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4 (Soe. IV-StatMman, Scrlesa, Or Friday, May 21, 1954 "No Favor Sway$ Us, iVo Fear Shall AweT From First Statesman, March 7Z, 1851 CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PuMiaMd evtry morning Busmen offlc 280 North Church St., Slm, Qn Tlephon 1-3441 Eatrd at Um xxtotfic at liUn, Or, aa Mcond cUaa jattai under ct of Coast March 3. 1878. Member Associated Press tor rapuoUcaUon of all local nawa printac. in uui nawapapei Press Freedom and Court Trials Lawyers and judges often have condemned "trial by newspaper" asserting that extrav agant or prejudicial reporting with smash headlines and lurid photographs denies the defendant his right to a fair and impartial trial by inflaming the populace and condi tioning the minds of jurors. It remained for the New York Supreme Couri however to void a conviction on the ground that re porters had been barred in the taking of some of the testimony. The case was that of Minot F. Jelke charged with compulsory prostitution, and Iba Associated Prass la antitiad xdustaiy to u um the details of the story which were made public made it one of the most sordid scan dals in recent New York City history. Be cause of the salacious nature of the testimony the presiding judge closed the public from the trial. The higher court however ruled that exclusion of the press and the public was prejudicial and deprived Jelke of a fair trial. It said the judge had "no right to re strain or dictate what portion of court pro ceedings shall be made available for the reading public." Two judges of the court however dissented squarely with the ma jority's conclusion, and the case may be taken to the New York Appellate Court. To the degree that the principle stands and trials are kept open for the press and the public, responsibility falls on the press for observing canons of decency in reporting with due concern for the public morals. Press freedom is to be used, not abused. 6Rm AND BEAR IT ByLichty yme FJes Today Is Election Day" This is the day or the state primary elec tion, for the cit ioction and for voting on certain county and city measures. All regis tered voters should get out and vote, even though the pre-election campaign has been quiet, with a minimum of electioneering, smearing and promising. As far as party primaries are concerned the lack of bitterness in the contests augurs well for party harmony when the elections come in November. Then, to be sure, the voters make the final choice; but consider ing the dominance of the Republican party in Oregon the fact is that in a great many instances the decision on who will hold office for the next term will be decided in today's primary. Hence the greater urgency for showing up at the polls and voting today. Strange Disease The public is familiar with many diseases, and well organized drives have been car ried on for years to wage campaigns against polio and cancer and heart disease which are recognized as cripplers and killers. There are of course many other diseases that flesh is heir to which have not received the at tention of those mentioned. One of them multiple sclerosis is described in an article in this week's Saturday Evening Post, as re lated by one of its victims. This disease is the disintegration of mye lin, the fatty tissue which surrounds nerve fibers having to do with voluntary motion and conscious sensation. As this deteriorates ''the nerves are so affected that impulses are roadblocked, causing paralysis of the organs or muscles supplied by them." The author for example says that the only muscular con trol he can exercise is over the third and fourth fingers of one hand. His vision is blurred and his speech indistinct. Yet he is confident that science will unlock the se cret of the disease and obtain a cure. The disease is little known by its long title most persons probably identify it as "paralysis"; but estimates of its sufferers run to 250,000 in this country. As with other of these mass afflictions efforts are being made to raise funds for education and re search. Locally Mrs. Max Rogers has offered to accept and forward contributions to the national office. Great progress has been made in reduc tion of the incidence of infectious disease. "Not attention is being, directed toward the so-called degenerative diseases, and this "M.S." is one of them. Its victims and their friends and relatives hope that something may be done, and speedily for its prevention and cure. Billy Graham, the Southern evangelist now conducting a series of revival services in London, has preached to crowds estimated to have totaled over one million. At the final service on May 22nd a crowd of 110, 000 are expected at Wembley stadium where the meetings are being held, and the Arch bishop of Canterbury has accepted an in vitation to attend. The Graham meetings were preceded by some adverse publicity, but he seems to have overcome its effects, on the measure of the crowds he has attract ed to' his meetings. Evidently nothing like the Graham meetings have occurred in England since the Moody-Sankey revivals of a generation ago. Another editor in Egypt has been curbed by the new government. This one, Abul Kheir