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V 4 (See. 1) Stateiman, ScrIm,Orw Thura,, June 3, 1954 "No Favor Sways Us, No Fear Shall AweP rrom first Statesman, March ZS, 1851 CHAfll .BS A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher PuDiiabcd ever morning Business office 280 North Church St. Salem. Ore- Telephone 1-21 Entered at th jottotflce at Salem. Or, aa icond class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879. Member Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled exclusive!? to the use tor republication of all local news printed in this newspapex War Prospect Recedes President Eisenhower told his news con ference Wednesday that no decision had been reached on asking Congress fof authority to intervene in Southeast Asia. The process of exploring every possible line of action is still under way. The truth seems to be that the longer the delay the less likely is our armed interven tion. There has been a marked cooling off of sentiment for stepping into the Vietnam war to stop the Reds. Dienbienphu has fallen to the Reds and Hanoi is now threatened, but the most we are now doing is to hold mili tary conferences among possible allies for "united action" that and waiting for wind ing the tape on the record at Geneva. Britain's caution served to restrain U. S. zeal for common action and in the sequence U. S. independent action was seen to be impractical. Britain has a bigger immediate stake in Southeast Asia than has our coun try; hence, its reluctance to join in the fight ing chilled the ardor of most of our inter ventionists, who never were very numerous but were high-placed. At presentwe seem to be back to Secre tary Acheson's attitude of waiting for the "dust to settle." However, Secretary Dulles is a very determined man. He does not relish the sting of rebuff which his Asian program encountered, nor is he ready to concede Southeast Asia to Communist conquest. The prospect, however, of U. S. military involve ment is receding. Protracted though it is, the Geneva Conference may produce some sort of truce which would permit a measure of stability for Southeast Asia. Kaiser, the Incurable Optimist Henry Kaiser is nothing if not an incur able optimist. Not even the heavy losses of his automobile manufacturing corporation daunt him in his expansionist inclinations. At Spokane on Wednesday, he announced plans for enlarging the aluminum rolling and finishing facilities at Trentwood of his aluminum and chemical corporation. And this only a few weeks after he had reduced operations at the plant because of a tem porary glut of aluminum production. The new units will include two rolling mills, one designed to produce light-gauge sheet aluminum, and a mill to produce wide embossed or patterned sheet. These mills reduce aluminum ingots to sheets for use in fabrication, such as cooking utensils, nov elty products, architectural trim, moldings and paneling. This opens the way for fur ther expansion of aluminum fabrication in the Northwest. Thus, local employment is multiplied through the various steps from the ingot reduction plants to the finished articles of commerce. It was only natural for Kaiser in his Spo kane appearance to urge rapid and continu ous expansion of hydroelectric power plants. As a heavy power consumer, he doesn't want a brownout or a blackout, and he wants more power and cheap power for his future ex pansions. Kaiser wants the government to keep its dams on schedule, to make new starts, and favors partnership programs with private utilities "to the maximum practical extent." A restless, resourceful industrialist, Kaiser is the boomer who incredibly makes good on most of his projects: Aluminum, cement, construction, steel, chemicals. He faltered on magnesium and came a cropper on motor cars; but he still has a wide industrial em pire which he continues to expand. No eco nomic myopia for Henry Kaiser. Back in Appleton, Wis. the county sheriff has been arrested, given a hearing and been bound over for trial on July 15th. The charge? a member of the board of county supervisors says that oleomargarine was found in the county jail! Wisconsin is one of the few states continuing its ban on col ored oleo. City Should Improve Road Section With the state and county going ahead with the widening of South River Road, the section within the City of Salem needs prompt attention. Voters turned down a proposal for a $65,000 bond issue to finance this work and the widening of Ferry Street, but that should not block some action by the city in the way of relief. While presum ably funds for street improvement