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THE STATES3IAN PUBUSHING CO. .
CHARLES JL S PRAGUE, President '."
Member of The Associated Press j
The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
new, dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this newspaper.
Speaking of Floods
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To residents of the lowlands along the Wil
lamette, to the owners of property there, to per-,
sons who can't, go where they want to go be
cause highways are under water; this present
flood is a serious matter. -r" . , : '
:. To the rest of us, though we do not lack
sympathy for 'those discomfited, it is a show.
Many of us went down to the riverUank to take
m good look. Some expended a few.pjnts of
precious gas in the going, and considered it
well spent. Others used up shoe leather j and
energy, nor begrudged either. It is a good
show. ... I
Going to the river was a shorter trip than
it has been at any other time in recent years and
thfe' longer one waited, the shorter the journey.
The inevitable remark was heard, that if per
sons already downtown waited long enough the
river would come to them. Twas said in f m
though just how funny it might be under
'Calightly different circumstances, no one i may
. ayl '"It has happened here."
Strictly for the purpose of supplementing
enjoyment of the flood "show" by affording a
- basis for u comparing this flood with Salem's
worst, and taking into account that not every
one in the vicinity has accurate information on
the subject we've heard the story pooh-poohed
in recent days and hoping no one is seriously
. worried, we take the liberty of quoting a reli
able version of the 1861 flood; the story as re
lated in the 1871 Salem city directory:
i ' . About the 1st of December, 1881, the most dis
. astrous flood that ever occurred In Oregon was ex-
perienced. The Willamette river swept every mill,
warehouse and dwelling house, from the mouth of
, the creek on Mill street, north and west of Front
The river covered all of Salem from . where
. rnmmprrial street bridire now stands uo to the
corner of the University reservation, and there was
a broad stream of water extending to the west of
, Capt J. E. Miller's residence to the corner of G. W.
Gray's brick building. -
The water was sufficiently deep, near the court-
house, to swim a horse.
The flood destroyed a great quantity of prop
erty in Salem. B. M. Durelle had a fine steam
' sawmill washed away; Brown Sc Rector lost a cider
manufactory; and a warehouse containing a vast
amount vt Wheat, apples and other produce was
- swept away.
' Hundreds of horses, cattle and other stock were
Crowned wrougnoui me vaney ana many persons
: lost their lives, and entire farms were swept clear
of every vestige of improvement. !
The steamer Enterprise, if we remember aright,
came1' up the river to render assistance to any and
all who might be found. When the boat arrived at
this place, she had on board several persons who
had been taken off house-tops and trees where they
. had climbed to safety. Two young men by the
name of Chitwood were drowned a short distance
. below town, . j .
The great flood was not confined to Oregon
alone, but at the same time California and Wash
lngton Territory were suffering the same disasters.
Elsewhere it has been related that the
Enterprise" .or some other steamer "docked"
In the general vicinity of the
account seems reliable and the
tion of the water's depth at that point is proof
that it was possible. And though eye-witnesses
of what happened in 1861 are not available,
there is no question but that the feat was virtu
ally duplicated at the time of the 1890 flood
when a steamer, believed to have been the "El
more", tied up at a feed lot about where the
Elsinore theater now stands. Citizens recall
the "event and there are pictures for corrobora
tion. i - - . "
" The 1890 flood waters reached the court
house grounds; those of 1861 swept farther, to
the edge of the university campus. Height in
feet of the. 1861 flood is not mentioned by the
directory. The 1890 flood which washed away
the first "free" Marion-Polk county bridge here
three years after it was built, rose to 37 feet
above "low water", probably about 33 or 34
i feet above the present "zero" which-represents
, the normal level. It must be understood that
since 1861, and even since 1890, the river level
has changed somewhat and that a considerable
part of Salem's downtown area has been filled
in and .stands higher than it then did. In early
1 days a number of downtown buildings stood
on stilts".
