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Srassen's Interview With Stalin
Harold E. Stassen, ex-governor of Minnesota, has devel
oped a new technique for keeping his name and personality
before the public, to overcome the handicap of not holding
any public office. As the only avowed candidate for the re
publican nomination for the presidency in 1948, he has been
touring Europe and interviewing top figures wherever he
went. He has returned to pose as a first hand expert on in
ternational affairs.
Over the week-end Stassen made public the transcript of
a lengthy interview he had with Josef V. Stalin in the
Kremlin, the text of which had the generalissimo's approval.
He will follow-up with a series of three articles in the Ladies'
Home Journal and will supplement those with a renewal of
his country-wide speaking campaign.
Stalin is quoted as saying that the different economic sys
tems of Russia and the United
If there is a will to cooperate.
to cooperate" and "does not proposed to wage war against the
United States.
Stalin also made the flat declaration "that international
control and inspection" of atomic energy "will be established
in my view and it will be of great importance." Use of this
great new force for war "will be prohibited," he forecast. He
also made these other points:
That calling each other names and indulging in propaganda will
not lead to co-operation. "As to propaganda, I am not a propa
gandist, but a businesslike man. We should not be sectarianists."
The shortage of food and raw materials "is the tragedy" of present-day
Europe. "Things are not bad in the United States. Amer
ica Is protected by two oceans, In the north there is a weak coun
try, Canada, and to the south a weak country, Mexico, and so you
need not be afraid of them." The United States also is favored
by the fact that "two competitors in the world market Japan and
Germany have been eliminated." South America is "also a
market."
It is a strange way Russia has of carrying out Stalin's
expressed wishes. The Soviet has failed to cooperate with
the western powers In almost every issue raised, and the
conferences have been deadlocked from the start wherever
held. If there is a will to cooperate it hasn't manifested it
self either in peace treaties, the atomic bomb or any other
problem. And the controlled Russian press devotes itself
to propaganda assailing America and the Americans.
Stalin has in other interviews or replies to correspondents
expressed similar conciliatory statements, but nothing he
has said has brought Russian cooperation . Words don't
mean anything unless followed by action.
Atomic Control Stalemated
Of especial interest in the Stassen interview with Stalin
Is the latter's remarks on atomic energy control. Asked
about agreements on Its peaceful development, the generalis
simo replied:
"I hope for this. International control and inspection will
be established in my view and it will be of great importance.
The peaceful use of atomic energy will bring great techno
logical changes. It is a very great mattor. As for the use
of atomic energy for war purposes, this in all probability will
be prohibited. It will be a problem in the long run that will
be met by the consciences of the people and it will be pro
hibited." This Is a pious hope but Gromyko's statements, before the
security council is in direct contradiction to the aims ex
pressed. He not only rejected the Baruch plan which all the
other major powers had indorsed, but also the control ideas
of the Acheson-Lilienthal report and those with the idea of
any effective control at all. A summary of Russia's rejec
tion of all the work done in atomic control is printed by the
New York Times as follows :
1. Russia rejects the whole idea of an international atomic de
velopment authority monopolizing ownership, operation, control,
Inspection and research In the atomic field, on the ground that
this woilld constitute a "peculiar international trust" which would
interfert in the economic life of the other countries and violate
their sovereignty. In other words, "socialistic" Russia rejects
what amounts to an experiment in international socinlism proposed
by a capitalistic United Stnles in the name of peace.
2. Russia is all for "strict international control," as affirmed by
Mr. Stalin, but not to the extent of "crudely" interfering in the
internal affairs of Individual states. She prefers leaving it to
each nation to determine when control can be rejected on the spot.
3. Russia not only Insists on her right to veto any action against
the violators of the atomic law but also insists on a veto even
in the day-to-dav operations of the control authority whenever
ghe considers this "appropriate" for the majority vote she previ
ously accepted for such operations is now to be confined to "appr
priate" cases.
Mrs. Eva Rush
Mundt's Assistant
City Manager J. L. Franzen
Monday announced the appoint
ment of Mrs. Eva Rush as as
sistant city recorder. She will
have charge of records In the
office and be in charge of the
office when City Recorder Al
fred Munrit is absent. This will
be the first time In the Salem
city hall organization when
someone officially In charge will
be present at all times In the
recorder's office.
Mrs. Rush has been secretary
to the city recorder since 1B45,
and has served In a similar ca
pacity for City Manager Franzen
alnce he took office at the first
of the year.