in the fiscal year starting July 1 have been pretty well allocated, it is not too late to revise the program and divert funds to this work. The city will get over $250,000 as its share of funds collected by the state for highway and road purposes. Surely out of this fund enough can be found to do the essential job of improving South River Road to connect Owens Street with the county-state section. Churchill's Apathy on Indochina Readily Light of British Danger Understandable in 1 By JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON One of the complicating factors in the Indo China crisis has been the attitude of Sir Winston Churchill. Accord ing to Americans who speak from first hand knowledge, the Prime Minis t e r really seems to find it hard to in terest himself in the Indo Chinese prob lem. The lesser reason for this is no doubt rooted in C h u r c hill's character and experience. He does not know Eurasia, as he knows Europe, at first hand. He tends to see the Indo-Chinese war as a remote colonial squab ble in which the French have got themselves into hot water. "W h y should Britain help to pull them out?" he asks, in ef fect. Bat the larg er reason for 41 X U man's attitude lhh!??B is something quite different In brief, he has become preoccu pied with the threat to Britain of the Soviet atomic and hydro gen bambs. And this intense preoccupation often drives all else from his mind. The accounts of Churchill's performance on this subject and there have been a good many such accounts by now may seem superficially pathe tic. He returns to the topic at every opportunity. He pleads with his American hearers to remember that "we live in these islands." Judging by the scien tific facts now known, he even exaggerates the danger; for he has a theory that a hydrogen bomb dropped in the Irish Sea would overwhelm the British Isles with "a massive tidal wave." His talk about the danger to Britain has sometimes seemed obsessive. Sometimes, in 'talk ing about it, he has shed tears, for he has never been a man who was ashamed of his emo tions. Thus the impression has been left that the burden of his years is growing too heavy for him. Maybe that is so. It would be a miracle indeed, if Winston Churchill did not find bis years a burden after such a life as hit. Tet the fact remains that Churchill in his eightieth year sees the heart of the matter more clearly than those who shake their heads and say, "He's really getting very old." The manner of his talk may show time's harsh way with men. Bat the matter is still sound. His preoccupation his obsession if you like is neither foolish nor senile. It is, rather, a warning, and a very grim warning too. If Churchill's American listen ers were more wise, they would register the warning. They would consider what it will be like, two or three years from now, when the peril to the United States is as total as the peril of the British Isles today. They would ask themselves, "Dare I claim more courage than Winston Churchill?" and they would interpret the old man's constant thought of Britain's peril as a foretaste of their own thoughts in the time ahead. The parallel is uncomfortably exact between the situation of Britain today, and the situation that this country will encounter only a little later. Britain is within easy range of the IL-28 bombers on the Soviet air bases in East Germany. Britain has no air defense against these speedy jets. And the Soviets have an ample stock of atomic and hydrogen bombs, to reduce Britain to smoking ruins. A cou ple of years from now, the So viet Strategic Air Army will possess a powerful striking force of the new Tupolev-37 jet bomb ers, with a smaller element of the Tupolev-39. On present curves we, too, will altogether lack an effective air defense against these new Soviet jets. And two years from now, the Soviets will surely possess an ample stock of atomic and hy drogen bombs to reduce the United States to smoking ruins. How is this future situation CUB-WILL HE GROW? t I .un a '""fyTl. K-77 . . . FV Voir V?f .