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tV3c!35tary Stalemate
On Europe Moeved
Behind Red Strategy
(Editors Nole: United Press
Correspondent Henry Shapiro
is a recognized authority on
Russia and United Slates-Russian
relations. He has served
as news correspondent in Mos
cow for more than 20 years
and at present is on leave from
his job as United Press man
ager in Moscow. In the follow
ing dispatch he analyzes the
Kremlin's new appearance of
"sweet reasonableness.")
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Writer
Russia's new global strategy
provides evidence that the Krem
lin believes a military stalemate
has been reached in the east
west "cold war" and that a per
iod of stabilization has set in in
Europe, if not in Asia.
Soviet Communist party lead
er Nikita Khrushchev's and
Premier Nikolai Bulganin's dra
matic pilgrimage to Belgrade
fits into the new pattern.
Sees Sweeping Proposals
Further to break the. log jam
in international affairs, the Rus
sians may be expected to come
forward at the forthcoming Big
Four conference "at the summit"
with sweeping proposals to end
the cold war. These proposals
will have a strong appeal in West
Germany, France, in neutral and
in uncommitted countries of the
world.
The Soviet Union's grandiose
peace offensive will assume un
precedented proportions.
One of the most significant
items in the Soviet-Yugoslavia
agreement of particular interest
to China and Moscow's satel
lites is the recognition that "dif
ferent forms of socialist devel
opment are solely the concern
of individual countries."
Radical Deviation
This is a radical deviation
from former Premier Joseph
Stalin's insistence that Moscow
is the exclusive and unchalleng
able source of Communist wis
dom and power.
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito was
the first of the foreign Commun
ist leaders who defied Moscow,
and survived and triumphed.
During my last sojourn in
Moscow from 1948 to 1953 Tito
was portrayed as a traitor and
fascist of Hitlerian proportions.
Now, Moscw eats bitter crow
and hails him as "dear com
rade" although he rejected
Khrushchev's crude invitation
to rejoin the Cominform.
At the same time, Tito admit
ted a vague community of in
terest of socialist countries.
Tito's success is bound to have
significant repercussions among
the Communist satellites, some
thing which Khrushchev, with
all his apparent naivety; must
have anticipated.
Encourages Dissidents
Actual and potential dissident
communist elements in Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rom
ania and Bulgaria will be en
couraged by Moscow's new line,
East Europeans and East Ger
mans will now expect a certain
degree of autonomy in their in
ternal affairs and in relations
with non-Communist powers.
Because of Tito's success, to
avert the possible emergence of
of a Tito's China, and to antici
pate Western arguments, it may
well be that the Kremlin is con
templating a new formula for
internal and foreign policy con
cessions to satellite countries,
This may take the form of a new
type of "Communist Federal
ism."
Increases Distrust
In the meantime, the Kremlin
nas been successful in raising
Tito's bargaining power with the
West and in causing a certain
degree of disquiet in Italy,
Greece and Turkey, where dis
trust of Tito may be increased
as a result of his agreement with
Mospow.
Stalin's policies after World
War II led Russia into a position
of dangerous isolation from
which his collective successors
now want to retreat.
In Yugoslavia, the Russians
have given another demonstra
tion of flexibility of maneuver,
a willingness to make humiliat
ing but uncostly accommoda
tions which will make them
more formidable adversaries in
negotiations with the West than
Stalin could have been.
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Umatilla County Jail
Slated To Be Razed
Pendleton (U.R) Umatilla
county jail will meet the same
fate as the original Umatilla
county courthouse and be torn
down shortly to make way for a
new structure.
The courthouse was torn down
last winter and the building com
mittee has decided that the jail
will go too, as soon as granite
stones for the Jiew building's ex
terior arrive.
County jail prisoners will be
transferred to Pendleton city jail
and the Wasco county jail at The
Dalles until the new structure is
completed.
Lumbermen's Hospital
At Bend To Be Closed
Bend (U.R) The Lumber
man's hospital, which operated
here for nearly four decades, has
been closed down, according to
an announcement by Brooks-
Tornadoes Strike
Midwestern Area;
Small Girl Killed
By UNITED PRESS
Tornadoes struck from the
Texas border country to North
Dakota last night and a vast
storm system whipped the na
tion with rain and thunder
storms from the Mississippi riv
er to the Rockies early today.
The twisters touched down at
Encinal, Tex., 40 miles north of
the Mexican border; at Florence,
Tex.: near Spillville, Iowa; and
near Valley City, N.D
No lives were lost and the
damage did not compare with
the havoc wrought by twisters
in the Southwest earlier this
season. But tne storms were a
continuation of violent weather
which has battered the area this
year.
Lightning Kills Girl
Meanwhile, heavy rams soak
ed a wide area, a lightning bolt
killed a little girl and knocked
down two playmates in Chica
go, and summery heat baked
large portions of the East.
The most destructive of last
night's tornado funnels struck
at Encinal. Power was knocked
out, a filling station and a res
taurant were severely damaged,
and three barns and two or three
houses were whisked away.
At Florence, a house was un
roofed, power was knocked out,
and streets were littered with
tree limbs and downed electric
wires.
Farms Damaged
The Iowa twister roared
through two miles of heavily
wooded country, cutting a 50
foot wide swath of destruction.
Two farms were in its path and
suffered property damage.
The tornado missed one of the
farm homes, but the suction was
so great that small objects went
flying out the windows.
