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Pnrecast for Roseburo and vl
cinity: Partly cloudy tonight and
Pridav: cooler Friday.
Hlahest temp, for any Aug. ....106
i ouest temo. for any Aug 39
Highest temp, yesterday 87
Lowest temp, last night 60
Precipitation yesterday 0
Precipitation from Aug. 1 06
Excess from Aug. 1, 1945 02
Deficit from Sept. 1, 1944 6.30
World is Facing
2 Roads: Lasting
Peace or Turmoil
By DeWITT MacKENZI E
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Ho would hp a man of small
nerceotion who thought the de
feat of Japan could immediately
transform the world Into what
Hrilain's famous fighting man
Tommv Atkins describes as
Dlace for heroes to live in, and
vet it strikes me that we are en
titled to entertain a good deal of
optimism.
Wo stand at the gateway of u
new era, and It can be one of
peace and prosperity, or it can
he a nightmare of turmoil. It all
depends on how we approach the
problems of remaking our world,
for that's what our task amounts
to.
It would have been a hopeless
undertaking If Japan had been
strong enough to stand the allies
off aiid force a compromise peace.
That would have allowed the Jap
anese war lords to make another
attempt at conquest a generation
lience as we know from In
formed sources they were plan
ning to do.
However, with Nippon ren
dered impotent we shall have
knocked out the last of the great
powers which had the obsession
oi enslaving their fellow men.
Starting From Scratch
The western world is free of
Germany, which for generations
tvas the chief force of evil in the
Occident. Now wo me about to
lid the eastern world of Japanese
aggression. This double task had
produced tremendous disorganiza
tion. It is resulting in great po
litical and territorial changes.
Still, as I see it, this disorgani
zation is paradoxically all to the
good- if we set about overcoming
it in the right way. It means we
are starting from scratch in our
efforts to create a new peace
structure. The prewar world has
been jumbled up, and we have
the unprecedented privilege of
reconstructing It on new and bet
ter lines. It's a situation which
hasn't existed before, since Adam.
Of coiirsa this reconstruction Is
going to take time, and it will
be fraught with many perils.
Kurope already Is torn with po
litical upheavals, some of which
have produced bloodshed. We are
likely to see a lot more of this
before the continent settles down.
Kuropc also Is facing a dangerous
period of hunger and cold and
other privations, all of which are
breeders of discontent. Much the
same thing Is true of the Orient.
Big Three Are Trumps
However, it Is fortunate (we
Impel that the ISig Three Amer
ica, Britain and Russia have
emerged from the war with such
vast strength that among them
Ihey .can. by working through
lilt new United Nations security
organization, keep things In hand
during the rehabilitation. The
only real danger of a breakdown
would lie in a quarrel among the
trio. Should they fall out lint
maybe we'd better not go into
that.
It's no use dismissing this
danger with the light remark
that trouble among the Big Three
is "ImiHissible." That word "im
possible," in the mealy mouths of
hands-aeross-the-seas orators, has
caused more trouble than all the
statesmen of both hemispheres
could repair. Mighty lew things
are "impossible" as witness the
atomic bomb and most certainly
quarrels among nations aren't
impossible.
Yet, while America, Hussia and
Hrilain have some interlocking
interests, there's nothing in sight
wmrn should cause dissension.
Their present disposition is to
work together on world rehabili
tation. They've had their differ
ences of opinion already - lint the
partnership remains sound.
Victims of Navy Plane
Crash Arc Identified
THE CODE WORD IS BATAAN
By Charles V. Stanton
The code word is "BaUian."
General MacArthur lost no time in letting the Japanese
know there is to be no soft nor easy peace. The name the
Japanese once boastfully shouted in an hour of victory over
exhausted, disease-ridden American forces in our blackest
hour reverses itself in the Jap mind as it becomes the pass
word for communications between victorious American and
defeated Japanese forces.
Thut word "Bataan" is not only ironical, but it must con
vey to the Japanese officials in charge of surrender pro
cedure, a sense of fear and foreboding of what lies ahead.
It means that MacArthur has not forgotten nor forgiven his
temporary defeat. He has not forgotten the "Death March."
He-has not forgotten the cruelties imposed upon his help
less men, the prisoners of war, nor upon native civilians.
Japanese leaders cannot fail to read into MacArthur's pass
word a meaning that must dash their hopes of escape from
their war crimes. To McArthur has been given the author
ity to negotiate the surrender. To MacArthur has descended
the mantle of allied supreme commander in Japan. And
his code word is "Bataan !"
The Japanese emperor and his cohorts must use that
word when they address communications to MacArthur.