-sWut.eni'C likely to effect American poli cy? The answer is plainly to be found in the way the same si tuation is already influencing the greatest and boldest nation al leader of our time. Churchill does not seem to ns to concern himself enough with the dan ger that i3 remote, in Indochina. That is because he is so much concerned by the immediate danger to Britain of the Soviet air-atomic potential. By the same token, imagine the debate that will take place in the White House two years from now, if the Soviets then commit a sudden, overt act of aggression somewhere else in the world. Suppose that the at tack takes place in Western Eu rope itself, where we are most deeply committed to resist So viet aggression. Nonetheless, our own exposed position will be the main theme of the meet ing. And the question all will ask andnone will answer, will be: "Are we to risk the destruc tion of the United States for these foreigners halfway round the world?" In our kind of society, in short, increasing vulnerability must always tend to beget in creasing paralysis of policy. We shall not be consoled, either, by our capability of "massive re taliation," when we have begun to worry about the Soviet capa bility .to destroy us first Today, these problems can no longer be shoved under the rug. (Copyright. 1954. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty fii l':f Me. rM t ta All ntw rer m i The Safety Valve SOUNDING OFF To the Editor: I am about to take up the un popular side of the problem now on the mind of most of us: The Army-McCarthy feud. First: The army is responsible for the holding of these hearings, not the committee. At this time the army-side of the case is pre sumed to Be in, and can be eval uated. The other side will come later. Let's consider a few of the high lights of the case as presented: One, that consumed thousands of dollars worth of high-priced talent time was a picture of the Secretary of .the army, and pr vate far-in-the-rear-rank Schine. The Secretary was in command, and was under no particular ob ligation to appear on the picture with the private, and the indica tions are that up to this time he had a kindly feeling for the chap, who seems to be rather a likable young man, and, I'll bet, is hav ing the time of his life kidding the BRASS. Another time killer was the trip to Fort Monmouth, when Cohn got mad and probably cussed a little, although he says he does not recall doing so. How ever, there is enough doubt about that to cause Senator Dirksen to observe that he, with his even temper might have done the same . . . Now: the Intelligence officer who slipped McCarthy some needed information: Of course he will be found out, and will lose his job. Assuming he is a loyal American, very likely he has for years seen a stream of reports go through to his superior offic ers, which called for action, but nothing ever done about it. Un der these circumstances he was fully justified in doing exactly what he did do. I say this for this reason: The President and the members of Congress are placed in their positions directly by us: you and I. Hence, pertaining to government, they rank equally. The President can not remove a senator, while the Senate can re move him in the event he does not properly discharge his duties, therefore the head of a congres sional committee is as much en. titled to any information pertain ing to government as the Presi dent himself, above even the members of the cabinet. It is clear the Pentagon has ganged up on the committee, this same Pentagon full of salted down left-over's many of whom would like nothing better than to see this administration wrecked. John W. Plank 403 N. 20th our minds as strong individuals on what we learn, and not be bound to prejudices and precon ceived notions of groups with lim ited viewpoints. Let's have the courage to be controversial. Our forefathers certainly were, and to their eternal glory. Next to com munists, the worst American types I know are the fools who talk so much, and the intelligent ones who have not enough cour age to even talk a little. Steve Anderson JtP HKEjjQSI irrrnmro (Continued from page. one.) completion in late 1955; and the big relocation from Goshen to Canyonville, costing $28 million, various sections of which are un der contract One major change is south of Roseburg where the new route leaves the winding valley of the South Umpqua to follow the pioneer route over Roberts Mt. whose top is being cut down 175 ft to reduce the grade. When this work is completed US 99 will have 145 miles of rural expressway (controlled ac cess and grade separatibn). This is the first time a state has built such an expressway free of tolls. Time Flies f ROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago Jane 3. 144 A pure bred Suffolk lamb brought $2250 at the Marion County Fat Lamb Show at Tur ner. The lamb was donated by Gath Bros., and went to Perry Baker. The Distinguished Service Cross was awarded to Lt. Henry A. Kortemeyer of Brunk's Corner for extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight over Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Mrs. E. M. Page's informal tea-table received the grand prize at the Spinster table dis play. Mrs. William Busick re ceived second prize in the tea table grqup. 