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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
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HELLS CANYON TO DATE
The first phase of the Hells Canyon hearing before the
Federal Power commission is over. The Idaho Power com
pany has completed its evidence designed to show that its
proposed three low dams will better serve the public inter
est than one high dam to be built by the federal govern
ment.. After an extended recess the forces promoting the high
dam will be heard at length, after which government
agencies will present such information as they have,
which should be considerable, and various interveners will
also be heard. After that the commission will take several
weeks, or months, to study the mountain of testimony and
argument, then make a finding that will either permit or
deny the company to proceed with its plans. .
No final conclusion on the facts should be drawn after
hearing one side, though there was plenty of cross ex-aminat;on,-and
one important witness for the public power
people, the engineer Cotton who issued a report favoring
the federal project.
But it is only right to state that the public power people
have a job cut out for them, and their attorney, Mrs.
Cooper, clearly realizes it. Apparently competent engin
eering testimony we were especially impressed with two
retired officers of the Army Engineers was offered
which purported to show that the government dam will
be uneconomic and unwise.
The government project will cost more than half a
billion. How much more nobody knows. It will develop
more power than the Idaho Power company's three dams.
The difference is not known to a certainty as it involves
future flow of the river, which no one can know, but
apparently not more than 200,000 more kilowatts, a ratio
of about four to three. Yet the cost ratio is more than
three to one. A Portland engineer said the difference
could be developed by steam plants at a small fraction
of the added investment. Testimony also indicated that
the additional power from the government dam would be
dependent upon building other dams downstream, which
would add further investment.
A former Army Engineers chief in the Northwest, with
long, intimate knowledge of the river, said several other
sites of equal or greater desirability are available to the
government if Hells Canyon is turned over to Idaho Power
development.
Another factor that oueht to be carefullv xnlnrert hv
the coming witnesses is whether the future flow of the
OVER HEARTBREAK RIDGE
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congressman Barred From
'A' Tests Denies Being Red
By DREW PEARSON
Washington, The case of FBI file number 13S0860.
Rep. Robert L. Condon of Wal- "4 The information set
nut Creek, Calif., the Demo-forth above is being made
cratic congressman .who was available to all navy com
mandants via the district in
telligence officer. It is for
warded in view of Congress
man Condor's reported inter-
barred from the Nevada A
bomb tests, has come in for fur
ther investgation by this col
umn. Among other things, a
naval intelligence report has est in investigating the dis-
nmA licht Btntino that fnn. DOSitlOn Of naVV SUmlllS rjrOD-
river win oe suuicieni XO operate such a plant as the gov-: don was reported to have been erty.
ernment would build to capacity. Approximately 30,000
acres of new land are being irrigated in South Idaho up
stream from Hells Canyon annually. Watering these
lands reduces the amount of water that will remain in the
river at Hells Canyon. This flow will apparently decrease
from year to year. The suggestion is that the high dam
could become a big reinforced concrete white elephant.
If this is not true, testimony the F.P.C. and congress will
believe had better be produced, for there is testimony of
apparent competency on the other side to be overcome.
Many persons are for Hells Canyon regardless of its
cost just because it is a public project whose construction
will prevent the expansion of private power, possibly has
tening the day when there will be no private power.
Others are against Hells Canyon even if the strongest
showing could be made in its behalf, because they are
against the expansion of government business operations
which they regard as leading to socialization of every,
thing.
Neither of these groups is likely to be convinced by the
evidence presented and to be presented. But there is
every indication that two very important groups will be
influenced by the weight of the testimony: First, the
Federal Power commission, a new deal agency created for
just such jobs as this, and second, the balance of power in
congress which may vote for a feasible government proj
ect but certainly won't vote for one that can't be shown
to be feasible.
a member of. the Communist
party between 1930 and 1935.
The congressman, when
questioned about this and other
reports, admitted that he had
been affiliated with a law firm
which represented the Commu
nist party, but denied he had
ever been a member of the
Communist party.
He Indicated that the charges
against him were being raised
for political purposes,
Admiral Carl Espe, '
Director, Naval Intelli
gence" CONDON'S EXPLANATION
Congressman Condon was
interviewed by this column
regarding the points raised in
the naval intelligence report,
and was willing to answer all
questions.
