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4-(Sc D-Stattsman, Salem, Ors.,' Friday, April 11, 19SS C - .1 . "Ho Favor Sxcayt Da. No fear Shall Atc - iTom first Statesman. March 28. 1851 Statesman Publishing Company . CHARLES A. SPRAGUK. Edltta and Publisher , Puouaned ever - morning. Business offlee 280 ' North Church St., Salem. Ore. Telepnone f Entered at U postofflce at Salem, Or, sj second class matter under act of Congress Msrcn X 1179. Member Associated Ptcm Th Associated Press la entitled exclusively to the as tor republication of all local news printed la . - - this newspaper. Crack Down on Drunk Drivers! Budget-minded city council members and frustrated arresting officers have their eyes on a growing list ef drunk , driving cases which they" fear defendants are going to win by postponing them to death. The budgetmakers point at the lost reve nues in old, dismissed cases; the policemen point to the lost conviction- Both are mak ing an effort to reinstate an old city ordi nance which permitted the city police de " partment to confiscate the automobile oper ated by an individual arrested for driving while intoxicated on the city, streets. Their principal argument for return of the law is valid in that it forces the defend ants, and the courts into speedy disposal of drunk driving cases. Technically, an auto mobile would be, held as evidence to prevent v a defendant from claiming, for instance, that faulty mechanism and not too many shots at the corner bar was to blame for his erratic driving.' This makes sense, too, but more important is the need for the extra incentive to get defendants before a judge before witnesses scatter "or their memories fail or arresting officers leave the police force. , Some cases in Salem's municipal court date back almost to the .repeal of the old law, long. in effect in the city. Police await ' dispositions a dozen cases, some more than two years old. - They note that, no one, de prived of his automobile, let his case drag on indefinitely before the old law was changed. There are points on the other side of the questionv too. Such a law can and did provide some harsh injustices. It marks no difference, and judicially so, in ownership of the car. A borrowed automobile goes as -quickly to the lockup as that owned by the arrested driver. Opponents of the bill, now -before the city council, cite the case of a": farmer who lost the use of his truck for several days in the harvest season peak be cause one of his employes imbibed too heav ily on a trip to town with a load of berries. Proponents retort that the law will make ' the car owner more wary of whom he per mits to drive his vehicle, thus reducing the number of hazardous drivers. Opponents also argue that confiscation of property such as an automobile is inherently wrong because it deprives the owner from its use on the supposition that he may be guilty. The driver can go free on bail in order to continue his occupation, but he can't demand a set bail on his car needed to get him to his' job. ' ' w. Any law is subject to abuses and both the old law permitting confiscation and the pres ent law which doesn't, have meant hard ships in individual cases. But the proposed bill adds one more deterrent to driving while intoxicated and it plugs one more hole by which the guilty might escape. An Alert Guard - The National Guard is ready, on the land and in the air" is the theme song of ; the ' Guard's . enlistment - promotion radio pro grams. The success - of Operation Minute Man Wednesday- shows that the Guard, in deed', is ready. If there were any major bugs in this dramatic dress rehearsal for a mobilization alert, they will show up in the recapitula tions and measures can be taken for their , correction.. Apparently, though, the whole operation ran smoothly, which is an indica tion of the tremendous amount of detailed planning, that was undertaken and executed. An example of the careful preparation are the radio bulletins broadcast at intervals, calling up the Guardsmen but emphasizing that this was a practice alert and that other civilians should continue with their business as usual. This averted confusion and, per haps In some areas, even panic among un informed bystanders watching Guardsmen in uniforms and carrying firearms dashing to anti-aircraft guns for all the world as if the Bolsheviks were upon us. The efficiency and dispatch with which the nation's modern Minute Men responded to the call and manned their stations Wednes day should gratify the commanders and re assure the public. Even if the need for