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PAGS FCU3 71m OnZGOn STATEZMA1L Sedans, Ortgoxw Thursday Morning, June- 22. 1S44 A I; ..v.;:'-"' gtwe. mm , . '. .!, , 1' Wo Favor Sways Us; No faar Shall Aw mm lint Statesman, March 23, IM1 ' TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A SPRAGUI, Editor and Publisher ' - . Member of tha Associated Press ' The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Imagination Needed V The current issue of Railway Age, recognized organ for the railroads of the country,' attributes the success of the roads, in handling in 1943 63 per cent more of freight service, as measured in ton-miles and 183 per cent more passenger service measured : in passenger ; miles than in 1929, to the seven billion dollar net increase in capital investment during the 1920's and to im proved management especially in cooperative control of car movement and utilization. ; There is yery general praise for the railroads for their wartime performance, which followed hard on the heels of the penny-pinching forced by the depression Better employment of facil ities rather than new facilities proved the key to the railroad problem in the war. ; But Ruth and Edward Brecher, writing in the June Harper's magazine on "These Railroad Wrecks' have little complimentary to say about railroad management when it comes to making changes to avert train wrecks. The heavy loss of life from this cause in 1943 heightens public in terest in railroad safety, and should stir the roads into more rapid progress in installing safety devices. i For example, the Breckers say that though block control of trains is about a century old mere are suu su,uuu mues h ixata. wiioout blocks, and ; 100,000 miles of passenger line without automatic block signals. "Main lines' are pretty well equipped, but important branch es are not. V Another deficiency is in switchblocks where there is an automaticcontrol in case a switch is turned after another train enters the block. This happens not infrequently and results in the oncoming train running onto the switch and crashing into the train standing in supposed "safety on the siding. .; Railroads have been amazingly slow in adapt- I ' J' 1 , A ' A - . A T"0 ing raaio ana electronics to train control, rianes use radio constantly, and radio would seem to be well suited to use on railroads but thus far there has been very little experimentation in radio by railroads. There might well be radio receivers and transmitters on trains for inter train communication and for communication with -stations. Thus by radio signal or voice a train might be stopped to avert a wreck. A beginning has been made in centralized traffic control which uses wired connection and not wireless. The Southern Pacific has a stretch of track east of Sacramento where train move-. ments are shown on the electric board in the dispatcher's office. This would seem, to be of very practical value in speeding up train move ment as well as in increasing safety in opera tion. Here are two fields which almost demand exploration by the railroads but most of them have been indifferent to their possibilities. The railroads will put up as defense the cost of such ' installations, but the prevention of wrecks would save losses that would amortize large investments, to sag nothing of the value in saving of human life. With comfortable trea sury positions now the roads should plan to devote substantial sums to modernizing their, plants. This would include buying of more effi cient motive power, use of light metals in car construction, and far more generous use of electric controls and radio than has been at tempted. Management has done a splendid job of routine : transportation service during the war, but it needs more imagination in adapting modem techniques to railroad operation. An Earned Tribute1 ' I Even in republican Oregon, newspaper men are not always agreed. But there can be no doubt as to the unity ; with which they last weekend approved the presentation of the Amos E. Voorhies award to William M. Tugman. man aging editor of the Eugene Register-Guard. The bronze plaque which lor the past year has hung in the office of this newspaper's pub lisher has not decked many editorial sanctums. It is given not for one year's work, butkmay go as a personal tribute of the Oregon Newspaper Publisher's association to a newspaperman who has served state or nation. It may be given in recognition of editorial leadership. 