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By MAX LONG
-No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Ate"
From First Statesman, March 28, I8S1
THE STATEsVlAN PUBUSHING CO. !
CHARLES A. S PRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches credited tot. It or not. otherwise credited In this newspaper.
Monopoly, Post-7ar
The success of business in the post-war world
will depend in considerable measure, not only
on the willingness of business men to adven
ture, but on the "protection provided the small
enterpriser against suppression by the larger ;
industrial units. In other words, the freedom ?
of enterprise which business is clamoring for ;
nMds to be resoected by business itself. I
Policing in this fieldhas been done by the de-'
partment of justice in enforcing the anti-trust
act Tom C. Clark, who suceeded Thurman Ar
nold as assistant attorney general charged with
this enforcement, in an address before the
American Business congress some weeks ago
discussed this theme with considerable clarity.
We quote from his speech as follows: . i '
"After the war the enormous industrial plants
! created for war production must be converted .
to -peacetime production. The danger America
. faces is that these plants will not be in com
petition and that general access to raw mater
ials and market upon which depends the peace
' and prosperity of the peoples of the world will
be controlled by a small group which will set
up its own trade barriers -by private agree
mentscommonly known as cartels. It is the
' purpose of the Antitrust Division to prevent ..,
the reestablishment of the cartel system, and
to do it now. ' . " '
"If we can prevent the suppression of . new -;
products after the war, keep production uncon
' trolled and the new industries , competitive,
restraints of trade will become impossible, for
the older industries will be obliged to com
pete with the new. s -
"If the nation's new plants and knowledges
are fully used after, the war, our standard of
living may well be half again higher than ever '
; before in its history. Furthermore;' our produc
i tive- strength will permit us to contribute to the
establishment of a sound peace by helping In
, the relief and reconstruction of distressed peo
' pies. But if monopolies succeed in restricting
the full use of our productive resources, our
domestic life will be beset by unemployment
. and a falling standard of living, and we shall
have no surplus of goods.. or of energy to spend
upon reestablishing the peace of the world. By
. preserving competition and small business, we 1
shall safeguard the common man's opportunity
to be independent and to try new Ideas." ; ' -
Branch Railroad
The retention 'of the branch line of. railroad
from Biggs junction to Kent in Sherman county
will cause 'considerable gratification in that
county, where news of the intention of the Un-,
ion Pacific to abandon the line, a year and a
half ago, gave the people quite a shock.; The
road taps an important wheat-shipping "section,
but with the increased use of trucks and boats
, the railroad thought it could discontinue the
branch. Local interests rallied, appealed to the
interstate commerce commission, to - the state'
public utilities commissioner and to the Oregon
congressional j delegation. Hearings were held
many months ago, and the final decision of the
interstate commerce commission, announced last
week, denies the application to pull up the rails
for the 56 miler from Biggs to Kent, but permits
abandonment j of the section : above Kent to
Shankio, 13 miles, which met with no serious
local objection. . ;'
In the distribution of credit for saving the
road, John H. Carkin, of the state public utilities
office, in charge of , the railroad department,
should receive honorable mention. He argued
for preservation of this railroad as an important
, public utility ; in that section. This is only one
instance of .very effective work Mr. Carkin has
done for rail shippers, particularly in the eastern-Oregon
territory. H:M
For footnote we 'might add, that, with the.
rail abandonment denied, the grain and stock-
men and merchants of Sherman county should
: make use of the railroad for their freight haul
ing, and not just for taxation purposes. "
Polar Bear's Big Brother
The country is getting back to the horse and
buggy age, even without the assistance of the
supreme court. Statistics of . the Metropolitan :
Life Insurance company estimate that the au
tomobile accident mortality rate will be about
13 per 100,000 policy-holders,- which is about,
the same rate as in the early 1920's. The A card
and 35 mph speed limit-are responsible for the
reduction. If we want to save lives some one
should move to make the present conditions
permanent. I '; .
Biotin
- The price for gold is $35 an ounce; for radium
, $21,500 a grain. Putting these precious metals in
. the shade for value is biotin, a vitamin which
costs five million dollars an ounce. It is a new
discovery in the rayterious field of bio-chemis-try,
the study of what makes the 98c worth -of
chemical in the body "click" and be 'alive."
