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'No Favor Sway t U si No Fear Shall Aire" From First Statesman.1 March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher ! ; - I' , - f. .!- ' - - '- - . i ;,;;4. :- ' Member of the Associated Press I : ' 1 j'l The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. t- r i . -- American Rocket ' The best illustration of the American opera lions in France is riven by Time magazine. ,It i likens the action to that of a rocket. The break through at St Lo provided Gen. Omar Bradley - with the chute fpr his rocket. It seemed to gath ! er speed as it advanced, and finally sprayed out from Rennes and LeMans like a rocket spurting ; fire-balls high in the air. It is not yet clear that, the rocket has stopped exploding, but eventual l ly it must. Enough has occurred to make it one 1 of the most brilliant maneuvers in military his ! tory. The Oregonian, which had urged a straight -drive for Paris rather than a move, south across I Brittany, now hails. General Bradley as a mas i ter-strategist ";.:'-- There is a lack of information as to the exact ! location of the American advance elements, j Perhaps that" is to be expected because of the difficulties of communication, but it may well - be that the high command has purpose in mys- rtery. Issuing no late reports itself it keeps the"" enemy confused as to the main- outline of the allied strategy. What is evident, however, is the purpose of General Eisenhower to destroy the German armies in France. Paris thus be . comes incidental. The moves are directed io ', ward cutitng off of large bodies of troops which . then can be destroyed or captured. Thus Ger- : man troops were enveloped in Normandy, again ' . in Brittany, and now in the triangle between ; CaenJ LeMans and Chartres, and the Germans south of the Loire are threatened with being ' cut off. As General Montgomery says, "the great bulk of the German forces in northwest Europe are in a bad way." If the enemy in France can be destroyed as a fighting element I the Germans will have to retire to the Maginot -: and Siegf rid lines, withdrawing from the Low Countries. r. ;;.?;: ,' The announcement of the formation of an air army under command of Lt Gen. Brereton conveys a hint that hedge-hopping on a grand scale may be done by air-borne troops. If so, . perhaps an early objective would be the Calais area to wipe out the base for the firing of robot bombs. We are in the very middle of great military . events in Europe, and the climax of the whole war in the west may develop with startling .. swiftness. We can be proud both of our fight i ing men and of the generals who are directing them. ' ' ' Reconversion i - : . When the senate voted to substitute provi sions of the George reconversion bill for the Murray-Kilgore bill.it marked a definite recon version for the senate itself. It indicated defin itely that the senate was? not going to open the treasury for the magnanimous paternalism pro-. vided in the latter measure, and that it was not going to centralize further the administration of social security measures such as J unemploy ment compensation. s ' r . ' The battle over the Kilgore bill was sharp but decisive. The republican-democratic coali tion had the Votes and refused offers of com promise. The White House kept its hands off, and the combination headed by Senators George and Vandenberg succeeded in defeating the Murray-Kilgore proposals by amending ; that bill and inserting sections of the George bill. Vital provisions of the Murray-Kilgore bill which were stricken included: " 1. Allowances up to $35 a week for unem ployment compensation for veterans and all workers for a two-year ; term. . Instead, present legislation stands: the Gl bill of rights for vet erans and state grants for unemployment com pensation. The George bill covers workers in federal arsenals, etc., on the basis of state pro visions, with the federal government footing the bilL Also it .guarantees the solvency of state compensation fundi. - , ' ; 2. Educational grants J with '(Subsistence; for six months' vocational education. ' 3. Regional and industry advisory councils, sought particularly by'CjO and feared by man agement as giving labor; unions a voice in de ciding corporate policies. : , On its face the Murray-Kilgore bill looked like a bald attempt to buy the electorate out of the federal treasury. It pffered a definite en couragement to idleness,! and was a wedge to ward a vast paternalism for the postwar period. The George bill is a far more conservative ap proach to the problem, f Tnick Employers "Strike" There have been strikes caused by revolt of - the workers over failure to get wage increases they sought from the war labor board, but the strike of truck drivers in the midwest is due to refusal of the truck operators to put into effect the seven-cents-an-hour wage increase approv ed by the war labor board. This is a case of the employers going on strike, and they are the ones who are -responsible for whatever impediment is of fered the-war effort. The government was fully justified in taking over the lines and op erating them. The contention of the companies was that they1 could not take on the extra cost of the wage increase unless the government provided