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14-(Sec II) Statesman! Salem, Ore, Wed., July 1156 World War II Documents Remain Secret Because No Funds to Decide If They Are WASHINGTON I House fai Jvestigatora heard Tuesday that 100.000 drawer of World War II rmilitary documents art atored " away under a secrecy U be- cause there ba't money or man power to see what should be "made public. . ' Still secret, but for another reason, are Gea. Douglas Mae Arthur's papers oa Pacific War strategy, including whether the Russians - should . kava been - brought into the war against Japan. "... " . Asst. Secretary of Defense Hob ert Ross told a House govern ment operations subcommittee that the MacArthur papers were technically non-secret from No vember. 1MJ. until April IMS, hen a aewsmaa asked for them. He said the Army then re viewed the 10-year-old papers to see whether they should be with held, and decided they should be because "they would divulge war methods and war plans and war operations." He ssid "pertinent excerpts" were made public last October. The subcommittee beaded by Rep. Moss (D Calif) also was told that; 1. The Navy last year barred publication of an article by a Na vy captain on the World War II sinking of a Navy cruiser on the ground that publication would dampen the desire of young men to enlist. The Defense Depart ment later cleared the story for the Saturday Evening Post but aft er clearance by the Defense and Navy departments the captain still got a letter of censure from the Navy chief of personnel. . The article. 6y Capt. G. W. Campbell, a Navy Information of ficer, was about the sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis in IMS by a Japanese submarine. The sinking cent. 880 lives. Campbell's material was admittedly available from published sources. 1. The Library of Congress sam pled MO secret documents from Young Red Antics Draw Russ Spank Soviet Republic, reported to the International Education Confer ence her that the league which has II million members had pro duced "resolutions, pomp and fuss" instead of contributing to the economic development of Si beria and the Arctic steppes. GENEVA. Switzerland ) The Russian government told the outside world Tuesday of "seri ous shortcomings" in the activi ties of the Young Communist (Komosol League. . Mrs. L.V. Dubrovina. deputy ed ucation minister of the Russian the three services to see if any of the documents carried a state ment showing when they might be made public, as provided for In a November. 19SJ, order by Presi dent Eisenhower. Not one con tained such a statement.- I. Subcommittee investigating found many types of secrecy la bels not provided for by the Eis enhower order. "Air Force Eyes Only," "Official Use Only." "Pri vate Official Confidential." and "Confidential Modified Handling" were some examples. Ross said he is "fairly certain" that a number of World War I documents are still classified, and "possibly" some from the Span ish-American war too. Fir Lumber Business Up PORTLAND (Jf) The fir lumber business is in its biggest mid-year slump in at least two years. The West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. reported Tuesday that pro duction for the first six months of the year waa down f per cent from last year - at this time. De mand is the smallest since 1954. Western Oregon and Washington mills produced 4.6U.1M.000 board feet in the six-month period, 07 per cent of the average In 1951-S5. Orders totaled 4.6M.1S7.00O feet, almost a half-billion behind the previos two years at this time. Shipments also were down, total ing 4.754.511.000. Unfilled orders totaled (23.0M, 000 feet, compared to M1.B15.000 at this time last year and S04.I38,- 000 in 1954. Condensed Stattmtnt of the Condition 'of THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF SALEM 3- At clM f bvslrmt n Jimm 30, 1954 ASSETS -L ' J !.. t t.- too III (1 I win ano uut irom ounsi . ? r , D U. S. Gov't. S.curiti.i . . . 1,026,261.33 DIRICTOtt Charles A. Spreguo, Chairman Russell F. Bonesteele ft. L Elistrom Axel Erickion Tinkham Gilbert Roy Hsrlsnd Gardner Knapp J ; Donald B. Peterson , Ralph W. Raines . ; Arthur L Railing Jacob Weil Uana and DiscsNiiwt $1,441,4d.7 7,342.71 , .... 1,634,597.96 Bank Promlsos A Equip. . 133,060.46 Total . . $3,423,105.26 ' "'! ' ' """" LIABILITIES Capital Stock . . . . . . . $ 250,000.00 Surplus ....... 50,000.00 Undivided Profits .... 67,116,53 , I Mill II T ' , Total Capital Accounts . . 367,1 16.53 Dtposlts . . . . . . 3,049,368.55 ,lntrtt ColUcttd-Not tarntd 6,62018 $3,423,105.26 71 ' $k .i Ills icAtial Ba.ik OF SALEM CHUtCH end CHIMKETA STREETS ' Crank Calls Add Agony to Tot's Parents WtSTBURY. N. Y. I - A new rash of crank . telephone' calls I Tuesday deepened the agony of i kidnaped" Peter Weinberger's par- lents. Seventeen telephone calls were : received at the Weinberger home in a matter of hours. All were from cranks. All were anonymous. They came from as far away as Chicago and Pontiac, Mich. As far as police were concerned, the search apparently was at a dead end. The beat they could do was plead with the kidnaper to give up the S-weeks-old baby. FBI to Mi Case The FBI is expected to enter the case Wednesday, one week, after the baby boy was snatched from a carriage on the patio of his home. G-mea can move into a kidnap case after seven days or after the victim has been taken across state lines. ' "The kidnaper left a note on the Weinberger patio demanding tt. 000. Last Friday, a telephone call er upped the ransom demand to $5,000. At the time, the child's father, Morris, a wholesale drug salesman, accepted the caller as the kidnaper. DweMs Calls ' But the intrusion into the rase of hoax telephone callers has cast some doubt on the sincerity of the Friday caU. Two men accused of such a hoax call were taken Into Queens Felony Court en charges of at tempted extortion and giving false Information to police. The pair, Robert F. Giebler, 37, a longshoreman, and Gordon T. Rowell. 