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J) i JMr nun, fulcm. Or., Tun, Jan. 21, . - ' iVo let or Su-fljf Us. No Ffflf SmfZ ice" I rani l int fUitrtmin, Marth "It, 1X51 Statesman Puhlialting Company CHARLES A. SriUCUE, Editor k I'uhlishrr PuhlUbed ev.rv mnrnlnf Ruiinew oftlr. SW North ( hurrh fit.. hlrm. Or. Telephone 4-SS1I fnUred It tha pratoffir t Salem, Or., u rnnd Ciena milter under art of t'onrea Marrh 1. I7, Member Associated PrcM Tht Aewwlited Pre li entitled inclusively tn the UN for republication of all local ncwi printed In thli newtpaner, Rioti in Bombay For all his inheritance from Gandhi of re- , lianre on pacific method and for all his ad herence to neutralism in international af fairs, Trlme Minister Nehru doesn't hesitate to resort to force when he thinks it is neces lary. He has been plenty rough with Com munists in hid own country, no matter how cordial he ii to their comrades in China and Russia, Just now, Nehru is busy suppressing riots in Bombay which have cost an estimated 400 lives. Admitting that police have fired , en the rioters, Nehru told a committee of the Congress Party: "What government ran afford to sit on the fence and watch hoodlums take over affairs, indulge in arson, looting ... and murder?" Who indeed? Self-preservation is the first law of governments as it is of individuals. The trouble in Bombay arises from the de cision of the central government to effect po litical reorganization along language lines. Applied to Bombay state this would split it three ways: a southern part where those peaking Gujara reside; a northern part for those speaking the Maratha language; and Bombay city which would be a federal state ruled from New Delhi. The friction arises over the fact that both the Gujaratis and the Marathas want Bombay for their capital. The former are responsible for the rioting in Bombay which has brought turmoil and bloodshed to the city. Other cities have had Strife over the reorganization, but not the Tiolence of Bombay. " Prime Minister Nehru deserves sympathy. This is a sample of the very tough job he has in trying to weld a nation of so many sep arate groupings in religion, language, tradi tions. The Congress Party is giving him tout backing, while Communists are ac cused of fomenting discord. Nehru is right, unless government authority is firmly estab lished and maintained, India would fall into chaos. Mali Innakin; Mr. Mola Trrle Mc.ta admits she 'kinds talked out of turn" when she tnld reporters she had ju; t the girl Virginia Warren, daughter of Chief Justice and Mrs. Fail Warren for Prince Napoleon Murft of France who is said to be on the prowl. for a bride. Mrs. Mesta, who has just finished a big new house for her Washington receptions, says she'll go ahead with her party for the Prince, but other girls will be there besides Virginia. The Prince "Nappo" she called him is a collateral descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte who was boss of Europe a century and a half ago, If he does capture an American girl for a wife, he will not be the first Bonaparte to do the trick. Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I, married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore in 1 803. Napoleon refused to recnni? the mnrriane and wouldn't let her land in France, so later the marriage was n nulled. A grandson of this marriage, Charles. Joseph Bonaparte of Baltimore, served as secretary of the Navy (1905-08) and as at torney general (1906-Ofl). Somehow, Mrs. Mrsta's matchmaking doesn't appeal. "We'd hate to lose Virginia Warren to the tag-end of the Bonaparte line. That's the wrong "parry line." M1KAND 1IRAK IT V.y LiC.y L , ,j , , , , , ,, , , , , , j O&C Timber Contract Taxable? The Lane county assessor, diligent in his efforts to get more property valuation on which to levy taxes, is putting the bite on purchasers of timber from O&C lands. These lands, owned by the government and administered by the bureau of land manage ment, are tax-free. The bureau's sale prac tice, however, is to sell the timber to private parties. The latter may take several years to cut and remove the timber. Assessor Smith of Lane County reasons that when the sales contracts are signed, the timber becomes pri vate property and hence subject to assess ment and taxation. If this theory of tax liability is pressed, timber purchasers may take the issue into court for determination. If they lose, then they would have to weigh their tax liability next time they bid on O & C timber. Since counties get 50 per cent of proceeds of tim ber sales, they would lose half of whatever reduction the purchaser made on his bid price because of county taxation. The question is a fair one, however, and should be determined by the proper bodies. The British are starting to worry over whom Prince Charles,' age seven, will marry. Lord