financial relief to the operators. This claim is hard to take. The railroads, competing with the trucks, had their rates cut over a year ago, and then last winter were required to pay still high er wages to virtually all employes. The roads have been earning less money, but still they are getting by because of the heavy volume of traf fic. Trucking companies jmust be in the same - situation as far as profit-margin is concerned. The responsibility fori the work stoppage clearly rested .with the j truck operators; but -r probably the majority of the people, when they read about "strike" put the blame on the work ers. Since the, wage award was granted last November it would seem the workers had wait ed long enough before taking strike action against the employers. . Oddities in the Mows v MST WOIXERS ; - .-V:' : - .The inconveniences of ; wartime do have their r advantages, at least as far as Mrs. Joyce Thome of ,i Klamath Falls is concerned. Mrs. .Thome, an employe of the Reed Tractor and . Equipment company, was using a vacation to go see her husband, CpL Van Thome,, also of Klamath Falls, who ,was to be stationed at Santa Fe, N.M. Her train was late at some station in Arizona and she missed her connection. An obliging conductor offered to look through the cars on the next train to se if he' could find a seat . for Mm. Thome. The only place that could be found was next to a soldier who- had fallen asleep on the length of the seat. The conductor wok him up and asked him to move over. - Mrs. Thome looked at him and flew into his arms. After a short while of rejoicing, she explained to the mystified conductor that the soldier was hec husband who was on his way to his new station in . Santa Fe. The conductor replied that that was cer- tainly a relief to him. He said he had seen some pretty fast workers among the servicemen, but what he had just seen took the cake. Klamath Falls News-Herald.' Willkie & Wallace 1 President ' Roosevelt has Invited Wendell Willkie to come and talk to him about interna tional affairs. This looks like, a political ges ture toward the Willkie fvote. it is doubtful if Roosevelt is specially interested in Willkie's ideas. I g k , . For that matter it does not seem that Dewey is interested in Willkie's ideas, either, though his seconds have been diligently trying to woo Willkie's support of the republican candidate. There is a large bloc of voters who are still loyal to Willkie, both to him as a dynamic, forceful leader and to him for his views on great issues. Likewise there are many voters who think that Henry Wallace got a raw deal at Chicago. If our political party system were not so rigid we might have a ticket composed of Willkie and Wallace. That ticket would get the non-conformist vote, fat least. Democrats are a bit confused in this cam paign.. Some of them appear to be arguing the "don't change horses" line while others are still running against Herbert Hoover. FOR PETE'S SAKE When "Old Pete," 202-feet tall Douglas fir, was cut, 118 feet of the giant tree crumbled into dust. . "Old Pete had been left standing too long, and trees must be harvested when mature. Astorian Budget ' -v : : NOW YOU TELL ONE REEDSPORT, Aug. llffVJoe Otterstrom. lower Umpqua rancher, turned up today with a 43-pound striped Ibass which he claims was 'caught with an oar-lock. ' - - ; r--:-"' v : ';.' ; . .' -; Otterstrom said he. was shifting oars when the fish, leaping from the water, was snagged against the empty oarlock' by the gilL Otterstrom hit "him over the head with an oar. -' v FIGHTING BACKWARDS .. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11 Today's advance-to-the rear department from Tokyo7 radio, recorded by United Press: ' - "Japanese forces, which had' been putting up a gallant fight against the enemy In the Myitkyina sector, successfully forced their way back to new positions according to schedule on the night of Au2UJt 2-3.w - t - ' The end of the war must be just around the corner. The Dalles is resuming talk of build ing a bridge across the Columbia. V i Interpreting The Wari Nlvls ii ! By KIRKE Li SIMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST Ominous developments for Germany and Japan alike marked the mid-August weekend not only on the battle fronts in Europe and across the Pa cific, but deep behind the fighting lines where bit ter medicine In ever increasing doses is being ' Russian and Allied brewed for the foe. There could be left little doubt; in the minds of the military leaders at both ends of the now tat- ' tered, ragged Nazi-Nipponese Axis that in both zones the war was building up to decisive crises. The day- when Germany and Japan alike will be stripped of their territorial loot, and . will be be sieged within their lairs is no longer distant ') Y That was sufficiently dear on the war maps as ... they stood "this weekend. It showed up in the still ballooning Allied drive in Franc that has doubled redoubled and . redoubled : again ' the pressure on Germany from' the west - -; Mj - Jtc - n ' ' It was to be read into Allied reports from Italy that told of the Germans withdrawing all ; their forces from Florence. The signs were plain there not only that General Alexander, Allied field com mander, was shifting and readjusting his forces