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t Hi CZ23QHiCTA1ZHIL 'CcJtsv: Oareci Tlsrslay Morslaat Jdy l XStl ' S J I PACS T0Z2 I Ha's Esai n?it . - To Tlsh esd Ilust ' rest cl Ej Day ir -- -"r"'"T .... , Immmmmm mmtm mmmmmmmmmm' m, J WW i ji;k tv, - ib n 4 No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aw From Tint Statesman. March 28, 1S51 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1 ! CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of the 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. That $5 Penalty ' In a letter published in another column on this page W. S. Shanks, chief field deputy of . the internal revenue service office in Portland, Hitler's Invasion Plans v An aviation manufacturer says he saw in Paris In 1940 copies of Hitler's plans to invade the United States. A feint was intended for , objects to the. report in The Statesman of the Newfoundland but the real push was coming up, -. activities of internal revenue deputies in assess- . . : . a - 4 Ac .KM.Iiw tmw . . , M II..!. to buy tne new auto license stamps ior U.. T,,1. ..4 at Via nani in "admit" vaia uj nuij uiu mm its error. Our answer is that if any error was ' made it was not the fault of The Statesman's staff; so there will be no retractions or admis einn a far s this Daner is concerned. - Mr. Shanks protests two statements in a ( news article on July 7th: "There is ho author ity in the internal revenue laws for collecting the $5;" and "No fine can be 'demanded" be-? fvsA ifr i nn w ' - As to the first statement it was made after through Mexico, and German panzers were to spearhead the attack. . ' . We cannot be surprised if Hitler had such a plan. He was dreaming j of world I conquest ; he remembered what the USA had done to Germany in 1918; and he knew where we were L giving our sympathy and aid In 1940. Mexico! does offer a continental jbase for operations ; against the United States, "with little prospect! of local resistance. f 1 , , If Hitler had made the "attempt in 1940 he would have been stopped by the US fleet, un- less he had previously! gotten hold of the'. British fleet which was quite improbable. If - effort' had been made to discover the authority he hand landed- though we were ill equipped in; for the $5 surcharge. The local office of the internal revenue service said its authority was in a "confidential memorandum.' The States man was told, in a telephone conversation with the Portland office, that the $5 was collected "on instructions from the conimissioner Of in ternal revenue . in Washington.' That state ment was published. Now Mr. Shanks cites the section of the code authorizing the commissioner of internal revenue to compromise civil " or ' criminal cases, and says that he assumed we would credit the commissioner with enough Intelligence to act within his authority. The Statesman was assuming nothing. Why did not Mr. Shanks state plainly that he was acting under statutory authority, and not merely say he was acting "under instructions from Wash ington?" The people have grown suspicious of this latter phrase. 1 i '- i r- However the section quoted gives merely general authority to compromise. It says noth ing about a $5 penalty. Who fixed on that amount? Why would not $1 or at the most $2.50 do? Isn't the fixing of the amount an arbitrary action by the internal revenue service? As far as the statement that "no fine can be 'demanded' before conviction," surely Mr. Shanks is not going1 to protest this very ele mental rule of law. He may say that the $5 assessment is not a fine but a "compromise," 'but in the popular mind the idea is that of a fine for failing to have the sticker on the due date. -. H, ' 1 The. Statesman insists' that the summary - action of the internal revenue officials, with out warning when previous practice had been exceedingly tolerant, and the arbitrary action j of assessing a $5 J10ft) penalty on delin f quents was bad public policy. We - trust that ' our publicity was detrimental to the efforts of the service to1 catch delinquents and skin them. If the service had asked for cooperation of the law it would have received full and supporting publicity; from this paper. We are ready to cooperate in law 'enforcement, but not on official shakedowns even under color of law. guns and tanks for defense! he would have had a hard time in making his iconquest. He would t hit Texas first off, and, from what we hear from Texans, they are winning this war single- handed as it lav I ' " k, Misbehavior in Italy. 