1 1 For 17 years' work in the Oregon university city, as a trophy for; an outstanding career in the profession and in recognition of an informa tive service to his city, : county and; state, the Voorhies award this year went to Tugman. Probably all editors (with the exception of those whose papers live 'and breathe pnly the sometimes-putrid arid ever-changing atmos phere of passion, intrigue and cheap 'sensation) dream of presenting to their : readers all , the facts. Principal deterrents are lack of informa tion (and space) and the difficulties of present ing details in readable, readily undertandable form. r-. ;: ' :J , H : ;,;;;; ; j j - So, the editors who unanimously cast their votes for Tugman when the award was to be made expressed their admiration. Undeviating patience, development and train ing of a staff of research men and women, con siderable research on his own part, and an un derstanding of the many avenues of approach to the minds of average newspaper readers went into "Tug's recent successful campaign to ac quaint taxpayers with their tax and debt prob lems, to assist in organization of the Lane County Planning council, to set up cash reserves and to provide a far-teaching postwar program for the community. This any of the boys and girls who work for and beside him day by day ' on page one educational stories, charts, graphs and editorials can tell you. ;i i This the publishers recognized. But they also paid tribute to honesty of purpose, fairness of method and to the sense of stewardship which has brought Bill Tugman honor even in his own country. I News Behind . .jjjj" i. ji 1 1 ii . mm ,lm wwawwn iijcwwh' hiiiwiuihj' 'wximm wea 'KeytolheGty Today's C?adio Prograiraiis The News By PAUL MALLON i f Dnterpreting The War News By JAMES D. WHITE f AsiocUtcd Ptcm SUM Writer (Substituting for Kirke L. Simpson) Despite the amazing demonstrations of United. Nations battle-power in Normandy and on Saipan, the allied lines sag threateningly in China. American military authorities are watching with concern, the Japanese moves in the remote but im portant Chinese theatre. These developments focus on a Japanese drive southward from Hankow to capture the railway to Can ton. The Japs have taken Changsha in their fourth try for that battle-scarred city and now are within 65 miles oi the important Chinese rail junc tion of Hengyang. ? ; 1 The obvious Japanese purpose is to cut off the East China bulge. American military sources con firm that this time the Japanese show every evi dence of being really determined. ; ; ' Although the drive might secure the railway line to Canton for Japanese use, it is thought here that two other purposes probably motivate them more strongly than a desire to bolster their harried shin ping lanes off the China coast by an overland sup ply route. First, they want to neutralize American air bases long the railway and to east and west of it. And, they .want to obtain these same bases or some of them to build up their defenses against the Amer ican drive from the Pacific which Adm. Nimitz plainly has forecast would come against the China ; coast ':' ;V;v -:v :.. .--w -: Military observers here emphasize that in spite of China's immense manpower and a will to resist which- has been demonstrated now for nearly seven years, the Chinese simply do not have the material or the firepower necessary to halt the Japs. - The Japanese army, like the Germans in France In 1940, literally can go anywhere in China they want to if they are willing to pay the price. Once they go through a region, they can hold It with relatively little strength because of their ruth less reprisals against the people. The Japs worked out the technique of Lidice long ago in North China, where countless' villages have been oblit erated -' :: ,-,:; - " K: Under this ruthless policy the Chinese victims simply cannot be expected to work actively against their conquerors. , J ." v ' ;-:'y The Japanese drive southward is regarded here as a very logical one especially the American drive In the Marianas which will soon produce bases from which. borders csn strike directly at Japan and be fueled from tankers coming directly across the Pacific. - " ' ' . ' ' ' Indeed, this American pressure is, considered likely to reinforce Japanese determination to cut eff the salient in the China bula ar.3 pit it to their o-n use in developing a continental de-f.T..