He said he had entered the
University of California in
1931 with $2,000 he had earn
"I don't intend to let Pat:ed Plus the financial backing
Hillings," he said, referring to 01 WI" was lainy
the Republican congressman I el1 hn-' "fd devoted
from California who aspires to ! himself to fraternity life.fri
the senate, "climb to fame 0v-voIo"s ,maltf. " 'n-
er my dead political body." le " Pomics until ne got
The U. S. naval intelligence!0" ol..law ool. This does
report was "distributed to allnot entirely jibe with his own
naval commandants" after the biography in the congressional
congressman began probing the d'rectory which states he was
disposition of surplus naval!1"" ""
property. It reads as follows:
Navjr Record
"Subject: Robert Likens Con
don.
"1 The office of naval Intel-
and was editor of the Califor
nia Law Review.
Told that he had been seen
at a communist party meeting
in lute 1948 at Martinez, Calif.,
un..aur.rf - immavvthe congressman said he had
dated IS March 1953 'SrL"1 !
from the FBI on Robert Likens
tu viic ui wuiAm men un
that communists
might have been at the meet
ings.
Condon claimed, however.
. . : , ,u. fi.u i ain k, ana
IV 1 LSI I.UItl . V V U.I. VW.a-
gressional district of California.
The FBI report indicates that
I Congressman Condon has been he attcnded '
actively associated with the , . ,, , ...
Communist movement in the s(
United States. , u-... .:u...i
American enrs Thll! nnUu..- (.."...Vn r- ... J c.1? t0 the Day Peoples
v:.ui. j , . " - ""'' un. ..-. world, the west coast
RUSSIAN H-BOMB?
Premier Malenkov, the Mr. Fat Boy of the Soviet hier
archy, possibly sneaking in an attemnt effectively
increasing rumors of his liquidation, told his parliament
Saturday that Russia now has the hydrogen bomb.
niaienKov was enviously aiming his announcement at
......h.( a iv w u. iiu mi vcr iihs j, iiiiinniiniv nn iuiikic&siiimii viiiiimii was 1 1 . K ..
hi. ni,i J.. n Cr - . . . . m . vYoria. me wesi coasi uany
....o .mR..,, wv,' "e "sserlea. passing I""' - - """'Worker, the congressman said
over the fact that the U.S. had never claimed to have one !ff the,TmuJnl,sLPar.ty ,b? that reporters from the paper
and had never claimed iU manufacture beyond the capa-tw01",??,119vfA.'.12le had talked to him occasional
city of Russia's captive German scientists. "49 tLT!? ly and mi';M have Published
Ihe announcement is as Horace Greeley once said of a Communist party by two prom- f" 1? B, wrfttn. .n S
predicted early end of the world, extremely important "if inent California Communists, i lc ctJ Z , S " )icil
true. wneiner it is true probably can t be known here He attended a Communist
and certainly isn't known by the American public. But it Par'y meeting as a party mem
may be true and if not vet true nrobablv will he ber in late 1948 with a Cali-
Why did Malenkov make the announcement at thhffi.SW.S!!!; th"! ,aw f,rm "pre"
timaT Apparently to restore shattered moral in his own tt Martinez Ca?if " "JgS
irnvernment anrf arm,, onH n Uu.. u:. i ,j.i.. j .... minor mailers in me &an
of speaking strongly suggests this. He had a defensive
rather than a confident attitude. y
But the "H" or "Hell" bomb as it is often called has
the capacity to blow millions of Americans to smither
eens either now or when Russia does master its mysteries,
as she is almost sure to do.
So though we may doubt Malcnkov's story, there is no
denying its grim possibilities. In case of war our hopes
would be to deliver our's first, which is not the most com
fortable fix to be in.
about the "mighty Red army
being the bulwark of the col
ored races." He said he might
have said something along
this line, though not quite so
rabid, during the week he
handled orientation in 1943 at
his Charleston, S.C., army post.
He pointed out that many peo
ple were making pro-Soviet re
marks at that time.
Questioned about the charge
that he had joined various Red
fronts, Condon said he had
contributed to many causes and
attended many meetings that
he would not have anything to
do with now. His "joining" be
gan right after he left law
school in 1938 when he said a
lot of other people joined
causes too. He denied ever
making the statement that he
was going into politics in order
to do himself and the Com
munist party some good.
The congressman admitted
he had been arrested eight or
nine times in his youth, mostly
for drunkedness. On one occa
sion, he recalled, he had got
into a scrap with a policeman.
He said that when he ran for
congress, his opponent knew
all about this but did not use
it because they were events
of his youth.