1 i ' . j ' ' ; Over in Italy the Catholic Action group has -scolded Italian "women over their recent con duct, saying it. was mbecoming . to Christian dignity." The reference. was to familiarity be-' tween the women and the, allied soldiers Who now occupy most of the peninsula. The Action5 group protested "such Jorms of misbehavior which affect the moral and physical fibre of our people, and declared that "the young peo-f pie who are the hope of Italy of tomorrow must ' be preserved from such corruption.'' The admonition is probably Ttimely, but we ; don't like to think of American soldiers as ai source for the .corruption of the Italian young i women. As a general rule the blame for such ' 'misbehavior as worries the church group is by i no means one-sided. We Would venture the' opinion that there is quite ariittlt of the ro- i mantic come-hither in the dark eyes of the i Italian girls who set their lures for the British ; and American soldiers. 1 ! ; Lost Horizons Dim side rJasHiimigtoini Predict Prlr hj Allietj iTowurcT La Havre FarU Special i to Mariana Invasion Silences TufOe Hopptnoj Charaes Central Press T The Parade Moved On Gerald L. K. Smith, who used to call himself : a rabble-rouser of the right, is vexed because i the republicans nominated Tom Dewey, and now demands that the democrats ; nominate. Burton Wheeler, No. 1 democratic isolationist. Smith, who took his lessons in rabble rousing from Huey Long ("every man a king,'), is headman for the ill-famed America First move ment. He expected to head 'the parade and can't get over his chagrin because the parade headed up another street. He insists that it turn back and get behind-him, , so he can lead it. WASHINGTON-j-With Cher bourg in American hands, mllt tary sources in Washington are looking foi an immediate drive by allied forces deeper and deep er into France in he general di rection of parts. i ! It was pointed out jthat the elimination of res stance on the Cotentin peninsula his freed many allied divisions for action against the! bulk of the German troops in fhe Cajm-'nily area, and the neit majtr allied move undoubtedly is, planned in. i this Ll T3 oi cue Some 200 nudist on vacation in California have been setupon by the OP A which wants to know where they 'got their gasoline for the trip to the campr There are few affairs of life that do not eventually came to the 'attention of the OPA. CorVallis Gazette-Times, Still, Claude, the inspectors who visited the nudist camp surely brushed up on the facts of life. - i - . . - - . . : Russian papers ran in black type the news that Roosevelt would accept nomination for a fourth term. Uncle Joe's special friends in this country ; are air for; him, starting with Earl Browder; but there are American papers which will feel; like putting black borders around the type if FDR is reelected. The regional administrator of OPA in San Francisco has resigned to take a job in a con fectionery; establishment. Looking for some- - thing sweet, eh, after trying to ride herd on prices.. Ti - Willis Mahoney got by. the front gate for an interview , with Roosevelt and itiised the White House" as a sounding board for his political prognostications. One can see that Willis is be ginning to drape the mantle around him hoping to win the fall. election wearing that : disguise. He can't do it. i , , be Delegates to the democratic convention are being given the pleasant surprise of the pri vilege of making up their own minds as to a candidate for vice president; but not having used their own minds for so long they may find them atrophied. 1. Reynolds Aluminum Co. withVa plant at Longview evidently, doesn't count on getting its alumina from the new Salem plant. It is announcing acquisition of new stores of bauxite in Jamaica and Haiti. V'v , direction, j While the port is 'a nighlyl valued allied prize. Washington; sources hive ponf A .J. J ti - m. I; JS-J LJ. icnueu since uie: arive Degaa that the allied invasion; force is so great that more than one majf or: port is Irequired to: keep jit supplied. ?fita this thdught & mind, the strategists are now looking toward thi huge port of Le; Havre, less ' than 50 miles : irom ue easxern ena ue ai ueu Deacnneaa. i I This, hoWever.s will ! tougher nuts to crack. High ranking army and navy I officials are glad, meanwhile. ; that the invasion j of the Marij anas is well under way; because now they cinnot be accused of I conducting ia costly "iiland-to island" offefisive in the Paciiiq. "Even dui-ing the Marshall I islands in vpsioi, "arm-chair i