Miss Mary Brady of Oregon
City Is to arrive in Salem soon
to become secretary to Mr.
Franzen.
Snell Returns to
Capitol Thursday
Governor Earl Snell will re
turn to his office next Thursday
after an absence of 10 days from
the state, his office said today
The governor has been in San
Francisco and San Diego, and
will take a plane tomorrow for
Seattle, where he will attend a
conference Wednesday of west
ern state officials who will or
ganize a campaign to persuade
congress against cutting appro
priations for western power and
reclamation projects.
Oregon, Monday, May 5, 1947
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States can exist in harmony,
He added that Russia "wants
Oregon Products
Flown to Alaska
Portland, Ore., May 5 Wi
Columbia Air Cargo reported to
day its first flight of 7,000
pounds of fresh fruits, flowers
and vegetables to Anchorage
yesterday.
Joseph Dobbins, president,
said the' cargo Included vegeta
bles harvested early yesterday
and chilled before the DC-3
transport took off on the nine
hour trip piloted by James
Sproat.
Eagles Reserve 800
Rooms for Delegates
Salem Eagles already have re
served R00 rooms in hotels, mo
tor courts and homes for dele
gates coming here June 26 to 2R
for the annual state convention
of the lodge. This was announc
ed Sunday when delegates as
sembled in Salem for a district
meeting. It was said that no less
than 1200 visitors will come for
the state convention, and among
them will be 34 marching units
for the parade.
The district meeting Sunday
was no small affair. It brought
a gathering of about 400. In a
drill contest the men's team of
Salem lodge and the women's
auxiliary team from Sheridan
were adjudged the winners. Each
team comprised 16 members.
The contest was followed by a
street parade through the prln
cipal downtown streets. A busi
ness session had Ashley Oreene
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Yesterday being Go-to-church
Sunday there were reportedly
30,000 people at the Newport
crab eating festival who will
probably make up for their lapse
in going to church by attending
th next church supper for their
respective congregations.
This, however, didn't make as
many people slay away from
church as the first day of fish
ing, fish and crabs seemingly
having been the worst enemy to
church attendance of late.
"Have you ever suffered from
the cheerless winters of Min
nesota? Come to Oregon where
Fire Season
Starts Tuesday
Travel and logging operations
in Oregon's forests will be re
stricted starting tomorrow when
fire season will start by gover
nor's proclamation, the state for
estry department said today.
During the closed season per
sons will be required to refrain
from smoking while traveling In
restricted areas; they must se
cure a permit from the state for
ester or a fire warden to build
a campfirc In places other than
designated posted campgrounds.
and they must have as part of
their equipment when using
campfires except when traveling
on foot and at designated camp
spots a shovel and water bucket
suitable to douse a fire.
Hot weather and rapidly dry
ing woods was the reason for
closing the forests at this time.
Fire season automatically starts
May 15, unless designated by
proclamation. The season auto
matically ends December 31 un
less restrictions are ended soon
er by the governor.
Test Plot Projects
Interest Farmers
Buena Visla Farmers union
met Friday night with 28 mem
bers for the "no host supper."
Meeting opened with flag sHlute
and roll call of officers. Trea
surer reported $120.46 balance.
Two guests from. Philadelphia,
Penn., Mr. and Mrs. James Greg
and County Agent Walter Leth
showed moving pictures of air
plane dusting on local farms.
He also asked for Farmers
union members to have test
plots on various grass seeds as
an organization project, as
others.
Farmers union and grange
members were planning. An
agriculture commute would be
appointed to try it out on a com
petitive basis. A lengthy dis
cussion was held and if seed is
available, several members are
going to join the ten acre grass
plat test.
The losing side of the mem
bership drive dues will enter
tain the winners May 17.
Perry Wells is program chair
man for the June meeting and
Etta Prather, Mrs. Culbertson
and Leon Long kitchen com
mittee. Youth Drowns in
Senator's Pool
Ashland, May 5 Douglas
Martin Collman, 8, son of Mr.
and Mrs. O. S. Collman of Kla
math Falls, drowned yesterday
in a swimming pool at the resi
dence of State Senator Earl
Newbry.
The parents of the youngster
came to Ashland to take their
son home after a visit with his
grandparents here, but the. fam
ily was unable to locate him. A
search was started and Lyndell
Newbry discovered the body in
the swim pool at 1:45 p.m.
of Portland as the principal
speaker. He is a member of the
organization board. The business
session was followed by an en
tertainment program.
