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CXXARLE3A. SPRAGUn Editor and Publish? -.
iSesnber of The Associated Press
The Associated Preae Is cxci usf veiy entitled to the use for publication of all
news dispatches
Portland Planning ' . f.
v Our cresting contemporary finds fault with
; Portland for spending tlC3,C00 in employing
eastern planners, engineers and attorneys to set
up post-war plans for the metropolis. It attrib-'
utes the going east for talent to an inferiority
complex and thinks Oregon has men as compe
tent as those who will be imported. !. . .
. But isn't the Capital Journal taking an ex
tremely provincial and certainly unneighborly
attitude toward the matter? And instead of be-
ing' an expression of an inferiority : complex,
may not the decision to spend $100,000 be rather
an evidence that Portland is feeling its oats, that
it has been suddenly dumped into, "big time"
and wants to qualify properly for the role?
' Portland does need to study its Iproblem,
which will be more acute when thj war ends
. and the- government subsidies for housing,
schools, nurseries, transportation, etc, are re
moved. -There is a broad economic and social
problem involved in the support of the thous
ands who have come A- Portland and will want
to remain there. Projection should be made
now of the desirable lines of attack and of de
velopment, or else Portland ' will be caught
wholly unprepared. v
It is quite impossible to pick out within the
community persons- to do the job. . First, they
are well occupied now; second, the competitive
spirit , would handicap their . work and impair
tlieir findings; third, an outside organization of r
competent workers can "do the job objectively
without regard for local interests and jealousies,
rnnd ms It is experienced it ought to do the job
more efficiently.
The est laid plans "gang aft agley"; and
what' the experts recommend, may be rejected, r
The Portland schoolboard made, little use of the!
special survey it ordered and paid for a few .
years ago. But the plans do provide something
concrete for study. Often out of them real prog
ress does come. .'
Robert Moses, who heads the group select
ed to do the job for Portland, is a man of nation
al standing. He has . long been superintendent
of parks in New York City was one man who
faced down Secretary Ickes on a PWA project.
He has been doing a similar job for the city ,of
, -New York, if we are not mistaken.
We are not too optimistic over results, be
cause there probably remains too much influ- .
ence in Portland which wants to get the war
over, the shipyard workers out of town, and to .
' restore the fojrmer calm, it - is refreshing to
know however that there is enough vision in
Portland to gamble $100,000 that orderly prog
ress might be achieved there. .
7ant-Ad Growth
An interesting fact in the" newspaper pub
lishing business now is the growth in volume of
classified advertising. Our own paper has ob-I
served iff with satisfaction, too, as it helps make i
op the lack of automotive and food advertising, ,
curtailed by war. Metropolitan papers are pret-
ty well buried in classified. Some of them are
forced to ration their classified space, to users.
" The demand is borne of "wants." Shortages '
of labor, of housing, of gadgets from beds to
toasters drive people to the broad market which
the want-ad pages tap. Fort there is always a .
, turnover 'K houses becoming vacant, ; people ,
quitting one job and looking for another,, house
furnishings being thrown on the market. With
reduction of production of goods and housing'
a scramble results whenever offerings of those
now existing are made.
Truly - the classified pages of a newspaper
are a great market-place, a genuine bazaar filled :
with human interest. One can find humor and
pathos in want-ads; and bargains, too J The va
riegated reading holds oneV attention' easily,
which may account for the high value of want
ads; people read the ads for their "news' in
terest,, are attracted by some offering or. dis-'
cover they can meet some want. j i ;
Don't turn up your nose at the classified
ads. Publishers do not; and .the general public
do not. They are as democratic and as 'popular
as the town pump; as-intimate as your neigh
. bor clothes-line. " j .1; '-
1 The American Bar, association declared that
race, creed or color should, not bar : a person
frorrf membership in the asociation.'and elected
negro judge of New York City :,' as ; member.
Maybe some day the labor unions will raise their
discrimination based on color-
Fool on Jupiter Pluvius. He didn't know the
state fair had been called off when he emptied
his sky-bucket Saturday-Sunday. Farmers with
grain or hay caught by. the downpour . may
gather compensation in the knowledge that
dousingof forests helps to "keep Oregon green.
. Poisoning must be contagious among German
army officers. General von Brausich is said to
be the latest victim of this "dread disease." ."