Nagujb, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for "conspiring"' against the present government and collaborating with foreigners to harm the state. Before we de nounce this invasion of freedom of the press we should consider that under the Smith act similar punishment could be given an edi tor in this country if he were found guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the government. In fact one of the Commies rounded up on such charges was connected with a Commie paper. The one best qualified to report the cur rent McCarthy-Army hearings is Alice-in-Wonderland. In the automotive world attention is held by the battle of the titans, General Motors and Ford. On another sector, however, a battle is raging, that between breweries of Milwaukee and St. Louis for sales preemi nence. Last year Anheuser - Busch of St. Louis pushed ahead of Schlitz (whose claim is to have made Milwaukee famous), strike bound for part of the year. This year Schlitz hopes to regain the lead and with Pabst and Miller hold the title for Milwaukee. Mean time on this coast western breweries are concerned over the invasion of some of the big midwest concerns which have located branches in California. So the beer battle is churning up suds. Editorial Comment TO LEAVE THE MIRROR POND The unfortunate pilot who put down his plane on the tempting surface of Bend's mirror pond Thursday presently learned something that any swan knowi by instinct the takeoff is long and difficult and the runway short Whether it is a plane or swan, the change from water to air is a laborious matter. Anyone who hat watched a swan leave the Des chutes for a trip aloft will have become aware of how great an effort is involved. The big bird swims with increasing speed which it augments with flapping wings at first buffeting the water so violently that at night the sound resembles that of a galloping horse. Gradually the heavy body rises in the water, presently just touching the surface. Then it clears by inches and then by feet. It is air borne and wings its way, still slowly, above the bridges and the frustrating wires that civilization has placed in its way. Finally, with all obstacles left below, the bird is truly in flight. The takeoff of the swan is not dissimilar to that of the pontooned plane. For each the safe haven of the water becomes a clinging deterrent Each must win free. The bird has the advantage locally in that for it the runway is relatively vastly longer. The plane, its movement bounded by two bridges, needed more distance. (Bend Bulletin) r FROM STATESMAN FILES "U is the ruling of the chair that Adele is entitled to state ber opinions, but we certainly don't bare to pet en attenliom to thtmT par cay Literary Red Delegates . , ' Stall for Time GuidepOSt At Conference 10 Years Ago May 21, 1944 American soldiers, killing 34 Japanese for every doughboy lost, wiped out enemy resistance on Wake island in ths southwest Pacific, Gen. Douglas McArthur reported. Less than 10 per cent of the motorists traveling the Pacific highway during April held their speed under the 35 mile an hour wartime restriction, Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., reported. v '. Mr. and Mrs. Duane E. Wheel er of Portland announced the en gagement of their daughter, Dorothy? to Lt ( jg) George A Arbuckle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Georga L Arbuckle. The couple met at the University of Oregon. 25 Years Aso May 21, 1929 Joe King was chosen president of the Salem high school student body. Margaret Wagner was elected secretary and Robert An thony was chosen the Clarion manager. There are only two college graduates among the more than 7&u'inmates of the Oregon state penitentiary, it was discolsed in a survey by Frank Lombard, Willamette university student Your Health By Dr. Hermaa S. MJ. Strategic location of the male prostate gland has made it. an im portant factor in man's urinary system. It is placed next to the bladder and the urethra, the tube that leads from the bladder to the outside; therefore, anything that happens to the prostate is very likely to cause urinary symp toms. This close relationship is unfor tunate in men of middle age, as a slight, growing enlargement of the prostate gland often begins to occur about the age of fifty. "It naturally brings reaction from the urinary system. The first symptom of a prostate gland disturbance is freouency of urination. The individual com plains of getting up numerous times at night and has disturbing loss of control over his urinary flow. A physician can usually tell whether the Drostate eLand is en larged by doing a simple rectal examination. Of course. X-rays and special examinations are also made in order to prove that the prostate gland Is the offender. If prostate difficulty is allowed to progress, the urine may accu- By W. G. ROGERS TrE SISTERS MATERASSL by Alo Palazzeschi, translated from Italian by Angus David son (Doubleday; $3.50) First we are drawn into the charmed circle of the hills of Florence; then within the little village of Santa Maria, to the north, at last to the scene of our novel, the home of the two prosperous Materassi sisters, Teresa and Carolina. They are 50, which