The congressman at all times
seemed frank and made no ef
fort to duck questions. He en
listed as a private two months
after Pearl Harbor and came
out four years later a staff ser
geant with two battle stars and
a silver star.
That, as fairly as we can pre
sent it, is the record.
. icoprritht. isi
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER 1
Future Dark for Those Few GIs
Who Chose to Stay With Reds
ly HAL BOYLE
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE
Albany Democrat-Herald
"I listened pretty carefully
to our state last year, and no
voice was heard from the
graveyards." Governor James
F. Byrnes of South Carolina
New York 0") An open let
ter to any of the few Amer
ican prisoner' in Korea who
chose to remain behind the
Bamboo Curtain:
Dear ez-G.I.'Joe:
So you don't want to come
home, kid? You've picked the
Red over the Red, White and
Blue. .
Why? Is it because your for
mer buddies In the prison
camps knew you had turned
informer and ratted on them
to get better treatment? And
you were afraid to come back
because you'd have to face the
day of reckoning?
In every war there Is a
handful like you. Thousands of
your fellow American prison
ers died rather than yield their
beliefs. Other thousands clung
stubbornly to their faith
through months or even years
ol sickness and bare - boned
hunger.
The dead lie in unmarked
graves but live in honored
memory. The living will re
turn to a Hero's welcoming.
And you, the handful who
tried to sell them out for an
extra mouthful of wheat, who
peddled your birthright for
less than a mess of pottage.
who will remember you? Only
the families you have dishon
ored. And it were better if
even they never know your
guilt.
Maybe you weren't actually
the stoolpigeon the other sol
diers thought you. Maybe you
became what they jeeringly
called a "progressive, a Red
sympatnizer" b e c a use your
captors actually sold you Com
munism on principle. Either
way, kid, you've made one cf
the world's worst buys. By re
fusing to be repatriated you
become a deserter, and that is
the way your Army will list
you, even if it never can try
you as a traitor.
You have traded an old and
tried freedom for a new will-
bf the - wisp "freedom," the
false marsh light of the world.
You have abandoned the Stat-
of Liberty and the Stars
and Stripes for the blood-red
symbol of the hammer and
sickle.
lour teiiow prisoners say
that, when they started the
long, joyous journey home, you
were were having a cozy
party among yourselves. What
could you be celebrating? And
when they had departed, and
you had filled your belly with
meat and drunk all the liquor
you wanted, what did you
think
Did you get a little sick in
side as you looked around the
empty campy? Did you realize
that now you will never have
a home again in your life, and
you might as well drop the
word from your vocabulary?
Now there is nothing for you
to come back to. And what is
there for you to look forward
to? The Red guards must look
at you with open contempt
now. For they need you no
longer. There is no one left
for you to betray.
They can never be your
friends. , And you cannot be
friends with one another. Tor
Whenever you look into each
other'i eyes, each will see mir
rored there the image of one
who betrayed either his bud
dies or his principles, or both.
The top Communists will
never trust you. The only use
they can now find for you is
to trot you from place to place
to parrot their propaganda.
And when your value as a win
dow-dressing or show-piece
Salem 30 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
August 10, 1923
A casket containing the body
of Warren Gamaliel Harding
had this day been placed in a
vault in a Marion, Ohio, cemetery.
m
It had been determined that
Governor Pierce would keep
Johnson Smith as state peni
tentiary warden.
About half of Willamette
valley's estimated 8000 - ton
crop of loganberries had gone
unpicked due to a low market
for Communism dwindles, ' vjvai
wnai will De your rewara : l-
bor in a slave camp? A casual
bullet inHhe back, and a ditch
grave? Take a long, long look
at the hammer and sickle. You
will come to hate them in the
days or years, few or many, of
doubt and terror that are your
only future.
Your dead fellow prisoners
have found their peace. Those
who survived are returning to
peace and their old v ay of life.
But you are now one of the
living dead, hated by those
you used to know, despised by
those you now move among as
an alien; forever a stranger in
a strange land. Not much of a
payoff, is it, Kid?
Sincerely,
Hal Boyle
Return to Hope
Boise Statesman
What did we gain by making
a truce In Korea? One thing
we gained is hope for 3313
Americana who are now being
liberated from North Korean
prisoner-of-war camps.
These men nave been living
under conditions of indescrib
able hardship, brutality and
sometimes deliberate torture.
They art the ones who lived
through it There are 8300 oth
ers, by American count, who
were missing in action and pre
sumably were captured by the
enemy, but who didn't live to
be liberated. .