strategists' parget the army ! and navy wis comfnitted to hop ! pins from one Island to! another in a campaign that might take Items should be considered a Congressman Ellsworth says that congress is "very veteran-minded." Undoubtedly. Every member can see a veteran coming out against him in the next election: The radio column today I Is on page 9. a further recess until after La bor Day. It is generally ac knowledged that ho major busi ness. will be transacted until then. But that is not alL The fact Is congress will , be largely sounding board for campaign speeches in September and Oc tober. The net result, therefore, is that it will do a minimum of work from now on, barring some unusual turn in the course of the war. . : ---it '': :J Post-war ; reconversion bills, despite pressure for their pass age, will be put over until au tumn. There is very little chance that the; legislature will enact a bill granting insurance compa nies total exemption from the anti-trust laws. While action on reconversion , measures will be delayed, release of a report by an advisory com mittee of business men high lights the fact that the foreign economic administration is well aware of the immensity of the task of disposing of millions of dollars worth of ? government property! which will be left over abroad when the war ends. . The goods will include hun dreds' of consumer items - and will be scattered from England and northwestern Europe to the far reaches of the south Pacific. - Tne h. report ? emphasizes these" (Continued from Page 1) t no guard expense is necessary as was incurred at Canby when public! highways were used. In surance costs are probably low er since there is very- limited pubUc liability. As estimated one billion feet of timber stands in the Molalla watershed to be hauled to mar ket over this road. If the savings in transportation amount to only one dollar a thousand that would be a million dollars; My guess is that the savings will amount to more than a dollar a thousand - WITH THE AEF ON CORS ICA, July 3 - (Delayed) -JP)r When the war is over, Ll John Churchill Leggett is going to bis father's place near, Washington, . DC, to forget all about fighting lor a while, and just "fish and . ; hwt-M . : ' i . He probably will : return to aeroplanes eventually, but if he wants to loaf a while first the other pilots in this B-25 squadron will personally whip anybody who tries to prevent him. . They're pretty proud of "Jun ior," a slim, bashful kid of 24 who looks about 17 and acts it until he gets behind the controls of a Mitchell bomber. He's flown 51 missions and has earned the Distinguished Flying Cross cita tions and plenty of credits, - "He's about the hottest pilot in this outfit," said Capt Arthur (Buck) Buchanan, j another 51 mission first - pilot ; who : comes from McCalL SC "At least he's been in the tightest spots of any body in ; the squadron, and he always comes through.'' - "Junior" joined the army right after high schooL Without a col lege education, commission came slow for him. He came overseas -as a flight officer, and flew 23 missions in that rank as co-pilot for his best friend, a boy with whom he went through flying school. ; ' , .' - That 23rd mission - was over Perugia. They were starting the : bomb run in perfect formation when a ' huge chunk of flak . crashed through the windshield . and- killed the pilot, nearly scalping him. . - , . . - What f Junior," an "erstwhile soda jerk, saw when he whirled around was something to sicken the toughest man. And this. was . "Junior's" closest friend.- - - 1 He didn't look again. Instinc tively, he had taken over when it happened. With eyes straight -ahead, he held the tight forma tion so perfectly that no one in , the other planes knew anything was wrong until the bomb run was over, the targets plastered, and the B-25s were homeward bound. Even then he kept his position until the field was .in sight when he asked permission -to break away and go right in and land. .. - "Junior" doesn't drink, but , when tds sidekicks gathered around that day and he .refused a drink, the veterans knew some thing had to give. They almost . literally poured whisky into him omitted the Oregon dam. Letter from Statesman Rr1-n The number of students studying English In a Stockholm high school has grown to 1400, while the number studying German 'has de creased from 1000 to 700. The youngsters know which way the verbs are flowing.! Editorial Comment M From Other Papers 8tady Effects of Alcohol Yalo university has set up a separate department