Surely Mrs. Lord was entirely right when she said quote: 'OREGON" and the rest of the world. hi I agree with her 100 per cent For my part Oregon will be my home for the rest of my life. I have been happier here; than anywhere else I have ever lived. That goes with any angle con cerned, viz., the people,! the scenery unsurpassed, anywhere, the climate and last, but not least, the health breathing ozone which is purer than Cali fornia air ever could hope to be. Chet Snyder 1647 Waller SL IXlow News Media Suppressed Storv Of S.Bf. ; Kidnaping A falling off in sales of cigarets is attribut- W thtf coff THIS f frat iiWdweirtof oloWoBorbW, ed to the current agitation over nicotine tars ag as a cause of lung cancer. The slump prob- m ably will be oyerebme. After all, cigarets InSluC TV used to be called; "coffin nails" but that ' ij didn't retard demand. Still, a person doesn t like the idea of smoking his way into cancer. (From San Francisco Chronicle); ' It can now be disclosed that the well-kept, secret of Leonard Moskovitz kidnaping came peri lously close to being spilled on! several occasions during the three day voluntary news black out The first near-slip occurred on Saturday evening, and it was The Chronicle that almost made it An alert Chronicle reporter reA ceived a "tip' on the fact tha the Moskovitz family had receiv ed a ransome note demanding $500,000. He flashed that news to The Chronicle office, half an hour before the first inadver tent, nnlice radio : broadcast at Too Many Republican Editors! I 6:32 p.m. j To, h Editor: . There had been r request to Republicans . . . seem to be j keep the matter secret at that tongue-tied, rarely writing even tfmei and The chronicle's city a letter to the editor. ? . editor was deploying reporters They dont need to write let-; and photographers before the ters to editors because 'there , mce had timc t0 think about Dy REpubi1Canv tillVr blacking out the news. .i?JL0,?r "V?ng fOTJ.tihem- Of An extra edition of The jluuisc nepuuuean eauurs are A life insurance; company has a page ad in the current magazines which is clearly "illegal." It shows four persons and a dog riding in the front: seat. That's no way to prolong life. McNeil's Island can form a California club. Recently consigned there for durance, vile were Vincent Hallinan. a Martinez doctor, a Bay area manufacturer. Now a used car dealer in San Francisco was convicted on the same charge, of short-changing the govern ment on his income tax. "California, here we went." New Episode in Accordion War The French recaptured Thakhek, the city on the Mekong river in Indochina which the Vietminh had seized in a dash across Laos in late 1953. This was just another episode in the accordion war which has continued for half a dozen years in Indochina. The Statesman remarked at the time that the Communist victory was largely one of pres tige, that whenever the French and Vietman forces brought up4 some reenforcements they could erase it That has bepn done, at least to the rescue of the terminal city on the Me kong opposite Thailand. The Reds had aban doned the city, just as the French did when Reds were in sight. This type of undulating warfare is marked by crests and troughs, with no permanent levelling of f of success or defeat. Apparent ly the war will go on indefinitely. The trou ble is, there are more natives than French men. ; j Sierra Madre, California offers grim proof of the damage potential in forest and brush fires Ten feet of mud and rocks and debris cover some of its streets and envelop some of its houses. The stuff came in a slide off the adjacent mountains which were swept recent ly with fire. With; the protective cover gone and the root system of the vegetation burned out there was nothing to hold the earth and when heavy rains tame it flowed in a sticky mess onto the levels below. Protecting forests from fire not onlj preserves rich assets: it prevents rapid erosion which may be highly destructive. j j. j Supporters of the gold-Bricker amendment claim they are going back to the Constitution. Actually they are, going back on the constitu tion, back to the; Articles of Confederation which proved unworkable. Bricker would cut in all the 48 states an the determination of our national and international policies. I ! Graham Dean, editor of the Ashland Tid ings, has a column! under the heading "On the Sunnyside." Here in the valley such a heading would have to be qualified with "weather per mitting." j j I M SoS: I The star witness in the shooting of Walter Reuther, CIO labor leader, who ran off to Canada, now says he knows nothing about the case. So far, though, he hasn't sent back the $5000 the CIO gratefully presented to him for breaking the case Montreal city archives show that 300 years ago fireflies .were used as substitutes for candles. We might lay up a few gross of them against the next .brown-out, except they are not native to the jNorthwest Eisenhower's 54 - 55 Budget Said Based Precariously on Important Assumptions By J. M. ROBERTS Jr. Associated Press News Analyst President Eisenhower's 1954-55 budget is based, somewhat pre cariously, on several important assumptions. Among them: 1 The estimate that defense expenditures can be based on a long-range view of ; Russian inven tions, with substitution of weap ons of massive retaliation, and of tactical atomic weapons, for man power. I I 2 A belief that business will maintain approximately its pres ent level and so pay present taxes. 