Government engineers asserted, after sur
veying the Willamette river's flood potentiali
ties six years ago prior to approval of the Wil
lamette Valley - Project which
tracked due to the war, that the "expectancy"
of such a flood as that of 1861 is "once in a
hundred years" nevertheless a comparable
flood occurred 29 years later. It could happen
gain with predictable damage of $10,000,000
and considerable loss of life.
Was It the Butler?
r More or less facetiously comparing the Jean
Darlan assassination to a fictional murder
mystery, this column observed at the time that
probably it will turn out to be the butler." It
was further remarked that Darlan's only po
litical friends were the French career politicians
North Africa. .
, Now it develops, or at any rate is suggested
Viv tha nrt and ctjrtpmpnts of Darlan's kuccm-
sor. General Giraud, that some of these career
politicians were aware of the plot if not actual
ly s involved and since they come nearest to
fitting the fbutler" description, we begin to
suspect that nur tongue-in-cheek "solution"
was sounder than we know.
I With Giraud asserting that4 the dozen per-'
sons arrested . at his order include some who
backed Vichy and some who cooperated with
the Americans in paving the way for the occu-
: paiion 01 xuorxn Airica, ana uiai inese men were
merely put in jail "to cool 6fF the picture be
comes even more confused. Nor is it clarified by ?
the continued refusal of DeGauIle and his fac
tion to extend unreserved cooperation now
that Darlan is gone.' ' - : . .
But it helps toward an appreciation of this :
last-mentioned situation, to recognize that , ia
the viewpoini of a DeGaullist,- anyone who co
r uprated with Vichy is a traitor. If Americans
iad acted similarly, we would so regard them.
Eut among Frenchmen there is even more to it
Wo Favor Sway Us; No roar Shall Aioe
. rrom'rirxt EUtesmaa. lUrch 23, 1831
the future wait.
Defrauding
courthouse. The
directory's men
. now is
side- ly intelligent approach to a most vexatious and po
M niim
ranging between
than that. " Government "by the people" has
riot, for any such period as in the United States,
been a thing Frenchmen could take for; granted.
So they already are concerned about who's
to be boss after the war. j r
v ' - Though we can understand their viewpoint,
for the sake of the objective it is to be hoped
that Frenchmen will forget their internal dif
ferences and pull together for victory-i-and let
j
the Fighters
Charges brought against the Anaconda Wire
and Cable company j alleging that inferior wire
was furnished to the military forces, Wire to be
used for purposes such that its failure might
cost Innumerable lives, are not yet proven in
court; therefore all that may fairly be said, is
that if the charges are true, anything that might
be said of condemnation woud be too weak.
Such an act is the equivalent of mass homicide
plus treason, whether or not it results in deaths
and military setbacks.
Indeed Attorney General Biddle may be ful
ly justified if the charges are proven in his
declaration that this is "one of the most repre
hensible cases -of defrauding the government
and endangering the lives of American soldiers
and sailors ever to come to the attention of the
department of justice."
But in so declaring, he takes in a lot of terri
tory. Some gigantic frauds have been perpe
trated upon the armed forces in America's
greater and lesser wars. Shells that wouldn't
shoot, faulty guns, a great variety of shoddy or
deliberately faked equipment ha.. been palmed
off on the army and navy in the past. A major
scandal of the Spanish -American war! was the
sale of food not fit for human consumption to
the armed forces. And the worst of it was, that
the government itself didn't in many cases dis
cover these frauds or prosecute the guilty. If
they were exposed, it often was the work of
newspaper reporters. As we recall it, the term
"muckraker" as applied to scandal-prodding
newsmen grew out of that Spanish-American
war fraud expose.
So regardless of the outcome of the Ana
conda case, it seems fair to observe that govern
ment has profited from past! mistakes with the
result that frauds of the sortlfiere alleged have
become much rarer. After this war there will
be fewer reproaches of the sort.
Here's a Christmas card from Walt! Leben
good. Beg pardon, it's Lieut. Lebengood of the
356th Engineer regiment. Why it's just a few
years since Walt came to work for us as a
printer's devil. Now he's a lieutenant; and
when he comes back, we'll have to say "Sir,"
when we talk to him. Yes, sir!