for the study of alcohol and its effects on the human bddy. The purpose is to obtain Impartial information and to permit a select group of students to attend the schooL Facts are certainly desired and impartial information is what is needed. The trouble with most of the information on alcohol Is that it is obtained either from those who are dead set against it or those who are for It no matter what the scientist says. Id between Is a large group who are susceptible to education and receptive to Information. Forest Grove News-Times. interpreting Timing ! . - . , Winston Churchill's revelations that Britain de feated an attempted invasion In 1940 recalls the sad fate of a great work of art The invasion beaches of Normandy in 1940 saw movie star Hermann Goering fattest star since Fatty - Arbuckle -p e r s o h a 1 1 y leading German charges up British beachheads. The propaganda film was intended for release In German theaters simultaneously with actual shots of Hitler thatirg his victorious troops la Trafalgar Square. : ,.: v The Germans seem to Jiave a talent for getting ahead of the newsA German propaganda pamphlet of World War I circulated in the United States was entitled "Hindenburg's March on London." Graphic stuff! v-:-.' ;-;"V:V-'j ; xVy;; But the world's most pestiferous press agent was completely scooped when" the real cross-channel invasion occurred June 8. Broadcasting a Goehbels article in his paper, Das Reich, the Berlin radio explained that. Das Reich had one to press too early for Goebbels to write about the Allied in vasion. Chicago Daily News. ' The War News ; 1 By KTRKE L. SIMPSON ' ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST The bitter-end, j foot-by-foot nazi fighting in Normandy tends to confirm a seemingly authorita tive Berlin broadcast saying that the strategic . "focal point of the three-front struggle for Ger many lies there despite the admitted gravity of her situation In the east ..-,,r J- r - -The Berlin speaker, Lt Gen. Kurt Kittmar, did not explain his statement. He did frankly charge the nazi command In the east with bungling and seemed to be preparing the German home front for a sweeping withdrawal there Into shortened Inner, defensive lines. That may have been the real purpose of his remarks which obviously could not have been made without high nazi sanction. The danger in the east could not have been con cealed from the German public In any case. Dittmar made no attempt to do so. At the moment he spoke one prong of the nearly 400-mile-wide Russian ad vance above the Pripet marshes was less than 50 miles from German's own frontiers in East Prussia. Moscow advices said the whole front was moving forward at a pace that' might put Russian troops on Gennan soU before the weekend, i - General Dittmar's remarks, as reported by allied monitors, generally confirmed this torboding view of immediate possibilities in the east, yet still con- tended that in a military sense the west! was the focal point for German commanders. To back that up it is rumored from neutral European observa- ? tion posts that the German high' command head quarters has been shifted to France.! 1 - ; : ; That could mean that a definite decision has been - reached by the German high, command to yield space for time in the east, meanwhile risking all . reserves to defeat the allied invasion attack in the west decisively. ''i:.v:?'f-;; :- In the east, a withdrawal of the-line from end to end would operate to take some of the steam ,.out of the Russian offensive power because of long and difficult supply tines 'eastward behind them, 1 yea". I V." - ! Mi All the war and navy depart ments could! say t the! accusa : tions was that t they never in-f v i tended to fight such a war in. the Pacific They coulfln't give any mote specilic answers because it would have revealed the master plan to the emy..