Bradford, 111., meanwhile, got
the nation's heaviest dousing as
1.40 inches of rain fell in six
hours and three inches came
down in 12 hours Other drench-
ings included 1.67 inches of rain
at Shreveport, La., 1.36 at Col
lege Station, Tex., and 1.36 at
Greenwood, Miss.
Hail stones the size of golf
balls clattered down at Gaines
ville, Tex.
Two Young Koreans Sought:??"
After Escaping from Ship
San Francisco (U.R) Im
migration officials were search
ing today for two young Korean
stowaways who broke their
shackles and disappeared from
the freighter Sea Serpant short
ly before she docked Sunday.
The boys were identified as
Fun Nat Gon, 17, and Kim Fang
Chull, 16, both of Pusan, Korea.
Escape by Porthole
Ships officers discovered the
youths missing from a makeshift
brig when the ship docked at
6:30 a.m. (PDT) yesterday. The
door of the converted stateroom
was locked and authorities said
the boys apparently escaped
through an open porthole lead
ing to the deck
Handcuffs with which the boys
had been shackled to their
bunks also were missing.
The youths stowed aboard the
Pacific Far East Lines freighter
before she sailed from Pusan
April 19. They remained hidden
undetected in a lifeboat during
a 24-day layover in Yokohama,
Japan, and the 14-day voyage
across the Pacific.
They apparently slipped
ashore unseen when the ship
docked at Ocean Falls, British
Columbia, , believing they were
in the United States.
Returned to Ship
The minister of a church
where they hid discovered them
and Canadian police placed them
aboard the Sea Serpent again
May 27 for return to the Far
East.
The youths were placed in a
custodial stateroom for the trip
to Long Beach, Calif., and when
the ship left Long Beach for
San Francisco Saturday they
were handcuffed to their bunks.
Canadian immigration offic
ials said the boys had a list of
Hawaiians in their possession
and apparently planned to go to
island territory.
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Man Dies in Mishap
Ndrth of Vancouver
Vancouver, Wash. U.R) A
man identified as John J. Gruhn,
about 68, was killed on U.S
highway 99 north of here Satur
day night after being hit twice
by a truck and car.
County coroner Paul Mylan
said Gruhn was apparently
struck by a truck which had
swerved to avoid him. The truck
stopped, but another car ran
over the body.
State Grange Opens
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Vancouver, Wash. U.R)
Valley Farms market and cream
ery was robbed of an estimated
$5000 to $6000 Saturday night
by a two-gun bandit.
The bandit herded three
creamery employees into a cool
er and then escaped in a light
green pickup truck belonging to
one of the employees. He took
with him receipts fattened by
heavy milk sales to milk-shy
Portlanders.
Employees Robert O. Hunter,
Philip Murphy and Moses R.
Wilson took 20 minutes to free
themselves and by that time the
bandit had made good his es-
man Schulze.
J. D. Donovan, who managed
the hospital for 36 years, will re
tire as of July 1. The hospital
was used by both the Shevlin
Hixon and Brooks-Scanlon lum-
Scanlon General Manager Free- ber mills.
Wife of Turncoat POW Says
He Wants To Return to -US
Olympia, Wash. U.R) The
wife of former Cpl. Otho G.
Bel, one of 21 American prison
ers of war who refused repatria
tion after the Korean truce, said
today her husband wants to
come home.
Mrs. Jewell Bell said she had
received two letters from her
husband through the Red Cross.
In both letters, dated April 5
and 15, he expressed the desire
to come home, she said.
Passport Difficulties
Bell told his wife in the let
ters that he was having difficul
ties obtaining a passport- and
that it would take him a few
months to get out of Red China.
Mrs. Bell said her husband
wrote there were a lot of things
about his case that are "unex
plainable." She said Mrs. Francis Knight,
director of the passport office
here, told her that the United
States has no representatives in
Red China. However, Mrs.
Knight added that if Bell could
get to Hong Kong or any other
place where United States rep
resentatives maintained an of
fice, something might be accom
plished. Mrs. Bell said her husband
apparently was not with any of
the other 20 Americans who
chose to remain behind the Iron
Curtain after the Korean war..
She did not know her husband's
present whereabouts in Red
China, but he told her he would
send her a new address to which
she could write him in the near
future.
Sound Like Him
"The two letters that came by
way of the Red Cross sound like
him," Mrs. Bell said. "While
some of the others I have re
ceived didn't sound like him at
all."
Bell, 24, is the son of Elbert
A. Bell of Rt. 1, Hillsboro, Miss.
He and Mrs. Bell were married
while he was stationed at Ft.
Lewis, near here, before the
Korean war.
He was captured by the Com
munists Nov. 30, 1950. While he
was a prisoner of war, Bell
made several broadcasts of mes
sages to his family that he was
being well treated.
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82nd annual Oregon State
Grange convention got under
way here today after a week
end of pre-convention fun.
Yesterday, registering dele
gates found time for a picnic at
Collier state park, a youth talent
contest and a "get acquainted"
party.
Top Grange officials present
for the week-long convention in
clude grange master Elmer Mc
Clure of Milwaukie; Overseer
William Howes of Medford; Mrs.
Delta Johnson, lecturer, Rufus;
and Secretary Mildred Norman,
Portland.
Miss Bertha J. Bush, former
secretary of the state grange and
now a member of its executive
.committee, will miss her first
Grange convention in 50 years
this time. The Corvallis woman
will be kept away by the illness
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