4-(Scc I) Statesman, Silcn, Ore, Tucs Jan. 10, 1955 V.KIX AND BEAim Rv Liclilv w ' VJuv, t(mnvkM V Wn. nssnr.ate editor of the - . - "iVo Favor Sucys Vt. No Few Shall Awe' From First Statesman. March 28. Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SrRAGUE, Editor k Publisher Published every morning. Bulnm office 10 North Church St.. Solcm. Pi. T.-lophone 4-tU Entered it the poitsfflc it Salem. Or., M second elane merer unuer act of Conaresa March 1, 1S7S. Member Associated PreM 111 Aoctatd Prn li entitled axeiinlvely to the MM tot republication o( til local news printed In thle newapaper. Al Serena Hearing .' Hearings arc to open today in Washington en the Al Serena ca?e. This time the McDon alds who own the mining claims involved in' this controversy will be given a chance to testify. When the Interior subcommittee held hearings in this state recently the Al Serena ease was hot considered until the windup of the hearings at Portland and then the Mc Donalds had no chance to testify. When the subcommittee met at Medford, close to the location of the tract in question, the subject Uas .not mentioned. ' Senator Scott of the subcommittee has Iwen quoted as saying that testimony taken in Portland "very strongly indicates the De partment of the Interior concocted a scheme to deal from the bottom of the deck and pass Cndcr the table about one-half million dol lars' worth of publicly owned timber to a private company." This hardly sounds like the North Caro lina senator, and we wonder if this language asn't written for him by some one much cjoscr to Oregon politics. After some initial pjiblicityScptt was quoted as saying he did not think the Department had acted "illegal ly", but the inference from the statement of 'concocting a scheme" certainly, is one of defrauding the government. We are quite confident that a full disclos ure will remove any imputation of fraud ulent action on the part of the Department of the Interior. The lands were originally filed on as mining claims, very substantial sums spent in developing the mineral values with a brief period of production during the war. The only question bvttyfk the Depart ment was whethethe'mivclts'were of suf ficient value to make mirurTgjpractical. So licitor Clarence Davis concluded they were. Now he will have a chance to defend,; his findings before the investigating committee. At last the issue which was fanned in the 1954 campaign" will be discussed under oath before a congressional committee. Phil F. Brogan. associate editor of the Bf nd Bulletin, and well-known authority on Ore gon geology, has been named to succeed the late J. Hugh Truett, University of Oregon astronomer, as the one to record and plat the course of fncJeors across the Northwest. Thus, when you See a. meteor flash and you think it hit just bcri4tevjed barn a few miles south of Scio, oifrrport it to Phil. He will compare your reading with other re ports and may come up with the determina tion that the meteor probably landed some where east of Lakeview or maybe didn't Strike the earth at all. Brogan writes regularly on topics dealing with Oregon geology and paleontology. He lives in a country where geology strikes one in the face wherever he looks: Broken Top, Newberry Crater,. Lava Butte, and not, far from the John Day country. Recently, read ing in a nature magazine how a flea hitch hiking a ride on a dinosaur in the Baltic fell off and was drowned in amber, Brogan ad vised the eminent doctors on the editorial consulting board: " "Those doctors should ride herd more closely on their dinosaurs. Saurians wan dering from their Meswoic pastures might get trapped in those Baltic ambers." This gives us great confidence that the Northwest's meteors will have their routes accurately mapped by Brogan. When the in tercontinental missiles start flying through the air, he may have to devote full time to this new assignment. Our only request' is that he keeD both falling somewhere in the deserts of Nevada. ' . I T7 il l i'mM re TflLmm. ha ml "in Ull LIJJ County GOP 5 " Board Names Smith, Rodin u n Two nevr leaders were named Monday right by thfmutive board of the Marion County Pie publican Central Committee at a meetine at the Senator Hotel. of excessive production f rom!E'Sh nT finance committee acreage diverted from surplus members also were picked. crops Elmer Smith was named treas- Third. lands poorly suited to!r" "P1"1" !? "TmV tillage, now producing unneeded Dam- 'hoJ.'"e' ,pPt I crops and subject to excessive 'vt Mrs . (?icked ' .,ucceed wind and water eronon. must be the resigned George A. Jones as retired from, cultivation," 'Continued Iron page one ) And in conclusion, let me sav that if all we clubwomen ise our voices for peace, no one could hear anything else! Opened Mouth Once Too Often Fulton Lewis