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4 (Sec 1) Slats: m, Salem, Ore. Tutw July 13, IS54 mNo Favor Sway Us,' No Fear Stiall AweT From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Pubnsnd very morning - Buslaem office 290 North Church St. Salem, Of - Talepnona t-lUl tntertd at Um joatoffic at Satea, Or, u aacond ' claw matter under act of Conrren March X 1879. ' " Member Associated Press The Associated Press a antmed exclusively to the use for republication of all local news printed In ' thla nawtpam Qark and the CIA The ; appointment by Herbert Hoover of i General Mark W. Clark as head of a "task force" to study the "structure and adminis tration" of the Central Intelligence Agency is one which the American people can wel- come with confidence. Even Joe McCarthy, who has expressed his doubts about the CIA being free of the Red taint, would not dare ' to suggest, that,the patriach Hoover living symbol ot all tnat is great and good in con servative 1 Republicanism - and Clark, with his record of lighting the communist enemy are not pure enough to investigate the cia..;--- . . v CIA Dirjector Allen W. Dulles in whom , McCarthy Has little confidence, it seems s has expressed his readiness to cooperate with General Clark's inquiry. That is all to. the good. McCarthy probably will hold his fire until Clark's report is made, and if CJaik reports that all is clean and. -above-board with! the CIA McCarthy would press his own investigation at the risk of dis- r crediting Clark and Hoover. And for a Re publican to question the integrity and ononis- -cience of Herbert Hoover is practically an unforgivable sin. It is not likely that Clark's report in its en tirety will be made public, althought a few congressmen, sworn to secrecy, may hear it. The activities and expenditures of the CIA have been super-secret. A; very few people know how much money it gets to spend (its appropriations being masked in the money Ibills of other, government agencies) and CIA books have never been audited. Few people . know much about the individuals hired by CIA, either, since it has agents all over and some of them- probably work both sides of ' the street. ; " ' , . There has been some criticism, of the CIA since it was organized in 1947 as a central - clearing house for intelligence. Until Mc- . Carthy came out with his charges of pos- . sible Red infiltration into CIA, other critic ism, has mostly been on the question of the agency's efficiency. In 1949, in fact, the first . Hoover Commission recommended setting up a congressional watchdog" committee for, the CIA one of the several Hoover recom- ;; mendations which were never followed up. Clark's task force of investigators undbubt edly will look-into the efficiency question as well as into the infiltration problem, and -will suggest improvements where needed. ; The public will not be told just what these , are but will have to accept the respected gen- " eral's word on faith, f . "5 v. X It would be easier for the public, then, to continue to1 have confidence in the CIA if there were periodic checkups on its efficiency by the suggested committee of elected repre sentatives rather than by some group ap pointed by the Persident . That would help prevent McCarthy from horning in and spil- ling the intelligence beans. 1 ' ; ' A California dentist .has been crowned, king of a nudist' colony at San Bernardino. Heck, we've had dentists make us jump clear out of our skins, not jiftt our clothes. r Report oh Oppenheimer Declared to Have Disclosed Vital Information to Russians By Joseph & Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON The end Is not yet, in. the tragic case of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. Now that Washington officialdom has digested the' massive tran script released by the. Atomic Energy Com mission there is grave and wide spread worry about the many breaches of se curity that the transcript can tains. - ; Among those reliably report i ed to be acutely disturbed is the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission's own" General Ad visory Committee, the brilliant Dr. L L Rabi In the Pentagon, too, and espec-, ially in the Air Force (which is most intimately, affected) the release of the O p p e nheimer transcript is re garded as the most wholesale disclosure of se cret matter in a very long Sk 0 v- course, that the transcript was edited for security as it accumu lated during the hearings. .Yet the editing was obviously hasty, and in some cases actually con tradictory. , Moreover, the security offi cers plainly expected that the document ; they were editing ' would have only the most lim ited circulation. Hence they .used a ridiculously transparent system of substituting rows of dots for questionable words and phrases. This system produces a series of puzzles about as hard to unravel as "Mary had a . . . lamb." As a result, the release of the transcript has done the following things: (1) Revealed the existence ot . the hitherto top secret air force