4-(Scc I) Statesman, Silcn, Ore, Tucs Jan. 10, 1955
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"iVo Favor Sucys Vt. No Few Shall Awe'
From First Statesman. March 28.
Statesman Publishing Company
CHARLES A. SrRAGUE, Editor k Publisher
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North Church St.. Solcm. Pi. T.-lophone 4-tU
Entered it the poitsfflc it Salem. Or., M second
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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. ' .
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Board Names
Smith, Rodin
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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 ...
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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.
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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"
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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. '
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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.
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