Jr. shot off his mouth once too often, and now is threatened with a libel suit from no less a personage than Mrs. Pearl Wanamaker,' superintendent of public instruction for Washington. He had her tagged as some sort of a Red in a recent broadcast, getting her mixed up with another woman. He soon found out his mistake and wired apologies and promise of retraction; but Pearl isn't satisfied with that. She says she will sue him for libel. It is time some one put the sting on Junior who is one of the most reckless broadcasters - in the business. He's the Joe McCarthy of the air. Mrs. Wanamaker has proven herself a self-reliant fighter in the politics of Wash ington state, and Junior picked the wrong victim when he tried to smear her. The Windsors have gone literary. Arriv ing in New Tork the Duke reported on his new hobby of gardening at his country -estate south of Paris and said he had written" an article on the subject to be printed byLife magazine this .spring. As for the Duchess, who has been writing her autobiography, that, she said, will start as a magazine serial In March and be published in September. She is doing it without the aid of Cleveland Amoty, American author, who said he could n't' dress the narrative to match facts with her desires. Meantime Elsa Maxwell has done a scalpel job on the Duchess in her own writ ings. We would offer only this, that garden ing and literary composition must help the Windsors to pass time that surely hangs heavy on their hands. One thing the Armed Services committee Is going to take a hard look afcis the new re serve plan. Adopted last yeareand initiated in August with the expectation it would attract 100,000 young men a vear, the enlistment the first three months totaled only 1,224. At that rate it will be long after the 1960 target date before the U.S. has a ready reserve of 2, 900,000 men. The situation seems to be that youth prefer to take their chance with select ive service, than to sign up for the long re-. serve enlistment. Have we waterlogged Dregon peasants been taken up the flooded creek recently by those sunny weather reports from Calfiornia? Well, Louis du Buy and family of Salem were traveling through the Los Angeles area the other day. It was cold and cars which had. stood on the streets all night were ice-covered. So a hot-breathed radio announcer came on with a weather report from L. A. That's right; he said the lowest temperature the night before was "about 45 degrees." Maybe it freezes higher on the thermometer in California ... . And the weather isn't all they're foggy about in the Southland. If yon watched that Cal-l'SC basketball game from Berkeley ever TV Saturday, you were probably wondering, along with the rest of us, what real ly happened. -The first time Al (Pennies From Heaven) Light ner got hit in the eye with a Lincoln-head, announcer Tom Harmon mumbled something about "Referee Llghtner appar ently got something in his eye." . . And even though the local public-address announcer warned fans against heaving tht coppers, not a word of this leaked to the TV audience. After I f u Though third in size among American cit ies Philadelphia ranks wall down the list in .t,.:.he volumeof publicity it reoeives. It suf fers from proximity to New York, the finan cial capital, and Washington, the political capital, of the country. Now the City of Brotherly Love basks in new-found glory, without a rival. It is Grace Kelly's home! Whatever one may say about Marilyn Mon roe, the fact remains she must be a, good ne anyTr-to-hfkiTr'Tif wht'--trr--rio-" bskMwwman a-wll- as- a ressrA f tpra fj0Wg a t- h t -hcuse,'-f i d-ome t h ig-..u.-a..uxQn& with surplus acres assigned to the soil bank would be to give them back to the Indians. The Indies never overproduced or damaged the soil. year s holdout she has signed a contract wun Twentieth Century-Fox which carries an es timated $8 million dollar price tag. She fig ures her figure in high figures. all, maybe WE wanted to-throw pennies, too m And still no pennies were mentioned after the game was over, although Harmon did say something about Lightner getting struck with an "object." Anyway, you'd think any one old enough to watch a basketball game on TV ought to be old enough to be told about those naughty penny-pitching students . . . And Lightner told us how he cleverly made himself unavailable for contact after the game. He simply stayed at his sister's house in Salinas, instead of at a hotel . . . Incidentally, this was the first time in the 34-year bas ketball history of the PCC a game was ever forfeited . . . And speaking of weather ... A reader Informs us that this is the time of year when the criminal charge of "larceny by bailee," refers to a man caught stealing his neighbor's base ment pump .... And even Charles Ireland, Statesman