- ; (Distribution by King Features Syndicate. In a Repro-' duettos In wboit or in part strictly prohibited. , . WASHINGTON," June 21-Sly Mr! Rodsevelt fol- . lowed his usual course in evolving his announced blueprint for the postwar world order. " He let we Wallaces, WOlkies and Welles fight out the issues in public while he sat back and said nothing. Then he worked out a common ground for mula, discarding the ideas of all . of them for a ( skeleton scheme first announced in pub lic by State Secretary HulL -It caused considerable . grumbling among both repub lican and democratic senators. Men like Sen. Ball, who wanted an international police force 1 and, in fact, -an international-, ized world, were disappointed, but the ex-isolationist Sen. Paul Maiion Vandenberg was fairly well pleased. He whispered to newsmen behind his hand thai it looked like the president was coming around to the mid-west position. , j - But it was obvious such a scheme would pass the senate overwhelmingly1 when it comes up, as it must, in the form of a treaty.-It is in harmony with both the Smith-Connally resolution, and the Mack- inac Island declaration of the republicans. - To that extent unity is probable, but actually the formula settles no more than the first point at is sue. The details of how it is worked out will give the postwar world its character. t, For instance, congressmen have concluded that In the establishment of the Italian government so far, -we have run third with Russia on top there, and friends of Great Britain in second position. Little has been said on the flobr but this has been a ' main topic in the cloakrooms since the speech of Sen. Bridges, asking if Mr. Roosevelt had lost the initiative in Europe . ' . I ; This situation unquestionably is the primary rea son for the coming visit of Gen. De Gaulle to the White House. We also run about third in his or ganization, it-lj- y'v ." Now it is clear that if Mr.! Roosevelt does not "do better in France than he did in Italy, we will in reality be third in all Europe, no matter how much " equality we seem to enjoy in the blueprint formula : presented. ' H fjr : IV- So also within the formula itself. The top council i composed of the United States, Great Britain, Rus ' sia and China (the names axe always used in that order) no doubt will dominate the assembly and seem to give control of the world jointly to the four -. great powers. The assembly of all the nations pre sumably will not meet of ten and may act only in an advisory capacity. ' . 1 - But with Russia on top in Europe and Britain clinging to her. empire, our influence in reality no doubt will be restricted to this hemisphere. Britain and Russia always have had more authority in the Far East than we had, and there is no noticeable change in that situation yet ; These are the facts of life in the world beyond the formula and apt to be more important than It ia. i v -y.-j.. l'-::.X But . there is to be no super state, and no sur render of sovereignty, and all are to keep their , arms Individually. Thus it I follows the same, line advocated and predicted in. this column from the beginning of the discussion. I - Other particular agreements now in the negotia ting mill are hardly within sight of political unity. In advance of the Bretton Woods monetary confer ence, the experts of practically all the nations have been gathered together secretly. Harry White, director of monetary research in - the treasury asserabledl them at Atlantic City ia an effort- to get what was described as "an agree ment at the expert level in advance of the con ference. But In this instance, too, the Important thing will I: the value of gold and the dollar in relation with ether currencies, rather than the formula devised for future International monetary negotiations. K S LJf MBS THUKJ DAT MM Kc. do It's thm Truth. -News. 7 .-00 News. t 7:15 Ri and Shin. 7 JO Shady Valley. 7:45 Todaya Top Trades. .DO Good SUp Graca. SO News. S :45 Orchestra. SS5 Boake Carter. 9 DO Boake Carter. :19 Pastor's Call. ' 9:30 Midland USA 9 :45 AmaxiAS Jenniler TiOgan. 10 DO Hardy. News. -10:15 Jack Berch. 100 let's Be Charming-. 10:45 American Woman's Jury. 11. DO Cedric Totter. . 11 US US Navy. 11 JO Skyline Serenade. 11.-45 Around Town. 12:00 Organalities. 12:13 News. 12 JO Hillbilly Serenade. 11:35 Nashville Varieties. 12:45 Spotlicht on Rhythm. 1D0 New. 1 D5 Spotlight on Rhythm. , . 1:13 Lum 'n Abner. Vj 120 National Conference tor Chris tians and Jews. - . 