Beaverbrook's paper, the Express, takes note of the "medieval" limitations on eligibil ity, which calls for a choice from royal blood. Since the king business is quite bank rupt in Europe, the Express could find only two that would be considered eligible match es, one from Denmark and one from the Netherlands. The newspaper fears a repeti tion of the Windsor affair, and thinks par liament should consider revising the rules for royal marriages before Prince Charleys falls in love with some divorcee as did his great uncle and his aunt. v- tic missile, n , 1RBM in cc 1 m0B P'n,8i iCf Jar00- BL'id I ' JanAmerii " 1 ID DM I. U. Sen. Mrwart AUp There have been earlbr ru mors and reports that the Scv Seta might probably nave this weapoo which the American un let have Just begun scrambling to get. These have come from aeveral sources, notably Jienry Jackson f Washington. This is the first time, however, hat it has been otsible to state in usdeubted authority that the Peat agon has in its hawis virtually con clusive evidence . i the existence ef a Soviet IRBM. There is a good deal more than this, in fact. One new weapon may be the result of a brilliant accidental break-through. Pro ducing a family of new weapons Requires a general forward move ment on all technical fronts, and the evidence indicates that the Soviets have such a family ef intermediate ballistic missiles With ranges varying from BOO miles t 1500. Tkis la turn wnflrms the tog jM-evateat f aapictMi that the So IrU have achieve massive ad vances la the missile art. Ta be are, the iaU art larking I hew positively whether the Sev let teal missiles hare yet attalaee" aatisfaetery acearaey la gald are. It ii aot positively knew, either, whether these test anls stirs have be capable af bll fitted with a Mdear warhead. .. Yet these two unknowns in the equation are not so Impressive as they may seem at first glance. The problem of fitting a nuclear warhead is relatively minor, com- Iiared to the really basic prob ers of ballistic missile design. Even the design of efficient f Jid taet Btcfcinitma if m more tU ficult than engine design, metal lurgy and all the other problems which the Soviets must certainly have solved in order to make their birds fly at all. And the birds have flown; there is no .question about that y For these reasons. It must bow be assumed that the time is llr ly near at hand. If indeed it has aot bee i reached already, whra the Soviets will pass from the testing phase Into the vital phase of producing Intermediate, ranre ballistic missiles la militarily significant quantities. By the same token, it is alto reaaouaiile to suppose that the Sevrts are well on their way to building the even more Important Intrrron tinental ballistic missile, or I C B M the ultimate weapon ' which will carry aaclear war bead from routine lit ta continent. Marshal Buiganln recently made a public boast on this point. The Soviet IRBM tests are also rather final and decisive proof that this country has lagged far behind in missile development. Until a few months ago, the American missile program alto gether neglected the intermediite ranges, which had been the sub ject of an inter-service quarrel of classical venom and dimen sions. There were short range, tacti cal missile projects, such as those which have centered at Hie Army's Redstone Laboratory. There were also long-range proj ects sponsored by the Air Force "Atlas," for ai lutrrrentinent! ' ballistic missile; "Navajo," ' an intercontinental ram-jet; and the highly dubious "Suark," lor a long-range pilotlrss aircraft. But the projects for intermediate range palliatir missiles only came to life some months ago. At lh.it time the National Securer Coun cil, ao doubt partly moved by the aews of the Soviet IRBM, gave an over-riding priority to guided missile development. Final ap proval of the Army's paper plans for producing an IRBM at the Redstone Laboratory was grant ed only last week by the Penta gon's Ballistic Missile Science Advisory Committee headed by Dr. John Voa Neumann. Besides the Army project, there is one more American IRBM project, controlled by the Air Force. Both these IRBM projects are going forwairi con currently with a crash effort to get the earliest posio'e result, from the intercontinental missile projects. There is evei some Air Force criticism that the extreme- . ly belated attempt to get IRBMs will interfere seriously with tne more important attempt to get JCBM. , 4 A, ta w4 (Continued fimn paj;e 1) . . Fine publicity manager you are Sneell) ! , . . Can't even round tip a few curiosity seekers, let alone some qualified voters! ..." ' Artie Samish, the lobbyist who once boast ed that the California legislature was his "Charlie McCarthy," has taken up residence in Washington state McNeil Island, in fact where he will be detained for a term cf three