valley editor, had his spot of trouble over the weekend. Seems that Charlie re ceived a bill for $14 from the ABC Window Cleaners. So' Charlie, who regularly pays his wife for cleaning the win- llcalleL The solution he proposes Is re tirement of additional acres now devoted to the basic crops, wheat, cotton, corn, rice. This would be a voluntary acreage reserve and would be left idle. Farmers would be compensated therefor. Acreage reduction in wheat should be about 12 million acres and in cotton three million. This reserve would be continued for three or four years until present surplus commodities are reduced to normal carryover di mensions. , The second soil bank the Presi dent recommends is much larger some 25 million acres. This would not be idle but could be used for foraga (grazing), for treegrowing or for water storage. Cooperation would be voluntary, and the government would agree to compensate the farmer annu ally for the length of, time re quired to establish the land in its new use. The owner would be re quired to carry out good soil con- - servation practices4 There are a number of other proposals in the President's farm program but these are the heart of his plan to curb excess pro duction. , I will not attempt after a hur ried reading of the President's message to offer my appraisal of hit recommendations. I recog nize the fact that agriculture has not shared in the current pros perity in the degree to which it is entitled as a most essential industry. The President also has .made i bold attack at the root of the problem: too much produc tion for the market to absorb at prices growers regard as com pensatory. The program will not be an easy one to administer, because of the great variety of individual and farm situations. Instead of getting government out of agri-' culture it will involve government more deeply- over a long ternr of: years. It still leaves unsolved the problem of 'the subsistence farm-1 er whose acres are too lew for' his decent subsistence. There is this further question whether the billion plus will not become a permanent increment of the budget, extending well be yond the time when the ailment for which it was prescribed has been cured. At least President Eisenhower has given Congress and the coun try a definite program, construc tive, in the way it tackles the problem which has vexed the country with greater or less acuteness ever since the first world war. chairman of the finance commit tee was Pat Rodin. Salem. Named to the finance commit tee were the following: John Carkin, Harry V. Collins, William E. Healy, Dr. Don Sanders, all of Salem; R. A. Fish, Silvertoo: Walter Bell, Stayton; John Hunt, Woodburn; and Leonard Fischer, ML Angel. The board empowered Sid Sehlesinger, central committee chairman, to secure office space in the next few months for per manent quarters for the commit tee. The board voted to hold meetings regularly n the first Monday of each month and also called attention to a $100 per plate COP luncheon in Portland on Jan. 20. Convict Asks For New Trial Millard R. Williams, 19, re cently convicted by a' -jury of .escaping from the State Prniten jtiarv. asked Monday in Marion ! County Circuit Court that the verdict be invalidated. His at torneys motioned for a new trial. The convict based the action on his claim that he is unlawfully confined in the penitentiary. Ha alleged that the original crime with which he was charged, tak ing a calf without authority, was not tried in the county where it wai committed. He pointed out that the crime occurred in Jef. ferson County in February 1934 and was tried in Deschutes County. Williams' motion further claim ed that his original sentence of 30 months was in excess of statu tory provisions. The inmate had been convicted in December of escaping from a prison work crew last July. Ha was within four months of parole' at time of the flight Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES Skunks sometimes- share a burrow with a rabbit or a wood-chuck. 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "He is engaged in a dif ferent line of business, and this seems apropos with the times." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "melodic"? 3. Which one of these words Is misspelled? C a n t a 1 ope, micro scope, antelope, calliope. 4. What does the word "dis cordant" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ve that means "pertaining to spring"? ANSWERS 1. Omit "line of," and say, "apropos of the times." 2. Pro nounce the as in odd. not as in load. 3. Canaloupe. 4. Not in har monyr "Discordant thoughts are not conducive to happiness." 