24, a railroad clerk, are accused of luring Mrs. Weinber ger out on a false chase Sunday night- and early Monday. The two charges upon which the men were booked carry maximum total pen alties of 25 years. Jadge Aagered Judge James T. La Piccolo was so moved by the cruelty imputed to the nair that he refused to han- die the case. Holding both without bail, he referred their case for arraignment next Monday before another judge. Mrs. Weinberger was in a front seat in the courtroorr for the hear ing before Lo Piccolo. Flight Thrills Airmen Usually Ground-Bound SACRAMEIfTO. talif. Wl What does an airman do on his day off? If he belongs to the Mather Air Force Base Aero Club, he flies. A postman's holiday? Not at all, says Staff Sgt. William Orebaugh, when you consider that some mem bers of the Air Force have never been up in an airplane. The club owns one small plane, stationed at a private field. "A tot of young fellows join up with the hope of becoming red hot jet pilots," Orebaugh said, "and they are pretty disappointed when they find out some of them have to be policemen like me." 3ig brothors of tho boot seller ... and every hi t as modern ! t . yM u - 9 A y 'A ' .. w 1- J tetiea KOt LCF. j . j aWw llO0Teadss V J Chovrolot Hoavyivoight Champs Now Loadmaster V8I This big heavy-duty load puller deliver! 193 hp, 310 ft.-lbi. of torque! It's the lesder ia iu class for compact short-stroke de sign that delivers most horsepower per pound! Now Powrmatic Trcmsmissionl Six fully automatic forward speeds virtually eliminate manual gear shifting on hills or In traffic! 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High Court Asked to Block Work on Snake River Dam - WASHINGTON -(- Public pewer groups petitioned the Su preme Court Tuesday to bait con struction of the Brown ee Dam on the Snake River "for the protec tion of the court's jurisdiction." The action waa the latest move in the public vs. private power fight over the Hells Canyon stretc of tha Snake between Ida ho and Oregon. Utility Taxing Ratios Listed Ratios assigned by the State Tax Commission for utilities showed a decline Tuesday for the sixth con secutive year as they are being brought gradually into line with with ratios set for county-assessed property. The utility ratio announced Tues day for Marion County by. Samuel B. Stewart, commission chairman, is 77 per cent, compared with the assessor's ratio of 25 for other. property in the county. Polk County utilities are as sessed at 22 per cent, compared with IS for other property; Linn County, 25, compared with 26; and Yamhill County, 33, compared with 30. In rare cases such as Linn Coun ty, the utility ratio may be lower than the ratio for other property because the State Tax Commission makes its study independently of the county assessors' and coun ty boards of equalization studies, commission officials explained. MISPLACED BATTLE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ( Two ll-year-old boys had a rock fight and a rock went sailing through a window. Uniformed men came outside and collared the boys for breaking a window in the State Highway Patrol office. Their par ents paid for the broken window. The Supreme Court was asked to hear oral arguments on the application by Mrs. Evelyn Coop er, attorney for the National Hells Canyon Assn., and other groups advocating a federal high dam at the Hells Canyon site. Mrs. Cooper later told a news man she expects the high court to decide "within a matter of days" whether it will enter the case at this stage. Brownlee Dam has been started by the Idaho Power Co. as one of three low dams it has . been authorized by the Federal Power Commission to build. , The validity of the FPC's au thorization action has been ap pealed to the U. S. Court of Ap peals, but both that court and the FPC have rejected Mrs. Cooper's request for an order staying work on the Brownlee Dam. Mrs. Cooper said the case was carried to the Supreme Court Tuesday because the high court might lose its Jurisdiction over the issue if the Brownlee Dam is completed before the appeals court rules on the validity question. She said that whichever way the appeals court decides, the case will be carried to the Su preme Court, unless Congress meanwhile authorizes a federal high dam at Hells Canyon. Such authorization, she said, would nul lify Idaho Power's license. For That Second Car... 194J Cktv. Club (tap fed! Oniy , . $195.00 VALLEY MOTOR (0. Usee) Car Dept. Center i N. Liberty Sts. Farm Worker Faces Charge An itinerant farm worker whose address is listed by the Marion County Sheriff's office as "in his car" waa apprehended Tuesday by deputies on a Douglas County war rant charging obtaining money by false pretense. The man, listed as James Rush Stafford, was found in the car when deputies followed bis wife after she claimed his pay for work done on a farm near Salem, depu ties said. Bail was set at $1,000. FIRES OF LEARNING! CAMDEN, N. J. W-Lawrence H. Carter does a lot of running these days between fires and books. A full-time fireman in Glou cester City, he also is a full-time student in the Rutgers College. "The fireman-student combination has worked very well," Larry says. "I'm passing, the fires are being put out and my fellow fire men and the City Fathers are not." The Mayflower of tha Ttipi wss dismantled and the timbafS used for a building which ftnl stands In England. ...til V. 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