years under sentence for income tax evasion. Samish fought this journey all through the courts, and lost. He also faces a ,$40,000 fine. Rather grim retribution for one who held legislators and politicians in the hollow of his hand. Trouble was, he got his hands on too much dough and failed to give Uncle Sam the right share. Ben Jensen has represented the Seventh Iowa district in Congress since 1939. He's a conservative Republican, and this year some Democrats are sprouting hopes of displacing him. One of them is John Jensen and anoth er is Elmer. Carlson. Looks as though the Swedes would win in any case. Convincing Evidence Presented That Soviet In Possession of 1500-Mile-Range Missile By Joseph and,, Stewart Alsep' Z WASHINGTON The American government now has in its posses sion convincing evidence that the Soviet Union has successfully - built a guided rocket with a striking range of approximate ly 1.500 miles. This is the so- C7 f uw' intermedi- v , ate range ballis- iic missile, or IRBM in com- Pentagon Iding i ran l-v . i mora u uie pur- r r pose of newly authorized, highest priority weap ons development programs of the JJ.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. Thus the Soviets bow have aa Intermediate range missile, which we have aot got and caa hardly get for a considerable time to come. In the form of this. IRBM, the Soviets alto have a solid leg In the rare for the intercontinental mlstile, which we are now trying to win by a crash effort. By aay reasonable test, therefore, the Soviets are Importantly abend of this coun try, at least for the present, and In the vital field of guided mis sile development. Curiously enough, however, the most important short-run effect of the Soviet success with the IRBM may well prove to be its effort on the American Strategic Air Command. Very few Ameri cans realize that the great SAC force, which is the mainspring of American and free world strat egy, is not really a Iong-rane air force. Yet about 80 per cent of SAC's fighting aircraft are medium-range B-47s. To rearh Soviet targets, Ihe B-47s mast either take off frem overseas airbaset, or else be twice refueled in the air. SAC's tanker fleet is Inefficient to pro vide double air-reiueillng for more than about one-fifth of SAC's 1.SM B-tfs. Hence SAC today Is almost wholly dependent on its overseas airbase. And H It precisely SAC's oversell ac hates that Ihe new Soviet IRBMs Will threaten mott directly. """ Protecting " the overseas air- bases against destruction by bal listic missiles is utterly I impossi ble In the preoit sta; of the missile arl The diftetence in time factors for m'ssiles and air craft is so enormously grest that the? overseas bt'r mijht c ut terly destroyed by IRBMs before "massive retaliation" could even be ordered. With the ' overseai bases out of commission. In turn, there it every reason., to .think that our "massive retaliation" would not be nearly massive enougn. ' The SAC commander, Gea. Curtis L May, would then be able to mount at attack on the Kale of only a little more than tot aircraft, rather than the attack on the scale of 1.901 alrcrall-nhkh is the site ef this total foree. This explains, no doubt, why Gen. LeMay asked th s year to have his B-47s replaced by urgent and greatly stepped-up produc tion of B-S2S. His request was rejected for reasons of budgftay economy, but here agaij, the news of the Soviet IRBM would seem to change the pictuie. tCoryrttht IMS. tiew York turtle' Tribune Int.) For several months, residents in various secttrms of Salem have been sniffing a foul odor at various times and from no apparent cause. People have been poking under their houses for dead cats, cocking a baleful nos tril at their neighbor's septic tank and, in general, looking for the source of the odor. Now comes a call from a reader who thinks he's uncovered the trouble. To wit: That new paper mill at Albany. He says, if you ever drive by there you'll know what he means. And inasmuch as Albany is not too many airwick miles from Salem, it seems possible a good strong wind could carry that odor thisaway ... Prison Warden Clarence T. Gladden s recent remark that "Rap Sheet," a dashing sort of sutobiography-in-crime of Theodore J. "Blackie" Audett, was the "biggest concoction of lies I ever saw," should ge over like a lead balloon with Ban tam book publishing comany. Because Bantam is bringing Rap Sheet out in pocket-book form ia April. Blackie, who has a prison record longer than a detective's memory, was recently released from Oregon State prison. Couple weeks ago he wa picked up by the FBI and charged with helping in an Idaho bank robbery back in 1953 when he was out on parole. Author ities also have linked him with yet another bank burglary in Washington. All of which somehow doesn't Jibe with Black le's declaration te ge straight at the end of