Editorial Comment
From Other Papers ; r
THE "HAM KISS
We have never taken the talk of General Mac
Arthur for President seriously, and fail to see how
anyone , else can.
General MacArthur apparently, has done an ex
cellent Job in the South Pacific against heavy odds,
and deserves the highest praise for that. - .
But -there is a far BIGGER job yet to do. And
barring a miracle .of sensational proportions, a year,
from now that "bigger job" will be in full swing,
with General MacArthur at the head, and in the
thick of it . ' . .- .
Not only would the General undoubtedly refuse
the nomination if it were offered to him, but under
the circumstances no self-respecting political par
ty should offer it nd for the next Republican
convention to do so would simply be a confession of
complete political bankruptcy, '-.'-.v
. However we don't think there need be any par
ticular worry over the matter. Ham Fish came out
' for General MacArthur yesterday and that should
settle it! Medford Mall-Tribune. .
7V Favor Stooyt Us; No Fear Shall Am"
.From Tint EUtesman. March 23, 1851
credited to it or not QurwiM credited to this:
mSL
rood, and will
The winter
.Chronie Liar
Pres. Roosevelt backs up Sec. Hull's asser
. tkm that the Drew Pearson column was a "moo- a"
strous falsehood when it imputed to the "state
- department a desire to see Russia "bled white..
The president calls Pearson a chronic liar. Pear.
son is one of the Washington keyholers whose :
"Mirrors, set Washington and the country by C
. the ears a' few years back. Then he was the can
dy kid among left-wingers because he was ex- -posing
republican big-wigs. Now he gets the :
official pitchfork because his left-wing procliv-'
- ities embarrass the administration. - '-..
Leaving Russia out of the picture, the fact '
remains that the state department under Sec.
Hull is moribund, unclear in its direction, tardy
in its declarations. : Its policy is not definite
and vocal; but "wait and see"; or "let us alone
well tend to if later," , " J - ' .
Major George Fielding Eliot, a "military ex
pert writing for the New York Herald-Tjribune,
criticised sharply the state department vacancy;
in policy when Mussolini V fell f Now we are
reaping the penalty of a Germany strongly en
trenched across northern Italy, partly because
our political arm was not swift to strike when
the fascist regime was crumbling. Badoglio has
been no improvement over Mussolini, j Q '.
: In the departure of Sumner Welles the de
partment loses its most capable official, a ca-
reer diplomat, a thorough American who was
at the same time a realist in intemaiionalr af
fairs. And any successor will be bound by the
limited horizon of Secretary Hull. ,
- . Count Ciano is in Germany; he is in Inns
brucken, - Austria; he was captured : by Italian
carbinieri near the French border, l fleeing in
disguise. His whereabouts are as uncertain as
those of Papa Mussolini. Neither one is trying
to escape to Ethiopia.
Secretary Knox says the Tokyo raid was
merely a warm-up to what is coming. This
fist-shaking is part of the war of nerves; but.it
wears our nerves as well as the Japs.
The German radio told its people the Ger
man army in Russia was "advancing westward.
That's the right direction, all right; just keep on
going. - U ;
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLOW 1
WASHINGTON Aug. , SL The time? stolen
from us by the hesitancy of King Victor Emmanuel
and Badoglio at the fall of Mussolini, has enabled
the Germans to prepare a strong
fight for the entire Italian penin
sulabut particularly for the nor
thern third. : ,t : . .
r Hitler has moved 'enough divi
sions and suns into that front for
stubborn fighting, thereby 7 rais
ing that question of how fast and
furiously i we want to go into that
area which we are how blacken- 7
ing from the skies as promised by
ChurchuL. Some authorities now
psai Mjuioa believe that if we pursue our
course there ardently; we vrTl not be able to occu
py all Italy. before the end of the' yean.
. The final outcome is in. no doubt whatever, as
we incontestably have supremacy of the skies and
of the seas on both sides of the narrow mainland.