a real-McCoy mobilization never, please Heav en, occurs, the men who participate in these 1 maneuvers are learning skills, disciplines and qualities of leadership and cooperation useful to themselves and to their communities, especially in case of natural disasters or other emergencies. Such training builds a sense of responsibility that is essential for the wellAeing of any civil body in peace or . war. Thus the recruiting posters contain more truth than punditry when they say it pays to "Keep Your Guard JJp." M.W.W. HE CAST ENDURING CTGHT Portland is to be congratulated on going 50 days without a" traffic fatality. Death of a 3 -year-old girl struck by a truck inter rupted the record. Previously this year, 13 died in Portland traffic accidents. We hope the tragedy; of the little girl's death will focus renewed interest in the state's metropolis in going even longer without a similar inci dent. " Labor-Management Relations How much Red-domination of electrical- j trades unions had to do with the London newspaper strike is unknown but the effect on the city's economy has been all too appar ent. Not only did 23,000 workers lose their jobs for a time because of the 700 strikers. Newspapers themselves count their loss at more than $10 million; . the city's entertain ment world -slowed to a standstill; trade dwindled generally, and the reading public didn't get a . chance to know much about one of the country's greatest stories of the century, the retirement of Winston Churchill. Who won? It is pretty certain no one did. The electrical workers probably got some concessions, and there is no reason to sup pose they didn't-deserve them- though a special government court of inquiry termed their strike action "precipitate" and their demands "unrealistic." Whatever ' the re sult, it will take a long time for those in volved directly and indirectly to recover their losses. Failure in labor management relations is always serious. Editorial Comment WHO'S CRAZY? s? 'In St Petersburg, Fla., a circus clown and tattoo artist's helper was picked up by the cops. They returned him to Rochester, N. Y., where he had lived as president of the Clark Paint, Oil & Glass Co. The presumption is that the clown, Rufus K. Dryer, is an amnesia victim. They think it must be amnesia. Otherwise why would the president of a big company drop everything to be a clown? There seems to be no thought thai perhaps he'd rather be a clown. Perhaps they are not paying enough attention to his comments about how the children's eyes would light up when he went into his act No body has wondered how many children's eyes lit up when he dealt in paint, oil and glass back in Rochester. Mr. Dryer, who was hunted by the cops, has an " obligation. He, must support his kids, if he has any. Maybe, under some conditions, he ought to support his wife. But there is no law that says a perfectly happy tattoo artist's helper has to be :a big business executive in Rochester, N. Y. ! Eugene Register-Guard. 1 .m;-mm f&pa&& Mix MX" :f il & CSf wifeJ J A; " 11 . ... 1111 iif?? Hi . il BitfrrtJWyr I ToasttuSsters District Meet to Lead Off Convention Series New officers will be elected at the convention Saturday of Dis trict 7 Toastmaster International to be held at the Hotel Marion. Some 300 persons are expected from southern Washington, northern California and Oregon. Registration starts at 9 a.m. 3.-3. Ferder of the Salem area toast master district will be in charge of hospitality. Robert Batdorf of Duoum (Continued from page one) - m m w w When Will Bateson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bateson of Pratum was' named assistant editor of the N. Salem Hi Clarion, he was merely carrying on a long-established . family tradition. His mother, the former """ Mildred Gilbert, was the first student to f be elected editor of the Clarion by the 1940s, the office of editor was changed from an elective post to an appointive one. And Will's older brother, Cornelius Jr., was the last student to be elected editor .... Not only that, but Will is the third (and, the way it looks from here, the last) Bate son son to be the Statesman's school corre spondent at N. Salem . L ? it m Tf 7s i William Henry Taylor Demands Chance to Clear Charge Lodged by Elizabeth Bentley By STEWART- ALSOP WASHINGTON A showdown fight involving the govern ment's whole loyalty-security -'f system is now I shaping up. The ""Sjjlfight will center 7 Inn a tninnr rvffi. jcial in the Inter- national M o n e tary Fund, called William Henry j I Tayfer was one . . jof those named LSnr.rt 4Im. by