8. Vernal. -A. AhhMlaViHttM RUBBER STAMPS NOTARY a CORPORATE SEALS made to order in our shop tirrnusu'c stationiht nLtunnm d of rKt sueeuts 46S STATE SI P1I0NE 2 2485 ITATIONtRV . OKICI SUPPIIIS 'lilt DISKS CHAIM SAFES Phn J J4IJ 445 Slot St. SUm, Orta your nexf car FIND OUT AIOVT STATI f ARM'S 10W-COST "BANK KAN" FINANCING Yon may nve as much u f 100 ef more on the purduae of a new of uwd car vhta yo the Sun Farm "Bank Plan''. You lave financing through your nearby bank t their low bank rates. Tkii iav ing , plus your saving! oa State Fan iniursact aawvats to real money. And your State Farm Agent baa diet all the arrangements for yon Call today your State Farm Agea U only a phone all awy. 1 if far1 1 ft ft" STATI FARM AOINT 28 N. High St Phone 4-2215 r ABC and asked what that bill was for. "Why," said the ABC man, "for cleaning windows at the governor's house." Turned out the bill should have been sent to E. J. Ireland, secretary of the state board of control ... Loyalty Board Reverses Itself; New Verdict Time FlieS' Uears William Henry layior or Kea v-narge - From Th Statesman Files German Advertifting pf Cameras on Increase , BRUNWICK. Germany OH- The' "West Cerman"1camera'Industry' plans to boost . its advertising abroad io 1956 to meet growing Japanese Competition. This js the word from A. Oehme, director of! the Voigtlaender camera plant. ! He said of three million cam-1 eras produced in West Germany last year, 60 per cent were ex ported. The industry plans to con centrate on the American market. ' Estate Sale 40-Acre Farm, Located East Near Salem Make Your Offer to Pioneer Trust Co., or See Your Broker Phone 3-3136 E jMrph A,UB By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP - WASHINGTON The - Japanese internment camp in Hongkong was a fairly disagreeable place, in which public spirit was less common than the spirit of "devil take the hindmost." A small minority did the work of the community. The rest played the blackmarket, or made a hobby of envy, or sim ply lost faith and abandoned hope. In these cir cumstances, the I 3 small, determin- I? I bMverlik I l I man, who was to be seen busily trotting about on every work detail, was a not in conspicuous figure. He appeared to be, as indeed he was. dedicated to the public service. He was one of the real workers among the three hundred-odd Americans who er locked up in Stanley Camp alor g with more tha.it three thous and Britishers the human refuse of a collapsed colonial society. At the dreary little internment camp discussion group (which met in a patch of scrub, under the shelter of the low pines, to elude Japanese eyes) this brisk e little man spoke up for a rather New Deal view of the world. But be also showed far more sympathy for the prob lems of Generalissimo Chiang Xai Shek than the British col onial officials. And it was under standable, since be was an ex pert on the staff of the Gener alissimo's Chinese Stabalization Board, on loan from the U. S. Treasury. Karh was WUlUm Heary TeyUr war ear of tee reportm to ,mrvnlrrtt him la Ut grim win ter of 1M2. la Staaley Cama we bad bal ear CommiBlst agenls JilUe, black-arlsed latle Epatrla f the forge rW and bla Utt, kWade EaclUk mllrrs. Elite tklmadeley, vba might aave aa very tttMtihrf K bad ftrwart AlM.p ever washed. But they had escap ed very early and with great bravery, one had to admit. Furthermore, Epstein had taken two or three more rather irrel evant people with him hence it was a fair deduction that if our camp harbored another really im portant member of the world Communist conspiracy, he would have been included in their well planned escape. Bu poor Taylor stayed with the work detail tntil the Americans were exchanged. So when Taylor re-entered the reporter's Ufe eome years age, telephoning to ak (or a letter to a loyalty board. It was aiy to comply with bis resjMtW The reporter wrote that as tar af he knew Mr. Taylor, the proceed ing af alnat him wai a diigraee, aot to Taylor, but to the govern ment of the laited SUtet. It had been Taylor's bad luck to work In Harry Dexter White's Department of the Treasury. For . this reason he had been denounc- ed by Miss Elizabeth Bentley as a Communist agent. Originally, in answer to a question about the persons who passed Treasury do cuments to her. Miss Bentley de clared that Sbmetimei ''it was William Taylor." Later, she re vised, or at least diluted, her tes timony to read that she had merely heard from Nathan Gre gory Silvermaster that Taylor was a member of the Communist underground in the U.S. govern ment. Because of Mitt Beatlry, Tay lor waa rint rtilled by the FBI la 1K7. Thereafter, be wai called before four luceetalve graad Ju ries. He made three appearaacet befare CeagretiiaaaJ rommlUeet (twice McCarthy aad ware Mc- Carraa). la the ead, la 14J. his rate was taken ap by the later aalloaal orgatiiatloa't ley ally board. He went before this rather spe cial board because, In 1940, he had left the Treasury for a Job. with the