3 A confidence that Congress will accept the budget estimates as bedrock, and f not insist on greater tax reductions than pro posed, or include expenditures which have been omitted. The President reached out for a broad layer of popular support with his proposals to give smaller taxpayers a break with their re turns, and to increase social se curity benefits, f But Congress wanted far broad er action as the November elec tions drew closer, and there were immediate threats that the admin istration would not; be able to hold cuts, some of them already sched uled for April, j Not only in Congress, but among the people, there i is considerable nervousness over the defense pic ture. The tendency to rely on the President in this field where he is particularly fitted to weigh the estimates of his i advisers is at least partially offset by the in grained belief, drilled in by the President as much as anyone else. that this is a ; grave period in which to live. ; j People to whom I have talked .want no chance-taking. Mostly, they want the military to have everything they ! could possibly need. Out of the other side of their mouths, they talk tax reduc tion. ,' j :..,;-.r But the one universal question into which I have run. in recent visits to six states and Washing ton itself, is whether there will be a depression. You can't make any sense out of these people. They quarrel about high prices, and shudder when prices stop climbing or drop just a tiny bit. j One small business woman did better in 1953 than in her record year of 1952, but usually good months were bad and usually bad months were good, and she was upset because she couldn't figure things out. She was pretty sure things were going to pot People in the lower income brackets seem pretty sure that they do better in periods of infla tion, even with high prices. White collar workers are convinced that, whenever there is any change, they get it in the neck. Congressmen always think a little pork is necessary to a good diet Many of them will also dis agree with the budget-makers at points which truly effect the gen efal welfare. With all this confusion, the con troversy over this new budget promises to be furious. Yale Theater Man i i ' if In TV Come-down By EVE STARR HOLLYWOOD Strange how things happen especially in show business. In a recent "Lucy" show, the bit -part of a waiter was: played by Larry Dobkin. Time was when this boy wowed au- j L a. At.- tr.i - -ni . .:au i: . 4 1 ' Qiences ai me laie ineaier wuu uia puruayai vi j "the melancholy Dane" in a full-length version of-: "Hamlet." Yale's plays are for invited guests and critics only, but Larry was so good the public demanded admission and got it Later he toured in "Watch On the Rhine." TViewers might like to see such talent in bigger parts. Wonder if the great Blanche Yurka caught Tal lulah Bankhead in Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" last week. Yurka. once a protegee of fabulous David Lii'-:K BelascoJ was famous for her Ibsen repertoire. Al- though She's done a few bits on TV, she ought to be at the head of producers' lists. La Yurka probably liked TVenus! Bankhead's per formanceas did nearly everyone who saw it It was a first for Tallulah, and we hope there'll be more soon. I . If not overdone, feuds are fun. No present-day TV feud can compare to the old radio wrangle between Jack Benny and Fred Allen. Now that the latter has hit video maybe they'll pick up opain tehere they left off. If so, don't keep it up too Ionp-, boys! I Richard Carlson, the man who leads "Three Lives," takes his pari seriously. He believes that many hotci aimed at Com' munism do not present facts as they really ate. Carlson says Commies are not stupid thups, and viewers are misled when Iron Curtainers are so depicted. Viewers like Carlson's show for its realism and entertainment ralwe. f II f I CRITIC'S CORNER: One of the most consistently good weekly shows is TVs only musical on ice. "Frosty Frolics" has earned its high rating through hard work and constant improvement setting an example that many other shows should follow. With a fresh new theme each week, music and skating numbers are developed to match. I f i . i Last week, we skimmed across the gleaming ice into the year 2054, with visitors from outer space (on ice skates) and predictions of feminine finery of the future. . i Mae zawaras can always oe countea. upon to do tne ex treme and unusual, end, we might add, in the least amount of hampering coverage. Tops for speed is Jerry Ray field, whose spinning, jumping gyrations are a