They must use that word when they appear before him as
envoys. They must speak that word. They must write that
word. Bataan, Bataan, Bataan! How significant it be
comes, expressing the'despair of a people beaten, rot because
they lacked bravery but because they had been denied hj
materials with which to fight on. Expressing the suffer
ing, torture, and death of men who staggered over weary
miles, prodtled and lashed by the victory-drunk ape men.
Expressing the sorrow of the Filipino people and carrying
the ominous promise of reprisal for wanton torture, rape
and murder by a cruel, tyrannical and degraded nation.
Only a man with an uncanny sense of dramatics could
have chosen that code word; a man whose soul has been
seared by suffering and sorrow. In an hour of victory
MacArthur gives the word which marked his bitter defeat
to proclaim the final glorious achievement.
"We have lost, but this is temporary," proclaims the Tokyo
radio. And the answer is "Bataan."
As long as America remembers that word, Bataan,"
Japan's loss is not temporary but permanent, and Mac-
Arthur, by one inspired gesture, has made it plain- that
America does not intend to forget. . '
Our fear of renewed trouble with Japan lies in'-the -pos
sibility of a soft peace. Japan must be convinced of the
thoroughness of her defeat, she must be made to realize
her war guilt, she must be stripped of all ability to wage
future war. She must be made to truly repent and become
a thoroughly civilized nation, instead of merely wearing the
veneer, lief ore she can again be admitted into fellowship in.
the society of nations. ; .
Japan hopes for an easy peace. She hopes to restore her
industries, her power to wage war. Her dream of conquest
has been shattered, but Japan hopes to dream again.
But the code word is "Bataan."
As long as MacArthur lives, "Bataan" will continue to
be the code word and its implications must leave fear and
trembling in Japan. Gone is any hope of a soft peace. Gone
is any hope of escape from responsibility for crimes against
humanity.
Ironic? The word is loo mild.
As Japanese planes marked with green crosses, laud upon
le Shinta, where Ernie Pylu lies among the men he loved,
"in" on the last story of the war, the seal will be placed upon
Japan's defeat; for the code word is "Bataan."'
OUT OUR WAY
BY J. R. WILLIAMS
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41 Woes
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4 Artificial
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6 Greek seaport
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SEATTLE. AiiR. 15 (API
Lieut. R. II. Harden, pilot, St.
Clair Shore.'!, Mich., was killed in
the navy plane crash Monday
near La Conner, Skagit county,
which also look the life of a
navy doctor, the Lltli naval dis
trict announced today.
A second man, W. N. Monah.'in,
avlntion radioman 3-c, Kairview,
N. J., was listed as nilssin):.
The Navy announced yesterday
that Lt. Cmdr. Lxman Flynn
West, medical corps reserve,
Boise, Ida., was also killed when
his parachute caught in the plane.
Thirteen men parachuted to
wfety.
Atom Smashing
Method Explained
By OSC Physicist
OREGON STATE COLLEGE
The principles behind the atomic
bomb are not new, as they have
been included in advanced phys
ics texts for several years, but
the practical application of these
principles Is the rrrw and highly
secret development that has set
the world ago); over the biggest
scientific advance in modern
ages.
This Is the explanation given
by Dr. W. Weniger, head of the
physics department at Oiegon
State college, in answer to a Hood
of (tiestlons that reached him
Just alter the atomic bomb
reached .lapan.
Pr. Weniger explains that the
three things done recently and
sorrel ly are-these, stated In sim
plest terms: First, a larger sup
i'ly of the rare uranium 235 has
been obtained; next, new means
of handling large quantities of it
were devised: finally, a practical
means was founds of "packaging''
it in such a way that the atoms
could be split at a specified in
stant. releasing the enormous re
sulting energy In the form of an
explosion.
h.it "atom smashing" has
been done previously was a labo
ratory process rcuuiring huge ma
chines that literally shot par
ticles known as neutrons into
uranium atoms, splitting the lat
ter into two parts. Sumo satisfac
tory way lias now been found to
start this "bombarding" of atoms
in the atomic bomb. This bom
bardment selves only as a trig
ger to set oft an explosion in the
nucleus or centers of the atoms.
The explosion of one atom sets
off others in turn much as a
farmer blasts out a ditch by bury
Ing a whole series of iineonnecte l
slicks of dynamite in wet ground.
Firing one of these sticks sets off
the next one. and so on till all
blow up in what seems like a sin
gle blast. j
As to where vo much otiorty I
c.uncs loan. Dr. 'Vfuijor (.:-
plains that In the process of di
viding these atoms of uranium,
the two resulting pieces together
are not as massive as the orig
inal atom, and that the difference
is destroyed as matter and trans
formed into energy. It is this en
ergy that gives such enormous
speed to the pieces of the atoms
that they break or explode the
shell. The much smaller explo
sions of previous tyes of bombs
have been caused merely by com
bustion or burning, such as oc
curs when gasoline is burned in
an engine to form gas and water
vapor. Splitting the atom is the
means by which the mass of an
element is reduced by changing
some Oi' it into energy.