Biotin seems to be one of the essentials of life,
from molds like yeast to man. Whether it is the
source of life, the key to growth in animals and
plants, remains the subject for further scientific
- exploration. - . ' .. .V
Biotin is now being produced synthetically,
but Onlv in verv minute ntiantitios Tt i i altn
being used some in the treatment of disease,
though sparingly because of ignorance of its
potentialities. Biotin is said to.be of value as a
cure for malaria, and to have some relation to
cancer. It does not have the effectiveness of the
new drug penicillin,- which is obtained from
molds and is used in place of the sulfa drugs in
some streptococic infections. . '
Just as the physicists keep subdividing mat
ter into smaller units molecule, atom, electron,
proion, neuiron; so tne biochemist is probing
deeper into the 4 mysteries of organisms. He
- knows that proteins, enzymes, ; vitamins per
: form important and sometimes queer tricks in
the protoplasm; and out of this knowledge de
vises new treatments to prolong life and to make
the functioning of life more comfortable. Biotin
is just one of the strange combinations not fully
Another Petain ;
Marshal Badoglio turns out to be another
General , Petain. Just as the welfare of the mil
lion French soldiers prisoners in Germany influ
enced Petain to make concessions to Hitler until
his whole position was compromised,1 so Ba
doglio, evidently concerned to get his Italian
soldiers and workers home and the German
soldiers out of Italy, temporizes; and in doing
so spells the doom of Italy. -
For General Eisenhower will not temporize.
He is eager to press , for a decision with the
arch-enemy, Hitler. If Italy yields to Hitler's
flattery or threats, then Italy will be crushed
when the forces come to grips. In this busi
ness there is no room for a Kerensky, a middle-
The danger to Italy lies not alone in! military
action, the bombing of cities and the laying
waste of the country, but in internal chaos.
The people are clamoring for peace. Collisions
are reported, between IUlians and Germans,
in North Italy and in Crete. People are stream
ing out of the cities in deathly fear of allied
planes. The failure of Badoglio to make a clear
pronouncement for peace is apt to weaken his
authority so that he soon may pass as head of
the government. ; .
In neglecting to make an unconditional sur
render he invites for himself and his country
unconditional collapse. I -:
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The governor's office has sent out a press re
lease asking the people to dig through their
medicine cabinets and donate any quinine they
find, bulk, pills or capsules, to the i national
quinine pool for use to combat malaria among,
the armed forces stationed in tropical regions.
That will be -a double pleasure; and the young
sters Would be glad to throw in castor oil and
cod liver oil. On a real scrap,, drive through the
medicine chests ; of the land -people might dig
up sarsaparilla, sasafras tea and asaf oetida. -
The I.Ionday morning, clean-up of Willson
park resulted in the collection of 35 empty bot
tles whose labels showed the following classi-
flcaf'.cis S; t C:i!al contests;, beer, three? .
v.hLLzj, three; vLics, 23
Half the Italian fleet is said to have fled from,
Taranto. Like Mussolini it must be hard pressed'
to find a safe haven.
Labor doesn't like the WLP; business doesn't
like the WPB; farmers do not like the OPA.
Even Roosevelt is having a hard time to make
war popular. - ' ' I
Through Ash Hollow
; Old Orerea Trail Centennial Series Na. Zf
After crossing the South Platte the first covered
wagon baby put In an appearance, a blue-eyed baby
girl born to Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Stewart. Luckily
for mother and infant Dr. Marcus Whitman was
with the party and his expert care was most wel
come. . -,rj- y': ,. : ' I J
Their route led through Ash Hollow, a famous
spot in western history, where several fights with
the Indians took place. Sioux Indians had lookout
stations in caves near the camp-ground from which
they would emerge to attack single wagons or small
weak parties. Ash Hollow is about two hundred
. yards wide and about three miles long with high
walls on every side. While camped in the Hollow
a second covered wagon baby arrived on July 8.
Mary it was named by its proud parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Penrington. All the world loves a ba
by, so the coming of . two youngsters within a week
had a soothing influence upon the ruffled tempers
of some of the travelers. The tenderest parts of the
buffalo, the tongue and rump, were preserved for
the mothers of the new arrivals. But neither births
nor deaths could stop the wagons for long. The
constant order was keep moving., -
To the right of the trail was the North Platte
river fringed with green; to the left was a broken
range of hills composed of ? clay and limestone,
known today as the Wildcat hills. In between was
sand and sage, where progress was slow and hard.
Wildcat range presented a strange panorama of
natural sculpture, carved by those master artists.