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WAR PLANES WRIGHT FIELD, Ohio rfThis is one of a series of brief sketches of American war planes produced under the supervision of the AAF materiel command, which is charged with the de velopment, procurement, ! pro duction and inspection of all ar ' my air ' forces equipment; Au thoritative data on a different plane will appear dally.) The B-29 . Snperf ortress j ' The AAFs. newest long-range heavy bomber designed to carry heavier bomb loads further into enemy territory. , , j , Description: Four-enginej very heavy , jjomber.- Designed by Boeing to materiel command specifications. Built by i Boeing at Seattle 'and Ren ton, Wash4 and Wichita; Bell, Marietta, Fa, and Martin,' Omaha. Power Plant: Four Wright Cy clone 18-cylinder radial! air cooled R-3350 engines, 2200 hp. Hamilton Stan d a r d 4-bladed propellers. i ,-. t . ! Performance:1 Long range, high altitude, heavy bomb loads. . Armament and protection: Heavy armored and armed with multiple-gun and power -operated turrets. . 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' 230 Memory Book Music 3 DO News. . . - 1 -. i . 3:15 Music . ; 430 American Legion Auxiliary. 4 US Latin-American Neighbors.: : 4 -JO Traffic Safety Quiz. --. 445 Excursions In Science. S30-On tha Upbeat. 1 r 830 Story Time. ! 845 It's Oregon's War. i :1S News. ' i ' - (30 Evening Farm Hour. ' ; T30-Litt Up Thy Voice. i J 830 Musical Comedy Revue. - - . 8:30 Oregon's Own. r D0 Music That Endures.: ; 930 News. - Many People in Rome Have Hardly Been Touched by War - -i By KENNETH L. DDCON ; . " v1 - , WTTH THE AET IIC ROME, June 7-(Delayed) P-After the shattered cities; of awithern- Italy Rome is breathUldngly beautiful in all its untouched magnificence. Ita people are clean, iU women attractive and well dressed, its men comparatively well fed and healthy looking. - : - ' nut there la another side of Rome, the wen-to-do-Romans, many or them rngnsn-epeaaong CFTP rm iT?ni u Burglars Loot Gas Station Burglars looted the Don Mad ison service station at 530 North High street of S48.S3 in small change,, horns, two rifles and two new tires sometime between Tuesday evening at 5:33 Wednes day morning. Entry was gained through a -window in; the grease room. . From the same service station, $509 worth of equipment,, mer chandise and cash was taken June 25 last year. A reward for information leading to! the arrest cf the party will be issued ty Don lladloon,- - - . . i - (Continued from Page 1) , are so few In number. There are 22 attorneys in addition to the defendants, and when you ; add In the marshal, the bailiffs, the clerk, reporter and the represen tatives of the press there Is lit tle room left in the nearly square courtroom of oniymedIum-sized climensions. The court had set today as the time to hear motion of at- torneys for defendants to have ' the case thrown out because of the recent decision In the Elmer 'Hartzel case in which the su preme court held invalid the conviction of Hartzel on a charge of sedition under the 1917 statute. E. i Hilton Jackson was the attorney arguing for the de fense motion. He endeavored to prove his point that the recent decision was controlling in ! the - instant case, and demanded that the prosecution be stopped 'and i the defendants turned loose. GL John . Rogge of the department of justice, replied and contended , that "this indictment was : under a 1940 statute, and that it alt leged a conspiracy; and that the facts were distinctly different from the Hartzel case. ' ! In a recess of -the hearing I visited with' George Sylvester - Viereck, with Hudson, - another defendant, ! from Omaha, and Powers, from Chicago. They scoffed at the idea of "conspir acy," saying there were defend ; ants whom; they did not know. Viereck, who had been convicted for failure to register as an ene my agent, said, he had only met one of the ' defendants and that 30 years before. Hudson de ' scribed the case as a "political . smeary The characters were 'many of . them . dramatis personae from "Under Cover" without the - senators - and f congressmen. : Kunze, a stalwart fellow wear- ; -ing brown VanDyke beard, was an officer in the bund; Mrs. Jjullng, looking summery in a lacy black hat and light yellow dress, is the author of "The Red Network; James True, thin and aging, in blue striped seer-sucker suit,. bow tie and dark specta cles; Powers, of vigorous mas culine type; Winnxl, with pro minent Roman nose, and a circle of curly , hair at the back of his bald head; Viereck, a - small man, speaking with a mild Ger man accent,; who has lost one of his sons fighting with the Ame v rican forces and has another, in military service; Hudson, an or-1 dinary business-type of Aroeri-! can such ae you might see around the Marion any time the legis lature is in