Supper
Upjohn
we have no extremities of heat
or cold. Have the drought and
grasshoppers of Kansas eaten
you out of house and home?
Come to Oregon where the fail
ure of crops was never known.
Have you ever been struck by
an old fashioned Dakota bliz
zard? Come to Oregon where
the hardest storms are but a
lullaby in comparison. Have
you ever been caught in the
path of an Iowa cyclone? Come
to Oregon where cyclones and
subterranean dugouts are un
known." No, the foregoing
quotations were not dreamed up
by Clay Cochran and his staff.
They're taken from an adver
tisement in a copy of the West
Shore magazine, Salem edition,
published in January 1889, 'the
ad being by the Oregon Land
company in Salem operated by
Mr. Minthorn, uncle of Herbert
Hoover. To avoid all the disas
ters enumerated the ad sugges
ted investment in prune lands
at from $25 to $80 an acre for
which trees could be purchased
at $15 an acre with a yield of
$432 an acre assured to the for
tunate investor. Those were op
timistic days back in 1889 and
all and sundry were warned
"if you don't buy you will re
gret It in the near future." No
mention was made of how the
delinquent ones would feel In
the "far future."
But optimism still reigns in
our valley. Most everybody we
met this a. m. felt pretty certain
that the present balmy weather
had set in for good and that
there'd be no more weather un
pleasantness until state fair time,
at least. Well, there's nothing to
keep 'em from dreaming if they
want to.
A woman who was a lady
when she stepped out of her car
this a. m., where -She'd parked
it by the courthouse block and
got her skirt tangled in one of
the rose bushes while attempt
ing to make the sidewalk for
got for a minute she was a lady
from a remark she dropped
which included in one sweeping
denunciation slate, county, city
and other officials as well as
civilization In general. After get
ting untangled she resumed her
ladylike demeanor and went off
up the street.
Saturday night late the lawn
at the slate blind school looked
like a gala party, the lighting ar
rangement, however, instead of
being from Chinese lanterns was
from flashlights carried by a
small army of chaps looking for
night crawlers.
Grand Island Club
Takes Summer Rest
Grand Island More than 90
people attended the May month
ly meeting of the Grand island
Community club Thursday eve
ning. This is the closing meeting
until the first Friday evening
in October.
There were 32 students and
their teachers from the Menno
nite school who presented the
entire musical program consist
ing of a group of sacred songs
by the entire school; several
selections by the boys quartet;
four numbers by the girls quar
tet; four numbers by the girls
chorus of 18 voices; several
selections of the boys and girls
combined quartets.
The teachers, Mrs. C. S. Hal-
loway and Mrs. James Richard
son, announced a picnic for the
students for the last day of
school, May 20.
Arrive in Holland
Dayton, Mrs. Phillip Oaks
and daughter Ramona of Day
ton arrived in Holland two days
ahead of their schedule accord
ing to a telegram received by
Phillip Oaks. They went to visit
Mrs. Oaks' father and brother.
It has been 32 years since'Mrs.
Oaks left her home at Eind
hoven, Holland. They will be
away four months. They left
Portland by train to New York
City and flew to Amsterdam.
By DeWitt MacKenzie
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
The interview which General
issimo Stalin accorded former
Minnesota Governor Harold E.
Stassen is (on the face of it) an
invitation to America and the
other western democracies to
hope that the serious differences
between Russia and themselves
may be solved amicably.
Stalin declared that the con
flicting economic systems of
Russia and America can exist in
harmony together if there is a
will to cooperate. The question
of the will to cooperate strikes
me as being the keynote of the
whole situation. The soviet
leader put it like this:
"It is necessary to make a dis
tinction between the possibility
of cooperating and the wish to
cooperate. The possibility of co
operating always exists, but
there is not always present the
wish to cooperate. If one party
does not wish to cooperate, then
the result will be conflict, war.
. I want to bear testimony to
the fact that Russia wants to co
operate."
Co-operation Necessary
Well, the western allies for
their part have stated time and
again that they desire o coop
erate. Thus both sides want to
cooperate so they say. Still,
the conflict of words and deeds
between the Russian bloc and
the western bloc continues to
grow.
What then is wrong? It
would be easy to draw the con
clusion that one party to this
mutual declaration of desire to
cooperate Is telling a whopper.