marvel of grace and control. I But the highlight of the hour is the perfectly matched team Joan and Buff McCuster. This pair seems to enjoy et- ery moment of their effortless skating dance. It must be no easy task for this man of muscle to toss his curvaceous partner 'around with the greatest of ease but you'd never know it. Training and split-second cooperation does it, and they have plenty of both. 1 ! There's something fresh and wholesome about the whole show. The musical arrangements are generally goodVt thanks to Manny Strand, but it's, best when a series of known songs and melodies are woven into the action. Roberta Lynn's vocals enhance almost every! number, but unfortunately she's never seen. While back grounds are sometimes a bit sketchy, well f orgiye, that department because more often than not it bowls us over with an effect that makes the number. I (Catrrlrkt ISM, taaral ftatarM Car.) apove using "Agitprop" or any thing similar. They use only facts in their editorials and are preserving the American way of life for us befuddled Demo crsts. ) Robert W. Mitchell 633 Ferry SL -' mBmmtsmmkmmmmmtm nmnrmii (Continued from Page 1.) lines: "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll. Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou, at length art free, Leaving thy shell by time's unresting sea." Perhaps the muster of so many weapons with such great power of destruction may serve as such a warning against war fare that no nation will start a war lest it be destroyed in the process. Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill with the prescience with which his mind has been gifted, foresaw such a possibility in one of his re cent speeches on world affairs. That indeed were a consum mation devoutly to be wished. Now we see the Nautilus, "low vaulted," sealed against the deep waters. What a glorious day it will be when humanity can break the bonds of hate and fear, and leave the; empty shells of now-useless subma rines and bombers and) battle ships "by time's unresting sea." Chronicle was in preparation when Chief of Inspectors James English telephoned to ask that Chronicle staff men be called away from the Moskovitz home at 2900 Lake street j When it became evident that the co-operation ; of all news media would be given, the Chronicle extra was dismantled, and no copy of it ever reached the public. j However, with i extra police men being called to duty, and with newspaper, radio, television and wire service men calling their wives to explain why they would not be home on time, there were bound to be leaks. Out-of-Town Media Out-of-town newspapers and radio stations, who were not in formed of the agreement among San Francisco Bay media, were of course, not bound by the blackout agreement nor even in formed of it I A friend of the publisher of the Salt Lake Tribune heard the story in a local club and- tele phoned Salt Lake. The publish er immediately sent queries to the Associated Press in San Francisco and to newspapers in Los Angeles, San Diego and Chi cago with which he has news- exchange agreements. The Los Angeles, San Diego and Chicago newspapers also sent urgent inquiries to San Francisco. They were informed by telephone of the blackout agreement and asked to cooper ate. Of the three principal radio networks, two informed their New York offices of the black out agreement and one did not. A Demand One network received a tip in New York from an FBI infor mant and immediately telephon ed San Francisco, demanding the facts be broadcast : It was) a touchy few minutes, but the New York officials were pur- suaded to respect the agreement . An alert teletype operator in the San Francisco office of the . .United j Press made a goal-line isave on Monday; night On the press association's California wire which serves 69 newspapers in the State, a note started to appear on the ma chines in the San Francisco of fice. It began: "SX (code for San Francisco) CLIENT ASKS STORY SX REAL ESTATE OPERATOR KIDNAP ED AND HELD . . . " r Frank Caunt a veteran news operator, immediately punched his finger on the "break" but ton, interrupting the message. "Who's sending," Caunt mes saged, i "Los 'Angeles," was the an swer. "Lay off that" Caunt ordered. The Los Angeles answer was, "???? '" i Hurried Key Holding his I finger on the "break"? key, Caunt called over a wire editor, who put through a hurried call to the United Press Los Angeles office, explaining the situation. H I On Sunday night Walter Wi$ chell had what was perhaps the biggest audience of Bay Area newsmen. The word had gone out that Winchell had got wind of the news, and had telephoned out here, threatening to "break" it He didn't though. Since news j is a perishable commodity that diminishes in value most rapidly when some one else has it ahead of you, every one of ; the hundreds of round-the-clock news men in on the secret was alert to the dan ger of a leak.; Naturally, from copy boy to editor, there was a lot of debate L about whether a voluntary news blackout