session. " It would be quite impossible : to detect any "cruninal traits In looking at the defendants who were intermingled with their at torneys so you could hardly tell one from the other or the de fendants from the spectators as far as that is concerned. But then J the Lombroso theory f of physiognomical stigmata among criminals . was long ; .ago . ex- ploded. - ' - . . I didn't stay untU ' the judge made his ruling and have- not heard yet ;what it' is." Judge Etcher is a former congressman from the old first Ibwa district' in which! grew up. His'father ' was 'a ,very able lawyer, at . Washington.' He himself is some- ' what distinguished in appear ance, his bald head- with grey hair .about the 'temples' framing , a finely- chiseled face.. He was attentive his ; questioning of ' . counsel was pertinent Presiding - at the case has been : difficult task because of the staged disor der in its early I days. ; Judge Eicher was patient b tit finally cracked down with contempt ci tations and since then the pro ceedings have been more or- Unless the judge grants the defense motion the case is ex pected to run untU next March. It -so it will resemble ."Abie's Irish Rose" or "Tobacco Road" for durability. , U ; ; X people, many of them expatriates from allied lands, still others well educated Italian linguists. - There is something not so beau tiful about the plaintive song they all started to" a i n g even before . - Ml a L.ni.. At.. Uley . uau uiunku iinmna; ,- we doughboys as their liberators ", . r You have been so -lona. sighed the beauQ f u 1 , smartly dressed woman in the bar, "Wait ing has been an ordeal - more than you can Imagine. We have expected you since September." (Yes, lady the lads have been delayed. There was a 'short delay at Salerno. You may have heard of ; Salerno a lot of folks back home have; they were told In lit tle telegrams.) You will never know what we have been through," said the res taurant keeper, ; spreading his hands. "All through the winter we kept wondering if you were ever coming and those German dogs nffttf thv wra tn mii wav everywhere. , ' , x (Yes it was that way. In the dead of winter some of the boys wondered too if they would ever get to Rome and some of them arent here today. And those German dogs yes, they were In our way everywhere too.) "Ifs . been terrible," the lady said, looking disdainfully at her beautiful dress. "See this? We have nothing to wear, nothing at alLt j (Have you noticed the soldiers watching you, lady? They didn't know such clothes still existed in this world. One of them said this morning . that Roman women seemed to be even better dressed in many cases than women back home. Don't say that so loud, la dy, the clothes these guys have on they've worn all winter too.) "If s been so crowded in Rome all winter, double the normal pop ulation. We could hardly move around, sighed the banker. "And the food was terrible; very little bread, no beer for months ; and months, only a little American whiskey left and the price of ev erything ah, the price of every thing! ; ' ; V .r '-. ,'v (Yes, it was crowded in the fox holes on Mount 1 Lungo, too, and Cassino was overpopulated with the dead. You could not move around at all there. Bread? Beer? Whiskey? Oh, yes, some of the boys' remember those things. They had a little beer at Anzio. And the price of everything yes, he price of everything . . .) "Give me one cigarette," plead ed the matron in the well-tailored suit, "Even the black market has had ' only a few American cigar ettes lately. It's been terrible." "Give me a package of coffee,' smiled the sleek young man in, his twenties. "We haven't had . coffee in two months." "How soon will there be gaso line? asked the taxi driver. "It's been almost Impossible to get gasoline. It's been terrible. (Yes, yes, yes. It's been terrible. Here's a cigarette coffee tomor row, gasoline yes, it's been ter-? rlble, this waiting. But don't say it again, rne Doys wno ue xorever. along the road to Rome might hear you.) f "Great God!" said the soldier, sitting wearily on the curb, rest ing his burning feet. Amazement was written all. over his dirty, bearded face. "Great God! The war has never touched some of themhere, has It?" , Then he got up, shouldered his gun and pack again, and started slowly on through ' the town, on beyond Rome. . J EARLY ; NEWS by LOWELL THOMAS 7:15 p. n.- COM LEE-r.'.'JTUAL : Standard olCiliforaia Stevens JUST ARRIVED! A limited assortment o dia mond and ruby exxrrings for, - pierced ears, , , Credit U ; Desired