Yet the situation may call for reconsideration of
strategy and perhaps launching of invasion on the
northwest European coast where Hitler has weak
ened his numerical strength in order to fight a
stronger delaying action in Italy. f
- The Danish and Bulgarian outbreaks signify
that nearly everyone now knows Hitler is beaten,
except Hitler. :.. t, -V Hi'. ' :.--:
The Danish revolt sprang from two develop
ments. The nazis were drawing ever tighter and
tighter the economic yoke on the Danes at a time
when . allied successes " had spurred the factory
workers to a reslzation mat their case was not lost. ;
Their resistance' broufht en the German ultimatum '
and the revolt' Previously, the Danes had accept
ed nazi rule reluctantly but without sabotare.
It will have some military and much political
effect. The Germans relied on the Danes for much
now sjet less, but the number of sold-
iers and materiel coming from that country to the.
nazis was comparatively insignificant, TThe Danish
army numbered 1500. Germany will now have to
police Denmark more heavily. - . . .
Smouldering Bulgaria on the other axis hand,
is the key transportation route to Greece and the
nazi citadel of the Balkans; King Boris may or may
not have been killed by mud sympathizers for fail
ure to please Hitler, or by Russians. The assassin
ation is less important than the ensuing demonstra
tions that the people are Increasingly pro-Russian.
They never wanted to jet in the war -anyway.
The only soldiers Hitler obtained from Bulgaria
for use outside were the police force employed in
part of Greece. As Balkan unrest grows, he may
have to find other military police, not only for Bul
garia but for all the adjoining nations. -
More than 20 Italian divisions still are in the
Balkans in such work. They could not get out to
return home as Badoglio planned when Mussolini
feU. ' But they are of less an less value to Hitler. :
' These developments, therefore; mark the inv
volvemeht of Hitler in a critical struggle to hold his -home
front, a struggle which will be continuous and
grow in severity apace with allied successes. He
cannot afford to lose it
Nazi withdrawal from Taganrog (held for the ;
past two winters) was generally advertised as a sur
prise, but it was forecast in this column August 25,
The plunging red drive southwest of Kharkov even
then, made it necessary for the nazis to draw back
the long arm they had stretched into the Ukraine
along the sea of Azov.
Their plan no doubt is to draw back to the line
of Melitopol, and thus hold their bridge-head in the
Crimea. But this movement no doubt simultane
ously will require them to evacute the Kuban river-head
they have held In the Ukraine in favor of
a firmer position on the Crimean mainland. - -
Russian line they seem intent on
holding runs from the Crimea north ward, through
Meutopol to the bend of the Dnieper, and then fol--
lows the westward winding, banks of that stream
through central Russia.
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By WILLIAM T. FHYX
With the Russians surging for
ward on all sectors, : the most
significant advance . appears to
- be in the south,, threatening as it
does the" German hold on the
.Crimea and smashing nazi hopes
of a drive into the Caucasus for
Russian oO.
-Coupled with the big Ameri
can raid on the Ploesti oil fields
in Rumania, and aerial stabs
from Britain at synthetic, fuel
plants in Germany, the outlook'
: for German forces is bleak .
harder and harder fighting with
less and less fuel to carry them
into baule. v ?4-;3. U - :.-.;'-: : - .
Thrown out of Taganrog, the
nazis can be expected to try and
: anchor' at Mariupol on the' Sea.,
of Azov, a nev line running
northwest to Dnieperpetrovsk.
" Such a line would offer few
natural barriers to the Russians,
. however, and there is . nothing
. to indicate v the : ' Germans : can
hold it against the rolling red
. offensive. . y-y :jifr',rrX, 1
If ; the Germana : are pushed
beyond Mariupol, their hold on .
ihe Crimean peninsula and the
positions still retained across the
. Kerch strait around Novorossisk
are threatened. They might well
be pushed back to the Dnieper
river, which would re-establish,
Russian control of the Crimea
-and the Black sea.
Pn th nnrth im nntnra nt
Yemya by the Russian forces
begins to threaten Smolensk, an-
ehor of the German line in that
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Seizure, of Yelnya ' also 'put
the red army closer to tne' im
portant Smolensk-Bryansk raU
line. Cutting of the linej would
endanger German forces at Bry- i
anskv - 'iliv
So fpowerful is th- Russian .