25 "Years Ago June 3, 1929 Miss Mildred Roberts was graduated from St. Helen's Hall and in addition to winning a ES3332 A dozen years ago when auth orities looked at the need for modernizing our highway system and computed the cost the task looked staggering. A beginning was made, however, down in the Siskyou Mts. Since then the highway department has kept gnawing away at the job. Now the end of the first phase of the work is in sight on two of the major arteries of travel, US 30 and 99. Increased revenues from license fees and fuel taxes, in creased federal funds and the proceeds of state bond issues have given acceleration to the program. Other highways than those mentioned have shared in the improvements. There still is a vast amount of work to be done. The bond au thorization has been exhausted, but federal "highway appropria tions are being increased. With the secular increase in normal revenues highway reconstruc tion and improvement can con tinue. One thing we can all take pride in and that is that our highways remain toll-free. Even Washington is succumbing to the lure of toll roads, with a Tacoma-Seattle-Everett express way now authorized. Our roads are free, and our state-owned bridges too, though the Portland-Vancouver bridge will have tolls restored to finance a new bridge. Measured both in terms of money spent and in results accomplished and in the better ment of highways for public use, this postwar accomplishment un der the direction of the State Highway Commission ranks among the major achievements of our age. '"Why can't you stop attata sahon on your way home from work like other Courage to Be Controversial To the Editor: Apparently millions of people, by the grace of television, have come to see that McCarthy is not a public servant but a pub lic nuisance. He has caught many headlines, but no communists. The real fight against commun ism will be made, as great fights are always made, by persons of intelligence, energy and integ rity, and especially important, by those possessed of scientific skill. We might soberly reflect: Russia turns out 50,000 scientists annual ly, we turn out 15,000! An American worthy of his heritage now, will seriously study the sources of brains, energy, skill and character. Some hard decisions must be made by all of us. What kinds of schools pro duce such people? What churches produce men and women who struggle with the great issues of the day? Who are the politicians who serve, and who are the huck sters? These are hard questions and hard answers that often re quire changes in loyalties and af filiations. But if we don't make the changes conscience dictates, we invite disaster. Let's look hard for the facts, go to the library for study, speak Salem Business Men v Willamette Valley Bank Hundreds of progressive Salem business firms now enjoy these advantages offered by this bank: PERSONAL SERVICE ST RANK EXECUTIVES. All accounts, regardless of size, receive individual attention by highly trained personnel. TWO HANDY RANKING LOCATIONS, away from congested traffic areas, make banking easy. (Am ple parking space is available always at both banking offices.) RANK -ST -MAIL SERVICE permits making de posits to accounts at any time. CONVENIENT RANKING HOURS. All teller scrv ices available from 8:30-5:30, 6 days a week. Banking rooms open: 10:00-3:00 Walk-op Teller Window Service: 8:30-10:00, 3-00-5:30 For banking at its best... bank at Salem's home-owned bank. Head Office! 1990 Fairgrounds Road University Rranchj 1310 State Slreat Russ Suffer L iterarv c:J UldepOStiOf Defect ions By TOM WHITNEY By BOB PRICE I AP Foreiga Staff THE CASE OF MRS. SURRA TT The Kremlin is now reaping the by Guy W. Moore (Univ. of Ok- i harvest it planted when it purged lahoma Press; $3) secret police chief Lavrenry Beria The federal government on ' smaU epidemic of defections by July 7. 1865, executed four per- Soviet intelligence officers abroad, sons for the assassination of Were ruthless Georgian Abraham Lincoln. There was no &s tody would be grinning doubt about the men's implies- sardonically while watching the dif tion in the plot led by John ! Acuities his successors are haTing .Wilkes Booth. The role of the ii keeping the loyalty of his men. woman, Mrs. Mary Surrat, was ; Tb defection picture right no less clearly defined. At the time of the execution- few people would have dis- is likely to be a little like an ice bergonly part above the surface. The announced cases of defection agreed with the death verdict i?aT ?Js nry portion of of the military commission. Atj"?056 which have actually taken the least. Mrs. Surratt had "kept i P4?