As a matter of fact that conclu
sion is being drawn by many ob
servers. However, if we are to
apply cold logic to the situation
we must I think, make allow
ance for the possibility that
doubts and suspicions perhaps
on both sides have short-circuited
the desire for cooperation.
We shouldn't jump to conclu
sions without having seen a few
more developments a bit of
watchful waiting, with emphasis
on the "watchful."
Having said this, it must be
admitted the odds are that some
body lacks the desire to coop
erate. That coat will in due
course be donned by the one
whom it fits.
The generalissimo made the
further point that calling each
other names and engaging in
propaganda will not lead to co
operation. That is an undisput
able truth, and one which is be
ing uncomfortably impressed
upon the publics of both the Rus
sian bloc and the western de
mocracies. '
The Moscow press and radio
echoed by Russia's satellites
recently have been delivering a
regular broadside of attacks on
America. Uncle Sam is accused
of trying to engineer an "im
perialist peace based on enslave
ment of small nations and force
of oppression." The charge of
imperialism against the United
States has become a regular
chant.
At the same time there is
much Russian propaganda open
ly directed toward causing a
split among the western democ
racies. To cite a specific exam
ple, the Moscow magazine New
Times asserts that Britain's ex
penditures for "military obliga
tions and financing of a foreign
policy profitable to American
imperialists" are causing the
current financial pinch in Eng
land. In order to give both sides
of the argument, it also must be
reported that the New Times
claims some American newspa
pers are "systematically en
gaged in misinforming their
readers." However, such state
ments in the Russian capital,
would seem to be made more in
anger than in distress, for we
find Tass, the Soviet news
agency, quoting Foreign Minis
ter Molotov as saying during a
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Hueen oi me may inanes Barclay, executive for Willamette's May Festival, announces the
coronation of Queen Margaret Allen of West Salem by Paula Smith, mistress of ceremonies.
Queen Margaret I receives the key to the City of Salem from Mayor R. L. Elfstrom. Princess
Mary East Runyan (left) and Elaine Cookingham (right) and Kent Tiernan, crown bearer with
Judy Law and Elaine Schultz, flower girls, observe the presentation.
Bids Received
On OS Hospital
The state emergency board
will meet here Thursday at 9:30
a.m. to consider bids for con
struction of a treatment hospi
tal and custodial building at Or
egon State hospital, institution
for the mentally ill.
It will be the first meeting of
the emergency board Since its re
organization following the re
cent legislative session.
Low bids opened by the board
of control Friday were consid
erably higher than architects' es
timates. L. H. Hoffman, Port
land contractor, submitted the
low bid of $1,516,002 for the 300
bed treatment hospital, while
Dan J. Malarkey, Portland, was
low in bidding $650,293 for the
340 bed custodial ward.
Architects' estimate on the
treatment hospital was $1,000,
000. The board of control probably
will recommend the low bids be j
accepted and the emergency j
bonrd will make the final de-'
cision.
Members of the emergency I
board include Senate President :
Marshall E. Cornett,. Klamath ;
Falls; Speaker of the House j
John Hall, Portland; Sen. Dean !
Walker, Independence, and Rep. i
F. H. Dammasch, Portland, co- j
chairmen of the ways and means '
committee; Sen. Carl Engdahl, j
Pendleton, and Reps. Robert Gile
of Roseburg, and J. L. Green-1
wood, Wemmc, appointive mem- j
bers.
Britain was prodcing less than
one-third of the food she con
sumed in 1939.
banquet at the week-end that
Russia is "advancing in spite of
the malice and intrigues of our
foes the foes of communism."
Tass didn't say whether Molo
tov named the "foes of com
munism," but perhaps that was
not necessary.
Monmouth Dramatic
Club Plans Comedy
Monmouth "Her Husband's
Wife," popular 3-act comedy by
A. E. Thomas, will be presented
late in May by the Crimson O,
Oregon College of Education
Dramatic club. The cast has
begun practice under the direc
tion of coach George Harding.
The cast includes: Irene Ran
dolph, played by Billy Lou El
liott of Monmouth; Emilie La
dew, Alice Wilkinson of Alle
gany; Nora, Dona Canutt, Port
land; Stewart Randolph, Don
Gregg of Amity; Richard Beld
en, Jerry Wilma, Portland; John
Belden, Leonard Emery, Seaside.
From 1867 to 1913 the arable
acreage of Britain fell from 17,
700,000 to 14,500,000.
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