for an assault on the mountain-backed German Gothic defense line; but that the Mediterranean campaign was about to expand. f j l; I . There were -hints of impending French-Allied action alone the south coast of France to worry the harassed Nazi foei There were growing intimations, loo, that Allied power might be preparing to cap , italize on Turkey's break with Germany, to strike into the Balkan peninsula; . : Both high Allied commanders i in Europe have shifted their headquarters to the continent. Gen eral Eisenhower has left Britain to set up his su- . preme command post in France. General Wilson has - dosed out in Algiers and moved to Italy taking " with him the command strings that run not only to Alexander's victorious legions ;but to powerful and long inactive British Empire forces no longer needed in Africa, Egypt, Iran and Iraq. . r His jurisdiction extends' also to ; Free French di- visionstill in Algeria, on Sardinia and Corsica.. It touches Allied commando and ii units cooperat ing with Balkan patriots an action against the com mon foe. Wilson's transfer, to Italy looms as no less significant than Eisenhower's move to France. Both. 9 moves foreshadow new and bold expansions of the attack on Germany from ; the west' and south to match the tremendous new triple Russian threat - against her in the east reaching' all the way from' the Baltic to the Black sea, - - Against the background of this ever darkening war picture for her Nazi accomplice in Europe Ja pan must read the portents of the Pacific war coun cil at Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt attended and Just disdosed. . It verified the Churchill announcement that the war against Japan no longer need, wait upon the war against Germany for the men and material to drive It "at 'fun speed to a victorious condusion. . . . . tl '--V- X.y pk ' I ', ' u -..JLfr .7,i " X-" '" " S6''-"- :'rfsv; It .-- Rusi ian Victory Arch? 1 a at ' a Lrur SBE33DB m LLo News Behind the News - By! PAUI MALLON . .;'-)'-;'-(Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction in whole 1 or in part strictly prohibited.) I ' (Continued from Page 1) I Ji ! f ' .1 ! T injured $40,000 worth when he got burped on the head by thrown by tie allegedly leader Hall Dorsey. who seems knocked against suffering cuts and n't yet seek to have been; a flower pot, bruises! does- ment fori his wounds, nor another actor, Edward who hid the i i peacemakers hurt! I t t 'it it The moral to the tale M obvi ous, so obvious that it i$ trite, and fin not gome io append it Instead of fbemoahing jibe in iquity ;of Hollywood I am more constrtined io extol the manly virtues of the participants !in this one-round fight At least.it was financial assuage- does Norris, usual: experience of and got himself a bot-band i in ....iiiiMi... . .-.-;.-y":-:-...-o.. ' it . t oi (Holly- genuine, and so much wood isn't And the reactions of Dorsey were instant and thor oughly, human. His embtional response was the same asj would be that of Billy iJjlcGrady, the sectiori hand, if bloke Ithrowi his Mrs. j McGrady. tie saw some J ! I . e arms I arouna And Dorsey's motor jreflexes were- so thorough ly primitive? and j his action so prompt and so j primitive, real caveman stuff, that one can't help but applaud, j jThls occurs so seldom in Hollywood which is built on shain an makef jelieve and iliusion and banal publicity seekink ( - The! only regret s! that the bal cony scene was recorded only in newspaper prose. 1 1 jWhile; it was hardly of ajqualiU to excite a Shakespeare! if wi bad one such todayto doa Romeo and Juliet piece, stm it !rate4 Wore thlan just story, j even j ithough lighter touci than is most unfortunate that 4o camera man wai there to record the pre-dwn battle on film, fhat orie-reeler would have been ;4ne most of ijaf would want to see in a midnigh preview. As it is, the onl chanoe of a repro duction is When Antoniofs case gets Ihto?cc4irt UM ever does. a reporter's done; with sj ordinary. It "THE j WASHINGTON, Aug. IS The new political figure, Sidney Hill man of CIO, has been state men ting almost daily that hon est- to - good ness he is not trying to capture M r. Roosevelt, the democratic party, and the congress In this election . . . He Is only trying to "cooperate" with them . . . any suggestion other' wise is "distort- PTOl UUon ed" and "unprincipled' I . . so he says. The facts of the matter are these, as near as I can ascer- tain them: The secretary of the democrat ic congressional campaign com mittee says the CIO-Hillman front has backed about 75 con gressional candidates firmly and directly. All of these are demo cratic, except-one, the repub lican Representative LaFollettt of Indiana. So the "cooperation" ; which Mr. Hillman proposes to furnish congress is 79 to 1 democratic, differing radically from ; labor's generally established policy (fol lowed both by the AFL and railroad brotherhoods) of endors ing, in a truly non-partisan way, the candidates in both parties most likdy to be friendly to la '' bor. : : v-:.'--.-: '" .'