Rap Sheet. ' o And speaking of crime, another character of the printed word stands in danger of being yanked out of circulation The Statesman's that is. Seems that letters from Salem area readers of the Dick Tracy comfc strip are protesting what they term the "viciousness" of the strip. They also say it doesn't help much in the juvenile delinquency field. So far . only the anti-Tracyites have been heard from. Any Tracy lovers in the house? ... o When E. Burr Miller wss rightfully nsmed Salem's First Citizen ef 1955 the ether night, it marked the first time, nat urally, he had been thus honored. But it was not the first time be hss stepped to the platform and accepted the plaque. Several years ago, W. L. Phillips, who wss then Miller's boss, was named First Citizen. On the night ef the award ceremony Phillips was in the East, se Burr accepted the plaque for him. When he received his ewa swsrd the other night Burr dem onstrated ene ef his likeable abilities by paying tribute to Mrs. Miller who, he said, tended the family while he was out on community-work , . , And Salem heard one of Its most outstanding spoonerisms that night when, at the end of the award program, Toastmaster Elmer Berg cried, "All right . folks. Let's give ene last round of applause to our newest First Citizen E.. Beer Muller!" ... - " " o o And if you're interested in that sort of thing, you might like to know that it has rained every single day this year. Which means that if you've been laying away something for a rainy day, now is the time to use it . . . This must be what the weatherman means when he refers to "mean tempera ture" and "very mean rainfall." ... Time Fli ies: Frem The Statesman Files 10 Years Ago Jan. U, 194f The downtown March of bimes jbooth sponsored and staffed by" Willamette university, closed alt er a lively rvro-week campaign which netted more than $3000 for the infantile paralysis fund. Co-chairmen of the booth proj ect were R. J. Chance, Salem, and Vickey Jones, Silverton. , Three Salem girls, Alice Hel vig, Irene Dalke and Roberta Roberts were capped at ceremo nies at Immanuel hospital in ' Tortland. The city of Salem has been al-. located $46,424.14 as its share in the municipalities S per cent of state receipts from motor vehi cle and operators' licenses, gas oline taxes and motor carrier fees, the secretary of state of fice announced. 25 Years Ago j Jaa. 24, 1931 Near three million dollars j worth of , public building funds were allocated to three Pacific' Coast states by Secretary Mel-: Ions report to congress on na tional construction. The three; Oregon projects are at Marsh field, Oregon City and St. Johns. i While no predictions are made for the forthcoming two months. 1 Walter Gerth, who for the past 25 years has held a pilot's li cense for the . Willamette river, does say that within the scope of his memory the river has nev-1 er been so low as it has been dur- log the past winter months. - -, i 40 Years Ago Jan. 14. Mlt ,The..Du7iiway residence ,aL Court Street was sold to Louis Lachmund. The residence was owned by Mrs. Willis Duniway and has been occupied by Wil liam M. Plimpton. The Jewel Tea company, in corporated under the laws of New York, was granted permission by Corporation Commissioner Schulderman to transact busi ness in Oregon. The company is capitalized at $16,000,000. hn!lmldTt. When their plan for rcuriiiinmni! the N, I'. nn nminrrd, with Ihe G. N. to own hall the stock, protests arose, and finally in ltf.Ht. the Supreme Court Mini the deal would be in viola lion of the Sherman Anti trust Act, However, Hill and Morgan and friends mttniiged to retain control of Ihe Northern Pacific through ownership of a large block of its stock. At the turn of the century Hill and Morgan decided the northern roads ought tn have a terminus In Chicago, They moved to get this . not hy building a line hut by buying up the stock of the Bur lington. When E. H. Harriman, another railroad mogul, describ ed as a man with a "bomb-proof conscience and a world of self confidence," heard of the deal, he was concerned because he held control of the Illinois Central and the Union Pacific and didn't want the Burlington to fall into the hands of the Northern roads. When his proposal to cut the I'.P. in on the Burlington pur chase was rejected he moved to buy control of the Northern Pacif ic. This .road had two classes of stock, preferred and common, in total amount of $155 million, llarriman worked quitely until he acquired over half of the total. However the preferred was sub ject to call and redemption, and he lacked 40,000 shares for con trol of the common stock. He sent an order to buy this to his brokers, Kuhn, Locb A Co. This was on a Saturday morning. The clerk who took the order sought out Jacob Schiff, partner in the firm, to get his confirmation. Schiff was at the synagogue and