Suffering Is not yet ended for
those who are now being re
patriated. Many are wounded
or ill, and face months or years
of convalescence. All mutt re
cover from the effect of mal
nutrition. But at least they are
still alive, and now can be giv
en the kind of care which gives
them a chance. Every day of
delay in liberating them in
creases the suffering and -de
creases the likelihood of sur-
NEW CAN OPENER USE
New York OJO Police said
today they had arrested two
men who used a beer can op
ener to break into more than
100 locked automobiles and
loot them.
William Rivera, 26, and Ra
fael Castijon, 24, were charged
with grand larceny for the auto
burglaries in which the loot
ranged from an outboard mo
tor expensive furs and jewelry.
SUCH IS PROGRESS
Bend Bulletin
And now the police in Sa
lem are catching speeders
with a palindrome. Such is
progress.
Now, best of all, they can
be reunited with wives, chil
dren, parents, brothers and
sisters and sweethearts. And
they can breathe the air of
freedom again.
That much has been gained.
POVERTY, CADILLAC
STYLE t
Pendleton East OregonUn
The ex-wiie of movie star
John Wayne has told a court
she can t live on $1100 a '
month; she must have $9350 a
month. One of her biggest
problems, she said, was lack
of funds to operate her Cad
illac. Poor girli If the court
won't alleviate her suffering
perhaps a relief agency will.
HE'D BETTER BE CAREFUL '
Pacoima, Calif. UJ9 James .
A. Lasley, Burbank, Calif.,
said he hoped the thief who
stole his private plane was not
planning a long trip.
He said the single-engine .
craft was carrying enough gas
for one hour's flying when it
was stolen from Whitman Air
Park.
ARRESTED 68 TIMES
New York U.R) Joseph Con
te, 60, has been arrested for
the 60th time. He appeared in
court yesterday on grand lar
ceny charges for the theft of
$60 from a subway passeager.
Penalizing Working Mothers
Corvallis Gazette-Times
One thing that has always
concerned us is the tax bite
taken out of the checks of
mothers who are working and
yet paying for baby sitters at
home.
We have always had one or
more here at the Gazette-Times
and there are many others em
ployed, all over town.
According to the U. S. Wom
en's Bureau, about 5Vi million
mothers are now employed.
Of these, some 2 million have
children under six years of
age. And the Bureau reports,
All trends evident in the
foreseeable future point to
ward the continuance of a large
and probably growing women
labor force, including married
as well as single."
Just a little simple arith
metic shows the Injustices
these women are now suffer
ing. At the present tax rates
the amount a mother ddds to
the family income by working
is eaten up by proportionate
ly Increased taxes and the cost
of services she might other
wise perform at home.
Take the case of a mother
with a small child whose hus
band earns $4500 a year, with .
no other dependents and no
other source of income. The '
husband takes the standard de
duction and pays income tax
of $504 a year.
Then the wife takes a job at
$50 a week. That raises the
family income tax to $1033 a
year or by $529. That reduces
the gain to the family Income
from the wife's job from $2600
a year to $2071. If she pays a
baby sitter $20 a week to look .
after her child, that reduces ,
the gain to the family income
to $1031. She is, in effect,
working for less than $20 a
week.
It would seem to us that de
ductions for her baby sitter
would be just as legal as a
salesman's deduction for gaso
line. Both are essential to per
mit them to work.
Ti - . . price of four cents a pound,
was speaking at the governors K . .
conference in Seattle on poll- A five.day test of the 28-
ucai alignments n me somn., tranenta! air mail
ii win ue recauea inai uic
democrats captured his state
last November by only a rath
er narrow margin.
The "graveyards" were not
voting, and the current scions
service between New York and
San Francisco had been ar
ranged for, beginning August
21.
General Motors corporation
Admitting that two of his
law associates might have
been communists, the con
gressman also acknowledged I ,ues
of democracracy appear to be had declared a 30c dividend on
ready to vote on the basis of 1 its no par common stock.
what they think of today s is-
and candidates.