?.' -4"' -(These endorsements, says the magazine "Labor", representing no less unprindpled an outfit than the .. brotherhoods 1 them sdves, are not being made by Hillman for the interests of la- " bor, but for the' interests of the -' Hillman front ' j In an n editorial, abor charged $6,000,000 would be - - spent by the Hillman groups; to elect men frequently represent- ing: causes of no concern to the working man (meaning commun ist sympathizers, sodalizers of the extreme left etc.) j Thus, you may see the true picture. As far as congress "is ceacerned, Hillman is trying to establish a left-wing bloc of at least 75 (I suspect his endorse ment list will be much larger) ' , within the democratic party. This :. may or may not control the par- - IDE Aw By Mossier t ... . it n m nn -n YOUNG it- i . i i i AT THE FRONTI ty in the house, depending on how many democrats and ClO'ers are dected. - As far as controlling the White House, there seems to be a valid question of who is running who. It seems to me the White House figured Mr. Hillman could be used' as banker to back the fourth term campaign. Representative Dies agress with "Labor" that . Hillman will shove in $6,000,000 before the election Is over.; Mr. Hillman says $1,500,000 is his "campaign goal." Whatever the millions, it is more money than anyone else has shown. ... I Money generally gets what it is after m politics. So far, Mr. Hillman was able to defeat Mr. Byrnes as vice presidential can didate and get Truman in at the convention. A dozen or more prominent government officials have' left, their good Jobs to j "cooperate'' with his old political action com mittee. A vague haze is being maintained over his! new group, "The National Citizens Politi cal Action committee, but no radar is needed to detect the fun damentals. . ; The NCPAC Is a legal subter- . fuge created because the CIO PAC ran afoul the law prevent ing direct financial contributions by labor unions to campaigns. It ' is a new money bag, to collect contributions from individuals rather than using union treasur ies directly. ! 1 ' i The whole front obviously is one erected to cover some clever bookkeeping and get around the law. The forced change may im pair Hillman's activities, but will not change them, or his purposes either. . . I I Now what does all this mean? , Mr. Dies says it represents not so much a labor front as the new deal taking over labor. I do not think so. I do not believe this is labor, or even the new deal, i I It seems to me, on its face, purely a left-wing effort to buy its way into political power, to purchase the democratic party, if possible, for cash on the barrel head. V--:'4'1'' 'T;'r-:;;' f Hillman is not j labor. The crowd behind and around him is not They are. leftists, the ex treme left - wing of American politics, the crowd ; which does not think communism unwise. " ; That is the only thing they ' have in common. And that is where they differ from the rest of labor (AFL and the brother hoods) with the: possible ; ex- ception of Whitney, i The way they are going about it suggests they want to make the democratic party the radical labor part yof 'the country, Just as they captured the American labor party in New York state. They look on parties as imple ments to use for their own caus es. Their . primary -j devotion is not to Roosevdt the democratic party, or even to labor, but to their own radical doctrines. Their 1 group ideology is far nearer the Russian than the American. Wis er labor leaders know that sub tler influences are better, -.r ROMlt Aug. MDelayedHa5) Via Margutta is a narrow little highwalled tree-shaded street hidden in the heart of Rome, a street of tiny taverns, of shoe maker, shops and courtyards, shut off by huge gates with iron grills. - t v : ' Behind those gates andj the stone walls 'are homes, apart ments terraced : one about j an other, flower gardens, rambling paths and alleyways that disap pear into dim buildings farther, behind the trees and finally up into the lulls behind Rome, j ' The little street provides! the perfect scene for the modern legend; which has sprung! up about it ' '". .f"'' ' 1 : "During the mud occupation, Romans tell I you, "there was more English than Italian or German spoken along the Via Margutta. And while a that !un doubtedly is a slight exaggera tion, still it Is founded on facf, and It typifies the cockeyed con ditions of espionage, counteres pionage and double-barreled in trigue which has been common place In Rome throughout j the war. v - ' j For years everyone has known that the German Gestapo oper ated in strength throughout; the' Italian capital from its cafe society to its underworld 'and sometimes the gap between them was not so large.' :;'-, , ;ij For months reporters covering this campaign have known that allied espionage experts Were: practically commuting between the frontlines and Rome. I For that matter, the Germans knew lt too but either they couldn't, catch them or pr o v e it when they occasionally did get hold of one of our topnotch spies. I know of lone such spy who maintained 1 Jan apartment! in Rome and a couple of others who had difficulty explaining - in triplicate under expense! ac counts why hotel rooms in Rome cost more than those in Naples. I know still another who sat in the bar of the Grand hotel sipping brandy and soda land yawning while high nazl offi cers frantically packed their bags and pulled out of Rome. But still it is hard to believe such stories unless you see; the Via