C advance along the entire line
that it seems -only bad Hires ther
can halt ft. And this i is a dis
tinct possibility r the autuxnn
rains began last j year as early
. as September 1. When they come
the armies on both sides will
be hampered by mud for six
or seven weeks - until 'the
' grcArnd' freezes. This'' lull would
, give : the Germans j time to '
'strengthen their - lines, but it "
also would present an opportun
ity fos the Russians to consoli- '
date their gains and mass troops '
and supplies for a resumed of-
. ; fensrve. - r:K , " ;.'-. j . ; L,
- Prime Minster Churchill In !his
Quebec speech today dropped a
broad hint that, despite the Rus
sian successes and the repeated
urgings of Stalin for- a second '
front in western Europe, Britain
and America were not vet ready
to launch an invasion across the
English channel.
- . When thev day for invasion -comes,
he said, "you may be
sure that it wul be because we
are satisfied that there is a good
prospect of eontinuing success,
and that our soldiers lives are -expended
in accordance with
sound military plan, and . not
squandered for political caasid---
erations' of any kind."
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Thornton raced away without
argument- Eudd and Herb
-' crowded past Komako and went
into the bedroom. -1 began wip
ing the blobs of mud from my
' glasses and turned to the little
. huddd group of women, Turva,
Mary and Josephine. ; c,.
. "You'd better get in out of the
rain. Suppose you stay in Miss
- XZassic! ; house so we ; can call
v you If we need you. '
They moved off silently,-too
stunned and frightened to" talk.:
- Mokino, started after them but I
" brought him back' firmly. '
- "Komako said for you to stay
, here, Mokino. . , -
He "muttered sornethlng, but
, made no' further move to get
away. He stood oil tiptoe, to look
: ' through the open , window of
Mrs. Delmart . bedroom as ' the
wind veered and blew the cur
tain inward. I followed his ex
" J ample and saw Budd and Herb
bent over the body, not touching
it but studying the handle of the
fish knife.' v , '
A "fisherman's, weapon; again,
. Z thought suddenly and none of
the colonists "wis -a fisherman.
J Buf Mokino . I f eft the weight .
-of responsibility of guarding and
- ; watching the old man,', even as
. Komako had ordered me to do.
5 ,. X saw Dr. Latham comehur- ;
, riedly,. into the room from - the
; front of the house, followed by ;.
ThorntonLi When he dropped j to
. .his knees beside the body , to
make his examination I touched '
Mokino's arm. ;- , -,, '.V , , '
"Come.' Well go around to the
lanai and get out of the wet.
He came' willingly .enough and .
we established ourselves on" the
71 Delmar. lanai, after I had bunt- -
' . ed around the. living room, till I v
found another lamp and lighted
- it. Mokino crouched, dripping,
on 'the TDoor, watching me with
unfathomable black, eyes. - -
' Dr. Latham came out of the
- b e dr o o m first, ..preoccupied,
.tense, wiping his hands with his
. handkerchief. , He ignored us,
rushing past us to get back to
Elaine-1 was sure, but I aaid: . .
- "No - hope. Doctor?., , ;
. e' dead," he said withoufT
stopping. , ; '
Then Budd V. and Herb ' and
Thornton came from the inner
, room, ushered out. by Komako.
"You men stay by ladies, Ko
. mako told them, "till we see
what is going on around here.
rrheyre at Mia MasstcV I
offered. "The" doctor has gone
back to the women at his house.
The men did not deign to an
swer me, but the looks they shot
me as they went out - were elo-t
quent: aversion, . disgust, horror.
Komako lost no; time in tac
kling Mokino. The debate went
, on. , interminably. It seemed to
- me, and I"ceuldn't see that Mo
' kino was beaten down in ' the
least Finally Komako waved his
big . hands at him anf Mokino
started Ato scurry 'away, Komako
' calling after him: : ;.!..- .. -"More
better you take Mary"
home with you.' - " '. '
"Well, ao he's innocent, I ob-'
served I sarcastically ; To - be -,
found hiding in the' bushes just
: before a murder is discovered is,
: of ..course, not to the point. He
; no doubt likes to sit in the rain
- lust an , old Ha wiian custom.
. -I tell you bout him, Ko-.
mako said, : unperturbed. .MHe
feel uneasy, "bout Mafy. She of
ten stay night with Miss Turva,
only this time he . get feeling
something bad going to happen
' to Mary. Sot he come to watch
'by her, I think if he is watch
" jjng, he mus t see who go in back
door to km Mrs. Delmar, But
he say; be don't see nobody.