The
COMMERCIAL T-V FOR BRITAIN
"He was identified as the rran.;n ....
author of an article which ap- ..when dld you flnd out
peared in the 5-16-47 edition of lnat your law lssoclates were
the Daily Peoples World, the communists?' Condon was
official west coast newspaper askcd. "Did you know that
of the Communist party. Be- before vou Joiner" the firm?"
tween 1947 and 1949 he was a "i didn't know tnev wcre
member of an Oakland, Calif., communists," he replied. "But
law firm which represented the t had a good idea they were
Communist party in the Ala- Reds."
meda-Contra Costa counties. "Then whv did you Join H
"Condon stated in 1943 that "I didn't know then that I
the 'might of the Red army' wouid be going into politics,"
was about all the colored races he replied,
had on their side in the crea- It was a good offer, he also
tlon ot a accent post-war worm explained
'Solid South" is joining the
Professor and Mrs. Robert
Gatke, who had been married
bloody shirt" as a recognized here last week, returned from
political anachronism. . i Cannon Beach to remain in Sa-
And we don't mean that lcm briefly and then proceed
safely!10 vvasnington, u. wnere
rrui. uime will ancnu Amer
ican university to obtain his
doctor's degree in history.
the Republicans can
count, for the future, on the
states Hoover pried loose In
1928 and Eisenhower in 1952;
we do mean that there may be
more thinking and less poli
tical emotion In the Deep
South hereafter.
and gave him a
Here in America the radio commercial is one of the ,nd ,hl,t he ave thanks that chance to get back Into his
fat nt life R f ever an rnmv it annnHe n, mll. the USSR was one ot our allies field of labor law. He said he
, wno wouia sit nine peace remained with the firm from 1
i table. 1947 to the end of 1948. when
One year ago a Salem lino
type operator had undergone
an operation in San Francisco, j
At a local hospital he had again j
been operated upon and the
surgeon removed a rubber'
glove that had been left from!
the first operation.
A short memorial service
like home,
Over in Britain this form of entertainment ( ?) is un
known. Radio Is a government monopoly, highminded, cul-: further that Condon has been the ranks of labor also took
tural and all that, but sometimes a bit dull, don't you! member of, has contributed place in that area at the time
know? !
The Churchill government wanU to pep things up a
bit with a limited amount of commercial television, but
it is meeting a cool reception. The newspapers don't like
it, for advertising will be sold. Neither do the politicians,
or the church leaders, probably because they've heard how
it works over here.
So it looks like old John Bull will have to worry along
with his strictly proper but none too interesting govern- record involving a number of ! recollection
ment T-V as he has government radio. arrests, which is carried under) quote from
PORTLAND'S SINFULNESS
Pendleton East Oregonian
Is the city of Portland
"wide open" or is vice on the
wane? The auestion is beina
"hotly debated in the Rose honoring the late President
City. The chief of police says Harding nad lollowed the Sa
the city is "tighter" than itjIem evening band concert
i i t. . Services wr led hv Rev
"3-The FBI report state, the associate, split. A split in j 0 ' 0nl. Z some "-BoMe " Ward Willi, Long.
ihr ihat CnnHnn h. heen tv,. w. i.tv. .!. ,.w "regonian sent some reporters . . .
out to check and found It was ! .
relatively easy to get into . uFrul ;)uye, h,d Pronounced
many after-hours drinking the 1923 P" croP the st
places and bawdy houses. ,wen in . .
We recall working on just Thomas A. Edison, in attend
such an assignment as a re-! an, at fimerai ..r.
funds to, and ha, associated and Condon indicated that he
with approximately 20 Com- sided with the more conserva-
munist party 'fronts and inflictive union,.
trated organizations from 1938 TRIED ONE RED CASE
to the present time.' He re- Asked whether he had ever
portedly stated in the 1930s tried any cases for he com- porter at The Oregonian in Warren G. Harding had said:
that he was going into politics mumsts while a member of the 1 1934. And we learned fromj"i have not found it possible
'so he could do both himself firm, he said that he had j that experience that if the to demonstrate existence be
and the Communist party some handled one minor case. citizens don't want their cityjyond the grave and cannot say
gouti. mnqon nas a crtmirai longrcssman i. on a on naa noi cieanea up a newspaper i, that men, including the be-
of the aliened wasting its breath on a clean- loved President Harding, live
a 195S speech I up crusade. j after death."
A , J
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GEORGE
HUGGINS
-By-
SID
BOISE
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to be the most important type of Insurance coverage in a
family Insurance program?"
We will tabulate and publish the results In this space
August 17th, so you still have time to let us know what
you think. And just to make It easy, you can complete the
coupon below, enclose it in an envelope or paste It on a
post card. We would like to hear from YOU:
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P. O. Box 27 Salem, Oregon
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And, while we're making a survey, please check ONE
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If all Insurance agents were laid end to end:
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