Mother Nature and Father Time. As the wagons
rolled along, the hills took on different shapes as
the ughts and shadows played upon, them, causing
some of the Imaginative emigrants to think they
had entered some enchanted land. '
Editorial Com
From Other Papers
KETUEN TO NORMALCY
A British Journalist, after a tour of the US and
noting contrast between conditions In this country
and the England of the blitz; had this to say:
"Because the physical impact of the war is so
gentle, people here do not find It easy ; , . to realize
... that what they call "normalcy has gone forever
from the world . Peace is being sold as a com
modity just like electricity or fountain pens or
perfume. High-pressure salesmanship presents vic
tory as the gateway to new ice-boxes, new auto
mobiles Peace will be when you can buy a new
home, cash your war bonds and have nothing to
- worry about .,:. " ' . .... : ;;v
Part of what this British writer says Is certainly
true. But we also note where a Dr. R. A. Butler, pre
sident of England's board of education, recently
told the house of commons of a proposed new
chool program for England. It embodies many
revolutionary Ideas, and in many ways lifts Bri
tish educational practices to the high general lev
el of American free public education at all levels.
The British people have also been presented with the
Beyeridge plan for social security a program
which In some details Is more comprehensive than
our own, but which also recognizes a national ob
ligation for some form of social legislation bearing
.upon security. xr-;..- - i - -
No one claims that In the social and economic or
ganlzation of the United States and Britain, one Is
entirely superior to the other. Certainly there' is
much to be said for both, and much borrowing could
be done. But the point Is that in many ways, a con
cept of -normalcyf in England is fixed upon prac
tices and ideas which bofore the war were far dif
ferent from our own, both in domestic and inter
national policies. Thus it may be easier to say, of
the British, that "normalcy" for them "has gone
forever from the; world" while in this country, a-
return to that .normalcy,, is not quite so h?rd to
imagine, Or too much to hope for. Astoria Hui'et.
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The War Weivs
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
AP War Aaalylst for The- Statesmaa
The first American body-blow
at a most critical and now vul
nerable axis war nerve- Ruma- ;
nian oil has been struck. It fell .
at long range against, the Ploesti .
oil ; center , to - foreshadow- what -.
certainly is in store for that vi
tal German war resources, once
Italian mainland bases are avail- -able
to allied bombers, cutting
the distance to the target in half. -
And they soon win be avail- t
able. War bulletins from Sicily
told tonight of the collapse of
the axis right flank with the fall "
of San Stefano and Mistretta to
American arms. They told also
that the British 8th army at the
opposite end of the Etna line is ; '
in motion forward again. Vf 4
,. American capture of San Ste- "
fano definitely . turns' the axis
Etna front in the north. It puts
the L- San ' Stefano-Nicosia ihigh-
way in allied hands at both ends,
cutting off escape of German or
Italian forces deployed through
the mountains between. . '
, Evidence' of that came prompt-
ly with announcement that Gen
eral George S. : PattonV troops
had taken 10,000 prisoners at
Mistretta, f virbjally midway on .
the highway between San Ste
fano and Nicosia. They were ;
trapped, wm no route jof escape
open eastward as Am e r 1 c a n
forces hold both the coastal road
and the parallel highway south -,
of the mountains.
The axis retreat to Cape de
Orlando to form a new front
linked by the road with Etna
bastion via Bandazzo bids fair
to be : costly. It would become
a rout ; x::j: 'z- ,,1- '; z
An immediate effect of the
fall of San Stefano and Mistret
ta, however; must be to open
the inshore flank of the axis line
based on Troina. That In turn
must expose the " flank ; of the
axis forces' holding up the Cana
dians advancing in the center on
breakthrough in the c enter
toward Randazzo r and Adreno
seems possible. It ; would un
questionably precipitate an axis
retreat under , converging rallied
pressure from ;the whole Etna
bastion into the Messina penin
sula prpoer wih conditions forer
i shadowing ; ultimate- r wholesale
surrender as happened in Tu
nisia. . That would place allied troops
only a two-mile Jump" across
Messina strait from the toe of
the Italian mainland boot Back
ed by all but unchallenged sea
and air: control, the invasion of
the boot by that or any other
'route j selected would offer no
serious obstacle. And with al
lied bombers based on the heel
of the boot, Apuglio, with a
1200-mile round-trip flight of
the Rumanian oilfield centers of
Ploesti, already blackened .and
seared by the first . mass, low
level' American air raid from
across the . Mediterranean, its "
fate as a power source for the -nazi
! war efforts would be
sealed. '
The . big .Liberators of the
American 9th air force' flew 2400
miles to make' that first blast
ing atatck. A prime immediate
allied objective' necessarily must
be closer-up air bases on the
Adriatic coast of Italy to renew
and sustain the smashing air ?