-.;. .,i ; - jr. But when marines and the ar-f ' my troops Invaded Saipan, thus . flanking powerful j Jap bases fa I the Carolinas, it wpts evident the ; strategy called fot long, daring hops to the Philippines and Ja 1 The seventy-eighth congress - actually nasi done; most Tof its i work and made thf greater part of Us recordj although it has re tcessed for only five weeks. ; jj ' It will reconvene Aug. 1. but it is doubtful a quorum; will be present in either house time. There already Is at thai talk1 of valuable asset, should be sold to , the highest bidder fa competitive sale and should be let; go for cash, or.for'credit only where the credit possibilities are good. The report does not tackle the problem I of A surpluses In this country lor what to do , with plants, ships, aircraft, etc, abroad. Thafs another problem to be dealt with later, i Visitors at the mass sedition trial - may not know It, but they're getting a pretty careful looking-over by deputy marshals, at the courtroom doors. Chief Justice Edward C Ekher - or dered that brief cases and par cels in the hands of spectators, be banned. The order came after a woman, jailed for 10 days for contempt; of court, whisked out of a bundle a. crude, incoherent oilcloth paper and began shout ing at. the prosecutor. ; conos Old Capito 4 , Iowa J'AwSf' The cornerstone was I laid for this first state house of Iowa, Iowa J.X . City, to 1140 when Iowa WU still A IWrittrw tt ' 1 aomuustratlon bolldl oz uio universltT Iowa, i i v . n ' t i in r i t Jt ' i i J I - - - t r f i ! j -. h-: I. - The swastika ies from mny an administration, boildingin oeeupied countries where ' TT.h Columnists and Qois Enss pared the way for Nazi conquerors. feet though this is Just a guess. Umatilla" Dam on 'r The road Itself Is- buDt to -o 1 ri ' ' J" high standard, as is necessary for Postwar ITOgram . ' the hauling of heavily loaded log PENDLETON. " July IZ-Sen. trucks.,The average wWth of the G c the Pendle- nght-of-way, as reported in an article in the current "Timber- Oregc tooy that the man" is 66 feet with a running "f?? "pid "dam would be surface of 26 feet. The base of dded o the bureau f reclama crushed rock is ten to inches tion P08" I f Irrigation In depth with a covering of six 1 multiple-purpose projecU to eight inches of finer crushed later this year. An earlier list rock and dressing. : r The road starts at a log dump on the Willamette river and runs 16 miles southeast to the Os trander camp above Molalla. This 'part of the road is .completed and in ! use.' Another four miles is under construction to North Fork junction. Thence feeder roads will run up into the moun tains to tap the timber stands. - . Originally a -' railroad ; was, 5 planned by the late E. S. Col-' - tins and right-of-way obtained and a mile of the road graded. ' The advent of heavy duty trucks made the railroad less economi cal, so the trucking road was bunt This was the Idea of Tru man W. Collins, who succeeded to the Jnanagement of the Col lins interests on his father's death. Joining in the construction with the Collins' Ostrander, Tim ber company is the Weyerhauser Timber; company. Pope and Tal bot, Inc. and ; Schetky' Logging Co. and using the road in get ting out their timber fa the Mo lalla basin. i The overpass just north of Canby is 600 feet in length, cros sing over both the railroad and the Pacific highway rights of way. The bridge is of pleasing design, -using cedar piling and creosoted fir. The deck of the bridge is designed like a trough, with sloping sides of heavy tim bers. Thus, if a log is lost from a passing truck the -log will roll onto the floor of the bridge and not be dropped on the heads of passing motorists or on a train, moving underneath. Farther east a four hundred foot bridge spans the Molalla river. From the three log dumps on the river the logs go to market Pope and Talbot take their: logs to their St Helens mill; Weyer hausers raft theirs to their Long view , mfll; Ostrander sells its logs on j the market " i -, There! : are - other operations . where logs are handled on 'pri vate . roads, but usually these are in the woods, and rarely do mini, . . ; dropped to sleep. Then they put him to bed. He still doesn't drink, f .- ' -1 'V.. ! The next mission flying as first pilot - now junior showed no sign of anything but the same steady nerves as be fore. I ' From then on, he was a first pilot until he became a second lieutenant " -. ' . Tho Literary. Guidopost f , By JOHN SELBT S Grandmother and the Comet," by Victoria Lincoln (Farrar & Rinehart; $150). Exactly ten years ago Victoria Lincoln published a novel, she called "February Hm," and it was a great success. Her novel eventually was dramatized as "The ; Primrose Path," and: she began writing short stories or more accurately, sketches. I a She has not done another no vel, more' the pity. But she is publishing today a collection of her sketches and poetry caUed Grandmother and the Comet" As is ;" often the case,' the least interesting story had the most arresting title; X3randmother -and the Comet" is a good; job, but it does not touch "No Enemy but Time,", which is one of the finest pieces of its sort ever written by mortal, man or i wo