Eljxabeth 1 r BenUey, the fa mous former Communist espion age courier, as a member of the espionage group in the Treasury Department during the war. The Bentley charge was aired in substance before a Senate committee by Attorney General Herbert Brownell in 1953, when he testified on the case of the late Harry Dexter White. Taylor, who has never taken the Fifth Amendment, has re peatedly and flatly denied un lc oath that he was ever a Soviet agent or a Communist. He has now demanded, in let ters to the members of the Sen ate Internal Security Subcom mittee, that his case be investi- cated publicly; that he be al lowed to confront his chief ac cuser, Miss Bentley; and that his guilt or Innocence be finally determined. At the same time,' ke has asked the Loyalty Board which has been hearing his ease te call Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoever to answer ques tions about what he alleges to be demonstrable falsehoods in Miss Bentley's testimony. In short. Taylor and his' lawyer, former Congressman B y r Scott, are now determined te force a public showdown. One result of the showdown could be to prove that Taylor is guilty. Another result could be to clear his name. , But if Taylor's name is cleared, a heavy cloud of doubt will be thrown over all Elizabeth Bent ley! testimony, and indeed over the Justice Department's methods and the whole security system. It is easy to see why the Taylor case could start a major row. Taylor's position is extraordi nary. He has, after all, been named by the Attorney General of the United States as one' who could be used by a "paral- -lei of Soviet intelligence." Tet he still holds a public position, and part of his salary, at least, is paid by the United States Treasury. Taylor is, in fact, the last of those named by Miss Bentley who still holds a public posi tion? Very heavy pressure has been brought to bear on the Monetary Fund to get rid of him quietly. Among other high officials, both former Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and his successor, George. Hum phrey, have written to the Fund urging that Taylor be fired. The Fond managers, however, have quite properly taken the position that the charges against Taylor should first he heard. His ease was therefore assigned early in 1953 to the Internatioa , al Organization's Employees Loyalty Board. This board has been holding intermittent bearings for a year and a half. During all this time, despite the statement of the Attorney General to the Senate committee, the board has been unable to establish that Taylor is guilty as charged, or even that the "reasonable doubt" re quired for firing as a security risk exists. Accordingly, Taylor still holds. his job; Taylor's defense before the board has been simply to chal lenge the veracity of his ac cuser, Miss BenUey, aot only iJ . his awn case, bat in the case f Harry Dexter White and . then. In a public showdown, ha wul make the tame defense. Taylor and his lawyer have - prepared a dossier of more than . 100 pages, which purports to demonstrate that Miss Bentley's testimony is a morass of contra dictions. Some of the contra dictions cited in this remark able document are trivial, the sort of small mistakes any hu man being makes. But some do not seem trivial. For example, according to the dossier, Miss Bentley at one point testified that Taylor passed her docu ments, and at another point she testified that she had never met Taylor. Miss Bentley's testimony may of course prove substantially entirely accurate, and Taylor guilty as charged. There is no doubt that Communist spy nets did indeed operate in the gov ernment daring the war. Be cause ex-Conununist informers like Miss Bentley have been useful in establishing this fact, there are" fierce pressures to suppress all challenges to their veracity. Justice Department officials, including Brownell, have come precious close to taking the., ridiculous and profoundly un American position that anyone who would cast doubt on the word of an ex-Communist must be part of a Communist plot! The best commentary on this J nonsense was supplied by 'BrowneU's own action last week, rin firing the Justice Depart ment's whole collection of pro fessional full-time informers. But just because Miss Bentley's testimony has been so import ant, and because Brownell him self is committed on Taylor's ; guilt, the pressures will be par ticularly fierce in this case. Yet surely Taylor should have a chance to prove, one way or. another, once and for all, whether he took part in espionage, and thus betrayed his country. - It