attack on Rumanian oil that fur
nishes most of Hitler's high-test
aviation gasoline and the - bulk
of th. elubricating oil for his
whole war effort. - A
..Major Genera 1:, Lewis IL
Brereton at- Cairo, , commanding
the 8 th air force, noting that the
Ploes ti attack T was the biggest
"low? level mass raid In his
tory, also called attention to
the s extreme strategic impor
tance of the Rumanian oil ob
jective. The raid would " "Ma
terially affect the course of the.
war, te said. ; .'
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Chapter 13 ConiLaneJ
I took it with a nod of thanks.
Thornton, Eudd and the doctor,
gathered around me and the
girls edged into the group.
"You see, there's no . glass,
Dr. Latham said quietly. "De
tails like that are often vivid In
hallucinations. - v '
They all 'looked like very
kindly , people concerned eout
my supposed brain condition.
But one of them might well be
the murderer, hiding behind the
belief of the others that - X had
seen nothing. I was tempted to
let it go at that, since they
seemed satisfied, for I certainly
did not. want to be mixed up in
the murder. My muddling about
whether or not a spearhead was
In Delmar's back had given me
trouble enough. Furtively I be
gan groping behind me to make
: sure the spear was in its cleats.
"You're feeling better , now,
aren't you? Budd asked.
I opened my mouth to make,
some reply but the words never
came In that second I discov
ered; that my fish spear was
gone from the cleats . . . My
head was throbbing wildly. I put
my hand to it and found it damp
with perspiration. ;
Dr. Latham took firm hold of
by arm, I led me down to the '
cabin and saw me into my bunk.
"You'll be all right In . the
morning," he said kindly.. "Don't
get up just go to sleep and get
rested. Ill put out the lantern.
I lay In my bunk sweating
over; that: fish , spear, until the
voices in the canoes grew faint
The murderer must have taken '
the spear when he came back
to get rid of the' body and the
. glass.' But why? Tor evidence?
There was only one person in
the world against, whom that ev
idence could be used. That was
- tl$ person whose .initials H.B.H.
were.; stamped on the shell of
- the haft f socket: It could only
vbe used against me.
When I was sure the colonists
had ! had time to : disperse, I '
rushed back on deck with my '
flashlight to search for the spear.
I went straight to the cabin top
to make; sure I , bad not been
mistaken. The . spear was not
there, but flashing my light
along the cleats, I saw some
thing which stopped my breath;
few drops of blood and a smear
I remembered Herb wiping his
hand on his shorts as If he bad
touched 'something sticky on the
cabin top. What was he going to
think when he found the red
smeaayon his white shorts?
' I knew what had happened.
In my frenzied haste to get the
spear into place, even though I
had swished It-m -the 'water, I
had 'hot been" careful about the
blood on my ; hands.' The "mur
derer had not been careful
enoughi either he had over
looked 1 the drops on the cabin -top
I in j his cleanup job. It oc
curred to me for the first time
that he had probably : helped
himself ,to my . deck swab and -bucket,
; and I hurried to the
forward locker where they, were
kept. Sure -enough, both, were
wet, I (played my beam further
into the locker, hoping against
hope, to find my fish spear, and
taw that my spare anchor was
gone. Also a length of line cut
off with a sharp knife. That set
me I looking for the fish knife
I kept, in a strap holder on the
side of the cabin. The fish knife .
too was gone."
Chapter Eleven 1
I began then to trace what had
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7:15 Movie Parad. -SAO
Music.
S:45 Slntonlett.
AO News. - ,i'M-' -J
:15 Manhatters.
30 General Barrows.
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10 AO Orchestra
10:15 Treasury Star Parade.
103O News.
10:45 Music
11 AO Matinee. .
1130 Music
KOAC TUESDAY 450 Ka.
10AO New.
10:15 Th Homcmakers Hour.
11 AO MutK of th Master.
12 AO New.
12:15 Noon Farm Hour. '
1A0 Artists Recital.
1:15 War Commentary.