- . the nest where the egg was ,uThs are bad enouh for hatched ' her boarding house e Russians, was a rendezvous for the plot- : There is "iuri Rastovorov. former ters and the emotional frenzy wcond scre!a7 of the Soviet mis gripping the country was not 'f10n m Japan, and now supposed conducive to calm reasoning. in United States. reasoning. But. in 1867, at the trial of her son, John, for complicity in the plot, it was disclosed that the military commission had Vladimir Petrov deserted to the Australians and his wife after him at the moment while she was al- PA Am ov a Waw Llft ai.q f Va recommended clemency for her., Au$tali4ns Rulta iSPrUH StThD Thetb activities in Australia and his L! 1 t nd eve''wife was a code clerk. A special hL l 51' commission has been Wln r J?Z t aT?Cr V'K St UP to nke findings on the bas- lhgit Tn upshot ' is of their evidence which reported as a hot and enduring argu- j masses document, ment over the guilt of Mrs. Sur- T 1 , . ralt 6 In late Apnl .American officials in Bonn. Germany, announced the This is the tangle Moore set defection of Soviet police CapL out to unravel. He reviewed I Niolai Xhokhlov. Khokhlov told painstakingly the evidence. He I his tory himself that be was sent stumed statements and facts tn ass;natP an fn-;ai f p,i- which came to light outside the 1 sian emigre organization in Ger- courtrooms. He looked into the many but instead turned himself in to American officials. Khohlov I has testified before the Senate la- controversy over the clemency petition: Was it suppressed, by whom, and for what purpose? j ternal Security Committee. Moore obviously believes Mrs. There likely are others, Surratt was innocent But he judicially refrain? from partisan There's no doubt that one prind argument. He builds his case on ' pal factor in the current flurry of dispassionate analysis of evi-! defections of Soviet spies is the dence and concludes that her ; broad purge of Beria and his ad- guilt was "never more than a : herents and appointees. guess." It is a conclusion that must be given weight This is one of the best arguments for Mrs. Sur ratts' innocence which has yet been advanced. 1.1 1 If .L J .1 "Si 1 her class and carried on many j 1381 oeserc mey wui unaer Most Soviet security officials who have had assignments outside the U.S.S.R. since before Stalin's death were closely associated with Ber ia's apparatus. They therefore have to wonder what kind of a re ceDtion tbev will eet when thev to i home. At the same time thev know extra-curricular activities. Soviet law and practice be con demning their closest relatives to Pope Pius XI, in an open letter death and exile, to Cardinal Gasparri. papel sec- Hardly a happy choice! One of the possibilities which no retary of state, said he was dis pleased with several statements in speeches made by Premier Mussolini on the Lateron treaties. Miss Edith E. Burch, stenogra pher to City Recorder Mark Paul son, was named city recorder during the illness and temporary absence of Mr. Paulson. 40 Years Ago Jane 3. 1914 The King and Queen held court at Buckingham Palace. In spite of all precautions a militant suf fragette gained access to their presence and caused an inter ruption in the presentations. Freak weather conditions ex tended from Pennsylvania to the Pacific Coast. Oregon reported doubt keeps some Western intelli gence officers awake nights is that among the defectors there are a certain number of deliberate So viet plants. This has happened be fore. It is a time-honored Soviet technique. Nevertheless, it is not surprising that the West is doing its best to encourage defection among the Russian officials aborad. When Ivan Brutsev, an official f the Soviet Embassy in Athens, flew to Rome recently, rumors circulat ed from Russian emigre sources that he was ready to desert At Rome Brutsev was separated from his companions and asked point blank by Italian officials if there was anything they could do for him. He refused their offer and went on to Moscow. The Brutsev example is un- hail, snow and heavy winds that important by itself except to il gave the state the appearance of hutrate the fact that Western in December. while St. Louis was l telligence agencies are attempting suffering the hottest day of the , (0 make full use of what might be year. : called the "Beria boys abroad." Eugene Houston, popular in the younger set, went to Eugene to make his home. 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