is to say, that's the average, with Teresa 51 and Carolina 49. For years desper ately skimping to recoup the modest wealth squandered by their father, they have ruined their eyesight and their disposi tibns by unremitting toil at lin gerie and bridal trousseaux, as the sign says, and for their ele gant embroidery they are with out rivals. All they know of life is superfine linens and the dain tiest tiniest stitching. ; Niobe, their own sophisticated servant has rarely been able to resist a handsome dark man, and the consequences have twice been scandalous. She re sembles a third younger Matar assi sister, Giselda, whose flesh also was weak; she married, to be sure, but was deserted, and returned home half-drudge and half-sister. A fourth sister had a husband, too, but he and she both died, leaving Remo, 14 when we meet him, poor orphan, being taken back to the Santa Maria home. A handsome dark lad with a beautiful smile, he finds himself the lone man in the midst of susceptible women. They can't do enough for him, they think with a flutter of happiness, and that's what he thinks, too. The young rascal doesn't wrap them around his finger, they wrap themselves. The novel wraps you around, too, and does it delightfully. Its charms are the lasting charms of good fiction: Intrigu . ing character and incident, smart timing and a nice com mand of a rich vocabulary. Brownell Decides to Investigate Government Informer's Case for Possible Perjury, Also Suitability of Evidence By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Attorney General Herbert Brownell has decided to investigate the case of Paul Crouch for possible per jury, and also to dete rminc the suitability of Crouch for future use as a government in former and gov- r1 ! e r n m e n t wit- I I f I The decision portant Crouch is significant in himself, as one of the govern ment's leading ex-Communist informers and most widely used witnesses In proceedings against Communists. And the investiga tion of Crouch will be the first serious investi gation, so far as is known of any member of this new group that has come to play a considerable part in Ameri can national life. Attorney Gen e r a 1 Brownell announced his intention to investigate the Crouch case in response to an inquiry by these reporters about Crouch's performance in U. S. vs. Kuzma et al This is the Smith Act trial of a number of lesser Communist leaders that is now going on in Philadelphia before Federal Judge J. Cul len Ganey. Crouch was the leading V. S. government witness in the open ing stages of this case. While on the stand, he testified with great particularity about the ac tivities of one of the defendants, David Davis, a member of the National Committee of the Com munist Party who was formerly active in the Young Communist League. In all, Crouch made no less than twenty-nine separate state ments of fact about Davis, say ing he had seen him at Com munist meetings, heard him make reports, watched him take notes in committees, joined with him in planning Communist in filtration of the armed forces, and other things of like nature. There was no claim of friend ship between Crouch and Davis. But Crouch painted a clear pic ture of himself and David Davis working together in the Com munist Party over a period ex tending from 1928 through the mid-1930s. Numerous contacts with Davis ere described by Crouch, and an occasional detail was given that brought the story to life. Here, for example, .is a fragment of the Q-and-A concerning a meeting to discuss Communist infiltration of the army. "Question: Was Mr. Davis present? "Answer by Crouch: Yes, Your Honor. "Question: All right "Continued answer by Crouch: The discussion was on the steps to carry out these decisions (about the infiltration pro gram), and the defendant Davis spoke en the practical question of numbers who could be sent in to join the armed forces in New York, and the number of girls; (he) discussed a number of names in both respects who could be most active nam ing Mary Hemoff, Shavolson, a Sylvia Daniels among the names I recall now." Crouch might have spoken with less self-confidence and vouchsafed fewer details of his alleged knowledge of Davis, if he had understood a rather spe cial feature of U. S. vs. Kuzma et al. In brief, a decision of the local Bar Association has led to the court's providing the defendant with highly compe tent counsel drawn from the most respected and conservative Philadelphia law firms. Thomas D. McBride, Philadel phia's leading criminal lawyer, heads this legal group, which is singularly unlike the opposition the government lawyers have encountered in- previous Smith Act cases. McBride and bis team have laboriously studied the records of the many previous eases in which Crouch has beea a government witness. These Included the second trial , of Harry Bridges In 1949. In that case. Bridge's lawyer had questioned Crouch about his knowledge of all the mem bers of the Communist Nation al Committee, including David Davis and another man about whom Crouch testified at Phils- ; -delphia, Samuel Don or Don chin. In response to this quest ioning. Crouch testified under oath at the Bridges trial that he "did not know or did not