. 1 20 Music
230 Memory Book of Musi.
SAO New.
' 3:15 Romance. ':'..
. 330 Th. Concert Han.
4 AO Treasury Star Parad.
4:15 Echoes of Walkikl.
430 Stories for Boys and Glrla.
SAO Swinging Iown th Lane.,
530 Vespers
S5 Its Oregon's War.
:15 News.
4 30 Evening farm Hour.
730 Educauoo for Freedom. .
8:00 Music
. AO Stop. Look. Listen.
:1 5 Adventures in Research.
, 0-.30 News. -.
S:45 Listen to Ldbert -
: happened after my discovery of
the body. The murderer had re
turnedperhaps only having
paddled off a short distance into
the darkness while I was aboard
-and had managed to get the
body out of the locker, weight it
fswtm VSLrffl rr s-am ma
er using my fish knife to cut the
cordage, and had then removed
all evidence of his crime, and
even 'of Delmar's presence on
the boat, in swabbing away the
blood and glass. He had, finally,
taken the fish spear and the
knife, dropped into his canoe
and made his way back to shore,
feeling secure with the body at
the bottom of the bay. There
was still the question of why he
took the spear.
Finding I needed another
' drink, and badly, I went below,
poured three fingers into a glass
.and did some furious thinking:
Obviously, the murdered hoped
to have his deed shrouded in
tnystery-as an unexplained dis
appearance of Delmar. No doubt"
he counted on there being no
competent investigation in this
i isolated spot where there was no
nftlt fnr i TT famm Kqi.1t .
board to work out this plan,
then found that the spearhead
was no longer in Delmar's back.
It was back in its shaft on the
cabin top. So, he figured. Hoy t .
found the body. And Hoyt re
placed the spearhead .because he
was afraid the murder would be
pinned on him. Well, it could be
'in case the body was recov
ered. Hoyt Jiad fought with Del
mar.' He was presumably still
angry at him. Delmar had come
out to Hoyt's sampan hunting
whiskey . . . It would be worth
while to take the spear along'
Just in case to hold for evi
dence against Hoyt Undoubted
ly it had some blood still-on it
- along with my initials. And how
I had ' played into his hands,
with that confused story I had
, told about the spearhead to
Budd and Thornton and the doc
tor in Herb's hearing, too.
They had wanted to end the
: whole matter by convincing me
that I had seen nothing per
haps shielding one of their num
ber. I had not let them get away
with that, but had insisted on
justifying myself. So now, what
would be the next move? I could
hot stand it any longer. I got up
with set Jaw and made for the
engine compartment back of the
companion way. They wouldn't ,
find me waiting until thev
sprang their trap. I would sail
out of Waimaka now, tonight
But in the engine compart
ment I made still another dis
covery. Someone had stolen the
key I had left In the patent
thief -proof Ignition lock. I had
previously lost the second key.
The lock housing contained the
engine's coil, so there was no
possibility of breaking it to start
the engine. '
There was no escape. I was
already in the trap. A feeling of
helplessness came over. me. My
neaa inroDDea ana i was almost
exhausted. I crept back to my
bunk and lay down. I needed
help desperately, the sort of help
that only one person I knew
could give me. I needed my big
fearless friend, Komako Koa,
descendant of Hawaiian chief
tains but only a plantation cop.
Tho
Safety Valvo
Letters from Statesman
Readers
Badges lor Farm Workers
The young boys and girls are
doing a very good Job on the
farms and should be given more
specific praise. Why can't they
have a uniform, or if that lav
not' practical, some insignia to
wear so when they are seen in
the streets they , can tell the '
world what they are doing, es- &
pecially the boys of military age.
It seems no one but the farmer
knows Just how important to
the war effort these young
people , are, yet the boys are
afraid the public will call them
slackers if they are not in the
government uniform. I am sure
they would feel more important
and be proud to . wear some
mark of distinction, and lets not
forget the girls either who are
taking mens and boys places on
the farmsr.
I have no boys or girls of my
own who are farmers, this is
just my observation, but I would
like to see them get more per
sonal distinction.
Sincerely yours,
MRS. W. L KERN
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Diamond values have withstood the
ravages of many wars. The high
Elace they occupy as an investment
i exceeded only by their own high
status as a gem of unm tenable beau
ty. Never was their magnificence so
personified as when mounted in a
Stevens getting. To see is to believe.
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for Overseas Christmas Gifts '