h monstrous and intoler able 'that a man branded as "Taylor has been branded should be denied a chance to dear his name. . . ... . ... Speaking of the recent Portland Hefl's Canyon hearing in his weekly newsletter, Sen. Neuberger notes that Rep. ' Barney Sisk of Calif., one of the committeemen, told him later . he had never seen such rude conduct and behaviour .... Even though the Congressmen gave up their Easter vacation to fly out West they didn't exactly have to shoot wild jackrabblts and burn buffalo chips to exist. They got martinis and steaks the Air Force outfits its planes for traveling law makers on official business with kitchens, bars and stewards to man 'em. . During the plane trip the senators got a too-close-up view of the canyon about which, all the dam controversy (both high and lav?) is brewing. The Air Force pilot took them right down into the deepest gorge on the continent Sen. Morse, glancing uneasily at the mountain crags rising on both sides of plane, began wondering out loud 'why they were flying that low. Congresswoman Grade (Heirs Belle) Pfost of Idaho, agreed with Sen. Morse about the altitude of the plane as she also does about the altitude of the pro posed dam. After a huddle, Gracie finally went up front and asked the pilot to please grab a little altitude .... And from a reader who puts his mind to the weighty things in life comes a note containing advice to gardeners on how to prevent wild Chinese pheasants- from stealing peas from home gardens. "Pheasants always start to eat the young green peas on the outside row," reads this sage com munique. "So, thii danger may be avoided limply and effec tively by not planting an outside row." . . . . .' Remember tile days when a lot of romances but few marriages started in college? Well, Willamette students recently nominated three beautiful candidates for May Queen. And two of these gals are married and the third is engaged. And husbands, wives and engagees are all going to school. This isn't the first time in the school's history that a kitchen queen became May Queen, but it's the first! time the field of candidates was loaded with so much domesticity ... Portland Ocean Shipping Climbs PORTLAND l Ocean shipping increased 24 per cent in the first three months of the year at Port land, compared with the same period last year, the Portland Thursday. The total was 2,272,358 tons of cargo. Most of the gain was in landings of petroleum and cement. Lumber and grain exports also in creased. .' GRJN A NO BRA1 IT BvLichty (Copyriaht, 1959. Mew York Haaid Ttlbuoa Inc.) Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago April 2Z, 145 On the western front Yanks plowed within 8 miles of show down with Nazis at Austrian bor der as British took Bremen, reich's second largest port. .' More than a score of fledgling Kiwanians members inducted into the Salem club within the last few months were guests at a meeting led by the organiza tion's educational committee. Speaker was W. L. Braun. State highway engineer R. H. Baldock disagreed with that part of the recent report of the na tional safety council recommend ing that ttie yellow center stripe on Salem's street, be substituted with a white stripe. Baldock said many tests had found that yel low was more visible: to the mo tor vehicle driver than any other color. 25 Years Ago April 22, 1930 Mrs. Mona Yoder was unani mously elected president of the Salem Business and Professional Women's club. Other officers who were chosen were Merle Dimick, first vice-president; Ruth Moore second vice president; Irene Breithaupt recording secretary; Helen Crosby, corresponding sec retary; Clara McNiell, treasurer. . Completely fatigued after their strenuous activities at the closing session of the London naval con ference. Col. Henry L. Stimson and the nucleus of the American delegation sailed for home on the liner Leviathan. , The second annual Jym Jam boree, given by the Girls' Num eral dub of the senior high school was held in the school gymnasium. Two physical edu cation instructors and advisors of the club, were Mrs. Grace Wolgamott and Miss Echo Bald-eree. 40 Years Ago April 'tt, 1915 Oregon taxpayers ' last year paid out approximately $255,000 for holding primary and general elections in the state, according to figures compiled in the office of the Secretary of State. Six hundred acres of wheat was destroyed by crickets in the Wilson creek country of Grand County, Washington. Millions of the insects invaded the valley and trenches three miles were plowed on the 6,000 acre farm of one rancher. From' London