Editorial Comment
From Other Papers
FARM RELIEF PROGRAM
The War Manpower Commission and the De
partment of Agriculture have outlined a program
for the relief of American farmers. Unlike prior
farm relief plans, this one has little to do with fi
nancing. It is an intelligent, forward-looking pro
gram to guarantee the farmers enough help so that
they can feed us, our allies, and the famished vic
tims of axis occupation, once we have begun to free
these last
Generally speaking, the idea depends on a full
time mobile army of experienced farm workers
which can be moved around the country at federal
expense to supplement local manpower as crops
mature. . "
The plan contemplates moving experienced
farmers from substandard acreage where their ef
fort is largely wasted; training farmers to use avail
able manpower to the best advantage; expanding
employment services placement machinery so as to
move available help where it will do the most
good; and, in crop seasons, to mobilize local volun
teer groups in temporary crises.
These things the planners believe, will be im
possible unless farm wages are raised so as to com
pete better against the lure of industrial pay scales.
Certainly the whole scheme will collapse unless
the 48 states are induced to revoke or suspend those
statutes adopted originally to protect their wage
earners against competition from outsiders that
would make impossible the complete mobility upon
which the new farm relief plan depends. 1
. As War Manpower Chairman Paul McNutt an
nounces the overall plan, it seems to be a thoroueh-
tentially dangerous problem.
Many ideas just as promising as this one have
flopped because nobody did anything to effectuate
them. Others have failed because too many per
sons did too much, all different. This led to chaos.
The farm manpower relief outline does credit
to Commissioner McNutt as a practical planner.
Now it remains to be seen how good the Hoosier
will prove as an administrator. j
Meanwhile the farmers themselves have an Inv?
mediate job. Mr. McNutt cannot succeed unless
the legislatures of most states co-operate by relax
ing crippling legal barriers to labor mobility.
The farmers have much influence in state legis
latures. For their own sakes, and for the sake of
mankind as a whole, that Influence should be used
to force through necessary statutory revisions. An
other year will be too late. Eugene Register
Guard. ; -
THE CHAIR &THX ROCKS : "V
"Mac- and "Ma" after surveying the chair called
"war wages," decided that some repair work would
have to be done. All the legs were of different
length. The shortest leg farm labor was i only
half the leneth of the lonirMt wm fnrlnatrw lahnr
. IT 11
"-"T"' "" muu nubias "u
the two.
They then called on "The Boss" for instructions
and set about to repair the production salary chair,
" "A while later John Q. Public appeared on the
scene and sawj "Mac"J and "Ma" busily ; adding j
small piece upon piece Ion the shorter legs; trying 1
to build them up to the longest leg. Says John -Q.t
That seems to be rather expensive and un
practical way to fix this chair, why don't you just ;
saw the longer ones down to fit the shortest leg,
thereby saving time and expense?' ' 1 j '
The "Rfairman" looked up in disgust and re
plied, "During times like this you are lucky to
have a chair at all. This is the way "the boss" told
us to fix it and a common taxpayer like you
should shut up and like ifcw Jefferson Beview.
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Wonder What a lifeguard Thinks About?
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80 Breakfast Club.
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190 National Farm St Horns.
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80 Thanks to the Yanks.
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90 Hit Parade.
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By f-ABKKC15 flUPINGTON
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1 Ain't I the lucky one?
t "Well," ' said Damley, "how
that we have that point settled,
what do you want?"
' "I just want to know how you
sneaked that coat out of the stu-
, dlo and what you did with It?
?- "I didn't," stressed Darnley.
fYou V Miss Shafto said the
detective. . ! . .
Tell him," piped Jerrys voic-
, . - i auL VAa mft
from the bedroom, "that he's all
wet!" ' -" . . '
Darnleys lips pressed together
i ..i little law set. She was
more anggr than frightened now.