International Monetary Fund. Two successive Secretaries of the Treasury, John Snyder and George M. Humphrey, urged the ' Director of the fund. Jvar Rooth, to fire Taylor without further quibbling. But Dr. Booth had aa old-fashioned Scandinavian sense of fairness. He awaited the board's verdict. Having begun bearings ia the autuina af 1953. aad having "riot ed the rase" la December of that year, the loyalty board rather oddly waited until the spring of 1.')5 ta band dowa It first ver dict. The board then advised Dr. Rooth that Taylor had beea aa active Commealat spy. But la or der to convince Dr. Rooth, the board had to be much more spe cific about the rharget against Taylor than the regulatloat had allowed whea Taylor was oa trial. The board chairman, Henry S. Waldmaa, of Elizabeth, N. J., ad mitted as much to one of thete reaorteri. Waldmaa eiplalned that the tint verdict against Tay lor bad revealed to Taylor's cour ageous lawyer, Byroa Scott, what might be needed to prove Tay lar'g Innocence. Taylor Immedi ately applied for a re-hearing. Hit requett wai granted. And . bow only a little more than half a year after the first terrible verdict that he wai aa active aad rauscieatieui Communist tpy, the same International organization's loyalty board has held that there "Is no reasonable doubt" as to the loyalty of William Henry Tay. lor. The courage and fairness of the loyalty board, in thus admitting its own hideous error, cannot be over praised, but what about the testimony of Miss Bentley, who started the whole business? What about the government prepara tion of the case against Taylor, which w as a mass of smears and poison pen letters, by the loyalty board's own final verdict? And what about Attorney Gen eral Herbert Browaell, who bad tb mnoaslblllly for the prepara tion f the goverameat rase? Brownell publicly denounced Taylor as i spy on the basis, ap parently, of the cheap, trumped up stuff that the. loyalty board has now decisively thrown out of court. What has be to say now? These are questions that have to be answered, kf American justice means anything at all. CoivHht its. Xew York Hertld Tribune Inc.) 10 Years Ago Jan. li, lta Leaving for Portland to make their home are Mrs. Robert Cof fey and her daughter, Carolie and Sharon. Dr. Coffey is al ready in Portland where he has opened his offices. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower disclosed he has banned any further GI demonstrations but ordered Inspectors to "every camp and post" to see that his latest demobilization order is fol lowed. The Salem Elks lodge will con duct a ritualistic funeral ser vice for Dr. Thomas C. Smith, former Salem resident who was one of two surviving charter members of the local lodge, No. S36. 25 Years Ago Jan. It, 1931 - Bend's two large mills, which In normal times have a cut of about 2,000.000 feet daily, have been operating on light schedules in recent months, Senator Jay I'plon reports. Don Moe of Portland, and Keith Hall of Marshfield, are! Salem guests during the cession of legislature. Mr. Moe is well j known throughout the country for his golf. Both young men at-; tended the University of Oregon, j and are members of Beta Theta ! Pi. j The present time is not feas-! ible for effort to put the North Santiam highway on the state highway map, the county court informed Rep. James W. Mott in a letter mailed as a result of the representative's consultation with the court on the matter. 40 Years Ago Jaa. II, 111 At Baker while Crowds watch ed in a driving snowstorm, more than fifteen hundred gallons of beer was poured into a sewer in main street. The beer kept in storage which was controlled by a Portland brewery saw the rep- j resentative touring through Ort-j -gon. seeing to the destruction of all his company's beer held in storage. (Oregon went dry.) , Capt. George F. Blair, com1 mander of the Oregon Naval militia, was notified that the cruiser Marblehead, now at San Francisco, has been ordered turned over to the Oregon Naval militia and will be stationed in Portland. . "The Revenge of Sharl Hot Su," a Japanese romantic play, was given by the Snikpoh dram atic society of the high school. In the cast were: Oral Lemmon, Ethel McGilchrist, Vivian Beck, Blanch Drake, Frank Rose braugh, Victor Taylor and Alice Baker. FRIGID TESTS DIE 'OTTAWA GPV-The Army reports cold weather tests will be resumed this month at Fort Churchill (Manitoba) on nike, the Ui. Army anti aircraft guided missile. 'Operation Frost Jet,"Js to see what extreme low temperatures do to complex parts of the nike weapon system. Fort Churchill proving ground is used by the Ca nadian and U.S. armies. 4'0rronC2JbM&tf3i&&n Phone 4-6111 Subscription Rates Br esrrier In rlllet: - Daily and Sunday $ I 4S per mo. 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