jyy I Jwph Also" projects AFOAT. L -for long range detection ef Soviet atomic and thermonuclear explosions. : This pinpoints the operational setup of oar long range detec tion system, (2) Bevealed that our scien tific analysts have found the air sample the most reliable of the several available methods of long range detection, and dis closed that our analysts know the precise character of the So viet bombs listed thus far. (3) Bevealed a multitude of never published facts allowing detailed reconstruction of the basic recommendations of the VISTA Report, also hitherto top. secret, including YISTA's con troversial Chapter Five. , And , this is especially interesting. For I Chapter Five of the VISTA Re port led the then General Eis enhower to make important . modifications in his strategy of West European defense, and these modifications still guide the thinking of SHAPE. (4) Revealed many vital de tails, also hitherto secret, about the famous. LINCOLN study of continental air defense, together with some supplementary data on ' LINCOLN'S predecessor, Project CHARLES. 1 (5) Revealed the exact timing of the vital discovery by! Dr. Edwin Teller, which revolution-, ized the whole hydrogen bomb project This lets the Soviet in telligence pinpoint the moment when our H-bomb project really , got going, and so gives Soviet ' analysts the perfect base on which to calculate oar H-bomb stockpile. (6) Revealed certain other data, that the Soviet intelligence officers can quite probably put ' together with their own air samples, and so infer the exact nature of this -discovery of Dr. . Teller's, which is the main theme of our H-bomb technol ogy. By any standard, these are massive revelations. What is much: worse, however, is what; the intelligence analysts call the "totality" of the picturi that The Kinsey Report Again Dr. Alfred' C-Kinsey, who has written some books about the sex lives of men, wo men and wasps, has been called a lot of un savory things but none of them compare with what the Russians have said about him. In a recent Soviet magazine, "Problems of Philosophy, Kinseys report on female 'sex behavior is reviewed, and panned, like few books have evei been panned before. ' Kinsey, the Soviet reviewer declared, is ; a "learned lackey of the imperialists" and his work is "the most cheap kind of pornographic hash, clumsily disguised as science." The good doctor is described as a tool of the cap italists in their campaign "to make man into beatft." His books are designed to "justify the , lackSsf rights and the poverty of the workers, to justify the law of 'might is right, accord ing to the Russian writer, This dim view of the Kinsey report is con- - sistent with a new Soviet campaign to instill some of the Victorian concepts of social be havior into the Russians. Evidently, the Reds found out that free love didn't work out as well as they once thought. Marriage arid divorce laws have been tightened up in the USSR and couples are now expected to take care of their children themselves. The sort of fast-and-loose goings-oil described in the Kinsey report as fairly common in the United States are n'ow denounced by the Reds as "a remnant of the bourgeois capitalist men tality." , , Just how "the poverty of the workers" fits into the picture is a little hard to see, un less the Russian critic has some knowledge of the price the average young American who would a-wooing go has to pay for candy, flowers and tickets to the ballgame. Latest reports indicate that, despite un usually blustery weather for Oregon, the tourist travel is just about as great as ex pected. That, of course, does not make up for the chargrin of coast communities who found the July 4 business from valley folk below normal because of unfavorable weath er forecasts. As it happened, July 4 was a beautiful day on most parts of the coastline. But the friend who berated the newspapers for printing the unfavorable weather "predic tion (provided by the U. S. weatherman, not the newspapers) probably "would be even more irate if newspapers didn't print fore casts at all. Pretty difficult to win, some There's a deer wandering loose on a Port land golf course and if probably will be sur prising how many . extra strokes will be blamed on "his' disturbing 'presence at ' all holes at the same time. . . UUllUilOl WUlIlIiltJIll Mrs. Gordon Nelson is be ' lieved to be the champion worn- FUN IN THE HEADLINES . The Ashland Tidings took itself as the victim of one of its own quips the other day in noting ' headline it had published. When Mr. Jack Balding of Talent was elected president Jof the Southern Oregon History club the Tidings had carried the item with the headline "Balding . Heads History Group." The paper reported at least one thinly thatched old-timer as expressing interest It gave credit to a Medford paper as having surpassed that headline with this one: "Duke of Windsor Observes 60th Birthday; 18 Years Since He .Gave Up Thrown." The Tidings' head reminds. us ef one in a Portland paper a few years back, which read "Boring Girl Becomes - Bride." Then there was the one on an item about the expected appointment of a new chairman, of the state fish and game commission: "Ander son Looms as Fish Head." (Albany Democrat-Herald). 