was a good thing. Some urged that it was a dan gerous precedent to suppress news,: and that doing so protect ed kidnapers : as well as their victims. Clocks came into use in Europe about the 13th Century although there is evidence they were in vented some centuries earlier. LONGEST RUN LONDON (INS) The long est railway run in the world is now made daily by the "Eliza bethian," between London and Edinburgh, a distance of 393 miles on a regular schedule of 65 miles per hour. FREE ESTIMATES On Floor Coverings , NORRIS-WALKER PAINT COMPANY 1718 Front ; Phone 4-2279 Southern Beauty OYSTERS 2 19iin 39c SAVING CENTER Time Flies: From The Statesman Files Literary Guidepost By W. G. ROGERS PERSIAN ADVENTURE, by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi (Knopf; 13.50). ! ! In two ceremonies, in New York and in Meshed, Anne Sin clair, newswoman from Wichita wed Mohammed and became Anne Sinclair Mehdevi to us westerners and Khanoum Mo hamed Aga to her Iranian hus band's countrymen. j . In between the ceremonies, the usual thing in New York and a touching ritual in Mohamed's home, come all the experiences which add up to this "adven ture." They began prosaically in a Greenwich; Village basement the young couple's first lodging. They continued, matter of fact on their trip to the Near East by ship to Beirut plane to Teh eran, and by Ford to the mother-in-law's where she occupied a room still western: Linoleum, ; grapejuice bottle holding drink 'ing water, pot-bellied stove stamped U. S. Army. I From then, on life turned strange ! and unfamiliar, some times as romantic and glamor ous as H had promised to be. About the only usual event was a view of the shimmering Pea cock Throne. For the rest there were the great congeries of un predictable relatives, from the .father-in-law with his numerous iwives to aunts who might be in fants and nephews who were bearded men. There were the ;patients carried piggy-back to the dispensary; the custom of jkorsL a sort of big family bed; ithe mysteries of the chad. or; the j eunuch in a Buick; the" bride's i curious task of arguing for her ! dowry. I 1 However, there were the auto jists, who must have made the ? author think she was right back !ln New York: "It would be un i thinkable for a driver to show - 1 courtesy toward a pedestrian.1 f This is a most refreshing book, (while Miss Sinclair provides 1 glimpses of people as news- worthy as Mossadegh, she j probes deeper and more reveal- Singly in less publie places. Des ( 1 pite her own romance and the romance of ancient Persia, she remains very practical and un-starry-eyed. This is the Midwest looking sensibly at the Near East; it's the facts about a fib led land, j 10 Years Ago Jan. 21, 1944 I Wendell Willkie announced he would not enter the California presidential preference pri mary, but would enter the Wis consin, Nebraska and Oregon primaries. .it. Yee Sing, veteran Salem Chi nese restaurateur, entertained at a! family dinner in observ ance; of Chinese New Year. I Leslie Junior : high student body held election with Bob Goffrier in the presidents' chair, Joy Smith, vice i president; Pat Miller, secretary; Don Phillips, treasurer; Phillip Blankenship, aergeant-at-arms; Maryanae Bonesteele, song-leader. 25 Year Ago Jaa, 23, 192S I Leon Trotzky and his exiled companions made a formal pro test and appeal to the commun ists international tor reinstate ment in the party. The appeal was not printed in Russia. i ; . . - . I Financial backing to provide an additional faculty member ' and; a number of scholarships was, promised Kimball college by the Board of Foreign Mis sions of the Methodist church. I Oyer ISO members and offi cers of the Business and Pro fessional Women's Clubs in var ious parts of Oregon were in at tendance at the state meeting in Salem. ; 40 Yean Ago Jan. 23, 1914 Editorialrytlwilliam Reid Is being paid $350,000 by the Port land dock commission for two blocks on the east side of the river, for a city dock site. Might have been bought for 30 cents, half a life tune ago. State Treasurer Thomas B Kay announced his '. candidacy for the Republican nomination and re-election to the office he now holds. " Colonel Goethals was recent ly tendered the police commis sionship of New York by Mayor Mitcneu. 1 , if I Better; English By D. C WILLIAMS - 1. What Is wrong with . this sentence? He was excused en account of his youth." z. What 4s the correct pro nunciation of "placable"? K3. Which one of these words la misspelled? Hierarchy, hilar' ious, hinderance, hickory. 4. What does the word "inad missible'' mean? 5. What is a word beginning with inc that means "beginning; commencements - ANSWEKS , t Say. "because of his youth.' 2. Pronotmca first syllable as play, not as in plack. 3. Hin drance. 4. Not worthy to be ad- iinitted. The discussion of this subject is inadmisahle. S. In cipience. v.i ; i i t . j . - H ; i i Funtral Servict Sine 1878 Phono 3-9139 i I Church al Ferry SALEM, OREGON I- s i : ! 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