remember'' either Davis or Don-chin. In the Bridges trial, in fact he denied any knowledge of David Davis no less than four times, and in a most specific and positive manner. He stated at one point: "I had no know ledge of David Davis." ;lf the result of the Attorney General's investigation is un favorable to Crouch, that by no means implies that the result will also be favorable to David Davis and the other Commu nis. They are all known mem bers of the hard core of the Communist Party. Very prob ably, they have 'done far worse things than Crouch testified to. On the other hand, Crouch is an employe of the U. S. govern ment acting in a highly confi dential capacity; and his per formance in Philadelphia has raised a question about whether he is the kind of man who ought to occupy such a position. He is now on the regular pay roll of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, as a con sultant on subversives. He is frequently released to testify as a! government witness in court cases and deportation proceed ings, when he receives the us ual substantial per diem. There is no precise record of the num ber of his appearances in this role. Bat it has been very large. : Under the circumstances it will be interesting to see the results of this first investigation of one of the tribe of informers and government witnesses who have been flourishing in this country since the middle period of the Truman administration. 1 : (Copyright, 1954. Mew York Herald Tribune Inc.) By J.M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst The Communists at Geneva, hav ing heard the plain statements of the British and the earlier ones of the French that collective action to save Indochina must await re sults at the conference, now intend to confer at length while they see what they can do with intensified military action. Red delegates are reported dig ging in for a long stay at Geneva, while building up their attack on the Red River valley. If they can keep the settlement ball up in the air long enough, they may extend the conference beyond the rainy season to attack with major forces built up during the interval. Against this background, France has stiffened her attitude from that of the earliest conference days, and is now earnestly con ferring with the United States on what can be done immediately about the defense of Southeast Asia. The estimate of some French leaders that the fall of Dien Bien Phu might produce this attitude, rather than resignation to defeat, has been proved at least partially true. Britain, however, still sticking to the premise that nothing should be done about collective defense until the Geneva conference has been given every last opportunity to pro duce a settlement, was not invited to join the new Franco-American discussions. That makes her mad, added as it is to the fact that she is also excluded from Anzus, the Ameri can -New Zealand - Australia de fense pact for the Pacific, which Washington is also calling into play in connection with Indochina. This was the backgroundof Presi dent Eisenhower's statement Wednesday that it was possible some form of defense pact might be worked out without Britain, without waiting for the end of the Geneva conference. It would depend, of course, upon the attitude of the Asiatic nations which have been asked to partici pate, and on America's other al lies. There is as yet no formula consideration of the idea that if all else fails, the United States will have to move in alone to help France and the Indochinese states. But even to contemplate a col lective action without Britain, with her great interests in Southeast Asia and in Hong Kong, is a tre mendous development. There is very grave doubt that it could or would be done, actually. The very suggestion of such a thing, however, puts heavy pres sure on Britain to change her mind. To this is added the fact that the French, who originated the "wait for Geneva" theory have greatly modified their own stand. The odds are very great that if the Asiatic nations now began to display willingness to go ahead without Britain that she would not be able to withstand the pressure. She should be forced to come in. The dramatic withdrawal of Dr. Albert Voegler from the German delegation to the Paris reparations conference -was re garded as the final in the dead locked negotiations. 40 Years Ago May 21, 1914 A fierce northwester broke over Kiel during the Imperial Yacht club regatta. Two cutters were capsized and five sailors drowned. The mainmasts of the yachts, owned by the German emperor, were broken. Miss Wilda Solomon, daugh ter of Mrs. N. Solomon, Salem, won a leading role in the annual pageant of Oregon Agricultural College. Arthur Glover, well known blacksmith, returned to Salem from Tacoma and bought an in terest in the John Holn business They are fully prepared to do everything in the blacksmith line in first-class shape. About one -fifth of the U. S wheat crop is grown in Kansas. mulate in the bladder, stretching the bladder wall and causing per manent weakness. The urine may also back, off into the kidneys, if the condition is allowed to pro gress, and destroy parts of them. 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