Margutta and its facilities for intrigue. I American a n d i British spies, Xtahan and Yugoslav Partisans, neutral Swiss and anti-fascist Romans lived here. There are a host of hideaways in every house and almost every ; building j has several secret exits. The apart ment where Ed Kennedy AP bureau chief in Italy, now lives while in Rome has an escape avenue through the roof. It leads out over other roofs and disap pears in a maze of tiled gables and concealing vines. j Also on Via Margutta, 1 the building where - AP , reporters George Tucker and fcynn Hein zerling make their headquarters when in the Capital city is simi larly equipped fori intrigue. The windows can be used for look outs covering every possible public approach to the building ! or for escape routes. The . thick wooden doors have little', iron ; grilled windows' in them for :' identifying . visiUn--reminiscent of prohibition speakeasies. , The Germans knew about Via ' Margutta. The Gestapo used to shake the street down regularly j and stage "surprise" raids every now and then, but the tipoff and lookout systems usually worked. . By the time Himmler's hirelings ; got inside the houses, everything ; was . in order not a question able character in sight But in between , times the voices which floated down from the windows above Via Mar- gutta's cobbled street were as apt to be English as Italian or ; German -" Yanks Prove Their Ability In Normandy By the Aaaodated Ptm NEW. YORK The England that for three years has played host to an influx of American troops was .curious about how those Yanks would show up in battle; : In the London Daily Mail, Cor respondent John Hall tells them. In reporting to his countrymen - what he thinks of the Americans now, he unconsciously reveals what England-at-large thought of them before. "Back in Britain life seemed so generous to them," writes Hall from a ' Normandy beachhead, "you wondered how these Amer ican cousins of ours, with their neatly creased clothes and their fondness lor, what seemed to us to be luxuries, would face the . stubborn Hun. "You would scarcely recognize them. "First 'thing that happens to the Americans when they get into the line is that they stop talking. "At me forward command posts you notice the difference in relations between officers and "That apparent casualness and man-to-man friendliness which rather appalled our disciplinar ians at f home . disappear. ... These men go to it with the snap of Guardsmen. Hall described the scene of battle: "These rich fields are just now showing us how much 4 a r I'm a - we were urniii uj give me, ana give it abundantly not to re ceive the lifeless bodies of young men in their best years." He said they died quietly "without fuss or complaint per haps muttering about 'Mom' just before the end." Among those who lived, wrote Hall, "grousing was left behind in the rear. "No soldiers could be more resolute. I have seen them or dered to attack a strong -point al most impregnable to infantry. "Their deep American confi dence in themselves sometimes back home you thought they had too much of it disappears from the surface: and goes inside where it stays. The Literary Guidepost "GEORGE BANCROFT: BRAH MIN REBEL." by Russel B. Nye (Knopf: $3 JO). ( Russel B.' Nye, j who teaches English in Michigan State 'col lege, has based his first rate bi-, ography of George Bancroft, "George Bancroft: Brahmin Re bel," on a good idea. It is jthat the less brilliant light of some of the less brilliant men some times illuminates a period more : comfortably (and even more, ac curately) than , the; flame of a Goethe or an Emerson." He ;has chosen a good subject and! he has produced a fine steady light Bancroft was born of a rebel churchman of Worcester, Mass., and the daughter ! of a dispos sessed Tory who had long be fore fled to 1 England. He Was bom in 1800, and lived to be 91 years r old; he therefore lived through the nine decades which joined the pre-democratic period, of 'Washington and John Adams to the expanding United States of the nineties. Although Mr. Nye makes less of it than: he might Bancroft also matured at the same time the romantic movement matured, and. shared its ferment and was moved to a certain extent by its tenets. Bancroft wanted to be re membered as a historian, and he is. Mr. Nye does not think he was a particularly good histor ian or , rather, he sees and frankly remarks a number of de fects in Bancroft's work. Per haps the greatest was the way in which he bent the facts to fit his preconceived thesis, what ever it may have been. Another (and this was especially notable in the -J literary criticism he wrote) was a tendency to con fuse moral and aesthetic values. To Bancroft a poet was not a rood noet ; unless virtn tri umphed in his work, and no technical triumph would suffice, either.-' j ; 1 Just the same, Bancroft wrote movingly and often the truth and his Idea of it coincided, so that- the j result was remarkably fine. And there were other matters, such as Bancroft's po litical activities, to round out the story. Bancroft became so use ful to President Polk that he was made secretary of the navy; lat er, while the Mexican war was on, he also was acting secretary of war. . . 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