he told him not to execute the order. Meantime Jim Hill, noting the steady rise in the price of North ern Pacific stock, got suspicious. At Seattle he ordered a special train to take him to New York. -When he got there he found that Morgan was sunning himself at Aix-les-Bains. Cabling Morgan, word came back to buy .VP. stock "at the market." In the ensuing scramble, price of the stock went to $1000 a share. This precipitated a crisis because those who had sold short could not de liver stock. Soon a compromise was affected, but the Hill-Morgan interests retained control of both the Northerns and through them the Burlington. The next move was to set up a holding company, the Northern Securities Company, to hold the stock of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. Teddy Roose velt was in the White House then, doing battle with Bfg Business he labeled Harriman as one of the "malefactors of great wealth." He instructed his attor ney general, Philander C. Knox, to attack the holding company. In 1903 the Supreme Court by a five-to-four decision sustained the government charges and ordered the holding company to surrender the railroad stock. (One Of the justices voting in the negative was Oliver Wendell Holmes who had been appointed by Roosevelt. The latter was noticeably cool to Holmes after that decision,) So affairs of these roads rested until Congress passed laws follow ing the first world war, instruct ing the interstate commerce com mission to prepare plans for consolidation of roads into larger systems. Under this a big effort was made to effect the merger which now is contemplated. The ICC gave its approval on condi tion the Northerns would divest themselves of control of the Bur lington. This called for too much Better English By D. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence? "The weather is the same as last January." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "employee"? 3. Which one of thes words is misspelled? Imobile, impartial, imbue, immigration. 4. What does the word "incar nation" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with pa that means ' a eulogistic oration or writing"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "The weather is similar tn that of last January." 2. Ac cent last syllable, preferred. 3. Immobile, . Any actual form in corporating a principle, ideal, or the like. "She is the incarnation of loveliness." 5. Panegyric. of a sacrifice for Ihe Northerns so Ihe plan was dropped. If the merger plan is definitely revived doubtless it will encount er opposition from coininiinitiei ho may fear Impairment of their service and from employee who would fear loss of Jobs. The plan still requires approval of Ihe ICC, hut if that is obtained it is doubtful if the courts would upset It under present laws. Many trains have gone over the rails since Jim Hill's sprciul broke the track record from Seattle to Chicago; and the trans portation situation is not what it was then when the rails had a tight monopoly on freight and passenger hauling. Perhaps the tint move in the study now an nounced should he to determine whether public sentiment is as adverse to unification as it was in 1927 and 1903 and 1OT6. Donald Man Held on Charge A 52-year-old barber at Donald was arrested Monday by Marion County sheriff's deputies on a charge of attempt to commit an act of sexual perversity. Held in the Marion County jail on the charge was Jack Boies Powell, formerly of Portland. Com plainant on the charge was a man who said he had been approached by Powell. Powell is scheduled for arraign ment in Marion County District Court today. PolkSlioolIng .Case Trial (Jels Slatted Slalriman N Srrvlre DALLAS, Ore. Trial of Mrs. Beuliih r.ihcl Story on a charge of wounding tier former husband got underway Monday in Polk County t'lrciiit Court and the state was expected to complete its presenta lion today. Mrs. Slory, who has since re gained her former mime of Jone$ in a divorce action, is chnrged with shooting Frank Slory to whom she was, then married last Nov, 3. Jury to hear the case was select ed 1 Monday in near record time with only one challenge before seating the eight women and four men, The jury visited the scene of the shooting on a farm in the Airlie community south of here near the Benton-Polk line. District Attorney Walter Foster began presenting the state's case Monday afternoon, calling Story, Sheriff Tony Neufeldt, two deputies and Mrs. Story's hired hand to the witness stand. Portland Flood Area Survey Set The Oregon Civil Defense Agen cy will make a survey Tuesday of the flooded area at 133rd and Hoi gate streets in Portland, Gov. Paul Patterson announced Monday. The survey will be made to find out if the area qualifies for any of the federal emergency relief programs. 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