manj When she gets down to it, , Miss Lincoln writes as well, as . Virginia Woolf, and sometimes better; But she substitutes a wonderful ironic sense for Mrs. Woolfs self-conscious and -deliberate effort to, bedazzle her feUoW authors. Mrs. Woblf was always so conscious Of her "art" that she would stoop' to deliber ate obscurantism to prove it; Miss ; Lincoln ' Is as clear as a dewdrop. ' ' -, A number of the stories deal with the same family , as "No 'Enemy but Time." This is ; the family of a British rector, poor, proud i within limits, under the thumb of the rector himself, ' who always gets the best chop at dinner (If there are chops), always wears g o o d clothes though his family - wears -cast-. offs, always'' and forever is first He souhdr a 'first-rate cad, but r it is j Miss Lincoln's abfUty to , make him, just & bit sympathetic that carries the' stories,, and It. is . her greater ability, in .the story . 'aforefaentionea.quitesuddenly . to show him a .truly tragic, fig ure that transfigures, the whole Mosvpl tne stories are m .tne first person. Some of them are set abroad and some in this country, chiefly Rhode .Island.; . Probably they, are a trifle. deU cate for the male taste. But Miss . Lincoln's stories are. pretty mag ical; her poetry I didnt like at .all. The Safety Valve C jy t.!cro Then CcTcro they, pass through settled coun try. (Snow Peak Logging com pany (Gerlingers) has a private road with a dump in a pond near Scio. It Is the closest pareUel to the Molalla toad ; ; l .; ; While such roads do result in some loss of revenue to the state, it' is spared the heavy expense of upkeep of roads used heavily .for log trucking, and common users, are spared the inconven ience and the risk of driving on such reads. The. public would i;e it if all the less were moved oa (rivals roads. PROTESTS NEWS! STORY .Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service Portland, Oreg, July 10, 1944 . . . -; ;v;,..; : The Oregon Statesman I : Salem, Oregon ; - r Gentlemen: s . 4 .. Reference is made to my tele phone conversation with your' Mr. Webb relative to violations of Section 3450 (i) of the Inter nal Revenue fcode. pertaining to penalties imposed upon persons ' who use, or permit the use of, : a motor -vehicle before the. tax - has been paid. The statute pro vides that violators of the law ; are guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars or imprisoned ' for not more than thirty days, or both. In the course of our conversa tion Mr. Webb referred to the , particular, of which 1 he had a copy, and 'he requested to be informed regarding our author!-, ty to ask for a compromise. J in" formed him that we had instruc tions to ask for the sum of five : dollars as . a compromise,, from the commissioner of internal rev-' . enuefc Washington, DC. When I . gave the information to Mr. Webb I assumed that he would credit the commissioner of in ternal revenue with sufficient in telligence to act within the scope of his authority. ! -. In your issue of Friday, July 7th, 1944, the following stated ments i appear in the article at the top of the third column, headed "t "Ilere's - Reason f or j S5 Fine on Use Stamp: "There; is no authority in the internal rev enue laws for collecting the $5." . . . . "No fine can be 'demand ed before conviction." In this connection your attention i is called to Section 3761 of the In ternal Revenue . Code, which reads as follows:, "The Commis sioner, with the approval of the Secretary, or of the Under Sec retary of the Treasury; or of an Assistant Secretary of the Trea sury, may compromise any civil or criminal case arising under the internal' revenue laws prior to reference to the Department of Justice for prosecution or - defense; . . . . . ;i . In. view of : th provisions iof this section of the Internal Rev enue Code It is believed that you will concede that the statements made in your paper are.erron- eous. It Is obvious that the state ments are detrimental to our ef forts, and it will be appreciated if you will admit your error on the first page of your paper in a space as prominent as the one in which your statements ap peared. x Your very truly j ' J. W. MALONEY, 4 (Collector) - ; By W. S. SHANKS' (Chief Field Deputy) (Note: See for reply.) " VL-.M-: editorial column II Stevens ' II PREFERRED : DIAMOND 'GUARANTEE Wo will replace any. Stevens Diamond lost . from If s setting without charjo, cor tS IN AND SHE CVH GUAIL1NTL2 We will clean and check your diamond rings ; without charge ' regardless where" purchased.
