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Salem, Oregon", Tuesday, January 22,. 1957 Page 8 Section 1 THE CAPITAL' JOURNAL! More Study Expected For Zone Northward Move . Investigated by Planners More delay seemed a certainty Tuesday on the petitioned exten sion of the downtown Salem com mercial zone northward on Church street. The planning commission will meet Tuesday nicht but Chair man Robert K. Powell reported Legislature to Receive Rural Library Bill A legislative bill which would combine state and federal funds (or the development of library service in rural areas of the stale was explained at a meeting Sat urday of the Library Development committee of the Oregon Library association by Mrs. Warren Mc Minimcc. Tillamook. , Trustees of the state library plan to introduce the bill at this session of the legislature, Mrs. McMinimco explained. She went on to say that the hill nrovides for funds from the state which would be matched by federal money made available un der the Federal Library Services act. The purpose of the federal legislation is to stimulate rural library growth. According to Mrs. McMinimee, Oregon's share of the federal funds is $108,530 annually for a five-year period. Salem hod three representatives at the meeting. They included Hugh Morrow, librarian at the Salem Public library: Brooks Jenkins, li brarian at Willamette university; and Miss Loretta Fisher and Mrs. Mabel Baker from the Oregon Stats library. Eight Students Work as Pages Eight Willamette university stu dents are learning first-harid the many facets of politics through their appointments as pages with the 49th session of the Oregon leg islature. Working In the senate are Mary Beebe, Newport; Mac Baker, Sa lem, and Ross Fortner, Baker. Pages for the house of representa tives are David Barrows, Orlnda, Calif., and Lyle Banton, La Grande Aiding the lobby members arc Doug Houser, Portland: Paul Shaffer, Medford, and Laurel Al exander, Sunny Volley. Since most of the students work ing for this legislature arc politi cal scienco or prelaw majors, the access to governmental agencies gives them valuable experience and a practical understanding for their future vocations. State Appeals Judge's Order An appeal to the supreme court from a recent ruling by Circuit ludge George R. Duncan ordering the release of Roy Bert Landreth will be made by the state. Landreth, who had been con victed in 111-14 inder the provisions of the habitual criminal act, hod filed a petition for habeas corpus. Judge Duncan held that t w o crimes involving the transportation of motor vehicles across stale hor ders should not be considered as applying to the habilual criminal ad. The judp.c ordered a Sd-day slav of judgment to permit Polk county authorities to initiate legal pro ceedings against Landreth. Dean al Stanford Lands Students From Willamette Willamette university students enrolled in the 3-ii program in en-1 gineering al Stanford university were praised highly by Ihe asso - ciate dean ot that department in a! letter to the university this week Dean Ray K. Lmsley. of Stan ford's school of engineering, com mented that "thus far Willamette students transferring to Stanford have marie the best records of any students in the 3-2 program. "'O. fl C H ll TO'll uWJSrt&pt Wat College Uioir Will cipatinR in a program uhercbv!-, - rszrow.bive Concert Here Next Month Stanford's engineering department. The student, after five years, re - ceives a RS degree from Stun - ford and a BA from his first school. Til n....ll..,l : ih. Is 14. Willamette has graduated three men from the 3-2 program. Richard Ross, Portland; and James Morgali and Eugene Bart Jeti, Salem. Bnrtlett completed the program with the highest grade point aver age of any student graduating from the school in 1955. At present two students, Richard Bauman, Portland: and Richard Rrockway, San Carlos, are enrolled in the program. END WESTERN TOl'K Macleay (Special) Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller and children Kay and Keith returned recently from a trip taking thorn to Soft lke City, Yeltowstaie tarfe owl Pasadena, CM, Expansion Monday that the commission will not be ready to take action on the petition at the meeting. The proposal was first made in October to change three lots on the east side of Church street be tween Union street and Mill Creek from R-2 residential to C-2 busi ness. The request was made by Francis Smith. Petition Returned At first the commission recom mended rejection claiming that va cant property already zoned for business was available in the area. Lr' t, however, the commission asked that the petition be returned from the city council for further study. The petiticn issue was tabled tor 30 days at the Dec. 10 meeting of the cominl ,'on. The commission's regular meet ing, which will be held in the city hall chambers at 7:30 p.m., will find the body studying two other items of business. A request from Teddy R. and Louise Pyle for a two-foot front setback variation to build a house on the northeast cor ner of N. Church and Jefferson streets is one of them. The Pylcs' petition is supported by the signa tures of 16 property owners in the area. Setback r.cqiicst The commission will also act on an application by Precision Build ers, Inc., for a rear setback vari ance for a court aparvmenl on