Did you ever," she asked, "hear
of a thing called a bluff?"
' "Tve heard of 'almost every-
thing. - You do, hv my business.
' "Grandpa Carfax used to say,
said Darnley. "that you : could
tell a secondate' poker player
by the way he bluffed the wrong ,
people.w ' i
"Miss Carfax,,, purred the lieu
tenant, "the" police always get
the facts in the end."
I His manner was that of a pa
tient schoolmaster j trying to ex
plain to a backward pupfl. "You
see. Miss Carfax, we been work
ing on this case, i We ain't been ;
laying down. We've proved it's
got -to be you." S ' ;
. "How?" ' ! :..
"Well, we've proved it cant
be anybody else." .
"Good old reductio ad absur
dum, I haven't niet that prov
ing process sine: I .left high
school." -. ' ' . j
' "Listen; if you j were to give
up "the coat I could get you a .
short sentence." j
; "I couldn't give jit up even to
get a long paragraph, she said.
"I dont know where ir is."
His eyes looked Sorrowful Td
hate awful to have to take you
down to headquarters to have
the boys work over you."
: "Let me see, Isxft there some-:
thing about false arrest? I mean,
doesnt it cost money to do it?"
counteredeDarnley.
"It's been known to," the de
tective admitted, i
"Is it a pinch?"! Jerry asked,
emerging .from - the bedroom. . '.
"Because if it is, I want my law
yer." ; -! ::"
"It isnt," said Darnley. "The
lieutenant Is frying to make-"
Suddenly her face lighted and
she clapped her hands upon her
knees. "I knew. Td remember.
I know who .that man was."
"What man?" ! ' -C
"The one I saw this afternoon .
coming out of an elevator." '
; "Coming out of what elevator
and going into where?" ,
i Darnley frownedJ She did not
answer "immediately while she. ,
considered all the implications of
that , man going j into Lacey
Gorse's studio.
.. "Well?" ;
"Tm studying whether it's the -time
to tell you," she said.
"You were posing this after
noon?" ! j ' " i - ' j ;
"Yes, for Leonard Sneed in
the Maritime Building!"
"Maritime Building, eh? What ...
floor?"
Intorprotins tho I7ar Ncwo
By KTRKE L. SIMPSON. '
Wide World War Analyst for The Statesman .
r Even at Hitler's dubious New
- Year's assurance to the German
people that this winter could not
; possibly be harder for them than
; the last was being proclaimed,
; Moscow versions of the Don
: Caucasus battle developments
: were giving it the lie direct
? They pictured, officially for
i the first time, 22 axis divisions
; cut oft in the Stalingrad salient
; They told also of lashing new
j soviet advances southwestward
i below the Don to reach its many
j Causasian tributary and its fror
t en lake chain. -
j The Russians seemed to have
1 reached or j turned the last Don
tributary line to thei south offer-
ing axis defensive possibilities to
guard, southern approaches to
I Rostov as the Donets traitl
would guard it from the north-
! west There is a deadly menaci -
to the Whole nazi Caucasian 1
I lent to the one-day 40-nule for-
wara jump of the foe to ap-
proach Salsk arid its direct rafl
j connection with Rostov from the
: southeast .;.
Collapse of the Stalingrad sali
ient would inevitably have -
jposed its far deeper counterpart
ff tn Caucasus to the posaibil-
i c4 beirjg nipped off at 1U
) Rostov communication key. It
wfor t reason X HiUer
month, ago said he must retain
, his grip at Stalingrad at all costs.
-"t" we to me great
tBaku oil fields down the north
, xiana: or xn Caucasus range
; hinged upon. reaching and hold
ing a protective front above it
on uw voiga at Stalingrad.
Orwrml-4-1w J j "T
wuu ucnur uivmi. ,
ed bv noviet m-JL 'C7
soviet advances whin.