I said, "Maybe he- was on
guard so - Henry -could go into
that back door. Bu why should .
Hijory y -. , 'vtQ;'v.-:-r
"Not you see, Hasty, this mur
' der z prove what we . find - out
about play? Sure! Some criminal
.don't want that play to get out.
Now I must, look for copy, but
I know murderer 1 already ;" get
that ; away from ; Mrs. Delmar,
poor thing.! He 1 went' back to
the bedroom lo make the search
he felt was futile. r ' -J
I pulled myself together, long- .
Ing for. a drink to . quiet my
nerves,! but aware that I must
concentrate In the problem. The
best I could do, when he return- -.'
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ed empty-handed, was to protest;
"1 think you let Llokino go
' too soon. The murderer usd a
fish knife, I hope you noticed,
and who .else but Wokino ?
; I was stopped by the peculiar .
look ' he threw me. "1 got fish
knife wrap in paper in pocket,"
be said. He wouldn't argue about
Mokino, but sat down heavily
and said: "Che was kill in them
.fire minutes we walk up by cot
tages and back asafa." M
IX only I hadnt suggested
-leaving,'' -V I mourned. "What'
good did it do us? Except that
we - know the whereabouts of
- Josephine, Turva, Mary, Dr. La-
: tham and his mother and
Elaine" :. '
"Elaine," K o m a k o echoed
thoughtfully.
- "She ran out of - the lanai
here while you were chasing the
shadow you, thought, was Elaine
'but that turned out to be Mo-
kino." -. ' v
"Come .but of here?" Komako
stared' at me. "That's bad .that
awful bad . . V , ,
"I not knowing bou t ' people
with lost t memory," he , said
doubtfully, but she was acting
awful pupule doing jhair over." .
. Struck by the recollection, he
threw, back his oilskins and felt '
in the pocket of his khaki shirt .
He brought out the folded paper
he had purloined from Elaine's
room, and started to put on his .
spectacles. - J
' I. snatched . the paper from
him. "Look! The holes in one
side! It's been torn from a loose
leaf notebook Mrs. Delmar's!
'There's a clipping pasted on it!" '
, We stared at each other, then
. leaped from our chairs with one
accord and rushed to hold the
page under the oil lamp. .
Across the top of the page, one
! th DelUnars,, presumably had
written:. The Case of Polly Mor-
But our gaze was centered on -the
. picture , accompanying the
printed article; a newspaper cut'
of what was obviously a snap-1
shot,- not very clear. A young
woman was standing on a tennis -court;'
racket in hand, a" sturdy,
rather plump figure. Her eyes
were squinted against the sun,
and her blonde hair was drawn
up on top of her head in a chig
non of curls.
' '. : (To be , continued)
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advantage. We will have many
whit I elephants left on our
hands when this war is- over,
monument to poor planning, ,er
worse Workers in i war. indus
tries themselves often complain
of idleness and inefficiency in
operations; and report that com
plaints fall on dull ears. The
very b i g af e s a of enterprises
seems to create an Inertia, be
cause authority is distant and
unapproachable. ;. . . .
Now that Paul V. McNutt,
manpower ( e ommtii loner. Is
alarmed because of the prospec
tive dropping out of several
hundred thousand high school
.youth who will return to' school,'
it seems timely to shake down
operations and reallocate man
power So the most 'important
jobs will get the help they need.'
Great Britain is making shifts:
ho more recruitment to women's
sections in the services; muster
ing more women Irr the 40-50
year group, all to be directed
into the aircraft industries.
. Stopping of production in
many items, of munitions ,and
shifting of men and .machines to
other items, such as a new, and
powerful short rang mortar. 1
Shifting mobilization of men
' to navy, marines and air force
away from ground troop.
, Our government Is coming to
the same policy of reviewing
constantly Its war ' needs, and
plotting production and man
power accordingly. Further ac
tion on this line is needed, and
the bosses will have to get tough
even with government agencies
who see the war through their!
Individual . telescopes.. There is
manpower: enough in the coun
try to carry on the. war and op
erate the essential civilian serv
ices. With closer brganiratfon
the- manpower can be utilized
successfully without a labor
draft, which the. public would
hardly stand for unless and un
til they became really frightened
over losing the war.
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