three lots at the south' est corner of Simpson and 24th streets. The petition was heard at the Jan. a meeting of the group and was re ferred to the variance and zone change committee. Trials Set for Three Accused Of Burglary Three men, charged with bur glary the morning of Dec. 25 of a Candalaria drug store, will be giv en separate trials, Circuit Judge Geo. R. Duncan ruled Monday. All three had previously entered in nocent pleas. Charged with the burglary of $150 from the store are F.lmcr Walls, Peoria, 111.; James Henry Cain, 453 Tryon Ave., Salem, and Duane Arvid Spencer, Newport. William Elliott Milcy, 2397 Hazel Ave., who had previously pleaded guilty to the burglary charge, is awaiting sentence. Judgo Duncan sentenced Delores Jean Babcr, 1370 Ferry St., to 18 months in prison on a charge of probation violation. Philip Wayne Brower was placed on probation for two years on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. . Sloper Denies Hertz Motion A motion by the Hertz Corporn- ion asking for a restraining order against the Stale Public Utililirs commission from enforcing a pre liminary injunction has been de nied by Circuit Court Judge Val D. Sloper. The corporation, which operates nationwide system of drive-it- yourself motor vehicles had asked for an injunction on the basis of a previous ruling by Judge Sinner that the P.U.C. did not have juris diction over car rental organiza tions. New Tramway al YMCA Pool (Joes Into Operation The YMt'A, which recently in stalled an instructional pool in its new youin wing, is now equipped to care for polio patients in a more efficient manner. By virtue of a contribution of funds ,'rom Pncilic Lodge No. 50. A.F. Si A M. Salem, a tramway device (or carrying patienls froiii a side door to a dressine room and thence to the pool has been placed j ill ooeraliiio. The eoillriv-'iiiee hurl , its lu st run MoMuv ni"hl when I Richard O'Connor, 25, 47ln North ' Itiver ltd. was taken to the pool' ! 'or therapeutic treatment. Mwinnor, stricken wilh pnlioiover the years when security was llirce years ago has been confined i 10 a wiieel chair since. The Salem Memorial hospital's therapeutical department is in charge of the program. i !alrm is again on Ihe ilinrrarv , of Ihe world-famous choir of St Olaf college. NnithiicU! m; Lhi.4. I. ..,..n- ; i "'" " "iiai imir. The group of 60 singers will ap pear al Ihe Willamette university Fine Arts auditorium February 14 under the auspices of St. Mark' Lutheran church. This will be the third appearance here of the choir which heg.in its nation-wide (ours in I Ml. Recently the musical group presented 31 concerts in Scandinavia nnd Ger many during its summer tour of Furcpe. The choir at Jic college wa ori ginally organized by Dr. F. Melius Christiansen in ltnu. ine current director of Mir noted si. Dial choir director is his Son Dr. Olaf choir wlil.fi will appear In ron C. Chnftinnsm. aeri m ihr wlllnmrHr VWie Arts The cnoir knu pern lender In I mntllm-ona tMmmry II muta the development el "O cuMlto"i Hi o(Mirn m , Mor' tu BWtfjjg. 1 Uwroo 6od. u rThe (Jjgp CHAPTER 14 Trapping Enemy In Nation Copyright, 1957, by Don Whitehead The forces of fear and sub- versio, were on the march in the summer of 1936. The one-time Austrian paper-hanger, Adolf Hit ler, had risen to power in Ger many, and while he talked of peace he planned for war. The Japanese war lords stood astride Korea and Mancnuna and, with bloody swords in their hands, threatened all of Asia. The Fascist chief. Mussolini, was carving out his new Roman empire in Africa. Spain was being torn cruelly by a civil war which pitted brother against brother, Fascist against Communist. In Soviet Russia, Stalin was con tinuing his bloody purges, adding new victims to the list of millions already liquidated by guns and by deliberate starvation. And in the United States, nine million jobless walked the streets while the reactionary forces of fascism and communism were en listing recruits to their causes. Confidential Job This, in bare outline, was the gloomy state of the world on the morning of Aug. 4. FBI Director J. Kdgar Hoover left his head quarters to answer a summons to a White House conference which would remain secret until this writing. Hoover was shown into Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt's of fice at 9:15. The President looked up from his work and smiled. "Sit down, Edgar." He pushed himself back from his oval desk and lit a cigarette. I called you over, he said, because I want you to do a job for be and it must be confiden tial." First Full Probe Roosevelt went on to say he had become increasingly concerned about the activities of Communists and other subversive groups. He felt that he should have more in formation than ho had been re ceiving. He wondered if there were some way by which he could ol ain a broad intelligence picture of Communist and roscist activi ties alike in relation to the eco nomic and political life of the country. Hoover said that there was, but that under the low tlu secretary of state must request the attorney general to undertake an investiga tion. This Secrctray of State Cor dell Hull quickly did, and Atty. Gen. Homer Cummings passed along the order to Hoover. There had fecn previous checks by the mi into pro-eascist ac tivities, but they had been limited to individual