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
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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
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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
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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."
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HOMEMADE ROBBERY
SAN DIEGO Calif. (V-HuBh
Mathews, bsnk officisl, surprised
a burglar in his home. He talked
the man into handing over his
flashlight and hia gun; then, feel
ing sorry for him. gave him S3.
The gun, Msthews discovered aft
er the burglar was gone, wss
from hia own bureau drawer. It
was empty, as usual.
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
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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."
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