5 Die, Property Smashed
In 'Frisco Celebration
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15
(API Five persons died and .W
were hospitalized In the San
Francisco hay area's peace cele
bration which lasted from yester
day afternoon until early this
morning.
Mi-cot cars were stormed, store
windows smashed, liquor stores
looted and everything movable
was torn from its moorings. Col
orful Chinatown, quiet on V-K
day. suddenly came to life with
a maze of jsipping firecrackers
and streamers.
Flic equipment was kept on
the run answering false alarms,
putting out bonfires.
Mayor Roger l.apham's victory
statement was short and to Die I
point: "I'm damn glad enough 1
said." i
Gasoline Dealers Here
Have Ample Supplies
Removal of gasoline rationing
will find the Roseburg area well
supplied to meet demands of mo- j
torlsts. dealers announced today, j
Trucks wen1 busy today filling I
tanks at all service stations to ;
the brim to make room for more !
gasoline deliveries in storage .
tanks, which have been at ca- j
paeliy levels In recent days.
Nearly all filling stations were !
closed today, but the few open- i
Price Controls Off
Big Batch of Items
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15
(AP) -Price controls went off
today on scores of consumer
Items, but the OPA said controls
would remain on major cost-of-living
items.
Controls were removed from
jewelry items, sports equipment,
toys selling at retail for 2.i cents
or less, cigaret lighters, pipes,
some photographic apparatus,
doilies pins and notions.
The OPA also suspended, ef
fective immediately, price con
trols on a number of luxury furs
and fur garments. Included are
Persian lamb, beaver, silver and
red fox, sable, ermine, chinchilla,
kolinsky, Alaska seal, marten,
ocelot and nutria.
The suspension of price con
trols on the fur items, rather
than outright removal, means
that OPA can bring them back
at any time it regards prices as
too high. Jewelry Items removed
from price control include cos
tume jewelry except when sold
with or as part of any article
subject to price controls such as
appa rel.
Choosey Customers
CHICAGO. Aug. 13 iAP
Two robbers bound and gagged
Max New man In his clothing shop
and spent iio minutes trying on
his stork while he watched. After
seleeiing the patterns they liked
b'".t In their sizes, thev departed
with five $."i) suits and $11) in
cash.
It is against the law in Punn.
N. C. to snore loudly enough to
disturb your neighbors.
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Doves Alight on Church
Spire During Celebration
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Aug
15 (AP Three doves alighted
on a golden cross atop the spire
oi bacred Heart Catholic church
here last evening, shortly after
peace announcement s were
flashed from Washington.
The birds perched on the ter
minal points of the cross, pre
senting a symbolic picture against
the evening sky. iney remained
there for 15 minutes or more, on
one occasion flying away and
then returning to the same posi
tions. Observers summoned a news
paper photographer, but before
he could take a picture the birds
had flown, possibly frightened by
bursting firecrackers and other
sounds of peace celebration rev
elry in the nearby business
streets.
Ration-less Gas May Up
Traffic Death Toll
CHICAGO, Aug. 15. (API
End of gas rationing controls
brought a prompt advisory from
the National Safety council to
day, .urging that unless -drivers
"use extra care there Is every
likelihood the nation will pile
up the biggest traffic death toll
in its history."
OTTAWA, Aug. 15. (API
Canada ended today all restric
tions on sale of gasoline and fuel
oil.
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WANTED
For canning purposes, for freezing, canning,
jams, etc.
Also dried walnuts, filberts, Italian, Petite
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Light Plants
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Hammer Mills
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From where I sit . 6tf Joe Marsfi
Besr Way to Celebrate
The Peace
We were sitting on Bill Web
ster's porch the other night,
talking about how we'd cele
brate when the Japs surrendered.
Lcm Toller allowed as how he
was going to start his vacation
then and there and spend it
fishing. Ed Mapcs was going to
take his family to Mountain ,
City for a big feed and a pit-tare
show. '
Bill Webster had the last sug
gestion. "I'm going to pour a
glass of beer and drink a toast
to our fighting men," he says,
"and that is Just as far as my
celebratlng's going to go. I'm go
ing to make sure of being on the
Job next morning."
From where I sit, Bill Webster
has the right idea. When Peace
comes, there's going to be a
whole new world to build.
Thcro's a really big job to be
done. A glass of beer, the bev
erage of moderation, and a good
night's sleep to bo ready for the
task ahead that's the right way
to welcome Victory!
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