cases and there bad been no constant Investigation car ried on In the field of subversive activities. First Big Spy Case But now the FBI, quietly and wilhou. publicly disclosing the source of its authority, began to check on Communist activities and to chart the rise of Fascist move ments in the United Slates. These intelligence investigations would later stir up a hornet's nest of criticism to the effect that the FRI was meddling in the political beliefs and opinions of persons merely because they held radical views contrary to those held by Hoover. The first major espionage case in this period involved Gunolher Gustnvc Humrich. who had de serted from the U. S. Army in 19.10 and then entered the Ger man espionage service. War Department intelligence o,- (ieers called the FRI into Hie Rumrleh case when they received a warning from an American mili lary nttnche in London that an ef fort would be made to steal the United Slates' secret east coast dt'lensc plans. The identity of the foreicn acnet was unknown to the mililary and the Fill. Iliinil Activity The FBI worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence to nail an oilier spy, John Senior Farns worth, a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy who was dishon orably discharged from the Navy in 1!K!7 nnd then became a spy in the pav of the Japanese from 1933 through 1936. The first tip on Farnsworth's activities came from Fulton Lewis Jr., a newsman who heard nnd believed Farns- worth's drunken talk of a sov rjireer. Rather than expose the case himself as an exclusive story, he too!, the (acls to the FBI a prac lin followed by other reporters involved. Farnsu-nrlh. the Fill learned, received some Sl'O.OOO for Riving the Japanese stolen Navy blueprints, code books, signal hooks, sketches of ships and naval Dr. (Hal ('. ChrlMlnnjcn Is " 1 's W Story. : &..' FBI, remembering easy time German agents had before World War I, kept- close eye In years maneuvers, and other Information. Then columnist Heywood Broun caused a flurry in official Wash ington in March, 1937. when he wrote that the activities of the German - American Bund had reached a point where "actual re-J cruiting is going on, and there is already a considerable body of storm troops here in America." These Nazi-like storm troops, he wrote, were drilling and holding rifle practice and "their loyalty is palpably directed toward Hitler and the homeland." The Dies Committee Special agents studied the Bund's activities, membership, po litical teachings, organization, af filations and military-like training program. I hey then made a lengthy report to the Department of Justice in the early part of 1938. The Bund investigation came to lew I before World War shot at meeting In a dead end. The Justice Depart ment apparently decided that while the Bund's general teachings had a tendency to be subversive, ihev did not violate anv law of the Untied States. I i That's where the matter stood until November, 1938, when the House Special Committee on Un American Activities then known as the Dies committee demanded an investigation by the State De partment to determine whether certain organizations the Commu nist Party and the Bund, among others were not actually unreg istered agents of foreign govern ments, operating in violation of federal law. The Dies committee kicked up such a fuss that President Roose velt discussed its demands at a Cabinet meeting on Jan. 4, 1939. Two days later, the President an nounced at a news conference Certificates of deposit maturing in 3 years will earn interest at a rate of rtWKft m M4 thm Immh I Wt I MAKE SAVINGS DEPOSITS FIRST NATIONAL BANK CM ' earn imetst al this new, FZRST NATIONAL II on Bund. This scene was Camp Nor d I and, N. J., in 1938. that an investigation was under way. (Tomorrow: Tricking the Gestapo.) HOME BUILDERS . . . Plumbing Installations at Lowest Prices! Skilled Craftsmen - Quality Materials Phone now for i free estimate. We Guarantee you will be pleased. INTEREST ON SAVINGS at FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MM time Tax Structure Blamed in New Industry Lag Oregon is in need of capital in vestment to keep the people em ployed, but the state is finding it difficult to compete with Washing ton and California because of the existing tax structure. David C. Duncan, president of the Portland Chamber of Com merce, expressed this view Mon day noon while addressing t h e membership of the local chamber at the Marion hotel. Nevertheless, Duncan stated that vina: Oregon has achieved since the arrival of the first pioneers is but a prologue to what lies ahead. Touching upon the possibilities of the atom, Duncan predicted that the next 10 years may bring greater changes in industrial de velopment than has taken place during the past several decades. He spoke of Oregon leadership in the development of the freezing process for the preservation of fruits and vegetables, and expan sion lof the plywood industry as indicating that the state has taken advantage of some of its potentiali ties at least. A brief eulogy in memory of the late Bornard Mainwaring, Capital Journal publisher, was given by Dr. Robert D. Gregg of Willamette university. Del Milne provided or gan music during the talk. The invocation was by Rev. 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