'the Oppenheimer transcript paints. In this document, for the first time, you find the exact course of the most secret argu ments, the precise climate of the highest official opinion, all the complex shadings of viewpoint and . approach, as to several of America's - most vital strategic problems. This totality of disclosure really must be beyond pride for the Kremlin. For it permits the most difficult of all intelligence feats an accurate assessment of enemy intention. In 'the opinion of these re porters, security should never conceal from the nation the bas ic facts of the national situation, yet there have been security in vestigations when facts were published that were well known to the enemy but not to Ameri cans. And now the Oppenheimer transcript has told the enemy volumes he could never other wise have learned with certain ty. ; And who, one asks, was re sponsible for this Operation-SpiH-the-Beans? The answer is ' simple. The man principally re- sponsioie was the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Adm. Lewis Strauss, the passion ate guardian of security, who fought and bled to prevent the, country being told the truth about its situation by Operation .-. Candor. r j The history of Operation Spill the-Beans is long, complex and unappetizing. But -the motive shines clearly through. The mo-, five was to gain advance support for Adm. Strauss's finding against Dr. Oppenheimer, by making public such stuff as the William Liscum Borden poison pen letter, with its ugly charges , that were; unanimously repudi-' ated by both the Gordon Gray board and the AEC itself. In these circumstances, it is inter esting to recall that Dr. Oppen heimer was held perfectly guilt less of any disclosure of secret matter. ; . - (Copyrlfht, ISM, New Tirk Herald Trlaaaa, lac.) LEARNING TO, U. ROUGH I pSk-. j i - n ?Mm&x&zs : Time Flies: 10 1 Years Ago July 13, 1944 Brig. Gen. Theodore Roose velt, Jr., 56, the soldier son of a soldier father, died of a heart attack as he rested in a captured German truck. Gen. Roosevelt had been using the truck for his office and bedroom. . - - While walking to work County Treasurer Sam Butler picked up some scraps of . paper . which, pieced together, turned out to be a $50 war bond. an cherry; picker in the . Mon mouth area this season. She picked 460 pounds in one day, netting her a wage of $18.40. . 25 Years Ago July IS, 1929 The first national convention to be held west of the Rockies by the Catholic Central Verein of America and the National Catholic Women's Union started officially in Salem this week. Better English By D. C WTT.T.tAMff L What is wrong with this sen tence? !'He was obligated to re main overnight because of the bad weather." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "annihilate"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Frolicing, frolic some, frontispiece, frivolity. ' 4. What does the word "recur" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with wi that means "self-deter- trial Oct 4 on misdameanor charg mined; intentional"?. es of hit and run driving while ivcwroe . . . . . x. ojiy, ne was oougea 10 re- hit four automobiles. She told po- mam. - 2. Pronounce a-ni-i-lat, lice she had taken nembutal and first a unstressed, first 1 as in Seconal tablets prescribed by her night, second I as in it, second a physician. as in late, accend second sylla- ' '- ,N ble. 3. Frolicking. 4. To come Makers of photographic mate up again for consideration, rials estimate that Americans are "Such an argument is certain to taking pictures with their cam recur again and again." 5. Will- eras at the rate of more than five fuL ; . million a day. y. - GRIN AND BEAR mStS9fsi& m mergatcr.doctori . ..sars her Uttk boy is growing up t bt pot Oct bis fothef t u" DRIVE OUR NEW From The Statesman Files A flame-colored roadster, the first Graham-Paige to be dis played in Salem, was the proud possession of Loder Bros., local dealers. The upholstery is brown Spanish leather and the car has yellow wire wheels. Dorothy Beryl (Miss Salem) sent word she has signed a con tract with the Fox Theatre sys tem of San Francisco and will : leave for New York as soon as her Fanchon and Marco contract is finished. 