. . . -..
xorgea a multiple ring
around itthe Stalingrad salient
has lost that1 flank- protection
valuer for the Caucasus drive as
much as though it had been
4 withdrawn or had collapsed. It
has made a potential death trap
for an estimated 200,000 axis
troops caught in thei pocket At
no time last winter did any such
.disaster threaten Hitler.
The very speed jot the Russian
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KELLAND
said Darnley.
. -Well, welll Twenty-first; ehT
Came floor as that photojrap&er,
Lacey Gorse, was it? And wh
did you see that is mixed vp
with this sable" coat?"
-I won't tell you, because you
Wouldn't believe it It's one of
those things that -j has to be
demonstrated."
What has w oet .
riiruw M Darnley. "how
-..
OM hie coat got out of Mr.
Farrish's studio without anypoay
seeing it, or a bundle or any-
thing." : '' ":
-You know?" asked the lieu-
tenant,' v' ' " ' ''
She nodded. "I think I do."
"Kick in!" urged the detective
with sudden harshness.
Chapter II . ' ' x
-No," said Darnley, "but 111
demonstrate my theory of the
theft." - '
"When?" asked the detective.
She considered. "Tomorrow
morning. Mr. Farrish Svont be
busy. I must be there, and
Jerry. Everybody must be on
hand who was there the day of
the theft YouH have to see to
i that Everybody but one man.
And he mustn't be there. YouH
have to find some way of keep
ing him some place else."
"We're good - at that" He
peered at her intently. . "You
wouldn't be kiddin an old-Um-er?"-
.'-y ' '
, "No." ."''" '' v" ,
. "Who is the man I'm to keep
away from your showdown?"
Darnley glanced, at, Jerry, and
her eyes were, dancing. "I want
this to be a surprise even to you,
Jerry," she $ aid and then whis
pered in the lieutenaqt's-ear, ,
He clucked. "So? Now, what
you got on him?" i '
"The demdnstration'will
show," insisted Darnley, "and It
: will knock the spots off your
old Latin reductio ad absurdum
line." ' - -i .
"Forget the Greek stuff!" said
the lieutenant Til be seeing
you at Farrish's at nine-thirty
tomorrow. , He got up ana lum
bered to the door. "I hope you're
as smart as you think you are."
- "I hope so, too," Darnley said.
. As soon as the detective de
parted, Jerry clutched her tem
ples and, with' a wry look, ex
claimed: "Your boy friend cer
tainly gave me a rip-snorting
headache!"
"Oh, rm sorry".
"These, headaches knock me
for a row. . Well celebrate some
other night eh? Me for bed
"I . don't feel so much like
celebrating, myself," Darnley
said. "But I do have to eat"
So she dressed as Jerry went
to bed.
Darnley dressed, and stopped
at Jerry's door. "Anything I
can get you?" :;y"T."V;
. "A; cop to chase away the
Brooklyn boys," Jerry said,' and
hid her face. in the pillow.
' (To be continued)
thrust to the Manych indicates
a critical weakness in nazi dis
positions in that sector, south of
the lower Don, to guard the ap
proaches to Rostov. Russian gen
eralship appears to have out
guessed the foe again. It opened
its many-pronged Don attack by
every indication at Stalingrad it
self, then struck far up the Don
to begin the encirclement march.
The front now has been widened
southward until the Hitlerites
are under attack almost every-,
ybere along the snow swept
barren steppes for a distance of
400 miles or more.
Hitler's New Year's proclama
tiomwas his most defensive ut
terance, a new apology to his
hearers for being in the war at
alt It spoke of his
?Z Xro down" by his
'
. y every word arid phrase
Hitler revealed hU own knowl-
tJF tot
Peace, in Germany. He sought
to combat it a. he w often has
Jyying that the war
had been forced upon him and
WM not o making. That he
U worried by the rising talk
f0 high placed united na-
,on Pokesmen of , after-the-vie-
. f0 obvious. It may be
Jf mto Germanylof ill
- effort bar it out
, miy an unsuIUble r,h-
Jor such experiments" he
But
whatever Hitler
howve, .:""cr .
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aai3 It - K
or why he
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