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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, June 27, 1940
Heppner
Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE.
Established March 30, 1883;
THE HEPPNER TIMES,
Established November 18, 1897;
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
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and entered at the Post Office at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as second-class matter.
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The Editors Meet
MEWSPAPER editors, and espe
cially those in the daily field who
have the larger responsibility in in
terpreting the rapidly changing
world scene, must constantly gauge
the tempo of the times. Thus, at the
state publishers' annual summer
convention at Gearhart by the sea
last week end, was it meet that the
two headline speakers should be
men who have their fingers on the
public pulse more constantly than
most anyone in the entire region.
Robert Cavagnaro, New York rep'
resentative of the Associated Press
at San Francisco, whose job it is to
help sift grain from chaff in world
news for member newspapers over
a wide area, told of "War Coverage
and Propaganda." From advantage
of personal interview with two re
cently returned foreign correspond
ents from whom inside information
on the exact European reporting sit
uation had been obtained, he was in
a position to declare that American
foreign correspondents had been do
ing a masterly job of reporting the
facts under, handicap of most exact
ing censorship. He averred that his
association had been particularly
careful to identify sources of infor
mation in every case where doubt
might exist as to the facts reported,
so that the newspaper reader might
determine for himself how much of
the story could be taken for fact
and how much was intended to in
fluence the public mind toward
sympathetic interest with one or the
other side of the belligerents involv
ed. He believed that throughout the
handling of war news to date news
papers as a whole had done a good
job of giving an uncolored picture
of the situation as it is, in the light
of tremendous handicaps, thus con
forming to the fundamental ethic of
the profession, "truth in reporting."
Of exceptional timeliness, also, was
the appearance of N. J. L. Pieper,
special agent in charge of the San
Francisco office, Federal Bureau of
Investigation. Pieper warned against
mass hysteria in dealing with "fifth
column" activities, promising com
plete and thorough cooperation of
FBI in investigating all reports of
what might appear subversive activ
ity against the country's interests.
He declared the FBI had stopped
bank robbery and kidnapping on a
wholesale basis, and that, with news
paper and individual cooperation
throughout the country, fifth col
umnists (a term he was not quite
able to interpret because of degrees
and variations) would also be brot
under control. Times of social un
rest, such as the present, he warned,
are meat for the criminally-minded
person everywhere, making it more
necessary than ever before for the
law-abiding citizen to be alert for
the racketeer in every field. Pieper's
talk was largely "off-the-record,"
but it showed that local, state and
national law enforcement agencies
are being effectively coordinated for
handling the present emergency and
that they may be relied upon to han
dle any situation that may arise.
Definitely, no individual or group of
individuals without proper govern
mental authority should attempt to
take corrective measures into his or
their own hands.
Much of the program was "shop
talk," and being assembled at one
of the state's finest recreation spots
the fourth estate most naturally took
the opportunity to relax from stress
of work days, intermingling much
play with business. Eastern Oregon
was honored by selection of one of
its progressive publishers, Giles L.
Escape European Holocaust
Missionaries of Pentecostal Church in Polish
Corridor When Hostilities Began, Made
Escape Through Germany and Sweden
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Rev. Paul Williscroft
Rumble of wagons and the plod
ding of horses' hoofs on the cobble
stone street past their door as Po
land prepared to meet the invading
forces of Hitler and his nazis still
linger in the minds of the Rev. and
Mrs. Paul Williscroft who were
forced to flee from their quarters
in the Polish corridor last fall. The
young missionaries, who left Yak
ima several years agoi to carry on
religious work in Danzig and Poland,
returned to Yakima in April after
an extended tour during which they
told of their experiences, states the
Yakima Daily Republic.
Rev. and Mrs. Williscroft will
French, of the Sherman Countv
Journal, to head the Oregon News-.
paper Publishers association as pres
ident for the ensuing year, stepping
up from the office of vice-president
which he held last year.
In resolutions, the editors took a
cue from the headline speakers,
promising 100 percent cooperation in
the move to arm the United States
to the point where interference from
anv foreign nation will be particu
larly unhealthful for such intruder,
and in the work to place fifth col
umnists under control.
Convention sessions proper ex
tended through Friday and Satur
day. Friday afternoon was taken off
for a trip on the Columbia river on
the coast guard cutter, Onandaga,
with newsmen as guests of Major
General George A. White, Oregon's
national guard commander, who was
making an official visit to the ship.
Port of Astoria, Saddle mountain and
the surrounding picturesque topo
graphy, including much-discussed
Tongue Point, were scenic attractions
along the boat's white-capped route,
and boat's crew, host, and assistant
hosts from the city of Astoria, of
whom Merle Chessman of the As-torian-Budget
was most considerate,
provided inland land-lubber report
ers with a treat not soon to be for
gotten. The trip over the Wolf Creek cut
off to the coast from Portland show
ed this road to be rapidly improving
under construction now in progress,
and the easy two-and-a-hali hour
drive would soon be cut to as easy
a two hours, it appeared. Most heart
rending scene was the wide stretch
of fire devastated area along the
route where once stood a wealth of
virgin timber.
Mrs. Paul Williscroft
speak at the Heppner Pentecostal
church tomorrow (Friday) evening,
according to announcement of Rev.
S. D. Spiesz, local pastor.
The Williscrofts left the city of
Torun in the Polish corridor seven
days before the invasion of Poland.
They made their journey with some
difficulty to Danzig and from Dan
zig to Marienburg in East Prussia.
Crossing of the Polish corridor was
made on a German visa-free train,
one of the last trains to cross this
territory which separated East Prus
sia from the main part of Germany.
By way of Berlin they went to Swe
den and after a stay of three weeks
in the Scandinavian countries they
were finally able to arrange for
passage for America.
"Since reaching America we have
received direct word both from the
German and Russian controlled
areas of Poland from friends whose
homes are in these lands and who
remained there during the invasion,"
the Rev. Mr. Williscroft says. "There
was a large German minority, espe
cially in western Poland. Nazi pro
paganda which had been spread
among these people gave them a
desire to return to Germany, the
country to which the territory be
longed before the World war. In an
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effot to make Poles out of these
Germans and to counteract this pro
paganda the Polish government pass
ed laws which sometimes were
greatly to the disadvantage of this
minority.
"As the invasion drew near the
laws became more severe. Before
we left Poland it was against the
law to speak German. When hos
tilities actually broke out, action
against these Germans became fren
zied. Wholesale arrests were made
of innocent persons and hundreds
were murdered who had committed
no crime."
The missionaries will show pic
tures to illustrate their talks.
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Text of the book was written by
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