40 Years Ago July 13, 1914 ' Out of a total of 01 applicants for admission to the bar at the recent . examination, 77 were granted licenses to practice law in Oregon. . , General Vlctoriano Huerta resigned from the provisional presidency of the Mexican Re public. Charles K. Dennison, Salem motorboat fan, constructed a hydro-aeroplane equipped with a four-cylinder 35-horsepower motor with one gliding plane and an aerial rudder. This was the first glider plane for water travel ever constructed in Sa lem. .. , . . . Marie McDonald In Honolulu HONOLULU m Actress Marie McDonald arrived here by air Monday with her two children. She was not available to reporters. In Los Angeles, her' husband, shoe manufacturer Harry Karl, de nied reports they had separated. He said she left "with my bless ing" for a rest. , Miss McDonald is scheduled for under the influence of drugs. She was arrested June 21 after her car IT By lichty f FOREIGN CAR Hood River Tallies Cherry Crop Damage HOOD RIVER m Field check ers Monday reported damage rang ing from 9 to 35 per cent in Hood River area cherry orchards in this area from the spring freeze and recent rains. The May 1 freeze seriously af fected blossoming, and rain Fri day and Saturday almost on the eve of picking raised fears that a considerable part of the crop might be lost Cherry growers here have har vested only two normal crops in ma ana 1950 since 1946. In a normal year, the cherry crop is valued around $750,000. - The local crop still is not rioe for picking. The labor supply is oeiieved adequate, and aditional help is. available from The Dalles area, where picking is virtually complete. Growers here said the fresh cherry market in the East is poor. ana tnat Washington cherries did not bring good prices. Much of the Hood River crop is expected to go u canneries ana - oriners. Bnner prices were declared fairly good. 12 to 13 cents, compared with 10 cents a pound to growers on the Eastern auction market. The slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains are drained by more than 600 miles of streams. now No. 14 of Pe 1 Winnie Winnie Pettyjohn entered the real estate business in 1919, the year the license law went info effect for the first time, , In 1921 she was licensed to sell fire insurance with the Equitable Fire and Marine insurance Company and the Great American Indemnity Company for auto and casulty Insurance. When she returned from the real estate business she gave up all her insurance companies but these two, as sha had found them so dependable and fair in their settlements, that she preferred to concentrate on these two companies. About five years ago she gave up her real estate broker's license and moved her Insurance business to an apartment, house at 145 N. 14th Street. Abams, Bourland St Skinner Becke & Wadsworth ' Bliven & Klossea . W. J. Braua Clarence M. Byrd Bob Callahan Commercial Insurance Agcy. Curry-Kropp-Cates At ency British to Keep Chinese Reds Out of U N. . By TOM WHITNEY (AP Forelca Staff) (For J.M. ROBERTS, JR.) , Prime Minister , Churchill's an nouncement that Britain will re frain from pressing, now for seat ing of Red China in the U.N. means tne United, states will be able this fall to repel efforts to seat Peiping. Communist China's supporters need at least a simple majority in the General Assembly and more probably a two-thirds vote to geu tnem in tnat body. To get them in the 11-member Security Council a majority of at least seven is needed and that is adequate only in case none of the big powers uses its veto. " . Even if Britain had given active support this year to the admit Peiping movement, it seems du bious whether Communist China could have gotten enough votes to get into the General Asembly this fall. The United States had an nounced it would if necessary use its veto for the first Jtime to keep Peiping out of the Security Council. , - Churchill made clear that Brit ain's willingness to refrain from pushing for China's admission is not necessarily very long lived. He believes the Chinese Commun ist government should be in the United Nations when it has proven that it has given up aggression and is willing to live up to inter national agreements. . In other words the issue is merely postponed a while longer pre sumably 'for another year. .Then it will rise again. There is no way to prevent' it from rising, in fact, so long as the Communist government con trols the Chinese mainland. The world now pretty well knows the attitudes of Western govern ments toward admission of Com munist China to the U.N. Nobody knows, however wha,t the Russians really think about this question. Western observers of Commun ist affairs are divided among themselves over the question of whether the Russians are not per haps the most happy 'party in secret of course to see the Chi nese Communists kept out of the United Nations. In private it's quite possible, some people think that they have different feelings indeed than those they express in public. ' .i It's pointed out . that in Geneva where the Chinese Communists emerged for the first time on the stage of a big international con ference, Chou En-Lai showed a tendency which must have been a bit alarming to Mr. Molotov to nm away with the Communist side of the show. It would seem essential for its prestige that the Kremlin have a monopoly on Com munist wisdom and important pro nouncements. - Those experts who take the view that the Russians instead' genuine ly want to get the Chinese Com munists in the United Nations also have arguments to support their conclusion. 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