came word that popular, prejudice against Ger many did not extend to its classic composers, whose names figured in almost every orchestral con ' cert to London. Bach, Beethoven and Brahm festival in a series of six concerts were given for the benefit of French and Belgian charities. fart trial are given, and the right of habeas corpus preserved save against action by parliament. " The closest this text comes to our "fifth amendment" is this: "No tribunal, royal commis sion, board or state official shall have the right to compel anyone to give evidence who is denied counsel or - other constitutional safeguards." "Royal commission" is the ve hicle used in Canada and Britain to conduct investigations. A very inclusive guarantee of human rights is contained in Article Nine of the draft: 'Every person is entitled to all the rights and freedoms herein set forth without distinction of any kind such as race, color, sex, ; language, religion, political or ' other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." Canada's judicial system is based on the British, and as such provides usually adequate pro tection of the rights of individ uals. In Quebec, however, Pre mier Duolessis put through what is called a padlock law for the suppression of radical literature. Because of the constitutional question and questions over fed eral-state sovereignty it prob ably will be quite a while before Canada has any written Bill of Rights. Such are the high stan dards of the Canadian people. however, that we are sure they will get along pretty well until they do legalize the concepts 'of human rights which they already so generally respect. Court Hears Fong Testify PORTLAND im Wayne Fong took the stand Thursday, but court closed before he got to .the vital part of his testimony. Fong and his wife, Sherry, are on trial on a first-degree murder charge, accused of killing 16-year-old Diane Hank last year. The state contends they did her in be cause she found out Fong was mixed up in gambling and nar cotics traffic. Fong reviewed his early life and said he became acquainted with Miss Hank when she served as their baby sitter and became a friend of his wife. Court adjourned then until Friday. the Capitol Toastmasters Club, Salem, will be in charge of the day's conference. Election of officers will be at 4 p. m. Saturday. George Loney, Portland, is present district 7 gov ernor, i A 7 p. m. banouetln the hotel'i Gold .Room will feature a speaking contest with out-oC-town contes tants. Winner last year, Victor Miller, Portland, will be toastmas ter. Grant Braun, Portland, will give a humorous speech, "Neurotic Nebatodes," preceding the con test. Winner will go to Portland to compete in the Northwest dis trict contest June 4. At a noon luncheon at the hotel. Charles Barclay, city purchasing agent, will welcome the convention to Salem. Toastmaster there will be William Iron, Silverton. . - . - Omar Halvorson, Salem, wul be one of the speakers and skits will be given by Salem and Silverton clubs. Parliamentary Contest At 10 a. m., a parliamentary con test will be held in the Colonial Room of the hotel. Clubs from Portland, Salem and Gresham will compete for a certificate. Del Ramsdell, teacher at South Salem High School, will be one of the judges. An officer evaluation "buzz ses sion" will be held during the re mainder of the morning. Meanwhile, some 350 persons are expected to attend four other con ventions to be held in Salem during the latter part of this month and in May. Seventy-five are looked for at the Pacific Northwest Personnel Management Association meeting at the' Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall Saturday. On April 30, the Women's Over seas Service League will meet at the YWCA. Fifty are expected. Two Meetings Two conventions will be held simultaneously in the city May 7. One hundred are expected then at the International Association of Electrical Inspectors meet at the city halL The Oregon Optometric Associa tion will open a three-day conven tion the same day at the Hotel Marion, with 125 expected. It is the only one of the conventions running longer than a 'day. SEATS TO SEE DETROIT, Mich, (fl A seat cover that covers but doesn't con ceal the original upholstery of car seats is announced by. a St. Paul' concern.' The substance is trans parent but the company says it's as tough, as leather. Two Bandits Rob Canadian Bank VANCOUVER. B.C. in Two bandits held up the Royal Bank of Canada here Thursday and es caped with between $2,000 and $3,000. 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